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.)

[Drich]

Does anyone remember this game on the apple II where you supposedly crashed on an alien planet and you had to survive with like a chemistry set. Where you were given a senerio like a jungle you had to pass through and you'd mix animalium and machineium and it would produce a bull-dozer? Or a gorge and you mix rubberium and airium to create a hot air ballon? That game was a lot of fun. Before that there was hot dog cart on the commodor 64. It was on a regular cassette and basically it was an all text game where you had a hot dog cart at a stadium and you speculated on what type of hot dogs the fans would want and the weather.

The first console was pong and that was all it would play. Then the sears version of the 2600. Then the 7800 Atari. Donkey kong jr hand held by Nintendo, then a PAC man mini arcade. Then in 85/86 we got got our first NES with R.O.B. then snes, the n64, ps1, after that, game cube, dream cast, and Xbox, the 360, my last purchase was a coleco vision and a hand full of awesome games. (because i missed it the first time around) now I'm in the que for the xbox1.

Favorite games chrono trigger, dragon warrior, halo, mass effect series.

Favorite experience was when Zelda 1 first came out, we lost days playing that game 18 to 20 hours at a time (no maps no cheats) the only help came in the way of a 1900 number Nintendo set up to screw little kids out of $3.00 a minute for help.

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There is an app called ivoyages that adds graphics to that old Star Trek game