my first game was good olde space invaders..they used to have the arcade machine in the place we used to stay when on skiing trips when i was a kid.
my first game on a computer was something on the c64..can't remember the name. it used to have this little guy with a propeller on his back and he flew through some underground caverns..
I believe it was Jet Set Willy, Lode Runner or Paperboy on my sister's Amstrad. Yep... We had a lot of games on that machine, including a couple of text based games (I only remember that you started on a raft and if you climbed a tree and picked up the tin can in the bird nest you died of tetnus... i'm not kidding, you really did!) and we had um.. commandos and some other military game. Yep.
First adventure game was MI2 on a family friend's pc, a pirate copy at that... ooooo hehe. I still rememeber the wad of paper he had that was a photocopy of each possible varient of the mixin mojo wheel.
Sad things is, i've played so many of these games. Mixed up mother goose was so random! If you didn't do things in exactly the right order then one of the npcs wouldn't show up in the right place, that was frustrating.
I still have my copy of Carmen Sandiago, I wonder if I can get it running on XP... hmmmmm. I got pretty far in it as well.
The first game I ever played was Missile Command on a friend's Atari. I loved that game. The first game I actually played at home was a shareware demo of One Must Fall 2049, which was a futuristic fighting game of sorts. Between those two games, I spent most of my time watching After Dark screensavers. Namely Daredevil Dan and Bad Dog.
(which I remember my parents muted the game whenever I played it so I wouldn't hear the "bad words" in the music)
Ha, my mum used to do things like that, I remember when she copied Alanis Morrisette ontop tape for me and blanked out all the swear words out (yet she was so crap at it she blanked out more like entire verses than just words)
I'm not certain which, it had to be Zillion or Zaxxon 3-D for the Sega Master System. I played a lot of Psycho Fox, but I'm pretty sure it wasn't my first game.
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my first game on a computer was something on the c64..can't remember the name. it used to have this little guy with a propeller on his back and he flew through some underground caverns..
edit: ...oh yeah, it was called h.e.r.o. ....
First adventure game was MI2 on a family friend's pc, a pirate copy at that... ooooo hehe. I still rememeber the wad of paper he had that was a photocopy of each possible varient of the mixin mojo wheel.
I still have my copy of Carmen Sandiago, I wonder if I can get it running on XP... hmmmmm. I got pretty far in it as well.
Ahh the 90's.. how I miss them.
Heh, I still have that game on my hard drive. I absolutely love it.
I got myself the full version some years back, after it became abandonware. I love that game; play it often with DOSbox.
Ditto. I only recently discovered how to do Scrap and Destruction moves.
Ha, my mum used to do things like that, I remember when she copied Alanis Morrisette ontop tape for me and blanked out all the swear words out (yet she was so crap at it she blanked out more like entire verses than just words)