Oldest game you ever played
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Pong was the oldest game I played
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Gotta love Russian folk music. 'Korobeiniki' I think it's called. About a young travelling salesman trying to get with a pretty girl. Although for Tetris that was arranged by a Japanese composer. It's probably the most recognised game song on earth!Lemon Of Life said:
Pong of course, 30 year old game still going strong in my book. Plus that other paddle is the most evil thing I've ever fought against.
I have played a lot of the early games, but I would feel rather disingenuous to say them. Instead, I'll mention that my earliest video game experience was a Donkey Kong cabinet that was in my dentist's office when I was 3 years old.
Well, there was a port of Tic-Tac-Toe made in 1952, before Tennis For Tw (1958). Even before that, actually in 1946, someone invented an artillery game played on mechanical computers. It could be called a computer game, but not a video game, because this was the sort of computer you operated with a crank. I saw one once at a university - I think it gave output with holes punched into a card.Altorin said:
This isn't the oldest game I've ever played but it is a really old one, and weirdly one that I've hardly ever heard of anyone else playing: The Colony. It was originally a Mac game, I believe, but I played it as a PC port. Heck, I still have the 5.25 disks, manual, and code wheel. It is one of the earliest examples of a FPS, and used wire frame for all the graphics. It was BattleZone shrunk into a FPS. 1988 from Mindscape. Anyone ever play this?
I also have original Pirates, Starflight, and Madden #1 for the PC, all on 5.25's. Pirates was fun, because you had to boot your PC with the Pirates disk to play. Starflight was unique because you *had* to make a copy of the game disk to play it. Starflight permanently modified the data files on the disk so if you wanted to play again later, you had to have a set of virgin disks.
I think I also have a copy of Sabotage for the Apple II on a 5.25. Notable only because used to use a hole punch to alter the disks so we could flip them over and use the back side to cram on more games.
Most important problem for me: why doesn't anyone make a USB 5.25 drive?
I also have original Pirates, Starflight, and Madden #1 for the PC, all on 5.25's. Pirates was fun, because you had to boot your PC with the Pirates disk to play. Starflight was unique because you *had* to make a copy of the game disk to play it. Starflight permanently modified the data files on the disk so if you wanted to play again later, you had to have a set of virgin disks.
I think I also have a copy of Sabotage for the Apple II on a 5.25. Notable only because used to use a hole punch to alter the disks so we could flip them over and use the back side to cram on more games.
Most important problem for me: why doesn't anyone make a USB 5.25 drive?
Pong, Tetris, Super Mario Bros. Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Asteroids.
Other than SMB (obviously not the oldest), I've no idea which one came first.
Other than SMB (obviously not the oldest), I've no idea which one came first.
Duck Hunt.
I might've played another older one but that's the oldest one i can remember.
Hurrah, I'm not too young to to have missed the one of the old classics!
I might've played another older one but that's the oldest one i can remember.
Hurrah, I'm not too young to to have missed the one of the old classics!
I've played Spacewar and Tennis for Two... ^_^Furburt said:
But the first game I ever played was a Mario Bros. (not super) arcade cab. I had to stand on milk crates. ^_^