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What are your 1st memories of gaming?

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Booldawg | 07:39 Wed 13th Apr 2011 | Gaming
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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)
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That tennis thing where you twisted the knobs to make the bats go up and down on each side of the screen.
Same as JJ. And then pacman.
Same as JJ, was it called Pong or something.
pong at the seaside arcade (not a personal habit but the name of the game)
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my mate had one of those JJ - Atari wasnt it?
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.
I can't remember, booldawg.

I think you might have plugged it into the back of the telly.
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
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Someone at work paid 'real money' for a special sword used in WoW.
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!
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.
WoW is MMORPG on easy mode! You should try FFXI online if you want a proper game ;-)
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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
apple acorn and a c64. paperboy, wizzball and dungeons and dragons were my favourite...x
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.
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Chuckie Egg on my BBCb. I was addicted
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.

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