What was it like for you the first time...... you got a computer ?
I was always jealous of my brothers ZX81, with PSSST and JETPACK but my first computer was a little more advanced...
Mine was an old old commodore 64 (second hand of course - that was the best we could do back then ) but it came with a small truck load of games. I remember playing the first game to have propre synthesised speech in it - Mission Impossible. When you started it said something like "Stay a while.... Stay FOREVER!!! HAHAHAHA!" Very classy at the time
Oooh - and learning basic was a very interesting activity at the time. Best I managed was making a ball bounce around the screen, and getting it to print my name in an infinate loop! I also remember getting a cartridge game and thinking - "yes, this is the way forward for games. Tapes and disks are useless!" This was before I'd even handled a CD.... let alone a data cd!
Favourite games had to include the Dizzy games, and Park Patrol - classics!
Least Fave game: Purple Turtles. Great music, but took 180 to load, usually didn't work and I always died within 2 minutes!
So, what was your first computer? What were the most memorable experiences you had? Fave games, etc?
I was always jealous of my brothers ZX81, with PSSST and JETPACK but my first computer was a little more advanced...
Mine was an old old commodore 64 (second hand of course - that was the best we could do back then ) but it came with a small truck load of games. I remember playing the first game to have propre synthesised speech in it - Mission Impossible. When you started it said something like "Stay a while.... Stay FOREVER!!! HAHAHAHA!" Very classy at the time
Oooh - and learning basic was a very interesting activity at the time. Best I managed was making a ball bounce around the screen, and getting it to print my name in an infinate loop! I also remember getting a cartridge game and thinking - "yes, this is the way forward for games. Tapes and disks are useless!" This was before I'd even handled a CD.... let alone a data cd!
Favourite games had to include the Dizzy games, and Park Patrol - classics!
Least Fave game: Purple Turtles. Great music, but took 180 to load, usually didn't work and I always died within 2 minutes!
So, what was your first computer? What were the most memorable experiences you had? Fave games, etc?