Your first computer game

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-11-29 10:51am

First one I bought? Space Invaders for Atari 2600, and I bought it new, if that do not show my age I do not know what would.

My all time favorite game? ELITE for the C64

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2005-11-29 10:58am

I think the first game we owned that I played was called "Up, Up and Away" for the commodore 64, or possibly a spectrum, where you had to guide a hot air balloon past various dangers.

Mobius · Post by **Mobius** » 2005-11-29 11:00am

this animation seems utterly appropriate for this thread

Post by **Vympel** » 2005-11-29 11:03am

Buck Rogers and the Planet of Zoom.

Keevan_Colton · Post by **Keevan_Colton** » 2005-11-29 11:47am

I dont know the name of it, it was a side scrolling shooter on the Commodore Vic 20.

MKSheppard · Post by **MKSheppard** » 2005-11-29 11:53am

SILENT SERVICE

Post by **Kuja** » 2005-11-29 12:00pm

Holy god, that's a long time ago. I think it was a really shitty Star Trek game that used letters to represent ships, like 'E' for Enterprise and 'K' for Klingons, asterisks for torpedoes and a flashing screen when you used warp drive.

desertjedi · Post by **desertjedi** » 2005-11-29 12:07pm

First games I played were on the Apple IIe:
1. Hunt the Wumpus
2. Mickey's Space Adventure

I can't remember what Apple Computer it was exactly but the one I really enjoyed was King's Quest I.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2005-11-29 12:47pm

A 'pong' standalone console from Radio Shack.

The first 'real computer' game I played a lot was some cassette loaded Star Trek text RPG on the Commodore PET at school.

Manus Celer Dei · Post by **Manus Celer Dei** » 2005-11-29 01:01pm

The first game I ever played was a 2D tank game for an IBM Pc that my dad wrote; I was amazined by that and spent hours on it.

Faabio · Post by **Faabio** » 2005-11-29 01:06pm

First game i played was Pacman at the age of three or four in the 1983-84 i think. First games i owned were three games for MSX. One was a motorcycle game that i think was called Speed racer. Other a fun game where you played a ninja and third some wierd kill all floating aliens with your flying broomstick. Cant remember the names for those two games. Fourth game was Molecule man. Never quite understood what it was about but i playd it like there was no tomorrow.

Argosh · Post by **Argosh** » 2005-11-29 01:08pm

First for ZX Spectrum was Saboteur and first for PC was Civ 2.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2005-11-29 01:34pm

I'm not entirely sure what the first game I ever played was. Possibly Mario on the NES but I can't be 100% sure. The first game I played on a machine I actually owned was a Scooby Doo side-scrolling platformer that bore absolutely no resemblance to the cartoon at all (Scooby doo walking around punching out enemies, yeah right!). Other notable games I played early on would be Rick Dangerous, Bionic Commando, and Spy Hunter from a US Gold bundle pack that came with my C64. Rick Dangerous was fucking brilliant.

Lord Pounder · Post by **Lord Pounder** » 2005-11-29 02:23pm

Bubble Bobble on the old C64 was the first game i played religiously.

On the PC it was Quake, the guy i bought my system off gave it to me and i spent the next week playing it untill i beat it's ass good.

Faqa · Post by **Faqa** » 2005-11-29 02:44pm

Uh.... some 286 game called Flyswatter. Was cool for it's time.

Hey, this thread is bringing up memories of old Windows games! Iron Helix(THE ultimate sci-fi cat-and-mouse game), Critical Path(MST3K good...), Return To Zork.... good times, good times.

Glocksman · Post by **Glocksman** » 2005-11-29 02:47pm

Argosh wrote:First for ZX Spectrum was Saboteur and first for PC was Civ 2.

My first computer was a Timex/Sinclair 1000, aka Sinclair ZX-81.
I even had the thermal printer and 16k expansion pack.

Timex announced that they were going to sell the Spectrum here in the US, but I never actually saw one for sale.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-11-29 03:09pm

erm

what did we call that one where we hunted in a dungeon with a crossbow....

Oh yeah "Hunt the Wumpus"

new version here

Akhlut · Post by **Akhlut** » 2005-11-29 03:17pm

First I played? Scorched Earth.

First I owned? Probably Planescape Torment when I was in high school. My brother left Starcraft with me before that, though it was technically his and not mine.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-11-29 03:21pm

Some primitive game where you controlled monkeys and threw exploding bananas in a cityscape.

Spanky The Dolphin · Post by **Spanky The Dolphin** » 2005-11-29 03:24pm

HemlockGrey wrote:Some primitive game where you controlled monkeys and threw exploding bananas in a cityscape.

Oh shit, I remember the computers at my second grade school had that: Gorilla Wars.

HemlockGrey · Post by **HemlockGrey** » 2005-11-29 03:30pm

That's the one! Actually, it was either that, or the original Duke Nukem platformer.

Dartzap · Post by **Dartzap** » 2005-11-29 03:48pm

Hmmmm.... Dogz

Vanas · Post by **Vanas** » 2005-11-29 04:03pm

Not a clue. My fondest early gaming memories are:

Turrican 2 (Amiga)
Yesss.

Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES)
'nuff said

Frontier (Amiga)
In space, the only sound is the Blue Danube.

The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. (SNES)
Quite possibly one of the finest games ever made, and the first one I ever demanded to own.

NeoGoomba · Post by **NeoGoomba** » 2005-11-29 04:18pm

Warlords was my first Atari game, with the roller paddles and all! Four player action, dammit!

Wing Commander was the first game I owned for a PC

And the first NES game I had (other than SMB) was Popeye.

First SNES game was Street Fighter II

First Playstation game was Street Fighter Alpha

First PS2 game was Summoner (damn that was great)

Post by **Ghost Rider** » 2005-11-29 04:21pm

Honestly PONG, parents have the original stand alone.

One I can remember enjoying? Pitfall.