Earliest Gaming Memory

coadyd · 12-03-2010 3:34pm

Does this count http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Pong.png

PONG ,

Auvers · 12-03-2010 4:21pm

I suppose

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falan · 12-03-2010 4:23pm

Josey Wales wrote: »

. It came on a cartridge with Klaxx, Fiendish Freddie's Big Top O' Fun and International Soccer.

I remember my cousins had that haha Used to play for hours

FruitLover · 12-03-2010 6:52pm

Space Invaders (and later, Pacman) back in nineteen-eighty-whatever.

FearDark · 12-03-2010 6:57pm

First memory was when my brother arrived home one day with an Atari 2600, It looked like it was made out of wood and had more knobs and switches than anything! Put in a cartridge, "Centipede", honestly was the best thing I had ever seen in my entire life, at this stage I didnt even know what a computer was! Alternated from Centipede to Pac Man to Moon Patrol all night long! Amazing

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Professey Chin · 12-03-2010 7:09pm

My sister got one of these for xmas in 1990(I woulda been 4).
Good old Atari ST.She got Space Harrier,Bomb Jack,Ikari Warriors and Impossible Mission 2 for it.

A couple weeks later for my birthday then my parents gave me something that was actually mine for it too.

Fcuk you Dizzy.Fcuk you!:mad:

I rant about this game quite often around here

12-03-2010 9:40pm

I was the sad kid who had a BBC micro while everyone else had c64 and spectrum

Then again, they didn't have this bad boy, which I spent countless, eye-watering hours on:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZkuinqmRAQ

So who's the real loser, eh?

landsleaving · 12-03-2010 9:58pm

Harrier Attack on the Amstrad CPC464. It had the shortest load time of most of my games so it got played the most! Bloody half an hour to load scalextric, but the day I finally got a colour monitor it was worth it

I saved pocket money for a year to get that Amstrad, and it was worth every penny. Match Day II ftw!

Fnz · 12-03-2010 10:09pm

Couple of games I remember playing, on something my dad owned, called a Sord M5.

Tank Battalion

Here is someone playing the game (poorly) on youtube (quality is fairly diabolical).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEKCJYlcJ58

Moon Patrol

I like the music - endlessly repeatable, never starts to 'grate'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8zNmIpjThI

[EDIT]: Earliest hand-held game I can think of was one of these 2-player PacMan2 units:

niallb · 12-03-2010 10:36pm

Like Noffles, I remember 3D Monster Maze on the ZX81, and a space combat one from the same people called "3D Defender"
I also remember typing in games in BASIC, but one that stands out was called ["The Valley"
where you had to type in 8K of hexadecimal numbers off the back of a poster.
Each paragraph had a CRC check of some type so you could tell if you'd made a mistake!
Just found a link to a copy of it, it folded out and the whole back of it was full of code.
Here's The Valley, there were others in the series.
Earliest memories though are a few years before that.
Still remember the first time I saw a table version of space invaders (Rosslare),
and seeing Asteroids for the first time (Salthill).
First thing I saw on a non dedicated console was a flight simulator.
It was running on a Vax 11 mainframe in 1977, and was text only.
You had a code where you could type in what you wanted to do with the controls,
and it sent you back a line or two of code that you could interpret as your instrument panel readouts.
It really felt like flying! (and crashing)

weiland79 · 13-03-2010 10:26am

eddhorse wrote: »

Mine was Nightbreed on the C64

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfFKFAEdXWE

No idea what was going on half the time

God i'd totally forgotten about that game.Cheers!

eddhorse · 13-03-2010 11:45am

Yeah it was part of the Nightmoves pack !

http://retro-treasures.blogspot.com/2007/06/commodore-64-night-moves-pack.html

Also had the mind benders pack, which was good too.

The other ones in the NighMoves pack are :
Midnight Resistance