What was your first computer game ever?

[MIB4u]

Mine must've been ... hm ...
The first computer I remember had "Jill of the Jungle" installed and I just was too fidgety to play it right ...
A few years ago I found the disk with all three games and had it played through in ... 3hrs?

[Lady Fitzgerald]

Well, if you define "computer" loosely enough, it would have been Pong played from a controller connected to a TV. Later, when we got a Commodore C64c, we had a bunch of computer games but the two I remember are Anna's Gram and Hassle Castle (the kids especially loved Hassle Castle). When I first got an XP computer, the first (and only) game was XP Pinball.

[Portreve]

The two earliest computer games I can remember playing were Puzzle and Amazing.

[antikythera]

It's between Moon Buggy or Bomber which I had to program myself from the AMSTRAD CPC 6128 user manual. If you call typing in text verbatim from a user manual coding then Bomber was my first foray into it.

Moon Buggy came with it on a Diskette so all I had to do was run it. The first I bought if I recall correctly was Dizzy by Codemasters.

[Moem]

Some black and white, ASCII-ish rendition of Tetris.

[BenTrabetere]

If console games qualify, it would have to be the collections that came with the Atari 2600.

I do not recall the first game I played on my first computer (XT-clone, circa 1984), but I think the first one I purchased was The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and I never could get past the Babel Fish. I was equally successful and frustrated with Bureaucracy.

Other early DOS games I purchased were SimCity, Command HQ, Chessmaster 2000and Their Finest Hour: Battle of Britain.

[revmacian]

The first computer game that I actually bought for myself was King's Quest for PC back in the mid 1980's.

[Welcome]

For me, it was "Colossal Cave Adventure" also known as Adventure.

YOU ARE STANDING AT THE END OF A ROAD BEFORE A SMALL BRICK BUILDING.
AROUND YOU IS A FOREST. A SMALL STREAM FLOWS OUT OF THE BUILDING AND
DOWN A GULLY.

xyzzy y2 plugh!

[Neil Edmond]

Not really sure, but the first game I remember playing was Solitaire on Windows 3.11, then not long after that I bought a Golf game of some sort on CD-ROM that ran on DOS. Still have the golf CD somewhere...guess I'll have to fire up the old Windows ME machine if I want to play that game again. Oh, and there is a really nice pinball game on that Windows ME machine.

[AdamFirst]

I can't remember the specific titles, but the first computer game I bought was a text based adventure. The first I played was probably "Lunar Landing" or "Hamurabi"

[kernalzero]

PC game would have been Secret Weapons of the Luft Waffe https://lucasfilm.fandom.com/wiki/Secr ... _Luftwaffe. Fun game but with the old Tandy computer we had with windows 3.11 and 4mb of ram I had to use a boot disk to bypass the OS to load the game. Later came Doom and Then Heretic later.

[Drugwash]

Question was "first computer game ever". Not TV, not console, not anything else. So I can safely say it was a sort of demo game whose name escapes me - something with '-saurus' I think - that came on the same cassette tape with the BASIC interpretor for a 100% Romanian version of a ZX Spectrum called CIP 01. Yep, that particular model required that the interpretor be loaded from tape at each and every power up. The game consisted in "building" a fantasy dinosaur-like animal from multiple parts - there were several size and shape choices for body, head, neck, feet, tail - and then watching it go through different environments and seasons, finding food, escaping from predators etc. Purpose was to build a "chimera" that would survive through all stages.

I think the first game I cracked to obtain infinite lives was Dizzy. Or maybe Little Puff. Or... can't remember, it was more than 25 years ago. But 8bit assembler was fun. Hm, I might go back to that. People still build Z80 games in this day and age, I see...

[AZgl1800]

Mine must've been ... hm ...
The first computer I remember had "Jill of the Jungle" installed and I just was too fidgety to play it right ...
A few years ago I found the disk with all three games and had it played through in ... 3hrs?

I'm 78 y/o now, and yet to play my first computer game.
IMO, they are a huge waste of time.

[antikythera]

IMO, they are a huge waste of time.

The same could be said for any sport or leisure activity though, everyone's entitled to spend their time how they want

[HaveaMint]

I'm not sure if it was on the color computer 1 or 2 (coco1 or 2) but the game was Dungeons of Daggorath.

[AndyMH]

adventure on a VAX 11/780.

[ChrisGeller]

Dangerous dave

[Pierre]

snake
and was played in an DosBox .. PC based machine.


my previous Z80 based computer .. didn't actually have any Games, as such.

[tuxoneseven]

DOS game on EGA screen. Prince of Persia I think, but I don remember so well

[JoeFootball]

"Colossal Cave Adventure" (or some clone variant) on a TRS-80 Model I.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure