When and on What did you start gaming?

lardvader · July 25

Leisure Suit Larry in 1987 is one of the early games I can remember but we played pacman and other stuff on Atari until NES arrived. First machine I owned was a C128D before I got the SNES.

Got my first PC in 1993 and have been running custom watercooled since 2003.

I still buy consoles from Nintendo to play Zelda and Mario games.

zaria · July 25

Back in the early 80's then dropping out after some years got into it again at university then I got an 386.

Jimbru · July 25

As a kid in the 1970s, my uncle's family had a Pong game console, and my father had this. I'm not sure which was first.

allmyxlvntx · July 25

Avalon Hill board games in the 1970s, Richtofen’s War, Panzer Leader, Tobruk, Dispatcher, Squad Leader

Cazador · July 25

I don't remember exactly what kind of pc it was but I first started playing video games in the late 90s/ early 2000s (yes I'm pretty young). My first games were doom 1 and 2 and simcity 2000.

ghastley · July 25

A lot depends on what you consider a game. There were text-based games that worked from a teletype or similar terminal around the same time, or slightly before, pong. The IBM 1401 I ran in 1969 didn't have any that I recall, but the only keyboard on that was an optional console that never got used. Everything was card-driven batch. The System/360 series did have support for terminals, and I recall a demo game for BASIC, but forget its name.

I still have my Acorn/BBC model B, which ran Elite.

Jaraal · July 25

Stand up console Pong, then TV Pong, then Mattel Intellivision, and moving up to the Commodore 64, and finally the NES system. I remember being amazed at the cutting edge 8 bit graphics!

reazea · July 25

kargen27 wrote: »

long long ago.

I was the king of this game! Thanks for the memories.

reazea · July 25

xylena_lazarow wrote: »

1987 on a Commodore 64 with some bootleg 5.25" floppy disk games my dad gave me

lolz....back when floppy disks were actually floppy. What is a floppy disk again? My how things have changed. We don't even use CD/DVD anymore now. ...which really stinks when it comes to music by the way. MP3 sound quality is absolutely atrocious and the young ones have no idea how much better music is supposed to sound.

Vonnegut2506 · July 26

First video gaming console was the Atari 2600 with Combat.

First computer I played was an Apple II. There was some weird animated chess game the librarian at my middle school would let us play if we helped put up books.

First computer I owned was Commodore 64 with the original Bard's Tale on a 5.25 floppy. I spent most of my high school gaming time playing the three Bard's Tale games.

spartaxoxo · July 26

Since I could hold a controller. I remember playing the first Sonic game for the Sega and Alien Crush for the Turbografx. I know most people probably never heard of the Turbo but I actually loved it.

Here's some images I found online of the cartridges for Turbografx. They were actually quite compact.

And this is what alien crushed looked like

radiostar · July 26

Pacman out at the bars (free drinks!). LSL, Frogger, and Space Invaders at home on DOS.

majulook · July 26

Old games are great Anyone remember Infocom games?

My favorite - begins in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in 1936

katanagirl1 · July 26

majulook wrote: »

Old games are great Anyone remember Infocom games?

My favorite - begins in Upper Sandusky, Ohio, in 1936

Yes, I played the Zork games and Enchanter. Lots of fun.

Please wait 1.5 mins to load…a text game, lol

JimFord047 · July 26

AH... All the memories that are flooding back, looking at where you were asnd where you have come to, For Better or Worse ...

Hope your all enjoying memory lane!!!

slt101880b14_ESO · July 26

Apple IIe, playing "Choplifter" and "Lode Runner"
NES (Super Mario), SNES (original Mario Cart), N64 (Perfect Dark), and Game Cube (too many games to list)

First real MMO I played was 1997s "The Realm Online"
Still miss the old "Starwars Galaxies" pre-NGE.

I still have every console and console game I've ever owned.
Call me old fashioned, but I like to physically own my games rather then rent the license to play em.

Shara_Wynn · July 26

Atari VCS 2600 (1978)

ZX 81 (1981)

ZX Spectrum (1982)

Commodore 64 (1984)

Atari ST (1985)

Amiga 500 (1987)

Amiga 1200 (1992)

First PC (which was a Dell as we couldn't afford an IBM) (1994)

Various PC's thereafter.

Have also owned and played on various consoles (nintendo, playstation and xbox) but am mainly a PC gamer.

Games of note that I remember playing were:

Asteriods
Frogger
Black Crystal
The Hobbit
3D Monster Maze
Manic Minor/Jet Set Willy
Sabre Wulf
Halls of the Things
Atic Atac
The Lords of Midnight
High Noon
Spy v's Spy
Wizardry Franchise
The Bard's Tale Franchise
Gauntlet
Elite
Warcraft/Starcraft
Hero Quest Franchise
Civilization Franchise
Hero's of Might and Magic Franchise
Ultima Franchise
Magic & Mayhem
Magic Carpet
Monkey Island Franchise
Dungeon Keeper
Baldur's Gate Franchaise
The Elder Scrolls Franchise
Street Fighter (on console)
Final Fantasy VII (on console)

There are too many to list lol.

MMORPG's I have played:

Ultima Online
EverQuest/EverQuest II
Age of Conan
Asheron's Call
Dark Age of Camelot
Eve Online
Rift
Guild Wars II
World of Warcraft
RuneScape
City of Heroes
The Elder Scrolls Online (obviously)

oldbobdude · July 26

I think it was 72 or 73. A magnovox something or other that played table tennis. I think the name “pong” got used later.

Arcade games in the late 70’s and most of the 80’s. I loved asteroid, missile command and defender particularly.

freespirit · July 26

In 1970 I fell into running a pub, in those days the licensing laws meant we had to shut between 2.30 and 5.30 of an afternoon

In the Public Bar there were two table arcade games, to which I had the keys and could click up some credits! One was Space Invaders and the other was PacMan, I spent some serious time on those!

Elrond87 · July 26

first memory was a spectrum playing Treasure Island Dizzy, then commadore 64, amiga 500/1500 , mega drive, game gear, gameboy, n64, xbox,psp,ps1/2/3/4.pc

still have the amiga 500/1500 with brand new case and built in ssd with all the games

N3CR01 · July 27

Elrond87 wrote: »

first memory was a spectrum playing Treasure Island Dizzy

I loved the Dizzy games.
My memory of Treasure Island Dizzy was finding the music really creepy.
Listened to it recently and no idea why I thought that back then lol.

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