What was the first computer game you ever played?

[adsr]

Monty Mole on the C64

I miss the little rodent. And cant find a decent C64 emulated version, only the Spectrums which was completely different.

 

[YouSir]

Mario Bros on the NES, perhaps, but probably Tetris on the aul' grey brick Gameboy. On the PC though, Rogue, which gave my first computer 10 viruses, or rather, the same virus, 10 times, because I never did learn my lesson about not-reinstalling it.

 

[KeyboardJockey]

Pong in a motorway service station.
I remember being blown away by Space Invaders and Galaxian annd most addictively Defender.

Would love to find a linux version of Moon Buggy and Defender.

 

[Structaural]

3D Maze on Research Machines 480Z (CP/M). I was well impressed.

On my own computer I think I typed my first game in, it was so shit I can't remember it.

 

[Iam]

I'm sure I'd played others before, but the first one that really stands out in my memory is Match Point on the Spectrum.

Best. Tennis. Ever.

 

[gnoriac]

Adventure on a PDP-11.

E2A 30 years ago!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

Pretty sure mine was pong on a grandstand.

 

[MooChild]

Think its another Chuckie Egg here.

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

This thread is making me feel old.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Wow, this is going back into the mists of time! Tbh can't exactly remember, think it was either Pong or Space Invaders...

 

[fen_boy]

I think it was probably pong, but I can't really remember, the games I remember most are

'The Ultra' on the oric 1

'Scramble' arcade

and Bezerk on one of the Atari consoles

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Pong in a motorway service station.
I remember being blown away by Space Invaders and Galaxian annd most addictively Defender.

Would love to find a linux version of Moon Buggy and Defender.

Linux version of MAME works fine....

 

[mrsfran]

Asteroids on the Spectrum. And that skateboarding one where you had to chuck newspapers at people.

 

[fen_boy]

And that skateboarding one where you had to chuck newspapers at people.

You're mixing up 2 games there 720 (degrees) and paperboy - they both had that sort of isometric 3d view point.

 

[Dimension Line]

I can't remember exactly, but it was probably either Centipede, Pac Man or Donkey Kong on arcade.

 

[marty21]

Pong in a motorway service station.
I remember being blown away by Space Invaders and Galaxian annd most addictively Defender.

Would love to find a linux version of Moon Buggy and Defender.

played galaxian and defender, but never got on with them, always went back to space invaders, and also asteroids

 

[Giles]

mine was a pong type game plugged into the tv in the late 70s
with two controller nobs that you turned.
it was in colour
and had tennis (green), squash(red) and football (blue)
really great and made a lovely PONG sound when you hit the ball

I think my folks got us one of those when I was really little. It didn't really have a brand name on it - I think it came from the TV rental shop.

Giles..

 

[Giles]

Defender was one of the first actual arcade games I remember.

I liked it so much I have recently bought a "table top" Defender game. All I need to do now is fix it up a little....

Giles..

 

[paolo]

Think its another Chuckie Egg here.

My mate Nig wrote the original (Spectrum) version. My claim to fame is cowriting speccy Bomb Jack amongst other stuff.

 

[marty21]

Defender was one of the first actual arcade games I remember.

I liked it so much I have recently bought a "table top" Defender game. All I need to do now is fix it up a little....

Giles..

is that one of the ones they used to have in pubs? you could rest your pint and play a game of space invaders or pacman

 

[lobster]

generic Pong console on TV in the late 70s too, then we had an Apple ][ at secondary school. I ended up typing in most games myself from mags. That's how I taught myself basic, then 6502 assembler. The skills learnt were a perfect defence to calls of wasting time by parents and teachers. I spent 10 years as a code monkey so I was was on the right track after all

the nes used the 6502 chip, all the games were coded in asm, i believe sega mega drive too, but on a different chip (16-bit Motorola 68000) .

Its quite amazing really how times have changed, nobody would dare write quake 4 for instance in asm...

 

[lobster]

Adventure on a PDP-11.

E2A 30 years ago!

now thats something

 

[Giles]

is that one of the ones they used to have in pubs? you could rest your pint and play a game of space invaders or pacman

Exactly!

Giles..

 

[Dai Sheep]

River Raid on the C64...great game!!

 

[mrsfran]

You're mixing up 2 games there 720 (degrees) and paperboy - they both had that sort of isometric 3d view point.

Really? I could've sworn the paperboy was on a skateboard.

Also, I used to play this game where you got spells and used them on others. There were wizards involved. It was very basic. Anyone got a clue what I'm on about?

 

[fen_boy]

Paperboy

720

 

[mrsfran]

Huh. 720 doesn't look familiar to me, so I must've just added in that skateboard from nowhere.

 

[Lazy Llama]

I think the first game I played was Pong on a ferry going across the Humber in the '70's.

Then we got one of those home console ones with Pong, Squash (like Pong but both bats at the bottom) and Football (Pong with multiple bats, a bit like table football).

 

[Lazy Llama]

And the first games I played on my home computer were from ICL's Super Programs 4 for the ZX81.

Great games like "The Invisible Invader" (you had to guess where the space invader was on the screen!), and Down Under with the jumping "J" and the blocky kangaroo.

Hours of entertainment, or rather hours spent trying to get them to load off cassette only to find that calculating petrol usage wasn't actually much fun.

 

[mr steev]

I remember playing my first arcade video game quite vividly. It was in the late 70's, in a whitewashed family room of a pub called 'The Bucket of Blood' whilst on holiday in Cornwall. 2 player only (me and my uncle), 10p a go, for which you got 5 'races' of moving a big block left, right and up, avoiding little blocks. First to the top was the winner... wohoo
My first console game was a Grandstand game... with paddles and various lines to give football, hockey, tennis, squash, basketball etc (which were all basically the same game, just different sized gaps)
I rememeber being dead jealous of a kid on my road who had an atari 'teak affect' console with invisible space invaders!