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Title: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: NonLiberalInOregon on January 24, 2013, 08:10:20 PM
Curious just how far back some of our Cave gamers go. What was the first video game you played, or the first video game you truly enjoyed.

I'll begin. The first game I played was 7 Cities of Gold on the Commodore 64. I enjoyed it alot!
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Chris_ on January 24, 2013, 08:12:13 PM
Probably 'COMBAT' on a friend's Atari 2300 2600. 

I never had any video game consoles growing up... my parents thought they were a waste of time and money.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Duke Nukum on January 24, 2013, 08:24:50 PM
It is hard to remember exactly. I remember playing some sort of home video game system that pre-dated the Atari VCS. I remember it had a yellow and black case and had pong and pong variants and all the games where hard wired in. I remember my one cousin was very fond of the squash game.

I also remember going to the bowling alley and playing a submarine game and a very primitive racing game and I do not remember the chronology.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Chris_ on January 24, 2013, 08:28:23 PM
It is hard to remember exactly. I remember playing some sort of home video game system that pre-dated the Atari VCS. I remember it had a yellow and black case and had pong and pong variants and all the games where hard wired in. I remember my one cousin was very fond of the squash game.
Sounds like you had a Magnavox Odyssey.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=3&c=1281
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: NonLiberalInOregon on January 24, 2013, 08:31:00 PM
a very primitive racing game and I do not remember the chronology.

Pole Position?

http://youtu.be/NUU_F9TvXco
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: BEG on January 24, 2013, 08:38:53 PM
I thought you really meant "date yourself" as in, a game where you date yourself. I was like "no way in hell I would date myself. I'm too much of a pain in the ass."
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Duke Nukum on January 24, 2013, 08:55:29 PM
Pole Position?

http://youtu.be/NUU_F9TvXco


No, it was way before Pole Position. It was all blocky and you saw the oval track from above. It might have had two steering wheels so you could race your friends but I could just be thinking of the home version of the game on the Odyssey2
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Duke Nukum on January 24, 2013, 08:56:42 PM
Sounds like you had a Magnavox Odyssey.

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=3&c=1281
I think that was it, although it was my cousin's game. What I remember as squash must have been smash.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: ColonelCarrots on January 24, 2013, 09:08:51 PM
Was either Age of Empires 1 or Warcraft 2. I was a little kid so I didn't know how to play them really.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Chris_ on January 24, 2013, 09:10:32 PM
Was either Age of Empires 1 or Warcraft 2. I was a little kid so I didn't know how to play them really.
I remember when games used to cost more than $60.  When was the last time anyone paid that much for a console or computer game?
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: IassaFTots on January 24, 2013, 09:17:26 PM
I had Intellivision, it sucked, so I played Galaga, Frogger, and Pacman at the convenience store at the end of my street.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: ColonelCarrots on January 24, 2013, 09:24:57 PM
I remember when games used to cost more than $60.  When was the last time anyone paid that much for a console or computer game?

Paid $80 for Starcraft 2 Collector's Edition
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Chris_ on January 24, 2013, 09:26:03 PM
They didn't have collector's editions in my day. :old:

I was flabbergasted to see a bin full of $20 computer games.  I guess labor is that cheap when you outsource it to places where they don't speak English or bathe regularly.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: BEG on January 24, 2013, 09:58:27 PM
The first video game we had was Pong in the mid 70's. Then we got an Atari. I laugh when I think of how clunkie it was.

(http://0.tqn.com/d/classicgames/1/0/-/H/-/-/Atari2600.jpg)

The first video games at an arcade I remember playing was Pacman, Asteroids, Space Invaders and I loved Centipede.  Asteroids made me feel anxious and stressed.   :p

 This was when I was around 14 or so. I have never been into video games much past my mid teens.  
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: ColonelCarrots on January 24, 2013, 10:18:51 PM
I can't remember what my first console was but it was either a N64 or a PS2
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Chris_ on January 24, 2013, 10:20:19 PM
I remember when the PS2 went on sale... the line to the store I worked at went all the way down the street and around the corner.

It was a madhouse.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: CG6468 on January 24, 2013, 11:17:09 PM
None.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: NonLiberalInOregon on January 24, 2013, 11:27:37 PM
Paid $80 for Starcraft 2 Collector's Edition

I paid $149.99 for Star Wars: The Old Republic Collectors Edition. It was a birthday present to myself that year.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: BEG on January 24, 2013, 11:29:28 PM
I can't remember what my first console was but it was either a N64 or a PS2

How old are you?  :panic:
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Firekrakka on January 24, 2013, 11:33:02 PM
Curious just how far back some of our Cave gamers go. What was the first video game you played, or the first video game you truly enjoyed.

I'll begin. The first game I played was 7 Cities of Gold on the Commodore 64. I enjoyed it alot!

You youngin!!!!

Mine was Atari 2600. See, dad was killed and it was all over the news. Mom thought it'd be a good diversion and safer at home during that time. We had games such as Air Sea Battle, Combat, Pac-Man, Missile Command. Asteroids, Backgammon, etc.
Title: Re: Re: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on January 24, 2013, 11:36:30 PM
How old are you?  :panic:

No kidding!!!

I remember playing PONG at a neighbors house when I was 7 or 8.  My parents used to drag me to the bar with them & I learned to play Pacman until the Atari came out.  That was a pale substitute to the bar version.
Title: Re: Re: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: BEG on January 24, 2013, 11:43:37 PM
No kidding!!!

I remember playing PONG at a neighbors house when I was 7 or 8.  My parents used to drag me to the bar with them & I learned to play Pacman until the Atari came out.  That was a pale substitute to the bar version.

You should probably be a DUer because of that.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: BEG on January 24, 2013, 11:44:02 PM
You youngin!!!!

Mine was Atari 2600. See, dad was killed and it was all over the news. Mom thought it'd be a good diversion and safer at home during that time. We had games such as Air Sea Battle, Combat, Pac-Man, Missile Command. Asteroids, Backgammon, etc.

...and you too!
Title: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Ralph Wiggum on January 24, 2013, 11:45:41 PM
You should probably be a DUer because of that.

But at least I didn't turn out to be one! :P
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Skul on January 24, 2013, 11:48:14 PM
On an Apple ll something.
There was a fly to the planets game. Kind of point in a direction, enter a time or somehting and hit go.
Made lots of booping noise.
If close, you could sort of pan around and find the planet.
Then you ha dot land.
Early 1980's
In the early 70's, there was a "program" that was related to the moon landing. It was on a hand-held calculator.
I remember that distinctly.

Edit, mid seventies.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: franksolich on January 25, 2013, 12:11:21 AM
"Strategic Conquest."

I remember it well; became addicted to it.

On a Macintosh, 3.5" disc, black-and-white.

Nothing as good as it since then.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Mike220 on January 25, 2013, 12:27:24 AM
Super Mario Brothers on the original NES around 88-89.
Title: Re: Re: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: NonLiberalInOregon on January 25, 2013, 01:28:13 AM
No kidding!!!

I remember playing PONG at a neighbors house when I was 7 or 8.  My parents used to drag me to the bar with them & I learned to play Pacman until the Atari came out.  That was a pale substitute to the bar version.

My folks had the Colecovision knockoff of PONG that hooked up to the TV. Played that quite a bit in the early 80's.

At home was the Commodore 64, at school was the Apple (Oregon Trail, Number Crunchers, Carmen Sandiego) and around 1989 I got my first real PC, it was a 386.

Miss the good old days of the original Warcraft: Orcs vs Humans, Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Linx 386, etc.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Johnny Yuma on January 25, 2013, 02:22:01 AM
PONG , Baby !!    :panic:

(http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/095/176709-450-552.jpg)

And , yes , we were even black & white back then ....


Boop ..... Boop ..... Boop ....
then , speed it up

Boop .. Boop .. Boop ..

(http://computermuseum.50megs.com/images/collection/ponganim.gif)
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: NHSparky on January 25, 2013, 05:40:14 AM
Computer game or video game?

Computer game was a TRS-80 game based on Star Wars.  Incredibly simple (had to be to play it on a 4K machine.)

By the time I hit HS in the early 80's and had a job, my extra quarters (lots of them) went to Tempest.  Got to level 80.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: ColonelCarrots on January 25, 2013, 06:10:01 AM
How old are you?  :panic:
20, but I'll be 21 this year.

Sweeeet.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: JohnnyReb on January 25, 2013, 07:30:37 AM
They didn't have them when I was young.....pinball machine was the closest thing we had to a video game.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: BEG on January 25, 2013, 09:23:13 AM
20, but I'll be 21 this year.

Sweeeet.

I have a 23 year old son and a 19 year old daughter (as well as a soon to be 14 year old daughter).  Why do you want me to feel old?  :bawl:
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Johnny Yuma on January 25, 2013, 09:47:50 AM
I have a 23 year old son and a 19 year old daughter (as well as a soon to be 14 year old daughter).  Why do you want me to feel old?  :bawl:

Old ? I have daughters 24  21 , 18 and a 6 yr old son  ...  a 6 ??  How'd that happen ?   :whistling:

Guess nobody ever explained where they come from ....   :rotf:      :naughty:
Title: Re: Re: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Firekrakka on January 25, 2013, 11:11:45 AM
My folks had the Colecovision knockoff of PONG that hooked up to the TV. Played that quite a bit in the early 80's.


We did too.

Quote
At home was the Commodore 64, at school was the Apple (Oregon Trail, Number Crunchers, Carmen Sandiego) and around 1989 I got my first real PC, it was a 386.

I still have my 64. And yes Carmen Sandiego was a blast. Remember Lode Runner and Prince of Persia?  :-)

[youtube=425,350]http://youtu.be/fggouSd3dr4[/youtube]
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: jtyangel on January 25, 2013, 11:21:41 AM
But at least I didn't turn out to be one! :P
You are accounting minded. There's something naturally wired in our brains to resist liberal bullshit. You, beg, and I are contemporaries and I echo those gaming experiences. I really don't like video Games now unless the kinect is involved and ican move. I sit on the ass for work and school; I just can't do it on my off time.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: thundley4 on January 25, 2013, 11:40:02 AM
No mention of Dragon's Lair?  Wasn't it one of the first character type video games?
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Wineslob on January 25, 2013, 02:18:37 PM
20, but I'll be 21 this year.

Sweeeet.


Watch out, she's a Cougar........ :-)

First console was the Atari, I played the crap out of (can't remember the game) a game where you found keys and avoided the dragon.

Coin op: Battle Zone. I NEVER saw any one beat my high score on the machine I played. It was in the millions.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: ColonelCarrots on January 25, 2013, 02:35:17 PM

Watch out, she's a Cougar........ :-)


Not necessarily a bad thing.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: thundley4 on January 25, 2013, 03:17:11 PM
Not necessarily a bad thing.

No, but a panther would be, especially an underground one.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Chris_ on January 25, 2013, 09:58:50 PM
heh.

[youtube=425,350]xmnlkLc1Foc[/youtube]
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: tac on January 25, 2013, 10:10:18 PM
PONG , Baby !!    :panic:

(http://fast.mediamatic.nl/f/sjnh/image/095/176709-450-552.jpg)

And , yes , we were even black & white back then ....


Boop ..... Boop ..... Boop ....
then , speed it up

Boop .. Boop .. Boop ..

(http://computermuseum.50megs.com/images/collection/ponganim.gif)

Me too. Then moved on to the Commodore 64 and a few games like Impossible Mission.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: RightCoast on January 25, 2013, 10:16:31 PM
Combat was the first Atari game I ever played but it was a bit old when I got it.  Chopper Command & River Raid were sooooooo much more advanced...
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Maxiest on January 25, 2013, 11:58:19 PM
I of course played Atari's and the first Nintendo's.  I have always been very into video games, I am not sure why I am sure there is some phsycological explination.

But it was computer games that drew me further into video games.  My first and most enjoyable game.

King's Quest.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Quest

(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f2/Kings_Quest_Tandy.png)

14 years later in 1998 there last title:  King's Quest: Mask of Eternity

Wow, what a difference 14 years made.

(http://theisozone.com/images/screens/pc-44229-41337660784.jpg)
Title: Re: Re: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: NonLiberalInOregon on January 26, 2013, 01:24:35 AM


We did too.

I still have my 64. And yes Carmen Sandiego was a blast. Remember Lode Runner and Prince of Persia?  :-)

[youtube=425,350]http://youtu.be/fggouSd3dr4[/youtube]

Oh yes, I certainly do.

Oh, and one of my all time favorites...Dig Dug! I LOVED that game!
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Firekrakka on January 26, 2013, 01:28:31 AM
I can't believe I forgot Dig Dug. I guess I played more games than I remembered.  :thatsright:
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: ExGeeEye on January 26, 2013, 02:03:08 AM
Pong.  In black and white.  For a quarter a go.  At the entrance to a Sears, there being no "video arcades" yet.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Justaguy on January 26, 2013, 02:39:53 AM
Pong in the Student Center at the local University.  It was like... only the coolest thing EVER!!! Well... at least at that time.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: seahorse513 on January 26, 2013, 08:50:09 AM
asteroids, pacman, mrs pacman....
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: BigTex on January 26, 2013, 10:41:38 PM
I remember when games used to cost more than $60.  When was the last time anyone paid that much for a console or computer game?

When was that? NES games cost $50, admittedly thats about $100 in todays prices, but games NES through xbox/ps2 were always $50 then in next gen they jumped up to $60
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Chris_ on January 27, 2013, 01:42:41 AM
When was that? NES games cost $50, admittedly thats about $100 in todays prices, but games NES through xbox/ps2 were always $50 then in next gen they jumped up to $60
My first computer was an IBM.  About the only place you could buy games for it was Radio Shack, and they were about $60-75, and stayed that way until an Electronics Boutique showed up at the local mall selling PC games for under $55.  It was a godsend.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: BigTex on January 27, 2013, 03:23:36 AM
My first computer was an IBM.  About the only place you could buy games for it was Radio Shack, and they were about $60-75, and stayed that way until an Electronics Boutique showed up at the local mall selling PC games for under $55.  It was a godsend.

When I was a kid we had an IBM 286 but I was to young to remember how much the games cost
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: ColonelCarrots on January 27, 2013, 07:48:33 AM
My favorite game on N64 was conker's bad fur day.

[youtube=425,350]0w5neFPat1w[/youtube]
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: seahorse513 on January 27, 2013, 08:03:12 AM
The family's first computer was the TRS80 from Radio Shack.Than thing was so heavy to lift, and slower than shit. no internet back then :old:
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Alpha Mare on January 27, 2013, 08:48:32 AM
Pong, in the bars. First console was N64. I got everybody hooked on golf. My sister-in-law called at 2 am cussing me out because she was trying to sleep & she kept hearing the "WEEEOOOOOO" sound every time my brother hit the ball. O-)
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: txradioguy on January 27, 2013, 08:55:23 AM
Played Pong and Asteroids at the mall.

Also played this classic at the local Pizza place in Amarillo:

(http://media.industrygamers.com/editorial/2011/09/Atari%20Football%20Screen%201.jpg)
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: txradioguy on January 29, 2013, 05:11:51 AM
I had Intellivision, it sucked, so I played Galaga, Frogger, and Pacman at the convenience store at the end of my street.

At one point Intellivision had the best baseball and football games of any console.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: IassaFTots on January 29, 2013, 10:41:01 AM
At one point Intellivision had the best baseball and football games of any console.

So my brother said.   :mad:
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: JohnnyReb on January 29, 2013, 10:59:18 AM
Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed ....HELL NO! I wouldn't go out with me if I were the last person on earth.

Just remembered, I did play Donkey Kong.....when no one was around. Hey, it looked funny for a 35+ year old man to be playing Donkey Kong.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Eupher on January 29, 2013, 11:21:14 AM
I had Intellivision, it sucked, so I played Galaga, Frogger, and Pacman at the convenience store at the end of my street.

Yeah, I didn't use a computer for games at all. Still don't, though I'd dabbled in it a few times. What I remember were the plug-in-a-quarter video games from the early 80's. Donkey Kong was a fave. Didn't care much for Pacman or any of the shooting-type vids.

Didn't do Asteroids that much either - just often enough to know I didn't like it.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Dacabeti on January 29, 2013, 01:55:22 PM
My first was a Atari 5200 Consul. I owned at Punch Out.

My first "computer" was a Commodore 64 that I stole from a garage with "tape drive". I had to write my own games. I taught myself basic.

In High School my step father (#3 I think) worked for Apple writing Tech Manuals so he brought home a Macintosh IIE with Hunt for Red October on it. I played it so much at 15 he got me a summer job at Apple testing Video games.

I didnt get another computer or gaming consul until after I ETS'd from the Army. It was a Sega, every Saturday night friends would come over and we would have a Madden tournament.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: BlueStateSaint on January 29, 2013, 02:00:56 PM
A neighbor had one of the original Ataris that played Pong.  We got a 2600 a couple of years later.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Conservative Libertarian on January 30, 2013, 07:15:42 PM
Pong.

It was only available at $0.25 at a time on a stand up arcade machine.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Conservative Libertarian on January 30, 2013, 07:19:43 PM
My first computer was an Atari 400. It was a glorified Atari 2600 game machine with a pressure pad keyboard and a cassette tape drive. It only had 16K of RAM.

My favorite game on it was Gateway to Apshai. It was a dungeon crawler game.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: rich_t on January 30, 2013, 07:22:49 PM
My first computer was an Atari 400. It was a glorified Atari 2600 game machine with a pressure pad keyboard and a cassette tape drive. It only had 16K of RAM.

My favorite game on it was Gateway to Apshai. It was a dungeon crawler game.

Mine was a Vic-20
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: MOKOFACE on January 30, 2013, 07:28:31 PM
Pong on a Texas Instruments TI-99 . Just checked ,and boy those sure have depreciated . Mom should have bought machine guns instead . Live and learn .
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Conservative Libertarian on January 30, 2013, 07:29:42 PM
Mine was a Vic-20

If I remember correctly, it had a whopping 5K of RAM...much like a TI-99.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Conservative Libertarian on January 30, 2013, 07:31:51 PM
Pong on a Texas Instruments TI-99 . Just checked ,and boy those sure have depreciated . Mom should have bought machine guns instead . Live and learn .

You'd be surprized. If you have one of those whole systems that is intact and still works, there are collectors that would pay more than what they are really worth. It's a nostalgia thang.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: rich_t on January 30, 2013, 07:45:50 PM
If I remember correctly, it had a whopping 5K of RAM...much like a TI-99.

4K and a cassette tape drive.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Conservative Libertarian on January 30, 2013, 07:47:44 PM
4K and a cassette tape drive.

Who would ever need more memory than that? :-)
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Wineslob on January 31, 2013, 04:13:15 PM
I also played the crap out of Doom.

Amazing that we have gone from this:

(http://www.thegamingliberty.com/wp-content/uploads/doom2-Classic.jpg)


To this:

(http://mmofallout.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/screenshot0004.jpg)

To this:

(http://0.tqn.com/d/internetgames/1/0/Z/g/rift01.jpg)
Title: Re: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Jmartin on January 31, 2013, 05:01:39 PM
Mario Kart, and then NASCAR 2000 a few years later. My love racing games has never let up. About the only game I play on my computer now is a racing sim called Iracing.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Conservative Libertarian on January 31, 2013, 05:08:32 PM
Since Gateway tio Apshai, I have been into dungeon crawlers. I like all of the Dialblo games.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Chris_ on January 31, 2013, 05:50:38 PM
Since Gateway tio Apshai, I have been into dungeon crawlers. I like all of the Dialblo games.
I like Nethack.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Conservative Libertarian on January 31, 2013, 05:54:20 PM
I like Nethack.

Never heard of it.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Chris_ on January 31, 2013, 06:02:29 PM
It's an old text-format dungeon game.

(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/UnNetHack_zpsafac338b.png)

Title: Re: Re: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Jmartin on January 31, 2013, 06:06:22 PM
I also played the crap out of Doom.

Amazing that we have gone from this:

(http://www.thegamingliberty.com/wp-content/uploads/doom2-Classic.jpg)


To this:

(http://mmofallout.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/screenshot0004.jpg)

To this:

(http://0.tqn.com/d/internetgames/1/0/Z/g/rift01.jpg)

Just wait till it becomes practical to unleash the full potential of 64 bit. You will have the equivalent of what is considered a supercomputer now on your desktop. We are aren't even taping 64 bit at 1% of its full potential. Just imagine the kind a graphics you could get with 1 Petabyte  Videocard and a total of 32 Petabytes of system memory, and only time will tell if processors will ever be capable of going past 4ghz without burning up.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Conservative Libertarian on January 31, 2013, 06:17:24 PM
It's an old text-format dungeon game.

(http://i237.photobucket.com/albums/ff68/kayaktn/UnNetHack_zpsafac338b.png)



Ah, now I rememebr. I never played it but, I do remember reading about it.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Chris_ on January 31, 2013, 06:19:13 PM
It was fun, but a good way to wear out the spacebar on your keyboard.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Zathras on February 04, 2013, 12:47:07 AM
I also played the crap out of Doom.

Amazing that we have gone from this:

(http://www.thegamingliberty.com/wp-content/uploads/doom2-Classic.jpg)


To this:

(http://mmofallout.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/screenshot0004.jpg)

To this:

(http://0.tqn.com/d/internetgames/1/0/Z/g/rift01.jpg)

And in 9 days we get this.....

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjY7yFMEk-c[/youtube]

And in the fall of this year.....

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smJAiOFM2AY[/youtube]
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Eupher on February 04, 2013, 10:08:49 AM
Just on a lark, I picked up a copy of "Max Payne", an FPS game, a few days ago - $30 at Wal-mart.

Back in the day I spent a fair number of hours playing Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. This FPS is whoa, way mo betta.

But I honestly can't play these games the way I used to any more. Too much going on.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: debk on February 04, 2013, 10:23:46 AM
I remember playing on a pinball machine in 8th grade....

First time I played PacMan was probably in a bar...when I was old enough to get into one and legally buy a drink....    :thatsright:
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Maxiest on February 04, 2013, 10:43:23 AM
Just on a lark, I picked up a copy of "Max Payne", an FPS game, a few days ago - $30 at Wal-mart.

Back in the day I spent a fair number of hours playing Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. This FPS is whoa, way mo betta.

But I honestly can't play these games the way I used to any more. Too much going on.

The newest Max Payne?

I didn't like it.  Got it for my 360 and it wasn't as near as good as the old ones I used to play on PC.  Or maybe I am getting older.
Title: Re: Date yourself: The first video game you played/enjoyed
Post by: Eupher on February 04, 2013, 11:38:43 AM
The newest Max Payne?

I didn't like it.  Got it for my 360 and it wasn't as near as good as the old ones I used to play on PC.  Or maybe I am getting older.

I guess it's the new one. Max Payne 3 is on the box. For PC. I don't have an X-box or Wii or any of that kind of thing. If it can't be done on the computer, it ain't worth my time. I ain't buying another damned box to play a video game.  :-)