Operation - it had batteries and everything!

pip_pop Mon 1 Mar 10:32, (Answer / reply)

Space Invaders, on the Atari system my dad bought the family back in 1978. Although when he first got home, he kept saying it wasn't for us but for a little boy with no arms. Being so young, I was totally whooshed by this joke.

7zark7 Mon 1 Mar 9:19, (Answer / reply)

awaitsinevitableabuse Mon 1 Mar 12:28, (Answer / reply)

this...and yes, in my day that was fuckin' magic in a box!

sgtpeppersstoneyhardcoreband Mon 1 Mar 6:39, (Answer / reply)

el_presidente Mon 1 Mar 11:23, (Answer / reply)

www.darnkitty.com/manic/ManicV2.swf?q=75&q2=71&q4=88

Kiss goodbye to your afternoon.

mrsix Mon 1 Mar 11:11, (Answer / reply)

dawnsyndrome Mon 1 Mar 11:19, (Answer / reply)

Space Invaders in the family room at the pub circa 1979

indiekid Mon 1 Mar 13:58, (Answer / reply)

Missile Command on the Atari 600xl - a lighthearted romp based on a nightmarish vision of an unstoppable global thermonuclear holocaust.

arseface Mon 1 Mar 9:38, (Answer / reply)

Amazing, photorealistic graphics.

sydbarretthomes Mon 1 Mar 11:00, (Answer / reply)

10 PRINT "hello world";

20 GOTO 10

hello world

hello world

hello world

hello world

hello world

hello world

hello world

hello world

armstrong Mon 1 Mar 15:23, (Answer / reply)

Centipede on the Atari 2006. Like playing a vomit coloured version of Space Invaders with one hand tied behind your back.

kps_jockstrap Mon 1 Mar 15:00, (Answer / reply)

ZX81 flight simulator - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvY4roVg7YQ

Looks crap but in 1985 this was mesmerising.

opus Mon 1 Mar 7:55, (Answer / reply)

My spoiled rich (this was before I realised we were council scum and he was just middle class) cousin had Pong not long after it came out. I was amazed and looked forward to going round to play it, even though he lived in fucking Lewisham. He also got an Acorn when I could only dream of a second-hand ZX80 the cunt. Still, his mum nearly died last year while mine is in good health, so take that you smug cunt!

spank_daley Mon 1 Mar 11:40, (Answer / reply)

You turned me on... who's out there??

artificially_awake Mon 1 Mar 11:41, (Answer / reply)

relief_organist Mon 1 Mar 17:44, (Answer / reply)

edmor Mon 1 Mar 18:56, (Answer / reply)

ha, like i had a computer... no, it was twagging it down prom playing defender and asteroids for me...

horsespider Mon 1 Mar 14:20, (Answer / reply)

I wrote 'BOOBS' on my first calculator.

grimly_fiendish Mon 1 Mar 0:46, (Answer / reply)

harrier attack on the Amstrad

glitterkitty Mon 1 Mar 16:33, (Answer / reply)

I think it was Breakout - the one where you bounce a ball against a wall and break the bricks. On a ZX Spectrum which had 8 colours but we only had a black and white telly.

jesusandmaryjane Mon 1 Mar 8:29, (Answer / reply)

It would have been 'Lock N' Chase' on the Intellivision, or 'Combat' on the Atari VCS. Amazing the Atari VCS was $200 when it first came out.

honk Mon 1 Mar 12:04, (Answer / reply)

I don't think I've ever used a computer - I'm not one for these modern new-fangled contraptions...

crack_pot_pipe Mon 1 Mar 15:17, (Answer / reply)

10 print FUCK OFF

20 goto 10

mingus Mon 1 Mar 16:24, (Answer / reply)

First played ping pong - but the first game I mastered was space invaders, the day i went 'round the clock' will stay with me for ever.

bubbleboy Mon 1 Mar 14:08, (Answer / reply)

Pong. One of the controllers was a bit jerky so whoever came round to play had to use that one.

toadhall Mon 1 Mar 10:06, (Answer / reply)

Fuck knows, but there would have been 200 lines of BASIC in ZX81 magazine hand typed for hours on the crappy keyboard of the crappy ZX81 (with 1k RAM) for 15 seconds of a crappy 'game.'

stan_ogdens_nutgone_flake Mon 1 Mar 0:23, (Answer / reply)

whats_the_beef_chief Mon 1 Mar 11:39, (Answer / reply)

"R:Tape Loading Error."

curlywurly Mon 1 Mar 10:03, (Answer / reply)

Flight Deck, my parents hoodwinked me for two years that it was a "computer game"

rick_gassko Mon 1 Mar 14:23, (Answer / reply)

Played? Played? In my day we had to program games before we could play them. None of this pop a disc in,go online and then shoot some mong in Ottawa bollocks. Day & a half typing "Nightmare Park" onto an 8k PET followed by two weeks trying to get it to work for us. And that's if the cassette tape didn't get mangled up or the bloody thing didn't crash. But the achievement of watching "pi" signs pretending to be stampeding unicorns was far better than winning a race round a pretend photo realistic Silverstone.

We even made our own games, mine was "SheepKiller". You were a wolf trying to kill sheep (pi signs again) while a drunk farmer hunted you down with a shotgun. You could even adjust the difficulty level by changing how pissed up the farmer was. Kids today, don't know they're born.

roger_mycock Mon 1 Mar 6:42, (Answer / reply)

i had a calculator shaped like an owl that did maths puzzles...

We had a thing that was 'two white lines and a white moving dot' that we got free with dog food tokens so that was the first one we played on the telly against each other.it had a green box,i don't know what the game was but it was shit tennis.

minky_chunky Mon 1 Mar 14:18, (Answer / reply)