Can you remember...

[Platypus]

Larry the lounge lizard.[/IMG]

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards

I think you'll find

I completed that one too. You could make Larry do stuff like take a dump and shag female characters

[Platypus]

Hunt the Wumpus

I think I played that on a Teletype !

I played Star Trek on a Data General Aviion mini computer in the 70's

[hyperD]

Nope.

Nothing that sophisticated, must have been around 1977/78.

IIRC it was a sort of maze game.

And there was some sort of driving game in 1978/9 that I played about twice but resented having to pay so stopped.

Tank?

[psychocandy]

Doom was ok

but before that I loved Rebelstar Raiders, Lords of midnight and a neat little game called Chaos

Lords of Midnight = classic. Bit too easy though.

Never really got into the follow-up though - bit too complex for me.

[psychocandy]

My Dad bought one of those for my sister and I - I do remember my Mum going nuts over how much it cost.

I had a ZX Spectrum 16k (we were too poor for me to get a 48k). I bought one from ebay and excitedly showed it to my son - has was not impressed.

Me too. 16K. Then I paid for the memory myself and upgraded it.

Still got mine.

[hyperD]

Used to like the multiplayer arcade game Gauntlet. Who would have known about 20 years later we'd have MMORPGs such as WoW?

[TraceRacing]

For those of you who want to rekindle their "Elite" memories, I've been playing "Oolite" for the past couple of months. It's a true re-write of the original for PC and you can install OXP's for additional functionality.

Elite is currently being redeveloped and should be out around the end of the year...but in the meantime, Commander, Oolite to "Load new Commander"

[Cliphead]

For those of you who want to rekindle their "Elite" memories, I've been playing "Oolite" for the past couple of months. It's a true re-write of the original for PC and you can install OXP's for additional functionality.

Elite is currently being redeveloped and should be out around the end of the year...but in the meantime, Commander, Oolite to "Load new Commander"

+1

Been playing Oolite on and off for a couple of years. Pure nostalgia.


Linky

[NickFitz]

For those of you who want to rekindle their "Elite" memories, I've been playing "Oolite" for the past couple of months. It's a true re-write of the original for PC and you can install OXP's for additional functionality.

Elite is currently being redeveloped and should be out around the end of the year...but in the meantime, Commander, Oolite to "Load new Commander"

+1 from me too. Note that it's not only for PC, but also Mac and Linux.

And if you fancy some truly hard core nostalgia, Ian Bell's site has the 6502 assembly language source code for the original BBC Micro version, along with the game itself for various 8 and 16 bit platforms, runnable in modern emulators: Elite Home Page - Archive Index

[DaveB]

The very first game I ever played was on a home brew machine of uncertain provenance built by my Maths teacher some time around 1979/80. It was called Snarks and I have never seen anything like it since.

It used Ascii graphics in black and white and involved the management and control of creatures called Snarks that would shoot about the screen vertically and horizontally unless interrupted in their progress by you (killing you in the process), a boulder you had pushed into their path when they would randomly change direction, a tree, which were poisonous to players and snarks alike, or another Snark when there was a chance of them producing offspring.

With good management you could build walled enclosures with the boulders and farm the Snarks by penning them in and letting them breed before letting them out again. There was no score and no objective but I remember being completely fascinated by it.

I blame this formative experience for the years of squandered time since spent playing games of all descriptions.