Your first computer game

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

Honestly PONG, parents have the original stand alone.

One I can remember enjoying? Pitfall.

DPDarkPrimus · Post by **DPDarkPrimus** » 2005-11-29 04:30pm

DaveJB wrote:Day of the Tentacle.

God I loved that game.

Lucasarts needs to re-release all their old adventure games.

Faqa · Post by **Faqa** » 2005-11-29 04:43pm

And do something that's:

A) Not a gaming trend.

B) Not Star Wars

C) Likely to benefit it's old-school fans

D) Not shitting all over it's fanbase

When Hitler goes ice-skating is when THAT happens. Fuck you, LA, AND all your fucking-up of games.....

Typhonis 1 · Post by **Typhonis 1** » 2005-11-29 04:50pm

pong. The unit was hooked up to the TV antenna to play.

Post by **LadyTevar** » 2005-11-29 04:54pm

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Text-game. On an Apple.
Soft-porn Text-game ("You've walked into a moist warm pussy/anus")

Archon (the weird chess game where the fantastic pieces dueled for the square?) On a C-64.

Carmen Sandiago on a C-64
Some game where you were a detective, driving a car around looking for clues. Early 80s, on a C-64

Hillsfar and the other early D&D games, on an IBM.

Frogger and Pacman on Atari 2600

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-11-29 05:06pm

Would that be Sierra's "Soft Core" or "Leather Goddesses of Phobos" Tev.

Enforcer Talen · Post by **Enforcer Talen** » 2005-11-29 08:07pm

Bertie Wooster wrote:What was the first computer game you ever owned and played a lot?

For me it's either Jumpan or Space Invaders (which came also with a star trek-esque choose-your own adventure game, and another game called martian or lunar lander. I started playing those two games on my Compaq in 1986.

The first game I ever played on an Apple was Oregon trail, and that was in 1988.

Sesame street math, on the commodore 64, as well as some amazon combat rambo game.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-11-29 09:22pm

Oregon Trail. The one where you still had to walk around to hunt, instead of having the nice little static image with animals hopping across for you to mouse over and shoot at.

A-Wing_Slash · Post by **A-Wing_Slash** » 2005-11-29 09:25pm

X-Wing. Or maybe the first C&C. I hate to say it, but I'm not quite sure.

Nephtys · Post by **Nephtys** » 2005-11-29 09:34pm

Master of Ossus wrote:Oregon Trail. The one where you still had to walk around to hunt, instead of having the nice little static image with animals hopping across for you to mouse over and shoot at.

Master of Ossus has dysentery.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2005-12-01 03:44am

Console: Super Mario & Duck hunt (since it came with the console duh)

PC: Command & Conquer. I bought that a month before I even had a PC

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-12-01 10:47am

well the other addiction of mine besides wumpus

Star Trek

SirNitram · Post by **SirNitram** » 2005-12-01 11:30am

Frogger.

The Grim Squeaker · Post by **The Grim Squeaker** » 2005-12-01 12:04pm

Dictators and mass murderers (Saddam, Kim Jong li, etc...).

tumbletom · Post by **tumbletom** » 2005-12-01 12:25pm

General Zod wrote:I remember playing a number of games on the Apple IIE, but for actually owning them, I think that'd fall to Commander Keen 5, and Wolfenstein.

Dude, Same here....Ah Commander Keen brings back so many good memories...

LordShaithis · Post by **LordShaithis** » 2005-12-01 05:24pm

Nephtys wrote:
Master of Ossus wrote:Oregon Trail. The one where you still had to walk around to hunt, instead of having the nice little static image with animals hopping across for you to mouse over and shoot at.
Master of Ossus has dysentery.

And if your last character died, you could inscribe something on their tombstone and it would be saved to the floppy. The Oregon Trail disks in my elementary school computer room had some interesting tombstones on them.

Trogdor · Post by **Trogdor** » 2005-12-01 05:28pm

Indeed, from curse words to the just plain funny. I had a friend who named all his people after Loony Tunes characters. When he died, he wrote "That's All Folks" on the tombstone.

The Aliens · Post by **The Aliens** » 2005-12-01 06:12pm

Angband. I loved it.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2005-12-02 03:57am

The Aliens wrote:Angband. I loved it.

wasn't that a member of the rogue/nethack family which was always good fun/.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-12-02 11:41am

Civilization. Brilliant, brilliant game.

Antares · Post by **Antares** » 2005-12-06 05:38pm

My first games where chess on something less than a 80286, pacman and
pinball. Actually, the last one was unplaybale on our 80386 with 20MhZ
because the CPU was too fast.

Spacebeard · Post by **Spacebeard** » 2005-12-06 06:21pm

First owned:

Quite possibly The Journeyman Project. If it wasn't that, it was Sim City.

First played:

Hell if I know. Something off of two CDs, both dating from 1992, one with mostly commercial game demos, the other with mostly freeware/shareware, HyperCard stacks, WorldBuilder games, and text adventures. I'll name some off the top of my head:

- Hoodwinked, a Star Trek TOS themed HyperCard stack where you have to explore the derelict U.S.S. Hood, whose crew has is phasing in and out and has gone insane, due to passing through the anomaly from The Tholian Web.

- Intruder II: A text-based WorldBuilder game where you are sent to investigate an abandoned lab with some sort of portal to another world inside.

- SPECTRE: Demo of multiplayer tank game with slick (for the time) abstract polygon graphics.

- Solarian II: Shareware Space Invaders clone with decent graphics.

- Theldrow: First-person RPG.

- Gnop: Pong clone by Bungie, who would of course later go on to develop Pathways into Darkness and Marathon.

- Bloodsuckers: Whack-a-mole style game where you have to swat waves of mosquitoes before they suck away all your blood. Developed by Pangaea, who would later go on to develop some mediocre kids' games that get shipped with new Macs.

- Lemmings: Guide the lemmings through hazards by having them build stairs or dig tunnels.

Graeme Dice · Post by **Graeme Dice** » 2005-12-06 07:52pm

My first game was Ribbit on the Apple IIc. You had a frog who would stick out his tongue a certain length depending on how far you moved the mouse while holding down the button. Your goal was to catch flies that flew over top of him at varying distances.

Master of Ossus · Post by **Master of Ossus** » 2005-12-06 07:55pm

Nephtys wrote:
Master of Ossus wrote:Oregon Trail. The one where you still had to walk around to hunt, instead of having the nice little static image with animals hopping across for you to mouse over and shoot at.
Master of Ossus has dysentery.

[Enters Command] "GO FASTER!"

Koolaidkirby · Post by **Koolaidkirby** » 2005-12-06 08:05pm

rebel assault 2... albiet i was terrible at that game untill i got my first joystick (i couln't get past that A-Wing level with all the crystals....)

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