/vr/ - Retro Games

Not same game as in the pic, but it was on exact same hardware (an Osborne 1 running CP/M 2.2), sometime in the early 80's...

It was some generic fantasy text adventure, in BASIC language, typed-in from a magazine (really common stuff at the time...) The parser was very crude (nothing at all like Adventure itself, or later stuff by Infocom, Level 9, Magnetic Scrolls, etc.) and only understood "VERB NOUN" syntax, and had a rather small vocabulary to boot. But hey, it was a game on the computer! And there was treasure, monsters, and magic! Really wonderful stuff at the time... I even drew maps for it on notebook paper!

My next computer game was a generic sci-fi text adventure, in BASIC, yada yada... And yeah, it even used the same parser code. Had a lot of fun with that one too.

Btw, the actual in-game text was "encrypted" (probably with ROT13 or similar) in the BASIC listing, so you couldn't be spoiled just by typing the code.

>>1886034

It was either this or Donald Duck's Playground. They exist at the same time in my mind.

Panther for C64, it was in bundle with. Good game.

I know I played other games before, but I can't remember enough about them to find their names. I remember one of them was an old computer game, set around a house or something, and everything was black and white wireframe. I think it was some kind of adventure game

It was probably Mixed Up Mother Goose. I played it at school and I think I played it before we had a PC at home.

Conscript reporting!

Zork and Wolfenstein

>>1886034
One of the Sim Games, I think. Probably Tower or Copter.

the first i bought with my own money

mechwarrior 2

Sim City 3000. I actually bought it before I got a computer, that's how excited I was for it.

I don't remember ;_;

>>1886124
Beat me to it

Tempted to say MS paint.

>>1887336
Beach cards are the best.

On a Mac Plus, about 1989. Dad was a pretty cool guy. Still would love a multiplayer version though.

This and Avoid the Noid (EGA)

TGIF for the C64 back in about '86 or '87. Simplistic but very fun game at the time.

>>1887428
>Avoid the Noid
One of the few corporate tie-in games that didn't suck. So much fun.

>>1886034
That's actually a tough one. For PC I had mostly just edutainment games when I was really young like Reader Rabbit, Math Blaster, Adi, and Ready for School. I did have SimTown and later SimCity 2000. I guess my first actual game for PC was the SEGA PC Collection, which included the Sonic & Knuckles Collection (which I already owned on Genesis), as well as Sonic CD and Sonic R.

kiloblaster or some clone of it,
had to type in kilokilo or something to play it

I must have been 5 or 6.

kiloblaster or some clone of it,
had to type in kilokilo or something to play it

I must have been 5 or 6.

>>1886124
YES

I used to fly from this airport as a kid, Chicago. I'd try to fly through the sears tower poles.

>Years later I'm watching that revolution series, its filmed in Chicago, there's a shot of the coast with the airport island on it.
>Its the one I used to take off from 20 years ago in my youth.
> Never knew what that dome was by the runway
> Go onto google earth
> Turns out it is a astro/sci museum, planes used to take off right over it.
> The airport was demolished years ago :(

Jones in the fastlane
Warcraft I
Keen 4

one of those

sim tower and mario on dos

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHVaSn3WmmY

can't quite remember which one first

>>1886034
super mario land

oh daisy

>>1887428
This is also my first. I'm pleasantly surprised someone else remembers it.

I never got very far in the game. A few years later I got a ROM of it, but the game is shit.

I remember playing this old educational game on an Apple computer. I remember playing it in the early 90s. You had to get this guy named Ernest or Dennis? out of a large cave and back to his robot friend. I forgot how it's done, though. I just remember playing it in school.

>>1887656
> The airport was demolished years ago :(

It was pretty recent. I remember hearing about the mayor shutting down Meig's Field on 4chan. Most people only knew about it because it was the default takeoff location in FS 95.

>>1887656
>> Never knew what that dome was by the runway
>> Turns out it is a astro/sci museum, planes used to take off right over it.
guess you've never played Midtown Madness
>"The planetarium is fun, but you've got a plane to catch!"

This one I can distinctly remember. Either that or a Solomons kes clone.

A picture seemed pointless when you can see it in all its glory. Technically a console, but whatever.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKWRU-OPBa8

>>1887803
I had the sequel to that, Ancient Art of War at Sea. Loved it. Although odd for a sequel in that it only supported CGA iirc.

I was 5 or 6 years old when my dad let me play Doom II the very first time.
I wasnt scared at all, I enjoyed it.
But I couldnt get past MAP02, because I didnt know how to run.

Rogue.

>>1886891
This. Also one of the hardest games I've ever played. because of those last levels.

>>1887608
Never seen this before, looks interesting. Some kind of DOS puzzle game?

First one I actually legally owned was pic related.

I had been playing them for a few years before this but I can't recall what they were. Some were text based zork clones, and one was a crude Roguelike where the character was a "@" symbol.

I think it was this baby, a tactics/strategy game based on Waterworld. You ran around different atolls, completing objectives and killing dudes. Aside from being hard as fuck (at least to my memory) it was also a pretty bloody game.

The other early contenders (i'm not 100% sure which came first) would be Age of Empires, Red Alert and Moto Racer 2.

>>1887676

>SimTower

That was tough for me as a kid, but post-18, it was simple.

You've played Yoot Tower, right?

>>1886034
Diablo 1 and Neverhood. We got them the same day my mom got our first computer.

>1998
>Mom needs a computer for school
>Get's a Gateway
>Dat 8mb GPU
>Dat Pentium 2
>Dat 10gb HD
>Dat 56k connection

Right after she left my dad she got 2.5 Mbps DSL, so summer of 1999

>>1888243

Why is it always the women who leave the men? That's observational data only.

>>1888256

my dad left my mom

>>1888256
She was 21 years younger than my dad and he wouldn't commit insurance fraud anymore, and she'd already blown threw $300,000 worth of settlement money between 1993 and 1996, so his roll was done in her head.

Tough shit, some W98 games like Hover, Space cadet pinball, there was a Magic Bus educational game I think.
Otherwise, as in "real games you had to buy", it was X-wing vs Tie Fighters. I wasted too many hours in them especially since I didn't had internet. No regrets, no fucks given.

>>1888263
Meant W95, fuck.

>>1888260
Holy shit that's fucking brutal. Sorry to hear about that.

>>1888285
Meh. They ended up living within a block of eachother, so I was able to come and go as I please growing up. My dad was a good guy but a little poor, and my mom was a horrible person, but showed her love through things, so even though I didn't have MUCH I still had SOME.

>>1886854
My nigga.

Mechwarrior 2 was probably my first game on a Windows 95 machine my mother picked up. She thought computers were going to be a big deal (she wasn't wrong) and wanted us to be able to learn and experience them.

"QUICK! HOW DO I SPELL SWIM!?" - mini me

>>1888308
The KQ series actually ended up making my friend and I really good spellers. His family had all the old DOS games from when his mom was in HS

>>1888326
The same is true for me, along with the other sierra games (only got to sneak playing leisure suit larry twice as a kid though)

>>1888328
Ah, Leisure Suit Larry. He was up on the shelf of games we weren't allowed to play. Right along with Full Throttle and a few others I can't recall atm

This. Shit was hard as hell for my 10 years old brain. Took weeks to beat without a guide.

>>1886034
G.I. Joe

>>1888182
>crude Roguelike where the character was a "@" symbol.
Heh, that describes almost every ASCII roguelike ever made. The few exceptions I've seen are some DOS ports that used that system's "smiley face" 8-bit extended ASCII symbol (for example Epyx Rogue for DOS). But most ASCII roguelikes just used standard (portable) 7-bit ASCII.
Of course with graphic tiles, it's another story entirely...

>>1888308
I didn't know it first time, but you can hit the - key (or is that the = key?) because one of those is a shortcut/keybinding for swim.

first game I ever finished. Don't remember shit about it. But I played it for days. DAYS.

The random map was cool. Not very deep. Awesome if it's 1984 though.

Would have been cool if the plague didn't wipe you out every game.

early multiplayer. fun.

first flight game delivering mail. I'm out.

>>1888565

>Heh, that describes almost every ASCII roguelike ever made

Yea I know, I being deliberately vague. I was very young and this was over 30 years ago and I honestly have no clue which game it was.

I played it with my cousin and he can't remember it either.

>>1888323

My little brother had almost the whole colection of Living Books. I remember some of them were bundled with the Creative Multimedia upgrade kits.

ZORK on an Apple I think. Monochrome screen and all, my neighbor got one from work. It also could've been Wolfenstein 3D or Commander Keen, my cousin had both on his DOS PC, and all of this was so long ago I can't really remember which came first.

I didn't have a PC until ~2001, so I missed some stuff from before. The first game I played on my own PC was Command and Conquer: Tiberian Sun, even though I bought C&C Gold long before that -- Windows 2000 couldn't run C&C Gold though, and I didn't know how to get it working back then.

>>1888691

nice.

>>1888691
Only played this on the NES. Loved it.

>>1888698
It might help if you can remember the computer system. Some systems even got their own exclusives, like Nemesis and Orbquest for CP/M.

But if it was 30 years ago, there's a damn good chance it was one of Rogue, Hack, or Moria. Stuff like Larn, Nethack, and Omega came a bit later.

>>1888938
>It might help if you can remember the computer system.

It was at my cousins house and we just called it "the computer". I didn't get my own computer until a few years later.

First PC my family ever bought in 1997 came with Hexen, Worms 2, and some obnoxious flight stick type computer controller with keyboard that I tried to use with both games.

Worked well with Hexen, not so much with Worms.

>>1886803

Mine was Tiberian Sun. We had RA2 when it came out, but I didn't start playing it until my brother was done with it.

Other early games for me were:

Command & Conquer 95
Oregon Trail
SimCity 2000
Commanche
Flight Simulator
Ten Pin Alley

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. Played it in computer class in school back in the early 90's and then the computer my family later bought came with it.

>>1886034
either this or MsDOS version of Prince of Persia.
loved both of them.

>>1886034
Mine was some educational Sesame Street game when I was like 6. Then I started playing SIM games and Roller Coaster Tycoon.