That game was great. Its a shame it wont play on any of 'todays' machines.

According to the title, my first computer game was Tank on Atari....First pc game was Quake 2.

First console game was on the first console.. PONG played it forever hehe
Not sure if it was the first but close was the original Sim City or maybe F16 Falcon (black & white). M1 Tank Platoon by Microprose, wore out the 5 1/4 inch floppies on that one.

Les Manley in Search for the King
Contraptions(?)
Oregon Trail

Arcade - Donkey Kong
Intellivision - Advanced dungeons and dragons
Commodore 64 - Manic miner & China Miner
PC - Championship manager or Kingpin
Atari 2600 - Pacman

lemmings and wolfenstein 3d

This thread is a sure way to ask "how old are you?" :1orglaugh

Questron, Wizardry, Bards Tale were my favorites... Almost makes me want to buy a Apple 2e if I could get the games too.

Lemmings and original SimCity were good too.

I was playing this game on Speccy :)

I think you mean this one:

http://www.filesdump.com/image/pVgzK...ragonslair.jpg

:winkwink:

Cant recall if it was commando or last ninja, both great games, but best ever game gotta be pirates. :thumbsup

Starflight before it was enhanced for EGA.

That game soaked up almost a year of my life.

Zork for me :)

not a computer game, but...

http://www.mobygames.com/game/intell...eShotId,48758/

played for hours and hours...a knockoff of Donkey Kong that was much more addictive

Where in Time was the hardest of the Carmen Sandiego games but I enjoyed it. Well, there was the Where in Space one but I had moved on by then. I directly attribute those games for the love of research I have as an adult. How many games could come with reference books now and get kids glued?

On the Oregon Trail line..my mom also used to bring one home from her school that was called Deer something..maybe Deer Lake? You had to protect deer in the wild or something like that and sometimes you had to decide to shoot them or not. I remember being traumatized for a good half hour about having to make that choice.

hehe .. just noticed :) ...thanks... won't make a thread about it tho ..:winkwink:

My first computer!!!!

48K, to load a game you had to do a LOAD "" + ENTER + PLAY THE TAPE
My favorite game: Chucky Egg :thumbsup

I think I still have the book that came with that game somewhere... I remember it being THICK.

I never played Where In Space, but I probably would've loved it even more.

This is making me want to get my hands on a copy and play it again!

I loved the names of the criminals.


ETA: BAM! http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/43...+Sandiego.html

No love for King's Quest?

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/4...661fullkm2.jpg

Omega Race, on my commodore Vic 20

I of course didn't have the luxury of that big box attached to my commodore. I had to put my games in one at a time.

Thats what I was gunna post :1orglaugh

DOOM, Golden Axe 2, Age of Empires

blast from the past

on atari

http://old-wizard.com/wp-content/upl...08/06/pong.gif


then off course, the GTA series

Pacman, and years after that i found Boulderdash, Commodore 64 i think
and i don`t know what the computer was i plaid on. To long ago

alone in the dark it had to be 91-92 scared the crap out of me. i would play with the lights out.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._Box_Cover.jpg

This 128k masterpiece ran on the Apple IIGs...heh, back in the day of 5 1/4 black floppies...

http://www.computingscotland.org/new...8/wargames.png


http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/fre...8/wargames.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...illeryduel.jpg

Artillery Duel, Apple II, '82..

Before Scorched Earth.. Before Worms...

Bard's Tale I was probably the first game I was properly addicted to and Ultima IV was pretty much the best thing ever until you got a charcter to level 100 and it went back down to 1 again after that because Lord British didn't think that far ahead lol.

It's kinda funny being able to remember when that was brand new and having it's big marketing push. I remember it being in C&VG with a double page spread or something. It would probably be a bit of a trip to kids today to know that the not much has really changed in computer game mags except the graphics even though it's really obvious nothing else really changes when you think about it although the industry has gone on serious ups and downs.. I remember a one page 8bit Paperboy review with all the awesome screenshots.
Just kinda weird but I don't automatically think of Dragon's Lair as "old"... there is still a bit of residual "newness" left over from the marketing... and that goes all the way through the timeline to games like Syndicate etc. It's weird as hell that DukeNukem 3d is someone's first favourite game.. it's in 3d! It only came out like.. 5 years ago right?.. right? oh shit.. 10?.. oh.. 13? Dammit I remember the sidescrolling platform Duke... dammit!!!! Fucking youth of today.

Football on intellevision

Oregon Trail at school.
BUT OMG.. at home..
Where in Europe is Carmen Sandiego.. with a green only monitor. lol
And Jeopardy.

I can remember one of the answers to the jeopardy question being prostitution... and I was like 4.. and I thought it was prosecution... so I used to be like, "Daddy hurry spell prosecution.." then Id get it wrong.. and he'd be all weird that the real answer was prostitution...


I was too young to read most of the words.. so i'd play them for hours on end.. until I'd memorize what words/pictures went with what answers.

Those games made me the nerd I am today.

Heh, forgot about Jeopardy. Played that one quite a bit too.

i think the first command and conquer where it was allies vs the soviets

None... I never played computer games.. not into it..

My first computer game was one I wrote myself, on a shared PDP-11 - I saved the program on paper tape and whenever I wanted to play, I just put the paper tape into the reader and off it went :1orglaugh

First computer game I ever played was Commander Keen (Goodbye Galaxy). It came free with the old 386 I bought wayyy back when.

2nd was Duke Nukem.