What was the first computer game you ever played?

[80sFREAK]

IIRC it was Star Trek or either Xonix

 

[chinnyhill10]

Harrier Attack on the Amstrad CPC. A neighbour had it on his new 464. In fact it was the first home computer game I ever saw. Probably early to mid '85. By the time the year was out we had a shiny new 6128. 30 years next month in fact! Cripes.

 

[Tuxon86]

My first computer game was one that I wrote myself on my TRS-80 MC10. I converted it from general Microsoft Basic to MC10 version of it. It was a game about invading an incoming surface to air missile with your airplane. The graphics where a blue field for th sky, a red square for the missile and an orange rectangle for the plane. You needed a lot of imagination at that time in home computing history

 

[dean7878]

Wow it is so interesting to see all the different games everyone started off playing.

 

[presario]

For me it was SPACE INVADERS on the ATARI VCS. We got it christmas 1981, I had played a couple of arcade games before, something with a mounted harpoon gun on the cab shooting sharks and also lunar lander, but this was the first game I properly played. We got asteroids and Pac-Man later on, interacting with TV was such a big deal back then! Another world behind the screen!!! Also saw TRON in the cinema around that time and that really inspired me with video games.
We later got a Commodore VIC 20, then Acorn Electron, they were both wonderful too, I still have both today. Must try to repair the Electron some day, it has been broken since around 1988.
Although PC is now my main focus for retro(I LOVE to tinker) the 8-bit era will always be the golden time for games to me, I saved for a ORIC ATMOS on sale in the CO-OP just before it closed down, £49 with 12 games, me and dad had such fun playing with the silly built in sound effects, zap, explode etc, I did an awful lot of chores to get that machine, lucky it used the same Saisho tape deck as the Electron.
All the best,
Chris

 

[Deanp]

Mine was 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81 in 1981 - I shat meself!

 

[ptp170]

In 1983 it was either Rommels Revenge or Pool on my Grandpa's 48k ZX Spectrum which I still maintain and use till l this day

 

[Amon_RA]

ET on an Atari 2600 back in 1984...
In 1987 I got my first PC, and Amstrad Schneider 8086, and I think the first game I played on it was Barbarian

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[theantmeister]

ET on an Atari 2600 back in 1984...
In 1987 I got my first PC, and Amstrad Schneider 8086, and I think the first game I played on it was Barbarian

Baaaaaarbarian?

 

[Amon_RA]

Baaaaaarbarian?

Indeed
Never managed to finish the game, I remember some kind of wizard shooting fireballs at the end.

 

[dean7878]

@presario I think my first Atari 2600 was also Space Invades or maybe Asteroids.