What was the first video game you ever played?

[miyabwah]

Ever since I could hold a controller. Born in 2001, played games in 2003/2004. Keep in mind, I wasn't good back then, and I'm still not good now.

I read the thread title wrong, but I started because I saw my brother playing games and it was really the only thing I could do.

edit gen 2 - can you stop changing the title please

[Opcode]

Because real life got too boring.

[Guest]

Because I got a gamecube from my dad. Burnout 2 and topgun for the next 4 years... then I bought a craptop which I started minecraft, terraria, and ftl. Then I built desktop, now I play minecraft with 100+ mods at a time, tf2, jc2, hl2

[Jerakl]

this man needs to play some video games STAT

He's almost 60. He thinks all videogames are like brutal FPS blood and gore everywhere.

[MegaDave91]

I really have no idea - I just gravitated towards it. I've been playing video games ever since I was 6 or 7 years old (born in 1991).

[rambi36]

I saw my dad playing Pokemon a lot on his Gameboy advanced and I got into it. For about 3-5 years in my life Pokemon was pretty much one of the only games I played. In fact all I played on pre-2012 was Nintendo Consoles

[EpicAdom]

Pokemon Diamond on my white Nintendo DS Lite. Hours upon hours of my life well wasted.

[FueledByBacon]

I started gaming on consoles when I was younger, N64, Playstation 1, Xbox, Xbox 360 and Gameboy's until one day I was given a Half-Life: Anthology disk in sometime around 2003 - 2005 as my mothers boyfriend bought an ATI Radeon graphics card (I assume) which came with a disk for Half-Life and it's mod's (counter-strike, etc). From there I was hooked to Counter-Strike, Team Fortress Classic and just about anything I could get my hands on. After a few years of hanging out with the same people in games we founded a clan where we dicked around and saved up as much money as possible to get our very own Ventrilo server, from there it sort of exploded and we kept hanging out for several years until many of us moved onto other games, lost contact and just generally matured and moved on with our adult lives.

Many of us got hooked on World of Warcraft and have yet to stop playing it but for me gaming was a way to interact with people who had similar interests and make friends, some of them I still have today and some of them I've lost contact with over the years but many of them touched my life in ways very few people have. We stayed up until 4AM having scout fights, playing the latest and greatest mod and exploring various new worlds. Gaming is a way to meet people, make friends and have fun while doing it.

[JRuss16]

what got me in to gaming was playing games with my older brother and having so much fun playing with him

 

but sadly he is at school so we can not play as often

 

and why cant there be more split screen games they used to be so common 

[monjanger]

Thanks everyone for participating! 

[Dualsi]

I'm not an FPS guy, but COD Black Ops 1's zombie mode was super awesome

[Sonefiler]

Pokemon Emerald or Club Penguin

[Bensemus]

Roller Coaster Tycoon that I got from a general mills cereal box . I played that game non-stop

[ZaBoss]

Pokemon Red. I still have the exact copy I had of my gameboy and pokemon red framed.

[Sousuke]

Super Mario Brothers 2.

[ccaian]

Oni. Anyone? Noone? Okay  Vigalante 8 that wierd playstation spy car game and driver. Awesome childhood.

[IronSoldier]

Battlefield Heroes back in 09. What got me into PC gaming and technology

[Damikiller37]

Quake 3 since it was the first games I actually got to play since my dad would let me play it from time to time secretly from my mum when we got our first computer.

[Toddwjp]

halo ce, pc multiplayer, blood gulch

[Ian_Balisy]

Super Mario 64 and Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time on N64. But it really started with Morrowind and I've played RPGs more than anything else (and haven't played console games since playing on my brothers PS2/XBOX).

[Mildphil]

super mario smash bros mele

[MaxY]

It's a way of life.

[SeriouslyMikey]

Well, I don't remember a time I didn't play a video game when I was able to and I got a console so I could play whenever I was allowed at 5. 

[Pugs501]

Because I was sick of reality

[carl_arts@yahoo]

Go back to the mid 80s and I used it as an excuse to hang out with the older kids at the local corner shop, where 6 arcade machines were set up. At first I got hooked watching them and the slowly joined in on the fun. Ever since then, I've tried getting that same entertainment at home and I should add with great success with technology evolving to make it even better...