The first game you ever played
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EVER:
Atari's arcade game Starship. Check out Youtube; there is a good video of this game in action. Pretty cool old black & white POV game where you fly through space and blast spaceships and weird bugs.
HOME:
Combat for Atari 2600. Played this at a Sears display back in 1978.
VIC 20:
Omega Race was my first VIC game.
Atari's arcade game Starship. Check out Youtube; there is a good video of this game in action. Pretty cool old black & white POV game where you fly through space and blast spaceships and weird bugs.
HOME:
Combat for Atari 2600. Played this at a Sears display back in 1978.
VIC 20:
Omega Race was my first VIC game.
EVER: 1980, Dungeon, on the PET at school (10th grade), it was a type-in from a book. Took me about 2 weeks to type it in.
HOME: 1982, Atari 2600 Asteroids. A friend brought his system to my house, I didn't have one yet. But I got one the next day!
ARCADE: 1982, Asteroids. Always has been my favorite!
VIC20: 1983, Most likely one of the type-ins from the back of the user manual. I didn't have any way to save it then, so I didn't get to play it much.
HOME: 1982, Atari 2600 Asteroids. A friend brought his system to my house, I didn't have one yet. But I got one the next day!
ARCADE: 1982, Asteroids. Always has been my favorite!
VIC20: 1983, Most likely one of the type-ins from the back of the user manual. I didn't have any way to save it then, so I didn't get to play it much.
Arcade: Probably sprint II or pong at a local bowling ally or supermarket.
Even when they were still fairly new, the early monochrome games seemed archaic somehow to me. Still, a lot of them had great game play.
I loved the old vecter graphics games like Asteroids, Tailgunner, and BattleZone. And they allways had those low frequency rumbling sound effects!
Vic: Avenger, then Radar Rat Race.
Even when they were still fairly new, the early monochrome games seemed archaic somehow to me. Still, a lot of them had great game play.
I loved the old vecter graphics games like Asteroids, Tailgunner, and BattleZone. And they allways had those low frequency rumbling sound effects!
Vic: Avenger, then Radar Rat Race.
Blip?RJBowman wrote:First video game:
Don't know if it counts, but in the mid 1970's, there was a mechanical version of pong that was sold at Montgomery Ward, with a moving light that shined onto the back of a translucent plastic screen. The light moved back and forth between two tennis rackets silk-screened onto the screen, and if you didn't push the button at the precise moment, the ball stuck in your racket. I can't recall weather the machine kept score. It is possible that I might have played a real pong-style video game before encountering this mechanical game, but my memory is fuzzy in that regard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip_(game)
Actually, more like this -> http://pongmuseum.com/collection/tomy-blip.phpJeff-20 wrote:Blip?RJBowman wrote:First video game:
Don't know if it counts, but in the mid 1970's, there was a mechanical version of pong that was sold at Montgomery Ward, with a moving light that shined onto the back of a translucent plastic screen. The light moved back and forth between two tennis rackets silk-screened onto the screen, and if you didn't push the button at the precise moment, the ball stuck in your racket. I can't recall weather the machine kept score. It is possible that I might have played a real pong-style video game before encountering this mechanical game, but my memory is fuzzy in that regard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip_(game)
I still have one of those, along with all 3 of the Parker Brothers Merlin games. All in original boxes.
The first Vic game I played was Blitz on my Aunties machine just before V: The Mini Series started on telly over here in the UK. Second game was Space Snake... Both Commodore produced games. I was mad for the red Commodore tapes when I was a kid and they still look great on my shelf today. My favourite collection along with my Mastertronic games.
Pyramid of Doom.
took me alot of years to finally track down that strange text game with multi-colored text an old friend of mine back then loaded up for me on this new computer machine labeled C64, a warm summer holiday in the middle of the 80's.
but i also gamed Pong, according to my mom, on a Las Vegas Pong Clone i got from an uncle when i was around 2-3 years old.
took me alot of years to finally track down that strange text game with multi-colored text an old friend of mine back then loaded up for me on this new computer machine labeled C64, a warm summer holiday in the middle of the 80's.
but i also gamed Pong, according to my mom, on a Las Vegas Pong Clone i got from an uncle when i was around 2-3 years old.
"Are you keeping up with Commodore? cuz Commodore is keeping up with you!" 
No, the game that I remember was larger than the little Tomy hand-held game, and I'm pretty sure that it preceded it by a couple of years. The game had a translucent plastic screen, about the size of small b&w TV sets of the time. The plastic screen had silhouettes of tennis players and a net printed on it; probably silk screened, and the controls consisted of a single button for each player. When the machine was turned on, the screen was back-lit, the ball was a circular shadow, and you could hear an electric motor running.Jeff-20 wrote:Blip?RJBowman wrote:First video game:
Don't know if it counts, but in the mid 1970's, there was a mechanical version of pong that was sold at Montgomery Ward, with a moving light that shined onto the back of a translucent plastic screen. The light moved back and forth between two tennis rackets silk-screened onto the screen, and if you didn't push the button at the precise moment, the ball stuck in your racket. I can't recall weather the machine kept score. It is possible that I might have played a real pong-style video game before encountering this mechanical game, but my memory is fuzzy in that regard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip_(game)
