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"In the Beginning..."

How did you get into gaming?

What was the first computer game you played...
(Both as the first game you EVER played... and the first game you owned)

And What was the first system you owned?

Did you get into computing overnight.,.. Or were you playing games casually for a few years efore you really got hooked?

???

In the last days of its life, the C64 had a few cart releases starting with Robocop 2, then Criminal Ivestigations (Chase HQ 2), and Navy SEALS. There were a few more but they did not stop the machines decline.

Perhaps if the Amiga had been given a cart port which enhanced C64 carts when used, the story might have been a little different, but somehow i doubt it... Commodore weren`t the most forward thinking company ever, as early high pricing of the Amiga showed.

Still, even today it seems some companies who should know better are still messing up when it comes to cartridges. Nintendo have never had a uniform cart for any of their consoles with the exception of the Gameboy. If anything is going to harm sales, its a public fed up with replacing old games because they cannot be used on the newer system they just purchased.

Do you think Sony could have been watching somehow....???

BORGDRONE wrote:
I can`t remember any speech on the VIC 20 version, shame
> because it would have been the icing on the cake. Its also a shame
> that carts for the VIC 20 and the Commodore 64 never caught on with
> the public, there was alot of potential for early games with this
> system.

I seem to remember that they did about as badly as the speccy carts...

I remember Ultimate trying to give them a go... but no-one else :)

(of which, stragely enough, the Jet Pac cart became a highly saught after item :) )

Armitage Shanks wrote:
> BORGDRONE wrote:
> I actually first played Gorf on the Vic 20,
> It was a cartridge game
> with four levels, but addictive as
> hell!.

Wasnt GORF the first arcade game to feature speech?
>
(admittadly Stephen Hawkins style speech)

Did they manage to
> fit any ono the Vic20 game?


I can`t remember any speech on the VIC 20 version, shame because it would have been the icing on the cake. Its also a shame that carts for the VIC 20 and the Commodore 64 never caught on with the public, there was alot of potential for early games with this system.

The first game console I ever had was an Atari 2800 (I think) My friend sold me it for £50 and it had about 50 games aswell. It had pacman and space invaders and the live but I remember two games in particular rollerball (I think it was called that all I remember was that I had to make this ball go through two posts that moved and as the levels got harder, the posts would be closer together and move faster. It was really good) and what I liked best was this falcon game set in Egypt and you had to shoot things. man that brings back some memories! I cant believe that I cant remember the names

What was the first game you ever played GB?

Meka_Dragon wrote:

Night Driver
> -might have the name of this wrong
for hours on end!

Nope, it was Night Driver alright.
Combat was ace, the cowboys and the big plane vs little planes rocked.

Ah..it probably sucks now if I went back, but my memory holds it dear

The first game I ever remember seeing would have to be River Raid. I never played it though.

My parents bought my brother and I an Atari 2600 the following Christmas, but I can't remember what the first game I actually played was. I remember what games I had, so it was one of the following:

PacMan
Ms PacMan
Combat
Night Driver -might have the name of this wrong
Breakout - This, like the Night Driver game used a 'paddle' control!
Phoenix
Jungle Hunt
Defender

I had some other games too, but bought those later, so they couldn't have been my first game.

Raiders of the Lost Ark and Crystal Castles spring to mind!

I remember my mum used to play Ms Pacman for hours on end!

I had a ZX81, then a Speccy 48, then at school we had a japanese kid join our class, and he had a NES. That was it for me.

BORGDRONE wrote:
> I actually first played Gorf on the Vic 20, It was a cartridge game
> with four levels, but addictive as hell!.

Wasnt GORF the first arcade game to feature speech?
(admittadly Stephen Hawkins style speech)

Did they manage to fit any ono the Vic20 game?

I actually first played Gorf on the Vic 20, It was a cartridge game with four levels, but addictive as hell!.

But it was not until two games appeared on the Commodore 64 that i became totally hooked on computer games.

I entered a competition in Computer & Video Games mag to design a super dreadnought for the game Uridium by Andrew Braybrook. I was a runner-up and recieved a copy of the game, which stay in the data casette for months, because it was bloody good!.
Next up was Leaderboard. Okay, so its golf - but never before had there been an arcade perfect and accessible golf game, or at least one that i could actually beat the computer at.

However, i do find newer games on PC tend to lack longterm lasting appeal...