# What were the first games for each console?

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**Created:** [December 28, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-first-games-for-each-console/565650 "2010-12-28T21:31:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-first-games-for-each-console/565650/1 "2010-12-28T21:31:20Z")

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We’ve looked before at what the final games were for major consoles. I think Aragorn’s Quest is the final significant PS2 release, for example(nearly, anyway).

But what were the first games released for major consoles?

I think Popeye was the first Famicom(NES) game. It was made in 1982 and, I think, came with the Famicom in Japan.

Others?

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**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-first-games-for-each-console/565650/2 "2010-12-28T21:36:20Z")

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Ping-ponged from Cafe Society to the Game Room.

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**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-first-games-for-each-console/565650/3 "2010-12-28T22:45:22Z")

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Not an easy question to answer. It’s hard to say when a game is “first”, because most consoles have more than one game available when they’re released. Makes sense; who buys a console that only plays one game?

For example, [this article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600#Launch_and_success) says that the original Atari VCS (later named the “Atari 2600”) shipped with the game **Combat** , but that eight other games were available at launch. So, should we define the game included in the box as the “first”?

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**Author:** ![vinniepaz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b4bc9f/32.png) [@vinniepaz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vinniepaz)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-first-games-for-each-console/565650/4 "2010-12-28T22:51:59Z")

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I would consider Mario 64 as the first N64 game, although Max Torque is right that other games were available on launch day

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**Author:** ![pancakes3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ba9def/32.png) [@pancakes3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pancakes3)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-first-games-for-each-console/565650/5 "2010-12-28T23:17:39Z")

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dk for NES, super mario world for SNES, virtua fighter for sega saturn, super mario 64 for n64 for sure…

luigi’s mansion for gamecube? halo for xbox, kameo/perfect dark reboot for 360 (wow those were duds), twilight princess/wii sports for wii, not sure what the ps3 launch title was. blue ray player?

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**Author:** ![fluiddruid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c2a13f/32.png) [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-first-games-for-each-console/565650/6 "2010-12-28T23:23:02Z")

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[Here’s Wikipedia’s list.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_game)

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**Author:** ![Giant\_Robot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/779978/32.png) [@Giant\_Robot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Giant_Robot)\
**Post date:** [December 28, 2010, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-first-games-for-each-console/565650/7 "2010-12-28T23:24:09Z")

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😛

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**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\
**Post date:** [December 29, 2010, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-the-first-games-for-each-console/565650/8 "2010-12-29T00:59:45Z")

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> [@fluiddruid](#):
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> [Here’s Wikipedia’s list.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_game)

The one on lists a few:  
[Here’s a better one](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_video_game_console_launch_games)