Blast from the Past

[Jaggannath]

At risk of repeating a thread which has already been done (I couldn't find one to revive), do you remember what the first computer game you ever played was?? Something someone said in another thread reminded me of it

Mine was Kingdom of Kroz... basically a game played with ASCII characters. Then the next was California Games. A bit of a blast from the past, just thinking about it makes me feel old (but not as old as if Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was my first )

[Strider]

The very first video game I can remember playing was the arcade game Pong and the first PC game that I played was Zork (The Original Text Adventure Version).

[trowand]

God, I really don't know what the first PC game was that I played. But I do remember that the very first computer that I was ever exposed to was my neighbor's Apple. I was in third or fourth grade so I was like eight or nine and my friends and I all thought this kid was rich because his dad had a computer. The thing was pathetic with the green and black screen and all. That must've been 21 or 22 years ago, 1982 or 1983. And then about two years or so after that when I was in fifth grade I was sooo excited because we had computer class! It was actually more like typing class but when we got our work done early we could go hand the teacher our work which was printed on green and white perforated (sp?) paper and we could choose a big floppy disk with a game on it to play and of course those games were pathetic. I like to often wonder and daydream about what computers and technology will be like in the future. I just read an article over at Tom's Hardware Guide about how they used liquid nitrogen to cool an Intel P4 so they could overclock it to 5+ Ghz and I thought to myself, in five years or so people are going to crack up laughing that we had to use liquid nitrogen to reach 5Ghz.

[DragonNOA1]

Like I mentioned in another recent thread, my first game was Prince of Persia 1. Mmm, PC speaker sound and skeleton fights, bring it.

[Carpedebass]

I don't remember my first computer game's name but I do remember it to be some ofshoot of Pong. I also remember playing "Stephen King's 'The Mist'" on a Timex Sinclair 1000. Am I aging myself?

[Jaggannath]

Originally Posted by DragonNOA1 Like I mentioned in another recent thread, my first game was Prince of Persia 1. Mmm, PC speaker sound and skeleton fights, bring it.

Yeah, it was you who sent me back into my flashbacks of Cal Games and Police Quest, and that made me think of Kingdom of Kroz

[sdkfz]

I beleive it was a Star Trek game at the Lawrence hall of science in Berkeley CA sometime in 1977 to 1979. Pretty sure it was written in 8080 but it may have been 8080A, before we could play it at school had to take the course at night at the hall. We got the source code as payment for babysitting and of course it was printed out. Took us half the school year to type it in and debug....

Then again it may have been hang man at the same place...

[Vigo]

It was either Oregon Trail or Where in the World is Carmen San Diego (Think I played both on an apple IIgs or apple IIe).

First pc game I played might have been Chuck Yeager's Combat... well... it probably wasn't the first, but its the only one I bothered to remember . Yes... there were flight simulators before Jane's Combat and MS Flight Sim... and good ones too!

[Nuclear Krusader]

Leisure Suit Larry 1.
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego was the second one. Heh, even my mother played that one.

[kram 2.0]

Dinosaur Tycoon on the NEW PowerMAC 5260 (the first ones with integrated monitors)

kram

[onearmpprhngr]

It was Moon Lander on a 8080 in 1977. We would play while we waited for the computer to finish reading the punchcards and compile the code.