My first computer game memory is very low-tech! It was of those black & white "tennis" games that you first got in the arcades. Binatone then brought out a home version, which I thought was the dog's bo ......... sorry, the bees knees at the time!

I must be getting old ......... or (hopefully) I've just been a victim of a cruel time-slip!

Um, well, yes ok. Atari 2600. Can I say Missile Command twice in one day?

Eric the Viking on an electron and anything on the glorious Amiga - New Zealand Story, Prince of Persia (the origianl) and loads more

arisv2007 Wrote:
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> The Very Big Cave Adventure... didn't that have a
> scene with a bull and you fed a bomb to it to get
> rid of it... "That's a-bomb-in-a-bull!"
> One of my earliest experiences of the art of puns.
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> I don't remember much else about the game... Did
> love text adventures though!


Yes - it ate it because it was a gull-i-bull. (It didn't fall for the trick twice, though)

I think my first proper game memory is of mario and duck hunt on the Nintendo!

Mine... was some sort of space ship game. Who's name totally eludes me. It was a couple of steps up from space invaders, and available for the MSX.

I also remember playing delights such as Penguin Adventure, Manic Miner, Chucky Egg and Jet Set Willie on that machine.

Rob

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That statement is either so deep it would take a lifetime to fully comprehend every particle of its meaning, or it is a load of absolute tosh. Which is it, I wonder?
Terry Pratchett, Hogfather

The perfect old game for fforum members is Infocom's episodic text adventure called Nord and Bert Couldn't Make Heads or Tails of It. If you can find it anywhere online (PC executables or applets of old Infocom games are usually free), it's well worth investigating. Each little adventure requires a different kind of wordplay in the commands themselves. Unique.

You've made this cat inna bottle very happy, Chris! ^_^

Incidentally, the Infocom system was reverse-engineered so there are new text-based adventure games (now called interactive fiction) coming out. There is a program called Inform 7 that allows you to write them.

Seems straightforward enough but I have not had enough time to try properly.

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

was the spaceship game "Galaxian", by any chance?

The ships swooped down in parabolic curves, but otherwise it was very much like "Space Invaders" on speed.

I"m going to have to say mario and duck hunt for video games.

but for text based games...

It was on a disk of 1000 demo games that my mom had, you started off as some lost pilot who has forgotten everything in a cave on a planet or something like that and you entered a room with a porcupine fish thing in a bowl...It took me forever to figure out that I had to "say hi to the porcupine fish thing" and of coarse that took me to a house that had a bathtub full of custard in it.if you walked out of the house you got locked out and couldn't go back in. Needless to say I didn't get very far in that game.

personally tetris, I like.

Oh! For Video games it was California Games on Nes.

Thanks, Martin. That was just what I needed - another ridiculously absorbing addictive waste of time.

In principle it's simple, but there's an awful lot to it and the fact it is apparently written in normal English is just a deception - it's (unsurprisingly, to be fair) just as picky, pedantic and annoying to get right as any programming has to be.

However, I intend to perservere for some time longer at least...and if I can figure out how to pass games on, who knows what I might be able to offer?

Bonzai Kitten Wrote:
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> You've made this cat inna bottle very happy,
> Chris! ^_^


Solid! You've tried it out, then? If you get through all those without help, you're smarter than this cat. (I know, I know -- girls are smarter than boys anyway.)

Sorry Leonard. And it is reasonably straightforward, and allows for some leeway, but yes, it is not easy.

Look on the other hand, you now have something other than your UU model to do. ;)

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I just love how all I have to do is drop a word or phrase into the seething morass, and out comes a hugely involved and complex discussion, even if I add nothing but "Computer Games". :) :)

Talk! Start talking!

No!

Alright.
Well I spent a portion of yesterday trying to get to grips with Inform, and I've kinda got it. It's tricky, but not much more than any other programming. I've got a fairly nextian idea for what to do with it, but I'm gonna try to get used to the system. What I want to do may be tricky (getting your "dictionary" to switch between forms of speech as you switch "books").

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Turn the silliness to eleven!

Hmmm... Sounds good.

I want to play Lego Star Wars II!

Found a new fun game: Core Wars. Create an assembler-like program to kill the other one. :)

*wonders if anyone will play*

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'We're all mad here. I'm mad, you're mad." [said the Cat.]
"How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice.
"You must be," said the Cat, "Or you wouldn't have come here."
- Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland

I played the first lego starwars... And I gotta say, I was dissapointed. No camera control, and I wanted to hear the lego characters talk, dammit!

The pod racing part was good though.