I have played SNES games as a toddler but I was so young I could not remember what, but the first game I truly remember was Super Mario 64.on release day when the N64 first launch. I still remember me and my brother getting the N64 and Game and playing it for the first time in my grandmother's house in the living room.

AND I WAS TRULY EXPOSED TO GAMING!!

My first game was Don Quijote in an Amstrad CPC 464.

Game: Asteroids

Console: Atari 2600

Year: 1989

Age: 7

I could have sworn there was a thread like this already...

Hmmm my first game ever. My earliest memories are playing solo with Uno cards... That or Rescue Rangers for NES.

Platform: Table Top
Game: Improvised Uno / Playing Rescue Rangers (with very odd rules and lots of imagination :P)
Age: 7?

Oh god that suddenly reminds me of trying to learn Basic programming for the Atari800XL, and my older brother finding a game in a magazine where you pretty much type the entire thing in, then save it, then you can play it... Alas i have no memory of what the game was, except i typed some of it in, hit run and remember blips of rocks populating the screen before dying...

Fun times...

My first game was Penguin adventure in Famicon (8 bits), awesome console and game. :D

Age: 4
Year: 1994

I am not sure what your parameters are here. Do you want first electronic game, first PC or console games played or owned? Anyway, here's the list :)

The first electronic games I remember were things like and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merlin_%28game%29]Merlin
I actually had a Merlin, but only played Simon on other people's machines. I also had a Quiz Wiz once

Other than that, there were arcade machines and the early public demonstrations at Kmart of (and later [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall!]Pitfall & Joust) that I played fairly often. There were tiny games that I could type in manually to the early computers at school or load up with cassette tapes. [Its odd to think that the most basic shovelware or student projects are fancier than those old programs!]

The first long electronic game I played was Zork I (interactive fiction,) which I played exclusively at school (they had a group license for that and several more Infocom games because my favorite Professor convinced them that it taught logic skills ;)

I was also allowed to play the Atari 2600 machine at my Step-Father's parents' house as a tween. I loved Air-Sea battle the most. (I was really tickled to get an Atari anthology that had that one in it in recent years.) The only console I got in the early days was a hand-me-down of one of those early computer/console hybrids from a wealthy relation and that one didn't actually work. Either it was a lemon or 'Ickle Dudleykins' had busted it before handing it off to me. After I got married, years later, my new husband and I got another used computer system in Texas which came with the first computer game that I actually owned - M.U.L.E. - but the instructions were missing so I thought it was broken instead of intentionally cantankerous. lol I didn't play that one very much. That same year my husband and I were given an NES as a gift from my Mom, and she included (new) the first Zelda, Super Mario 3, and the system came with Duck Hunt & Super Mario Bros. Those were the first console games for both of us, and they were wonderful!

We bought our first fully functional computer in the early 90's and naturally the first things we played on it were solitaire and minesweeper. We played a lot of computer games back then but most were borrowed or rented - yes, rented. That was the best way to go back then (until it was banned) because the games could be $50-100 each!

First big game we bought (2ndhand) was Sid Meier's Civilization. The first new PC games we got came with hardware bought for Myst. The cd-rom kit alone included 7th Guest, Labyrinth of Time, Star Wars Chess, and... I'm blanking on the 4th game. It was either the graphics or the sound card that had Journeyman 1, or was that in one of the first value packs we saw? Deals like that were common in '93-'94, as this old magazine shows you. I am not sure now. I do remember that at one point the very best deals were cd-roms sold in long, cascading clear plastic sleeves.

First game(s) i played (older friends let me play on their weird handhelds were some of these vintage handheld games followed by Pinball and JetSetWilly on my ZX Spectrum and most impressive game of my childhood that i will love till the end of my life is Wonderboy in Monsterland.

I was certainly killed by a new, third monster. What can I say... I would approach it every time practically without any ammo. But it still was fun for me. My "Quake addiction" lasted for about a month.

I think my first game was Pac-Man... Don't remember in what console but i think it was an Atari and I don't remember exactly when but definitely sometime in the 80s..

i see you made it far in quake ;p

I usually get those "addictions" for Quake too. It wears off as soon as I visit the forums of QuakeOne.com however.

Yeah, as far as I know this cartridge was included with pretty much any European Atari 2600. Some models (not sure if revisions of the 2600 or other ones) actually had the games from this cartridge embedded into the console itself.

Oh man, I just remembered the procedure of switching games. It was so friggin' awesome. You could only go in one direction and only by switching the console off and on. There's nothing quite like trying to quickly get to a specific game on that cartridge and accidentally skip it one or two times. Whenever I close my eyes I still hear the white noise going on and off, on and off, on and off... good times.

I fondly recall the pre-digital, electro-mechanical coin op arcade games. Besides pinball machines of course, there were those arcade games where a coin would give a certain time to e.g. shoot moving tiny plastic tanks that you saw through the fake binoculars, or images of sharks which were projected to the screen, moving around.

The first proper electronic arcade game I recall seeing was Space Invaders, and the first home video game was some sort of Pong console that my filthy rich uncle's family had (our family was so poor that we couldn't possibly have a technological marvel like that).

EDIT: With little google-fu, I think this was the electro-mechanic shark game (Killer Shark):

http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/shark.htm

The tank game was either of these, possibly the Sega one (the first):

http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/combat.htm

http://www.pinrepair.com/arcade/panzer.htm

My first ever video game was IIRC Pac-Man in an arcade "store" in about 1982 when I was about 5 years old. I was hooked.

30 years later, I still suck at Pac-Man.