Which were your first games ever?

[AGA]

Can't really remember if I played the NES before I started using the C64, but those two systems are my earliest memories... Mario Bros 1 would be the first NES game (since it came with the system). I played countless text adventures on the C64, but I can't remember the names of any of them.

We got our first PC when I was about 5 or so. My first memory of that was playing LSL3 in greyscale on a laptop my father brought home from work (this was about 1990 I suppose).

[Matt Brown]

My early early game history is a bit of a mush. I remember playing Mario Brothers 2 at my uncles house on the NES, and playing Animal Quest (this really crappy maze game) on our 386dx. that was my first computer.
My first adventure game was Robin Hood, Conquests of the longbow, which I think I first played when I was 6. or rather, I watched my dad and his friend play it. I didnt actually finish it myself until I was 8.
I really grew to love adventure games, (and games in general) when I was about 8 or 9. I used to go to my buddy Phil's house everyday after schools. Phil had prince of persia, KQ's 4-7, and *gasp* an SNES. I remember spending many a summer day trying to beat KQ5...ah.
I've been a gamer ever since.

[jaz]

It´s hard to remember which was the first computer game I´ve ever played, but I guess it was something on my friend´s ZX Spectrum in the middle of 80´s, but I can tell you for sure which one was the greatest....

MANIC MINER!!!!

Yes, brilliant graphics, cutting edge animation and superb sound effects, what else to say.
But maybe waiting for any game to load was even more thrilling... With my buddy´s crappy tape recorder to reach the title screen was a victory already. I guess we didn´t even breathe while loading.
Then another friend of mine got a C64 and that was just awesome! My Commodore favourites were Buggy boy, Gyrus and Wizzard of Wor against opponent.
Then the abovementioned first friend got a PC XT with Prince of Persiia... yay!!! And Test Drive!!! Sweet.
By that time I was really fed up that I don´t have ANY computer, but I had to wait untill late 1992 when finally my parents decided to buy a computer, shiny new 33Mhz 386SX with 2 Megs of RAM. And I remember that it came with two games... One was from iD software and the other from EA.... Yes, you guessed right, Commander Keen and Zany Golf    Both in EGA, which was almost an insult to my top of the line 512 kB video card.

Just to add: first games played with soud card: Lotus Espirit Turbo Challenge 3 and NHL 93 -  Incredible experience.

First adventure game: Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis! The best adventure game ever!!!  (at least for me) It took me whole summer holidays to beat it.

Nowadays, the games just aren´t what they used to be when we were young, you know?

[m0ds]

I can't remember way back, but I rememer paperboy and Oh Mummy being some of the first games I played,  I then moved on to TIM and Prince of Persia on my friends 386. Also, Lemmings.

The first game I ever bought was Destruction Derby II. Just goes to show how late I was when it came to owning a PC! Bearing in mind we weren't allowed one until about 1996 :p

I remember playing Sonic, Mario and things like Streets of Rage and California Games back in the early days on my friends games consoles.

[Captain Mostly]

CAPTAIN COMIC!!! I LOVE THAT GAME!!!!

I got it on a cover disk for some some magazine I think!!! The guy had some sort of purple cabbage for a face!!!

I think it was probably only a joke, but it SAID it was only episode 1 (it stopped after you got the crown from in the castle) and I've wanted to see if there was ever any more episodes of it ever since.

I really REALLY enjoyed that game, it was just simple, yet deeply loopy platform fun... Ooooh, I lament it!

*lament* *lament*

[Inkoddi]

CAPTAIN COMIC!! YAY!! There is actually a second episode, Captain Comic II - fractured reality

[Ben]

Yep, I downloaded Comic 2 a while back. It's a much longer game, with an actual story.. It's like an unholy cross between Metroid and Super Mario Brothers.

I just checked, and they have a download at Underdogs:
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?gameid=3178

I think there was supposed to be a Captain Comic 3 with VGA graphics and all that jazz, but I don't think anything became of it..

[Ghost]

the first video game i EVER saw was space invaders... i was in the Grundschule then. and the first "console" i had was an atari video system with centipede. oh i loved that stuff, especially Pitfall. Must've spent ages playing it.

my first computer game, actually, was lemmings 2, and the second monkey island 1. now you know where my roots belong

[Miez]

I played "Intrepid Explorer" on a steamdriven Babbage Calculation Engine in 1896. When I was about to reach level sixteen ("Punjabi Punishment") the punch cards ran out ...

er ... no ...

Probably the first game I played was the sad excuse for a "breakout" game in Basic that came with my ZX Spectrum.

[Gonzo]

It was Prince Of Persia in around '91, one of the best platformers IMO. I think it invented the ledge-jumping gameplay, and although it became frustrating when it resurfaced in the mid-90s with Tomb Raider, I don't remember it being that annoying back then.

Likewise the swordfighting system was extremely simple but I still had a lot of fun with it. It just had a bunch of great cinematic moments like *just* getting through a slamming stone door in time, Indy-style, or the tense moment of wondering, mid-air, whether you're going to be able to cling on the other side.

They've made a few 3D sequels now, I played the demo of the one from a few years back but it wasn't that exciting, perhaps because of my old computer though. The first (2D) sequel ('Sands Of Time'?) had some fantastic stuff though, I remember thinking the rooftop/docks escape intro was bloody brilliant.

Anyway, after PoP1 I moved onto The Secret Of Monkey Island, and adventure games became my true gaming niche.