RE: PC games, first ever PC game?
October 5, 2015 at 9:53 pm
(This post was last modified: October 5, 2015 at 9:59 pm by Jackalope.)
Not exactly PC games, but loosely interpreted....
Back in... 1979? I got access to the school district's central system via a paper terminal over a 110 baud acoustically coupled modem. High tech shit, that was. But I discovered Hunt the Wumpus
and Star Trek
and wasted a lot of time and paper on both.
Not long after that the school purchased some Apple II computers and I discovered Alkalabeth,
which could be seen as the predecessor to the Ultima series.
It would be a few years after that before I would have access to a DOS PC - first game there was Flight Simulator.
As you can imagine, running that on a 4.77 MHz 8088 processor is a far cry from modern flight sims.
Y'all can get off my lawn any time now.
Back in... 1979? I got access to the school district's central system via a paper terminal over a 110 baud acoustically coupled modem. High tech shit, that was. But I discovered Hunt the Wumpus
and Star Trek
![[Image: bsd_games_trek.jpg]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=techtinkering.com%2Fimages%2Fposts%2Fbsd_games_trek.jpg)
and wasted a lot of time and paper on both.
Not long after that the school purchased some Apple II computers and I discovered Alkalabeth,
![[Image: akalabeth-appleII-06.png]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=www.hardcoregaming101.net%2Fultima%2FUltima%25200%2520Akalabeth%2Fakalabeth-appleII-06.png)
which could be seen as the predecessor to the Ultima series.
It would be a few years after that before I would have access to a DOS PC - first game there was Flight Simulator.
![[Image: meigs-fs4a.gif]](https://images.weserv.nl/?url=fshistory.simflight.com%2Ffsh%2Fpictures%2Fmeigs-fs4a.gif)
As you can imagine, running that on a 4.77 MHz 8088 processor is a far cry from modern flight sims.
Y'all can get off my lawn any time now.
