Saw this on IRC as I woke up. Neither parties are me, and honestly I don’t even really talk with either of these guys, but I thought I’d share:
PARTY 1 warcraft 3 was one of my first PC games
PARTY 1 well, ,real PC games
PARTY 1 err, i played warcraft 2 but
PARTY 1 i was too young
PARTY 1 Okay, warcraft 3 was my first online PC game experience
PARTY 2 yes
PARTY 2 too young
PARTY 2 my first game was the original pong
PARTY 1 tis why you are the teacher
PARTY 1 and i am a lowly student
Quoted for Truth! 8)
The most interesting thing there was where you said you were on IRC. It has been years since I used it.
I’ve always loved RPGs but it never translated over to PC Games. I was hooked on the Battlefield Series (Mostly 1942) for a while and competed in CAL and TWL leagues.
Pretty sure my first video game was Super Mario Bros on the NES. I was born roughly four months after the console was released in North America, and my parents bought one for my older sister sometime in ’88 or ’89, I think.
My parents didn’t get a computer until ;90 or so, and I think the first game I had for that was either one of a half dozen or so educational games my parents bought, The Oregon Trail, or Mega Man 3 (I still have the original box with the goofy-ass art, BTW). Not sure which they got first.
Which puts me somewhere between the ages of PARTY 1 and PARTY 2.
Weerd and I are of an age; my first video games were things like Barnstormer on the Atari 2600. And Missile Command on Dad’s Mac Plus.
Yeah My first video game memories are Combat, Jungle Hunt, and Donkey Kong Jr. for the 2600
I remember when the Pong game showed up in the church rec room one day. We all stopped playing pool and had to check out this new game. We shortly returned to playing pool – dodge ball was way more fun.
A few years later we discovered the Atari, IntelliVision, and Colecovision. But it was my buddy (the “rich” kid whose parents owned the local John Deere dealership) who acquired the ultimate game machine – a Commodore 64! Gunship, Zork, Skyfox… Oh yeah baby! Now that was some hi-tech gaming.
The NES didn’t show up until about the time that we were freshmen in high school.