OT: Any One Remember

Ludd · #1 October 9th, 2006, 05:58 PM

My first was an Apple IIc. 1mb ram, floppy drive only and monochrome monitor.

The games for it were great though. War In Russia by Gary Grigsby being my favourite.

My first game for it was all text with a map and counters provided. I think it was called Waterloo. Strange game.

capnq · #2 October 9th, 2006, 07:57 PM

I got started with home computers rather late, with a used Amiga 500 that was four years old when I got it. One of the games that came with it was Reach for the Stars (3rd ed. by SSG); I think that was my first 4X title.

narf poit chez BOOM · #3 October 9th, 2006, 11:06 PM

Vic-20. I still remember a game where you had to steal (Gold, I think) from a witches house and avoid her cats. Or one that was a collapsing mine-maze or a star wars trench run game...Games that came as basic programs in computer magazines...

Baron Munchausen · #4 October 10th, 2006, 04:34 PM

Hey, my first computer was a Tandy 1000 running at 8 mhz! Wow... and I bought a Sony V20 'clone' chip to make it go even faster.

I think I still have that V20 chip, or a spare, around here somewhere. The T1000 is long gone, though.

Devnullicus · #5 October 11th, 2006, 01:43 AM

Heh, TI-99/4A was my first computer. It had a CASSETTE drive and a whole 16K of RAM. Boy, I was stylin'

My first real program was a silly little dungeon crawl on that TI using a primitive BASIC.

Heh, I guess I just dated myself, huh

Ya know, I used to think I spent too much time on the computer, and especially playing games. I'm obsessed with games - always have been: computer games, board games, RPGs, you name it. Finally, I gave up trying to resist them and I got a job making games for a living. If you can't beat 'em...

That said, I do see my productivity at work going down for a while as I get into SE V. Now, if only I could get a damn copy of the real game instead of the demo. *sigh*