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Your first game that got you into gaming? • Page 3
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Bragelonne 563 posts
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First game that got me into gaming, it was a maze game on the Commodore PET. The computer generated a random maze consisting of dashes and spaces on the screen and you could control an asterisk with the cursor keys. If you could get the asterisk from the top to the bottom, you were rewarded with... another randomly generated screen! Trouble was, often the randomly generated screen didn't actually have a path from top to bottom in which case you had to hit the BREAK key and reload it from tape. -
Fatiguez 8,930 posts
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Registered 13 years agoChrist. I wish my standards for fun could be that low. Stupid good technology spoiling everything 
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smoothpete wrote:
Hark at him and his newfangled sound effects. Real games didn't need sound.
Bloody whipersnapper, this was all badly pixelated, blocky, bleepy fields when I were a lad
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mrpon 37,367 posts
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Registered 15 years agoDidn't know you were a Geordie otto. -
Murbs 25,152 posts
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Registered 17 years agoMy first game was Horace Goes Skiing, then many Speccy games came and went. Got tired of the rubber keyed titan around '86 and didn't get back into gaming until ten years later when Formula One on the Playstation tempted me into getting one. Haven't looked back! -
jaxon58 2,555 posts
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Registered 18 years agoProbably Space Invaders on the Atari 2600. Might have played Pong before it, not sure.
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Cappy 14,394 posts
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Registered 16 years agoThese two wonderful little chaps.
First game I ever completed too. I was especially fond of isometric games for years afterwards, but I never loved any of them as much as Head over Heels. I probably wanted everything to be isometric for a while. I never got on with Ulimate's games though, they just didn't seem fun and were ball-breaking hard. I could barely get off the first stage of Bubbler.
Come to think of it, they're probably responsible for my love of SRPGs too, the prevalence of the isometric viewpoint is what drew me in initially. -
TheStatics 203 posts
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Registered 12 years agoPheonix on the Atari 2600, also the racing game that used the paddles on the same system... and the Star Wars game now I think about it.
Anyone else on here ever have an Acetronic (what a name!) system?? My older brother had one when we were young but never really known anyone else that had one. -
mrpon wrote:
Had to think about that for a minute or two.
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phatb0y 868 posts
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Registered 14 years agoNight Gunner on the Spectrum. I'd played on my friend's Binatone paddle thing (with every variation of Breakout imaginable) a few times, but seeing Night Gunner for the first time was what got me excited.
I ended up getting an Atari 2600 as my first games machine though. We put a frightening amount of hours into Combat. What a game. -
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Jet Set Willy on my friends Spectrum 48k
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coastal 5,433 posts
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Registered 15 years agootto wrote:
First game that got me into gaming, it was a maze game on the Commodore PET. The computer generated a random maze consisting of dashes and spaces on the screen and you could control an asterisk with the cursor keys. If you could get the asterisk from the top to the bottom, you were rewarded with... another randomly generated screen! Trouble was, often the randomly generated screen didn't actually have a path from top to bottom in which case you had to hit the BREAK key and reload it from tape.
I remember it well. Plus citadel and some skiing game. -
chasejamie 838 posts
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Registered 15 years agoNot my first game, I honestly can't remember that, but Chase HQ in the arcades around 1988 is a vivid memory. I remember being so disappointed when I bought the C64 version and was confused as to why it didn't look as nice as the arcade version. I was only 6! -
TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agoThere was quite a fun space game on the Commodore Pet as well, can't remember what it's called though. -
wayneh 2,599 posts
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Registered 13 years agoI think mine was Jungle Hunt and Galaxians on the old Atari 2600. Laughable now but awesome at the time. -
Pacman, Space Invaders & Operation Wolf. -
glo 3,797 posts
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Registered 19 years agoSpace Invaders (arcade) - yes I am that old unfortunately and was hooked from the start -
Not really any one game but this little baby helped introduce me to the world of games.
Dizzy is one game that sticks out from my Spectrum days though.
Also a racing game I've been trying to remember the name of but can't find it anywhere online. Could race in a buggy and hovercraft but also forget what else is driven.
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Techno Hippy wrote:
There was a Star Trek game which played a bit like Battleships, I enjoyed that.
There was quite a fun space game on the Commodore Pet as well, can't remember what it's called though. -
JohnnyWashnGo 1,544 posts
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Registered 17 years agoL_Franko wrote:
Not really any one game but this little baby helped introduce me to the world of games.
Dizzy is one game that sticks out from my Spectrum days though.
Also a racing game I've been trying to remember the name of but can't find it anywhere online. Could race in a buggy and hovercraft but also forget what else is driven.
I'm sure it was by Ocean if memory serves.
Yup - that was my first machine also. I loved it and miss it dearly
I still remember begging my parents for Paperboy for ages and when it arrived, playing it for weeks.
Wow - those days were great. Good games didn't seem to come around as often as they do now. And 1.99 for a game was fantastic value. It was more of a hobby then a business back then. -
Murbs 25,152 posts
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Registered 17 years agoBlerk wrote:
This seems somewhat relevant to the mood of the moment..gif)
What no JSW?
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Lutz 48,870 posts
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Registered 18 years agootto wrote:
I played that on the PC. Quite good actually. Bit more indepth than Battleships, but that's how the combat played out.
Techno Hippy wrote:
There was a Star Trek game which played a bit like Battleships, I enjoyed that.
There was quite a fun space game on the Commodore Pet as well, can't remember what it's called though. -
TechnoHippy 19,245 posts
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Registered 18 years agootto wrote:
Techno Hippy wrote:
There was a Star Trek game which played a bit like Battleships, I enjoyed that.
There was quite a fun space game on the Commodore Pet as well, can't remember what it's called though.
No, although that does sound like fun. It was flying around shooting things. -
Super_Zee 2,105 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThere was some isometric spaceship shooter on the Acorn Archimedes that we used to play in school instead of doing homework, I remember that blew me away. Then Chase HQ, TMNT and Op Wolf in the arcades got me properly addicted. -
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Britesparc 2,342 posts
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Registered 15 years agoThe Secret of Monkey Island on the Amiga.
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I think I'm going to have to say Combat on the Atari Big Black Box Thing. Great game that was.
Though I'm not as old as that might suggest.
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