My first gaming experience was a through a BiNATONE console.
As you can see this little beast had analog joysticks and 10 sport games. It had features that are not still not present in many new games like no patches, zero loading times, no instances and of course the "artificial" intelligence of the other player...
This was enough to turn me into a game lover and of course after that many other games and devices followed.
Even many years have passed i still remember many games that i had played, from Heavy on the magick for spectrum 48 to "The pawn" of magnetic scrolls ("Are you wearing a silver wristband?") and the adventure games of infocom. It's just to difficult to pick one.
lol sorry I just had a moment there were all the younger gamers are thinking"what are these guys talking about,coleco what?,I think I heard of an atari 2600 but wasnt that before ww2?"
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
It's just refreshing to know I'm not the only closet "uber geek" who can say "I remember when or back in the day when systems didn't have hard drives..."
It's just refreshing to know I'm not the only closet "uber geek" who can say "I remember when or back in the day when systems didn't have hard drives..."
Back in the day when it took 20 floppies to install autocad...
It's just refreshing to know I'm not the only closet "uber geek" who can say "I remember when or back in the day when systems didn't have hard drives..."
Back in the day when it took 20 floppies to install autocad...
or in the day where you waited for 30 mins for a game to load of your cassette deck just to see it crash in the last 2mins and have to stare at lots of lines and an annoying noise while you tried again...
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
It's just refreshing to know I'm not the only closet "uber geek" who can say "I remember when or back in the day when systems didn't have hard drives..."
Back in the day when it took 20 floppies to install autocad...
or in the day where you waited for 30 mins for a game to load of your cassette deck just to see it crash in the last 2mins and have to stare at lots of lines and an annoying noise while you tried again...
I got this beat. I remember when I bought a Vic 20 when I was in high school, it had no hard drive, no tape, nothing at all to save and load games. So, I bought a small paper back book that had about 50 games written in Basic in it. To play one I would have to spend about an hour or 2 typing in the instructions to run it. If I turned the thing off, I had to type it in again. Beat that!!!
And I think I played just about every game in that book and taught myself Basic in the process. LOL
When I finally scraped up enough money to purchase the cartridges that you could plug in the back to play Scott Adams adventure games, I was in heaven.
LOL I did the same thing but only once,it was on I think either the zx81 or the spectrum I didnt have any games and my mum had bought me a magazine and in it there was I think 6 pages of code for a golf game(or should I say 1 hole)anyway It should have maybe took me 3 hours or so but being only 10 at the time I kept making mistakes and spent the whole day trying to finish it,sorry to say come 6 pm the A-team was starting and I gave up :P
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
It's just refreshing to know I'm not the only closet "uber geek" who can say "I remember when or back in the day when systems didn't have hard drives..."
Back in the day when it took 20 floppies to install autocad...
or in the day where you waited for 30 mins for a game to load of your cassette deck just to see it crash in the last 2mins and have to stare at lots of lines and an annoying noise while you tried again...
How about when the tape deck eats the tape half way through, that's a fun time.
It's just refreshing to know I'm not the only closet "uber geek" who can say "I remember when or back in the day when systems didn't have hard drives..."
Back in the day when it took 20 floppies to install autocad...
or in the day where you waited for 30 mins for a game to load of your cassette deck just to see it crash in the last 2mins and have to stare at lots of lines and an annoying noise while you tried again...
How about when the tape deck eats the tape half way through, that's a fun time.
LOL,I do remember that walk down the stairs to tell my parents that the new game they bought me was stuck in the tape deck....yeah good times..
Now that I think back even funnier was that my father would come up to help and he knew less about it than me and would sit and hit the enter key multiple times trying to make the game load ,LMAO damn that does bring back memories.
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
This is a tough one. I think my first game is asteroids on the Atari but it isn't the game that grabbed me. I think it goes to 3 games, Wizards Crown, Bards Tale and Ultima I. I still remember they used stick figures but it was so addictive and I will never forget them. Later Master of Orion II pretty much was the killer blow for my gaming addiction!
Only one game I regard as my all time favorite (which is giving me agony as I wait another 1 to 2 years for the next installment):
Deus Ex
It had everything a FPS and RPG player could like, without being either genre. The computer geek in me was even sastified in the hacking; the FPS fighter in the ability to sniper and blowup perps and environments; the RPGer with a story that's mind blowing (and even turned out true), let alone the immersion value; large maps; many tunnels/vents to explore for loot; and so much dialogue/text (16 chapters of a book even!).
So spoiled by the experience, that if a game today doesn't have the game mechanics of DX, I consider the new game a design flaw.
Only one game I regard as my all time favorite (which is giving me agony as I wait another 1 to 2 years for the next installment): Deus Ex It had everything a FPS and RPG player could like, without being either genre. The computer geek in me was even sastified in the hacking; the FPS fighter in the ability to sniper and blowup perps and environments; the RPGer with a story that's mind blowing (and even turned out true), let alone the immersion value; large maps; many tunnels/vents to explore for loot; and so much dialogue/text (16 chapters of a book even!). So spoiled by the experience, that if a game today doesn't have the game mechanics of DX, I consider the new game a design flaw.
You've seen they are currently making DX 3 (which they claim won't be as bad as DX 2 was, but its not being made by warren spector, so I'll wait and see...) correct?
There are 3 types of people in the world. 1.) Those who make things happen 2.) Those who watch things happen 3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
You've seen they are currently making DX 3 (which they claim won't be as bad as DX 2 was, but its not being made by warren spector, so I'll wait and see...) correct?
Am at their forum, was at their forum during the fisticuff days after DX2. So I can say from the hardcore DX fans, we're skeptical of the outcome -- not buying hype anymore (DX2 burned us royally) -- yet we'll wait and see what will emerge (DX is like Zyme, addicts want more). Hoping upon hope what we liked in DX will be included in DX3.
Some downers in the video autopsy though: most believe it'll be a prequel before JC and Paul (2027 was the date seen on the biopolitical poll box, but was removed in the later movie teaser release -- too telling Eidos????), and it's full of what people now would refer to as racial themes (the X-Men universe discrimination of super heroes deal -- this time the augmented are shunned [something hinted with Hermann in DX1], but this has the hallmarks of the Black civil rights movement, complete with signposts that littered the South during the Jim Crow days).
This would be a downer, since players would've wanted to continue as JC and/or Paul, not turn the game into the mess of the F.E.A.R./Project Origin franchise, of a faceless pointman and now no original team left.
Spector is in his Toon and classic movie phase of development. So doubt if he's interested in DX3, probably because his vision of DX2 was so rejected (he, to this day, uses it as a bargaining chip: he'll admit some things were wrong, if fans admit they were wrong with concepts -- that rubs fans the wrong way. You appreciate he helped make the game what it is, but also know he botched it too. So some welcome him not being the project manager).
He got better treatment than Romero, but unlike Romero's games, DX has a rabid fanbase which is a stickler to the original (I've never seen a game where the fans would be perfectly happy if the game was just redone to include higher poly 3D models and updated the sound score -- no studio would do it, for shame, though).
Deus Ex is a all time classic, like Gone with the Wind. You can only recolor it, but can't remake it. Thus, any prequel or sequel will always viewed with suspicion if it doesn't strictly follow canon, right down to even it's artwork.
The first game I played was a MUD text only using a teletype about 1970, I built my first computer in 1979 The Acorn Atom, it was sold as a kit . In about 1983 I bought the BBC computer and the first Adventure game which hooked me was Twin Kingdom valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Kingdom_Valley. The game I played most was Elite. I must have spent months getting to Elite status, I was competing with a mate across the street till his cat attacked his 5.25 inch floppy on which he saved his games.
SSI's AD&D Gold Box "Pools of Radiance" on my Commador 64. My roomie an I were already play PnP D&D so when we found out there was a computer game based on D&D we snatched it up. We eneded up playing all of the Forgotten Relms games and I went on to play the Dragonlance games. As simple as the games were, very few since then have given me the amount of fun and excitement that those games did. Ahhh....good memories!
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Ah yes console that took my virtual virginity The Wonder Wizard Model 7702
Don't confuse a players ability, with a class being Over Powered.
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I dont now exactly, maybe Bubble Bobble
Or was it Moonstone? North&South? The Last Ninja? Silkworm? I dont know.
All I know is, my first MMORPG was Meridian and that we had much fun playing games.
1997 Meridian 59 'til 2019 ESO
Waiting for Camelot Unchained & Pantheon
My first gaming experience was a through a BiNATONE console.
As you can see this little beast had analog joysticks and 10 sport games. It had features that are not still not present in many new games like no patches, zero loading times, no instances and of course the "artificial" intelligence of the other player...
This was enough to turn me into a game lover and of course after that many other games and devices followed.
Even many years have passed i still remember many games that i had played, from Heavy on the magick for spectrum 48 to "The pawn" of magnetic scrolls ("Are you wearing a silver wristband?") and the adventure games of infocom. It's just to difficult to pick one.
P.S: Where are you guys?
lol sorry I just had a moment there were all the younger gamers are thinking"what are these guys talking about,coleco what?,I think I heard of an atari 2600 but wasnt that before ww2?"
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
The game that broke my cherry would have to be the original Warcraft (Orcs and humans).
It was great.
The game that broke my MMO cherry would have to be Earth and Beyond, which I still fondly remember
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Illusion of Gaia for the SNES (I'm only 20) :P
Trump 2016
Back in the day when it took 20 floppies to install autocad...
Back in the day when it took 20 floppies to install autocad...
or in the day where you waited for 30 mins for a game to load of your cassette deck just to see it crash in the last 2mins and have to stare at lots of lines and an annoying noise while you tried again...
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
Back in the day when it took 20 floppies to install autocad...
or in the day where you waited for 30 mins for a game to load of your cassette deck just to see it crash in the last 2mins and have to stare at lots of lines and an annoying noise while you tried again...
I got this beat. I remember when I bought a Vic 20 when I was in high school, it had no hard drive, no tape, nothing at all to save and load games. So, I bought a small paper back book that had about 50 games written in Basic in it. To play one I would have to spend about an hour or 2 typing in the instructions to run it. If I turned the thing off, I had to type it in again. Beat that!!!
And I think I played just about every game in that book and taught myself Basic in the process. LOL
When I finally scraped up enough money to purchase the cartridges that you could plug in the back to play Scott Adams adventure games, I was in heaven.
snes rpg's: ff2,ff3 etc.
it's true though, nothing hooked me like old school swg did.
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LOL I did the same thing but only once,it was on I think either the zx81 or the spectrum I didnt have any games and my mum had bought me a magazine and in it there was I think 6 pages of code for a golf game(or should I say 1 hole)anyway It should have maybe took me 3 hours or so but being only 10 at the time I kept making mistakes and spent the whole day trying to finish it,sorry to say come 6 pm the A-team was starting and I gave up :P
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
Back in the day when it took 20 floppies to install autocad...
or in the day where you waited for 30 mins for a game to load of your cassette deck just to see it crash in the last 2mins and have to stare at lots of lines and an annoying noise while you tried again...
How about when the tape deck eats the tape half way through, that's a fun time.
Back in the day when it took 20 floppies to install autocad...
or in the day where you waited for 30 mins for a game to load of your cassette deck just to see it crash in the last 2mins and have to stare at lots of lines and an annoying noise while you tried again...
How about when the tape deck eats the tape half way through, that's a fun time.
LOL,I do remember that walk down the stairs to tell my parents that the new game they bought me was stuck in the tape deck....yeah good times..
Now that I think back even funnier was that my father would come up to help and he knew less about it than me and would sit and hit the enter key multiple times trying to make the game load ,LMAO damn that does bring back memories.
If someone had came up to me in 1980 when I was on my Atari 2600 and said we will be playing games with thousands of people at the same time.I guess my response would have been,"but I only have 2 joysticks"
http://www.mmorpg.com/discussion2.cfm/thread/235780/page/8
This is a tough one. I think my first game is asteroids on the Atari but it isn't the game that grabbed me. I think it goes to 3 games, Wizards Crown, Bards Tale and Ultima I. I still remember they used stick figures but it was so addictive and I will never forget them. Later Master of Orion II pretty much was the killer blow for my gaming addiction!
Only one game I regard as my all time favorite (which is giving me agony as I wait another 1 to 2 years for the next installment):
Deus Ex
It had everything a FPS and RPG player could like, without being either genre. The computer geek in me was even sastified in the hacking; the FPS fighter in the ability to sniper and blowup perps and environments; the RPGer with a story that's mind blowing (and even turned out true), let alone the immersion value; large maps; many tunnels/vents to explore for loot; and so much dialogue/text (16 chapters of a book even!).
So spoiled by the experience, that if a game today doesn't have the game mechanics of DX, I consider the new game a design flaw.
.:| Kevyne@Shandris - Armory |:. - When WoW was #1 - .:| I AM A HOLY PALADIN - Guild Theme |:.
Warsong on Sega Saturn Loved it and play it once in a while.
There are 3 types of people in the world.
1.) Those who make things happen
2.) Those who watch things happen
3.) And those who wonder "What the %#*& just happened?!"
lol this is hard. I had Intellivision, NES, Genesis. My first PC game love was Wolfenstein and my first mmo love was SWG
Am at their forum, was at their forum during the fisticuff days after DX2. So I can say from the hardcore DX fans, we're skeptical of the outcome -- not buying hype anymore (DX2 burned us royally) -- yet we'll wait and see what will emerge (DX is like Zyme, addicts want more). Hoping upon hope what we liked in DX will be included in DX3.
Some downers in the video autopsy though: most believe it'll be a prequel before JC and Paul (2027 was the date seen on the biopolitical poll box, but was removed in the later movie teaser release -- too telling Eidos????), and it's full of what people now would refer to as racial themes (the X-Men universe discrimination of super heroes deal -- this time the augmented are shunned [something hinted with Hermann in DX1], but this has the hallmarks of the Black civil rights movement, complete with signposts that littered the South during the Jim Crow days).
This would be a downer, since players would've wanted to continue as JC and/or Paul, not turn the game into the mess of the F.E.A.R./Project Origin franchise, of a faceless pointman and now no original team left.
Spector is in his Toon and classic movie phase of development. So doubt if he's interested in DX3, probably because his vision of DX2 was so rejected (he, to this day, uses it as a bargaining chip: he'll admit some things were wrong, if fans admit they were wrong with concepts -- that rubs fans the wrong way. You appreciate he helped make the game what it is, but also know he botched it too. So some welcome him not being the project manager).
He got better treatment than Romero, but unlike Romero's games, DX has a rabid fanbase which is a stickler to the original (I've never seen a game where the fans would be perfectly happy if the game was just redone to include higher poly 3D models and updated the sound score -- no studio would do it, for shame, though).
Deus Ex is a all time classic, like Gone with the Wind. You can only recolor it, but can't remake it. Thus, any prequel or sequel will always viewed with suspicion if it doesn't strictly follow canon, right down to even it's artwork.
.:| Kevyne@Shandris - Armory |:. - When WoW was #1 - .:| I AM A HOLY PALADIN - Guild Theme |:.
Bard's Tale and The Hobbit on C-64
The first game I played was a MUD text only using a teletype about 1970, I built my first computer in 1979 The Acorn Atom, it was sold as a kit
. In about 1983 I bought the BBC computer and the first Adventure game which hooked me was Twin Kingdom valley http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Kingdom_Valley. The game I played most was Elite. I must have spent months getting to Elite status, I was competing with a mate across the street till his cat attacked his 5.25 inch floppy on which he saved his games.
Pyjamarama, Automania, Captain Blood and elite
To err is human....to play is divine
SSI's AD&D Gold Box "Pools of Radiance" on my Commador 64. My roomie an I were already play PnP D&D so when we found out there was a computer game based on D&D we snatched it up. We eneded up playing all of the Forgotten Relms games and I went on to play the Dragonlance games. As simple as the games were, very few since then have given me the amount of fun and excitement that those games did. Ahhh....good memories!
Crash Bandicoot on the ps1
, but other games which I got really hooked on were Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 and FFVII.
We're all Geniuses. Most of us just don't know it.