not my first gaming experience, but it was the only computer game I actually owned until my NES. I programmed it to play “Red River Valley” by keying in all the notes and rests from the script in the owner’s manual. Running it was the first time I ever heard the tune lol. Speaking of music, the TV ad had an insanely catchy jingle (which will now be your earworm for the evening, heh heh.)
My first was probably some “game” we played in first grade ('80-'81) on a Commodore PET with tape drive (a staple of MI public schools then) where you guessed which house a person was in or something? it was only three options and one of them was a tepee. it sucked. But in second grade, we got to play Oregon Trail on those same computers and a cooler game IMO called Miner that nobody else has ever heard of. Although by that point I had played my friend’s Intellivision (impressive graphics but the games he had were wack, and that controller was god-awful) and I’d fed a quarter into a PacMan console at a pizzaria.
I’m not a gamer, though. I’ve always preferred pinball :^)
EDIT:
this was my true first, a kid on the plane the first time I flew (Piedmont Airlines) had one and that was when I was in preschool. His mom made him let me play.
