Old Games Etc

Remember back when games like Space Invaders and Pong were cool????

Whats your earliest memory of a computer game or program you have used???


Id have to say Pong was the first game i played. It was actually built into the TV set. It was a THORN television. But i had a console, much like an Atari but not an Atari, that also had Pong on it. One of thos ones that had a transformer you plugged into the wall, and you had to basically dismantle the back of the TV and all the cords to get this thing working!!!!

I wonder if you can get it these days to play online????


How about you [you]? What was your first???

...i remember both of those games

but keen 1 and 2 were my favs.
i also use to play other games (that i dont remember now) and they were small enough and had simple enough gaphics to fit onto a floppy disc (which is a huge supprise cos a floppy disc will barely hold my school work- gotta love USB's)

when i was little i also had a Nintendo NES which was some old thing, but i loved the games...like Mario and those games that had 12 games in one card thingy (this was very exciting for me to see)

Duz any one remember 'space quest' or 'Leisure suit larry'????

This post has been edited by missvixen: Aug 6 2005, 01:00 AM

Mine was the vic20 and the vz200 I didn't have one put used to play on friends...

Not sure on the first games I play... they were so long ago!!

We got ourselves a spanking new c64 with datacasette... I was very happy...

I did take 2 hours to load 'MISSION IMPOSSIBLE' but what a game!

I can remember using my first computer langauge in year 6 (1983)... It was called 'LOGO' and was a math based graphic design software used for plotting lines on the screen...

ROTATE 45 CLOCKWISE
FORWARD 100
ROTATE 270 CLOCKWISE
FORWARD 150

Or something like that... spent HOURS making scripts that would make cool pattern and then embeded those scripts in other programs to make complex picture (we'll no that complex now... but complex then)

My first experience hacking a computers system was in 1987... I had re-written the loggin software for the pool of BBC computers (about 30 or so) at school... So 5 minutes before the start of class, I logged into my account on all the machine in the room, and ran the software. It looked just like the real thing.. basically because it was except for 3-4 lines of code... These extra lines of code... saved the username and password of the person loggin into a directory in my account... and then when on its merry way loggin the person into there account!

I was mightly proud of this script... of course I didn't tell anyone... the only difference was it took about 1.5 second longer to login but no-one noticed, it was my major concern about getting found out. The second concern was if someone escaped out of the login software they would find themselves in my account which would have given it away obviously.

Anyway... within 10 minutes I had every students username and password saved in my account, plus as an added bonus I had the teachers accounts, and not just any account, but a SUPERUSER account! I had obtained the head of the computer departments username and password.

I sat on these details for a couple of weeks, wandering around peoples account and having a look at anything they might have had of interest, but it was all very boring . Finally I took the plunge and logged into the SUPERUSER account... this gave total access of everything and even the power to create more SUPERUSERS... *rub hands together excitedly*

As not to get found out... I used a students account that I did not like... I logged into this account normally as to not raise suspicion... then into the teachers account, once in there I gave that student SUPERUSER privilages... looking like he had done it to his own account.

I pretty much did whatever I want from that account of a few weeks before HE was caught doing things he should not have been doing... He had the most 'I am innocent' look on his face, almost believable (wonder why)....

Anyway.. he was the class bully and I enjoyed watching him getting marched out of the COMPUTER classes not to return for the rest of the term. I guess he would have been happy to, he used to have trouble turning them on, I cannot believe the teacher thought he had the smarts to pull it off.

Ahh good days...

......geez paul u really know how to stop me trusting u...jj

I vaguely remember using BASIC to make games etc back when i was a kid.

Something like:

10 print "hello, welcome to space wars"
20 print <start>
30 load
40 goto 10

Or something like that... i cant quite remember... it was so long ago.
It wasnt a C64 either. It was a Texas Instruments home computer TI99

http://www.99er.net/

It also had cartridge games. We had one called 'The Attack' i look back and it was actually quite cool.....


Gotta start somewhere i guess .

My friend are the corner had the very stylish DICK SMITH branded vz200

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Once of the guys in my class has the ULTIMATE games machine... Atari 2600

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My best friend got an Amstrad 128 with those amazing 'hard' floopy disk things

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I was luck enough to get a Commodore 64 first with datacasette later with the disk drive!

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never seen any of them

I had all but the vz200



go the cartridges on the c64 as well

I think your should head down to Cash Converters you'd be able to get one of $20 lol

Better still you can download EMULATORS for you PC and get access to the thousand of OLD SCHOOL games!

My fave old skool game was definitely Pacman Used to play it for hours...

oh.. hehehehe I have owned the last two already.. wicked machines for their time.. the amstrad one I had was also the tape drive version

like I said in another post - Another World on the Amiga, wicked game..

I just lost all my emulators and stuff in the format over the weekend

I can remember playing the old c64, anyone played chrono trigger? best game ever created. full stop.