oldest computer game

[mrdonuts]

whats the oldest computer game anyones played

i've played golf on a burroughs line printer circa late 70's

 

[DimPrawn]

I don't play computer games. They are for children and social retards.

HTH

 

[mrdonuts]

hard to believe you dont play them then

 

[zathras]

Star Trek

Star Trek

On an ICL Mainframe teleprinter.

When I got access to a Harris Minicomputer wrote a multi-user version in the Harris version of Basic.

 

[Francko]

whats the oldest computer game anyones played

i've played golf on a burroughs line printer circa late 70's

The first available for home was the ping pong (that was mid-late 70's if I recall, I think it was before lunar lander). Late 70's also I played the first videogame you could play on the independent machines with a big screen (the arcade machines) which was Space Invader. Would like to see if anyone can correct me! The video had the green phosphors with the terrible beeping sound going faster as the aliens approached.

 

[threaded]

They had some racing game on the train describer on't'railway. That was a machine booted from a punch tape, and the "race" was in the form of a commentary printed out.

Never played it myself, have never found computer games appealing. Worked on some, but played, no.

 

[Fleetwood]

The first available for home was the ping pong (that was mid-late 70's if I recall,

Pong
1973*
hth

(A good year.Tales from Topographic Oceans,Aladdin sane, Houses of the Holy,For Your Pleasure,Space Ritual,Sabbath Bloody Sabbath,dark Side, Larks' Tongues in Aspic etc etc)

 

[cojak]

I was in school in the early 70's when they connected a telex machine to an old phone via some old rubber ear-muff thing to Norwich university. We played Golf on it and were entranced.... ("angle = 45 degrees - speed 1 to 10" etc)

 

[VectraMan]

Best I can claim is Kingdom on the BBC Micro. About 40 kids trying to look at the one beeb that the school had one lunchtime. I guess that was probably about 82.

 

[hyperD]

Lunar Lander

I mentioned that a few days ago - the arcade version. Good game.

I played ADVENT on a PDP11-23 in 1978. And a flight simulator.