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"Moon Landing", a demonstration at some computer open-house we visited when I was quite young. Had a stylized moon lander drifting over the moon surface, and you had a limited amount of fuel to use to stop your motion and land safely. There were a LOT of people crowded around to use it, but me and my brother got several turns because we were quite young.

The first COMMERCIAL videogame I ever played was "Pong", and I loved it.

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[howardtayler.livejournal.com]

My first was either Moon Landing or Pillbox, both on the TRS-80. Very shortly thereafter I played Pong. My first arcade video game was Space Invaders.

[seawasp]

I'll note that the Moon Landing I played was (presumably) the ancestor of yours, because this was in the days LONG before any personal computers (aside possibly from the analog computer kits you could buy from Edmund Scientific) existed. It was being run on some Big Iron with a little CRT screen. I can't even remember where that was; I think we drove some distance to get there, but I was young and thus "some distance" could be a lot shorter than I would think.

[howardtayler.livejournal.com]

That makes sense.

Our family's first computer was a TRS-80 (which we got because the school had them, which was where I played Moon Landing and Pillbox), and I ended up writing my own versions of both of those games. In TRS-80 Basic.

[ross-teneyck.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty sure the first computer game I ever played was Pong. We were visiting somebody's house, and they had the big old Pong box hooked up to their TV.

I think the first computer game I ever played extensively was Dungeon -- the text adventure that eventually got broken up into Zorks 1-3 by Infocom. We also had Adventure, but for some reason it never grabbed me as much as Dungeon did.

[cateagle.livejournal.com]

It was a stripped down version of Moon Landing that could be played on the high-end HP calculator of the time. Ghod, that seems so long ago.

[baronger.livejournal.com]

Mine was either moonlander or wumpus, on a Unix. My father took me play on it while he was taking computer classes back in the 70's. I think I played the wumpus first though, both were on the same day.

[purplekitte.livejournal.com]

I remember having Moon Lander back when computers ran Windows 3. On the computers at school, we had Number Muncher and Fraction Muncher, which were lovely.