2 games which stick to my mind were, Daley Thompson's Decathlon on the Commodore 64 (responsible for breaking numerous of my Quickshot 2 joysticks due to the constant 'waggling' to make him run!!! ) and also Way of the Exploding Fist - a truly original game for its time and took fighting games to a new high!!
2 games which stick to my mind were, Daley Thompson's Decathlon on the Commodore 64 (responsible for breaking numerous of my Quickshot 2 joysticks due to the constant 'waggling' to make him run!!! ) and also Way of the Exploding Fist - a truly original game for its time and took fighting games to a new high!!
Having a speccy, I concur with your c64 choices. Although I adored wizball on the c64.
As for me, my earliest memory is one of those pong games on some strange device, then we got an atari 2600!, then a c16, then a spectrum, then an atari st, ps1, dreamcast, ps2; with a PC from the ps1 days.
The old days of the Speccy/Atari are the Halcyon days for me.
The old days of the Speccy/Atari are the Halcyon days for me.
Had many good times playing on the Atari ST. James Pond, Chuck Rock, Super Bomberman, Monkey Island, Skweek. That was the next-gen next to my Spectrum.
Roland on the ropes on a CPC464 when I was 4!! Must have cost parents a fortune!
Nostalga, loading from tape, the noise it made. Clicky joysticks and the hum from the heavy modulator that converted the output into something that could go into the TV!
Pong and Skeet on some kind of 6 games-in-1 TV system from Dixons or Currys way back in '81 or '82... possibly a Dynatron, can't remember... found it on the web a few years back but the site has since died... Then older brother got an Atari 2600 and there always seemed to be Game & Watch variants around the house
I had a computer in the early 80's called a 'Dragon' (think it was 16k). I remember playing Chuckie Egg on it - finally reaching the final level only for my Mum to unplug the computer to plug in the Vac. I threw a strop, and never reached the final level again
Also on the same computer I had a cool (at the time) game called 'Ugg' where you played a caveman stealing eggs from a dinosaur.
I remember Pong. I can't remember the exact console - maybe a very early Nintendo. Space Invaders, Frogger, Asteroids, Arkanoid, Manic Miner were other early games I remember.
Remember the very early text based adventures where you had very limited commands and ended up just typing filth in frustration? I can remember playing an early Hobbit game on the Spectrum too.
Simply put, my earliest memory of gaming is the Sega Master System 2. I was about 2 or 3 years old and my parents let me play on their master system (which soon became mine as they couldn't play games to save their lives).
Sonic The Hedgehog was where it was at, but on top of that there was Alex Kidd in Miracle World and some really good vampire games like Master of Darkness.
Man, life used to be good!
And don't forget Asterix and Obelix - those games were TIGHT!
Pong back in the seventies, when I shared a house. The Novelty of actually interacting with the TV is hard to get across nowadays. Me and my Housemates spent hours a day playing it for a while.
Horace Goes skiing on the ZX81 was my first game i played, but playing Barbarian,Cobra and Death Wish 3 on my speccy plus was what I think of as having a gaming experience.
PIB: I'm pretty sure Horace Goes Skiing was only released for the ZX Spectrum and not the ZX81. The ZX81 didn't have colour graphics, only 1K of RAM as standard (although it could be ugraded with a RAM pack) and the way the screen updated meant it wouldn't have been fast enough to run it at anything near a usable speed. If the keyboard was totally flat with touchpad keys then it was a ZX81, but if it had deadflesh keys then it was the ZX Spectrum (although the ZX Spectrum+ which appeared a short while later introduced an attempt at a "standard" keyboard).
Anyway, this was my first memory of gaming as well. My parents had got me one for Xmas, but wanted to give it a trial run first to make sure I took to it. I was bought the ZX81 a year earlier, but ended up as a very expensive paperweight because I couldn't be bothered with computers at the age of 5 and it didn't seem to do anything exciting.
The Last Ninja on Commadore 64, I was amazed by this game as a young kid, probably the game that started my passion for video games
Oh yes..... not my earliest memory but definitely one of the best. Pretty much any System 3 game on the C64 was an event. Oh and Last Ninja 2 - superb and what a soundtrack. Matt Gray was a bit of a genius on the '64. He's remade one of the tunes and put it on Soundcloud here https://soundcloud.com/mattgrayc64/ and it's ridiculously superb. Relive those glory days.
It's scary when you see some people's first experiences of gaming were 10+ years after my own.
My three earliest game memories are on the C64: Jet Set Willy, Boulderdash, and Impossible Mission. The last one used to really scare me when he fell down the hole!
Oh, and for all those who broke joysticks with the Daley game. A friend showed me you could press shift and the number 2 on the keyboard and it was the same as wiggling the joystick.
The Way of the Exploding Fist on the Commodore 64, so it might have been around 1985/86 time. I would've been 7 or 8 at the time. My folks the other day said we had a Commodore VIC-20 before then, but I can't remember, lol!
So many cool games for the C64 it's untrue. I remember going to a shop in Sheffield all the time called Just Micro around 1987 I think, and my auntie bought me and my younger bro Robocop for £9.99 (I never completed that game tbh), and we played that game so much. What I do remember is Robocop stayed in the charts on all formats for ages I believe (I just had to have the C+VG mag as soon as it came out, haha). Other games I remember playing on the C64 in my youth are:
IK+
Chase HQ
Last Ninja
Double Dragon
Batman
I could go on forever :-)! Then we got an Amiga 1200 for Xmas 1992, and titles such as Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Kick Off 2 were the main ones back then. Brilliant times!
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Having a speccy, I concur with your c64 choices. Although I adored wizball on the c64.
As for me, my earliest memory is one of those pong games on some strange device, then we got an atari 2600!, then a c16, then a spectrum, then an atari st, ps1, dreamcast, ps2; with a PC from the ps1 days.
The old days of the Speccy/Atari are the Halcyon days for me.
Had many good times playing on the Atari ST. James Pond, Chuck Rock, Super Bomberman, Monkey Island, Skweek. That was the next-gen next to my Spectrum.
Nostalga, loading from tape, the noise it made. Clicky joysticks and the hum from the heavy modulator that converted the output into something that could go into the TV!
Gamed on that computer till the mid 90's!
Also on the same computer I had a cool (at the time) game called 'Ugg' where you played a caveman stealing eggs from a dinosaur.
I typed in a game called 'Rox 64' by Jeff Minter from a magazine
Took a couple hours to type all the code in
Played the game
Left C64 on all night, whilst i slept
Woke up the next morning. "Hmmm, i want to turn the computer off, but i can't save
the game" - Damn
Remember the very early text based adventures where you had very limited commands and ended up just typing filth in frustration? I can remember playing an early Hobbit game on the Spectrum too.
Sonic The Hedgehog was where it was at, but on top of that there was Alex Kidd in Miracle World and some really good vampire games like Master of Darkness.
Man, life used to be good!
And don't forget Asterix and Obelix - those games were TIGHT!
Did the game actually run first time then?
So instead, I'm gonna go with getting the PS1 and playing Tekken 2 on it for the first time.
Anyway, this was my first memory of gaming as well. My parents had got me one for Xmas, but wanted to give it a trial run first to make sure I took to it. I was bought the ZX81 a year earlier, but ended up as a very expensive paperweight because I couldn't be bothered with computers at the age of 5 and it didn't seem to do anything exciting.
Oh yes..... not my earliest memory but definitely one of the best. Pretty much any System 3 game on the C64 was an event.
My three earliest game memories are on the C64: Jet Set Willy, Boulderdash, and Impossible Mission. The last one used to really scare me when he fell down the hole!
Oh, and for all those who broke joysticks with the Daley game. A friend showed me you could press shift and the number 2 on the keyboard and it was the same as wiggling the joystick.
So many cool games for the C64 it's untrue. I remember going to a shop in Sheffield all the time called Just Micro around 1987 I think, and my auntie bought me and my younger bro Robocop for £9.99 (I never completed that game tbh), and we played that game so much. What I do remember is Robocop stayed in the charts on all formats for ages I believe (I just had to have the C+VG mag as soon as it came out, haha). Other games I remember playing on the C64 in my youth are:
IK+
Chase HQ
Last Ninja
Double Dragon
Batman
I could go on forever :-)! Then we got an Amiga 1200 for Xmas 1992, and titles such as Sensible Soccer, Cannon Fodder, Kick Off 2 were the main ones back then. Brilliant times!
Just Micro in Sheffield - above that shop lived Gremlin Graphics - creators of Monty Mole, Bounder etc.
It's been a long road to "Inquisition" but a rewarding one.