That's the thread guys pack it upUgh. There are so many good entries in this thread. My own story seems a bit more complicated. I owned a Tandy 100 tapedeck (TRS-80) in the early to mid-80's. My parents wanted me to learn small amounts of BASIC programming at about the age of 4--which I did. I also had a couple of games for the system (that I didn't have to completely write in by hand). One was called Downland.
I don't remember ever really having fun playing this, but I played it quite a few times because I wanted to have fun. It was a very unforgiving game. Like, you would climb the rope only to fail to jump from the rope to the ledge because the button input failed or something, and so you would fall to your death. And there was dripping acid from the ceilings along with falling boulders. There was a lot of dying to be done here. And the worst part is that each of those keys would reveal a door, and sometimes that door would be revealed on a completely different screen meaning you would have to backtrack through all the clumsy obstacles you just barely completed to go find a door.
I consider this a much more interesting first game than listing the first game I probably actually ever had fun with. Super Mario Bros. would be an easy pick, but if I'm being completely honest it was actually Super Mario Bros. 3 that really firmly hooked me to gaming. I got so far into that game when a friend let me borrow it for a week. It was the first game I ever felt like I was progressing through on my own.
Same here.This was honestly a fun game to play. I remember flying around as Bartman and the Great Wall of China. I definitely didn't progress very far into this one, though.
Your old pc had a hard driveand 1mhz? Mine was a bit faster 8088 @8mhz, color cga 64k vram and 640k main ram,but no hard drive. It had 2 5 1/4" floppy drives and you had a boot disk that you would take out once you had dos 2.11 running. Before that my Apple ii didn't have a HD either. Back then if I recall they were very expensive. I didn't have one until my 386sx @16mhz.
Space Invaders on a Texas Instruments something or other and various games on a Magnavox Odyssey II (Pac-Man clone, Invaders clone etc.).
I probably was 3 to 6 years old during this.
Later it was Spacewar and Digger on a single digit mhz PC with a whopping 20 mb ! harddrive.
These were all fairly simple.
Sometime during the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles craze (late 80's early 90's) I got a TMNT NES bundle. That game was frustrating as hell, but I still loved it due to my fandom.
Then T2 Terminator 2 which again was a frustrating/bad game but I loved it because it was the effing Terminator! Similar situation with RoboCop.
The really good games I remember enjoying on a more deeper level were Powerblade and MegaMan.
Somewhere mixed in all this are also Pirates! and The Last Ninja on C64
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Your old pc had a hard driveand 1mhz? Mine was a bit faster 8088 @8mhz, color cga 64k vram and 640k main ram,but no hard drive. It had 2 5 1/4" floppy drives and you had a boot disk that you would take out once you had dos 2.11 running. Before that my Apple ii didn't have a HD either. Back then if I recall they were very expensive. I didn't have one until my 386sx @16mhz.
Oh what country is that mega man box from? "High definition graphics, state of the art".. Lol I don't remeber the US cover with that. At least your box wasn't some weird looking Jr high school drawing of a goofy man
Great, figured I was the only one with an Intellivision. That console wasn't as popular but man did it have much better looking graphics and games than 2600 at the time. Higher resolution and number of colors. The controllers may have been awkward, but they were unique. Better than the Atari stiff stick with solitary button. These controllers had 4 buttons 2 on each side, a anlaog disc for movement and like you mentioned the phone like number pad with overlays for 8 more buttons. Also some games had speech. Keep in mind this was before nes.I played a ton of Combat on the 2600 at a neighbor's house. Dad bought home an Intellivision in 83, I think, and that had the first games I played with "depth." Or as much depth as you could get in that hardware gen.
Intellivision's much maligned controller, which was terrible let me tell you, was also the system's greatest strength. The keypad, and the myriad of overlays that games had for it, allowed for a level of depth that you didn't really see in other console titles of that era.
Yeah its amazing how much pcs cost back then. Some where in the 4k range and would go obselete in a year.Heh. No it wasnt my pc. I was like 6 or 7 when my older brother got it. I dont remember if it was 1 mhz but single single digit Im pretty sure, so between 1 and 10 mhz. Yes it was very expensive, in the ballpark of 30.000 DKR (about $4300) in 1986 mind you. Black & white screen.
Thats the Mega Man cover we got here in the Faroe Islands. I suspect it was the cover for PAL regions or at least the Nordic countries.