First games you can remember playing

[Jabberwocky]

tv-games: frogger on the atari
pc: sopwith on i can't remember what, but it had a green screen. could either have been a commodore 64 or an XT

 

[FarligOpptreden]

I remember playing Asteroids Deluxe on the Atari when I was about 5 y/o...

EDIT: This feels like a spin-off of the "Best Games Ever" thread...

 

[Jabberwocky]

I remember playing Asteroids Deluxe on the Atari when I was about 5 y/o...

EDIT: This feels like a spin-off of the "Best Games Ever" thread...

lol, yup.. feeling nostalgic

 

[Raithlin]

sheesh. The Empire Strikes Back on IntelliVision.
Text-based adventure games on the VIC20.
Football Manager on ZX Spectrum.
Hitch-hiker's guide to the galaxy on a friend's 286 (green-screen).

 

[Ou grote]

dodge em 1979
Space invaders
Pacman
Rally x

 

[medicnick83]

Dune 2, Warcraft, C&C, Raptor, Hocus Pocus etc...

 

[The_Techie]

Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun

 

[Swift-wp]

Dangerous Dave. lol

 

[APoc184]

Islander on TV games. Or maybe it was Contra.
Rugby on Playstation. Chester williams was still good in that game
Duke Nukem on PC

 

[Veroland]

Some ninja game on a Atari 64.

On pc, Kings Quest I

 

[Gambit]

space invaders
breakout

 

[Raithlin]

Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun

I'm embarrassed on your behalf.

 

[PsyWulf]

First games I played were

California Games ( on my lovely CGA screen wewt! )
and Police Quest 1

 

[RaFi]

Manic Miner on a ZX Spectrum.

 

[Kerrrang!]

dodge em 1979
Space invaders
Pacman
Rally x

+1, including Elevator and Athletics(Olympics?).

 

[Jabberwocky]

remember those stupid calculator-display handheld games? i had one where you`re a diver trying to reach a treasure, and you had to dodge octopus tentacles

 

[APoc184]

California Games ( on my lovely CGA screen wewt! )
and Police Quest 1

+1

Any idea where one can find Police quest now?

 

[werries2]

Games with no Graphics (word games)
Treasure island
Desert

First games with graphics? (more like Ascii characters running around)
Pacman
Xonix

later
Monty
Lander
Space invaders

Games with pixels
Calafornia games
Stellar 7
Kings Quest
Police quest
Test Drive
Grandprix
Prince of Persia
Double Draggon

Invention of color screens?
Offroad 4x4

 

[Jabberwocky]

+1

Any idea where one can find Police quest now?

their selling sierra collections at game for R90 i bought the space quest & kings quest collections.
ps. sierra games didnt age well.

 

[PsyWulf]

+1

Any idea where one can find Police quest now?

Just google abandonware games

All these very very very retro games are available to download for Free

My favourites from looong ago were Raptor,Day of the Tentacle and Loom <3