Your first computer game?

[Paladin]

My first store bought computer game was a Space Invaders-type game called Sneakers for the Apple II. It came on an audio cassette... this was before disk drives, when Apple software was on audio cassettes and you had to hook up a cassette recorder to the computer to load and save files.

Anyway, with my "new" Apple II GS running, I decided to look up Sneakers and see if I could find a screenshot or picture of the package (the package was a plastic bag, with a paper manual and the cassette... the manual did have a drawing of some Sneaker-wearing aliens on it though). What I did turn up was in interview (http://www.gaming-age.com/cgi-bin/specials/special.pl?spec=markturmell&pagenum=1) with the programmer of Sneakers, Mark Turmell. He is, 25 years since Sneakers came out, still making games as a designer for Midway. It's an interesting read.

So, what title popped your computer gaming cherry?

[Creole Ned]

My first computer was an Atari 400 bought back in 1982. I don't remember which game was the first I got for it. It may have been Pacman or Missile Command. I only had a handful for the 400, all on cartridge. The only others I recall were Star Raiders and Miner 2049er, but neither of those were early purchases.

I do remember the first game I got for my next computer, the Commodore 64. That was Lode Runner, the first game I bought on floppy disk. It seemed very futuristic at the time.

[Sir Lucius]

If it wasn't combat for the atari it was Karateka (http://www.c64gg.com/Gameinfo/Karateka.html)

[Kermit]

Other than the Atari 2600 with Pac Man, Asteroids, and a "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron" game, my first actaul computer was my father's Tandy 200
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:WGYRccBwgo4I6M:http://www.abc80.net/pics/trs_tandy_200_open_2.jpg

It had all sorts of crappy little games on it. I loved it when I was a kid.

The first full IMB style PC game I had was one of the kings quest games.

[Fitty]

I think the first game for me was Fahrenheit 451 for the C64

[Tai]

My first computer was a C64 with the external tape drive. I can't say for sure which was the first game I bought for it - I believe I had a tape with multiple games on it. The ones I remember most clearly are Blue Max and Commando.

Hehe, I had to go find a screenshot:

http://www.againsttheherd.com/images/c64_0002_07.png

[Postal]

I actually had one of those pong game systems. You could even play tennis and other games on it too. Hmm I may still have it in my Mom's basement.

[briggsb]

My first video game was the Telstar Ranger system...

http://www.pong-story.com/coleco_ranger.htm

My first computer game was probably a UFO game on a TRS-80 Model 3 computer system.

Man, I'm old.

[Fitty]

I did not mention the Pong game I have since my father purchased it before I was born.

I still have it and my Intellivision. :)

[Paladin]

Yeah, I was really trying to get people to name thier first "computer" game, not video game. But whatever. I know many people started with video game systems before they got a real computer.

[armerius]

combat on the 2600

[Circuit]

My family's first computer was a Tandy 1000 HX. They got several games with it and I think the first one I played was King's Quest, but I remember playing the crap out of a little ASCII game called Sleuth.

My first video game experience Frogger on the neighbors' Atari, although I was too young to know which Atari it was or even that there were more than one. This was probably around 1979 or so. My other neighbor had a Calecovision, which was like the wave of the future. I befriended the annoying fat kid just to play it and I remember having to first do other things with him outside just so he didn't figure out that I only liked him because of his video games. He had a minibike, too, so it wasn't all bad.

My first vivid arcade experience was Ms. Pac-Man that I would play at the laundromat when my mom took me with her. To my mom's dismay, I soon learned that there were all sorts of other games out there. Oh, the whining I did to get her to take me to Chucky Cheese's all the time.

[Q]

Our first computer was a TI-99 with an external cassette tape recorder. I cannot remember what the first game was, but I do remember having a game called Parsec.

[bridude]

I guess my first computer game was a RPG I programed on my Commodore Vic 20. It was some pirate game, I forget the name.

What really gave me the gaming bug was Duke Nukem 3D on my first real PC (233 MHz).

[jackrabbit]

my first computer game was Karateka on the Commodore at school. My first PC game was Doom on a 33mhz 386. My first video game was probably someone elses atari or stand-up arcade, though I don't really remember.

Before my first PC, I didn't really care about games, only G.I. Joe.

[Medic]

'Midway' for the TRS-80.
External tape drive.
Text based game about the Battle of Midway, 1941 I think.

[Admiral]

TI: Invaders on my Texas Instruments computer... it required a TV to use as a monitor.

[mrspogo]

My first PC game was Diablo II. :bg:

[armerius]

my first PC game would have been TEST DRIVE

yes, the original test drive. I played it on my old CGA video 8088... i think that thing ran at a blazing 2 megahertz... and was the best on the block with its 4 megabyte hard drive

[Patton]

PC game?

Tribes. Played it at a friends house. The first PC game I played on my own computer was Quake 2.

I was a sports nut jock before computers turned me into a godddamn nerd.

Sometimes I wish I had never gotten a computer. But then I wouldn't have met all of you fine peoples.

[Andri]

Gee, I was way behind you guys. You were playing computer games in 1979??? I doubt people in Germany even knew what a computer was at that time. And I was only 10 and probably playing with Barbie.

I did not get into computers until I entered college in 1988. Everybody was playing some game called "Lemminge" then. (That game where you have to build bridges and ladders to keep the little critters moving or they all fall off and die. Or something like it. Don't know if they are called Lemmings in English.) But I was even further behind. I did not start playing until my father bought a computer and some colleague of his gave us a pirated version of Monkey Island. My sister and I mustered up the patience to work through it without any hints - because we did not know such things as hint books existed. :o

[mrspogo]

[QUOTE=Andri] You were playing computer games in 1979???

Wow, I was 1 years old in 1979! :jester:

[Patton]

God, you people are old! How do you live with the wrinkles and the diapers and the daily doses of Metamucil?

[Kermit]

God, you people are old! How do you live with the wrinkles and the diapers and the daily doses of Metamucil?

It's not that bad... we just give them to LB and Ned inbetween stories about how "this all used to be farm field..."
:thumbup:

[Q]

Don't know if they are called Lemmings in English
They are :). Lemmings was a great game.

[Tai]

God, you people are old! How do you live with the wrinkles and the diapers and the daily doses of Metamucil?

You may mock us now, but just wait 10 years. You'll see how much wiser we are!

[Andri]

You may mock us now, but just wait 10 years. You'll see how much wiser we are!

We others maybe. But you, Tai? :bg:

[Tai]

I'm still alive, I must be doing something right :)