My first game was a simple baseball game back around 1980 when i was 10 years old. I remember it was called "Baseball Manager", and all it was was a yellow magazine like booklet with some instructions, a couple of charts, and roster pages for some of the all time great baseball teams. Each player had like 4 ratings (batting, power, speed, defense I think) and you rolled 2 dice and looked up each result. Moved on to Avalon Hill and Strat-O-Matic from there.