Anyone remember the first game they played/first they beat?

Played? Atari Pong.

Beat? Atari Breakout. You had two levels. :)
 
First game I remember beating, probably Blades of Steel on the NES. I remember watching the credits and seeing all of these Japanese names and thinking they totally made those names up, because they were all so crazy to 8 year old me who was from a small farming town in the middle of no where!
 
First game I remember beating, probably Blades of Steel on the NES. I remember watching the credits and seeing all of these Japanese names and thinking they totally made those names up, because they were all so crazy to 8 year old me who was from a small farming town in the middle of no where!
Some of those names were made up. Some companies had them use pseudonyms rather than their real names.
 
My first game I played to the end was Ninja Gaiden on the NES.

The first arcade game I finished was Double Dragon using the famous reverse elbow.
 
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My first video game experience

When I was a young boy scout, our troop had work days at the church where we met. After our work was done, we were able to go to a nearby plaza for an hour or so. My brother, our friends, and I would run to this pool hall to play pinball. One day on our way in, something new, big, and glowing caught my eye. It was a Cinematronics Space War. I spent every quarter I had with me in that machine and was hooked for life. It has been about 37 years and I still am as giddy playing my collection as that fateful day I met video games.
 
First game I remeber seeing was Space Invaders at the gift shop at Meremac Caverns. I didn't have any money to play and my sisters boyfriend played $5 worth of quarters straight and never let me touch a button....

Don't remeber the first one I played but I can pretty much guarentee it was black and white.

First game I beat was Dragon's Lair... then Space Ace...
 
First game I played? Atari Lunar Lander when I was 9.

First game I beat Stern Tutankahm. I was shocked that that was the end.
 
Breakout. I was 8 or 9 at the time when I finished both screens.
 
I have NEVER beaten an arcade game until recently and that was P.O.W

First arcade game I remember playing? Man I'm not sure, that was over 35yrs ago....I will go with pacman though, it was a favourite of mine.
 
while I'd beat MK many times- as we all had, I'd not yet gotten to Reptile. this would have been the 90's. i had ridden my bmx (remember Gt's?) down to lamppost pizza to play some games. Lamppost always had a pretty great lineup which included an MK and SFIICE among others. Anyways, usually my buddy B would have been with me but today, for some reason he was not. I start playing. I'm using Johnny Cage because I'd recently learned his moves. I get to the pit stage, the witch is flying by the moon- i think that was a requirement if I remember right- and like a cheap, cheating little bastard I crouch and then high kick my opponent to two flawless victories and a fatality. I am suddenly transported to the bottom of the pit to face Reptile. i can't fucking believe it- none of my friends have done this yet, hell I haven't even seen it done before. I look around. There's no one to witness my great accomplishment.
A few minutes later i'm at the payphone outside the bathrooms using one of my precious quarters to call my buddy B and tell him what just happened. I'm so excited -I can still remember being excited- but B's not home, no one is, the call goes to there cassette driven answering machine. With a great lack of self awareness and like a raving lunatic- I leave a message- breathlessly, rapidly explaining in as much detail as possible what had just taken place in the quickly expiring seconds before the machine cuts me off.
And then I hang up, reach into my pocket, and retrieve another quarter...
 
1943 on NES, really disappointing to just see "CONGRATULATION" and the game just restarts.
 
Our first console growing up was an Atari 2600(I still have and works) my guess would be combat, Circus Atari, or Pacman. My first arcade game was pac man. The movie rental place had a cabinet with a big plastic button (car horn button)to add credits. I remember playing it while mom rented movies and the disk player. Yes the big record style that you had to turn the disk over half way trough the movie. Lol
 
Okay, after close to a decade since my last first post on the subject. Born in Feb. '74:

First arcade vid: Space Invaders
First pinball: Black Knight - hated it! Kicked my butt! ugh. I'm still bitter.

First game owned: Entex Space Invader handheld
First game completed: Vic-20 'The Count'. Then played a lot of Gorf.

First arcade vid completed: Golden Axe, I think.
 
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