What was your first computer game?

bushmins · 3 Dec 2014 at 12:28

Bat n ball. On some orange box that had two paddles and plugged into the TV. Also had a light gun to play the 'shoot the white bouncing dot' game.

PaulieG · 3 Dec 2014 at 12:51

Space invaders and asteroids for me... Was the Atari console classed as a computer at the time.

If not then I guess it was Manic Miner, damn that was a classic.

dink · 3 Dec 2014 at 12:53

Doom 2

rs1800 · 3 Dec 2014 at 13:53

My dad worked for DEC and in about 1977 bought home a PDP11 with VT100 and a huge floppy drive (like 12"+) and I remember having to type in a massive amount of numbers (think he called it a boot strap) to gett it to start.

then I played Colossal Cave Adventure for about 6 months and never finished it.

robfosters · 3 Dec 2014 at 13:58

A distinctly yellow game on Speccy called Cliffhanger.

Can anyone tell me what the screeching noise when a game was loading was actually caused by?

Gimpymoo · 3 Dec 2014 at 14:38

I was lucky to have a Spectrum for christmas and a cassette case full of games purchased from the local garage/newsagents I assume

I remember this being one of them:

And this:

http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/articles/howtobeahero.htm

LupoLover · 3 Dec 2014 at 14:44

Settlers 1 on floppy disk!

Nate75 · 3 Dec 2014 at 16:12

ColEx said:
A game called Flying Shark on the ZX Spectrum, it took about 10 mins to load with about a 90% chance of crashing during that time waiting.

remember this - wow lol.

Was a cool game!

Lunatic Dreyfus · 3 Dec 2014 at 16:19

Blitz on the Vic 20.

That must be 30 years ago... Oh dear!

I do remember my parents having one of those Pong consoles as well. That's really going back though. :eek:

anything I don't mind · 3 Dec 2014 at 16:40

First purchased game was fifa97 came with my p133.

First 3d game i played on pc was wolfenstein 3d at school on 486.

ace-rimmer · 3 Dec 2014 at 16:42

pga tour golf and sim city i think

Jinxter · 3 Dec 2014 at 18:13

robfosters said:
A distinctly yellow game on Speccy called Cliffhanger.

Can anyone tell me what the screeching noise when a game was loading was actually caused by?

The distinctive screeching noises were the analogue signals on tape being converted by the speccy into digital code forming the game. Some machines were a lot quieter like the C64 which was capable of playing a tune during the loading screen for the game (from preloaded code not the cassette!) It had a great sound (SID) chip for its day

The_Bullet · 3 Dec 2014 at 18:56

My first "video" game was pong. First computer game, I think, was Daley Thompson's decathlon on Spectrum. First pc games were CM2 and Pizza Tycoon

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gilchrd · 3 Dec 2014 at 19:03

Frogger, had to be patient waiting it to load, worth it though!

dubs · 3 Dec 2014 at 19:34

Think it was The Last Ninja on the C64

scubes · 3 Dec 2014 at 22:41

Rings round Saturn zx81...

clungemonkey · 3 Dec 2014 at 23:12

Jetpac on the Spectrum 48k. Remember typing pokes in with me mum from Crash magazine for extra lives. Great days.

Ultimate games were the business, Head over Heels will always live long in the memory.

C64 · 28 Jun 2015 at 21:38

First ever computer game played or first ever game played on a pc as we know it today ?

First computer game played was a game we had to "program"(copy a load of stuff in) in to a zx81 at school a racing game.

First game played on pc as we know it today , ultimate soccer manager.

C64 · 28 Jun 2015 at 21:39

The_Bullet said:
My first "video" game was pong. First computer game, I think, was Daley Thompson's decathlon on Spectrum. First pc games were CM2 and Pizza Tycoon .

the question is did you take the rubber keyboard off so you could run faster and do more somersaults ?

Random Guy Esq. · 28 Jun 2015 at 21:42

Killer Gorilla, a blatant Donkey Kong rip-off on the BBC B.