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Posted January 20, 2011
The first I can remember the name of was castle wolfenstein on the apple II.
Second was Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Then.
Ultima III

I know there where some before that but I can not remember what they where.
Posted January 20, 2011
Prince of Persia on a Tandi in a Radio Shack maybe...?

Kung Fu on my C64?

Math Blaster (actually my first C64 game, sucked so bad... educational game...)

EDIT: forgot about some cool dungeon crawling game on the Apple IIe way back, I recall coming around a corner and some giant spider coming down from the ceiling and stealing my chest of treasure I'd found.
Post edited January 20, 2011 by orcishgamer
Posted January 20, 2011
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Rodzaju: My first was on the Commodore vic 20, "New York Blitz".
You were a bomber coming back from a cold war mission.
You were damaged & couldn't make it back to base.
You had to flatten enough of the city to make a landing strip.
It was great fun in the day, but can you imagine trying to release it now....
What the hell was the logic in that?? A single bomber with like 5-10 people aboard is worth more than large chunks of the presumably still populated new york? Did the flight crew not have parachutes? How is a plane supposed to land on a mountain of rubble anyway?

Sounds like hilaroiusly stupid fun
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Rodzaju: My first on a PC was "Grannies Garden" on the school BBC micro.
We all played it because it was there, but it was a bit naff.
Holy crap I remember that piece of garbage. Sitting there trying to pretend its a decent game when all I could think was "You know at home I've got 10th Frame, Enigma Force & Gunship"

Did your BBC Micro also have POD where the one and only entertaining thing about the game is that you could tell him to fart and he would?
Posted January 21, 2011
Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

Since then I have been hooked. I have owned a fair number of consoles but only ever really played games that were exclusive to them. Like MGS 3 on the PS2. Got tons of PC games.

At the moment I play on no console at all. Although I have thought about picking up a 360 to play Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV, and the new Mortal Kombat coming out.
Posted January 21, 2011
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Fuzzyfireball: Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D and DOOM.

Since then I have been hooked. I have owned a fair number of consoles but only ever really played games that were exclusive to them. Like MGS 3 on the PS2. Got tons of PC games.

At the moment I play on no console at all. Although I have thought about picking up a 360 to play Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV, and the new Mortal Kombat coming out.
RDR is electronic crack, I'd be playing it right now were I not babysitting...
Posted January 21, 2011
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Rodzaju: My first was on the Commodore vic 20, "New York Blitz".
You were a bomber coming back from a cold war mission.
You were damaged & couldn't make it back to base.
You had to flatten enough of the city to make a landing strip.
It was great fun in the day, but can you imagine trying to release it now....
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Aliasalpha: What the hell was the logic in that?? A single bomber with like 5-10 people aboard is worth more than large chunks of the presumably still populated new york? Did the flight crew not have parachutes? How is a plane supposed to land on a mountain of rubble anyway?

This was 1982 & I was 9 years old.
Questions like that never got asked!
If you didn't drop bombs quick enough, you would end up flying into whichever buildings were still standing.

Sounds like hilaroiusly stupid fun
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Rodzaju: My first on a PC was "Grannies Garden" on the school BBC micro.
We all played it because it was there, but it was a bit naff.
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Aliasalpha: Holy crap I remember that piece of garbage. Sitting there trying to pretend its a decent game when all I could think was "You know at home I've got 10th Frame, Enigma Force & Gunship"

Did your BBC Micro also have POD where the one and only entertaining thing about the game is that you could tell him to fart and he would?
I don't know what else was on it. GG was the only thing we ever played. This was 1983 & half an hour with GG was our school's excuse for a computer science lesson.
Posted January 21, 2011
Don't remember the exact order or even which system I was playing on first, but these are some of the first games I ever played (on a computer) that still stick in my head today

Forget which systems, but amstrad's, c64's and apple II's mostly
Sabotage - still remember this one
Monkey Magic - its monkey!
Leisure Suit Larry (forget which) - those crazy adult questions (and who WAS the US president in whenever?)
Snakebyte - so simple, so easy to screw yourself, so awesome
Loderunner - such a simple game, but so much win
Wings of Fury - dogfights over enemy entrenchments! torpedoing battleships! bombing gun emplacements! crashing every time you try to land for refueling/rearming! awesome game
Return to Castle Wolfenstein - oh god, its a stormtrooper and its OH SHIT ITS GOT A VEST AND ITS CHASING ME THROUGH 8 ROOMS

And then for some reason I stopped playing them for ages, until I became friends with a guy who just happened to have a shiny new windows pc with the following games:

Tie Fighter: Collectors Edition
Heroes of Might and Magic II
Warcraft II
Command and Conquer

I was pretty well screwed after that.
Posted January 21, 2011
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MGShogun: Hmm, I must have been around 8 or 9, playing this detective game on Apple computer at school. I don't recalled if I beat it or not but all I know that it was pretty fun stuff. However, when my dad got the computer, I start to play lot of games on it full time like Tie fighter, Rampart, and skiing game.

Ah, good times.
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WiNG: Not sure about apple games but, being detective game and installed at a school... was it perhaps one of the Carmen Sandiego games?
Yep, it was Carmen Sandiego games. Ah, I should look for some of those games.
Posted January 21, 2011
approx. 1990, I played sopwitch, cat, zaxxon, digger, sokoban and couple more games
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