Computer games you played as a kid

[Merriweather]

Anyone else here remember pinball machines?

First computer game I ever played was pong, on a table in a bar (in which I was legally drinking), LOL.

In my 20's I had the neighborhoods first "connect to the TV, plays only one game" pong set. Then got an Atari. then a TI, then a Commodore. And by 1983 I had a computer degree, and was writing programs in 3 or 4 computer languages.

Ok, gonna take my Zimmerframe and shuffle off bed. Darn young whippersnappers.

[fireheart]

MINDMAZE omg, I loved that game! I was terrible at it. But I adored it.

Umm, let's see. Oregon Trail in school. Always died of dysentery, of course.

Chip's Challenge. I don't think anyone's mentioned that yet. XD I never made it through very many levels, I think I was stuck on level 19 or 20 or something like that.

Ooh thanks for reminding me!

I loved Mindmaze and I varied in skill from crap to great.

If you search "arglefumph oregon trail" on youtube, he does a playthrough and in it, Nancy Drew gets sick and dies (he does some hilarious commentary btw)

And yes I remember Chip's Challenge. We all kept trying to beat the levels on the old computer at OSHC in primary school (Out of school Hours care-kind of like daycare for school-age kids).

In my primary school class, we all kept trying to play The Incredible Machine. That was fun.

[sms001]

I think their names were eaten by a Grue

"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." Certainly one of my favorites. Was given it as a blank cover floppy, no hints, instructions, nuthin'! Took a while.

ETA: Everyone mentions Flight Simulator. All I could ever get that to do was crash my plane into the Sears tower. That game bored me quick.

Does anyone know what the default is for the new FS since Daley razed Miggs?

[mikoyan29]

OH I forgot I used to play a semi-Text version of Star Trek on an IBM370 mainframe.

Probably the same as the one I played on a Burroughs...

[Sonoma]

Anyone else here remember pinball machines?

Ok, gonna take my Zimmerframe and shuffle off bed. Darn young whippersnappers.

We actually had a pinball machine in our garage. Spent hours playing "Meteor". Had it rigged so it didn't require quarters, and I had access to the keys to load the free credits.

[Racket_Man]

"You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." Certainly one of my favorites. Was given it as a blank cover floppy, no hints, instructions, nuthin'! Took a while.

Do you remember HOW to get out the "you are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike"???

I used to have the program source code (in BASIC) AND the text file used to display all of the location message and coding for the next location in the sequence. Nice bit of programming.

First played Advent(ure) on an HP 3000 in the early 80's. I heard that it orgininated on a PDP-11.

[Caffienated_Caramel]

ooooohhh... nostalgia ship ahoy!

Oregon Trail 1 and 3 - the first one I always died, the third one me and my sister would play together sometimes, we would always be bankers and leave early and try to make it to oregon before the winter.

Amazon trail - omg I remember that game, I NEVER made it to the end, I would die of a disease or get eaten by cannibals,

Zoombinis! - My cousins had that game but I loved it

Storybook Weaver - heh this game I thought was okay but they never had enough images to use ><

The Incredible Machine - I'm surprised no one mentioned this one yet. This game was awesome! I also had Incredible Toon Machine.

Super Munchers

Troggle Trouble - That game was fun, every time the dog Sparky howled, I hauled to the closest doghouse for safety

King's Quest VI - That was the only one I ever played. I could never get to the top of that mountain.

Sonic CD - The only Sonic game I owned as a kid.

Lil Howie's Fun House Great Word Adventure - Loved it, I always went with the nickname Bubbles or Pineapple Princess

Where in the World/United States is Carmen San Diego - Mostly played the newer one where the boss lady from the game show talked to you.

Odell Lake - for those who don't remember http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_oE0...feature=fvwrel play a fish, eat or get eaten

Odell Down Under - I played this one more I used to tease the crap out of the fish that would wanna eat me, cuz I liked getting chased.

Treasure Cove

uuuummm....

Magic School Bus

Mario Teaches typing - dad made me play this one and I sucked at it

Sea Wolf - Dad played this one more than me, he loves Sea warfare. I liked to watch, I couldn't get past the third mission.

Mixed up Mother goose - I always returned everything in a certain order. I remember when the pixelated dog was barking, the family dog would look all over the house for the other 'dog'.

[fireheart]

Hehe, I dug around and found my copy of Logical Journey of the Zoombinis.

[BroSCFischer]

I liked playing Life or Death. You were a surgeon, and had to perform an appendectomy. It was fun to *NOT* put the patient under and start cutting.

Life or Death 2 you were a neurosurgeon.

And I liked In the 1st Degree, where you played a DA trying to get a Murder One conviction. (you could even suborn perjury, or make a stoic witness break down in tears).

And I really liked the Carmen Sandiego Games.

SC

[Dilorenzo]

I'm fairly certain my first game, and first gaming machine, was a Game & Watch Donkey Kong. Played the hell out of that thing.

First gaming system that could do more than one thing was the Spectrum 128k w/ disc drive I had. (Still have, back at my folks place in Ireland. Would be awesome if all the games actually, y'know, worked). From that... Strider was good, but balls hard. Operation Wolf (I had the lightgun), that was fun. Good lord, the memories are coming back... an almost impossible to play Short Circuit game (no idea what I was meant to be doing), the Spectrum side-scroller Batman game released after the movie (a game I beat ONCE), Total Recall, Terminator 2 (goodness those were awful), LED racing... that's about all I remember. All used, of course, but still, fun times. Rogue Trooper. Good lord, Rogue Trooper. Was such a fan of the comics, I thought it was going to be awesome to be Rogue. It wasn't, but hey, young me didn't know any better.

Also, being able to try to code your own games with a provided booklet was fun, even if the results were, well, I-Ching.

Then we got a low-end PC with a visual interface for DOS, and I discovered what would be my true love - adventure gaming. Point and click gaming, text based, whatever, that was where it was at. I think I've probably played almost every one that I could get my hands on - most of Sierras works, Lucasarts (and before they were Lucasarts, I think), games like Simon the Sorceror. I remember playing the demo for that one over and over til I got my hands on the game itself.

Ahhh, memories.

[sms001]

Do you remember HOW to get out the "you are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike"???

I was rather dismayed to realize that I did not, despite having typed it in a few gazillion times. Looking it up led to some cool maps that weren't available in pre-internet days.

[Dave1982]

A lot of the computer games I used to play when I was little have already been mentioned several times. Oregon Trail, Number/Super Munchers, Dr Brain, etc.

One I didn't see mentioned was Dark Castle, which was a slick little platforming game on the really old-school Macs. even though it scared the crap out of me when I was little, I still liked it because you got to throw rocks in it.

I acutally have an updated and expanded version of it that is very faithful to the original, while adding many new levels and gameplay elements.

Then of course there were the "MacVenture" point and click games. We had Deja Vu and Uninvited. Those were point and click games where you had to solve a mystery within a certain time limit. Those games (and Shadowgate, which we never had) were ported to the NES, though the ports weren't nearly as good as the original games.

Going into video games....we had an NES and later a Sega Genesis. I don't think we owned any games for either that everyone else didn't have, except maybe Q-Bert on the NES.

Before that, we had an Intellivision. Someone already mentioned B-17 Bomber for that system. Some of my earliest memories of video games revolved around B-17 Bomber. I remember being 4 years old and playing that with my dad. He would fly the plane and do the navigation (or at least, what little navigation there was in it) and the bomb runs, and I would be his gunner. I'd hold the second controller real tight with my fingers poised over the buttons waiting for the IntelliVoice to announce "BANDITS!! 3 O'CLOCK!!" (or whichever direction) and then blast away at them. That was a lot of fun.

Also saw Burgertime mentioned.

THAT was and still is a fun game. I actually own it on the Intellvision and the NES. The NES version is much closer to the arcade version, but believe it or not I think the controls on the Intellivision version are better (despite what the AVGN said about the Intellivsion controller). It's easy to get stuck where ladders and platofrms meet on the arcade and NES versions, not so much on the Intellivision version.

You know....a couple years ago I sat down to play the Intellivision version and see how far I could get. I got through all 7 stages twice and was well into a 3rd go through before I finally lost. I don't recall the exact score, but it was somewhere in the neighborhood of 250K points. I wish I'd been recording it, because it would have put me in 4th place on the Twin Galaxies worldwide scorebaord for that version of the game.

[Sandman]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned this site...

http://www.abandonia.com/

[Racket_Man]

I was rather dismayed to realize that I did not, despite having typed it in a few gazillion times. Looking it up led to some cool maps that weren't available in pre-internet days.

If memeory serves me correctly all you had to do was go N S E W N S E W and it would pop you out of the maze. do not remember where it popped you out but that direction sequence got you out.

[fireheart]

I'm surprised nobody mentioned this site...

http://www.abandonia.com/

I wanted to mention it, but I wasn't sure if it was OK.