What's your oldest PC gaming memories (in Lounge)?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

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[TheBaldyMan]

1. pre-PC : I can remember playing Pong on a stand-up console

when it was the latest thing, after playing it for the first time my brother and I walked away from it marvelling at modern technology and saying 'great graphics'.

First PC game was a text only Formula 1 racing game, I wish I was joking, steering was automatic and you negotiated the turns by inputting throttle and brake values between one and ten. After you entered the input the display would show your current speed and the radius in metres of the next turn. If you left the track it was game over.

I also played Star Trek on a mainframe whose main unit was magnetic core memory and was the size of a refrigerator.

[jayfish]

2. What Do You Classify As A PC?

Does an Atari 800 count? The Odyssey II had a membrane keyboard too. I don't remember playing a game that ever used it though.

Jay

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

3. Yes, TRS-80 (trash 80) with cassette tape, Kaypro, all of it.

[jayfish]

4. Then I Would Have To Say....

Elite
One-On-One
Phantasy

I have yet to play a modern Elite sequel or clone that comes anywhere near the original.

Jay

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. What was Elite? Sounds familiar.

[jayfish]

6. It's An Open Ended...

trade/combat, real-time, deep-space simulator. You start in a star system with a small ship and where you go and how you get there is up to you. One of my favorite things to do was just jump to different star systems and look for anomalies.

Jay

[Occulus]

7. There's a strategy/trade game like that now

It's called Starlines, Inc.

Fun game.

My first gaming memory was playing the (hideously poor) port of Pac-Man on my Atari 2600. The next good game I had was for the C64, and it was called "Mercenary". I think that may have been one of the very first truly 3D games for any home console.

[jayfish]

8. I Go All The Way Back To Pong...

but I was trying to keep it to computers. As for the first 3D games, I had(have) a device that came out near the end of the 2600's life called the Starpath Supercharger. It was an extra processor and a bit of memory the went into the 2600's cart slot. That unit then plugged into a cassette player and games were loaded from cassette. There was a game out for it called "Escape From The Mindmaster". That was the first 3d game I can remember. That was in 82.



Jay

[SlavesandBulldozers]

16. the Odyssey. omg i had that thing.

had the game smithereens on it, and some asteroids clone that you had to pick up dudes floating in space.

odyssey. . . wow. that would definitely be my first gaming experience. my parents were waay cool to get that shit.

[0rganism]

9. strek on a PDP-11

That was also my first "practical" application of the inverse tangent, although I was about 10 at the time and didn't know that's what I was doing. I still remember the class instructor getting really pissed off: "You're playing strek on a PAPER TERMINAL?!?! Don't do that!" I got the high score in the class, though -- my first video game competition, my first victory!

Other primal computing memories include "Canyon Climber" and "Dungeons of Daggorath" on a TRS-80 coco, "Archon" on an Apple II, and greatest of all mighty timewasters was what I call the "Summer of Wizardry" back in the early '80s, in which I teamed up with a friend to beat Wizardry on his IBM PC.

Although it was a true shitheap, I have some nostalgia for the TRS-80 coco; it was where I got my first real programming chops, I wrote some very simple games and graphics hacks, and a simple text editor in BASIC. Plus, we got the dual floppy drive and a color printer for it -- which pretty much pushed that sucker about as far as it could go, peripherally speaking.

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

10. I remember STREK, or TREK. Checking out all the class M planets.

It was a good game.

[malmapus]

13. I remember Kobiyashi Maru, god what a frustrating game as a kid

Wonder how far I could get now that I'm older, lol might have to see if there is still a copy out there now.

[Orsino]

11. Wizardry on an Apple II. n/t

[YOY]

12. The Original "Bard's Tale"

So much mindless fun.

[malmapus]

14. Herb!!!

Hehe, I still remember powerleveling my party everytime I came across ole Herb standing at 80' and summoning all sorts of minions to attack.

[CabalPowered]

15. Text based mystery written for HP-UX by a bored programmer

back in the early 80's.

[NewJeffCT]

17. I remember "Asteroids" on Atari...

Or, is that more the precursor to playstation & the like.

How about "Beyond Castle Wolfenstein" on the Commodore 64?

The first true computer game I remember playing was "Pool of Radiance" on a MAC maybe 15-16 years ago.

[tibbiit]

18. Matellevision?

While Pong is my earliest vid game... 1972? (where i played it at bars and on the tv*... plus Breakout (right after pong hit)-- in the 80's (during the time of first atari rage) was Matellivision. I had one and remember my greatest scores ever on some game that was Asteroid like.
tib

edit
The real name is Intellivision by matell.
http://videogames.org/html/

* in 1972 the Magnavox Odessey was what I played my first pong on!!! I had forgotten that name until research (which I could have done before the original post). I had this and played it on my tv. I had thought it was from the early cable tv for some reason.(faulty memory hehe)

Astrosmash is the Intellivision game I remember making such high scores. For some reason I was really in tune with this game.

tib

[NewJeffCT]

19. I remember having the Mattel Intellivision

That was awesome for its day. I was great at their baseball game.

That was the first big XMas gift my brother & I ever got.

[Guy Fawkes]

20. Zork...

and I've never stopped loving adventure/puzzle games. Zork, Myst, Eleventh Guest- all great. Even Burncycle (dang, that was hard!).

[Maestro]

21. Text based adventure gaming

on a very early Apple computer in the early 80's, '84, perhaps. In '87 and '88 I remember playing on a Commodore 64, then I finally went to PCs in '91 and the first two big games were the original Civilization and Wolfenstein.

[Downtown Hound]

22. I had a TRS-80 Color Computer 2

Played games like Castle Guard, Pitfall 2, and Dungeons of Daggorath on it. And then of course, there was the good old Atari 2600. I must have been about 3 or 4 when I came downstairs one morning and my mom had just finished setting that thing up. She'd bought it for my dad. The game she was playing was Space Invaders. Funny how I remember something like that, I never even liked Space Invaders all that much.

I never got another computer until 1998 when I got a Gateway 2000. So unfortunately I missed out on the glory days of the Commodore 64 and the Amiga 500.