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Article #697722Re: Mid-month Ramble - April 2017
From: Justisaur
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:31
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 17:31
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On 4/28/2017 4:57 AM, Rudi wrote: > On Tue, 25 Apr 2017 15:50:50 -0700, Justisaur <just...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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. > > Funny you should start this thread, it wasn't that long ago that I > started wondering the same. > > Anyways, my first ever PC (slash any desktop computer) gaming > experience was with VIC-20 at our local electronics store , and I was > trying out their demo piece, playing few rounds of Moon Lander ( of > course the cartridge version...:) ) > I remember drooling over a VIC-20 in a computer store and playing their demo of "Snake" and some sort of bad rip-off of an arcade plaformer. Never did get a VIC-20 either. - Justisaur >
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