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=[ETw]= MARLOS
05-09-2007, 10:33 PM
I had a ZX Spectrum 16K then a 48K back in the early 80's,
http://marlosfink.googlepages.com/320px-ZXSpectrum48k.jpg
But what did you have.
jammie_d
05-09-2007, 10:49 PM
Amiga 500!!! Best console ever. who knows what the games names were, but there was a flying taxi one, an apache one, and a side-scrolling-sword-fighting-one-where-you-could-turn-into-a-bird. That was what I thought of as my first console. Good times.
Always had a pc with windows/MSDOS. Been pc gaming since Wolf 3d.
moomoo
05-10-2007, 12:21 AM
My first computer was an Atari 800XL 64KB with a blistering 1.8Mhz CPU. Tape drive too, spend 30 minutes loading Gauntlet and then it would crash when you had to flip the tape over.....
I was going to say you couldnt get porn for it but then I remembered strip poker. Happy times!
urwathrtz
05-10-2007, 02:06 AM
Odyssey 2, it still works and I have 20 games with it.
= MARLOS;10569']I had a ZX Spectrum 16K then a 48K back in the early 80's,
http://marlosfink.googlepages.com/320px-ZXSpectrum48k.jpg
But what did you have.
My First Ever Console was my big brothers Atari 2600 that we used to play all the time. I also remember 10 o'clock being really late, when nowadays, we stay up all night.
Moncealyo
05-10-2007, 04:45 AM
Odyssey 2, it still works and I have 20 games with it.
Wow you still have an odyssey 2 that is so sweet. I've mentioned that system before to many and no one knows of it. My first was the intellivision. Its funny how I got my odyssey though. In the 80's landowners up in the forest would use gimmicks to get people to come up to view and possibly buy land. We'd go ever month just to get the free stuff then we would go camping because of course my family couldn't afford to buy land in the forest or any land. However one of those times I got an odyssey 2. Its wierd because I never heard of it before I got it. Good times. I wish I would have been able to get games for it though. I remember there was a d&d kind of game and you could put an overlay on the system. That one looked cool. Games have come a long way. Before arcade was king but its not the same anymore. I remember wishing that console games could look as good as arcade games. Now they look a lot better.
Intellivision, still got one somewhere, geez, it's 27 yrs old, older than prolly most of the members here
Afterglow
05-10-2007, 05:55 AM
A commodore 64. Ah I loved the games for those.
NoControl
05-10-2007, 06:01 AM
We got Philips VideoPac, but i was like 5 when i played it, and i think we bought it before i was born. My first own console was PS1.
b0rsuk
05-10-2007, 06:33 AM
Atari 65 XE . Well actually my brother bought it, but we used it together.
My first computer I bought with my money was a voodoo3 era PC.
Mr.Cripples
05-10-2007, 07:49 AM
I started pretty late with computers, my first one was a 166mhz Pentium I :P
Veldrin
05-10-2007, 08:13 AM
Sega Master System. Alex Kidd built in :)
mrplow
05-10-2007, 08:20 AM
= MARLOS;10569']I had a ZX Spectrum 16K then a 48K back in the early 80's,
http://marlosfink.googlepages.com/320px-ZXSpectrum48k.jpg
But what did you have.
I had ZX Spectrum 48k too, oh memories. Too bad that it got sold to make room for the C64. Now I can't lay my hands on that rubbery keyboard never again :p. Well, ET:QW wouldn't probably run on it anyway :)
The Pope
05-10-2007, 08:23 AM
Three Eight Six.
Take that 10 character limit!
L33t Masta
05-10-2007, 08:39 AM
And old AppleII that played Slots.
Vic 20 vas my first.
http://www.hogia.se/pcmuseum/datorer75-84/hemdator/vic-20.jpg
The second was a ZX Spectrum 48k
TTK-Bandit
05-10-2007, 12:19 PM
Commodore 64
SniperSteve
05-10-2007, 12:21 PM
My first was a win 3.1 IBM pc. I was using a B/W monitor for a while, so that has to count for something.
M8DNanite
05-10-2007, 03:26 PM
Commodore 64, then Amiga
year 1991 bought first PC 486/ 33MHz / 4Mb ram / 210Mb hdd (price was around 2500eur)
Trusk
05-10-2007, 03:44 PM
Atari 2600 -> Game Boy -> SNES -> PC -> PSOne -> PS2
moonshield
05-10-2007, 03:55 PM
486 with 4MB RAM
Intellivision and Philips G7000
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Intellivision_-_gi_1326971.jpg
http://www.retro-trader.com/images/march03/DVC01752.JPG
engrpiman
05-10-2007, 04:14 PM
My first computer was .. was .. all i know is that it had an Intel 386 CPU with a green and white screen
After I moved to a Intel 486 + creative soundblaster I spent so much playing Wolf3d + doom 2+ keen ..thats in DOS + win 3.1 .. it was only later that i moved to WIN 95
robotron with datacette. did'nt own it but played alot snake and games like that in a AG (don't know what it is in english, maybe a german can help to translate Arbeitsgemeinschaft, aber von schülern)
urwathrtz
05-10-2007, 04:35 PM
Wow you still have an odyssey 2 that is so sweet. I've mentioned that system before to many and no one knows of it. My first was the intellivision. Its funny how I got my odyssey though. In the 80's landowners up in the forest would use gimmicks to get people to come up to view and possibly buy land. We'd go ever month just to get the free stuff then we would go camping because of course my family couldn't afford to buy land in the forest or any land. However one of those times I got an odyssey 2. Its wierd because I never heard of it before I got it. Good times. I wish I would have been able to get games for it though. I remember there was a d&d kind of game and you could put an overlay on the system. That one looked cool. Games have come a long way. Before arcade was king but its not the same anymore. I remember wishing that console games could look as good as arcade games. Now they look a lot better.
Yes! The D&D game was called "Quest for the Rings" it came with a game board and game peices, a keyboard overlay and Quest coins. I have it, and it was amazing at the time.
http://www.classicgaming.com/o2home/db/cart.asp?cartid=40&masterid=40
k0z4k
05-10-2007, 05:09 PM
my 1'st computer.....
well it was in 2000 year. It was celeron 500 mhz, 16 MB Ram and Nvidia TNT(16mb) @_@
Cimlite
05-10-2007, 05:11 PM
Commodore 64 followed by the Amiga. Those machines were legendary, so many great games. Especially on the Amiga.
Lostprophet
05-10-2007, 07:49 PM
hm my first computer:
450 mhz
128 mb ram
12gb
ati radeon 3d
CodE-E
05-10-2007, 08:25 PM
First own console (~1991): Nintendo GameBoy.
First PC in my home (~1998): AMD K5 133 (100MHz), 16MB RAM, ~4GB harddisk space, and some piece of s*** graphics card (which I later upgraded to a Matrox Mystique, which made Jedi Knight's frames per second really high), Windows 95, and a 15" CRT by Philips.
Pseudo
05-10-2007, 08:28 PM
http://www.tehskeen.com/gfx/common/snes_small.jpg
Was probley six years old. I got my first computer right after N64 came out.
Javert
05-10-2007, 09:14 PM
My first console was a regular Nintendo.
My first computer was an IBM machine, with the game Reader Rabbit.
Moncealyo
05-10-2007, 09:21 PM
Yes! The D&D game was called "Quest for the Rings" it came with a game board and game peices, a keyboard overlay and Quest coins. I have it, and it was amazing at the time.
http://www.classicgaming.com/o2home/db/cart.asp?cartid=40&masterid=40
Thanks for the link. That was a sweet looking game for the time. Rock on man!!!
Moncealyo
05-10-2007, 09:25 PM
I found pics of the overlay for the quest for the rings game!!! Damn I should have saved my candy money :(
http://www.classicgaming.com/o2home/strategy/qrings/qrstrat.shtml
=[ETw]=NASHSLASH
05-10-2007, 09:56 PM
My First Computer was a TRS80
Wooops no picture... see below
=[ETw]=NASHSLASH
05-10-2007, 10:05 PM
My first computer was a TRS-80
http://www.etwclan.co.uk/uploads/trs80.jpg
Stektr33
05-10-2007, 10:09 PM
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dc/Squarebuttonfamicom.jpg
My very first experience with computers was playing my uncle's apple II, playing karateka, rescue raiders, etc on that. then, i got the Famicom (the japanese version of NES) (i lived in the philippines till i was 12). Booyah!
toetag
05-11-2007, 04:35 PM
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/3469/superpongan3.jpg
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2326/pongsnap2wt4.gif
Thank god for evolution!
frankieg
05-11-2007, 04:40 PM
It was an atari 2600 when i was like 2.Then you know the rest nes snes sega blah blah blah
Dazzamac
05-11-2007, 04:40 PM
Colecovision ftw
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/37/ColecoVision.jpg/300px-ColecoVision.jpg
NES was still my favourite though.
urwathrtz
05-11-2007, 05:04 PM
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/3469/superpongan3.jpg
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/2326/pongsnap2wt4.gif
Thank god for evolution!
Dang, old school. The gay guy that lived next to my parents when we were growing up had one. When he would go away for the weekend Mom would check on his place. My brother and I would play pong (the game, you sick weirdos) all day long.
urwathrtz
05-11-2007, 05:07 PM
I found pics of the overlay for the quest for the rings game!!! Damn I should have saved my candy money :(
http://www.classicgaming.com/o2home/strategy/qrings/qrstrat.shtml
Very awesome. As cool as that stuff was it's pretty worthless now. But, sentimentally it's priceless.:)
Commodore 64
Same here :o
JiggaJigga
05-11-2007, 05:19 PM
My first was The nintendo 64, I always had a computer but i didn't play any games on it. Lol i didnt know how to use it.
pyromaania
05-11-2007, 05:23 PM
Mmmm....
The good old days XD
Well, my first was a Sega Genesis.
I used to have n+1 games on it.
I remember playing lion king, plus all the true sonic's.
I had all the contras, robocop and the sort.
Too bad my sister sold it,
otherwise i'd still be playing on it :D
(FOD)Radiskull
05-11-2007, 05:34 PM
Atari ####(i had 3 if im right, cant remeber the models :P), NES, SNES, NES 64, PS, PS2, Game Cube, X box, PS3, and hopefuly soon Wii.
But none of the above is better than a SLI MSI MOBO with a Dual Core 2 Extreme CPU@2.93 Mghz, 2 water cooled 8800 gtx GPU`s and ageia PPU with 4 gigs RAM!!!!Woo!
I wish i could afford it lol
Demolama
05-11-2007, 07:10 PM
tandy 1000 hx 1987 which I still have.
atari 5600
sherbert
05-11-2007, 10:44 PM
Vic 20 vas my first.
http://www.hogia.se/pcmuseum/datorer75-84/hemdator/vic-20.jpg
yeah Vic 20 for me too. Back in the day when cassette tapes ruled storage!
yeah Vic 20 for me too. Back in the day when cassette tapes ruled storage!
Yeah, and the ZX Spectrum didn't have a specifically designed tape recorder, so sometimes you had to tweak the volume to get it to recognize the recorded data! :eek: It's crazy how much computers has evolved since then.
2112(AWG)
05-12-2007, 12:14 AM
Well here ya go. Guess I will be showing my age on this one lol.
TRS-80
http://team-awg.com/forum/uploads/1177631388/gallery_11_11_10837.jpg
Boy it was fast running..
10 print "HELLO"
20 GOTO 10
LMAO
If I recall right it was upgraded with 64k of memory lmao.
Mordenkainen
05-12-2007, 12:52 AM
My first computer was a Sinclair Spectrum 128k +2 (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/ZX_Spectrum_Plus2.jpeg/800px-ZX_Spectrum_Plus2.jpeg), although I used it mostly for games it was also where I first learned some programming (go BASIC!). My first console was a NES. I still have both.
Yeah, and the ZX Spectrum didn't have a specifically designed tape recorder, so sometimes you had to tweak the volume to get it to recognize the recorded data! It's crazy how much computers has evolved since then.
Heh, well even my speccy which did have the "DATACORDER" required fine tuning with a screwdriver (see the little hole above the play/stop keys in that pic) to make the tape align correctly in the magnetic reader. Fun times!
=[ETw]=Dodgysod
05-12-2007, 04:10 PM
commdore 64