Mine was a Commadore 64, with a tape drive and 2 game carterages. I had such games as: Dizzy and Robocop. heheh

Mine was also a Commodore 64 with a Datasette tape drive. I was quite happy the day I was able to jump up to a 1541 disk drive. :)

What games did you have?!?! Ive still got mine, the games i have: [list=1]
Slicks
The newzealand story
switchblade
Grand Prix
Shinobi
Wizard Willy
Little Puff
Frankenstein Jr
Olli & Lissa 3
Moto X
Super G-Man
Pro PowerBoat
ATV Simulator
Rainbow Islands
Fruit Machine
Pub Trivia
Monte Carlo Casino
Wacky Darts
and many more... including many dizzy games.
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VIC-20

A screaming 1.01 MHz processor with16K ROM;
3.5K RAM - expanded to 64K RAM via a cartridge port;

Cutting edge games likeDeadly Duck
Q*bert
Jungle Hunt
Choplifter
FroggerStill in the box, in the closet.

:m: Peace.

My 1st was a MSX i think with the still best game ever:

Comic bakery :)

PII 333, 32Mb RAM, 8 mb video, SoundBlaster 64 - year 1999
later that year upgraded to 16mb video - 3dfx voodoo3 2000
then after some months to 64mb RAM (to be able to play Outcast)
again about half a year later to 128 mb RAM

and I'm still using it as it is
getting a new one in a few days though :)

Timex Sinclair 1000.

No monitor, no hd. For the life of me I can not remember the speed and memory. The Commodore 64 was light years ahead in power.

TIMEX/SINCLAIR (http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/timexsin.html)

That was a machine. :)

read it
wow

Bondwell 80/88 pc! yay! it's still working! :D

Spectrum for me, I can't remember what type or anything, I was like 3!!

But I did have lots of Amigas and Ataris and nintendos and segas and etc, etc, etc

I had a lot of computers lol

oh- consoles count too?
then my first was SuperNintendo then later Sega Mega Drive II

I have no idea, because I did not use the computer for entertainment until I was in grade 9. :eek: We got it in grade 9, and I didn't have Internet till the latter part of that school term. So I suppose it's right to say my first puter is Dell Dimension 4100.

I had a Super Nintendo too, it was like how much you would pay for a Sony Playstation nowadays. Ive also still got it.

386
windows 3.1

That's all I remember about it.

The very first computer I had - the one I learnt BASIC on - was an Epson pocket computer. It had about 4 KB total memory (that's 4 kilobytes, not 4 megabytes!), an LCD screen with one row and about 80 characters, a tiny keyboard, and a thermal printer about the width of a supermarket receipt roll.

The first computer I had which was anything like a modern PC was an Atari 800. It was a 64 KB machine, 48 KB of which could be used for BASIC programming. I wrote a lot of adventure games for it, some of which broke the memory limit! Originally, I had a cassette drive, which stored programs on ordinary audio cassettes. To load a 10 KB program would take about a minute. Later, I got a 5 1/4" floppy drive which stored a maximum of 90 KB on each side of the disk. However, if you punched another hole opposite the write-protect hole on one side of the floppy you could use the reverse side of the disk too, which effectively halved the cost of disks.

The Atari 800 had some great games and the architecture of the computer was innovative in a lot of ways for the time.

Many of the games I owned were typed in from magazines.

The first PC I ever owned was a Pentium 15 mhz, 25 when turbo'd =P The game I played the most on it was the old Duke Nukem shareware game for Win 3.1, and of course MS Paint =P

My first console was a NES, where I played mostly Duckhunt and Mario. IMO Mario on the NES and SNES still hasn't been beaten by the 64 or the GC.

Many of the games I owned were typed in from magazines.

That's bringing back bad memories. I remember when Compute's Gazette offered not just Basic programs to type in, but assembler code as well, one byte at a time. I spent many hours doing just that... 040,255,124,003. ACK.

Ooh, I forgot game consoles.

The first one I <b>played</b> was one of those black and white "TV games" consoles which had a series of Pong-like games. The graphics were perhaps 200 &times; 100 resolution or something like that, and the game controllers were paddles which controlled "bats" at each side of the screen. The "ball" was a square blob. The console also had a target shooting mode, and you got a light-sensitive gun with the thing, which you aimed at moving dots on the screen to score points.

The first one I <b>owned</b> was an Atari 2600 console. Cartridge games included:

Space Invaders
Missile Command
Pac Man
Adventure
Pele Soccer
Brain Games
Tanks

Originally posted by Jaxom
TIMEX/SINCLAIR (http://www.digitalcentury.com/encyclo/update/timexsin.html)

That was a machine. :)

yeah baby. I had one. hehehehe.. I could make "hello" reoccur on the screen many times with it.

I also owned, and get this cuz I think I may be the only one... an "adam" computer from coleco. what a deal that thing was. wow. I bet my dad still has it in a closet somewhere. :)

Originally posted by Jaxom
That's bringing back bad memories. I remember when Compute's Gazette offered not just Basic programs to type in, but assembler code as well, one byte at a time. I spent many hours doing just that... 040,255,124,003. ACK.

I did that in basic i believe just typing a damn code from a book and hoping/praying you didn't make a damn typo somewhere :eek:

I got my Commadore out the closet and set it up and started playing it, the game i chose to play was Dizzy Prince of the YolkFolk. The one thing that i found annoying (apart from the sound) was that...you couldnt save it! Also, no continues were granted. I did complete it tho, it took 2 hours. lol :D

http://cpczone.emuunlim.com/reviews/images/dizzy-pyf-ingame-2-big.gif

You have to give a golden nugget to the ferryman. On the boat you have to walk in the direction that the boat is going in or you'll far in the water and die.
heheh
the basic simplicity of some the games is attractive in itself.

The first console I ever had, played only pong, the table tennis game. If you left it on too long it would burn the phosphor on the tv screen. Wound up that you could see it even when the tv was playing and not the game. Oh ya, it was strickly black and white.

THis is going to sound awful... My first computer was a 486, I had managed to run Windows 95 on it. (really really slow...)

first game system was NES followed by a sega genesis a few years later. my first desktop was a pentium one with windows 95 on it

My first computer was a 8088, with dos installed on it. I still have it and it works.

The first machine I used was the Commodore PET, http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/pet/ . The first one I owned was a Spectrum.

Thed, that is a really good link! :D

VIC-20
who needs sprites when you've got multicolor mode.

Hey Dylan you out there!!!!

IBM thinkpad laptop
-8 MB ram
-200 MB drive space
-win 3.1
-yea jezzball!!!:D

T.I. 99 4/A

Made by Texas Instraments, it Had several input options. Most common was a solid state cartridge, and it could do data audio cassettes and disks, too. Some games, like Tunnels of Doom(Loved it!) needed the cartridge and the cassette. The greatest thing was when we got a speech synthesizer that worked with some games.

We have two. both still work, though one has a broken ENTER key, and none of the joysticks work anymore.

Just about all of those early computers would let you program in basic, right? I know my brothers did.

The power house of all time: The Apple IIGS. That baby rocked. I had a ton of sweet games for it. And watch out when you select fast mode instead of normal from the control panel, things go crazy :p

It's a shame we gave it away to a womens shelter :(

ATARI 400.
Which was the same as the ATARI 800 except instead of a keyboard with buttons that go up and down it was like a cashregister at a McDonalds.
I thought I was the shit. :D

My first computer was a 8088, with dos installed on it.

I think that is what we had first too. I wanted a NES but my parents convinced me with the argument that you couldn't write a letter on a NES.

In the shop, I started to point out which games I wanted for our new computer on a Nintendo poster. I probably already knew about incompatibility, but it was a last desperate attempt.

On this computer, I had games such as "Alley Cat", "Shogun", "Buzz", "Paratrooper", "Janitor Joe" and "Digger".

Sometimes some games wouldn't work. There was no apparent reason for it. Sometimes the computer would brake down, and I now believe it was because of those games.

I also typed GW BASIC programs into that computer which I got from a book. The concept of the command "dim" was too complicated, I never got my head around it.

In my own programs, I also skipped all the commands that were labeled as "dangerous" by my book, cause the computer was also used by my parents.

My greatest achievement ever in computer programming was done by interpreting some code I read and with that basic material, I made a drawing program.

It was pretty advanced, it even had animation in it :) The main commands were locate, input, print, inkey$ and cls. The trick (which I hadn't thought of myself) was to replace the coordinates in the locate command by x and y and then adjusting these values when the user entered commands.

10 k$=inkey$
20 if k$="u" then x=x-1; goto 100
30 goto 10
100 locate (x,y); print "*character you chose to draw with*"
200 goto 10

the animation part was done by pagecopy and then switching between two screens :)

Well, the Commadore 64 had the most advanced soundcard of the times. Also, you could get a cartrage that plugged into the back that had extra memory in it, sorta like how Starfox for the SNES had a mem chip in it.
Also, some of my cassettes didnt work for no apparent reason either, it would take like 5mins to load then nothing happened so u had to choose another game. I liked how you could copy cassettes! it was great.

You know there was an old Castle Wolfenstien game for the older computers? It was a top view.

mine .. which i still have... was an Emerson. It had dos... a dos shell.. and two games pre-installed:
Duke Nukem and Kill Sadam, which was a sadistic little game/propganda effort which let you shoot of patriot missiles at the portrait of the dictator.

mine was the first Sega to be relaesed. Not genesis, it was a japanese title. It sucked.

Regular 80's Nintendo, although I consided it to be a video arcade and not really a computer. My first PC was a HP.

My first computer was an Atari ST. I think it was a 1020 (1 MB of RAM memory). It's entire operating system (TOS) was in the ROM. :)

Tom