Random Thread... first computer.

a mate of mine had a console, don't know which one but he had an annoying game called Frogger, anyone remember this?

 

Didn't get a computer till the Amiga.

Had one of these for Christmas 1977

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

 

48K zx spectrum. Match day was the game of the times and took about 5-6 minutes to load on the tape deck. Then advanced to Amiga 500 and sensible soccer.

First games console was a Atari system then after working a few weeks bought a playstation. Destruction derby was my game of choice

 

I had something called "grandstand"? I think that's what it was, had a tennis and football game, quality!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandstand_(game_manufacturer)

 

My best mate had one of those. I thought it was the nuts because it had the tape deck built in. Superb. Did you have Roland on the Ropes?

 

Toshiba MSX 64k - tape deck based machine. Circles looked distinctly square. It had a ROM cartridge slot though, and the great thing about that was there were no load up times on the ROM games. Tapes you'd go and do something else for a while and keep coming back to make sure the load hadn't failed! As the machine got older you had to hold one of the wires at the side of the tape deck at a very particular angle or it wouldn't work. Dad gave it to me (I was about 7) when he got an Atari ST

Dad tells me about an Atari 2600 and a Vic 20 we had but I honestly don't remember us having those.

When we moved on to a Atari ST 512 with a double disk drive, and a mouse, well it felt like the future. No hard drive though!

On my 13th birthday I got my first PC. This future proof piece of kit consisted of a 386DX processor running at 33mhz 4 meg ram 80 meg HD. It had an 8 bit sound card (a soundblaster) which made The Secret of Monkey Island sound brilliant! This was some years before the Internet.

 

Loved that game. Did you ever play 'river raid'?

 

Don't suppose anyone remembers a classic beat em up series called 'ye ha kung fu'?

I basically mastered the first game which just got quicker and quicker. Dad bought me the second game which featured a baddy who would fart of you and you would be momentarily paralysed so he could lay into you? Bizarre. It was a Konami game.

 

My first was an Atari 1300 XE. I used to love playing Fred:

[video=youtube;qb8dFqYd6aM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qb8dFqYd6aM[/video]

 

I don't remember, mate.

I remember Animal Vegetable Mineral though. And my mate had a game called Basterd on the Spectrum.

 

Lol Street Fighter 2 before it happened. God bless Konami.

 

My older brother had a ZX81 with the flat plastic keyboard, but I can't really remember playing too many games on it apart from some simple text adventures and also the legendary first Football Manager. Didn't really get into the computer games side of things until we later upgraded to a Spectrum.

We also managed to get hold of an Atari VCS at some stage, and thinking back now I find I still have a soft spot for Combat, Space Invaders, and for some strange reason Dig Dug, however the best game I ever played on the Atari was Defender, which was an absolute beast of a game, and still would be now! I remember I used to rent Atari games from the local video shop (they charged peanuts too - this was in the days before chains like Blockbuster got in on the act), and would sometimes take a game back hoping nobody else had put their name down for it, so that I could rent it straight back out again. Them were the days.

 

Bruce Lee on speccy 48 - first game I completed. Used to just go back round and do it again. Sure I remember doing it without losing a life.

 

Do you know what, I think Bruce Lee might have been one of the first Spectrum games I ever completed too, seem to remember I'd borrowed it from a lad at school, and then kept 'forgetting' to bring it back until I'd finished it.

 

Pong , atari 2600, vic 20, commodore 64, Amiga 500, DELL PL, game cube, various laptops then x box 360

 

The pong TV console thing. Then an Atari.

Our junior school had a ZX81. No fcuker knew how to use it. Somehow, a friend and I convinced the teacher we were computer experts and we were given time out of lessons to use the computer. I guess the staff didn't want this bloody thing they'd bought to sit there gathering dust. We used to type in the code for games from computer mags and play them all afternoon. That's what counted as education in the early 80s. Not an app or a download or a blu-ray disc or a DVD or a CD or a floppy disc or even a tape or a cartridge; we used to type the ******* games in by hand!

Speaking of teachers and technology. Do you remember when they used to wheel the big telly in on a trolley to watch a schools programme that someone had taped. Under the telly was one of those newfangled video recorders. The most basic electronic machine you could imagine, looking like a great big tape recorder. Not a single teacher in our school had a scooby how to use it. The most entertaining half hour of the week was watching the teacher trying to put a video tape in to a vcr and get the pictures to appear on the telly, before eventually swallowing their pride and asking an 8 year old to do it for them. I'd love to see how they cope with a smart phone.

 

Spending full days typing the code in for a game from Crash magazine, find out it doesn't work, wait a month for the next Crash to come out to read the error they made on line 467. Basterds.

 

Our kid still has my Sinclair Spectrum and all the games we got bolloxed after the Wednesday game and played Bruce Lee and Football manager (or championship manager).


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