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Your first pc game

Space quest was one of two games that I remember first playing on the PC, the other being Bouncing Babies. I can't remember which I played first, but Bouncing Babies really stuck in my mind as being a really quite peculiar game.
 
My first was probably Star Raiders on my friend's Atari 400. Then a TON of games acquired by, uh, "questionable" means for my Atari 800. I remember driving my VW bug packed with a bunch of 5 1/4 floppies over to the house of some guy I met on a BBS. Very nice guy. Spent several hours trading games with him.

Just the other day, I was fooling around with my Amiga 1200 and came across Thexder. I thought it was SO cool when I first played it on an IBM with CGA circa 1986 or so. Fired it up on the Amiga and was very disappointed in the gameplay.

This is more off-topic but...
Had a similar experience with Xevious that I bought for the Wii virtual console. Back in the day, my best friend and I would occasionally cut AP Biology class in high school, sneak to the local arcade and spend hours pumping quarters into that thing. We knew the location of every hidden flag by heart.

I played the VC version for about 15 minutes before realizing I was viewing the past through rose-colored glasses. Man, what a crappy crappy game.
 
The first PC game I played was Wolfenstein. It just about ran on my cousin's new 386SX25 .. complete with squawks from the speaker for the sound effects :mrgreen:

When I bought my 486DX2-66 it ran like lightning!

As for first computer game, that will have been one of many (can't pinpoint which one) I had with my Vic20 in the early 1980s.

I never did complete Mission Impossible ... and have been looking out for it ever since. I had it on Vic20 Cartridge and really wanted it for the C64 when my Vic was sold :)




BG
 
tough to remember for sure, but i'm pretty sure it was either Janitor Joe or Wheel of Fortune on the family's Leading Edge 8088 machine.

the first game i ever truly got addicted too? well, that would be........

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i literally wasted half of my childhood on that one. many a homework assignment that i neglected for it. i still play it quite often on my 286, and i haven't discovered everything in it yet. :mrgreen:
 
BG101 said:
The first PC game I played was Wolfenstein. It just about ran on my cousin's new 386SX25 .. complete with squawks from the speaker for the sound effects :mrgreen:

When I bought my 486DX2-66 it ran like lightning!

As for first computer game, that will have been one of many (can't pinpoint which one) I had with my Vic20 in the early 1980s.

I never did complete Mission Impossible ... and have been looking out for it ever since. I had it on Vic20 Cartridge and really wanted it for the C64 when my Vic was sold :)




BG
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ah, good ol' wolfenstein 3d. i have been starting to play that one a bit again recently. a little over a month ago i got a canon notejet 486c (486 SX/25 laptop, color screen + built in printer) for $2 on shopgoodwill.com!

when it arrived and i booted it up, the previous owner had wolf3d on the hard drive with an "adult" patch... all the wall images are porn. lol.
 
If I recall correctly it was 1987 and either Test Drive, played on a Leading Edge 8088 in 4-color CGA, or Alley Cat on the same machine. Had to use the keyboard for controls because I didn't have a joysick.
 
It looks like I'm unusual so I'll just post this for you guys to have a good laugh. :)

The first game that I ever saw was Tetris. I couldn't believe how the person playing it had developed such a skill. I was in my forties then but had not been aware of computer games. I've since tried a couple of simple ones like Tetris, but never anything more complicated. I recognize the art but not the fun... probably there's something missing in my brain.
 
I prolly have the same mental defect, OJ. Games just don't appeal much to me. My idea of fun is tearing sum'n down and repairing/rebuilding it (computers, engines, heavy machinery, whatever...)...it's very therapeutic to me. Works for software too, to a lesser extent; wiping a hard drive, reinstalling software, test-driving various programs (including games), etc. IOW, the computer is the game.

--T
 
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Terry Yager said:
I prolly have the same mental defect, OJ. Games just don't appeal much to me. My idea of fun is tearing sum'n down and repairing/rebuilding it (computers, engines, heavy machinery, whatever...)...it's very therapeutic to me. Works for software too, to a lesser extent; wiping a hard drive, reinstalling software, test-driving various programs (including games), etc. IOW, the computer is the game.

--T
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I agree with this completely. No telling how many hours I have wasted installing, reinstalling, searching for lost Windoze cd keys, and writing zeros for no reason :D


Aside from that, my first game was Monopoly on my Dad's old 386 Dell running DOS with a monochrome screen. Don't remember many other specs except that the computer that replaced it was a Packard Bell 66Mhz 486 with Windoze and I remember being amazed by its speed and ability. I think they're both still in the attic somewhere because of their high nostalgic value.
 
Yup, agree 100% .. well.. minus the engine but I dunno, I probably just don't like cars because most people do. Either way, that's why I enjoyed programming for fun back when I had more free time. It's sort of the game itself, I want to do this.. here are my commands, try this, nope, try again, closer.. etc. Several friends and I had coding binges that lasted days on the floor at one of our places where many Jolt's and pizzas were sacrificed for our entertainment.
 
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