I don't know specifically what the first game was, but I know it was for Atari 2600, years before the NES came out. I remember we had at least Pacman, Missile Command, Asteroids, Warlords and Pitfall. Likely one of those.

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oh yeah, i'm new, whats up?

ALSO DUCK HUNT!
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Donkey kong for the atari, but i didnt know what I was doing, when i gained more coincioussness y remember Contra being one of my first

That was my first game I actually enjoyed. My very first game, however, was some game called "Ecomaster" or something where you ran around picking up trash. I played this when I was three or four, so I'm not too keen on the details, but I remember wandering around wondering what to do. Oh, another old game I remember playing was a similair game called "Manhole." Pretty much that other game, except minus the trash-picking-up. Just wandering around.

Wasn't this identical thread created a couple weeks ago?

At any rate, my first game was Super Mario Bros. 3 as well.

Like I said before:
Sorry if I'm being frank/offensive.

mine was either Pokemon red or FF6, any memory below the age of 10 is too hazy for me to know for sure.

Super Mario World, it came with the SNES me and my brother got for Christmas. Co-op was intense, for back in the day anyway.

The very first Carmen Sandiego game, which I played on an ancient IBM PS/2 clone (64kb of RAM might be giving it a bit too much credit). It was that, or some other equally craptastic educational game.

The first console games I played were Rad Racer and SMB.