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
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)
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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
Adventure, text based game, on a DEC 2060...followed shortly by the text based Zork. "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike"
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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
Little brick out on my uncle's Apple II.
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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
The first games I remember playing were the Galaxian (a clone of Galaga) cartridge on my Atari 800 when I was about 4, and the double-sided cassette that had Clowns and Balloons (sorta like Breakout) on one side and Frogger on the other. The cassette had to be loaded from the BASIC cartridge - check my profile to see how that ruined me for any other possible career in life.
Imagine that you are hired to build a bridge over a river which gets slightly wider every day; sometimes it shrinks but nobody can predict when. Your client provides no concrete or steel, only timber and cut stone (but they won't tell you what kind). The coefficient of gravity changes randomly from hour to hour, as does the viscosity of air. Your only tools are a hacksaw, a chainsaw, a rubber mallet, and a length of rope. Welcome to my world. -Me explaining my job to an engineer
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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
evilnoodle wrote:
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.
at the arcade: pong and Star Trek. at home on the Atari console: Missile Command. on my friends TRS-80: B-1 Nuclear Bomber, we loved it so much I rewrote it with graphics. the first game I bought on the first computer I bought: Ultima I.
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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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
manic minor on an amstrad 128-something-or-other
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Adventure, text based game, on a DEC 2060...followed shortly by the text based Zork. "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike"
Joe Q wrote:
"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike"
read the book.... that had me for a while.... :) I liked Apple adventure too... you could use cuss words at the Dwarf and the game sometimes responded accordingly....
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb) John Andrew Holmes "It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others."
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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
Oregon Trail, however, the first game I hacked was QBasic Gorillas. (admittedly it was easy as the source was included but at 10 it was a feat)
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