First videogame you ever played

[House]

At the arcade? Pac-Man.

At home? Warlords, which is basically the Atari 2600's bastard child of 4 player pong & Breakout, where you use a paddle controller to prevent your bricks from being destroyed while destroying the bricks of the other player(s).

[House]

warlords sounds kinda fun for a few rounds

the earliest games I remember playing, around 4-5 years old, are Mario Party 3 with my siblings (we have a photo of that time too, it's adorable), DDR Max on the PS2, and Animal Crossing on the GC. Literally had nightmares of resetti and the gamecube menu oml

I liked games that used paddles more than the joystick on the 2600 because paddles were far more responsive.

You could literally feel the input lag with a joystick. We didn't call it input lag back then, though. They were just slow & clunky.