Curse

CatLady · Jun 02, 2005, 03:19 AM // 03:19

My father bought an Atari 2600 (I think I was around 10 or 11) because he was disabled and it was something he could spend his out-of-bed time doing. The controls (paddles and joysticks) he could still manage at the time and he was quite obsessed w/their pac-man and some tank game, for a while. I looked for a picture, but they all show paddles that were a lot 'taller' than the ones I remember having. The ones we had, the round part didn't stick up so high. But it was something like this one:

Myself, I was addicted to breakout:

Eventually he couldn't work the controls anymore and never bought another console, so it wasn't until many years later that I picked up gaming again, when I shacked up w/my bf/hubby, in the late 80's(?), w/an NES. (Edit - and a few years after that, PC gaming - I haven't gone back to consoles at all)

Omega_2005 · Jun 02, 2005, 08:01 AM // 08:01

aw man... this reminds me of a post in another forum...

I used to have an Amstrad PC in which started my gaming origins. Sure, it needed tapes, sure it is awful compared to the new 3G consoles coming out (PS3, XBOX360 and Revolution), but It was the first actual console before the FAMICON that made me enter the Gaming world. but the first game which solicely made me enjoy gaming was Starfox, strangely enough. It was quite frightening when I was about 7 going through the increasingly hard stages and EOSB... I even ran away when I got to the last boss... pure genius of a game!

Auntie I · Jun 02, 2005, 11:27 AM // 11:27

My first honest to God computer game addiction was with Rogue on my Universities Vax mini computer. I kissed the gaming Gods when they ported it to PC in 85 (I think, my memory on dates is more than a little fuzzy). I still play it but the Unix version was better. Anyone else remember cursing at Rust Monsters as your armor disintegrated?

NES - I'll take any of the Dragon Warrior titles but DW4 is still my favorite.

Spirit Firefly · Jun 02, 2005, 12:01 PM // 12:01

Had a BBC first it had those wierd big black flat dics. Used to play Space Invaders and other wierd random games on it. Then had an Atari with 1 game on it called Double Dragon. Then an Amiga not very memorable i can't think of one game i played on it. Then got my first PC <3. So Warcraft 1, Warcrat 2, Warcraft 3, TFT, WoW, Settlers 1 <3. FFX11 adn um this and some other random>

Yojinj · Jun 02, 2005, 12:27 PM // 12:27

How i hated Adventure ^^. Got always eaten by the red (was it red?) blocks (the dragon lol).

Phantasmagoria ruled! Sierra was atop back then. I played through the game with a gurl friend by my side and she always put her hands before the eyes when it was too much hehe. I remember the finale when you lost, the womens face got torn open ^^.

7th hour and 11th guest where nice too to play.

My first gaming system was a white box to plug into the tv and there were to paddle like controllers and you could play pong and some different pong settings. Then i had the Atari 2600, Nes i played with a friend i was so jealous. Then i got the Genesis (in europe called Mega Drive) and my friend got jealous. Then we both got Gameboys and SNES and were happy ^^.

Oh many systems followed then. 32x (genesis upgrade) Neo Geo, PC Engine, PS, Saturn, 3DO, N64, Jaguar 64, Dreamcast, PS2 (Game Gear, and GBA too).
Only this time i didnt get all consoles that are out there. I don't care bout Game Cube and Xbox.

Vengeance · Jun 02, 2005, 02:23 PM // 14:23

Fresh day ... and even more fresh memories ...

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I was born in the very early 1989, my first games included the NES and SNES with Mortal Kombat (FATALITY! POON!) n Street Fighter and Super Mario, then PC games i started around when i was 4 or 5, with Doom and Duke Nukem, Mega Race (loved that), Raptor (OMG one of my first game on Win32) Roger Rabbit (Meh, i was 4, what u want :P), the first final fantasies, then later on i moved on to the first Need For Speed and GTA 1!!, Beta Starcraft and SC and Total Annihilation, Diablo, Infantry XD, Beta CS, Diablo II all the way to LoD, RO, CS (made to cal-i and got kicked out when they put age restriction), then WoW now GW :P.

Mortal Kombat on the home consoles ... I can still remember the big debate about that ... Nintendo's decision to paint the blood green ... plus, I can't remember if it was for MK or MKII that they had that great commercial with the streets being flooded with people screaming 'MORTAL KOMBAT!' ... I still scream out FATALITY when playing certain games ... might have to do that the next time I kill a Charr ...

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Originally Posted by CatLady

My father bought an Atari 2600 (I think I was around 10 or 11) because he was disabled and it was something he could spend his out-of-bed time doing. The controls (paddles and joysticks) he could still manage at the time and he was quite obsessed w/their pac-man and some tank game, for a while. I looked for a picture, but they all show paddles that were a lot 'taller' than the ones I remember having. The ones we had, the round part didn't stick up so high. But it was something like this one:

I never actually owned a 2600 ... instead I was always the kid on the block going around and hitting up everyone else's equipment ... I had no idea that those systems actually came with so many controllers ... the tank game was probably Combat! ... and yes you need the exclamation point ... I remember the football game where you could run off the one side of the screen only to reappear on the other ... always frustrated me when I thought I had a breakaway only to have a defender pop up ...

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Originally Posted by Yojinj

7th hour and 11th guest where nice too to play.

I remember between those two games, Myst, and maybe Wing Commander III ... those were THE reasons you had to drop a CD-ROM into your rig ... myst not so much ... but to watch Mark Hamill bantering back and forth with Hobbes? Again ... that was where it was at baby ...

Spirit Firefly · Jun 02, 2005, 02:35 PM // 14:35

OMG Wing Commander was awesome i had it on the amiga and pc but could never get Wing commander IV to work

Ah the wonderful memories of my eyes being glazed over in my thunderbolt single handedly destroying a kilrathi mothership while Ace chattered away to me lol.

Vengeance · Jun 02, 2005, 02:38 PM // 14:38

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Originally Posted by Spirit Firefly

OMG Wing Commander was awesome i had it on the amiga and pc but could never get Wing commander IV to work

Ah the wonderful memories of my eyes being glazed over in my thunderbolt single handedly destroying a kilrathi mothership while Ace chattered away to me lol.

Was it IV that had the full motion video? And Biff playing Ace? And you having to choose between Ginger Lynn and Angel? Again ... too much random game info rattling around in my head ...

Spirit Firefly · Jun 02, 2005, 02:42 PM // 14:42

Without a doubt Biff from Back to the future. Angel was quite hot. It started with you knocking back some shots in a bar on some random desert planet. When Ace comes to find you to save mankind as we know it. Damn the storyline was pure genious

I use to take Hobbes too but i knew there was somet up with him never quite trusted him. I didn't mind chasing him down the damn traitor.

Rbp-7-(Ooz) · Jun 02, 2005, 03:29 PM // 15:29

another Nascar skin I made (of course, Oldschool):

And even though this is not the Commodore 64 Car... I still kept the 64 number, because come on! It's the C64 that's a GREAT number.

Rbp-7-(Ooz) · Jun 02, 2005, 03:38 PM // 15:38

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So I need to chime in. I don't have pictures of it, but I can get some when I go home tonight. My original Intellivision. Plugged into and old TV. shares space next to my Computer My Game cube and My PS2.
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Picture.... Found...

there on the right behind the 2nd keyboard... My Intellivision, you can see the small 13 inch TV I use for it... it's out of frame. But you can see a controller!

Vengeance · Jun 02, 2005, 03:49 PM // 15:49

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Originally Posted by Rbp-7-(Ooz)

Picture.... Found...

there on the right behind the 2nd keyboard... My Intellivision, you can see the small 13 inch TV I use for it... it's out of frame. But you can see a controller!

JOOOOOYYYYY!!!!

However dude ... you don't have any inserts in the controller ... you need something like Night Stalker in there ... or Astrosmash ... or Sea Battle! Yeah ....

Harlas Kije · Jun 02, 2005, 03:49 PM // 15:49

I had the Atari 2600--Yar's Revenge ruled all!!!!
ET was fun too ( go ahead and laugh)

CoCo and a Tandy with Rogue on it.

Funny thing was--my mom and dad kicked ass on the 2600--we would play winner stays--and it always ended up with my mom and dad battling out--and me and my sisters sitting watching till bed time.

I loved how you had like over 80 some diff types of games and had tohit the select switch over and over--if you messed up you had to redo it..that was almost a game in itself (for space invaders and asteroids).

remember the portable video games? Football with just lines and dashes for the players---then the awesome one was head to head football--same screen jsut you could actually play against someone else with your heads touching.....good times.

Vengeance · Jun 02, 2005, 03:58 PM // 15:58

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Originally Posted by Harlas Kije

I had the Atari 2600--Yar's Revenge ruled all!!!!
ET was fun too ( go ahead and laugh)

... smirk ... hmmmph ... BWA HAH HA HAH HA!!!!

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Originally Posted by Harlas Kije

remember the portable video games? Football with just lines and dashes for the players---then the awesome one was head to head football--same screen jsut you could actually play against someone else with your heads touching.....good times.

I remember one x-mas Mom picked up a hockey handheld game for my dad, thinking it was for the Intellivision ... sigh ... good times, good times ...

Harlas Kije · Jun 02, 2005, 04:04 PM // 16:04

Oh--and how much of a geek was I? I got Pitfall for the 2600--and if you got a certain score--you could take a picture and send it in to get a Pitfall Badge.

Ya--I got one of them

I can still hear the audio to Pitfall....how sad is that?

Up Down Up down Left right left right B A (select for 2 players) Start.

Yojinj · Jun 02, 2005, 05:29 PM // 17:29

I think WCIII + IV + Prophecy all had Mark Hamill in it.
X-wing and Tie Fighter i loved more then WC ^^.

Vengeance · Jun 02, 2005, 05:35 PM // 17:35

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Originally Posted by Yojinj

I think WCIII + IV + Prophecy all had Mark Hamill in it.
X-wing and Tie Fighter i loved more then WC ^^.

Hey hey hey ... just to defend my position at least ... I was remembering fondly the FMV in the Wing Commander games ... as for gameplay? Yeah, I enjoyed X-Wing and Tie a lot more than WC ... maybe that's why I enjoyed the Mark Hamill video so much ... hmmm ...

Pevil Lihatuh · Jun 02, 2005, 06:48 PM // 18:48

hehe ooh gaming origins...

Well first ever attempt at gaming must be way back when i was a kid; my mum had a ZX Spectrum 64 (128k!!!) before she even had me, so I grew up with that thing. I played things like Magicland Dizzy and Scooby Doo on that, although my two favourite games were the two that had come with the computer itself: Demolition (brilliant version of breakout really) and Maze.

Next my friend got an Amiga 1200, and after seeing her play Trolls and Zool 2 on it, I begged my parents to get me the same package

So I'd play Trolls, Zool 2, Nigel Mansells World Championship, The Lion King and my all time favourite game EVER, Globdule on that. hehe globdule... who can not love being a piece of pink slime that can stick to most surfaces?

And finally in 1999 I got my first PC, with a ton of free games. So thats when i truly got into gaming; before it would be "oh i'll get my speccy/amiga out for a bit", they'd stay set up for a couple weeks, then be put away again. But the pc of course had to stay up forever, and hte first game that I truly got into on that was Dogz 3! Not what you'd really consider a game but hey

And I guess my first 'real' game was Severance: Blade of Darkness; I got a demo on the front of a magazine and fell in love with it.

BrandonIT · Jun 02, 2005, 07:36 PM // 19:36

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Originally Posted by Harlas Kije

I had the Atari 2600--Yar's Revenge ruled all!!!!
ET was fun too ( go ahead and laugh)

I HATED Yar's Revenge. I was just never good at it.

But I played ET all the way through many times. Don't know why. Just enjoyed it.

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Originally Posted by Yojinj

I think WCIII + IV + Prophecy all had Mark Hamill in it.
X-wing and Tie Fighter i loved more then WC ^^.

Well, X-Wing came later than Wing Commander, so cut it some slack. I was so bummed when they let the Tiger's Claw go BOOM!

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Originally Posted by Spirit Firefly

I use to take Hobbes too but i knew there was somet up with him never quite trusted him. I didn't mind chasing him down the damn traitor

Dang straight!

7th Guest I played on a 'double'-speed CD-ROM. I was the stuff since I had that. I specifically saved my money because I had heard they were coming out with 'double' speed CD-ROM's to replace the single-speed. And I wanted the best!.. hardy-har-har. Welcome to hardware progress...

I loved 7th Guest. 11th Hour was even better. I still have images of those games burned into my brain. 'COME BACK!!!"

Yes, Mortal Kombat. Originally with no blood on the NES but Sega put the blood in on it's version. (Maybe that was MKII). Anyway, it was great. Then things kinda got crazy...Fatality...Babality...Friendship...etc...e tc...

Harlas Kije · Jun 02, 2005, 08:35 PM // 20:35

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Originally Posted by Pevil Lihatuh

And I guess my first 'real' game was Severance: Blade of Darkness; I got a demo on the front of a magazine and fell in love with it.

I remember back in the day when you got "demos" in gaming/pc magazines.

NO disk--you had the frigging program you had to type in yourself.

Happy happy JOy joy---8 hours later and 2600000 lines of code--you hit return only to see
error line 12450
fix it--hit return
error line 12451

god--I sure do miss those days

....not