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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422730
8/2/2008 6:53 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
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I still have mine. :)
My mum still holds the Asteroids high score. :(
She was such a game hog!
...
I learned quickly that the computer cheated and applied "english" to make me lose.
Never trusted a computer since. Quoting: himself
The ol' "I don't speak your language trick." |
| Veritas
User ID: 477686
8/2/2008 7:01 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Space Invaders.... Pacman...or whatever. They all had the same purpose: dumbing down of the masses to what is really going on in the world. ie the creation of a new order based on materialism, violence and greed.
(if that aint conspiratorial, what is!!!??) |
| Winningjob 
Out of my mind. Back in five minutes.
User ID: 385114
8/2/2008 7:04 AM
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Space Invaders.... Pacman...or whatever. They all had the same purpose: dumbing down of the masses to what is really going on in the world. ie the creation of a new order based on materialism, violence and greed.
(if that aint conspiratorial, what is!!!??) Quoting: Veritas 477686
I don't know..seems to me it is the games that changed over the years and desensitized the youth. I wonder if the games were still pacman and frogger if things would be somewhat different today?
you're not the only one who thinks I don't know what I'm doing. |
| DrPostman 
Forum Moderator
User ID: 51197
8/2/2008 7:08 AM
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Civ4 has dumbed me down to a drooling idiot.....And I Love 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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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 471491
8/2/2008 7:08 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
I remember playing 'colossal cave' (the predecessor to Adventure) in 1975 on a Dec PDP11-50, and there are a number of computer games before that.
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| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 422730
8/2/2008 7:11 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Space Invaders.... Pacman...or whatever. They all had the same purpose: dumbing down of the masses to what is really going on in the world. ie the creation of a new order based on materialism, violence and greed.
(if that aint conspiratorial, what is!!!??) Quoting: Veritas 477686
Maybe it's a path along the way, so a magickal learning tool as well if one can see it. |
| Ossie bloke
User ID: 477684
8/2/2008 7:56 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
The game that I wrote, released in 1987 is much better than todays games and games from the 70's. Around 1980 - 1983 home computer games and arcade games really started moving along, not just because of the new hardware but also sheer creativity and financial incentive. I know a guy in the UK who made something like a $1,000,000 in royalties for a game that he wrote in one week, he was only 20 years old at the time.
Unfortunately modern games are becoming increasingly holywoodized, C# - 3D graphic construction kits do not provide a simple enough palette with which to work from. Of course the option is there to use Assembler and C# but personally I don't have the mental spark to make a new type of game anymore. It would take a few years of research in human cognition and toying around with small experiments to see what these modern computers are capable of. Stuff it, the world is the most amazing game ever and when it says game over, that is the real thing! |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 455519
8/2/2008 8:17 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.
I still have my "pong" and it works.....rofl |
| MuadDib987
User ID: 471904
8/2/2008 8:59 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.
I too played this, on the old Trash-80. There was also a similar Trek game with a grid made of those enormous pixels, with the letter E representing the Enterprise and K's for Klingon ships.
When Battlestar Galactica came out, I was writing my own games in BASIC, where you were shooting at Cylon Raiders, depicted by (0).
Dang kids today just don't appreciate what we went through back in the stone age.
When you really love someone, you paste their photo onto the headless Barbie you massage your gums with. |
| BorrisNorris
User ID: 477722
8/2/2008 9:23 AM
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I played that on a mainframe system. killed many hours on the night shift. I also played a game I think it was Zorg. you had to type "open door" the game would say "open door with what?" you would type "open the door with a key" the game would say "you dont have a key". Remember that one |
| BO
User ID: 452848
8/2/2008 9:29 AM
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I played it on a Commodore PET in 1981 for the first time...Ahhhh, those were the days....
Twisted by the Dark Side, young Skywalker has become |
| Geogal
User ID: 373387
8/2/2008 9:36 AM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Anyone remember "Nethack" the game where you can be a wizard, fighter, valkyrie, etc...? |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 475407
8/2/2008 2:30 PM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Loved that game, played it on a dumb terminal attached to a Control Data 7600 in 1975. Was pretty advanced for it's day and occupied a whole room and cost about $5 million. Any modern Home PC would eat it's lunch but it sure looked impressive! |
| Anonymous Coward
User ID: 281483
8/2/2008 2:35 PM | | Re: The First Computer Game I Ever Played,,,,,,,, in 1977! | Quote |
Anyone else ever play this, or even remember it? Quoting: DrPostman
[Raises Hand]
Played that and so many games.
It's incredible how vivid our imaginations were with text-only games...
I *HATED* Floyd in Infocom's game Planetfall. He could've helped me with so many things, but he was too stupid to listen to my requests. He really annoyed me.
Then the bastard has to go and get one item I REALLY needed... and get himself killed in the process. 'Floyd good friend...'
It was incredible the sense of loss I felt at that point. |
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