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
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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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
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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
Tic Tac Toe, on some big boxy thing at the Boston Museum of Science, in the early '70s.
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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
Some vertical scroller (Galaga?) on a 9020A (This one, I think[^]) "Impossible Mission" on the C64, "F/A 18 Interceptor" on the Amiga. My first PC game was "Das Boot", some submarine "simulation".
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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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I LOVED Chuckie egg! (Had forgotten all about it)
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I found a PC version of it recently. All the levels were editable. They were stored as plain ascii files with specific characters for each type of object in the level, and a couple of bit flags for level options (like is the big yellow bird released, etc) Had a bit of fun with that.
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
Hmmm, well best I remember was back in 1976 (things are fuzzy prior to that) was a simulation that we played on the military aircraft computers...pretty simple...little airplane flies left to right, drops bomb on little submarine that moves right to left firing missle at little airplane. It had multiplayer!!
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Hmmm, well best I remember was back in 1976 (things are fuzzy prior to that) was a simulation that we played on the military aircraft computers...pretty simple...little airplane flies left to right, drops bomb on little submarine that moves right to left firing missle at little airplane. It had multiplayer!!
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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
I know this dates me, but what the heck... The first computer game I ever played was on some rather sophisticated equipment for the times. It was 1975 and I had the use of a PDP 11/40 with a GT1000 vector graphics display terminal with light pen. The game (actually simulation) was Lunar Lander. I regularly proceeded to crash the darned thing more often than not. Quite addictive at the time...
