Your First Computer Game

[Linflas]

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I played this on an Atari 520. I loved that game and actually had it running on my PC a few months back with an emulator.

 

[Parrotheader]

I'm personally not going to count my console playing (Atari 2600, Coleco, etc.) since all those did were games. I guess my first real computer game that made enough an impact for me to remember was Lemonade Stand on the Apple IIc. Actually, there may have been a few text based games before that (Zork-like games.)

DOH! How could I forget it, TAIPAN!!!! It was the forerunner to that text-based drug dealing game that was so popular on Palm Pilots last year. What's funny now that I look back on it was that I was playing that when I was like 6 years old and I didn't even know what opium was. I just knew it made me lots of money!

 

[StevenYoo]

Pac Man and Gorf on the Atari 2600.
on the PC it was Scorched Earth, the Mother of all Games

 

[Emulex]

hamurabi (sp? its been so long)

 

[propellerhead]

Tetris for DOS. The RAM resident version. Terminate Stay Resident, or TSRs as we used to call them.

I'd start printing a long report from dBASE II on our brand new Zenith 80286 at work, then call up the TSR. The printing would pause and Tetris comes up on the screen. I'd play for hours. When I heard the clicking of the cipher lock on our door, meaning the boss was coming, I'd hit the ESC key, Tetris would hide, and the printer would pick up where it left off. Man, I always looked busy. When the boss left the room, I'd hit the hotkey that would pause everything and bring up Tetris right where I left off. It took months before our boss figured out what we were doing.

 

[SerraYX]

A golf game for DOS. Computer golf is pretty tough for a seven year old. Besides a lot of Learning Company games and DOS stuff..my first windows game was Myst...ugh..let me tell you how much fun Myst was at nine.

 

[iamshady]

Pole Position on my C128

 

[jacklutz]

Can anyone remember an old game where two tanks were burrowing in the ground? You had a cannon I think. It was a DOS game... first game I can remember playing on a computer.

 

[Rastus]

Star Trek on a Burroughs B6700 mainframe in 1975. I wasted my college years on the third floor of the library where the terminals were.

 

[Fallenjedi]

First game ... whee...I can only remember that we had cartridge games for my PC/Jr... I can't remember what games those were. But my dad used to have an this old ass toshiba (I think) that was mono-chrome, but you could hook it up to a black and white screen to play 'Space' with two goofy block like ships and you both (two player game) had to use the same keyboard. Then there was 'Boxing' ... an old EGA boxing game with like four keys to use, and I think Test Drive the very first one.

Then of course onto Kings Quest I, and the such


Hrm, unless my old atarti with pong, combat, bowling and the such was before that .. its been a while!

- Dravin

 

[AreaCode707]

Solitaire.

 

[TallBill]

earl weaver baseball was the shiznit.. you could make yer own parks and everything... that was the first game i played.. however.. the first one i owned.. hmm... loom

 

[SaltBoy]

Apple Invaders (a Space Invaders Clone) and Lemonade Stand on my Apple II+

Both were awesome!

 

[Elita1]

Prince of Persia, baby!
oh yeah, and I used to go visit my friend just to be able to play Commander Keen. How sad is that!

 

[TallBill]

btw, wing commander was the first game that i purchased

 

[woodly6]

I think it was Oregon Trail.

 

[dionx]

first computer game i bought was resident evil 2. but the first computer game i ever played was oregon trail back in elementary school on the macintosh computers.

 

[LordUnum]

Mickey's Space Adventure on a "new-ish" Apple IIe (doubt the IIc was out yet) in an office at my elementary school sometime in early '84.

Other early computer games I played were Oregon Trail on an Apple IIc, later on a IIgs, and Montezuma's Revenge on the Commodore 64.

 

[sciencetoy]

pong, and I still like pong-type games.

 

[Dark4ng3l]

Quake3 arena

 

[ShadowHunter]

Hmmm...tough call

I'm not sure if I played Civilization on my 386 first or Impossible Mission on my friend's Commodore 64

 

[UofI]

Pitfall if I remember correctly

 

[McPhreak]

<< ultima 3 for the apple >>

 

[datalink7]

Don't remember exactly, but one of the first ones I really got into was Wings of Fury for the Apple IIe

 

[crypticlogin]

Space Quest 2: Vohaul's (sp) Revenge. 4-bit color gaming was excellent in the day, even if the game ran at that horribly pixelated screen resolution.