This is just funny.. 🙂 Hottest tips on Pac-Man Included…. I wonder which other titles were included in the 30 most popular games…
What was the first Video Game you remember playing?
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I remember playing Pong back in the 70's. Fossilized bones of that game are now being dug up by archaeologists!
Donkey Kong was my first… on Colecovision
Must've been Super Mario Bros. 1. I wonder if the tips in this book still apply today… ha.
My dad (a master of Asteroids) owned an arcade in the early 80s/late 70s and we had our first video game system at home in the 70s. Pong Tele-Games ftw!
TMNT 2 on arcade for me
King Quest 😀
Pong on the atari
pong
Asteroids
I played Pong…. lot's and lots of Pong…
it's all there was…
Ah, when gaming didn't have choices lol
Fwiw: I still have my original Atari. Not sure why, though.
river raid, and pele's soccer.
Pong.. or maybe Space Invaders, in an arcade in Sydney, Australia.
I think it would be an ancient handheld version of Space Invaders… I say "handheld" and not "portable" because it didn't have batteries, just an AC adaptor…. it was weird, but awesome as a little kid.
Super Mario Bros NES
Tron!
wow..I had that book.
I had that book way back when. Makes me sad that it's long gone now.
Defender!
Pong, Space Invaders, Pac-Man – then games became too complicated for me! LOL
Pong on a TV Game device, followed by Commodore Vic 20 games, like Centipede, City Bomber, and Duke Nukem on the C64. Then Duke Nukem on the PC, and finally, I only play Wolfenstein Enemy Territory on the PC now.
"The Video Games" is rich!
Also, +Amanda Blain, I may have had that book…
Hottest tips on Pac-man… "Run away from the ghosts: if you see a ghost, move away from it as quickly as possible. Also, eat the fruit."
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OMG! I'm looking at this exact book on my shelf right now.
('cept mine doesn't have the fancy "includes the hottest tips on Pac-Man" cover blurb)
Must have been Pong. I remember playing it at the house of a cousin. Still like the simplicity of it. Next I remember playing Pac-Man at one of those Atari arcade machines during vacation in Spain.
Pong was the first video game I ever played.
what the
I also had this one: Mattel Electronics Handheld Games || Auto Race (1976)
The Legend of Zelda on my NES. I was the happiest boy, my cousins had an atari and I was the first with a Nintendo.
loll +Thom Miller 🙂 Thats what i was thinking.. EAT FRUIT…
Lots of pong players…. I remember pong… but i cant say it was one that i super PLAYED… Pitfall! has more of a memory for me on the atari..
When a quarter could buy 5 minutes of happiness.
The first system we owned was my grandparent's intellivision with asteroids… Don't remember the first i'd ever played though… I think "math blaster" on the apple IIe…
Pong!
I'm looking up my first TV game system and I can't find it anywhere. It apparently didn't official exist? (Still looking) It was two huge boxes (each the size of a small shoebox) with faux-wood trim and dials for controllers. One was the master controller, which picked the game settings, the other the competitor.
From 1983 to 1985 I worked in the video game section of a mall retailer. A big part of my job was demonstrating video games to convince people that the systems were worth buying. We had the Atari 2600 and 5200, the Intellivision, and the Colecovision for most of my tenure there. As jobs go, it wasn't too bad. 🙂
Combat. My dad opened our Atari before Christmas. It's the first and last time he ever showed interest in video games. And I think I have that book.
HTMTVG's features tips on Astro Blaster, Astro Fighter, Centipede, Galaxian, Gorf, Moon Cresta, Phoenix, Pleiades, Space Invaders (1 and 2!), Asteroids, Asteroids Deluxe, Defender, Scramble, Space Fury, Space Odyssey, Star Castle, Armor Attack, Berzerk, Pac-Man, Rally-X, Targ, Venture (my personal fav), Wizard of Wor, Monoco GP, Sky Raider, Space Zap, Battlezone, Crazy Climber and Missile Command. _phew!_
My first video game would have been The Adventures of LoLo. It was the only time I got to spend with my grandfather before he died and ill always remember that.
Lloyds pong in the 70s
I used to own THAT book! Ah, memories…
Space War! 🙂
Actually, the first one I remember was Pong.
Own it.
I can't believe no one has said Galaga!
Arkanoid…anyone?
Just checked it out on Google Books which lets you search the content. Tried a bunch of different words like "robot, wizard, mushroom, player" etc. and it brings up the pages where these words occur. Oddly the word "fun" wasn't in the book?
pong, but frogger on atari is what i would consider my first #gamingaddiction
+Paul Gatling Galaga was years later.
Since I am quite a bit younger than most pong players here. I'm gonna have to say Pico was the first game system I remember playing. Winnie the Pooh and Ecco Jr. were a few I remember the best on there. Not much else tho.
PONG on my uncle's GIANT PC connected to their GIANT COLOUR television (he worked at Nortel when it was hip) … I spend my summers there and felt like a "rich kid" then it was back to school on the radio shack pc with cassette loaded math games.
good times… good times….
what about Oregon Trail for the PC? still awesome to this day. lol
I could always google these things myself .. but its always good to see who will go out and do the searching themselves… 😉 Good on you +David Pretty 😀
No fun? +Andrew Mackenzie … that is strange… guess it was still too fringe
Hi Amanda, I can vaguely remember playing a game which involved two cowboys having a shoot out, basic stuff but lots of fun. This was back in the 1970's in a gaming arcade, I can't remember the name of the game, any info please?, oh dear I feel old, kind regards.
There's enough people here, we could get #pong trending.
I'd have to say Defender or maybe Asteroids was the first I played. On an arcade machine on holiday in Spain sometime in my early years.
Although I did play a LOT of video games in arcades, (and a few on the odd primitive console as well), what I really miss most of all is Pinball Machines which have been almost totally fazed out now. But I suspect that this topic probably warrants its own thread! 😉
I actually get to see books like this all the time, usually on the table in the lunchroom. The owner of the company I work for once held the record for high score on Centipede, appeared on "That's Incredible" with 2 other teenage video game prodigies, was featured in "Chasing Ghosts", and maintains an arcade for all employees to enjoy in our spare time.
Now, if I could just find some spare time…
I don't remember the first game but it was one of many on the Atari. God I miss those days 🙂
I used to own this book!
I think I might still have a few books like that laying around…somewhere. Pitfall might have been the first I can remember.
First game I remember playing was Wonder Boy and I still play it on the same arcade machine!
Apparently we had a Wonder Wizard with a racing game in addition to Pong and no branding on the outside of the box. This, apparently, is a console that was only rumored to exist (only thing I found on it was mention that someone claimed to have seen such a box once.) Too bad I don't have it anymore… for historical purposes.
I can't recall whether I played in the arcade first or the Atari 2600. In the arcade, Pac Man, Galaga, Frogger, Space Invaders, Asteroids. If the Atari, it would have been Combat, Adventure, Asteroids. I think I remember being disappointed in the Atari 2600 version of Pac Man as compared to the arcade version which leads me to believe I played the stand-ups first.
when this book was publishes, there were only 30 arcade games in existence. LOL.
Cover to cover.
Space invaders! Does that make me old?! LOL
Oh, and the first arcade game I remember playing was Star Castle. It sat right next to Asteroids in the back room of our neighborhood deli. I also remember the day Pac Man joined them.
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Asteroids.Oh, and Donkey Kong!
+Amanda Blain mine was probably bat and ball – on the #Binatone (we couldn't afford an #Atari console… <wipes tear away>
But the first arcade game was #SpaceInvaders
Hard to believe, I recently bought a new Laptop for the same amount I paid to get a Vic20 Computer, with monitor, disk drive, 300 baud modem. I was rockin' – Intellivison was about the same price back then, as a new baseline laptop today.
Who can forget the 'Galaga glitch' which resulted in the enemy ships in Galaga not firing at your ship anymore?
Oh, and Bubble Bobble and the 'power-ups' that weren't a 'glitch' but were programmed into the machine to be 'unlocked' by savy players who 'decoded' the secret messages in the treasure rooms.
Probably Missile Command, or Space Invaders, great times… o/
The first video game I ever played…I really don't know, but I remember the very first game I ever saw, or was afraid of: it was E.T for the Atari (ik, so OLD!). The way E.T was all shrively and ugly, especially with the graphics back then, scarred me for life. Now that I'm an avid gamer myself (or think I am), I have come to appreciate that game (as terrible as it is). Now that I think about it, I think the first game I EVER played was for the N64. I mustered up the courage to play any game at the age of 11 or 12…
The first video game I ever played…I really don't know, but I remember the very first game I ever saw, or was afraid of: it was E.T for the Atari (ik, so OLD!). The way E.T was all shrively and ugly, especially with the graphics back then, scarred me for life. Now that I'm an avid gamer myself (or think I am), I have come to appreciate that game (as terrible as it is). Now that I think about it, I think the first game I EVER played was for the N64. I mustered up the courage to play any game at the age of 11 or 12…
The first game I remember playing is tetris. 😀
I played it on my fathers macintosh computer (the original).
I was maybe 3-4 years old, so this was around 1995.
World of Warcraft on an old 1.2 gHz AMD back in the day.
erm…
Tank at my younger brother's birthday party at the local (and long gone) Shakey's Pizza.
my 1st is pokemon firered. Ah, the nostalgia.
what's up Harris
Pong!
All those damn quorters, Shit how do you spell quarter?
Pong…in my bearskin, my oversized club at my side!
+Charlie Hustle, I played that on one of the better Apple machines: Apple IIe.
World of War craft….. When I was four. I stopped that very day too.
Star Raiders after I purchased my first joystick, in 1985. Before that, the type-what-you may from magazines like ANTIC
Amok! On the Commodore VIC-20 – the precursor to the c64!!
Double Dragon for original Nintendo–
We had this little game we typed into our TRS-80 Model 1 from an article in a magazine … you landed a rocketship on the moon by hitting the space bar to give it thrust when it was falling too fast, but you would run out of fuel if you kept it in the air too long …. THAT'S HOW WE ROCKED IT OLD SCHOOL, BAY-BEE! Who needs more than 4k RAM? Pfft!
pong
Asteroids in wireless frame graphics was my first one think
Wt is tht all about
+Amanda Blain – this is a moment of public confession: I have never played a single video game. #trustorybro
How much is it ?published book?
ever? Anything? Angry birds? +P E Sharpe ?
I remember getting that book from the library! Then I ran down to my local arcade ('Dream Machine') and played for hours as my mother shopped the mall.
The first game I played was Mario Kart, good times…….
Donkey Kong Country for me (:
Sadly it was Pong !
+Amanda Blain – I wouldn't know an Angry Bird if it hit me over the head. The closest I ever got was watching my spawn play with his gameboy and playstation, whatevers when he was growing up, and decades ago watching family gathered around playing kong or pong or whatever it was. It's just not something I've ever been interested in. I signed up for Second Life once but after signing up I signed off, so my naked avatar is floating around somewhere without me to guide her along.
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Actually, I forgot about Pong, and other earlier non-arcade games — Pong was the first, in 1976.
Lol! That is classic. Wonder if he mastered HALO?
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lines on a TRS 80
Tomahawk 777. At a Woolworth's. On Maui. Thank you MAME….
Dang, I HAD THAT BOOK! Got it at Half-Price Books when I was kid.
Helicopter Attack, Spider-Man, Pitfall and some kind of Baseball in Atari 2600!!!
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I watched many more games in the arcade than I played personally, but I know that I blew a ton of allowance on the vector graphics version of Star Wars.
+Kevin J. Chen , watching games was almost as fun as playing them yourself. There is a "real" social aspect that is missing from kids these days. Nothing beat hanging out with friends in the Mall/Arcade/Food Court in the 80's and early 90's.
I am a gamer and i paly alot
Amanda
Bonk's adventure on the turbo graphic 16
sabotage and lemonade stand on an Apple II+
I remember Pong on a flat table display at a local restaurant. That was 1974.
Pong. In the entrance-way of a discount store in Marietta,GA in 1974 or 1975 maybe?
Pokemon Ruby!
I'm a newbie
but that game was revolutionary for me
Tetris! still love it today.
I loved Tempest. That was the first game I played stoned.
Haha I've read that book!!!
It was eiether mario 3 or krash banicoot. Or was it sonic?
space invaders FTW!
I worked for Atari in 1989 at their Sydney office…. they were still selling loads of 2600's at the time.
I owned this book! It was actually quite helpful.
ADDENDUM: It all gets lost in the haze of time and other hint guides, but a couple of additional games I remember from this book include Defender, Wizard of Wor, Robotron, Pengo, Gorf, Tempest, Donkey Kong, and probably Tempest as well. I probably have a couple of those wrong, but it's what popped into my head.
As to the first game I remember playing, it was either Pong (the home console from Sears) or the Fairchild Channel F system, which featured a three-axis controller!
battle tank.. i loved it.
Ah, the smell of the arcade. I remember first table top Asteroids. Heaven on earth.
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Paperboy was another fun one and Aero Fighters!
ahh..pacman and asteroids… 🙂
Don't knock this book – got me thru some pretty rough patches in my early gaming days! Yes, I used to own this book. (Yes, I also had a guide on how to complete a Rubik's Cube. Don't fraking judge me!)
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Helo !sister……
I don't remember the first one I played, but I do remember a camp ground I was at had an arcade (what didn't have an arcade?) and their Donkey Kong was broken so you could give yourself as many free plays as you wanted by flipping a switch inside.
I don't recall the first game but I remember a camp ground I was at had an arcade (what didn't have an arcade?) and it's Donkey Kong was broken so you could get as many free plays as you wanted by flipping a switch inside.
Nintendo Game Boy – Tetris
I owned this book, bought it brand new too. First game at the arcade was Missile Command. Then anything that Williams Co. produced.
I miss arcades! They were so awesome, especially when the entire arcade was just a big black room with games from wall to wall. What about Tempest, Qbert, PacMan (remember the pattern) and I loved Pole Position.
The first arcade game i can recall was a Pac-Man game but it was platformer. Does anyone else remember that one? I remember playing friends Atari games but it all started for my brothers and i when we got an NES for christmas. Mario Bros and Duckhunt were awesome. Have been gaming ever since. AC3 is brilliant.
"The" video games. Cracks me up.
First game I ever played? I'd have to say pac man or donkey kong probably. Got addicted to one called venture. Little smiley face with a bow and arrow that went from room to room collecting treasure and shooting snakes before the hall monster found you. Good times.
Remember the smell all arcades seemed to have? Hot electronics, nachos, and social awkwardness.
kill time!
realy do not know who main player and king of the lie…?
play-if there is desire and quick in his(its) embraces…
epic
Haha, bought this book & read it cover to cover. I was probably 12 at the time.
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kill time!
pacman or perhaps some family computer games
i do think sometimes that those games are still better than the ones we have now.
bring back the NINTENDO MAGIC! XD
+Ryan Douthit sounds like the original atari
The earliest games I can remember playing were probably Frogger, Asteroids, maybe PacMan.
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i remeber playing doom thats it oh and halo
I had completely forgotten about this book. There was also one on home video games. First one I played was likely space invaders. I did have a much greater fondness for asteroids.
The first video game I remember playing was Conjunction Junction on the old Texas Instruments TI-99
asteroids all the way lol
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What Haris? That isn't related to this discussion at all, maybe you should re-listen to Revolution, any version.
On a lighter note, I played E.T. on atari also lol
Santa Paravia on a TRS-80
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…THE Video Games…
if you had to read a booklet to play pac-man these days a 8 year old would clown you
Even the word "the" before video games is telling, suggesting a small, limited number.
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holy crap! I used to have this book!
Hi the first video game that i played was Atari tennis, Two white lines and a square for a ball, such fun. Till the tanks came. Remember wire frame games. O.M.G. does it sound like i knew Noah.
ya, he lived next-door to me, got into yachting … went round the world or something 😉
thought that was drake. not the duck
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This is where I really date myself… I remember playing Pong as a child.
I own this book, this is hilarious.
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Pitfall atary 2600
My first I remember Ping-Pong (Tennis) 😀
My first I remember Ping-Pong (Tennis) 😀
I'm curious if it had Asro Wars in that top 30!
Ok my earliest game was Pong on (I believe) a Magnavox pong game. Shortly after that, we got the Sears branded Atari 2600 console. I was about 5 when that stuff happened… a long, long time ago indeed… and btw I do remember that book, and that series of books… Oi. I feel old. lol
Life Force on the NES. I was distraught when my brother pawned it for a Genesis :'(.
lol I loved LifeForce…. with the 30 lives Konami code… but then I loved my Sega too – I collect all the classic consoles I had as emulators now. 🙂
I Guess It would have been Pong…Yea, I'm old.
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Video games – this is one of the worst inventions of mankind. Video games "planted" MANY people in the game, like a drug. And that's all. Consider, gone the next boy or girl in the virtual world of video games.
+Amanda Blain I watched the excellent movie +Wreck-It Ralph, it was so much fun to see all these old video games that we used to play in dark rooms 🙂
What was the first
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