Aja on 5/5/2017 at 19:47
First PC game I remember playing was Hugo's House of Horrors at a friend's house. We mostly just typed "Fuck you" into the command line and laughed at the offended response.
I guess the first game console I ever played was my dad's Intellivision, though I mainly remember that from later on in my childhood, when I'd try to convince him we should hook it up again Truthfully, the games were pretty bad overall, but a few of them -- Snafu, Bomb Squad, Tron Deadly Discs -- were kinda fun.
First time I recall seeing FMV in games was at another friend's house, playing a demo disc that came with his PS1. And that was pretty much the coolest thing ever until N64 came out.
When my parents first bought us PC (which wasn't until 1998, when my school said I should have one), it came with Motoracer, and I remember I couldn't believe how great the graphics were, even on the PC's built-in 2mb graphics card.
First sports game was Kobe Bryant NBA on N64 one time. I rented it from the video store when I was sick, and that may have been the only time I've played a sports game since. Or I suppose Intellivision Golf came first, which was pretty decent for its day.
Malf on 6/5/2017 at 00:02
Ah, the fun some programmers used to have with swear-words. I think my most memorable game for that was IK+, where typing fuck or the C-bomb twice reset the game.
Thirith on 6/5/2017 at 09:34
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Wow Malf, stirring up some memories, totally forgotten about Starglider and Zero Tolerance, they were great.
I remember some of these from reading about them; I never played
Driller but spent hours trying (and failing) to understand its follow-up,
Dark Side, though on the C-64.
PigLick on 6/5/2017 at 11:53
Dark Side also came out for the Amstrad, but being in Australia, none of those titles were ever available. I used to read the UK mags, and dream of what could be
PigLick on 6/5/2017 at 14:09
I actually wrote a whole text/rpg adventure in basic, after weeks of coding it I got my sister to test play it, and she did and promptly quit out and closed the program, which for some reason I hadnt saved. 100's of lines of basic code, gone forever.
I gave up game dev after that.
icemann on 6/5/2017 at 14:17
My first ever project was turning a Fighting Fantasy gamebook "Space Assassin" into a computer based text adventure. Was coding it in Dark Basic. Scanning in the on-paper pictures as I went. As the books sections are numbered I did them in order. Got about halfway through the 350 or so sections and then lost interest. Was easy enough stuff, but just very time consuming.
Pyrian on 6/5/2017 at 17:12
PigLick's story reminds me of a curiosity of Apple ]['s: If you booted them without a disk in the disk drive, you'd have to put in a disk and reboot to be able to save to the disk. This meant to several nascent programs lost to the dread realization that there was no "Disk Operating System" loaded. And the program is still there! You just... Can't save it. Ugh.
SubJeff on 7/5/2017 at 08:47
I can't remember what my first genre games are, but I remember the first ones I got into an was amazed by.
I first played on a Binatone. We had a ZX81 but I never gamed on it. ZX Spectrum Elite was the first game I owned. I played it a lot on my Amiga 500 too.
There were so many great games on the Spectrum. Atic Atak - what genre is that? Spyhunter. Cybernoid. I had loads. There was this one platformerish game I'd like to remember. You were a wizard trying to get the pages of a spell book. The pages floated and there were (iirc) light and dark pages.
The first RPG I really got into was Eye of The Beholder. I had Dungeon Master (which is great) but it was EotB and EotB2 that really gripped me. I remember being able to use your EotB characters in part 2. I thought that was amazing.
PigLick on 7/5/2017 at 10:31
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