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[Deathwurm]

vometia wrote...

Tonymac wrote...

Does it make me old if I can remember a time before video games existed? I actually remember putting machine language into my dad's Commodore 64 and using the checksum program to make sure it was error free. I think the first program we put in was Pong. followed by Space Raiders. At that time disk drives did not exist yet, and machines used tape drives. For some reason Sprite graphics were all of the rage.

Ahhh, that was an eternity ago.

The rich kids (or rather their parents) could afford floppy discs, though a drive and controller were something like £400: early '80s prices, of course; I dread to think what that would be in today's money!  I think the menace of wrinkly cassette tape was the biggest obstacle to my gaming back then.

I dug up an old Tandy catalogue a while back and was reminded of the state-of-the-art TRS-80 model 2 with its enormous bank of three 8" floppies!  They don't make 'em like that any more.  Sadly, I threw the catalogue away: I always regret clear-outs.

Wow...we are getting old, aren't we?

I wonder if there are those young enough to believe we're telling "White Lies" about a time before Home Computers? lol

I don't remember what age I was, but I was into my teens...I remember that.

[Eurypterid]

Deathwurm wrote...
Wow...we are getting old, aren't we?

I wonder if there are those young enough to believe we're telling "White Lies" about a time before Home Computers? lol

I don't remember what age I was, but I was into my teens...I remember that.

Hell, I remember having only a black and white TV and only 2 channels available. Computers? Heh, I can well remember a time before them.

[s17tabris]

I think I was around 6 or 7 when I played alley cat and pac-man on PC. Those games were in those large floppy disks.

[viggorrah]

5 or 6, I think. I remember playing Super Mario 64.

[RogueState]

I was 8 and I played "Park Patrol" and "Jet Set Willy" on my Commodore 64!

[Moondoggie]

Oh it was something on the Amstrad CPC 464 when i was like 4 years old. I barely understood what i was doing nevermind what i was playing it was possibly a Dizzy game i also liked playing The Flintstones even if it was super hard. When i was 5 my parents bought a Sega Master System for my birthday and i remember playing Alex Kidd a lot to a point it drove my mother insane because of the repetitive theme tune.

[CrazyRah]

Ehm.. 3 years old i think. At most 4 years old^^

Modifié par CrazyRah, 07 février 2012 - 06:37 .

[aries1001]

I was actually very young. However at that time I didn't know I was playing a videogame

My father had a small business and in 1979 I think we got a Commodore 8080 processor (I think it was one of those?) Anyway, this business computer had a game on it that my father played late at night. One day I decided to help my father out because he couldn't get anywhere in the game. Remember this was 20 years before the internet became popular and at least 10 years before any game magzines appeared in mainstream Danish kiosks and stores.

Anyway, I booted up the game: - a small mailbox - which way do you go n,s,e, w. I got so far that I got into the house and down to a tree that blocked the way. What neither my father and I thought was to go down. The game I (we) played back in 1979-1981 was in fact one of the first text adventures called 'Adventure' or 'Collosal cave'.

Now 20 years go by. I get a fairly modern computer in 1997 or 1998. I come across some games that looks interesting e.g. Kyrandia: Legends Hands of Fate or Time Commando http://en.wikipedia....i/Time_Commando

I think Time Commando was the first modern video computer game, I ever played, but I really can't remember it. Maybe it was another game about a guy from the present being sent back to medieval times where he had to do battle with templars (no, not those in Dragon Age ) to get the girl he's in love with. I have forgotten the name of this game, unfortunately...

Edit:

In 1976 our family, or rather our father, got a console. You've guessed it - it was an Atari (I think?) featuring the now famous Pong game. How we used to play that game for many years to come every Christmas and Easter.

Edit 2: If we're allowed to use arcade games as an example, in the 1970's there were arcade machines on early every ferry in Denmark. Sometimes scholols got to go to the capital of Denmark, Copenhagen. In those days, there was a ferry. On that ferry, arcade games were on slot machines. And how we used many quarters there, especially on a game called, I think, Space Invaders.

Edit 3:

We played Pong on our familiy's welfunctioning black and white TV from 1960. In 1976 we got a brand new colour tv which we had for the next 17 or 18 years. My father and mother moved in 1988 or 1989 and bought a new tv for their new house, but the old tv from 1976 came along.[The TV  from 1960 got thrown away, I think]. I also remeber very well a time where there only 1 was channel in black and white, and then one channel in colour, and then two - and then in the 1990's there was a lot of channels we could view.

Modifié par aries1001, 07 février 2012 - 06:53 .

[rwilli80]

I have no idea but it wsa on either an Atari or a Coleco Vision. I really wasn't a big gamer until I got out of school, ironically enough until I joined the service and found myself with a lot of free time and no money between pay days.

[Laamaa]

From the moment I could actually sit on a chair.. That would be when I was 4 or something. Mind you, those were games like "Giana Sisters". Played Half Life when I was 6

[Dominus]

I think Time Commando was the first modern video computer game, I ever played, but I really can't remember it.

This has officially become the "Remember that good old game in the day, when..." thread.

I remember my brother getting that, I believe it was the PC version. Maybe not the epitome of gaming, but I do remember it. Since we're bringing up the topic of games we played at a very early age, this is a weird one my brother and I played through co-op. So, so bizarre.

Modifié par DominusVita, 07 février 2012 - 09:25 .

[Some Geth]

4 with Super Mario Bros.

[Blackout62]

5, Prince of Persia on an Apple II. Keepin' it retro.

[Enmystic]

I think I was seven when I first touched Tetris. Then I played a friend's Mario game. The first video game I owned was Pokemon Red and I was about 8 or 9.

[Thiefy]

makalathbonagin wrote...


i was badass 6yo

that was a very hard game. never did beat the end =/

i want to say 6. that's what i remember but i think i also played handhelds before then too, so maybe younger. but 6 so far as consoles go.

[vometia]

Eurypterid wrote...

Deathwurm wrote...
Wow...we are getting old, aren't we?

I wonder if there are those young enough to believe we're telling "White Lies" about a time before Home Computers? lol

I don't remember what age I was, but I was into my teens...I remember that.

Hell, I remember having only a black and white TV and only 2 channels available. Computers? Heh, I can well remember a time before them.

I sometimes think "computers before the IBM PC" might confound a few people!  Actually computing was more fun back then since there was much more diversity.  The IBM PC rather sucked the soul out of it for a good long while, I think.

I remember us getting our first colour TV in the early-mid '70s.  People rented them back then because they were so expensive, though it was just as well since they broke down all the time.

Moondoggie wrote...

Oh it was something on the Amstrad CPC 464 when i was like 4 years old.

Our neighbours had one of them: I was really quite jealous.  Unlike the stuff Amstrad is more famous for, their computers were really very good.

[OBakaSama]

In answering the thread topic question: probably about 8 at a friend's birthday party on their Amstrad. Probably was the CPC 464, had the tape recorder built into the side. Thems weres the days.... Can't remember the games that day but it got me sufficiently interested enough. Still, to be completed mesmerized by these blobs on a tiny screen (and I think the Amstrad was probably the worst graphically at the time between the ye olde rubber keyboard Spectrum and the Commodores at the time).

Days when you had to type in the command to load a cassette, wait ages, watch a mainly blank screen with funny colours around the border, some tinny music...and the loading crashes. Repeat until you finally get the thing to load.

And when two-player meant one taking control of the directions and the other using the fire button when games only had five inputs. Oh...and joysticks that would plug in and wouldn't respond to any left command yet everything else was fine.

IBM dropped the ball with the PC. Imagine if they had patents on it back in the day.

[vometia]

OBakaSama wrote...

In answering the thread topic question: probably about 8 at a friend's birthday party on their Amstrad. Probably was the CPC 464, had the tape recorder built into the side. Thems weres the days.... Can't remember the games that day but it got me sufficiently interested enough. Still, to be completed mesmerized by these blobs on a tiny screen (and I think the Amstrad was probably the worst graphically at the time between the ye olde rubber keyboard Spectrum and the Commodores at the time).

I don't recall the exact specifications, but I'm fairly sure the CPC was a big improvement over the Spectrum and the VIC-20; not sure about the Commode 64, I suspect it was probably better though it seems to have become a rather mythical beast in the intervening years...

OBakaSama wrote...

IBM dropped the ball with the PC. Imagine if they had patents on it back in the day.

I'm guessing it might not have taken off in quite the same way.  Although that was at the height of "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM", I think without all the clone machines, it would've remained much too expensive for the home market: it really wasn't all that good (I remember the computing press of the time being distinctly unimpressed) and it cost several times as much as even a high-spec home computer of the day.

[Tazzmission]

im 27 and i remember going to i think sears back in the 80's to pick up the nes.

but if your going to ask me my favorite system as a kid wow id have to say sega because i would honestly play that beast 247

[Gotholhorakh]

I was 3 or 4, and it was Combat (the one with the planes and tanks and bouncy bullets and stuff) on the Atari VCS, which I used to play with my dad.

vometia wrote...

Amstrad CPC 464 when i was like 4 years old.

Our
neighbours had one of them: I was really quite jealous.  Unlike the
stuff Amstrad is more famous for, their computers were really very good.

Ah, I remember gaming sessions at my friends house, playing stuff like quest for the golden eggcup on his cpc464.

He was still jealous of my computer though, as I was part of the Commodore Master Race.

(I say that, I did have pc1512 and a pcw9256, as well as later on a gx4000 - yeah I'm the person that bought one of those)

vometia wrote...

I don't recall the exact specifications,
but I'm fairly sure the CPC was a big improvement over the Spectrum and
the VIC-20; not sure about the Commode 64, I suspect it was probably
better though it seems to have become a rather mythical beast in the
intervening years...

The CPC464 and the ZX Spectrum  weren't that different, out of the two the CPC464 was marginally better for graphics - the Commodore 64 had the edge over both of them in terms of gaming hardware (bearing in mind that I'm referring to more than the memory there - games would look and sound better on a Commodore with 64k than a ZX Spectrum with a monster 128k) you'd have better colours, sprites, scrolling, excellent sound synthesis etc. If you wanted gorgeous gaming on an 8 bit "proper computer" you probably really bought a C64. The Speccy basically became famous for its games looking bad in the end, and for only having 2 or 4 colours on the screen at a time, which is not to do it down as it was groundbreakiing in its own time and way.

Modifié par Gotholhorakh, 08 février 2012 - 12:56 .

[JediHealerCosmin]

I was 5 when I started and Monkey Island was my first game

Modifié par JediHealerCosmin, 08 février 2012 - 12:29 .

[Dominus]

Ah, I remember gaming sessions at my friends house, playing stuff like quest for the golden eggcup on his cpc464. He was still jealous of my computer though, as I was part of the Commodore Master Race. (I say that, I did have pc1512 and a pcw9256, as well as later on a gx4000 - yeah I'm the person that bought one of those)

I have little no idea what you said in that paragraph, but it's incredibly nerdy - ergo, I approve. Who goes on a quest for a golden egg cup? o_O You'd think the egg itself would be more treasured...

[Gotholhorakh]

DominusVita wrote...

Ah, I remember gaming sessions at my friends house, playing stuff like quest for the golden eggcup on his cpc464. He was still jealous of my computer though, as I was part of the Commodore Master Race. (I say that, I did have pc1512 and a pcw9256, as well as later on a gx4000 - yeah I'm the person that bought one of those)

I have little no idea what you said in that paragraph, but it's incredibly nerdy - ergo, I approve. Who goes on a quest for a golden egg cup? o_O You'd think the egg itself would be more treasured...

Simpler times, happier times, my friend. In those days if someone offered you the chance to go looking for an egg cup by typing at a text prompt you ripped their arm off.

Adventure games have never been the same since they added images, though - that's dumbing down for you. They were just cynically making a play for the Chuckie Egg crowd with their twitch gaming, and their "colours" and "shapes".

Modifié par Gotholhorakh, 08 février 2012 - 12:48 .