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aegrimonia Member since: 11/15/2000 From: Portland, USA |
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 Posted - 8/19/2004 1:37:10 PM |
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| Some of you kids are making me feel old... ;) The first video game I played was Pong. The first computer game I played was a typing game, though I don't remember the name of it now.. There were these ship things with letters in them, and you had to type the letters to blow them up.. You used to pretty much just pound on the keyboard as fast as you could in the later levels.. I can remember we had a sub that didn't like me (this was 4th grade) and when i was playing the game, she started yelling at me to stop breaking the computer.. Until some of my classmates told her that's how the game is.. and she had to apologize to me :) I still remember that. |
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Thermodynamics Member since: 5/4/2003 From: Kentwood, MI, United States |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 1:44:53 PM |
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| My grandfather had games on his Tandy that booted from the external 5.25" floppy. One was a dungeon adventure/math game. That was so long ago, that I have no idea what game was truely first. First arcade game was Super Mario Bros. First Nintendo game was Dragon Warrior. It was probably around 1985 that I saw my first computer. |
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Sir_Spritely Member since: 10/7/2001 From: United Kingdom |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 1:48:50 PM |
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| Now I feel old and miserable... and I have one of those "big" birthdays coming up which really makes you feel old :( My first game was Pong on an ancient device called a Withronic or something like that. It had paddles and was only in b/w. My first true game was Blitz on the Commodore Vic-20. You controlled a plane which scrolled from right to left dropping down after every complete screen. You had to bomb all these buildings until they were totally gone and then you could land. A little dude then got out of the plane, waved at you, got back into the place and took off again flying to the top of the screen. Another level then started with your plane lower than the previous level. *I miss that little dude. |
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eyal Member since: 7/26/2002 From: Haifa, Israel |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 1:50:03 PM |
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| Choplifter on a C64. Ah, those were the days.... :) |
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Lohrno Member since: 2/8/2002 |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 1:53:37 PM |
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| I think mine was "Gunfight" On an old "Bally" system. The graphics and sounds were rather Atari like... I do remember Choplifter on the Apple IIe though. Now THAT was a cool game. :) -=Lohrno |
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aegrimonia Member since: 11/15/2000 From: Portland, USA |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 2:42:07 PM |
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| Space Taxi on the C64 rocked! "Hey Taxi" |
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BdR Member since: 10/24/2002 From: Groningen, Netherlands |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 2:42:24 PM |
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Quote: same here, my dad got a portable pc (luggable was more like it) from work in 1984, looked exactly like this:  He got a 5'25" floppy on which there was Digger, PC-Man and Paratroopers  Later also Tapper, Alley Cat, Ancient Art Of War (the first RTS i guess), Summer Games, etc. ah those were the simple times  |
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Scet GDNet+ Member since: 8/3/2002 From: Mississauga, Canada |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 2:50:16 PM |
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| PacMan on the Atari, because my parents where too cheap to buy me a NES. First PC game was DOOM II. |
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danbrown Member since: 9/6/2000 From: Aldershot, United Kingdom |
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 Posted - 8/19/2004 2:56:19 PM |
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| Either King Tut on the Vic-20 or Ghostbusters on the Speccy, can't remember which one I played first, but most likely King Tut. [edit] Reading through the thread made me realise it goes back further than that. First computer game was Master Mariner on the Speccy at primary school. I was playing it when Challenger blew up (or they played it again on the news anyway). First video game would have been pong with the wheel-paddles that others have mentioned. Dan [Titan][Dravanti] |
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alnite Member since: 11/8/2002 From: Anaheim, CA, United States |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 3:00:58 PM |
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| First PC Game: Nightmare on Elm Street   First console game (Atari 2600) hm...don't have a freaking clue. shooting planes, Stampede, boxing, Jungle Jim, something like that. |
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aegrimonia Member since: 11/15/2000 From: Portland, USA |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 3:24:14 PM |
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Quote: That's just what my first PC looked like :) well, it wasn't mine.. it was my best friend's lawyers.. who didn't use it.. and I got to use it... It was a 8086 4mhz machine (not even an XT Turbo which blazed at 7.5mhz), it had a mono-Amber screen, and a 5mb hard drive. I used to sit in front of that thing for hours on BBS's.. I used to play if not THE first, then one of the first Massively Multiplayer games (could have up to 64 players simultaneous) that was real-time and everything.. no graphics of course.. but it used text and some ascii symbols.. .It was called Galactic Empire.. and I had more fun playing that game then i've had even on modern games with all the graphics you could ever ask for. Anyone else play Galactic Empire? |
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codemonster Member since: 2/23/2004 From: Frankfurt, Germany |
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 Posted - 8/19/2004 3:51:33 PM |
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| the first commercial game i got was fighter pilot published by digital integration for my cpc464. man, i really loved that game! my dad bought me the game together with a vocabulary trainer... i guess it was 1985 or so. i dont really remember the first game i played. but it must have been something on the vcs2600. could've been defender || donkey kong :) those were the days! best graphics ever *smile* [Codemonsters] [Free Game Development Libraries] [Cubical Environment Maps] |
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Michalson Staff Member since: 9/29/1999 From: Toronto, Canada |
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 Posted - 8/19/2004 4:02:59 PM |
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Quote: Your memory must be extremely fragmented, if not downright strange. 64kb harddrive? on the motherboard? The earliest PC harddrives where around 10MB (though the smallest I have still kicking around are 40MB). By the time of the 100mhz 486 your normal harddrive was 400MB-1.1GB running at 5400rpm (when I bought a 100mhz 486 I used a fairly "large" 730MB drive, to go with the whole 8MB of memory). And unless you count some very recent solid state harddrives for mini-PCs, "on the motherboard" never existed. Why would anyone attach a shaking mechanical device to the motherboard in the first place (and frankly if you really did use computers back in that error you'd know that half the chips on the MB wheren't even soldered, you could pull out all the convential [lower] memory by hand in little 8 and 16 and 32KB chips. Also, by that time 5" floppy drives where virtually non-existant, you would have had to ask for one specially to not get the standard by that time 3 1/2" floppy. |
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Flarelocke Member since: 2/25/2002 |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 4:03:21 PM |
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| I've literally been playing games for as long as I can remember. When I was 2 or 3, there was this game called Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves. It was an overhead RPG, kinda like Nethack in graphical mode. There was also a game where a bad guy threw boulders down a series of ramps, and you had to jump over them and up the ramps. These were for some kind of Apple. |
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Revelations Member since: 5/14/2003 From: Wrightwood, CA, United States |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 4:32:17 PM |
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| Super Mario Bros on the NES for me. About a life later I got my first computer... a 486SX laptop from the Make-A-Wish foundation. I played a lot of games on that, mostly Simfarm and SimCity. I still go back time to time and play some old SMB... I was either lucky or unfortunate enough to have missed the "pong" and "Asteroids" stage of gaming as an industry. |
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Scint GDNet+ Member since: 8/28/2002 From: Fremont, CA, United States |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 5:38:31 PM |
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| The first game I recall playing was "Combat" on Atari, at a friend's house. As for my family's computer, for the longest time in the mid-80's I played with a paint program (my sister and I were sure to save our stuff on 5.25' floppies, so much for them now!). My first real game I had was Math Blaster. That was fun. But I have to credit Secret of Monkey Island for getting me into video games. |
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23yrold3yrold GDNet+ Member since: 2/10/2001 From: Vector Sigma |
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 Posted - 8/19/2004 6:06:11 PM |
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Quote: Mna, I hate that perspective ... Jesus saves ... the rest of you take 2d4 fire damage. |
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Nemesis2k2 Member since: 3/3/2003 From: Sydney, Australia |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 6:10:23 PM |
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| I really can't say for sure. My dad has been into computers since they've existed, and we've had the 286 and a Sorcerer since beore I was born. It was probably one of the following though: snipes braminar alleycat striker castle ran janitor joe spacewar altair |
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dx elliot Member since: 2/4/2004 From: Columbia, MD, United States |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 6:17:12 PM |
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| Spy vs spy for nintendo. I think the objective was to look underneath everything for some scroll or piece of treasure and try to kill the other player. oh, and the oregon trail! what fun it was to see your family members die off each day. it was a cool game actually.. my portfolio |
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Adraeus Member since: 6/18/2004 |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 6:27:44 PM |
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| The first game I played was a game created with the LOGO programming language. I remember the game was like Snake and Asteroids only it used geometric shapes. Then, Dark Castle and Oregon Trail. Then... Hugo's House of Horrors, Hocus Pocus, and Jill of the Jungle. Those were my first computer games. For consoles, it was Super Mario Brothers (SNES) and Sonic the Hedgehog (Genesis). Then, Sim City and Shadowrun for SNES. |
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Vasant56 Member since: 3/29/2004 From: Waterloo, Canada |
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 Posted - 8/19/2004 6:31:28 PM |
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I believe it was "Ducks Ahoy!" on the Commodore 64  Being 17 now, don't ask me how that was possible. |
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Waverider Member since: 2/25/2002 From: Fenton, USA |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 6:55:53 PM |
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| First video game ever had to be Pong at the arcade I guess. My Dad took me to a place called Playland to play the pinball machines and they started getting these wierd TV screen things that you stuck quarters in... I didn't really find it to be all that exciting. I think Asteroids was the first one that I thought was really cool. |
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Adraeus Member since: 6/18/2004 |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 9:32:58 PM |
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Pong! I forgot! That was my real first console game. Yes, console. Atari's first system in 1976--PONG, model C-100. It played only one game: pong. My sister and I trashed that system when we were wee children. |
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Cold_Steel Member since: 9/19/2001 From: Newport, RI, United States |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 10:11:09 PM |
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| Ooh, let's see, I was probably only 4 or 5, so it's hard to remember exactly. I believe it would have been either Defender, Asteroids, or Space Invaders for the Atari (I believe 2600, but it may have been a different one) |
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flangazor Member since: 7/5/2001 From: London, United Kingdom |
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Posted - 8/19/2004 11:13:26 PM |
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Quote:It's called Donkey Kong. |
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