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3223671 No.3223671 [Reply] [Original]

What's the oldest vidya you've ever played?

>> No.3223697

>>3223671
arcade pong

>> No.3223712

>>3223671
pretty much the thing in your pic

>> No.3223724
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3223724

moon patrol on an arcade machine in the local ice hockey stadium.
i was like 8.
this was also one of the first times i ever played the vidya, ther were also arcade machines at some small fun fair and sometime around that i got my first game and watch, rain shower.

>> No.3223731

Just leaned how to use dosbox so I'm playing colonel's bequest

>> No.3223745

>>3223724
Lucky kid, this looks fucking awesome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39EsNumG3Fc

My first game was Myst, but I was like 4 so I literally just clicked around the island and didn't progress at all. My bro beat it though.

>> No.3223893
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>>3223671
The earliest I remember is Atari VCS games, but my mother tells me we had some kind of light-gun system before that that apparently I played.

>> No.3223895

>>3223724
I FUCKING LOVE MOON PATROL

>> No.3223898

Probably a pac-man arcade cabinet.

>> No.3223908

Frogger for the Atari 2600. I was told I cried whenever the frog got hit by a truck.

>> No.3224714

EGA Trek. It's fun as fuck, and the original version was a game that came out in 1971 for scientific and academic mainframes and hardware.

If you haven't played it, I highly recommend it.

>> No.3224723

>>3223671
pong

>> No.3224814
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3224814

Space War on the PDP-1 at the computer history museum in Silicon Valley. The fucking original programmer was there to demo it, and then you got to play it. Amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_L1HeZ2kPck

>> No.3224838

>>3223671
Colecovision. Don't know what game.

>> No.3224932

>>3223671
Adventure
It was on a anthology for ps2

>> No.3224943

>>3223671
before the advent of emulation? some commodore 64 and nes rubbish

>> No.3224952
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3224952

Playtime, a Pong clone by Midway from 1974. You can move the paddles in any direction with a little joystick, and you can even hit the ball a second time on your side to change it's direction. My dad and I played it at an arcade show and we were laughing and shouting with each point, great fun.

>> No.3225057

Either Combat on the Atari 2600, or something on the ColecoVision. My grandpa had an Atari, and I am told our family had a Coleco but I can barely remember it other than trashing it as like, a 3 or 4 year old.

>> No.3225152

Odyssey 200 pong

>> No.3225193

>>3223724
This wasn't my first game, but I love Moon Patrol. Fun as soon as you put in a quarter.

>> No.3225206

Pong on Atari 2600. My first console was the SNES though.

>> No.3225229

>>3223671
I played a really old pong machine at the nickel arcade in san francisco once

and a lot of old arcade games at the arcade my town used to have, oldest one was probably space invaders

if arcades don't count, then the oldest game I've played is King's Quest

>> No.3225256
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3225256

Probably this from 1976.

>> No.3225271

I actually did see the original 1972 Pong once, but I had no one with me to play against, and the dials were really twitchy and broken.

>> No.3225286

>>3224814
Did it age badly? Was it overrated?

>> No.3225328
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3225328

>>3223671
This, on a DEC PDP-11 in college.

Yes, I'm old.

(Still better than most Star Trek games put out today.)

>> No.3225329

>>3225256
>Super Dong

>> No.3227301

>>3223671
Depends on your definition of vidya. If it means a game with a CRT then spacewar is the first and anyone can emulate and join that club.

>> No.3227309
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3227309

>>3223671
I have and occasionally play a telstar pong machine.

>> No.3227326
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>>3227301
Calling Emulation Vidya...

OP is obviously asking for unique experiences that are more notable than "I played a Space War on a website once"

>> No.3227337

>>3227326
A good amount of /vr/ posters basically just use emulators.

>> No.3227341

>>3227337
I get that. But it's obviously not what OP is asking.

I also think emulating anything that can still be obtained fairly easily is depriving yourself of a unique experience. But then, I'm fucking old.

>> No.3227358

>>3225286
No, it was great. It had features that games that followed right after it didn't have. Two player space deathmatch circling a star with gravity was hectic and fun. Mind-blowing when put in perspective.

>> No.3227412
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3227412

Barbarian (1987) by Psygnosis. I don't know exactly if it's the oldest vidya I have ever played, but it's one of the first games I ever played. Of course I played all the games from Pong to Space War years later, but Barbarian was one of the first games I played before they were considered retro. It was frustratingly hard game and I can't believe I actually made progress in that game to final stages when I was a kid. I recently tried it again and it's one of the most merciless and unfair games I have ever played. I don't know about the hardware, but it was a very old computer (even at the time). It had orange-black monitor.

The first game I actually ever *played* played, as in, got immersed in the game world and obsessed over the characters and plots etc. was The Secret of Monkey Island. It's still one of my all time favorite games. Played it on my dad's work computer. Our dad didn't actually need a computer in his work, but he bought it just to be one of the cool guys in the village. My older brother pretty much hogged the whole computer to himself and he got all kinds of games from his friends, including Monkey Island.

>> No.3227426

>>3223671
Probably Joust arcade machine at a KOA

>> No.3227432

E-cred penis waving thread.

>> No.3227462

>>3227326
If emulation isn't vidya then the majority of /vr/ have never played retro vidya.

And while we're just making up what OP meant I'll say he meant to include pinball which is included by the board rules. So some good old 50's pinball is the oldest I've played.

>> No.3227604
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>>3223671
I don't know!

My cousin overseas had some old system. It had archon 2, spy versus spy, and, I believe, alley cat, and a whole lot more.

I also played on some old PC some formula 1 game that had three cars/teams to choose from, including Ferrari and Mclaren. Mclaren supposedly was the fastest, but being a little kid, I had to go with Ferrari.

>> No.3227691

Computer Space, emulated.

Barring that it would be a number of '76 Atari games on the VCS.

>> No.3227778
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3227778

A port of Hunt the Wumpus, which originally came out in '72.

It's okay.

>> No.3227837

>>3227309
Oh shit, I have the same one. Found it at a yard sale for $25 last year.

>> No.3228445

>>3227778
Didn't realize Wumpus was that old.
I played an Atari 800 version in the 80s when I was a kid.

>> No.3228468
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3228468

>>3223671
Naughts and Crosses on an EDSAC simulator

Do I win?

>> No.3228472

>>3227432
"I haven't played anything older than the NES" - you

Don't feel bad about it

>> No.3228487

I don't remember what game but I know it was on the Vic 20 that my first game was. Maybe not the oldest game I've played but close to it. We had that and a 2600 when I was a lad.

>> No.3228489
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3228489

Probably this baka desu senpai

>> No.3228645

There are people here who haven't played Spacewar?

>> No.3228652
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3228652

>>3228645
I played an enhanced port.

>> No.3228689
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3228689

>>3223671
One of these, in a bar. They were beer proof.

>> No.3228727

>>3227309
I've got one of these, too. When I was a retarded kid I took it on the bus with one of my friends and would play it without a TV, we'd just wiggle the knobs until we heard a hit.

>> No.3230157

>>3223671
some version of pong at my friends house when i was a kid (early 2000's)
i was amazed that he owned it

>> No.3231532
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>> No.3231847

>>3231532
>graphics
looks like false advertising

>> No.3231864

>>3231847
have you tried reading that screen? It's gibberish. That, or graphics

>> No.3231925

Old Pong console (european) that we looted out of a garbage bin. It worked somehow. I've also played pacman on a really old PC (in black & white).

>> No.3231992

>>3231864

That screen isn't gibberish dude. Have you played old text based dungeon crawlers? Not trying to be rude, just wondering.

>> No.3232010

>>3231992
£ F £ *
means absolutely nothing in any language.
That's because it's not text. It's a graphical representation of two rooms, a connecting hallway and a few objects or creatures. It's clearly graphics, although >>3231847 pretends otherwise

>> No.3232247

>>3223671
I've played the actual original model sit down version of PONG.