What was your first game? What platform was it on? What year was it? How old were you?

My first game was a whole cardboard box of games for the C64, which was also included!
Everything was second hand but worked flawlessly, not like that new crap we have today.
I got it all on my birthday, around 1997 I guess, I turned 10.
So I got a box of games so I guess I got alot of first games, but I mostly played three games:
Time Tunnel
Dragonskulle
and Ghostbusters.

So I guess you could call those my first games. :)

I played regular Nintendo games over at my Grandma's house, Super Mario and Duck Hunt mostly. But the first game I actually owned was Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis my dad got me. My first PC game was Wolfenstein 3D, that my dad grabbed for cheap out of a shareware bin at the local game store. I would say that Wolfenstein had a far greater impact on what I play today.

Hmmm. Well, I first gamed on a C64, also, back in the early 80's as a kid. I remember my first game being one of the cassette-based ones, but for the life of me I can't think of what it might have been. Over the years, I must have played at least a couple hundred C64 games. A few notable titles, off the top of my head, would probably be the aforementioned Ghostbusters, Hardball, and F-15 Strike Eagle.

Pong.

A Pong Console.

Mid 80s.

About five years old I guess.

I received a Colecovision with Expansion Pack #1 (i.e. Atari 2600 compatibility) on Christmas 1983. The Colecovision came with Donkey Kong and included with my present was the Atari 2600 game, Sky Jinks by your favorite publisher and mine, Activision.

Coin arcade games aside, the first game I remember playing was River Raid on an Atari 2600. Second half of the 80s, I was few years old.

The first video game was also a Pong game for me, my cousing showed it back then to me. Followed by an Atari VC 2600 and a lot of Space Invaders, Missile Command and Pitfall.

Haha, I still remember that Decathlon game, which was eating joysticks - a lot fo them.

Wow, I was like 4 or 5 years old when I played my first PC game... As Paint doesn't count as a game, I suppose, my variants would be:
- Another World
or
- Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games
Though, it would be awesome, if GOG had the last one on the store, would buy it right away! :]

First game we possessed or first game we played?
I guess it's about computer game but do arcade game counts?

When I was a little boy, computers were big mysterious machines with tape reels and lights used by banks and the government. The first "electronic" games I played were in convenience stores and malls and did not possess any electronic parts but were all electromechanical (relays, switches, motors and lights). I think the first I played was a baseball game similar to the simplest one on this google image search. (Edit, click images at the top)

The first all electronic games I played was a racing games on a black and white cathode ray tube (think television before flat screens) similar to this sprint game on this page. There were a variety of those, from one to eight players. The eight player type was horizontal with two sets of driving wheels on each side, I don't remember but I guess those had to be in color to distinguish all the players.

The first electronic game my family owned was one of the myriad version of Pong that came out in the 70s. Later we got a VIC-20 with two games, a lunar lander game and a pac man clone. The first game I bought with my money was the adventure game "The Count" by Scott Adams.

I later bought myself a C-64 and a disk drive, I think the first game I bought was Elite.

First game I think was River Raid or something very similar, on some dark colored console, late 80s, I must've been between 3 and 5. I didn't really get into gaming until we got our own PC some 7 or 8 years later.

I took a few photos of my television because I got a high enough score to send away for a River Raid t-shirt or some such nonsense. I wound up with four pictures of a bright white rectangle. I couldn't even tell I'd been playing River Raid, let alone discern the score.

Either Bomb Jack or Ocean Conqueror on the Amstrad CPC, can't remember which one I tried first. Second half of the 80's, was around 4-5 years old. Definitely not six as I remember I was all about Hostages and North & South (Les Tuniques Bleues) by then.

I remember I couldn't understand jack shit about Ocean Conqueror, but man was it glorious to fire those torpedos.

I should fire that CPC up again, wonder if it still works.

Take yer pick.

tetris on a game boy and sonic the hedgehog on the megadrive i was 7 ish mid 90's i think

C64 when i was about 12.

Temple of Apshai
Wizards Crown
Jumpman Jnr
Pool of Radiance
Mission Impossible
The Last Ninja
Wizball
Magic Candle
Might and Magic
Wasteland
Elite (Blue Danube stuck in my mind for many years lol)

etc....

I still have C64 with disk drive and tape drive and boxloads of tape and disk games - many i never finished..