Your first computer game? (Non-Tex topic)

Sai wrote:Who was Adventure made by? Wonder if I've played it...
(Searching for Adventure on Google naturally won't get me far... did bring up an interesting Wikipedia article though on the subject of adventure games)

Jim the old guy wrote:Sure, Gary, I remember Adventure among other old things. For example, when I was in grade school, the Dead Sea was only sick.

Well, lo and behold, I found a site that tells you everything you want to know about "Adventure" (more properly, the "Colossal Cave Adventure"). Most interesting to me is the fact that its origins are based upon cave exploring in Kentucky, where I live!

Check it out: http://www.rickadams.org/adventure/

Other games I remember include Pit Stop, Summer/Winter/California Games, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Tapper, Shinobi, Block Out....

Yeah - I do remember all those games. I even remember such classics as Spy Hunter, World Games, Frantic Freddie, Lazy Jones, Miner 2049'er, Bozo's Night Out, Defender Of The Crown and a lot more. I still play some of them occasionally on my C64-emulator

My first game? I think it was Dig Dug, on the Commodore 64 my brother had borrowed one time back in the late eighties. Being born in '82 I was a bit too young then to remember now what exact year it was. Although I believe it was '87 or '88.

The first PC game I got to try? The Secret of Monkey Island.

2nd game was UAKM.

And I'm proud to say that UAKM was the first game I bougt for myself when I got my own computer. The first game I ever owned. Mmmm... Good times.

-Fred

I remember a good deal of those old games but I'd have to say the first game I actually played was Doom. A four year old playing doom what a wonderful thought. And what a great influence it's been on my life thanks to the ideas I got from playing doom, I was the first seven year old to get life in prison!

Ok just joking I wasn't actually allowed to play it I figured out how to get into it by watching my father then I played it without permission. The first game I was actually allowed to play was the space quest series. And I watched my father play Tex murphy but at the time that was a bit outta my league.

Well, lo and behold, I found a site that tells you everything you want to know about "Adventure" (more properly, the "Colossal Cave Adventure"). Most interesting to me is the fact that its origins are based upon cave exploring in Kentucky, where I live!

Yeah. there are a lot of amazing stories related to Adventure. The fellow who wrote it, Bill Crowthers, was a spelunker and wrote the cave simulation to give his young daughter a sense of cave exploring.

The caverns in Adventure are based on a real cave system, Bedquilt, I think. And there is a story about a guy who, by playing Adventure, became familiar enough with the actual cave system that he could navigate the caves without a map his first time in. Very cool.

Some of the oldest games I ever played were on my Amstrad. Games were called... hmm... Manic Miner... and, uh... Redhawk. I think. Geez, thinking that far back hurts. Now I know how you feel Jim. I vow to never poke fun of your age again. At least until I forget my vows. I think. Maybe...

There was also some maze quest-ish kind of game... I think it was called GEM or something like that, not 100% sure though.

-Fred

http://www2.b3ta.com/heyhey16k/

Nuff said.