First computer game you played

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Not the earliest you still play regularly.  Just the first.

 

Mine would have to be Colossal Cave Adventure, followed by Scott Adams' Adventureland.  I played the former, but saw the latter in!color! on the brand new Apple II purchased by a couple of friends.  As we were all writers, a merry time was had kicking the shit out of the mechanics and parser. :D  I recall they got it as a freebie (one of several) with the computer purchase.  This was back in the late seventies.  Had we known then what we did now, we would have invested in the hardware.  But then, there were plenty of opportunities for that, that turned into dead ends, too.

 

Over to you.  First computer game you ever played.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

Star Trek on the TRS-80 in Basic and Zork!

Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top

Pong.  Dragon maze, Mastermind.  All on the Apple ][.  They came on the 5.25" system disk.
I played Lemonade Stand the other day with my daughter on the Apple //c .  She thought it was pretty cool.  :)

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Reply #3 from Elemental Forums Top

It wasn't actually Wizardy, but that's the first one I really remember playing A LOT.

 

I think it was actually something called Galactic Empires?  Or something like that.  You had a galaxy to conquer one planet at a time, and had a time limit of some kind, so you had to plan your production to meet your fleet as you jumped around hitting systems.  Simple, elegant, fun.

 

Oh, and it didn't need a zillion patches and DLCs to make it worth playing :p

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

followed by Scott Adams' Adventureland
http://www.msadams.com/downloads.htm

As an aside, Mr. Adams uses Stardock's Multiplicity and I've had some neat conversations with him over the years.   :D

Reply #7 from Elemental Forums Top

Warcraft II

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top

First computer game I ever played was Hunt the Wumpus on a TRS-80 in the "computer lab" at my school.

Reply #9 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 2
I played Lemonade Stand the other day with my daughter on the Apple //c .  She thought it was pretty cool.  

I think Lemonade Stand was my first "real game" game as well, but for Apple II.

Reply #10 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Zubaz, reply 6

followed by Scott Adams' Adventurelandhttp://www.msadams.com/downloads.htm

As an aside, Mr. Adams uses Stardock's Multiplicity and I've had some neat conversations with him over the years.  

 

Cool.  I interviewed him for a magazine about 6 years ago, and remember wishing at the time I could have done one much longer, and cut it up into three or four segments. :)

Reply #11 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

I played Pong and Tanks, but those were on a console.  My first true home computer game would probably have been Manic Miner on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.  

Back then, we had to load our games (and other programs) by cassette tape and it took anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes to load.  If the load failed, you'd adjust the volume, rewind the tape and try again.

Good times.  

Reply #12 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting DsRaider, reply 8
Warcraft II

Man, I miss this game...

Reply #13 from Stardock Forums Top

Quoting MottiKhan, reply 12
Back then, we had to load our games (and other programs) by cassette tape and it took anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes to load.  If the load failed, you'd adjust the volume, rewind the tape and try again.
Yep! When counters on a tape deck mattered!!

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

SC2K

 

aww ya

 

 

 

Reply #15 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Rosco_P, reply 5
Oregon Trail, back in elementary school.

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

Mostly, I would just hunt.

I think that was it for me as well. 

Reply #16 from Elemental Forums Top

Something on the vic 20 that had to be uploaded from a tape drive..  a cassette tape drive.  

Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

Starflight in high school, beat the game just before graduation since we did not have a home computer way back in'88...

Reply #18 from Elemental Forums Top

You never forget the first real game.  The reason I'm still a gamer - - ULTIMA III  (C64)

Reply #19 from Elemental Forums Top

Pong

Reply #20 from Elemental Forums Top

Pong in the 70's but Sids Pirates on the C64 in the 80's for a computer.   Downloaded it from GOG recently.  My memories of it are alot better than playing it today.

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

Minesweeper, if that doesn't count Star Wars Dark Forces, and after that the Army Men games from 3DO

Reply #22 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting pacov, reply 16

Quoting Rosco_P, reply 5Oregon Trail, back in elementary school.

http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html

Mostly, I would just hunt.

I think that was it for me as well. 

Same here, along with some other fish evolution game where you ate your natural prey and 'evolved' into one of your predators. It was actually kind of interesting and I've never seen it outside that 1st grade classroom.

Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top

Did he have his towel when you talked to him?

Reply #24 from Elemental Forums Top

I'm going with the first game I bought with my own money.  Kings Quest 1.  Bought it at our local Radio Shack during a sale if you wore your pajamas (thinking back, that's kind of creepy).

Reply #25 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

Quoting Pbhead, reply 15
SC2K

aww ya


 

The first computer game I ever bought. Before we got married, my wife's roommate in college was irritated because I was playing it at 1:30 am in their dorm room. Good times...