What was Your First Ever Computer Game?

[Rockat]

That would be either Dark Ages or Crystal Caves, and I've still got the majority of the parts from the computer I first played them on as well (lost the VGA card+case a long time ago).

[winny257]

On 5/22/2018 at 12:53 AM, Randlocher said:

Command & Conquer (1995)

my first computer was a Commodore 64 with cassette drive from 1982. 

 

 

[wokking56]

On 6/5/2018 at 4:01 PM, old cat said:

Having come from that long-ago time in a place far, far away ... well mid-western university in the 60s I would guess a lot of the old timers are thankful there were no cell phone videos of the 10 gallon Mazola parties ROFL cause they would be afraid of the blow back and their retirement funds.

seriously just another realm of pendulum swings as the ages change -

Holy crap "Mazola parties" I haven't even thought about one of those in like forever; thanks for the reminder.

 

As for the "pendulum swings as the ages change" that is so true. Sexual openness and repression have alternated back and forth for probably as long as we have been around. I mean look at ancient Rome and Greece, pretty open sexually speaking followed by a period of repression. We currently think of "Victorian times" as being rather repressed but there does seem to be some evidence to the contrary. Then we have the Puritans coming to "the new world", well of course they were repressed they were Puritans. The 1920 pretty open, the 40s and 50s rather repressed, the 60s and 70s once again open and now it seems that we are headed for a period of serious repression.

[tjure]

My first was Pong too. I never knew why my father bought this thing.

 

The next i recall is Leisure Suit Larry 1. Imagine 3 boys, with only two years of learning english in school, trying to figure out the next order to type in what Larry should do next. It was one typing and two sloging through the dictionary. A different way to learn english i guess.?

 

The game who get me "addicted" to PC gaming was the first Civilisation. Especially for this game i bought my first PC. A 486DX with 33 Hertz and a huuuge 200 MB harddrive.

Oh boy, this was a High End Rocket machine. ?

[Fakenet]

I think the first real game I played was CnC Red Alert.

Before that where some puzzle games I can barely remember. Also a game where you could pick a dinosaur to play as and you had to move about on a grid, you had to get food and depending on what dino you picked also had to avoid getting eaten.

It had literally no animations, the sprites just popped over from one square to the next.

I remember a few more games but I neither know the names nor can I tell when I played them.

[Klaxon]

Pong ? ,but it was upgraded for high performance graphic cards  (Tennis world cup or something like)

 

       this pic is from nintendo but i put it here for better imagination.

 

And I still remmeber my first game with sexual content. Friends atari x? ,dont remmeber which type. But this game was our favorite.

And because screenshot from this game is very spicy, I hide it in spoiler.

Spoiler

 

 

[Outlast1]

Outpost by Sierra back in the day that was one fun as hell game.

[GodSmack]

For me it was some harry potter game based on the sorcerers stone movie, I might have actually played it pasted the 25% if the game let my character walk forward

 

I think minesweeper and/or solitaire might have actually been first if they even count

[NickNozownik]

Something on Atari. That black box console thingy. I don't remember what game it was, but it sucked. Later on I got Amiga 500 and played Turrican or Lotus Turbo Challenge. Then I finally got a proper PC and played GTA 1 and HL 1. Half Life is still fun to play to this day, I don't know if there are any official servers online but Jumbot bots are working fine too.

 

There was also some Amiga 500 game where you can build airships or something, but I don't remember what it was.

[Molevalence]

Arthur teaches typing... >.>

[wokking56]

3 hours ago, NickNozownik said:

Something on Atari. That black box console thingy. I don't remember what game it was, but it sucked.

The big question being is which Atari system it was on.

The original 2600 was pretty damn good loads of game (many of them 3rd party). Sure the graphics back then sucked but the games were great.

The 5200 might be what you used. It had better graphics but next to no games and it was total shit.

The 7800 was for the time freaking awesome. The improved graphics of the 5200 a decent number of games and best of all backwards compatibility with the old 2600 games.

Then they tried a couple of Atari "computers" (commodore 64 ripoffs). Then they laid low for a few before attempting the Atari Jaguar (can't comment on this one I never even saw one). Heck did it even make it to market?

[Mexicola88]

Super Mario Bros. NES

[NickNozownik]

51 minutes ago, wokking56 said:

The big question being is which Atari system it was on.

It had very simple graphics and a shitload of games, no cartridges required, it was all pre installed or something. I googled it and it was Atari 2600. I remember it had some ET game that someone on YouTube reviewed as one of the shittiest games on Atari. It also had a boxing game that you could win by pressing joystick button as fast as humanly possible.

 

It sucked for me because I got it when games like GTA, Diablo 2 and Half Life were released. I didn't play it when it first came out. I also plugged it into some old TV that was flickering when it got heated up.

[wokking56]

When the 2600 was released back 1977 it was cutting edge (the best thing ever). However since you said the one you played had "no cartridges required, it was all pre installed or something." it must have been the Atari Flashback released 2004. Sure by that time it would have seemed pretty bad, hell I can't believe they had the nerve to install ET. That was a shitty game.

[RaTMan71]

Crash Bandicoot, or Pokemon Red, one or the other.

[Di3sIrae]

I can't even say exactly, because i vaguely remember sitting in my father's lap while he was playing games, and at that age i usually was pressing spacebar to open doors or do stuff in Duke Nukem, Doom, Blood... I really can't remember. Along with these games, i think ROTT, Carmageddon or even Raptor was the first i played alone. I started playing on PC before my father bought a Mega Drive. Whacky Wheels, Diablo, Outlaws, Hexen or Heretic... damn, i am lost in my memory trying to define the age i played these games lol

 

I was born in 1992 with a father that already had a PC and games, so it is difficult to recall.

[Nexussuckstwice]

Somewhere above someone claimed that 40s were "rather repressed" just like 50s. Excuse me, its hardly so.

McCarthyism of the 50s exactly the moment when repressions started, while 40s actually proved to be different - just look at "nose art" - pictures on US war era aircraft's, usually in pin-up style, many of them pretty explicit and has no concern about nudity.

That been said, recently US fighter pilot painted perfect dick in the sky over the city, which is in my eyes only improved image of the Navy (it was naval pilot as far as I know). Its big FAQ U to all those OMGoutraged moms, SJWs and Christian cuckservatives with their false morality.

Modern puritanism purely artificial and forced upon society just like it was in the 50s.

 

But back to topic:

It's hard to tell now which game exactly was my First Time. First computer I've seen was ZX Spectrum after all. One where you had to use a screwdriver to control loading of the game from an audiotape in a tape recorder connected to the computer. It made those unforgettable sounds during loading, similar to modem sounds. The computer itself looked like a keyboard or lower half of a laptop (without its screen). And all of this connected to a TV, naturally.

Damn, I've seen the Dawn of en Era.

 

One thing haven't changed though: at school I used to skip gym class to play Abrams Battle  Tank (not the first, but memorable)

 

 

Playing together with some other kid as a crew, shooting Russians on the green plains of Europe.

Today people still playing tanks. And green plains of Europe once again need protection from Russians.

 

If you ask me now - I'd rather see kids playing perverted adult sex porn fucking simulators. Nowadays men playing tanks disgust me. I have grown up - they don't.

[ijakor]

Roland on the Ropes on amstrad cpc 64 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amstrad_CPC

 

omg i still have this comuter.

[flatliner10]

I remember playing Pong or one of its clones on a Weird console with a bunch of switches and sliders as a guests.

Played Asteroids on a arcade Machine in a Pizzeria.

Of course the usual "being invited to play Nintendo" some Mario Version if i remember correctly,

oh and "Summer Olympiade" on the Amiga i think, something called "Hexen" on a device i don't remember.

 

The first game i actually owned was "Gorf" a "Space Invaders" clone on a Cartridge for the C64, got both as a hand-me-down from relatives.

Was also the only "Program" i ever had for that old Breadbox, typing in simple Programs by Hand, every-time i want to use one, got silly quickly.

Parents weren't a fan of Computer Games or Home-Computers in General.

 

Eventually my Father bought a "Real Computer" a 286 with stunning 12 Mhz.

First Game i actually remember playing on it was "The Adventures of Captain Comic" You can play it today in your Browser >>HERE<<

 

Of course a lot of the usual stuff, "sharing" Software was common after all, anyone else remember making Hand-Drawn copies of "Copy-Protection-Sheets"? *lol*

 

First game i actually remember buying myself was "Star Trek: 25th Anniversary" on CD-ROM somewhere in early 90 i think.

Was a mix of point-n-click-Adventure and space-combat-simulator, and the first disappointment, for getting "Half-a-Game".

It simply ends in the Middle of a Mission, and you were supposed to buy the "Judgment Rites" extension - yeah i never did, or any other Star Trek Game for that matter.

 

Also remember avoiding anything "Midway Games", for mostly delivering games "Midway Done" with few exceptions.

[ToJKa]

On 6/7/2018 at 1:38 AM, winny257 said:

my first computer was a Commodore 64 with cassette drive from 1982. 

 

 

I had one of those too. Oh the pain of using the cassette drive. Thankfully also a floppy drive. That thing was bigger than some modern computers ?

 

And if you complain about loading times, back then it took so long that the loading graphics and musics had to be something special.

 

[grundor67]

Pong had to be the first game I ever played when it first came out...many....many moons ago. Then I remember getting "advanced" and having a computer system...the Commodor Vic-20. lol Loved games like Centipede, Defender, Space Invaders, Pole Position, Pitfall...the list goes on and on.

 

[khumak]

First computer game I can remember playing was Choplifter on a casette tape drive.

[SuperNixon]

The oldest I played was some rogue like with ascii characters. I vaguely remember some details but I don't really remember playing it too much. What I consider the first computer game I played was Elder Scrolls Arena. I found it a real challange making a character strong enough to punch the cell door open at the start rather than using the key. Also made sure to remember the cost of at least one spell to get past the annoying copy protection and not have to dig through stuff to find the manual. Usually God's Fire or Orc Strength. Then I found the spells for creating or deleting squares and things got... well let's just say *fun*. Also thought Argonians were some sort of undead race. Didn't really care to read the description at the time.

[TapSkeleton]

The Oregon Trail was the first computer game I ever played. 

[FauxFurry]

It is times like these when I wonder if any modern video game developer could actually pull off Infotainment successfully.