Mine was an Apple IIc. I picked it up (actually my parents did for me) in about 1982 after reading about all
the really cool looking games like Zork, Ultima, Wizardry and King's Quest that I couldn't play on my Atari 2600.

What was the first actual game I played on it?

Lemonade Stand

Lol

What was everyone else's first computer?

Mine was a commodore plus/4. The only kickass games you could play on it were the ones you wrote yourself in BASIC and stored on an audio tape. No floppies, just audio tape. Plus no computer monitor, only television hookups. Nice... very nice...

> Mine was an Apple IIc. I picked it up (actually my parents did for me) in about
> 1982 after reading about all
> the really cool looking games like Zork, Ultima, Wizardry and King's Quest that
> I couldn't play on my Atari 2600.
>
> What was the first actual game I played on it?
>
> Lemonade Stand
>
> Lol
>
> What was everyone else's first computer?
>

My first computer was a C128 D, i believe it was 1987 or 88. I even programmed a little Basic on it hehe :)

.st.

Sinclair ZX Spectrun 128K +3

It was the first (and last I think) Spectrum to come with a floppy disk drive, and apart from the games that game with it, I never once foud another floppy disk Spectrum game in the 3 months I owned it, so had to load games from tape anyway.

> Mine was an Apple IIc.

... Atari 800 XL around 1983 or so. My first game was Summer Games by Epyx, followed by lots of Infocom titles, but I spent most of my time playing around with AtariBASIC. I had already had some experience with Apple II's at my computer lab at school, so I was hooked.

My favorite computer to date had to be the ol' trusty Amiga. What a fine piece of modern computing technology... in its day. Still brings a tear to the eye when firing up a new version of WinUAE. *sniffles*

Still have it :)

I still have my old Tandy 1000 TX, too :)

Thing had the green monitor and two floppy drives (and a whopping 128 or 256K of RAM!)

I remmeber playing alot of text-based games as well as this one game which was based on the Jungle King. There was also this other game I remember fondly where you had to smash bricks without dropping your wrecking ball. Ah, the memories. Too bad my father sold it before we got our first 486.

Yay

Still have it hooked up today even :)



Pete

(nt)

nt = somthigngf

> (nt)
>

1985 i think.. a msx.. (i already have a2600 before that.. and bought a sms some months after the msx..)

first game played on it : Moon Patrol (cartridge) very cool.. (*starts humming moon patrol music..)

> Mine was an Apple IIc. I picked it up (actually my parents did for me) in about
> 1982 after reading about all
> the really cool looking games like Zork, Ultima, Wizardry and King's Quest that
> I couldn't play on my Atari 2600.
>
> What was the first actual game I played on it?
>
> Lemonade Stand
>
> Lol
>
> What was everyone else's first computer?
>
It followed by Binatone in the early 80s.

The Treble

And it r0xx0red! Let me see... I had Thundercats, Thunderbirds, Back to the Future II and Dragons Lair - they were the games that my parents bought with the computer. I think I was 7... I was definitely 7 or 8 when I first got it. That was for Christmas...

And I remember that 2 days later, I was writing my first programs. I was copying them out of the manual (they were really AMAZING manuals!) and wrote several games. That started me on the path to where I am now... a games programmer! :)

- Lion

EmuChrist - where posts aren't deleted without an actual reason.

[nt]

So long...


'Now the time is here
for Iron Man to spread fear,
Vengeance from the grave
kills the people he once saved'
© Black Sabbath '70
*grunt* Metal *gnarf*

God how i loved to play games like Castle, Magical Tree and King's Valley!!!





Help 'em stop hunger you selfish son of a bitch!!! :-)




Death Knight

Mine was a Sinclair ZX81, had 1k of ram and no loading device.
I later got a tape player that meant you could load games into the 1k, and then got the (WOO HOO!) 16k ram pack for it, which got so hot you used to have to put a packet of frozen peas on it to keep it cool, but it meant you could get more letters on screen at once :)

Cheers,

Six...(old man)

System16 - The Arcade Museum

the c64 was the first one i owned, but my elementry school had apple ii's that we used.




baby, the other white meat!

I still have that infernal "Athletic Land" tune in my head after all these years.....AAAAgggggghhhhhhhhhh someone make it stop!!


> Mine was an Apple IIc. I picked it up (actually my parents did for me) in about
> 1982 after reading about all
> the really cool looking games like Zork, Ultima, Wizardry and King's Quest that
> I couldn't play on my Atari 2600.
>
> What was the first actual game I played on it?
>
> Lemonade Stand
>
> Lol
>
> What was everyone else's first computer?
>



Ooga Booga. Kicking Ass and Taking Names!!

Computer #1 - A Franklin Apple-II clone with a light-green-on-dark-green monochrome screen about 3 inches x 3 inches embedded in the case. I'm still investigating what the model number was - maybe it was a "hacked" clone as well (it came with some pirated Apple-II software)

Computer #2 - TI-99/4A. Don't get me started talking about it, I won't shut up! First learned BASIC programming on this. :)

Computer #3 - Laser 128/EX (or was it the 128/EX2?) - another Apple-II clone...

So you can see where my parents' minds were... :)

Note: I don't believe system ROMs for #1 or #3 have ever been "dumped"...

Stiletto

P.S. Oh, and "Parsec" and "Montezuma's Revenge" on the respective systems - I was SO addicted to them...

Wish I still had my Tandy...
Would love to play Microbes again... lol
Even though its just asteroids, that was the first game I was ever addicted to.

:)

I still have it, and it's a lot of fun to program for ;)

The Acorn BASIC ROM was one of the best versions of BASIC around at the time.

My old school only just got rid of their last BBC Master back in 1994... PCs looked all shiny and futuristic in comparison, but I couldn't program 'em. Balls.

> Mine was an Apple IIc. I picked it up (actually my parents did for me) in about
> 1982 after reading about all
> the really cool looking games like Zork, Ultima, Wizardry and King's Quest that
> I couldn't play on my Atari 2600.
>
> What was the first actual game I played on it?
>
> Lemonade Stand
>
> Lol
>
> What was everyone else's first computer?
>


-Prophet-
www.retrogames.com

---
Paul Priest

> Mine was an Apple IIc. I picked it up (actually my parents did for me) in about
> 1982 after reading about all
> the really cool looking games like Zork, Ultima, Wizardry and King's Quest that
> I couldn't play on my Atari 2600.
Yeah, 2600 was very limited. BTW, //c didn't exist in 1982...nor did //e.

>
> What was the first actual game I played on it?
>
> Lemonade Stand
I have a DOS version if you'd like. :)

>
> Lol
>
> What was everyone else's first computer?
>
My first computer was a //e, old BIOS, moved on to //c, used //e enhanced and IIgs v1 often. First PC I owned was a PCjr.

- The Usotsuki aka Dosius,
author of "Dapple", an Apple ][ emulator

> Computer #1 - A Franklin Apple-II clone with a light-green-on-dark-green
> monochrome screen about 3 inches x 3 inches embedded in the case. I'm still
> investigating what the model number was - maybe it was a "hacked" clone as well
> (it came with some pirated Apple-II software)
>
> Computer #2 - TI-99/4A. Don't get me started talking about it, I won't shut up!
> First learned BASIC programming on this. :)
>
> Computer #3 - Laser 128/EX (or was it the 128/EX2?) - another Apple-II clone...
>
> So you can see where my parents' minds were... :)
>
> Note: I don't believe system ROMs for #1 or #3 have ever been "dumped"...
>
For the Franklin, boot basic DOS 3.3 and type:
BSAVE FRANKLIN.ROM,A$D000,L12288
copy the file to an 800K ProDOS disk on a IIgs and transfer it to a Mac. If it's a true-blue ][+ clone it should work. The Laser won't, it's a //c clone, 32K BIOS probably.

> Stiletto
>
> P.S. Oh, and "Parsec" and "Montezuma's Revenge" on the respective systems - I
> was SO addicted to them...
>


- The Usotsuki aka Dosius,
author of "Dapple", an Apple ][ emulator

> Wish I still had my Tandy...
> Would love to play Microbes again... lol
> Even though its just asteroids, that was the first game I was ever addicted to.
>
> :)
>
TRS-80, CoCo or 1000-series?

- The Usotsuki aka Dosius,
author of "Dapple", an Apple ][ emulator

> Thing had the green monitor and two floppy drives (and a whopping 128 or 256K of
> RAM!)
>
> I remmeber playing alot of text-based games as well as this one game which was
> based on the Jungle King. There was also this other game I remember fondly
> where you had to smash bricks without dropping your wrecking ball. Ah, the
> memories. Too bad my father sold it before we got our first 486.
>
>
>
>
GS in 1985? It didn't come out until '86 :)

Wrecking ball...bricks...you mean "Arkanoid Revenge of DoH" ? I got PC version if you want, runs same speed on Tandy 1000HX (Turbo 8088) and a 5x86/133. And MAME emulates it too.

- The Usotsuki aka Dosius,
author of "Dapple", an Apple ][ emulator

> Mine was an Apple IIc. I picked it up (actually my parents did for me) in about
> 1982 after reading about all
> the really cool looking games like Zork, Ultima, Wizardry and King's Quest that
> I couldn't play on my Atari 2600.
>
> What was the first actual game I played on it?
>
> Lemonade Stand
>
> Lol
>
> What was everyone else's first computer?
>

Later including a flaky 3rd-party 16KB add-on that'd develop a bad connection if you looked at it wrong. Woohoo.