What's the first computer game you ever played?

- You know that's tricky, it's kind of a blur.…I think I have to go back to the arcades, really.…Probably the first computer or…computer controlled game I ever played…may have been Ms. Pacman, possibly.…And I also remember playing Ms. Pacman, or Pacman rather,…on the Atari 2600, so a friend of mine had that.…

Most of my time, however, as soon I found out…that games were created,…they were on a computer and they…therefore were created with code,…I became obsessed with learning how to program…because I knew if I could learn how to program…I could learn how to make my own games…and if I could make my own games…I didn't have to put money…into an arcade machine constantly.…So I made lots of bad games on the,…my mother got me a VIC-20,…so I made lots of bad games there,…but the first game that I played a ton…was the original Wizardry game,…which came out in 1981.…

Very similar to Dungeons & Dragons…and Wizardry ended up inspiring…what we would today call Japanese RPGs or JRPGs.…