That you ever played? Any memories attached? Do you still like the game?

For me, that game would be Super Princess Peach on the Nintendo DS. I just got a DS lite for my birthday along with said game and loved it. Even now I play it occasionally whenever I'm bored.

I don't remember exactly which game was my first. I do know that with Super Mario Bros., I couldn't get past the first level because I cried whenever Mario died. I thought the deaths were real. I don't like this game much nowadays as its controls feel slippery... Super Mario World beats it by a ton.

I also played a Barney game on the Genesis, and I remember Barney saying "stop" at cliffs. He couldn't bother to jump to a cloud platform, because it was supposed to teach kids to be safe or something. I don't know, but I liked the game until I got over the fear of Mario dying. I don't like the game now because it's way too childish for me, understandably.

My first ever game was James Pond, which I played on the Atari. I don't play it very often these days, but it does have some good gameplay elements and I can enjoy giving it another go every once in a while (I'm like that with a lot of my childhood games!).

I eventually got all the other James Pond games on the Amiga (and have played a couple of them on Megadrive and SNES before too). I guess the main reason I still love them is due to nostalgic value, but even with childhood memories aside they are genuinely fun games to play, each with their own challenges and secrets and interesting level designs that are really fun to explore.

My first game was pokemon yellow with the special pokemon yellow gameboy color oooooh. I still love it, although I don't play that version much anymore. I've been working my way through the re-release on the 3ds virtual console. My memories of it are mainly playing it on the 1 1/2 hour drive I took nearly every weekend when I was young when my dad would take me and my brother to my uncle's/cousin's house. Now I get car sick so easily I'd never play it while in the car, ha!

My first game ever was the Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt bundle for the NES. The second game, I believe, was Ghosts N' Goblins and still to this day me and my brother cannot beat it :(

It was probably one of those really old Mario games on the brick-like Gameboy way back in the day. My cousin had one and would occasionally let me and my other cousin play. Pokemon Red/Blue is a close second, though I never owned the games, just played them on other people's systems.

My first ever game was the original Final Fantasy on the NES. I was a very small child, so suffice it to say, I never made it very far. Button mashing has a tendency not to be very effective on a strategy-based game haha.

On console, it was Super Mario Bros. and I never had the talent for that game... On PC, it was Jazz Jackrabbit, still like the idiot green rabbit. Also I became a PC gamer, thanks to that.

My first game I can remember was back on the PS2, and it was called Atelier Iris. Nothing else in the series quite lived up to my love for the one I started with. I still go back and replay it sometimes just for the nostalgia ❤

It wasn't the very first but it was first that meant anything to me. I'm talking about Claw (the platform game where you play as a pirate cat) and oh boy, was it fun. Even after all this years I miss the game, I loved the theme, the music, all of those amazing maps and I appreciated its difficulty. I hope to go back to it one day.

I had that barney game too, but I hardly remember it other than the "stop wait until it's safe" and the sound of him giving kisses or something "Dewwah"

PC speaking, it was either Commander Keen or Jazz Jackrabbit. Console, it was Halo 2.

The very first video game was Pong and it wasn't for homes, but for arcades and big computers (like school or work) and the next was Lunar Lander (again played at school, work or arcade) - you can find online versions of them here - Pong and Lunar Lander Hard to believe that all the video games you know and love started as just two paddles and a square dot.

The first text oriented "video" game was Adventure - you could type two word sentences followed by Zork where you could actually say "Throw knife at troll" being able to make rudimentary full sentences was sooo exciting when it first came out! You can see online versions of those here - adventure and Zork I there is more to Zork (the original mainframe version was split into Zork I, Zork II and Zork III for home PCs.

IBM's Watson almost certainly owes much to these first text oriented games.

I have played all of these, but I never did successfully land that lunar lander! (I'm not very coordinated.) When someone did, in the first version I saw, a little astronaut came out and ordered a McDonald's hamburger. :-)

I don't actually remember the first game I played. I grew up with video games. My sisters played them and I loved watching, and when I got older I started playing them myself

- yes, that's pretty normal. I actually grew up before video games. They were a very big deal for the computer science folks at college and even later at work. We used to stay after work to use the computers to play the newest games because you couldn't play them at home.

I thiiiink the first game I played was Aladdin on the Sega? That's the first one I can remember. Either the Aladdin or the Lion King one! Man, those games were my childhood!

My first memories go back to space quest or wolfenstein on the PC. Been meaning to get space quest from gog when I'm feeling less cheap.

The first game I played was a Commodore 64 game called The Maze of Grog featuring the Peanuts characters Woodstock and Penelope. Not sure when it was released or how we came to own it, but I remember spending hours playing it in the early-to-mid 90s.

probably jazz jackrabbit or super mario 64. i have a nintendo 64 with the latter all set up and ready to go.

(somewhere in this timeframe was also pokemon silver, which jumpstarted my whole obsession with pokemon)

Street Fighter II, Mario Paint and Donkey Kong Country on SNES. AND of course, Super Mario Bros. 2 on NES.

These games are still the shit.

Donkey Kong Country might even be my favorite game ever.