oldest computer game

[DaveB]

A bizzare little game called Snarks on a home brew box of unknown pedigree owned by my O' Level maths teacher.

The game invoved farming little creatures, Snarks, by corralling them with boulders and getting them to bump into eachother and so reproduce. All donme using the ASCII charecter set. Never seen or heard of it since.

[Lucifer Box]

Go on then Jules, which ones?

"Burger Time" I would have thought.

[Churchill]

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.

Go on then Jules, which ones?

[AtW]

I like playing hide-n-seek in my gold vault.

threaded.

[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.

[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.

[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)

[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)

[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.

[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.

[zathras]

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.

[mrdonuts]

hard to believe you dont play them then

[DimPrawn]

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

HTH

[mrdonuts]

whats the oldest computer game anyones played

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