Through internet magic I found the first "console" I ever played on. Basically, a souped up pong with a few extra gameplay settings, must've been around 1980.
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I recall my middle sister in the early 80s had a console that had a keyboard incorporated in it. It may have been an Odyssey, or maybe a Crativision, or something similar; the memory is hazy.
Operation Neptune, an educational game that I played on a 286 in the early 90s. You zoom around in a little submarine shooting fish with ink pellets and collecting parts of a crashed space probe, but once in a while your fun is interrupted by a math problem.
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Oh hell. It was one of those TRS-80s from Radio Shack my dad had in the early 80s:
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My dad actually had to program the games himself, the code would come in game magazines.
This was the first video game system I played on:
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I have to say it was not actually that close to arcade quality :P but pretty good. It was my friends though so I only played it at his house.
Speaking of my Dad he turns 71 today!
Like Valmy a TRS80 in the 80s but I don't remember that one. I remember the Commodore 64 tho. Played a Moon game on it.
My parents bought me a "Frogger" Mini-arcade game, which I promptly dropped down a flight of stairs.
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Behold the mighty Apple //c! Got it Christmas of 1985 I think and played the shit out of hit.
My parents never did get us a console of any sort. So sure I do kind-of remember playing an early Atari system at a friends house, and later player NES games at another friends, but I was always a computer gamer.
*insert PC Master Race meme here*
I remember playing Pong, but the Atari 2600 is the one that we played a lot.
Either Merlin or Electronic Quarterback
Quote from: Barrister on September 23, 2016, 10:03:08 AM
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Behold the mighty Apple //c! Got it Christmas of 1985 I think and played the shit out of hit.
My parents never did get us a console of any sort. So sure I do kind-of remember playing an early Atari system at a friends house, and later player NES games at another friends, but I was always a computer gamer.
*insert PC Master Race meme here*
Apple IIc fo lyfe
Wings of Fury was a freaking awesome game.
E: I also had some gigantic type of Atari. 5200? (e2: yeah it was this thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_5200 I remember those controllers) Something like that. I think we had both of these around the same time.
If we don't count those crappy LCD handhelds, the first computer game I played was this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunfright
My school had a computer room with MSXs, so we had an optional computing class. We learnt to code in BASIC, which given that we were 9 years old I guess it was quite far-sighted from the school (that was all I ever learnt about coding though :lol:). Anyhow, the last day of class the teacher brought a few games, and I played this one.
My parents ended up buying the same computer for me, the next summer:
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I still keep it at my parents house, btw. It gave me many many hours of classic gaming entertainment: Metal Gear, Gradius, Maze of Galious... those classic Konami games were ace.
Pong.
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Coleco_Electronic_Quarterback.jpg/200px-Coleco_Electronic_Quarterback.jpg)
I wasn't even cool enough to have the Coleco version; I had to settle for the rebadged Sears ripoff.
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Went with my Toughskins.
Now, as far as video games go--
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Christmas '80, motherfuckers.
God, we're old.
I didn't know until today that Coleco stood for "Connecticut Leather Company"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleco
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Atari 1040 ST, late 1980s, with a monochrome screen though. We had some kind of Pacman and a Space Invaders and a third game I can't remember.
Ah, from the days of the Atari ST vs Commodore Amiga wars. :cool: A few friends had Amigas (I was too poor and had to settle for a C64; later got NES and SNES before moving on to PC in 96, though I did spend extensive time with friends' DOS OCs before that) but never knew anyone with an ST.
Quote from: Valmy on September 23, 2016, 07:24:59 AM
Oh hell. It was one of those TRS-80s from Radio Shack my dad had in the early 80s:
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My dad actually had to program the games himself, the code would come in game magazines.
This was the first video game system I played on:
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I have to say it was not actually that close to arcade quality :P but pretty good. It was my friends though so I only played it at his house.
Speaking of my Dad he turns 71 today!
LOL Never mind your dad...I used to do that. It was all BASIC programming...would take hours to do, and then of course you typed something wrong so you had to read it all to find the bug.
Quote from: 11B4V on September 23, 2016, 06:58:40 PM
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yeah. that's what I had too. Except being in Canada mine was head to head hockey.
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Heh, had the Head2Head football version. Pretty unwieldy with two people, actually.
I played
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on a
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using this to load the game
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Pong
I still have my--
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Either this -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Game_%26_Watch_games#Donkey_Kong
Or a game I don't recall for the Spectrum.
Strangely I don't recall playing any games on the ZX81, although my household had one.
The fist computer game I remember playing was in school. It was called cross country Canada. You played a truck driver taking freight across Canada. You leaned facts about province Lang the way. You could speed to get there faster (but there was a chance of getting pulled over), you had to buy food and sleep... You could also run over hitch hikers on purpose :D
Quote from: HVC on September 26, 2016, 09:48:56 AM
cross country Canada.
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Crosscountry_Canada_1991 (https://archive.org/details/msdos_Crosscountry_Canada_1991)
I'm so gonna run over some hitch hikers tonight!
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Tulip computers,those were the days. I had loads of games of the Digger and Fogger kind.
Good times.
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My first exposure was the original Atari Pong dedicated console, circa mid/late 1970's.
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But the one I remember enjoying the most was Intellivision
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Quote from: CountDeMoney on September 25, 2016, 07:54:24 PM
I still have my--
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JFC, I had one of those too, a synsonic. :)
Lent it to someone, never got it back.
Some kind of mid 80's EGA Atari like a few of you.
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:cool:
Quote from: Syt on September 23, 2016, 04:12:11 AM
Through internet magic I found the first "console" I ever played on. Basically, a souped up pong with a few extra gameplay settings, must've been around 1980.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcache-cdn.kalaydo.de%2Fmmo%2F7%2F926%2F687%2F57_-315947039.jpg&hash=017beec4962793ef4e20b43db48deb1eef6282a6)
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I recall my middle sister in the early 80s had a console that had a keyboard incorporated in it. It may have been an Odyssey, or maybe a Crativision, or something similar; the memory is hazy.
The first I played: Pong.
The first I owned: a Commodore version of Pac-Man.
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ITT: Pictures of keyboards, surge protectors, telephones, hot plates.
Anyone remember digital derby? I had that.
Quote from: Tyr on September 27, 2016, 05:34:19 PM
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:cool: :bowler:
My sister would sometimes borrow an Amstrad (Schneider CPC in Germany) with monochrome monitor from a friend over weekends:
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Then she, I, and her husband would spend the weekend playing Hanse (http://www.mobygames.com/game/hanse), the granddaddy of the Patrician games.
When I was a young toddler, would be playing it all day at my granddad's house. :blush: :wub:
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