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First Computer Games?
on: February 14, 2007, 19:30:23 PM
Looking at some of the retro game vids on you tube, got me thinking what the first games i ever played where.

iirc mine was Caverns of Mars on my Mums Atari 800 in the late 80s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwGSVzqLCg4

i must have been younger than 3 thinking about it, i used to play robotron aswell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZsIyJehtE8

what was yours?
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Reply #1 on: February 14, 2007, 19:34:01 PM
Chuckie Egg & Elite was the 1st puter games I owned.
Used to play space invaders in the local chinese tho when I would have been about 3 or 4
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Reply #2 on: February 14, 2007, 19:42:18 PM
I suspect combat on Atari 2600.
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Reply #3 on: February 14, 2007, 19:46:31 PM
Pong. 8) Then the Kwik-E-Mart down the road got Space Invaders, then Asteroids...then on to the classics like Robotron, Tempest, Pac Man, Dig Dug, Joust, Frogger, Q-bert, Star Wars...
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Reply #4 on: February 14, 2007, 21:10:22 PM
Yeah Pong for me too.

Then it was things like Painter and Dare Devil Dennis on the BBC before a huge break until Mario Bros. on the NES :)
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Reply #5 on: February 14, 2007, 21:25:23 PM
well, it was the games my dad made of the local schools

then after that it was super mario bros on the nes

that and duck hunt
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Reply #6 on: February 14, 2007, 21:59:22 PM
ohh forgot about the atari classics thing. Video Boxing, Pong, Car Racing etc.
Big chunky controller with a number pad & stick. Used to love video boxing  :mrgreen:
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Reply #7 on: February 14, 2007, 22:00:06 PM
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Yeah Pong for me too.

Then it was things like Painter and Dare Devil Dennis on the BBC before a huge break until Mario Bros. on the NES :)


Ahhhh Dare Devil Dennis :-D - I had no Idea you could slow down in that game.. always used to go flat out & try jump things  :shock:
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Reply #8 on: February 14, 2007, 22:02:14 PM
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Pong. 8) Then the Kwik-E-Mart down the road got Space Invaders, then Asteroids...then on to the classics like Robotron, Tempest, Pac Man, Dig Dug, Joust, Frogger, Q-bert, Star Wars...


I feel old now :( Parents used to take us down the local pier arcade. Give us a  quid each & off we go.. I was usually scrounging more 10ps within 10mins.. my brothers used to go straight to the slot machines & win another quid  - every time, the jammy bastards :lol:
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Reply #9 on: February 14, 2007, 22:54:39 PM
You could slow down :o

All the old arcade classics were great but I was always on the 2p drop coin jobbies or the one-arm bandits :D
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Reply #10 on: February 14, 2007, 22:55:49 PM
For me... Donkey Kong, Frogger, River Raid and Tarzan on my Coleco Vision when I was about 3.

River Raid - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uf2jYtXQZE

Frogger - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BKRUfqgTfA

Donkey Kong - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKHhsdeHmqE

Tarzan - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ-rZhMSkHg


Coleco Vision advert from 1980 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GpptJusOjM
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Reply #11 on: February 15, 2007, 01:47:22 AM
Donkey Kong, Keystone Kapers, Turbo, Mouse Trap, and Pitfall on the ColecoVision.
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Reply #12 on: February 15, 2007, 02:27:08 AM
The first game I ever played was on a Vax, which many years later I found out to be a *nix server! (Still not sure about that).

It was a simple idea, you control a cannon in the middle bottom of the screen, planes fly overhead and drop paratroopers, you must shoot them down otherwise when they land they run to your cannon and destroy it.

Zool on the Amiga 500 was probably the first game I played properly.

C&C was the first PC game I played.
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Reply #13 on: February 15, 2007, 08:48:40 AM
hmm,

Probably the "Grandstand 20-in-1" thing that plugged into the TV.  Followed by Mars Lander on the Acorn Electron and Zaxxon on the Colleco Cartridge System.

On the Mac the 1st game i played was a Star Trek Next Generation game, though the Mac was also my initial introduction to FPS Games with Maraton. Wolfenstien 3D was the 1st PC game i played properly.  
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Reply #14 on: February 15, 2007, 13:40:59 PM
At school:

A few adventure games on the BBCs
Space Invaders

At home:

Centipede
Asteriods
Missile Command
"Soccer"
Leaper
Cops & Robbers :)
Awesome side-scrolling shooter (DefenderII?)
There was a sort of 1st person Asteriods too.

On an Atari 65xe.

The games came on cassette tapes and cost £1-5 each. Took about 5-10 minutes to (sometimes) load and they made a horrible screechy noise.

Then sega came into my house and started charging £30 a pop.
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