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On 4/17/2017 1:50 PM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
> The first computer game I owned - barring whatever came on the
> "Getting Started" diskettes for my Apple IIc - was Zork I. It wasn't
> the first video game I played - that was probably Pong - or even the
> first computer game

Hard to say here too.  Arcade game was probably Pong here too, but that 
didn't grab me, might have been Space Invaders.  Asteroids was 
definitely the first that grabbed me.  I was into Pinball before those 
came out.

For the personal side, my Mom's boyfriends had a CP/M home-made computer 
I got to play some games on, Wumpus, some economic kingdom games (buy x 
grain to keep your population up, get taxes, try to keep them happy), 
and my favorite, Trek which had ASCII graphics instead of just words!

I played (Colossal Cave) Adventure which is a bit like a predecessor to 
Zork on that but got stuck pretty quick at the snake, and got lost in a 
maze of twisty little passages all the same over and over.  I did play 
Zork at a friend's, better than Adventure, but still getting eaten by a 
Grue repeatedly wasn't particularly fun, at least it wasn't Hitchhiker's 
Guide to the Galaxy which neither my friend or I could figure out how to 
get past the babelfish.

I then got to go over and play (mostly watch) my friend play stuff on 
his Atari 400.  I remember something like Aladin?  And a bunch of 
garbage shareware games.

My first console was an Intellivision much later.  I played blackjack 
with my long past grandfather who bought it for me quite a bit, and a 
number of other games on it, I remember the D&D game & Tennis were my 
favorites besides blackjack.

- Justisaur