Remember your first time?

[Ken1]

Remember your first time playing a video game? Not the first time you did it! (Perverts!)  For  me  my  first  time  was  the  sit  down  version  of  Star  Wars.  Wow  those  vector  graphics!  I  was  much  to  little  and  stupid  to  know  what  I  was  doing!  How  about  you  guys  and  your  first  time?  (Playing  a  video  game!)

[JoeyGimenez]

I remember playin Mario 2 when I was very young(like 5 or 6)
I aqlso remeber getting a Sega Genesis for my birthday, and I spent the whole day playing Sonic, Streets of Rage and Altered Beast.
I also remember playing a hell of alot of Mortal Kombat and Bloodstorm at the local arcade as a kid.

[Wallyworld1]

My first game I ever had or played was Triple Action (1981) on the Intellivision.  I was 4 years old and had a blast playing the tanks game with my father.  I didn't even know the name of the game till the VGC reviewed it on 08-18-07 and I began having flashbacks.  Thanks Critic.

[QF]

I can't remember if it was the arcade versions of Altered Beast or Darius (widescreen). It is one of the two.

[Funkmaster V]

I dont think I can remember the first time I played... but I remember the first time I saw a video game. I was visiting my Grandmother in Baltimore, I was 4, and the room was full of relatives laughing and being amazed at Basketball for the 2600 on a fairly tint TV. The whole room huddled around the set and ooohed and ahhhed the whole time.

That was pretty cool. I think the Wii has successfully recaptured some of that novelty for this genertaion of 4 and 5 year olds.

FUNK 

[Atarifever1]

PacMan 2600.  I was blown away.  After all, I hadn't ever seen any videogame before, let alone the real PacMan.  I still get nostalgic when I play it, even if it isn't that great a translation.

[Anonymous Prime]

I have vague yet fond memories of playing sonic 2 at my Aunt's house when my cousin still played her genesis, and in pre school I went to a womans house for babysitting after school. I remember her daughters played Super Mario World a lot. Mario and Sonic where the first iconic characters I was introduced to, which was probably why I never grew up supporting just SEGA or just Nintendo.

[J.M. Vargas]

I don't remember the first game I ever played.  I do remember that my dad (who divorced my Mom when I was five and moved to the States while we stayed behind in El Salvador) sent me a gift for my 8th birthday in January of 1981: an Atari 2600 system with some games (again, don't remember which one's).  The cool thing about receiving these as presents was that (a) I didn't know what videogames were (except for "Pong") and (b) I hadn't asked for them.  Nothing beats parents handing you a lifetime addiction when you didn't ask for it in the first place!   For three years after that I was the only kid in my third-world block that had a videogame system, which meant kids that normally wouldn't even talk to me suddenly wanted to be my friends and come play with my 2600.  That's what I remember most (the suck-ups that dumped me the moment another kid got an Atari 5200 in 1984) more than the gaming themselves, which I'm pretty sure consisted of copious amounts of "Pac-Man," "Kangaroo" and "Combat" gaming sessions.

[J.N.H.]

1989,   my dad took my brother and I to an arcade...I played   so many games, but mostly  pacman,  missile command and  dragon's lair.    That   xmas my brother and I got a Sega Genesis...best xmas ever, our first game     was Revenge of Shinobi...

[Alienblue]

Ah yes, my first time...the taste of her lips like wild raspberries, the fullness of her.....

Oh, games. Well...love IS a game. And I always lost!

Anyway, in 1981 I was still in High School, being beat up by the boys. I hated them and I hated anything they LIKED...Rock music, Sports, VIDEOGAMES! "I'm glad Dave never got into those things" said my mother...famous last words!

I had seen two player pong and TANK in the 70's but never seriously played them.

Absolute first try...my older sister was into them. She put a quarter into an asteroids machine. I had no idea what to do! BANG BANG BANG, game over. Stupid game!

Then mom brought home a COLECO TANK BATTLE game. It was two player but boy was it fun! MOVING AN OBJECT BY MYSELF AROUND A TV screen, I got the same feeling of wonder many got from Super Mario Bros.! ...soon I bought a Coleco tabletop Pac-Man, then Galaxian, and finally I saved enough to get a 2600. That was 1982 and I have owned at least one electronic game ever since, even during my Welfare period I'd rather play my Ms. Pac Man then sell it and eat! I'm a GAME ADDICT, AND I HAVE A PROBLEM! HI DAVE!