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.
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Originally posted by ChurchillGo on then Jules, which ones?
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Originally posted by threadedThey 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?
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Originally posted by Fortune Green
I played ADVENT on a PDP11-23 in 1978. And a flight simulator.
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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.
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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)
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Originally posted by FranckoThe first available for home was the ping pong (that was mid-late 70's if I recall,
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)
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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.
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Originally posted by mrdonutswhats the oldest computer game anyones played
i've played golf on a burroughs line printer circa late 70's
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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.
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I don't play computer games. They are for children and social retards.
HTH
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whats the oldest computer game anyones played
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