What was your first computer game?

[Monkeyboysteve]

My first game (that I remember) was Back 2 skool on the spectrum Loved that game.
Wish they would remake it...a proper sandbox game set in an English school.

 

[Flack88]

Marathon and Carmageddon on mac roughly around about 1997 when I would have been 7 years old.

 

[MadMouse101]

Out of these two games

Age of Empires or Rollercoaster tycoon

 

[almoststew1990]

I don't know what it was for me- we had a Commadore 64 and it was a vertical scrolling car combat game.

The first I can properly remember playing is Alladin and The Lion King. I think for the "drm" I had to enter words from the manual!

 

[ote1]

Thomas the Tank game of some sort. Involved many, many floppy disks.

 

[TonyTurbo78]

Chuckie Egg on Acorn Electron

 

[neoglow]

Paradroid 90 and Flood among many others on the Atari ST. Probably around 1988 or 1989.

Good times, good times.

 

[Robzere31]

Space invaders on my ZX81 back in 1981. Other classics were Football Manager, Flight Simulator & Sabouter.

 

[Jinxter]

Jelly Monsters Cartridge for VIC 20 in 1983..

 

[Jinxter]

My first game (that I remember) was Back 2 skool on the spectrum Loved that game.
Wish they would remake it...a proper sandbox game set in an English school.

That was a great game - did you also play the original Skooldaze? - I can highly recommend Klass of 99 (PC remake) if you've not already tried it.

 

[Jinxter]

I don't know what it was for me- we had a Commadore 64 and it was a vertical scrolling car combat game.

The first I can properly remember playing is Alladin and The Lion King. I think for the "drm" I had to enter words from the manual!

Vertical scrolling = Spyhunter? You also turned into a boat at one of the stages.

 

[spudbynight]

My first computer game will have been something I typed in from a listing in a magazine. Can't remember what.

The first game I can remember being bought was probably this :

 

[varkanoid]

Breakout on ZX80
3d Monster Maze on ZX81 16k
Elite on BBC
Alien Adventure on Vic 20
Hunchback on CBM 64
Cant remember on Amiga and PC

 

[Mockingbird]

Mine was one of those "typed in from a magazine" jobs too, on a bbc b micro.

First one I bought was probably manic miner or jet set Willy.

 

[GBRusty]

3d Monster Maze on ZX81 16k

This. It scared me so much and it was literally ascii blocks coming towards me

 

[lokiss]

The king.

Dragon 32's donkey kong clone. Dead good version for the day, circa 83.

 

[KingDazza]

Lunar Lander on a ZX80, converted to a ZX81. I just watched a video of it and it hasn't aged at all well!

 

[benjii]

My first game was a demo of Doom, I'd play it over and over again. It was quite a long one, but you'd get to a certain point where you'd just die instantly and then it was game over.

 

[ICEx21]

Scaletrix on the Amstrad 128k

 

[Radec]

Age of Mythology.
Was astonished.

Just picked it up for £5 on Steam, very excited to hear the music and do some missions.