yzerman19 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 I grew up in the 1980s, playing INTELLIVISION games. Then I discovered how fun computer games were by 1983. The rest is history. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffydd Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 What is that, Tandy color? It's been a long time since I used one, but that's what it reminds me of.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Royhr Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 Holy crap and I thought I was old... Wait I am because I remember using all of the systems mentioned in this thread and probably more.... I sadly remember playing and actually really enjoying Pong.... :sad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
credozero Posted June 7, 2016 Author Share Posted June 7, 2016 My first game was Ant Attack on the ZX Spectrum - so I may be old but at least I'm not alone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
credozero Posted June 7, 2016 Author Share Posted June 7, 2016 I don't see why anyone using a console version of a game would come to the Nexus. ...ETC Back to top Quote Well, I'm here to beg for Mods and slash and burn if I don't get my own way obviously! Or more seriously, I've spent the weeks since the CK went live seeing if I can get my head round how it works - and I figured adding mods to my PC copy of F4 (yes I have one - I'm sure if the shop had known I also had it on console they would have kicked me out of the store but luckily they neglected to ask, lucky break for me!) would help with my learning curve. + This seemed to be the place where I could learn most by reading. Sucks if my presence here spoils your day but on the bright side, being a total clueless beginner at this I wont have much to say on any threads so you will hardly notice me. If I do find I need to type anything near you I will do it super quietly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jones177 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 I am glad to hear I am not the only old timer.My first console was the 2600. My first computer was the Atari 400. Since the 400 came with Basic programing language I had reason to go to the local university to learn to program it. I wrote 2 games for the 400 & they took a half hour to load off of the tape drive. Not fun. I gave up programing & focused on 3D in the 16 bit(Amiga) era. You think hardware is expensive now, my computer back then cost twice as much as the car I drove. Thinks got progressively more affordable in the 32bit era. I did console gaming up until Fallout N/V. It was the last console game I ever purchased. I find computer gaming more fun. I even played on the sofa for a while. I did create mods for simulations & eventually went indie or at the time payware. My mods were stolen back then. Dealing with it as an individual was hard. But it was all worth it. The programs I learned to do 3D modding in 2001 are the programs I use to make my living today. The lessons I learned modding games gives me an edge in the work place even now. There is always a negative in what ever you do but that is part of the game & lessons learned. Later Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jc9542 Posted June 7, 2016 Share Posted June 7, 2016 I had this baby before I got a console, though I'm not sure where it technically falls haha. Had a crt monitor, "game" cartridges and all. http://i.imgur.com/53gRvwz.jpg Damn is that a C64? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soupdragon1234 Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 (edited) It's got to suck a huge one for you people to have us console kids all up in your mod business allofasudden, it would have been a pissing contest without this whole insult to injury fiasco. All I can do is say as one gamer to another... heartfelt sorry for the xbo pricks doing the mod theft. Makes me ashamed to be an xbox user. I'd go back to PC, but if you sat on my sofa you would understand... it's sooooo comfortable. Hey I'm a PC user too but I sit on a comfy sofa too with a game pad, dual monitors FTW (one is a 40" HDTV). PC's are so much more... flexible these days. Maybe you should try it sometime. (Yeah I know what you were trying to say and its appreciated. Not all console users are jerks. Plus I've owned loads of consoles too and yes, I'm no spring chicken either.) My first game was Ant Attack on the ZX Spectrum - so I may be old but at least I'm not alone. Heh, my first was Acorn electron then a BBC Master 128k. I thought about getting a Speccy but I never could bear the thought of those membrane keyboards. :tongue: Well, I'm here to beg for Mods and slash and burn if I don't get my own way obviously! Or more seriously, I've spent the weeks since the CK went live seeing if I can get my head round how it works - and I figured adding mods to my PC copy of F4 (yes I have one - I'm sure if the shop had known I also had it on console they would have kicked me out of the store but luckily they neglected to ask, lucky break for me!) would help with my learning curve. + This seemed to be the place where I could learn most by reading. Sucks if my presence here spoils your day but on the bright side, being a total clueless beginner at this I wont have much to say on any threads so you will hardly notice me. If I do find I need to type anything near you I will do it super quietly. Don't worry we were all beginners once upon a time, as in a year or two ago in my case. Got seven mods on Nexus now and a big one in the pipeline. Go me. So never apologise for your age! :thumbsup: Holy crap and I thought I was old... Wait I am because I remember using all of the systems mentioned in this thread and probably more.... I sadly remember playing and actually really enjoying Pong.... :sad: That was a great game, spent endless hours with Pong. Large bats or small? Angles? 20 or 40 degree bounce? I prefered the 40 as it made it harder 20 was way too easy to predict its movements. First videogame I ever played. I had this baby before I got a console, though I'm not sure where it technically falls haha. Had a crt monitor, "game" cartridges and all. http://i.imgur.com/53gRvwz.jpg Damn is that a C64? Sure is, remember those well. Edited June 8, 2016 by soupdragon1234 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruffydd Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 I was never very familiar with the C64. Back when I was in CompSci in ninth grade, everyone else was always all over the one Commodore we had or the various Atari 400s (because they were all in *gasp* color), so since they were always open I started playing around on the Trash-80 model IIIs. If nothing else, at least they actually had disc drives (take a hole puncher, punch a hole on the opposite side of the disc sleeve, double your storage space!) instead of a tape drive with a speaker with no way to turn it down. And people think the noises from dial-up connecting were obnoxious....My teacher jokingly told us that we could only play video games in class that we wrote... so I used the extended character set that included a little man, a little happy face, and some weird mushroom-with-feet looking things, got a basic compiler, and wrote Berserk. I was the only one who got to play video games in class.At the end of the year I happened to glance at the screen of his computer, which was always facing away from the class... the maze pattern from my Berserk game was burned onto his screen. I'm not a primal computer nerd (I never learned punch cards or assembled anything in my garage... I didn't get started until the PET came out), but I'm durned close. :) I just wish I'd thought of it as a career path and not a hobby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XX4HorsemenXX Posted June 8, 2016 Share Posted June 8, 2016 (edited) I had this baby before I got a console, though I'm not sure where it technically falls haha. Had a crt monitor, "game" cartridges and all. http://i.imgur.com/53gRvwz.jpg Damn is that a C64? YUP This one is missing the HDD, which looks like the (full size) floppy drive w/o the insert. Yes it was a separate unit Edited June 8, 2016 by XX4HorsemenXX Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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