Real Old School Computer Games

[GAcoaster]

I was just reading an interview with the creator of Oregon Trail, which was the first game I ever had for my home computer.

 

For those who never heard of it (because they are too young), it was a game designed to run on the Apple II series computers, and it was kind of a "choose your own adventure" with simple graphics, but it was mostly done with text.

 

I can still picture playing Oregon Trail over and over on my Apple IIe, with its green screen. You had to periodically flip the floppy disc over in the drive (and that's when floppys were really floppy!) to go on with the game, and you knew something major was going to happen when the the drive would start whirring (it often meant you were killed by Indians or died of some disease or starvation).

 

It's really amazing how far computer games have come in twenty years... :?

[Homer]

Hmm... lemme remember some of the oldest PC games I used to play...

 

1. Kid Pix- Basically Photoshop for Kids!

2. Number/Letter/Whatever Muncher- Its educational Pac-Man!

3. Aladdin- The PC port of the 16 Bit Robb Masterpeice.

 

Thats all I can remember, and hard to believe we have gone so far from days of sprites to 3D models.

[Sir Clinksalot]

Loom

Monkey's Island

[Nemmy]

I remember Oregon Trail! That was so fun to play!

[RBOrrell]

Star Trek written in RPGII on an IBM System/34 circa 1982.

[USRoadTripper]

The oldest ones I rememebr playing were Number Magic and Early Learning Fun for the TI-99/4A. I also remember writing my own horse race program in BASIC when I was probably 5 or 6 years old on that system.

 

-Julie

[Angry_Gumball]

I definitely remember Oregon Trail for the Apple II e. Most of the II e's games I played were educational but my favorite was this one where you had to look at a map of CA and you had to get to a certain destination by selecting different highways to pick up stuff/drop off stuff.

[ShoubraStreet74]

I played an old DOS game called XATAX when I was about 4.. been playing computer games ever since. Too bad it won't run on my computer now due to runtime errors. I think it only accepts a maximum cpu of pentium-100mhz

[YoshiFan]

All for the Apple IIGS

Reader Rabbit

Marble Madness

Zany Golf

Number Munchers

 

In 5th grade on the Apple IIGS we always used to play Oregon Trail. It was a really fun game for it's time. I always thought it was strange using the IIGS at that point though (1993) but then again even when I had a 486/66 system at home, we were still using the 5 1/2" disks in middle school and that was in the mid 1990's!

[GAcoaster]

I remember my first computer classes in Middle School we learned to program in Basic (on Apple IIes) and then in High School we learned FORTRAN. Fat lot of good either of them did for me (or anyone else), but I guess it worked out since I work for a software company now...

[Meteornotes]

Zork is the first game I remember playing on the Apple II...

 

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[derwood]

Played the Infocom games: Zork, Wishbringer, Zork II, Hitchhikers Guide on a Commodore 64.

 

Also played Star Trek in high school on a IBM.

 

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[WillMontu]

My dad used to have an old Mac. Mazewars was ahead of its time with network play almost a decade before Doom. I was probably 4-5 at the time.

 

Other games I remember:

Ernie's Big Splash and Pals Around Town, two Sesame Street games. In Ernie's Big Splash, the goal was to get the Rubber Duckie to Ernie's bathtub through a series of blocks. Pals Around Town was a basically a collage type game with landscapes and Sesame Steet characters to populate them

Paintbrush - not really a game, but it was hours of fun. Very similar to Paintbrush in Windows 3.x, the forerunner to Paint. I had four colors to choose from, copy and paste capability, and pixel precision editing.

Sokoban (especially the level editor. It still works on my current PC)

[AllisonY2K]

Definatly "Oregon Trail". I'm such a gamer geek as I was the first person in my class to make it all the way to the end. That game was so much fun!

[DATman]

Oregon Trail

 

Zoombinis

 

JUMP START 4th GRADE-I OWNED that game

[BelizeIt]

For me it would be Zork.

 

Followed by the classic Kings Quest series.

 

Then Space Quest, Leisure Suir Larry Etc....I miss those games!

[coasterzak]

It isn't really old... but early to mid nineties: remember Maniac Mansion? That game was one of my favorite old games!

[ParkTrips]

Odell Lake circa the late 80s.

 

I remember playing it in elementary school when we had weekly "computer lab". All of those old Apples in the tiny room... and best of all, we used to have to "ground" ourselves before entering... I forgot exactly what we did but it had something to do with the metal doorframe. Oh man that was a long time ago... and looking back on it I can't help but laugh

 

We also had Oregon Trail in our computer labs... oh how I can remember the floppy boot disks and the, what, 32 bit color? Memories of a childhood slowly passing away..

[WillMontu]

I remember all the classic Sierra titles as well. Mixed Up Mother Goose was cool. I was never good at Kings Quest and Space Quest, but Police Quest was fun (you even get to play with guns!). As for Leisure Suit Larry, my brothers and I couldn't play them until Dad finished them himself. I didn't really understand much of what was going on (ie. 'sleeping' with the woman)

[robbalvey]

Pong

[MonkeyPants]

I remember playing some lunar lander game on a PET computer in 1980. On an Apple IIe, there was Lode Runner & Droll. The best old school game I played was Ultima IV. A friend had it, and we were over there everyday for like a year playing ONE game!

[Erik Johnson]

The first video game I ever played was back in the late 70s called, Sea Wolf. Then came Space Invaders.

[Joe Cool]

This Donald Duck game and Math Blaster. I remeber I had this one game that came with our computer and it was the ghetto version of the Oregan Trail but it was the Yukon Trail.

[Teddymonster]

Mine was Wolfenstein 3D. My dad got me my first PC when I was five. I had several educational programs on it...along with this game. Killing Nazis was always a good time for little Ted. :shock:

[ShoubraStreet74]

Might be interesting to know that alot of these old games are now abandonware and are available for fre download at http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/list/