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If you liked RTS and FPS games, you never lived if you missed the opportunity to play this

See Revolutionary Action Strategy at the bottom? The sad and pathetic truth is that you could release a reboot of it today under the same tagline and it'd be just as true

I dunno exactly.

I remember playing my slightly older cousins gameboy, which wasn't really heard of in Scotland yet at that time.

But... It was probably when I was 6 or 7 or so with....

Granny's Garden

I got a Sega master system 2 relatively late (again, Scotland). But I do remember having a bugs bunny and a Tom And Jerry game on my fathers work PC in his office.

One of the things I've always been amazed by with young-me, is somehow by God somehow, when we got our first home PC, I managed to install and run games like Jungle Strike.

It doesn't seem like much of an achievement, but I would have been still in single figures.

And it was on a DOS command line. I probably wouldn't even know how to do that today!

One of the educational games on the PC that were relatively popular for kids my age at the time. Something like either Super Solver/Treasure Mountain or Math Blaster.









Good times...good times...

interesting. I forgot about Math Blaster. Treasure master is driving me nuts. I have no memory of playing the game, but watching the video, hearing the music and seeing the puzzles says "yes, I did, at least once."

 Grimskul wrote:
One of the educational games on the PC that were relatively popular for kids my age at the time. Something like either Super Solver/Treasure Mountain or Math Blaster.









Good times...good times...

Yeah I played Treasure Mountain!, Reader Rabbit Series, Treasure MathStorm!, Treasure Cove! and Treasure Galaxy! as well as some games from the Super Solver Series when I was much younger.

I was going to say the D&D 3.5 basic set I found buried in the closet but then I saw the Math Blaster screenshot and now I can't remember which one I ran across first.

Playing Spyro on a PS2.

 Doctadeth wrote:
Gizmos and Gadgets

<3


What else is there to say about that?

I always loved building stuff. Had k'nex and legos and homemade wood blocks... making actual mechanical things taht moved? Fun! Also educational.

Ernie's Big Splash. Problem solving, saving that rubber ducky.

Also a game where you had to guide a frog through a maze, and when you got there, it played a beepy version of Froggy Went a Courtin'.

Umm...
First there was board games... Monopoly, chess, snakes and ladders...

Some mainframe: Super Star Trek with grid and power levels
all text based graphics. (1971?? - played it in 75-76??)
Pong, TV had burn-in from it. (1975)
Atari 2600: Tank battle (1977)
Commodore PET computer: Dam busters. (1980)
TRS-80: Zork (1980)
Battle Zone: (!!) The vector graphic one... (1980)
Space invader LCD watch (1982)
Commodore 64: monopoly with tape drive. (1986)

Sorry, flashbacks.
Basically born around the time of the moon landing and been gaming since anything electronic showed up.

Age of empires 1, good times.

The Game I still remember is Pole Position - Atari 2600. Darkened Room - TV set to max contrast......
Should be one of the first I've played ( and, if all you got is the console, you need someone to supply a TV and this game met the criteria of Grandpa-compatible..).
Possibly maybe one of the games of a 4-games module I got too was started before that, but I am not sure.

Games on my dad's computer, there was this old Star Trek game that even had voice acting that I played forever and a half... Prairie Dog hunter... then my dad introduced me to Civilization III and I was pretty much done as far as joining the cult. Poke'mon Red sealed the deal.

 Torga_DW wrote:
Combat and space invaders on that fake wood-panelled atari (no idea what number it was) or else space invaders at the local fish & chips shop - it was a long time ago though, can't remember which one came first.

Wood panelled one is the Atari VCS (Video Computer System), before they had to number all these things. I had Combat, Adventure, Spacew Invaders, and eventually a whole host of carts for that system. Was always envious of the Intellivision system though. They had a D&D game where the corridor junctions were not all 90°, so you could fire an arrow into a corridor and have it bounce around until it hit something. either a flat wall, in which case it came back at you, a monster, which damaged it and alerted you to the fact that there was one there, or it went in a circle and hit you in the back!

First proper computer game I had was a text adventure of "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy". Wonderfully written. If you died due to being hit by a brick as your house was demolished, you got to participate in the ambulance ride away from the place. If you tried to talk to the ambulance crew, or if you tried to get up, you got "Shut up, you. You're dead!". Wonderfull sense of humour, that game.

Galaga on an arcade consule in a local pizza shop. Good times, good times, feth I'm getting old!

I think it was pole position as well on the old Atari with a joystick with a square base, and a button on the base. Too long ago for me to remember if it had a button on the stick. Weirdly enough my parents bought it and thinking back I don't remember if they bought it for me or them.

When I was little, we only had a really old computer (ms dos, I think). I used to play Wolfenstein 3d on it with a friend (he would walk and I would shoot or vice versa).
A few years later we got a (relatively) modern laptop and I played Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle Earth II on it. Best game ever made.

Playing Donkey Kong on NES.

Super Mario Land, and the Batman game by Sunsoft(?) on the Gameboy.

My grandparents had pong.



Shortly after, my dad bought an Odyssy 2. I wish I knew what happened to it.



We had Not-Frogger, Not-Pac-Man, Golf, Slot Machine, and another dozen or so games. But they all were weak and meaningless compared to Conquest of the World!

It was a board game AND a video game!