The first computer game you ever played?

[SuperNashwan]

Title says it all - what game was your introduction to the gaming world? Can you remember it, or is it all a bit fuzzy?

For me it was surely 'Pong' on one of those ancient Atari consoles that belonged to my uncle when I was about 5. But my very own first ever game was "Manic Miner" on the Commodore 64, aged around 8 years. A whopping 64kb of memory, 16 colours (I think) of pure 2D platforming fun Ahhh joysticks, how I miss you... and tape drives. 3 minutes to load a game ....

I can still hear the little screech the computer let out when you died. Which happened, a LOT.

And yes I am a bit old lol

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Something on the Atari. Don't know what. Let's say Combat.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

It's all very fuzzy... I know it was a platformer and I believe it had Sci Fi elements to it...

Damned if I remember the name or anything... just a 'T' for some reason.

Edit: Just asked my dad if he remembers and it seems I was thinking about Xargon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xargon

Oh Epic you were making games that I was addicted to way back when I was 4ft tall... how far we have both come.

 

[Acidwell]

Donald in cold Shadow(Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow in america) on pc, i couldnt get past the 3rd level

 

[SuperNashwan]

Donald in cold Shadow(Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow in america) on pc, i couldnt get past the 3rd level

Yeah what was it with old school games? Actually completing them back then was a real kudos thing. There were so many games I just got stuck with and gave up on ...

 

[Dr. Chris]

Simcopter FTW

 

[Chamale]

I have no idea. I found an old diary that mentions that I was playing computer games when I was 1 year old and still in diapers, but it doesn't say which games.

 

[SuperNashwan]

Something on the Atari. Don't know what. Let's say Combat.

I just looked that up and was shocked to realise I remember it

 

[RonHiler]

Zork. On the Comodore 64

 

[SuperNashwan]

I have no idea. I found an old diary that mentions that I was playing computer games when I was 1 year old and still in diapers, but it doesn't say which games.

Has starting early lead to highly developed gaming skills?

 

[SuperNashwan]

Zork. On the Comodore 64

Ahh another C64 owner Yeah I remember that, wasnt it like an adventure game and you had to type stuff in? No graphics, just words?

 

[Chamale]

I have no idea. I found an old diary that mentions that I was playing computer games when I was 1 year old and still in diapers, but it doesn't say which games.

Has starting early lead to highly developed gaming skills?

My dad started me on video games when I was 1, but my mom wouldn't let me play T-rated games until I was 13 and wouldn't let me play anything for more than 1 hour per day until I payed for my own video game systems and got my own TV.

So... no.

 

[TheMariner]

Myst. Ah I do remember that game so fondly.

 

[Acidwell]

Spoiler: snip

Donald in cold Shadow(Maui Mallard in Cold Shadow in america) on pc, i couldnt get past the 3rd level

Yeah what was it with old school games? Actually completing them back then was a real kudos thing. There were so many games I just got stuck with and gave up on ...

Well with that one there was no save system so you had to find the passwords and they were hidden somewhere in the level, then once you found it you had to complete the level without dying again so it was really hard.

 

[anteru]

oregon trail on the old green screens. my family did not spring for a Nintendo or a computer until way later on in my life.

 

[rockyoumonkeys]

Something on the Atari. Don't know what. Let's say Combat.

I just looked that up and was shocked to realise I remember it

My memory of it is actually pretty fuzzy. I know there were different kinds of combat, like planes and tanks and stuff, but I remember the tanks the best. They were fun because of the different room layouts. I even dimly recall bullets that bounced off walls.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

The absolute earliest I remember is Solitaire on Windows 3.1. I couldn't have been more than 3, and my dad had me play it to teach me how to use a mouse. For something more serious, I'm not sure, but it's a toss up between Spectre Challenger, the original blocky dos version of Reader Rabbit, a demo of Tie Fighter, and this educational thing that had four games on one floppy disk. I guess that would make Spectre Challenger my first hard core game, since most of what I remember about that Tie Fighter floppy is the thing being too corrupted to work. I've still got the Spectre Challenger disk, at the very least. I wonder if it would still be readable if I could find a computer that I could slap a floppy drive into.

 

[SuperNashwan]

Myst. Ah I do remember that game so fondly.

I knew some guys at uni who used to talk about that a lot, but I never played it. What platform was it on?

 

[AvsJoe]

I think it was Cross Country Canada, which is Canada's answer to America's Oregon Trail.

 

[A-Heart-Of-Gold]

Lemmings or Golf for a dos computer it was EPIC!