What was your first game?

[Clock]

This is to all those who started late, as most would say Combat otherwise.

 

What was your first game in your collection?

 

Mine is Real Sports Soccer. I got it before the console.

 

 

 

and this is my 100th post so I'm gonna have a private party

[ussexplorer]

About 10 original games that came with the used Atari VCS from a yard sale. One of them being ofcourse, combat.

 

 

 

[moycon]

Combat.

 

Actual non-pack-in game... Breakout

[CPUWIZ]

As sad as it sounds, Pac-Man.

[carolsheba]

keystone kapers!

[DaveAtari]

Combat....and Asteroids

With the system, it cost my parents about four hundred bucks.

[+cvga]

Combat.

 

Actual non-pack-in game... Breakout

 

Same for me!

[+-^CrossBow^-]

Besides the pack-in of Combat.

 

I also unwrapped my first Shrinked NIB game in X-mas of 82. That of course..was Defender...

 

Played the heck outta that one...

 

[RJ]

we first rented a 2600 w/ Combat, Pac-Man, & Space Invaders- they were the only ones I was familiar with! We finally bought one, of course, but it's too far back to recall what was first.

[cryptik76]

Target Fun/Air-Sea-Battle. We bought a Sears machine. Probably the first non-pack-in game we bought was Ice Hockey, because my dad loves hockey and before we even owned an Atari I remember him playing this at other people's houses. But I was only four or five when we bought the Atari so I don't know for sure.

[sku_u]

Combat

[ATARI TROLL]

King Kong-I'm no longer in possession of. Like a dipshit, when Nintendo came out, I got rid of it. I still wish I could get a copy. Been a thrift store dream to come accross. I am one of the few collectors in my area but have a hard time coming up with something I don't already have!

[Witchfynde]

Space Invaders, then Combat, since you gotta buy at least ONE game with a new console! And that was the game mom bought along with it, so that was cool, and more fun than Combat, since I couldn't always rustle up another player for.

[snorlaxnut]

First game I ever got was Freeway on my 9th birthday.

[Christophero Sly]

Air-Sea Battle (after Combat).

[badbrad]

Combat

Donkey Kong

Sky Diver

Basketball

[rasty]

Besides Combat, I've got Berzerk with my new 2600 way back then.

I actually didn't like the game too much, until I discovered the fun of diagonal shooting some time later

 

Rasty.-

[Vic George 2K3]

Space Invaders, back around the Christmas of 1981.

[t.skid]

I bought my 2600 used from a friend of mine, with some carts, and the first I played was Mario Bros

[Mendon]

First bought game? Tie: Space Invaders, Fishing Derby, Home Run. First played game? Space Invaders. First Hated game? Home Run

 

Mendon

[MegaManFan]

and this is my 100th post so I'm gonna have a private party

 

Hopefully with the lady in your avatar. Rowr!

 

Seriously though, I can't even begin to fathom an answer, mostly because when I got engaged to my wife her Atari and about 30 games came with her - quite frankly since they all arrived at once I can't call any of them "first." Confounding the matter further is the fact that a close friend of mine gave me a plastic bag full of his games since he no longer had an Atari on, so those 30 got mixed in with another 15-25 (what's even more remarkable at this point is that there were no duplicates, not even a Combat, and I ended up with a Track & Field to boot from his stash). The only way I could really answer this question is if you asked me what the first one was I ever PLAYED. That's easy - I played Pac-Man on a Sears Tele-Games in store demo unit.

[gulag picture radio]

For me it was *gulp* Airlock. I had played a lot of Atari at friend's houses, and for some reason that game really stuck on me. I think that it was because I could easily win it, so it was an easy sense of accomplishment.

 

When I got the Atari, it came with Combat of course, but I had bought Airlock a week before since I knew the 2600 was coming. I think that it was a really weird price at Toys R Us, like $7.40 or something like that.

[Video]

The first game I played, that I remembered clearly was a Pong machine. I think it was actually a coleco rather than an Atari Pong Machine.

 

But since this is for the 2600, I'll say the first game I played on it was Combat in christmass of 77. Being poor we didn't get many games, most of the original releases, but Combat was my favorite. The first game I bought for it was Pac-Man. Sure, it's not like the arcade, but it was pac-mann enougy for me back in the day.

[ATARIPITBULL]

I think it was pitfall and I think it was about $42.00 at the time.

 

[Room 34]

I got several games on the day I got my 2600, but sadly I must admit, Pac-Man was the first game I owned, because it had just come out, and the first place we went (Kay-Bee) was out-of-stock on the consoles, so we just picked up Pac-Man there and went to Kmart for the console and the rest. In retrospect it was stupid to pick up Pac-Man at Kay-Bee, because of course they had it at Kmart and it was about $5 cheaper. But we were afraid it might be sold out there, being such a hot item as it was.

 

The other games I got that day were:

 

Asteroids

Bowling

Breakout

Combat (of course)

Home Run

 

I'm glad it was just my dad and me on that trip... I certainly wouldn't have gotten so many games if my mom was along! ($$$)

 

I also got Air-Sea Battle and Indy 500 shortly thereafter, but I don't think I had them right away.

 

I can't believe I remember all of this so well, 21 years later!