30 Days of Video Games Day 1 - Very First Video Game
Did you know that Activision was the first third-party developer on the Atari? I've even heard somebody say once that they were the first third-party developer for any console ever! But I've never looked into that... and that might be a story for another time...
Do you remember the first sweater you ever wore? There's good reason to believe that this event happened in your youth - casually, uneventfully. And you probably didn't have the wherewithal to figure out what was happening when it was thrust onto you. My first video game moment was probably something like that. The fact is that my dad owned an Atari 2600 AND an Atari XL - on top of that, I was born in 1985; a month and some days before the Nintendo Entertainment System would be available in North America. Really, the universe had conspired against me and I didn't stand a chance. Video games were part of my life before I could even identify them as such.
Anyway, my brother and I busted out the ol' Atari and tried to figure out which game we played first - and after careful deliberation, we reasoned that Activision's imaginatively titled 'Boxing' for the 2600 might have been the first game that we'd ever played. But really, it could have been any one of these....
Reminiscing on a history of video games feels like a great way to kick-off this 30 Days of Video Games thing. So, now I put the question to you.... what was your very first video game?
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30 Days of Video Games Day 1 - Very First Video Game
This is stretching it, I barely remember what happened last week.
The first video game i remember playing was probably Missile Command for the Atari 2600 (I think.). My grandparents up north had it. When it rained (When there was literally nothing to do outside.) We would spend hours playing it, my brother and Cousins we all took turns.
Good game.
my first game which I had checked with my dad is Shinobi on the master system... i was 5 - 6 years old... i remember getting really upset because i couldn't beat the helicopter.
the sega genesis collection on the ps3 motivated me to play it... the child in me cheered when finally beating the game.
My first game I remember very clearly. It was for the Vectrex. It was my mothers old system that I use to spend hours playing. From when I was really young and even after we owned a SNES. The game I would always play was Astroids. Mainly because it was built in and would be many years until we found a stash of a few other games.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Vectrex.jpg
this is one seriously charming looking console. jes' sayin'
when we bust out your vectrex, sean, we should take a buttload of pictures to post on here.
that sega genesis collection was amazing for a lot of reasons. altered beast was the first sega game that german and i played... getting to beat it on the collection was really satisfying!
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