I’m 6-7. I’m at my grandparents house. He’s got one of those old-timey Pong consoles that you plug into the TV; it had like 5-6 different ‘sport’ modes (Tennis, Squash etc etc), but ultimately it was still a few pixels moving up and down or maybe left and right.
And it was amazing.
What’s your earliest gaming memory?
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Six years old. My parents had got a Spectrum +2 bundle from Curry’s for Christmas, with a bunch of games in nondescript grey boxes. First one we played was a top-down snooker games called Snooker.
Many years later I ended up working with the guy that made one of the games in that bundle and, I think, ported another from the C64. Small world and all that.
Finishing the first level of Doom II and thinking i had beat the whole game. hehehe
You’re already ahead of me. I’m 36 (almost) and I’ve never played any of those older DOOM games. I’ll hand it my gamer card at the next meet-up I guess.
I don’t remember what the game was called, but I played it from a diskette on DOS, if I remember correctly. You were controlling a sort of space ship and jumping on different platforms while continuously moving forward. I loved it. But I don’t remember what it was called so I can’t look it up any more.
We also had some sort of maze game and Commander Keen. But I sucked at Commander Keen, so I never got past the first level.
Holy shit, that’s it! Thanks so much!
I was about 17 when Pong first came out, so it would have to be Pong and all the Atari games (we had the console) that had one little square to represent a human and a bunch of other squares that would be walls or enemies or trees or whatever.
