Can't remember which game was first, but this would have been the first thing I got my little tiny hands on in the early 80's:
What was your first video game?
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My dad bought my an N64 when I was five and got me Mario Kart. So there's your answer.
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Probably Combat that came with the Atari 2600 console. Combat actually was many games in one, although many just a variation of each other.
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I believe this is the one. Played Sea Battle. Might have been the first proper video game I played.Can't remember which game was first, but this would have been the first thing I got my little tiny hands on in the early 80's:
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Amazing game. My team lead in Afghanistan introduced me to it and I had a blast with it. Of course, my favorite part was that it was available for free legally.
Nomad (space game), for the Amstrad.
Link to video.
Man, those games were bleak... The sound effects are ludicrous
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Scorched Earth on the Tandy-1000SL
One of the first was a Soviet clone of Boulder Dash, for БК-0010.
Like this one, just in black and white:
Later, one of notable games was Heroes of Might and Magic. HoMM (until it was corrupted by Ubisoft), for some mysterious reasons was immensely popular in former USSR. More than anywhere else.
Like this one, just in black and white:
Later, one of notable games was Heroes of Might and Magic. HoMM (until it was corrupted by Ubisoft), for some mysterious reasons was immensely popular in former USSR. More than anywhere else.
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Pah -- you kids, what are you like?
The first game I remember playing (aged 7 or so, in the very early 80s) was a Pong-like on a BBC micro that my mum had borrowed from work (at her school). There was a game called Space Snake(?) on my primary school classroom comp (a Vic 20?) in 1984-ish. And both loaded from cassette tapes! A couple of schoolfriends got Commodore 64s that year...
First game I remember playing obsessively to try and beat it (on a newer BBC micro, with a 5.25" disk drive) was Chuckie Egg -- I remember getting as far as level 32 once, but I never completed it, so I never learned if it got even more insane, or if that was the last level...
Oh, and Stryker's Run II (I played the first one later, but found it much less compelling).
EDIT: Just noticed that this is actually a 2-year old thread re-activated by a bump
Well like I said,
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I think my first PC game was Horace goes Skiing, which came free in a cassette along the ZX Spectrum+ 48k:
That was back in 1984-85 or so.
Before it there were some horrible tennis and gun games in an Atari console we had at home and some cool arcade games like Space Invaders or Phoenix. That was maybe in the early 80. My first memories are me standing on a stool playing Phoenix at some bar along my older brother. 25 pesetas a game:
Ahhh, those were the times...
That was back in 1984-85 or so.
Before it there were some horrible tennis and gun games in an Atari console we had at home and some cool arcade games like Space Invaders or Phoenix. That was maybe in the early 80. My first memories are me standing on a stool playing Phoenix at some bar along my older brother. 25 pesetas a game:
Ahhh, those were the times...
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If you are going to go down the TV connection route, then i would have to say Winky Dink and You was my first.Thinking about it again... I think the first video game I actually played was TV Pow!. I won a contest to get the play the game through my local radio station.
You played the game on your television by yelling "Pow!" over the phone when the alien ships flew into the target on your screen. There was a split screen on your TV, for your target, and your opponent's target. When you yelled "Pow!" a lazer would shoot at the target. Whoever hit the most alien ships won.
I had been watching people play for weeks (they would air the matches during commercial breaks on afterschool cartoons) so I had figured out that all I had to do to win was just keep yelling Pow continuously, as there was no limit to how many times you could shoot. Other kids waited to "catch" the ship in the crosshairs before yelling Pow, but I realized there was a lag which caused them to usually miss. So I just yelled Pow non-stop and hit most of the targets
So anyway I won obviously and my prize was a miniature "Galaga" cabinet game. This was the first thing in my life I ever "won" and it was awesome!
If we limit video games to those played on a home computer, my son and I began exploring those in the mid 80s with things like Moraff''s Revenge.
Wow you are really, really... ahem... wiseIf you are going to go down the TV connection route, then i would have to say Winky Dink and You was my first.
If we limit video games to those played on a home computer, my son and I began exploring those in the mid 80s with things like Moraff''s Revenge.
So did you have the special screen attachment or were you one of those naughty children that drew directly on the TV screen?
I think my first PC game was Horace goes Skiing, which came free in a cassette along the ZX Spectrum+ 48k:
That was back in 1984-85 or so.
Before it there were some horrible tennis and gun games in an Atari console we had at home and some cool arcade games like Space Invaders or Phoenix. That was maybe in the early 80. My first memories are me standing on a stool playing Phoenix at some bar along my older brother. 25 pesetas a game:
Ahhh, those were the times...
I remember that space coin-op! (Phoenix)
The thing inside the ship was its queen, iirc, and you had to shoot off enough pieces to get to it
