<!--QuoteBegin--Ratfire+Apr 14 2003, 11:45 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Ratfire @ Apr 14 2003, 11:45 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> What is the oldest computer game, not console no atari <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->. I'm talking 80/86, 286, or if you're younger...something else, the first, or one of the first, computer games you ever played??? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yep, computer games only.
We had old apples when I was in 3ed grade, you know those ones with the foot wide floppy. Some days the class would just go to the computeroom, I remember playing the first oregon trail that was black and white and 2d, the hunting was great. =P
The first game I owned on my home PC was Lords of the Relm: II. Great Game
Well, my father is a teacher, so we had computers in my house all my life, pretty much. I vaguely remember a very primitive wireframe flight sim on the ZX81, but the first <i>favourite</i> games I remember having was the Repton (boulderdash by another name) series on the BBC Micro.
Actually, by order of computer: ZX81 - don't remember the name BBC Micro - Repton BBC Master - Elite (3>) Amiga - Frontier: Elite II 486 - X-Wing
After that, I started having grown-up computers <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
What was funny about death in Oregan Trail is the epitaths you could put on tombstones, and then somebody else with the same computer would play it and see your tombstone. Our class got in trouble for writing unnapropiate epitaths...
computer games not videogames... but sbv! YOU NUB!!!1 super mario for the super nintendo? i remember beating super mario 2 for the reg. nintendo for the first time ever on my 8th birthday. i also got a teeball set. it was fun. until the elastic broke like a week later.
I can't remember if this is the first game I've played, but it's definetly in the top five : <b>Warcraft</b>!! I also remember playing <b>Dune 2</b> somewhere around that time as well, but Warcraft was way more fun. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
The very first "computer" game I ever played was something called "Hunt the Wumpus".
I played it on a Teletype style terminal that printed everything out on a big continuous sheet of green-bar paper. You had to take the telephone handset and put it into the accoustic coupler of the 300 baud modem, then dial number on the phone to connect to the mainframe.
Hunt the Wumpus put you into a 5 by 5 grid of rooms, randomly set up with 2 bottomless pits, a Wumpus (an evil, man-eating monster) and you. You had 3 arrows. If you moved into the room with the wumpus, it would eat you. you could move into another room, or shoot thru the door.
The game would print things like:
The room you are in has doors to the NORTH, SOUTH, WEST You have this many arrows left 2 You smell NOTHING >
Then you would type your command, move, shoot, etc. and it would reprint the whole thing over again.
Once we got PC's, the big game was Rogue, an ASCII based dungeon quest adventure. It's called Nethack now, and you can download it from <a href='http://www.nethack.org/' target='_blank'>HERE</a>. This game killed Many many many hours of my childhood.
Hmm... my first computer ever was a Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80 18 Color Model 3 COCO (with 64K RAM! Woo!). I can't recall which of these were the first game I ever owned, but they were certainly all in the first few:
Color Baseball (1982 - definitely first ever sports game) <img src='http://nitros9.stg.net/baseball.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Pacman on an 8086 with yellow/black screen, the little ghosts gave me nightmares though <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->
one the first games i remember is Golden axe, but i think i have played even more simple games before. other oldies i remember playing: Moonstone---------\ Master og magic--------> best 2 games i've played Raptor Pizza tycoon sim farm Loom Monkey island 1 and 2 scorched earth 4D sports boxing 4D racing Doom Wolfenstein Dungeon keeper 1 Blake stone Halloween harrys "something" Commander keen Monster Bash Full trottle Bubbi bubble
Wolfenstein 3d. I haven´t computer in these times but i played too much in the computer of a friend <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Well lets see. When I was pretty young I was into the apogee and Epic games (Duke Nukem, Mystic Towers, Electroman, Hugo, etc.)
But the very first game I played when I started getting out of console-games and into PC games(at about age 13) was Unreal. At that time, of course, I had know idea what basic terms like resolution, online play, and patch meant so I played the whole game through in software mode but still thought the graphics were good, lol.
The first time I ever played a game online was when I tried Team Fortress Classic for Half-Life
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<!--QuoteBegin--PetitMorte+Apr 15 2003, 10:52 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (PetitMorte @ Apr 15 2003, 10:52 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The very first "computer" game I ever played was something called "Hunt the Wumpus". <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Wumpus=teh pwn. The first time I ever saw his magic card I nearly died from nostalgia.
I think i played ultima like twice on the apple IIc we had when i was 6 or 7. Other than that, the first computer game I ever actually played for more than 5 minutes would probably be journeyman and the first one I bought was Diablo.
<!--QuoteBegin--DOOManiac+Apr 15 2003, 06:07 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DOOManiac @ Apr 15 2003, 06:07 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> First game I ever played? Probably Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego on my elementry school's Apple 2 E's
First game I've owned? Out Of This World <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Wow! You are a noob!
I was playing computer games before I started pre-K. I can't remember what games I played, but I know I did frequent the study (computer room) when I lived in Chicago.
I can remember playing a game called "Freddie" when I was in ~1st or 2nd grade. It was a game where you played this little guy who ran around a maze, and turkeys were on every flat surface. You had to eat all the turkeys, basically. It was m4d fun.
I also remember "Jailbreak" and "Pitfall," although I could never figure out how they worked (pitfall was a blindingly fast flash of symbols and then "you lose"). I also remember a game (can't recall the name offhand) where you were in a 3d maze, much like pacman (fleeing from ghosts, picking up dots on the floor). It was very orange.
I also remember some great games from ~3rd grade such as Ancient Empires, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (Carmen Sandiego has stolen the Amazon River!), and The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain 3. Oh, and DOOM.
I also remember some games from "80 MEGA HITS" (this was around 4th and 5th grade) such as Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Bio-Hazard, Halloween Harry, Duke Nukem 2, Jazz Jackrabbit, and others. But they were by no means my firsts.
Technically my first were "Odell (sp) Lake" and "Oregon Trail" and man were those some good times, but once we got the blindingly fast 386/25 (w00t) then Wing Commander became the end all be all time sucker. I also remember doing extra chores for 4 months to play back my parents the $80 that went into 2 more megs of ram for my Sys. just to play Doom. (damn, does anyone else remeber when 2 megs cost 80-100 bucks?)
the first games i played on computer, i have no idea. they were clones of classic atari games i think. donkey kong, and some helicopter game. all in 4 color glory. the first game i remember owning, that wasnt a demo or anything, was Kings Quest 3, which i didnt beat until about a month ago. which is about 17 years if anyones counting <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
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I'm talking 80/86, 286, or if you're younger...something else, the first, or one of the first, computer games you ever played??? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Yep, computer games only.
The first game I owned on my home PC was Lords of the Relm: II. Great Game
No-Life
Actually, by order of computer:
ZX81 - don't remember the name
BBC Micro - Repton
BBC Master - Elite (3>)
Amiga - Frontier: Elite II
486 - X-Wing
After that, I started having grown-up computers <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
I played it on a Teletype style terminal that printed everything out on a big continuous sheet of green-bar paper. You had to take the telephone handset and put it into the accoustic coupler of the 300 baud modem, then dial number on the phone to connect to the mainframe.
Hunt the Wumpus put you into a 5 by 5 grid of rooms, randomly set up with 2 bottomless pits, a Wumpus (an evil, man-eating monster) and you. You had 3 arrows. If you moved into the room with the wumpus, it would eat you. you could move into another room, or shoot thru the door.
The game would print things like:
The room you are in has doors to the NORTH, SOUTH, WEST
You have this many arrows left 2
You smell NOTHING
>
Then you would type your command, move, shoot, etc. and it would reprint the whole thing over again.
Once we got PC's, the big game was Rogue, an ASCII based dungeon quest adventure. It's called Nethack now, and you can download it from <a href='http://www.nethack.org/' target='_blank'>HERE</a>. This game killed Many many many hours of my childhood.
Color Baseball (1982 - definitely first ever sports game)
<img src='http://nitros9.stg.net/baseball.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Defense (1982 - missile command rip-off, first 'arcadey' game)
<img src='http://nitros9.stg.net/defense.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
Pharoah's Curse (198? - certainly my first ever text adventure)
<img src='http://nitros9.stg.net/pharoahs_curse.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
I think the first game that I bought was either Warcraft2 or Tie Fighter. Not quite sure because I bought them within a week of eachother.
Moonstone---------\
Master og magic--------> best 2 games i've played
Raptor
Pizza tycoon
sim farm
Loom
Monkey island 1 and 2
scorched earth
4D sports boxing 4D racing
Doom
Wolfenstein
Dungeon keeper 1
Blake stone
Halloween harrys "something"
Commander keen
Monster Bash
Full trottle
Bubbi bubble
But the very first game I played when I started getting out of console-games and into PC games(at about age 13) was Unreal. At that time, of course, I had know idea what basic terms like resolution, online play, and patch meant so I played the whole game through in software mode but still thought the graphics were good, lol.
The first time I ever played a game online was when I tried Team Fortress Classic for Half-Life
Wumpus=teh pwn. The first time I ever saw his magic card I nearly died from nostalgia.
First computer game: Chuck Yeager's Air Combat
First game I've owned? Out Of This World <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow! You are a noob!
I was playing computer games before I started pre-K. I can't remember what games I played, but I know I did frequent the study (computer room) when I lived in Chicago.
I can remember playing a game called "Freddie" when I was in ~1st or 2nd grade. It was a game where you played this little guy who ran around a maze, and turkeys were on every flat surface. You had to eat all the turkeys, basically. It was m4d fun.
I also remember "Jailbreak" and "Pitfall," although I could never figure out how they worked (pitfall was a blindingly fast flash of symbols and then "you lose"). I also remember a game (can't recall the name offhand) where you were in a 3d maze, much like pacman (fleeing from ghosts, picking up dots on the floor). It was very orange.
I also remember some great games from ~3rd grade such as Ancient Empires, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (Carmen Sandiego has stolen the Amazon River!), and The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain 3. Oh, and DOOM.
I also remember some games from "80 MEGA HITS" (this was around 4th and 5th grade) such as Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Bio-Hazard, Halloween Harry, Duke Nukem 2, Jazz Jackrabbit, and others. But they were by no means my firsts.