First computer game you ever played? [modified]
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
Probably 'The Hobbit' on a 48k ZX Spectrum was the first commercial game I played but I'm sure there were some really simple freebie games around before we even got that, tanks or a pong clone probably. The first game I ever got hooked on though I remember much more clearly, Afterburner on that very same ZX Spectrum, possibly still one of the tightest coded and downright fastest games ever created, and that on 2.5 Mhz Computer with less capacity than the bootrom cchip for my SCSI card :laugh:
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
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In strict order... (well probably forget the odd item)... (Note computer games, NOT Arcade games (There is a difference? Discuss)) Pong - Well we all know that one Othello - I think it was actually called reversi on an Apple 2e Blitz - Fly a plane across a city and bomb it, reduce a level each time. ZX Spectrum Adventure A - 16K easy to complete adventure game. Manic Miner - Classic Of course Arcade games where way more popular then!
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
Think it might have been Chuckie Egg on a schools BBC micro, or maybe Manic Miner. Or possible Donkey Kong, or Pole Position on my _grandparents_ Atari console! First computer I owned would have been an Amiga A500. Couldn't say what the first game was though. I was given it second hand with a whole stack of games. Things like Pinball Dreams, Supercars, James Pond and Lotus Turbo Challenge come to mind. All classics.
Simon
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
Pong, using the rotary knob controllers, in the tv transmitter building where my dad worked. I won, but I suspect he let me. :)
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
Pong. Some ancient box that plugged in where the TV antenna plugged in. A wheel and a button joystick. Probably couldn't even really call it a computer. The whole thing was probably just some analog stuff. Marc
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
Scorched Earth! Commander Keen was fun too...recently downloaded DOSBox (www.dosbox.com) so I could play all these old DOS games again :-D http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scorched_Earth_(computer_game)[^]
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
Mancala on a floppy
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Probably 'The Hobbit' on a 48k ZX Spectrum was the first commercial game I played but I'm sure there were some really simple freebie games around before we even got that, tanks or a pong clone probably. The first game I ever got hooked on though I remember much more clearly, Afterburner on that very same ZX Spectrum, possibly still one of the tightest coded and downright fastest games ever created, and that on 2.5 Mhz Computer with less capacity than the bootrom cchip for my SCSI card :laugh:
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
3.5 Mhz actually ;-) It made all the difference..
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
Gunner, on a time-shared mainframe in 1971. It was written in an ancient dialect of BASIC, and involved giving the angle of a artillery gun shooting at a target, which was also shooting back. It gave the error of each shot and made sarcastic comments on your aiming ability. At the time I'd never seen anything like it, and it was this program that first got me interested in computers.
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
First game on a person computer was "block attacker" or something like that which you had to type in from the Commodore VIC-20 computer manual. Of course, I saved that to my data cassette so that I did not have to type it in again :)
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
On an Atari 2600 - Pong On a TRS-80 Model 1 - I think it was Scott Adams' Adventureland[^]. Man I loved those text-based adventure games.
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Went through some OLD floppy and stiffy disks in the storage room this weekend and found some pretty old stuff, like my first ever PC game which I played at age 5-6. My first PC game ever was Sokoban[^] followed by probably the first version of "Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego"[^] and Sopwith Camel[^], good times, good times! --------------- I clearly gave away my age with this post (with a link to my first game revealing it's 4-colour display). Most of the posts refer back to the early 70's whilst my first baby steps were probably somewhere around '85. Either way, was fun to hear, seems pong is hands-down the most popular classic. I recalled playing it (i think) on a console which I found stashed away between my dad's stuff, the "controllers" were simple knobs which you turn to move the line on the screen up and down, think a few posts below refer to that very same console. Regards!
A treat for all down voters...[^] "you can't forget something you never knew..." M. Du Toit
modified on Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:03 AM
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3.5 Mhz actually ;-) It made all the difference..
Really, my Flash RAM must be fading on me, it must have been one of the lesser rivals like those 6502 based losers that only had 2.5 Mhz and no ULA :rolleyes:
"The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage." Thucydides (B.C. 460-400)
