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[fightright2]

It was either Indy 500 or Combat for the Atari 2600. But I know there was a few programs I toyed with on the Trash 80 (Radio Shack TRS-80) computer that my older brother entered in.

I think I was 4 or 5.

Modifié par fightright2, 08 février 2012 - 01:40 .

[Merci357]

I was about 6 years old when I got an Atari 2600 as a christmas present, it came with two games, Pac Man and Asteroids.

[Cris Urdiales]

Around 6 as well and I was enthralled

[OBakaSama]

vometia wrote...

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...

I'm not too sure which Amstrad it was, just that it was an Amstrad. Never was quite sure how many models of that there were. Didn't they try to release a console at some point GX4000 or something? Anyway...the graphics thing: I've always had the imagine that the graphics looked worse on the Amstrad (bear in mind I had a C64 so I'm somewhat biased ). The Spectrum's had detailed graphics, but were monochrome; C64 had some colour, some OK detail; Amstrad was colourful and graphics seemed blocky. Could well be comparing unfavourable models but in my defence...hazy memory and it was a long time ago. Arcade conversions were very telling when comparing screenshots with the Speccy looking closer to the arcade without the colour.

vometia wrote...

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.

I think IBM not patenting the PC is seen as akin to things like the man who rejected the Beatles, or Hoover not bothering to take up the Dyson vaccuum cleaner...well...hopefully you get the idea. Financially IBM would have been raking it in if they had the patents to the technology. Or I could just be getting confused again (where's my medication?).

Early game I remember...something called Kickstart, or spelt very close to that.

Come to think of it, I wonder where the Acorn and BBC Micro would be on that little computer list....

[legion999]

Pokemon Blue when I was three or four.
I also vaguely remember playing TMNT.

[Druss99]

OBakaSama wrote...

vometia wrote...

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...

I'm not too sure which Amstrad it was, just that it was an Amstrad. Never was quite sure how many models of that there were. Didn't they try to release a console at some point GX4000 or something? Anyway...the graphics thing: I've always had the imagine that the graphics looked worse on the Amstrad (bear in mind I had a C64 so I'm somewhat biased ). The Spectrum's had detailed graphics, but were monochrome; C64 had some colour, some OK detail; Amstrad was colourful and graphics seemed blocky. Could well be comparing unfavourable models but in my defence...hazy memory and it was a long time ago. Arcade conversions were very telling when comparing screenshots with the Speccy looking closer to the arcade without the colour.

Reaching back into my own hazy memory, on the back of game boxes showing screenshots from Amstrad, Spectrum and Commodore, the Commodore always had better graphics, much to my chagrin. I can't remember the difference between the other two. I could dig a few Amstrad games out and look but that seems like more effort than its worth.

On the subject of different versions of the Amstrad I recall seeing atleast three different models. Me and a couple of mates had the basic CPC-464 which was greyish black with built in tape deck and some sort of port in the back for "floppy disks" I've never seen what kind of disk they actually were but it wasn't regular floppy disks. Then there was the white version that another mate had, it could also play cartridges along with the tapes if I remember right. It was just a 464 upgrade. Then there was another one I saw in a shop one time, I just remember it being different again but can't recall any real details.

As for the OP's question my first game would have been either Harrier Attack or Roland on the Ropes I believe and I was around 4 or 5.

[Nu-Nu]

When I was about 4, it was space invaders for the atari.

Modifié par Nu-Nu, 08 février 2012 - 10:54 .

[JeffZero]

Four.

Sonic the Hedgehog.

[TRISTAN WERBE]

4 Super Mario

[VivaLaWhatsername]

I was 8 I think, (maybe younger I don't remember) but I think my first game I played was Nightmare Creatures for PS1 so I must have been at least 8...assuming I'm right about my first game lol.

[SockPuppet317]

Uh... 3, maybe 4. It wasn't the first game I played, but the first game I clearly remember playing was Shining Force 2.

[red pies]

idk but it was digimon world 2 for the ps1 so around 5 or 6

[Moondoggie]

vometia wrote...

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.

They were quite nifty things though when i first had one i was very young and didn't know much of what i was doing though as i got older i learned to appreciate it more in between playing with my much more impressive graphicaly Sega console. It also had the advantage of not waiting forever to load a game XD God that noise still haunts me. But when i was in primary school i knew a kid with an Amstrad system and we traded a lot of games since copying a game was as easy as copying anything on a cassette tape. Ah the days when people didn't care if you copied things lol. When i was in primary school i was playing things like Space Crusade and Knightmare a first taste of RPG's Had a couple of those text based ones too which were more fun for typing in dirty words and laughing at the responses.

[Mercannis]

Space Invaders probably or Asteroids at the Arcade. Five or six years old i think.

[Boiny Bunny]

I think about 4 or 5. Maniac Mansion on the NES I believe, followed up by Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of Lounge Lizards!

[marbatico]

i got a playstation 1 for my 8 birthday with the original Spyro the Dragon game. thats the first game i remember playing

[Milana_Saros]

Age of 6, 1991.