First games you can remember playing

[Rouxenator]

Digger : http://www.digger.org/download.html

 

[Vercogen]

I feel so old remembering every game u mention

Nooo! you should feel proud, what a pleasure it was growing up in the computer age

 

[<moLe>]

Nooo! you should feel proud, what a pleasure it was growing up in the computer age

true, seeing the titles come and go...and if one just look at how in the short span 20 years how tech evolved..amazing

 

[TheHiveMind]

Paratrooper
Alley cat
Guerillas throwing bananas at eachother over a city skyline?
Scorched earth
Decent
And there was a game about a kid called billy, with a slingshot, fighting the undead in graveyards.
oh, and that game where you bounce the ball around and destroy blocks and get powerups.
Golden axe
contra

 

[Vercogen]

a caveman riding on a wheel jumping over obstacles

Got it lol - Quest for tires

 

[<moLe>]

Paratrooper

Guerillas throwing bananas at eachother over a city skyline? = Gorillas
And there was a game about a kid called billy, with a slingshot, fighting the undead in graveyards. = Billy The Kid
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awesome games, Gorillas taught me about angles when i was but seven (maybe thats why maths was always my strong point hmm)

 

[lunch]

Dune 2 was my first game ever, followed (I think) by ascendancy

 

[FarligOpptreden]

I remember the days when games started getting so big that they wouldn't fit onto a 1.44" stiffy disc. So you had to compress / span them over up to SEVEN DISCS! Good old ARJ.EXE...

 

[Keeper]

California Games

 

[dracolusus]

Ducktails and Rick Dangerous.

Sopworth as well, but I never liked it, lol.

 

[seizon]

in the corner shops - pac man or rally x
at home - pong

cant remember which came first

 

[dam]

ZX1 - the Hobbit (text based) and a flight-sim where the horizon was a white line and you had two numbers, altitude and speed, that was all, and it took 30 minutes to load off a cassette player (if you were lucky and didn't have to start over).

BBC computer - Elite (space trader game), Frak (very cool game), missile strike, castle quest (first game I played that had a human voice in it), and a bunch of others that i have forgotten the names of.

 

[Budza]

Anyone mentioned GOLDEN AXE yet??

 

[Viper25]

Street fighter at the game arcade

 

[Vegeta ZA]

Jet Pac was a game when i was in grade 1
Quake 3
X-Men vs Street Fighter & Marvel vs Street Fighter
Cadillacs and Dinosaurs
Double Dragon
Joust
Mario (all the old ones)
Mortal Kombat 1, 2, 3 & 4
Pang & Superpang
Punkshot
Superman
TMNT Arcade
Wonderboy
DBZ
Mario Cart
Mario Tennis
Wrestle Maina
Snowboarding
Sonic
& now check my gamertag to see what other games i like!

 

[PsyWulf]

Anyone mentioned GOLDEN AXE yet??

Brilliant game,played on PC and arcade <3

I remember the days when games started getting so big that they wouldn't fit onto a 1.44" stiffy disc. So you had to compress / span them over up to SEVEN DISCS! Good old ARJ.EXE...

Good times! Copied Warcraft 2 using around 50 disks I think
ARJ a -jm war2 *.* -v1440 -y

 

[FarligOpptreden]

Good times! Copied Warcraft 2 using around 50 disks I think
ARJ a -jm war2 *.* -v1440 -y

...and then you get a CRC error on disc #49...

 

[stoke]

n = 164787n30

(calculator game on a casio something or other .. the n's were bonuses for zapping multiples of 10, and nailing them made a cute prrrrr sound)
Here it is preserved : http://timesofmylife.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/my-casio-calculator-invader-game/
Remake in flash : http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/digi-invaders-casio-mg-880-game [ Left arrow is fire, right arrow is aim (increment) ]

 

[PsyWulf]

...and then you get a CRC error on disc #49...

32 and 46 failed. Had to wait 2 days to get those 2 copied again -.-

 

[<moLe>]

n = 164787n30

(calculator game on a casio something or other .. the n's were bonuses for zapping multiples of 10, and nailing them made a cute prrrrr sound)
Here it is preserved : http://timesofmylife.wordpress.com/2007/10/31/my-casio-calculator-invader-game/
Remake in flash : http://www.widgetbox.com/widget/digi-invaders-casio-mg-880-game

....................sounds like tons of fun....