My First games were played at traving arcades, it was Phoenix, Pacman,or Space Pilot,i am not sure, it was 1982 or something, i was 8.
First home games were played at Spectrum at my friends hause, it was Out Run, 1982 as well.
In 1988 i got my First system, it was Commodore 64 , and first games where those 3 compilation games that came on cartridge that was sold with system, chess,soccer and wizards painting blocks duel thingies (god, those was awfoul games),and i had only that for few years (because there was nobody araund to explain me how to properly set up tape recorder/loader with screwdriver) , until i get my self disc unit for C-64, 2 years later. I was able to find a lot more games then, first was Last Ninja remix, what a revolutionary change after those 3 crap game that was.
Man. I'm a N64 child. Started off with none other but Ocarina of Time. Proudly can say I have a sizable game collection and the N64 is still going strong after over 20 years. Heck, I replayed OoT a few weeks ago the last time.
I am pretty sure I played FL as one of the first games on PC though, alongside Age of Empires.
The first video game for me was "Pong".
My grandfather bought it, he was a kind of
technology freak.
My first computer was an Amstrad CPC 464.
It came with plenty of games since I bought
it second hand.
I also learned programming with it,
first in basic and then assembler.
Alongside Freelancer itself, this game was my villain origin story. I don't have any pictures of a PC I was playing on, but I do remember that it was some early HP model with Windows 98.
Also, Duck Hunt
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My dad brought home a BBC micro, and had elite, brilliant, had no idea what do with it, couldn’t fly, all wireframe, crashed it all the time, kept on going
Got me hooked
In 1983 my parents bought us kids a 48k zx spectrum, with 3 games on tape
Space raiders, zipzap and minedout
Space invaders speccy style, zip zap, have to see to explain
But minedout got me interested in programming
Because it was made in back then zx basic, and I accidently pressed the “break” key on the speccy kb, which was also the space key
Up came the games listing, when I pressed “enter” key, speccy owners know what I mean
So I just needed to know how it all worked
The basic manual that came with it just didn’t show much, but I would spend days programming that little thing
Oh and manic minor, now that was brilliant
Then got a c64 and oh my word……colours!!!! And an automatic tape deck (c64 users know what I mean)
Few years later I got an A500 amiga……4096 colours, AMOS!!!! 4megs ram, 1 meg chip ram, upgraded it to a hardrive, 138 megs!!
The Amiga to me is still the best computer I ever had
my early years best spent was my speccy and amiga
theres an ELO song called ticket to the moon
the 1st verse is this
“Remember the good old 1980's
When things were so uncomplicated
I wish I could go back there again
And everything could be the same”
(01-22-2023, 12:01 AM)evanz Wrote: But minedout got me interested in programming
Because it was made in back then zx basic, and I accidently press the “break” key on the speccy kb, which was also the space key
On the Amstrad I had, if you wanted to play a game you could get it on Popular Mechanics. The code that is. Then it had to be manually typed in to load on a floppy disc. One mistake and you had to hunt through to find the glitch.