I don't remember if my first game I ever was played was at the arcades or on console or pc. =/ So I'll just say well probably at 5 or 6 or so it had to have been Pac-Man at the arcades. Quickly afterwards I begged for the Atari 2600, then C64 when I had the wonderful fortune of trying out some interesting games that firmly cemented my videogame addiction habit decades ago...

Super Mario Bros. Its a staple of a good diet

The first games I remember where interactive storybooks I could play at the library Harry and the Haunted House (I think that's what it might have been called) and such like. You'd click and people and things to watch 3 to 5 second comical animations and then the "page" would return to normal. When you'd fiddled around enough you'd click to turn to the page and keep reading.

I remember my first "real" game but I don't know what it was. I was at a friend's house and he had a console (I'm guessing a N64 or a PS1) and we played a bit of a First person shooter. What I remember most was that as well as normal vision you could switch to inferred and night vision, I died at my first enemy. Then we played split-screen multiplayer, My friend beat me. Sound familiar to anyone.

First game I loved was a Magic School Bus game a lot like the interactive storybooks I just talked about but it also had platorming sections. Fun times.

Living Books! Those were the coolest! I must have played through Harry and the Haunted House a thousand times when I was a kid.

Glad to see I'm not the only one who remembers them :3

Mario bros whit duck hunt was the first game I have played when I was 3 years old. I always played as the player 2 and I never was very skilled, I usually (always) fell on the first pit but I enjoyed the colors and music, also preferred to see my brother play he was very good in that game

Or Adventure on the Atari VCS:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/it/6/6d/Adventure-Atari_2600.png

To Dragon Age Inquisition:
http://media2.giga.de/2012/03/da3_environments_animals2.jpg


*mind blown*

ill blown you mind over an even smaller time frame

this is virtua fighter 1 from 1993
http://www.fightersgeneration.com/np/games/vf1-s5.png

this is virtua fighter 4 from 2001

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/virtuafighter/virtuafighter4ft-01.png

thats just 8 years !!

i cant believe how far we have come in 8 years

Adventure, in text on a small bw screen, on a computer that took up a whole bedroom at a relative's house. Later played it on my original Apple II (using a TV and a tape recorder - no disk drives yet).

First game I can remember is numerous Atari 2600 games. When I think to that Missile Command is the one that sticks out. I believe we had versions of Centipede and Millipede. We had a Commodore 64 as well and they may have been on it but I know we had both at roughly the same time. Which, was absolutely first I can't quite recall. Younger life is really hazy. Have bits and pieces but not a lot of clear memories except a few.

I have to applaud that is a pretty good first game.

The one where you begin at a pyramid and die instantly if you don't scum jump the fuck outta it?, I'd rather play the sequel, it wasn't ass backwards like the first one or at least the better control input didn't make me realize that

TR: Chronicles was horrible though.

I think the first TR starts at the cave in Himalayan/tibet with a wolves..

I agree the trap in early gen TR is way more.. challenging. You need to run, jump, slide manually -and quickly - to evade death.

The sequel you mean TR2? with that Venice stage?

they were al horrible before the 2006 reboot

i recently played 2 on the ps1

the graphics nearly gouged my eyes out and the control layout was obtuse confusing and counter intuitive i die dmore because fo the fucking controls then the actual challenge in the sodding game

I don't know about first, but some of my first memories are of watching my brother play Final Fantasy 5 while I would sit on his lap. Also up there would be Maplestory, Heroes 2-3, and Gunbound.
All my memories are a jumbled mess, but don't they say you remember you childhood better as you get older?