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| DrPostman  
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8/2/2008 3:41 AM
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I came across this on Digg: [link to www.codeproject.com]
Here is how one of the screens of the game looked:
----------------------------------------------------------
X STAR TREK
X
X
X
X ENTER 1 OR 2 FOR INSTRUCTIONS (ENTER 2 TO X PAGE)
X
X ENTER SEED NUMBER
X INITIALIZING...
X
X YOU MUST DESTROY 17 KINGONS IN 30 STARDATES WITH 3 STARBASES
X
X -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-
X *
X STARDATE 2100
X * * CONDITION GREEN
X <*> QUADRANT 5,2
X * SECTOR 5,4
X ENERGY 3000
X SHIELDS 0
X * PHOTON TORPEDOES 10
X -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-
X COMMAND
----------------------------------------------------------
Damn - The spaces wouldn't work. Xs added to see if that
works.
Nope. You have to go to the web site to see it properly.
I used to spend hours hunting Klingons (instead of working)
on the Dispatch Computer at Central & Southern Truck Lines.
It was a Wang 2200B - a very successful computer that was
still in wide use up until the 90s. The game was invented
in 1971.
Just made me nastalgic, and VERY appreciative of what we
have now.
"Sooner or later all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to
live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into
a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve
for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love."
--Reverend Martin Luther King
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| DrPostman
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User ID: 51197
8/2/2008 3:45 AM
| | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Anyone else ever play this, or even remember it?
"Sooner or later all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to
live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into
a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve
for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love."
--Reverend Martin Luther King
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DrPostman(at)gmail.com
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the problem is at your end? Go to:
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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 464050
8/2/2008 3:48 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
I never did but I assume it was a text-based game? I used to enjoy those back in the day. |
| Winningjob
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
User ID: 385114
8/2/2008 3:49 AM
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Was it similar to the games for the Vic 20 and commodore 64? I remember the code in the back of the book that came with the computer and you had to write your OWN game!
you're not the only one who thinks I don't know what I'm doing. |
| Nucking Futs
User ID: 455142
8/2/2008 3:50 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Holy Crap! The game is written in BASIC!
Nope, I never played it, but it looks like I would have liked it if I had been aware of it.
In the late 70's through the mid 80's I wrote many games in BASIC. Friends used to come over to my house and would spend hour after hour playing the games I wrote.
If I may boast just a bit, some of the games were pretty damn good.
I should have tried to market a few... might have made some money or ended up in the now billion-dollar game industry.
Damn - missed opportunity! |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 477639
8/2/2008 4:08 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
cool Dr P.
reminds me of my old ZX-81 a whopping 1K!but I had the 16K module.
tape save worked about 20% of the time,if you bumped the power jack, it wiped the RAM
I usually just typed my code on a typewriter and saved an "analog" copy
those were the days! not! |
| Disturbed
User ID: 374025
8/2/2008 4:11 AM
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Never played that game, but seeing basic reminds me of my first steps in computerworld. Good memories 
Join the (unofficial) GLP fun site (only advertised here). Wallpapers, arcade, lolcat and other picture generators [link to marcozz.com] |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 477639
8/2/2008 4:11 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Anyone else ever play this, or even remember it? Quoting: DrPostman
I've never seen that one
I wrote a pretty cool game using the scroll feature,but once I dimensioned out the arrays for the object the machine would run slow a molasses.The CPU handled video functions as well,and it was just an 8088. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 379484
8/2/2008 4:22 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
I came across this on Digg: [ link to www.codeproject.com]
Here is how one of the screens of the game looked:
----------------------------------------------------------
X STAR TREK
X
X
X
X ENTER 1 OR 2 FOR INSTRUCTIONS (ENTER 2 TO X PAGE)
X
X ENTER SEED NUMBER
X INITIALIZING...
X
X YOU MUST DESTROY 17 KINGONS IN 30 STARDATES WITH 3 STARBASES
X
X -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-
X *
X STARDATE 2100
X * * CONDITION GREEN
X <*> QUADRANT 5,2
X * SECTOR 5,4
X ENERGY 3000
X SHIELDS 0
X * PHOTON TORPEDOES 10
X -=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=-
X COMMAND
----------------------------------------------------------
Damn - The spaces wouldn't work. Xs added to see if that
works.
Nope. You have to go to the web site to see it properly.
I used to spend hours hunting Klingons (instead of working)
on the Dispatch Computer at Central & Southern Truck Lines.
It was a Wang 2200B - a very successful computer that was
still in wide use up until the 90s. The game was invented
in 1971.
Just made me nastalgic, and VERY appreciative of what we
have now.
I think I had that on a 5" floppy on an Epson 8088, but i got those in '97 lol.
Did you ever play 'Fire' or 'Argo'/'Argonaut'?
I swear those were the best. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 477639
8/2/2008 4:24 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
anyone remember "Maniac Mobile Mazogs"? |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 390756
8/2/2008 4:27 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
cool Dr P.
reminds me of my old ZX-81 a whopping 1K!but I had the 16K module.
tape save worked about 20% of the time,if you bumped the power jack, it wiped the RAM
I usually just typed my code on a typewriter and saved an "analog" copy
those were the days! not! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 477639
The "fun" part of that was doing it all in machine language or assembler just to max up the performance and pack in as much as possible in 16Kb. Ah those days...
1971 IBM 370 and FORTRAN WAT VI or was it WAT IV... yeah, what for... data punch cards no less.. well there are some of us rusty ole digibiters still around I see. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 390756
8/2/2008 4:29 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Anyone else ever play this, or even remember it? Quoting: DrPostman
Yes, I do remember it and host of other text based games like it. then came the days of screen dazzlers. You just had to get a CGA monitor to enjoy the four colors dazzlers. Now we run 16 million but four was all you got back then. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 379484
8/2/2008 4:31 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Anyone else ever play this, or even remember it? Quoting: DrPostman
gmail blocks zip file attachments, post an email that doesn't suck and i'll send you two games like that |
| nomuse (NLI)
User ID: 477610
8/2/2008 4:32 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Heh. I remember Star Trek. First saw it running on a dumb terminal at either LHS or UC Berkeley (no, that's not my alma mater -- I was still a kid then).
Later, had a version on my first computer: my lovely Kaypro 2X.
I was tinkering with it to put something of a basic language parser on the front end but when I saw what an undocumented cludge-fest the code had become (after what I presume was port after port after port) I wrote my own version.
Even on the Kaypro, working in BASIC and drawing to the alphanumeric display, I was able to do a few tricks like display refresh (instead of scroll down and redraw.) I am still rather pleased with part of my core code, which created new systems as they got within sensor range, then saved their stats (how many klingons, how many starbases, etc.) to an array.
That was the days. Last major program I ever wrote in BASIC. Heck, biggest program I ever wrote, period (these days I tinker up ten-line routines on hobby microprocessors). |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 476495
8/2/2008 4:33 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
First computer game i played was 'The Count' i think it was called where you were a vampire, it was a text based adventure game on the Vic20 |
| Rota
User ID: 475808
8/2/2008 4:58 AM
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First game I ever played was on Windows 95 called "Silent Hunter". It was a submarine game during WW11. I loved that game but when XP came along it didn't have DOS and so will not work on my main computer.
I have other computers I put Windows 98 on but for some reason I can't get it to work because these newer computers don't have the right drivers.
So they make a new Silent Humter. I buy it and it won't work because it is a resourse hog and needs more RAM then I have. So I am a gameless gimp now. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 379484
8/2/2008 5:04 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
I think the best game I ever played was 'DeathTrack'. It was a racing game like the old Atari 'Pole Position' but you buy weapons to take out your opponents. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 379484
8/2/2008 5:22 AM | | Anonymous Coward
User ID: 379484
8/2/2008 5:28 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
How about the Atari 2600? I could lose myself for hours in Star Raiders or Dark Caverns. |
| himself
User ID: 477045
8/2/2008 5:28 AM
 | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Pong
1973 |
| DrPostman
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User ID: 51197
8/2/2008 5:33 AM
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I think I had that on a 5" floppy on an Epson 8088, but i got those in '97 lol.
Did you ever play 'Fire' or 'Argo'/'Argonaut'?
I swear those were the best. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 379484
Nope, that's the only game I played until I got an Atari400
5 years later and had a few games like that such as Galaxy
and M.U.L.E.
For some reason I just don't care much for those older games
now. I'm terribly spoiled by FPS games and Civ4-BTS.
"Sooner or later all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to
live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into
a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve
for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love."
--Reverend Martin Luther King
Can't PM? Feel free to email me at
DrPostman(at)gmail.com
Want to know if a site is down, or if
the problem is at your end? Go to:
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| DrPostman
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8/2/2008 5:34 AM
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I never did but I assume it was a text-based game? I used to enjoy those back in the day. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 464050
No, you could kind of call it "graphic" because items on
the keyboard represented enemy ships, etc...
Check out the web site and you'll see what I mean.
"Sooner or later all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to
live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into
a creative psalm of brotherhood. If this is to be achieved, man must evolve
for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation.
The foundation of such a method is love."
--Reverend Martin Luther King
Can't PM? Feel free to email me at
DrPostman(at)gmail.com
Want to know if a site is down, or if
the problem is at your end? Go to:
[link to downforeveryoneorjustme.com] |
| 113333
User ID: 477665
8/2/2008 5:41 AM
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Anyone else ever play this, or even remember it? Quoting: DrPostman
Thanks for making me feel really old now. 
 |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422730
8/2/2008 6:05 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Anyone else ever play this, or even remember it? Quoting: DrPostman
Nope, first game I played was "pong," Coin-Op.
Mame is still around...
[link to en.wikipedia.org]
Last night I watched "The King of Kong":
[link to www.imdb.com]
Brought back a lot of memories. |
| himself
User ID: 477045
8/2/2008 6:21 AM
| | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Anyone else ever play this, or even remember it?
Nope, first game I played was "pong," Coin-Op.
Mame is still around...
[ link to en.wikipedia.org]
Last night I watched "The King of Kong":
[ link to www.imdb.com]
Brought back a lot of memories.
Pong
at Top Seed tennis club Scottsdale AZ 1973
Had to solder my computers together back then.
8k was a massive memory
Apple and IBM pcs were far in the future. |
| Winningjob
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
User ID: 385114
8/2/2008 6:23 AM
| | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
How about the Atari 2600? I could lose myself for hours in Star Raiders or Dark Caverns. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 379484
Yeah, I gotta say for its time Atari rocked!
you're not the only one who thinks I don't know what I'm doing. |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422730
8/2/2008 6:34 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
...
Nope, first game I played was "pong," Coin-Op.
Mame is still around...
[ link to en.wikipedia.org]
Last night I watched "The King of Kong":
[ link to www.imdb.com]
Brought back a lot of memories.
Pong
at Top Seed tennis club Scottsdale AZ 1973
Had to solder my computers together back then.
8k was a massive memory
Apple and IBM pcs were far in the future.
It was a table top version with space-age 70's curves, white I believe???
Improve your tennis skills? :P
I played mine at the Melbourne International Airport (AU).
8k, LMAO. |
| 89446
User ID: 464964
8/2/2008 6:34 AM
 | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Never played that game, but seeing basic reminds me of my first steps in computerworld. Good memories
nightmares for me |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422730
8/2/2008 6:36 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
How about the Atari 2600? I could lose myself for hours in Star Raiders or Dark Caverns.
Yeah, I gotta say for its time Atari rocked! Quoting: Winningjob
I still have mine. :)
My mum still holds the Asteroids high score. :( |
| Winningjob
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
User ID: 385114
8/2/2008 6:38 AM
| | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
How about the Atari 2600? I could lose myself for hours in Star Raiders or Dark Caverns.
Yeah, I gotta say for its time Atari rocked!
I still have mine. :)
My mum still holds the Asteroids high score. :( Quoting: Anonymous Coward 422730
you're not the only one who thinks I don't know what I'm doing. |
| himself
User ID: 477045
8/2/2008 6:48 AM
| | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
...
Nope, first game I played was "pong," Coin-Op.
Mame is still around...
[ link to en.wikipedia.org]
Last night I watched "The King of Kong":
[ link to www.imdb.com]
Brought back a lot of memories.
Pong
at Top Seed tennis club Scottsdale AZ 1973
Had to solder my computers together back then.
8k was a massive memory
Apple and IBM pcs were far in the future.
It was a table top version with space-age 70's curves, white I believe???
Improve your tennis skills? :P
I played mine at the Melbourne International Airport (AU).
8k, LMAO.
I learned quickly that the computer cheated and applied "english" to make me lose.
Never trusted a computer since. |
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