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Nutz

This will really show my age Laughing

Computer: Commodore 64 (loved it. but i spent half my time on loading please wait.)

Games:
1981 Wizardry:Proving grounds of the mad overlord
1985 Beyond the forbidden forest
1985 Mail order monsters

Does anyone remember these?

What were yours?

Xmeagol · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 20:31 Post subject:

my first game?

on consoles, it was Sonic, with Mega Drive xD (what was the one before)

on computers, here is the pc kick ass specs

CPU: Pentium 2 300Mhz
RAM: 16MB
GFX: 4MB PCI card!, 12MHz core clock, dunno about memory clock
HDD: 700MB hard-drive, read/write was like 2MB/s LOL

games: Wolfenstein 3D, Necrodoom, etc

those oldie gamez

Shanchez · Joined: 26 Jul 2007 Posts: 174 Browser:

Gta vice city Laughing

I loved driving around and killing with the cars, but I was only 7 or 8 years old then... for computer must be Hl2 Wink

Nutz · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 21:37 Post subject:

games: Wolfenstein 3D

Ahhh....Nice game. Smile

Diet H2O_TSGK · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 21:52 Post subject:

C64 games I loved:

Bruce Lee
Skool dayz
Blue Max
Pit Stop

Freelancer · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 23:10 Post subject:

Ah the Good old days ^_^

Sega Mega Drive II :
Earth Worm Jim 1/2
Sonic The Headgehog
And of corse
Airstrike Jungle C:
Oh and i had something like a Paint game where you did a picture from random Pics from games like SOnic and others c:
I loved the games

ANd still play it on Emulators C:

Xenon · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 23:11 Post subject:

Ahh I remember our old Acorn computer when I was 3-4 years old Shocked

. Featuring games such as Lemmings!

There was also Swiv (no one in my family could complete it), E-type and some funky platform game with a scientist collecting crystals.

A bit later when I was 8 or so I got Star Wars Dark Forces, but couldn't get past the third level due to scary sewer monsters. Crying or Very sad

Other classics for me: Theme Hospital, Age of Empires I and II, Midtown Madness 2 and Crimson Skies. The last two are what really started to get me into PC gaming.

gtamike_TSGK · Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 23:21 Post subject:

Zog Ecosse · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 03:42 Post subject:

I first got my hands on a computer in 1971. An Elliot 4200 bought second hand by Robert Gordon's Polytech. No vdu, only print outs on A3 lined sheets.
What you wrote was stored on punch tape because the space on the winchesters was mega expensive.

The waste from the punch tape, (negative holes) was highly charged with static electricity. An inflated condom with a handful detonated in a victum's
pad left the residue stuck to everything for weeks. Twisted Evil

Next was a VIC 20 and the text adventure game with glorious 8 color stills which rendered in about 5 seconds on each change of location, sticks in my mind. it was called the Hobbit. I never did finish it the machine self destructed. Crying or Very sad

Next was a kit computer called a UK101 it cost £250 and another £40 for a 4k ram upgrade - no case, just a bare board wit keys. Ran basic.

Next was a Bowmar New Brain - bought as bits from various sources when the company went bankrupt.

After that, I bought as Sinclair Spectrum for the kids - Colour on the TV but they were shit - spent more time repairing it than loading games. On to Comadore 64. And slightly after an Amiga 500 which was scrapped and I repaired. This was the first of the real games with graphics that made everything else look pathetic. At the same time, a Tandy 64 came into my possession which could do serious graphics but was not a games machine.

The first PC took the form of a Sharp MZ5600 which had a proper printer and color monitor - once again scrapped and repaired - The spec - 256k memory - two 5.25 floppys and a 2mb hard drives. 8088 processor. It ran Sharp's version of dos 2.1 which was not fully compatible with ms dos.
Feranti 286 8mhz with 512k and 5m hd running dos 3. Bought from work when they upgraded. it lasted about two months and died.

My first purchase proper was a 386 20mhz job which was rapidly replaced by a 386 SLC 40 4m ram and a 125mb hd and my first svga monitor. On to an 486 DX2 40, ***, P1 120, overclocked Celeron 266, P3 1200, Athalon XP 2.4 and a P4 1800 and a P4 2.93 . Now a 2.13 core 2 duo. I have probably forgotten a few machines and upgrades along the way.

This covers 36 years but you know the one game that sticks in my mind and will always be close to me was *** DOOM. that is where it all stated. Very Happy

BTW there are 7 working PC's in the house/garage and 4 laptops.

I'm a silly old Zog

Plasmo_TSGK · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 05:15 Post subject:

Zog's a total fuddy duddy Very Happy

!

My earliest consoling was on NES with the likes of the first two marios, bad news baseball, and a few other games I can't remember. The first family computer...a Pentium 1 133mhz proc, integrated graphics, and 16mb of ram. Pretty sweet rig, ran warcraft and starcraft, the first couple dooms and deadlock. Pretty sweet. Then it was a Genesis (when it was 5 years old), a PS1, and a hand-me-down Pentium III rig that showed me the wonders of UT. Good times, good times.

Toejam and Earl was funking sweet.

Zog's a fuddy duddy!

The Borg_TSGK · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 09:42 Post subject:

Started with the ZX81
then spectrum 48 upgraded to a 128 with the all singing microdrive Shocked

Then the Atari ST, which sort of flopped as the amiga became more popular.
First PC when i was 21 and my boss at work gave me a copy of Doom
PC upgrades and newer bits there after.
Hope i can upgrade next year when my other half goes back to work from 7 months maternity leave Confused

Controllerboy_TSGK · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:04 Post subject:

My first pc was a windows XP with decent specs for that time (4 years ago) but now it's already a bit old. My parents still use it tho. This pc is only my second one, so yeah ^^ The first game I played on pc was earlier tho, it was gta1 and some formula one sim. My first console was a NES and street fighter 2 ^^

Xmeagol · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 11:43 Post subject:

Anyone remember Street Fighter 2 Alpha: Warriors Dream ?

it was just awesme, i kicked ass on it Very Happy

Nutz · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 13:54 Post subject:

Ghost Dog_TSGK · Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2007 22:07 Post subject:

Knife · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 03:10 Post subject:

I also had a commodore 128 Very Happy

. Had so much fun Smile

Lawitz · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 12:46 Post subject:

I´m not that old, the oldest I had was snes and gameboy. the first snes games were street fighter, 6 mario games in 1 cartridge and F-Zero. and the first gameboy one was super mario world, followed by Zelda: Links Awakening and Wario World.

Nutz · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 13:56 Post subject:

Wonderbanana · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 15:06 Post subject:

First console was an Atari VCS - can remember playing 'Combat' with a host of friends Very Happy

First computer I think was a VIC 20 which took carts as well as loading from tape. Game I remember most is 'Blitz' for some bizarre reason!

Some of my many fave games from yesteryear:

NiGHTS (Saturn)
Radiant Silvergun (Saturn)
Yoshis Island (SNES)
Target Renegade (Spectrum)
Super Bomberman (SNES)
Atari Star Wars (Arcade)
Galaxian (Arcade)
Silkworm (Amiga)
Gauntlet (Arcade) - Elf shot the food! Bastard! Wink

Super Star Soldier (PC Engine)

Actually I best stop now, will be here all day Wink

Oh and Advance Wars rocks! Not old I know but I can't resist any oppurtunity to praise it! Lost nearly as many hours to it as DM Very Happy

Wonderbanana · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 15:09 Post subject:

The Borg_TSGK · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 16:10 Post subject:

anyone remeber Black Lamp on the Atari
Manic miner and jetset willy. Did anyone ever finish jetset willy with out cheating

Diet H2O_TSGK · Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 17:40 Post subject:

peanut · Joined: 04 Sep 2007 Posts: 14

Ah I remember playing on the ZX Spectrum+ 48k. Very Happy

I used to love playing Valhalla, Rollercoaster, Warlock of Firetop Mountain, Manic Miner, Pssst!, Jetpack, Stainless Steel, Ghosterbusters, Krazy Golf, Goldenaxe, Booty and so much more...

Then, on the Amiga 600 I played the Monkey Island games, and titles like Pushover, Putty and The Chaos Engine.

On the PC, I was hooked on Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, and that's how my FPS obsession started! I was amazed when Quake was released and I saw the 'true' 3D environment. I had Tomb Raider also (big fan of that series).

If I remember correctly, my first PC spec:

386 @ 33Mhz
4MB RAM
10MB HDD
512kb video RAM.

Then my dad gave me a:

486DX2 @ 66Mhz
8MB RAM (I upgraded to 16MB)
300MB HDD (I think)
2MB video (may have been 4MB).

One of my happiest days was when I built my own PC:

Pentium 133Mhz (later upgraded to 233Mhz MMX)
32MB RAM
500MB HDD
PowerVR 3D accelorator (later 3Dfx)

Now I have:

Pentium 4 @ 2.8GHz
1024MB RAM
300GB HDD
GeForce 6800GT 256MB

Oh how technology changes...

EDIT: Oh yeah I had a SNES (Mario, Street Fighter...and a few others), Playstation (Tekken 3, Gran Turismo...and a few others) and PS2 (Tekken 4, Gran Turismo 3...and a few others).

Phat Bacon · Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 02:56 Post subject:

i was hooked on doom and doom II. i still have them but they dont work Crying or Very sad

was a fan of age of empires 2.

age of empires III and hl 2 got me back into pc gaming. Cool