what was your first pc gaming memory?

[Regz]

The Bard's Tale is what I remember: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhhuCIlGEPU

I probably played something prior to that, but it's the earliest one I remember.

KT

Jesus, that music would make me quit after a few seconds aha.

 

[BladeVenom]

Jesus, that music would make me quit after a few seconds aha.

You just lack an appreciation for 4-bit music

 

[Slick Mcflicken]

Old Tandy's and Commodore PETS, but the old man bought a Commodore VIC 20 with the tape deck and we hooked it up to an old Lloyds13" B/W tv. Played the hell out of GORF, Lunar Lander etc. Plus copying tapes/game/programs on a old Technics dual tape deck stereo before floppies were main stream.

Here's a great site for old vintage computer info if you didn't know.

http://oldcomputers.net/

 

[Blue_Max]

You just lack an appreciation for 4-bit music

I wouldn't even call that PC-Squealer 4-bit... single voice on or off... that's ONE-bit!

It didn't even support Tandy 3-voice music. Heck, the C64 version wasn't any better as far as I've found. The Amiga version came out later and destroyed the others! I can see why Amiga users were so snotty in those pre-VGA days!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZwEkp7ZTco

 

[toughtrasher]

Honestly, it was one of those "1000 games in 1" boxes. Had a pretty old computer as a child (raised by only 1 parent), yet I had so much enjoyment. Now, I've got a PS4, a decent computer, and it seems I'm taking things for granted though I really am thankful for what I have.

Also, we bought a PS2 when I was around 8, and I remember beating Tekken 4 so many times but not being able to save because we couldn't afford the memory cards. Oh, these were honestly the golden times.

 

[InfiniteLurker]

In the early 80's, playing snake on a Commodore PET loaded via cassette tape, and playing some touch screen games on a PLATO.

I've been hooked ever since!

 

[DLGenesis]

playing Z

 

[tinmann]

That would be Doom.

 

[acheron]

There was also:

Aw yeah. I can still run through most of the castle and the solution in my head.

 

[ethebubbeth]

For me it in monochrome on an IBM 8080.

 

[z1ggy]

I remember playing Where in The World Is Carmen San Diego on PC when I was younger. Then after that as far as real gaming goes, probably the original beta for Counter Strike, along with Half life. After that I think I got into the beta for Team Fortress.

 

[AV1611]

Dungeons of Daggorath for my Tandy Color Computer II with 16k ram. The game was on a cartridge that plugged into the side of the computer, but your games were saved to a cassette drive............ yes, as in music cassette for you young 'uns. D of D was an awesome game.

 

[biostud]

Qbasic gorilla

Styx

Frogger

Qbert

Digger

 

[TROLLERCAUST]

Amiga 500 :wub:
First gaming memory: no idea.

 

[shortylickens]

playing Z

Z was awesome. Too hard for me. But fun stuff.
Steel Soldierz was OK too.

 

[Nemesis13]

Something on a Macintosh in grade school where fish ate other fish and then oregon trail

 

[Jaepheth]

For me, we had a few games on 5 inch floppies for our old IBM compatible (286 CGA or EGA I think)

1. Space Decathlon - Sort of 10 games in one; including: Rocket Sled (Navigate a maze), Lander (land on targetplatforms w/ various widths/points; the hardest one was in a cave), Asteroid Defense (incoming targets from 4 cardinal directs at increasing speed; shoot the targets), Some sort of navigation game (side scroll through a randomly generated obstacle course)

2. Virus (or Virus Rage?)- I don't remember much about this game. I didn't play it much because I didn't understand it. I seem to remember it being a board of cells and you try to prevent a virus from spreading. There was a cool syringe graphic though.

3. Pacman - Not sure which version this was, but it used the ASCII smiley face as Pacman, and there was a bug where if you got enough extra lives they'd break the wall of the maze allowing you to go off the board.


I would include screenshots, but apparently these games are lost to time.

EDIT: Found some Virus Rage pics, and Space Decathlon was by the same company (Fantasy Research, Inc.), but can't find any mention of it other than David Todd's Linked In profile (Currently CEO of Mass Media Games)

Virus Rage:

 

[Sulaco]

 

[Mem]

First gaming(not including arcade gaming machines) was probably first pc console I saw and played at a friends ie ZX81 with tomb of dracula,

Sinclair ZX81 specs,

ZX81
CPU: NEC P1X108-144 D780C-1 (Z80 compatible) 3.25MHz The clock frequency is gained from a high tolerance 6.5MHz chewing gum, not exactly a quartz oscillator, in fact, my oscilloscope tells me that my ZX81 is running at 3.33Mhz. Effective CPU Speed in SLOW mode (when Display is enabled) For 50Hz Display Refresh: 0.804600 MHz For 60Hz Display Refresh: 0.536400 MHz Custom: FERRANTI ULA 2C184E 8147 Combines the ZX80 video circuit in one chip, plus NMI-generator Video Tech Data Video: 32x24 Characters (256x192 pixels), 64x48 Dots Block Graphics Characters: 64 Characters, defined in ROM area Attributes: Normal and Inverted (separately for each char) Memory 8 Kbytes ROM 1 KByte RAM built-in Expanision RAM: 16KBytes (most popular) up to 56KBytes

 

[Mem]

You just lack an appreciation for 4-bit music

You are lucky you had music,my first ZX81 gaming experience had no sound lol...

 

[lilrayray69]

Fallout 2

 

[KeithTalent]

You just lack an appreciation for 4-bit music

Haha, yeah! 4-bit 4-ever!

KT

 

[JumBie]

Mixed-Up Mother Goose

 

[futurefields]

 

[pontifex]

nm, already posted earlier.