my first COMPUTER game was a toosup with B.C. ( were you played the caveman with the wheel and you either jumped over logs or ducked under trees, and king's quest 1, with the batmobile easter egg. I didnt play computer games till I was 16 I did play pong but that was not till I was 14, before that it was board games ( 24hour monopoly sessions) and reading games magazine and makeing up games out of the reviews, I got very close with Car Wars.

lets see, jet shooter on the Coleco...

to bad it got smashed...

ah well...

007

First game was Mario 64.

Sonic the Hedgehog

Mine was Chips Challenge... Or Aces of the Pacific for windows 3.1 Cant remember which came first

Technically my first games were on the NES.

e.t, pong, missile command - e.t. is a horrible pointless ugly(even for atari)game, the other two are classics

then we got several commodore computers, and i played text games like Pirate's Cove and Leather Goddesses Of Phobos, and some BASIC programs like snake and gorillas
later we got a full fledged PC - i believe it was a monochrome 286 with a whopping 2 mb of memory and maybe 50 mb of harddrive occupying a FULL BAY - can you believe it was enough!?

finally we got an NES, and played the hell out of duck hunt, mario bros 1&2, castlevania, and olympic sport something or other that used the 'powerpad' acessory

and then we got the Sega genesis - WOOT! gaming had ARRIVED! i played sonic the hedgehog(back when it didn't pretend to be the s&$t because it really was) commandos, road rash, vectorman, comix zone, and robocop vs terminator as well as most of the wrestling and fighting games

so anyways, ET was my first game and is certainly #1 on my hate list - theres a funny documentary on the internet about how some gamers tracked down the dump where all the unsold ET cartridges were buried and recovered thousands of them(why, i ask?)

Edited by - Cold_Void on 8/30/2006 12:48:39 AM

Err, i don' think i'm the oldest here, but Asteroids and Space Invaders on the Dragon32. Can't even remember what year it was, but it was when they first came out
The game that i have played the most (other than Freelancer) is Elite2:Frontier. I played that one to death.

the Dragon 32, now that brings back memories, I think that was around '82/83 Mace iirc.

Like the rest of the older players here it was pong on a black & white tv back in the early to mid '70's.

Then Space invaders, M.C. & Asteroids on the Atari console in the late '70's.

**shuffles of with a new headache**

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a monochrome 286 with a whopping 2 mb of memory and maybe 50 mb of harddrive

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...so that's where Typhon came from - you sold your 286 to the Eskwilacks!

My oh my, I'd forgotten all about the ET game. I didn't actually play it, I just heard about it from others. In the mid-80s I was mostly playing BBC Micro turn-based historical games.

BJMac - don't you miss those happy days of an hour or so of Pong, not wanting to turn it off even though your Mum was clattering the tea things and moaning about the bleeping noise and wasn't it time for her soaps to come on?

wait a minute - FD's older than us - what was he doing at this time? c'mon FD, what was your pre-1980 gaming experience?

I did play Pong as well, but pre TV used games era, was arcade games that used a drawn space ship, that grew from the back ground and moved larger on the screen. White lines on a black back ground that you moved a curser over and clicked a button to shoot, then a point level flashed on the screen. I don't remember the name though, it was in the late 70's at OZ records and tapes that had a gaming room and head shop. The local baptist churches at the time got the head shop removed. They sold no drugs, just t-shirts and parfanellia(sp) for *ummm smoking* and such. The game, at the time, was the best thing going, just ahead of pinball machines.

Edited by - Finalday on 9/1/2006 2:36:06 AM

Unreal Tournment Classic, oh those where the good years.

Rank 7
Superiour! You must play freelancer nearly all the time. Can you play on the 24/7 Roleplay Server? My name is nomad hunter xd.
How much do you know about Freelancer?

pong on a telstar (great big wooden cabinet with pong hockey and handball) first computer game I remember playing is one of 3 zork sword of fargoal or hunter killer(sub simulator) on the c64 (on a tape drive)

my perfect future includes an Addams Family gold edition pinball game

Edited by - ssjgarretjax on 9/12/2006 7:45:31 PM

Wow, I didn't know anybody knew about Fury 3... I played that game for hours, until I finally corrupted the cd. (But got it fixed recently!) I also was screwed up because my cousin told me all the cheats... I never actually completed it. I also liked simply going to its directory and watching the movies.