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)

[joggerjayne]

That tennis thing where you twisted the knobs to make the bats go up and down on each side of the screen.

[tiggerblue10]

Same as JJ. And then pacman.

[EcclesCake]

Same as JJ, was it called Pong or something.

[bibblebub]

pong at the seaside arcade (not a personal habit but the name of the game)

[Booldawg]

my mate had one of those JJ - Atari wasnt it?

[squarebear]

I remember seeing Pacman at the seaside and was fascinated by it. As a child I used to love mazes and used to think the ghosts were actually alive and thinking.

[joggerjayne]

I can't remember, booldawg.

I think you might have plugged it into the back of the telly.

[RATTER15]

I was playing that silly tennis game in the late 70s I think, I the didn't touch games until a few years ago when I heard about "World Of Warcraft" on this site, Ive played it ever since, I don't play it much at the minute though.

I believe "World Of Warcraft" is the worlds biggest online game with over 11 million people playing it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCr7y4SLhck

[Booldawg]

Someone at work paid 'real money' for a special sword used in WoW.

[B00]

still blame me for it Ratter? ;-)

If you check out Ebay Booldawg you can buy in game characters for often hundreds of pounds, its madness!

[China Doll]

I used to play a game called caterpilla I think... You were a little square at the bottom and you had to shoot an ever advancing catapilla... sometimes a scorpian would run across the path too. I also liked playing super mario on the nintendo gameboy but that was a lot later on.

[daffy654]

WoW is MMORPG on easy mode! You should try FFXI online if you want a proper game ;-)

[bednobs]

on my zx81 (the 1kb of memory one, we weren't posh enough for a 16k upgrade) we had a gave called rings around saturn

[lcg]

apple acorn and a c64. paperboy, wizzball and dungeons and dragons were my favourite...x

[Richard1966]

Space Invaders and Defender were my introduction. Had an atari 2000 in 1979/80 followed by a ZX81 then a Speccy for many years. Loved Elite.

[Prudie]

Chuckie Egg on my BBCb. I was addicted

[DTCwordfan]

A game called "Hunt the _unt" - the reverse of spades where you load the points of trumps against the victim and teh Q of Spades (the -unt) = 50 points. Unless they clean out all the negative cards (hearts and the Q of spades) and then the other 3 get bombed.

Ip a point.....and by definition, it is gaming.