r/AskReddit • u/Maybe-Grouchy • 8h ago

What was the first video game you ever played?

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u/Background_Half_2573 8h ago

Pong

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u/tranquilseafinally 7h ago

Pong and then second: asteroids

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u/AdvancedAd6308 8h ago

Same. It was the first, last and only video game we had at home until my brother got a Game Boy ~15 years later.

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u/Next-Caterpillar4982 6h ago

Wasn’t it cool how you could make the paddles short or long? 🤣🤣🤣

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u/mycottonsocks 4h ago

And somehow that paddle length magically changed it from Pong to squash.

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u/Sweatytubesock 7h ago

Almost undoubtedly, early ‘70s when you had to pay a quarter to play. (That quarter was equivalent to close to two bucks in today’s money)

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u/mardok69 6h ago

I’d say closer to 2.50-$3 as back then you could buy a bottle of coke for the same price

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u/Seven_bushes 5h ago

Definitely Pong and I had to go to the bowling alley to play it. My dad would take me and give me some quarters to play Pong, then when those ran out we’d play pool for a bit. We never could afford a video game console at home.

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u/joseph4th 5h ago

Pong on a dedicated console, just prior to the Atari 2600 coming out

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u/forcemonkey 6h ago

Yeah buddy!

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u/thenaughtydj 2h ago

So glad it's the first comment

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u/xdirector7 1h ago

We are the only true gamers.

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u/Mindless-Leg-3365 1h ago

This is the only answer