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I have played Atari 2600 in a friend's house but i don't remember anything.

Probably the oldest game i have played is Donkey Kong on Amstrad CPC (Released in 1981 on Arcades) or some Amstrad CPC/Arcade game when i was a little kid.

Donkey Kong in Amstrad Playing as Super Mario  

The best Arcade game i have ever seen is Double Dragon.
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The first game i saw in another's kid's amstrad cpc was that.

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The game: Super Cobra (MSX)

The experience: 5 years old me dying 60 times per minute.

https://youtube.com/shorts/I8mHd0XHcqg?si=X3oAmKGIMQIvibEY

Edit: misread the title. Super Cobra was my first game. I'm not sure which one is the oldest I played. Probably Space Invaders, I played it for a few minutes in total and enjoyed it for what it was.

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Actually, turns out I lied; just checked the release date and Breakout for the 2600 came out two years earlier in 1978, so that's my oldest.

Again, an example of how a simple enjoyable concept still holds up.



Oldest game I played is definitely Pong. Like Nintendo and Sega, I also had an Atari when I was born/young. I much prefer Breakout though.



- Pong on a Pong console
- (Colossal Cave) Adventure - Windows port of the 1977 version
- Breakout, Asteroids, Missile Commad and Pac-Man on Arcade machines
- Mystery House (1980, first game of Sierra) via ScummVM
- Zork (MS-DOS + iPad version)




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Growing up, the first console I remember us having was an iteration of this system - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1292_Advanced_Programmable_Video_System

We had several games - this is probably the one I remember the most



curl-6 said:

Actually, turns out I lied; just checked the release date and Breakout for the 2600 came out two years earlier in 1978, so that's my oldest.

Again, an example of how a simple enjoyable concept still holds up.

I was going to say Pacman, but Breakout is probably the answer… unless I’m remembering Arkanoid. I have a clear memory of Arkanoid at least, but that was a few years after Pacman.

But then someone reminded me of an even older game I played… Zork, although I played a later shovelware port which came with a bunch of other text adventure games.



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curl-6 said:

Actually, turns out I lied; just checked the release date and Breakout for the 2600 came out two years earlier in 1978, so that's my oldest.

Again, an example of how a simple enjoyable concept still holds up.

I have played Arkanoid on Amstrad that is a clone of this game and it was one of the best games.



It's hard to say which has been the oldest. My first gaming experience was in the mid 90s when I was visiting my uncle abroad, he had a PC and the original SimCity - I somehow knew then that it wasn't my kinda game but of course I played it for hours anyway.



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Deus Ex (2000) - a game that pushes the boundaries of what the video game medium is capable of to a degree unmatched to this very day.

In Arcades, probably Pong and Donkey Kong
At home, probably Space Invaders (Well, Space Commander, a Space Invaders clone), as this and Boa (a Snake clone with some additional modes) were pre-installed on the 286 PC we got in 1989 Followed up by Wizardry, which came out in 1981
SvennoJ said:

At the time we also had one of the first PCs, the game I remember playing first on that is Alley Cat.

Experience was, this is ugly, but kinda fun. No clue what I was doing though. Still don't know what the goal of that game was haha.

Ah, Alley Cat, I remember. And like you, no idea what the goal was.