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Chat => Entertainment & Technology => Topic started by: DEViANCE on February 14, 2007, 19:30:23 PM
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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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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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I suspect combat on Atari 2600.
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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...
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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 :)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Donkey Kong, Keystone Kapers, Turbo, Mouse Trap, and Pitfall on the ColecoVision.
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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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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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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 (http://www.btinternet.com/~selbyd/65xe.html).
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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Pong like game played on a TV with a box of some kind.
On me first 8086 4.85 Mhz but with VGA card (wow) I played PQ (police quest) and SimCity 1.0
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the very first game I ever played was Battle Chess, must have been about 5 or 6. It was a chess game where the pieces came to life and fought when you made a move
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the very first game I ever played was Battle Chess, must have been about 5 or 6. It was a chess game where the pieces came to life and fought when you made a move
Man I loved that game.
First game I can really remember playing was Ghosts and Goblins on C64.
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the very first game I ever played was Battle Chess, must have been about 5 or 6. It was a chess game where the pieces came to life and fought when you made a move
Man I loved that game.
First game I can really remember playing was Ghosts and Goblins on C64.
Really? Fcuk I must be old!!
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the very first game I ever played was Battle Chess, must have been about 5 or 6. It was a chess game where the pieces came to life and fought when you made a move
Man I loved that game.
First game I can really remember playing was Ghosts and Goblins on C64.
Really? Fcuk I must be old!!
ahahaha, I thought the exact same thing when I read that post :D
...I thought I was old; not you ;)
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My first console was a second hand Atari 2600 (re-release) from a cousin of mine.
The games I can remember playing on it were.
Keystone Kapers
Battlezone
Centipede
Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back
Indiana Jones and The Temple of Doom
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vic 20 that vampire game
Then antoher adventure game
The first game ever bought directly for me was some sensible style football game for the comidore 64
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Another Pong player, although I have done a load of different ones since.
the very first game I ever played was Battle Chess, must have been about 5 or 6. It was a chess game where the pieces came to life and fought when you made a move
Man I loved that game.
First game I can really remember playing was Ghosts and Goblins on C64.
Really? Fcuk I must be old!!
You are ;)
TBH it really didnt play a good chess game.
My first PC game IIRC was the original Duke Nukem
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the very first game I ever played was Battle Chess, must have been about 5 or 6. It was a chess game where the pieces came to life and fought when you made a move
Man I loved that game.
First game I can really remember playing was Ghosts and Goblins on C64.
Actually maybe thats not entirely true. Remember playing a bit of text-based Dune on a comically brick-like monochrome (orange!) toshiba laptop.
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What was that cool racing game for the C-64 where you could adjust gravity? Sort of like a 3-D Moon Patrol--which also happens to rock. :D
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Donkey Kong, Keystone Kapers, Turbo, Mouse Trap, and Pitfall on the ColecoVision.
I remember borrowing Turbo off my cousins! :-)
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i think the first game i played on a PC was Championship Manager 95.
The computer I think was 66mhz(with the turbo button :? ) 8mb ram and 200mb HDD. Running win95a. Still got it in the garage. It used to take an hour to setup a game with 3 of my mates, i can remember we used to go out for a game of footy or cricket while we waited for it to load. :lol: good old days!
after that is was probably C&C Red Alert, that was on a P90 and it blew me away, still play it to this day.
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Mine woulda been Sonic on Game Gear, and on PC was the original (and still best imo) Need For Speed.
Jaimz :rock:
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Mine woulda been Sonic on Game Gear, and on PC was the original (and still best imo) Need For Speed.
Jaimz :rock:
ah the game gear! completly forgot about that. that was probably the first games consol that i owned. sonic 1 and 2 and road rash!
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One of the games that came with the Amstrad CPC 664 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS) (Green Screen), written in the back of the manual. Had to type it in using BASIC (hardcore! :P). You were flying a bomber coming into land and you had to bomb these buildings to avoid crashing. Have no idea if it had a name. :mrgreen:
First console was the NES, with Super Mario Bros. :)
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One of the games that came with the Amstrad CPC 664 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS) (Green Screen), written in the back of the manual. Had to type it in using BASIC (hardcore! :P). You were flying a bomber coming into land and you had to bomb these buildings to avoid crashing. Have no idea if it had a name. :mrgreen:
First console was the NES, with Super Mario Bros. :)
I remember we used to buy books that had games to type in yourself on the Spectrum. used to spend hours writing games youd play for 10 minutes!!!
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Hi Guys,
Thought you might all enjoy this website for those classic video game adverts.
In case anybody has already posted it... here it is again:
http://gameads.gamepressure.com/
Has a massive amount of classic adverts. Brings back some good memories.
Enjoy :)
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One of the games that came with the Amstrad CPC 664 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SymbOS) (Green Screen), written in the back of the manual. Had to type it in using BASIC (hardcore! :P). You were flying a bomber coming into land and you had to bomb these buildings to avoid crashing. Have no idea if it had a name. :mrgreen:
Typed it in on the ZX81, an even worse keyboard and at least a year earlier. Think at least one version of it was called bomber, very original title.
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not sure - prob something on my mates spectrum
my first computer was a BBC B & I had space invaders, asteroid & chucky egg to name a few...
also remember playing mario bros and duck hunt on my mates NES
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(http://algau.geek-power.org/ordinosaures/photos/image0007.jpg)
was my 1st computer, with the green screen... I remember one day my dad came home with a box that allowed you to plug it into your TV and get basic colour :D
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My computing life started with a Commodore 16+4
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My started on my mates apple something..., had an external tape cassette drive, and used to play things like lemmings or prince of persia on it. :)
I vaguely remember having to type "chain" and stuff at a command prompt.
Then I got my first every computery console. Binatone something... played pong, tennis (pong with a different name, and scoring system), squash (both paddles on one side), badminton (slower version of tennis), and various other pong like games
Then upgraded to a console I cant remember the name of but it had basic colour, with plastic inserts that would slide over 9 button control pads to give you different key combinations to play games like frogger, or space invaders. Something like Maxivision? or multivision??
(http://www.retro-games.co.uk/misc/intellivision/gte.gif)
WOOT!!! FOUND A PICCIE of it! :D
Then got myself a NES :) and it kicked ass!!! remember coming home the day my parents bought it, found them in my room having played super mario brothers for hours and hours while I was around my mates for the day (was meant to be a surprise for me).
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the very first game I ever played was Battle Chess, must have been about 5 or 6. It was a chess game where the pieces came to life and fought when you made a move
That game rocked!!! :D
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http://abandonia.com/games/en/308/BattleChessforWindows.htm
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http://abandonia.com/games/en/308/BattleChessforWindows.htm
I love you, can i have your babies?
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(http://algau.geek-power.org/ordinosaures/photos/image0007.jpg)
was my 1st computer, with the green screen... I remember one day my dad came home with a box that allowed you to plug it into your TV and get basic colour :D
Hah thats where it all started for me, properly :) Ive still got it and the tv adapter and green screen :) Gauntlet owned on it :) Also played around with programming on it :) I know what Im gonna do tonight ^_^ Retroness night :)
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oh man, zool!!!!
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http://abandonia.com/games/en/308/BattleChessforWindows.htm
Well thats my afternoon sorted then :D
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WOOT!!!
The Last Ninja is available! it was my favourite game fro the Electron!
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another one of my first consols was an amstrad something or other, it was quite good to if i remember cant remember what it was called tho.
a quick goggle says it was the GX4000, was good bit of kit from what i remember but didnt last long.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f6/AmstradGX4000.jpg)
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http://abandonia.com/games/en/308/BattleChessforWindows.htm
I love you. Knight takes Queen FTW! :D
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http://abandonia.com/games/en/308/BattleChessforWindows.htm
I love you. Knighty takes Queen FTW! :D
Fixed it for ya ;)
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LOL Battlechess!
My dad had that on his 386. The castle thingy used to resemble the thing in some sort of dodgy way, the way it came to life. The sound was classic, fuzzy and screachy.
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Castles were more like rock trolls, but really thats splitting hairs.
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Who remembers Barbarian?
The beat em up style game where you had...
web of death
And the head chop move and when you chopped off their head the goblin thing came to pick it up and drag it off
CLASS
I remember me and my brother could get to silly levels just timing the head cop move right at the very start as the npc walked up ^^
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sorry keep digging things up
pong on some orange thing dunno who made it think it was atari?
then repton on a acorn electron .. simalar to a bbc ,
then i think ghosts and ghools on sommat sega ,
then onto atari STe cant remember the 1st game tho...
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Pong was around long before Atari, I played one of the originals.
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Pong was around long before Atari, I played one of the originals.
i dont know what i played it on, it was sommat like this .. all i can remember was it was orange i think
(http://www.comnetslash.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/moc_binatone_orange.jpg)