• MelonYellow@lemmy.caEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Damn that might be mine too. We didn’t get to have video games when I was little. Then I discovered PC gaming via Runescape😂

    • AreaSIX @lemm.ee
      8·
      1 year ago

      Here I thought I was ancient because it was combat. Seems like there are many of us old farts around here.

    • over_clox@lemmy.world
      6·
      1 year ago

      Same here. Either that or Missile Command, I got both at the same time and I just don’t exactly remember for sure.

  • modifier@lemmy.ca
    11·
    1 year ago

    Lemmings on MS DOS. I think it was DOS, I was like 10.

  • Beacon@fedia.io
    112·
    1 year ago

    For most people under 50 i would guess they cant remember which it was. Even 40 years ago there were lots of arcade games, home game systems, and little portable game devices. So most people under 50 probably can’t remember the actual first one they played.

    But you can answer the question “what’s the first video game that you remember playing?”

    For me it was some atari 2600 game that a much older cousin had, i don’t remember which specific game it was.

    • psud@aussie.zone
      2·
      1 year ago

      I’m 47, and the early games for me were clear. Five year olds don’t get to play arcade machines in 1982, but they do get to play an older relative’s game and watch

      And that stuff is memorable

      I doubt the post iPad (maybe the post home computer) people have much chance though. 3 year olds have games made for them, though they’re in this thread, naming popular games

      • ripcord@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Some five year olds got to play arcade machines in 1982 :)

          • ripcord@lemmy.world
            1·
            1 year ago

            I mean, the machines were everywhere. And if your parents happened to have a quarter (or sometimes a dime), and if you were good/persistent enough…

  • NevelioKrejall@ttrpg.network
    8·
    1 year ago

    Altered Beast for the Sega Genesis.

    “WISE FWOM YOUW GWAVE!”

    “WELL-COME TO-YOUR-DOOM!”

    Never got past like the 3rd level.

  • JackFrostNCola@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 year ago

    Tank wars - MS DOS
    Probably closely followed by Lemmings, Commander Keen & Duke Nukem.

    • RockaiE@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Oh man, your comment made me remember my first game that was just like tank wars. I always called it banana wars because you were 2 apes that threw bananas at each other.

      Just found it… “QBasic - gorrilas” https://www.retrogames.cz/play_654-DOS.php. So many memories playing this against my dad, punching a hole straight through some buildings at high velocity because he could never figure out how to do adjust his angle and velocity to account for the shifting wind speeds.

      • Angry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldBanned from community
        21·
        11 months ago

        Yup it came as a demo when they shipped Qbasic with DOS 3.5 I think…

        The first game I ever modified.

  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.de
    7·
    1 year ago

    Commander Keen 4. I still love the whole series and play those games from time to time.

    After that, my dad got me Doom, Wolfenstein and Duke Nukem 3D. Giving hookers money as a seven-year old in a video game was glorious, the old man has good taste.

    Shake it, baby!

    • Che Banana@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      Fucking thank you… I had to scroll waaaaaaay down to finally find someone who’s ass is as old as mine.