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It begans with Vic-20 Blue Meanies From Outer Space, a... bizarre Vic-20 game involving shooting lasers from the side of the screen at frowny face aliens coming down. My favourite game from early childhood, and probably the (technically) third video game I ever played. The first (and second), was Super Slither/Slither, which while I was able to re-obtain from eBay (purely for "this is the first game I ever played" purposes), wasn't awesome enough for the display. But it can exist in the general display shelf.
The next that came was 1943, an LED airplane shooter game. There were others in and around that area, but again, this was my favourite, and has followed me around since childhood. The fact that it still works is incredible!
After this, the originals have gone and been replaced from classic used game stores. Xevious, Yars' Revenge, and Advanced Dungeons & Dragons: Treasure of Tarmin existed at about the same time, our family having an Atari 7800 (which also played 2600 and 5200 games, Yars' Revenge being of the former), a gift from an uncle, and our neighbour had an Intellivision, where I first got to play Treasure of Tarmin, which of course started the whole AD&D page.
Metroid of course came after, and marks the end of my classic game collection, but the beginning of my Metroid obsession. Again the cartridge was re-obtained at a later date, the original having gone with my brother to Calgary with all the classic consoles. I obtained protective sleeves for the paper boxes (I've looked for one sized for a loose Atari cartridge, but to no avail yet), and that set in some manner or another exists in a display in some form or another.
And so, the classic display lives on, rearranged as necessity or incidental bumpage requires, and keeps in view my favourite games from over the years. Will another find its way into this set? While Metroid II: Return of Samus certainly qualifies, it's actively playable in the Gameboy section, so dwells over there. If something else should find its way into there (one other if I can ever find would be Rings of Medusa (YouTube), which was incredibly fun), they will be added to the page. So until I find an old 3.5" disk of that or another game enters the fray...
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Honourable mentions, there are two earlier video games that I *attempted* to play, unsuccessfully. The first was Gorf for the Vic20, which until typing this I had never actually seen before. I plugged in the cartridge and attempted to play it, but the screen just stayed blank, nothing happened. The second game I attempted to play was Centipede, for which the controls didn't work, nothing happened when any buttons were pressed, but, strangely, it just opened to a frozen mid-game looking screen, so I never actually saw the title screen until typing this lol.
And with this purchase (and with these new visual discoveries of the honourable mentions for myself), I have reobtained the veeeeeery very first video game that I ever played. Awesome :D
