What were the earliest video games you played?

[bbmike]

I forget if Space Invaders came out before that trackball football game or not, but I loved both of them.

The first computer game I ever played was Space Warp, on my best friend's dad's TRS-80.  The first computer game I ever owned for myself was Temple of Apshai for the Commodore-64.  But Telengard was way better and kicked its ass when I got that six months later.

The two best floppy disk hacks were hole-punching to get a double-sided CD and taping over the copy-protect cut.  Or was that a read/write protect cut?

Nobody's talking about their first mobile game, but I was a wizard at the original article:

My first mobile game?

[trailrunner]

The first mobile game I remember was the football game with the little red dots that you were supposed to maneuver around. I never owned one, but I played my brother-in-law's game.

[Con]

What about the fact that Wasteland made you copy the master disks so the game could edit and remember all global changes...

And when you needed to re-stock on good equipment you could just put the master (or a clean copy) of Disk 3 for Vegas in, let it load and then swap it out once loaded to re-spawn baddies.

It was always satisfying when I reached the point I could melee Scorpitron

And copy protection was a "code wheel" or "turn to page 23, paragraph 3, line 5, what is the third word?"  :D

The First Dongle

[DennisS]

Ooookay. Today was Airbucks, and Caesar II. Both were "good old games." Caesar III suffered from fires breaking out, constantly, despite fire stations all over the city. Not a good experience.

[Toonces]

The first mobile game I remember was the football game with the little red dots that you were supposed to maneuver around. I never owned one, but I played my brother-in-law's game.

You can get those at Walmart now.  I almost bought one the other day!

[DennisS]

The first mobile game I remember was the football game with the little red dots that you were supposed to maneuver around. I never owned one, but I played my brother-in-law's game.

You can get those at Walmart now.  I almost bought one the other day!

I could score a touchdown on almost every play. My wife brought me one, while I was flat on my back after my heart bypass. A pleasant way to spend some time. She also brought me ALL of my Clancy books, and all my Richard Bolitho (Alexander Kent author) books.

[Sir Slash]

What a good woman! Damn DennisS, you ought to marry her. I mean twice.  :wow:

[DennisS]

What a good woman! Damn DennisS, you ought to marry her. I mean twice.  :wow:

I also got a new Lay-Z-Boy recliner, and a riding lawnmower. It gets hot as hell in the summer in Missouri...and she told me she doesn't want to find me dead on ground in the back yard....    ::)

[Sir Slash]

She's a 'Keeper' all right.  O0  Now, if you could just figure a way to put the Lazy Boy on the riding lawnmower.....  :bd:

[Gusington]

^You beat me to it!

[Staggerwing]

Put the lazy boy in an air-conditioned TV/game room and hire a kid to cut the grass. Win!

[Barthheart]

^This guys got it!  :bd:

[Sir Slash]

Have you priced kids grass-cutting lately? They all want 401K's and Dental.

[Gusington]

Can you blame them?

[DennisS]

Have you priced kids grass-cutting lately? They all want 401K's and Dental.

Me and the misses fully retired just a couple of months ago. We are also blessed with a nice home, in a nice area. It takes 45 minutes to mow, and another 15 or so to trim and clean up. Around here, this is $40 a week. This is about $180 a month. Can you appreciate how many steam cards per month this is, for a retiree?? I did have the neighbor kid mow, weekly, for the last couple of years. Good news is that he has expanded to several homes in the neighborhood, and he won't miss mine.

Oh. Old games downloads for today ... Sim Golf by Sid Meier, and Shattered Union. Flawed, but fun.

I downloaded a railroad game yesterday, 1830, and it looks pretty fun.