What are your 1st memories of gaming?

[Booldawg]

Me = 1980; Commodore Pets at school. Someone got hold of a copy of 'Space Invaders' written in MACHINE CODE! There was also a game called 'nightmare park' and also a game which had those Imperial Walker things of 'The Empire Strikes' back.

My first computer was a ZX81 with a 16k expansion pack (as 1k didnt 'cut it' for 3D Monster Maze). It used to crash (alot) I took several expansion packs back to John Menzies before I got one that didnt crash (as often)

[Mamyalynne]

Frogger and Qbert

[boxtops]

Pong. Table tennis. Dungeons and Dragons. When we bought our first Atari box, all those three were pre-loaded.

[boxtops]

Beg pardon - Pong - Pacman - dungeons and dragons.

[cazzz1975]

pong, pacman,space invaders

I had a lot of those grandstand games (the table top one), my fave was mario cement factory which also had a built in clock/alarm which used to wake me up for school

[Lore]

Pretty similar to yours, booldawg. I remember we had a Grandstand too.

[cazzz1975]

I loved qbert!

[cazzz1975]

this was my alarm clock for years

http://www.miniarcade...intendo/cement-tt.htm

[Lore]

Paper boy! I looooooove that game :)

[Booldawg]

qbert was mad due to the isometric view but 'up down left right' controls. I spent most my lives falling off the edge.

[cazzz1975]

I used to spend hours on qbert, after a while I was jumping up and down the blocks in blind panic

[mungbeanz]

The first game I ever had was Proof Of Destruction om the ZX Spectrum. The 80s reminds of extremely frustrating adventure games where you'd have to use text prompts EXACTLY right to do anything. Monkey Island was the first game I really enjoyed playing. I remember on the Commodore Amiga Monkey Island 2 had about 12 disks!