Not the earliest you still play regularly. Just the first.
Mine would have to be Colossal Cave Adventure, followed by Scott Adams' Adventureland. I played the former, but saw the latter in!color! on the brand new Apple II purchased by a couple of friends. As we were all writers, a merry time was had kicking the shit out of the mechanics and parser. I recall they got it as a freebie (one of several) with the computer purchase. This was back in the late seventies. Had we known then what we did now, we would have invested in the hardware. But then, there were plenty of opportunities for that, that turned into dead ends, too.
Over to you. First computer game you ever played.
Star Trek on the TRS-80 in Basic and Zork!
Pong. Dragon maze, Mastermind. All on the Apple ][. They came on the 5.25" system disk.I played Lemonade Stand the other day with my daughter on the Apple //c . She thought it was pretty cool.
It wasn't actually Wizardy, but that's the first one I really remember playing A LOT.
I think it was actually something called Galactic Empires? Or something like that. You had a galaxy to conquer one planet at a time, and had a time limit of some kind, so you had to plan your production to meet your fleet as you jumped around hitting systems. Simple, elegant, fun.
Oh, and it didn't need a zillion patches and DLCs to make it worth playing
Oregon Trail, back in elementary school.
http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html
Mostly, I would just hunt.
As an aside, Mr. Adams uses Stardock's Multiplicity and I've had some neat conversations with him over the years.
Load Runner on Windows 3.11 for sure!
(Newer version to play!) http://www.ibiblio.org/GameBytes/issue21/greviews/lode.html
Warcraft II
First computer game I ever played was Hunt the Wumpus on a TRS-80 in the "computer lab" at my school.
I think Lemonade Stand was my first "real game" game as well, but for Apple II.
Cool. I interviewed him for a magazine about 6 years ago, and remember wishing at the time I could have done one much longer, and cut it up into three or four segments.
I played Pong and Tanks, but those were on a console. My first true home computer game would probably have been Manic Miner on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Back then, we had to load our games (and other programs) by cassette tape and it took anywhere from 3 to 15 minutes to load. If the load failed, you'd adjust the volume, rewind the tape and try again.
Good times.
Man, I miss this game...
SC2K
aww ya
I think that was it for me as well.
Something on the vic 20 that had to be uploaded from a tape drive.. a cassette tape drive.
Starflight in high school, beat the game just before graduation since we did not have a home computer way back in'88...
You never forget the first real game. The reason I'm still a gamer - - ULTIMA III (C64)
Pong
Pong in the 70's but Sids Pirates on the C64 in the 80's for a computer. Downloaded it from GOG recently. My memories of it are alot better than playing it today.
Minesweeper, if that doesn't count Star Wars Dark Forces, and after that the Army Men games from 3DO
Same here, along with some other fish evolution game where you ate your natural prey and 'evolved' into one of your predators. It was actually kind of interesting and I've never seen it outside that 1st grade classroom.
Did he have his towel when you talked to him?
I'm going with the first game I bought with my own money. Kings Quest 1. Bought it at our local Radio Shack during a sale if you wore your pajamas (thinking back, that's kind of creepy).
The first computer game I ever bought. Before we got married, my wife's roommate in college was irritated because I was playing it at 1:30 am in their dorm room. Good times...
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