First video game

[ThinkPad]

I was browsing around and came across this. I played these games on our first computer ever, the one that required booting via 5.2" floppies dont remember the specs. I do remember spending countless hours on this game

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger%2C_Computer_Game
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Cat

[tfflivemb2]

These were the first two that I remember playing on my Commodore 64, from floppies:

1. Wizard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wizard_%28computer_game%29

2. Loderunner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loderunner

I used to spend hours on these games. On Wizard, I ruined it when I got to the point that you could create your own levels and modify existing levels.

[JHEM]

These were the first two that I remember playing on my Commodore 64, from floppies:

For me it was Zork!

Who can forget: "You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door."

"There is a small mailbox here."

I loved this game and spent innumerable hours charting the "Great Underground Empire", including sitting at my drafting table and drawing it out in 3D. I think what I enjoyed the most was that you had to THINK to win, not swing a sword or jump over alligators.

That and the rather esoteric solutions to the riddles (e.g. Bell, Book and Candle for the exorcism) that drew on one's literary storehouse. I went on to Zork II and III, but they never had the same attraction for me that the original game did.

Regards,

James

[ThinkPad]

2. Loderunner
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loderunner

Ahh yes, good ol loderunner. That game was a classic.

[christopher_wolf]

I remember Zork; oldie but a classic!

I still play MUDs very similar to Zork; Discworld, etc.

I also remember the original Wolfenstein, before 3D or any of that.

In fact, here are some good sites if you want to pick up such titles and play them today.


http://www.the-underdogs.info/

and

http://www.abandonia.com/index2.php

There are some really good titles there too.

[Toine]

Mine was Grand Prix, but the version where you could race three cars. And your computer screen was black and green. I can't seem to find an emulator who has this game. Really weird.

[AlphaKilo470]

First game I played was some sort of spelling game that I can't remember much of. The first game that I can remember the name of is Math Blaster on the Apple II.

[christopher_wolf]

First game I played was some sort of spelling game that I can't remember much of. The first game that I can remember the name of is Math Blaster on the Apple II.

I think I had that spelling game too but I can't remember much about it; it had a guy in a coat and hat, and various "opponents" right?

I played it on my 16MHz IBM PC along with MathBlaster.

[AlphaKilo470]

I think you managed to hit the nail on the head with that spelling game. I can't remember the name but I remember playing it on my dad's 286 back when the 286 was still considered "muscle."

As for Math Blaster, I was the wiz with that game. In my old elementary school that had more Apple IIe Platinums than you;d ever want to imagine, I spent countless hours playing that game. A good while later I had my dad get me the Windows version of Match Blaster which I really spent some time on but none the less, it wasn't the same as playing on an Apple II.

[GomJabbar]

I think I had that spelling game too but I can't remember much about it; it had a guy in a coat and hat, and various "opponents" right?

You guys aren't talking about Hangman are you?

An old DOS spelling program I downloaded ages ago off of a BBS.


EDIT: A couple of other games I downloaded included Superfly and Bananoid.

For Superfly, there is a swarm of flies that enters a house, and you are given a fly swatter. At first there are only a couple of flies. But everytime you swat and kill one, two take its place. When the flies surround you on all sides, you are dead. The object is to kill as many flies as possible before you die.

Bananoid was a pong-type game where you move the paddle so that the ball hits it every time it comes to the bottom of the screen.

Pacman was a very popular arcade game, and there was very another popular one, I think it was called Space Wars.

[bill bolton]

Who can forget: "You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door."

Zork! A mere impudent late comer! A real Adventure goes like this....

"Your lamp is now on. You are in a debris room filled with stuff washed in from the surface. A low wide passage with cobbles becomes plugged with mud and debris here, but an awkward canyon leads upward and west. A note on the wall says:

Magic Word 'XYZZY'

A three foot black rod with a rusty star on an end lies nearby."

Cheers,

Bill

[bhtooefr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raster_Blaster

Granted, when your floppy disk looked about 10 years old (in 1991), and had been exposed... getting a good boot was VERY difficult.