Your First

[Angrboda]

My first game would have been Star Trek played on the local university's Control Data mainframe.
I was taking math classes there, and a friend and I would play Star trek on our breaks using stolen
passcodes. It didn't look quite like this, but it was similar.

That would have been 1977 if I've done my math right.




Next was an Atari 2600 console on which I played Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back. My friend used to
complain that the controls were so hot after my turn that she couldn't hold them. About this time I also
programmed a frisbee game simulation on the school's Apple II, as well as chatting with people throughout
the state via another CDC mainframe housed at the main campus 200 miles away.




In 1984, I purchased my first computer, an IBM-PC clone. I spent most of my time learning to program,
and because it had non-standard monochrome graphics, did little gaming, save for a version of Conway's
Life that I programmed.




In 1986 I moved from home to the big city, and all my friend's who had preceded me had Macs. We all became
obsessed with a game called "Dark Castle." We also spent time playing Rogue and the Zork trilogy on my IBM.




In 1997, I bought my first 486 class computer, a 120 Mhz Pentium based Packard Bell. I spent many months playing
the games I bought to accompany it, "Heroes of Might & Magic II" (top) and "Descent II" (bottom).






And the rest, is history. (I'm prepping to play Total War: Shogun I & II, currently.)