Adrian Laguna Posted February 20, 2004 Share Posted February 20, 2004 My first video game was Mario Bros. (took me a long time to figure out that Bros. = Brothers). My grandmother (mother side of the family) and dad taught me how to play, my grandmother more than my dad, mostly because the NES was hers.My first real computer game (my mom had bought me several educational games before that, but those don't count) was Red Alert. I played it originally at the house of one of my parent's friends, they have a son 3-4 years older than me, he let me play Red Alert in his computer. Shortly afterwards, I asked my dad for Red Alert and he bought it. I still think Tanya is the coolest computer game character ever, and that Tesla Coils + dozens of Allied soldiers = one of the funniest things in the world. I think my second game was Driver (also lost), from then on my collection of Computer games has grown to 16 computer games, not including expasion packs, Driver, and Red Alert. I have about the same amount of N64 games, probably more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faust870 Posted February 26, 2004 Share Posted February 26, 2004 Holy crap, i think my very first computer game was probably Hugo, it was a texted base game... i had pitfall... hmm, wow, Diablo1 was my first serious game i think, then we got like Wing Commander, C&C Redalert... Doom, Hexen,... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quid Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 I used to love Quake ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vandorssen Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 Back in Ye Olde Days, I had an IBM PC XT, with 640KB RAM, 20MB hard drive, and a combination monochrome video/ parallel port adaptor. This was a stock IBM system, save that I did eventually put a Xylog RTC card in it (it had to be installed in the mystical “Slot 8”). On it was the grandfather of all computer RPGs: Zork. This was a text based RPG, where you typed in the commands of what you wanted to do. All and all, there were about 20 different games included (Zork Zero, Beyond Zork, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and a lot of others). I used to spend hours exploring the worlds that existed only in my imagination. If you got flustered, you could type in a curse word, and the game would come back with some witty reply, and sometimes even lower your intelligence score! One even had a character based map in the corner. That one also had a character creation system which (for all intents) greatly resembled the one used in Morrowind. Ah! Those were the days. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pack Rat Posted March 13, 2004 Share Posted March 13, 2004 Duke Nukem all the waaaaaaaaaay :P Can't remember much of my old games tho, just that one. and like Oghr, hexen was one of them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
suzerain Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 1996 was old? 1996 was only yesterday. bloody hell. I feel old now. god, I remember when I was a kid spending days playing Elite on the family Amstrad 464 on the first computer I had, and Gauntlet with friends...and seeing the first "PC". a 286 which must've run at something approaching 4mhz. power! And now we've got EVE online and X2 doing the same thing as Elite all those years ago... the more things change.... Suzerain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DiseasedPunk Posted March 15, 2004 Share Posted March 15, 2004 i remember when RL was released Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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