First game

Post by **Dog Pants** » June 14th, 2005, 11:18

Inspired by Renegatus' earlier topic, what was the first game you bought? Mine was, I think, Thunderblade on the Speccy back in 1988.

Come on guys, get nostalgic.

Free Blue Tongued Skink goes to the oldest

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » June 14th, 2005, 11:24

Erm let's see...

First one I can definitely remember buying would be Turrican 2 on't Amiga.

But I probably bought a few for my Commodore Plus 4.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 14th, 2005, 11:34

first i can remember buying properly, cool spot for the master system

Jinxx · Post by **Jinxx** » June 14th, 2005, 12:01

hehe Robocop on the Speccy here... 1988 i think

Templar · Post by **Templar** » June 14th, 2005, 12:19

teenage mutant ninja turtles on ZX Spectrum

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 14th, 2005, 13:01

First game I bought was Spacewar for a DEC PDP-1. I win!

Actually I cant remember that far back but it was probably Bomb Jack on the speccy.

EDIT: oh, one I actually remember, "Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal" for some reason ...

Post by **FatherJack** » June 14th, 2005, 13:16

I think the ZX81 games were technically "my Dad's", obviously we would rent games from the video shop and attempt to copy them using all manner of contraptions my Dad constructed, but the first time I went and actually bought one myself from a shop would have been when I bought Tales of the Arabian Nights for the C64 (slightly shopped cover, there).
It cost £9.99 and it was absolutely fucking shit. Mainly bought £1.99/99p games after that, but paid big for such notables as Hunchback, Daley Thompson's Decathlon and Staff of Karnath.

The first game I ever played was on the TI59 Programmable Calculator - it was a numbers game where you put braking time based on velocity and tried to get a car to stop before it hit the wall. The car was a '-' and '*' was a crash - I can't find it so my Dad may have written if himself.

Later, we had one of these: Binatone Pong Mk 4 with paddles and a light gun, which caused endless fights between me and my sister. My Dad's always been Gadget Man.

Edit: Crash can't have been '*' 'cos it only had a seven-segment display.

NiGhtcrawler · Post by **NiGhtcrawler** » June 14th, 2005, 13:56

haha you guys and you're 1988 games, i was coming outta my mutha then haha!!! errr 1st game system i got was a master system and the 1st game i owned on that was SPACE INVADERS!!!!! TEH PWN HEHEHE

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » June 14th, 2005, 14:16

1st game system I ever had was a Master System, and it's also the same time I bought my first game which was Astro Warrier & Pit-Pot.

Astro Warrier is still one of THE best games I have ever played, but this may be down to it being my first ever game, and I played it till my eyes would bleed.

I remember being the first kid in my school to have a Master System, and I felt like the luckiest kid alive at the time

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 14th, 2005, 16:03

Astro Warrior was one of the 1st games on the master system wasn't it, on a card rather than cartridge? You could transform from robot to spaceship and back again if I remember right.

Not as good as the snail game

killslay · Post by **killslay** » June 14th, 2005, 17:01

first game i played was a game that came with the commodore 64 that belonged to my uncle. it was a wierd circus game came on a cartridge rather than tape.
first game i owned and played was teenage mutant ninja turtles for the NES which i got with mario bros. and wwf wrestlemania

cashy · Post by **cashy** » June 14th, 2005, 17:04

postman pat on yee old amstrad :D one of my earliest memories of life. fuck knows how you played it however, i was far too young to get the point. it was fun driving around town in his big red van mind you

Post by **deject** » June 14th, 2005, 17:32

erm, first game I bought? uh, you mean that I myself bought with my own cash?

that'd probably be a game hand-made by some guy in Norway called "Assault Trooper." I loved that game, you play in an isometric view, and run around shooting fools with an M16 or a bazooka.

Post by **TezzRexx** » June 14th, 2005, 17:50

Think it was either Sonic 2 for the Master system or (new!*) Ghosbusters II for the NES.

* There was two versions, a side scroller and a 3D version, much like the legend of Zelda. The new version was the 3d one.

JamieChalm · Post by **JamieChalm** » June 14th, 2005, 19:07

Well, my first game I owned was Super Mario Kart on the snes, I got as a birthday present, the first game I bought... Pft, Timesplitter 2 on the gamecube. The rest I skanked out of my parents.

cashy · Post by **cashy** » June 14th, 2005, 19:13

thinking about it first game i bought was starwing for the snez. i bought the snez too. about 8 or 7 i was. bought it with some inheritance from my grandad. cracking bloke

Post by **FatherJack** » June 14th, 2005, 22:11

NiGhtcrawler wrote:haha you guys and you're 1988 games, i was coming outta my mutha then haha!!! errr 1st game system i got was a master system and the 1st game i owned on that was SPACE INVADERS!!!!! TEH PWN HEHEHE

19-*cough*-seventy-*cough*-8 ! Although they stopped making that DEC PDP-thingy before even I was born

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » June 14th, 2005, 22:43

spoodie wrote:Astro Warrior was one of the 1st games on the master system wasn't it, on a card rather than cartridge? You could transform from robot to spaceship and back again if I remember right.

Not as good as the snail game

Astro Warrior was this one :

However that game rings a bell and I can;t find out what it's called, and it's driving me mad :evil:

Nickface · Post by **Nickface** » June 15th, 2005, 2:59

One of the first games I probably ever played would have to be one of those Sierra adventure games (Hero's Quest, Space Quest, Lesiure Suit Larry [when i was very young too!]).

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 15th, 2005, 9:12

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:Astro Warrior was this one :

However that game rings a bell and I can;t find out what it's called, and it's driving me mad :evil:

Hmm, I dont remember Astro Warrior. The one I was thinking of was Transbot.

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