How old school are you? Share your game

[Oluwasegunfunmi]

I remember playing Prince of Persia on an old 386 PC with no sound card, just those harsh beeps from the internal speaker. The first time I tried to jump over the spikes, I barely made it and felt like a legend—then immediately got skewered by the next trap. The animations felt so smooth for the time, and the whole game had this eerie atmosphere that stuck with me.

 

[Rataplan]

My first 3 games.

View: https://youtu.be/gombHp5wMrk?si=5Rugy7pzJ0ioISut

View: https://youtu.be/_ftVrgJTl4w?si=y_80_2Zx6xhw6f_l

View: https://youtu.be/uJijGLGHRTE?si=HcfZT4sV3QHI2LUA

 

[Colif]

I remember the track ball used to control missile command. Think I had that on my Tandy Colour, on a cartridge

 

[March's Ghost]

My family got this and we had it several months before we got an Atari 2600.

 

[Grandpappy]

It wasn't the first game I ever played on a PC, but I remember well my joy and amazement at getting Tomb Raider 1 running on a Genuine IBM Pentium 133 machine with it's new Voodoo 1 card.
Wow, what a difference! And then there was GLQuake.

 

[mjs warlord]

I started gaming in 1982 and i remember the first spectrum games i ever used , trans am , jet set willy etc.
I remember the hobbit on the spectrum and the programming was so primate that even if you knew what to do the text input and response were absolutely crazy. The butler throws himself down the trapdoor and floats away .... at that point you had to quit because your hiding in the barrel and he is supposed to throw it in the river so you can float away to a safe place.

In 2002 i entered pc gaming and my first purchases were the thing , age of mythology and grim fandango.
I told a shop guy i got the thing and i said how good the graphics were .... he said if you think that was good your in for a real treat with your next purchases.

I will be 70 at the end of August and have no plans to stop gaming , i some times talk the friends kids and grand kids and tell them how things have progressed over the years ........ oh happy days.

 

[Charagma]

Spectrum ZX. and later my dad upgraded it to a ZX64. I remember Killing it on Horice the spider and Frog jump. LMAO

 

[mjs warlord]

Spectrum ZX. and later my dad upgraded it to a ZX64. I remember Killing it on Horice the spider and Frog jump. LMAO

Insert tape in spectrum average load time was 5 minutes so i would *** out to chip shop only to be greeted by the infamous R.tape load error.

The only 128k speccy game i had was football director and it took up 1 side of a 60 minutes cassette and you had to sit and watch it load because part way through it would tell you to stop and insert your save game data tape.

 

[Charagma]

I remember the horrible sounds it made. We did not have the ZX tape player so games were loaded from a normal Cassette player. Most think that sending a fax was a terrible noise, they obviously never heard a ZX loading. LMAO

And yes, I might have my models wrong talking maybe more than 40 years back, give or take a few days (So in other words just yesterday). We first had the small keyboard with the rubber keypads. With the upgrade it was a larger keyboard, and we were able to add a special ZX printer to it. My dad obviously thought a printer and upgrade would be better than a ZX Cassette player.

 

[JCgames]

1980, vic 20 lunar lander, but arcade was space invaders, i remember the first time i saw it next to pinball macines and was entralled.. little green aliens moving back and forth and that sound dit. Dit, dit is engrained in my brain. That was soon followed by the blowing up of astroids, flying and hitting hyper space and holding you breath you didnt get wacked by a giant rock on entry. Good times