Defenders of the Crown, it was an awesome conquest game with jousting tournaments.
One of the best puzzle games ever made was Castle of Doctor Creep.
Anyone remember the Coleco Vision Adam, a computer, printer and monitor system, with the major design flaw that the power switch for the whole system was on the Printer. So if the Printer died you couldn't fire up your machine.
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Ya that's it! Game was bloody epic. Many a fist fight between my brother and I originated inside that game.
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I started with an Amiga 500. It was amazing. Favourite games were Earl Weaver Baseball, Wayne Gretzky Hockey, Mean 18 (golf) and The Bard's Tale. I wasted oh, so many hours on that computer. Also where I first started programming (QBasic, but it still counts).
Next up was a 486/33 from Dell. I remember shopping for a "multimedia kit" to get a CD-ROM drive and speakers for it. Front Page Sports Football was probably the most used game on that system, though Hardball was a close second.
Then onto Windows 3.1, 95, ME, XP, Vista, 8 and finally 10.
I think my parents still have the Amiga in a box somewhere with all of my games for it. If I wasn't living in a small condo I'd set it up again and see if it's still working. Someday...
First computer I remember having was an old IBM. Had a huge 640k of RAM and a 20 MB hard drive. Had enough computing power to run this gem of a game though:
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The earliest games I can remember the title of were Spy Hunter for C64 and Castle Adventure, an ASCII based game for my parents IBM ps2.
Before that we had some sort of volcano escape game that was half informative and half actual game. It was on a cassette tape for the C64 (before we bought a disk drive). Can't remember the name though....
Anyone who had a X-86 PC played the first leisure suit Larry. OF course we kept our room doors closed because it was considered racy for its time.
Probably one of the funniest games ever made, and was part of the first generation of games that made the transition from the text based adventure game to a text + graphics.
At one time the Sierra Online Studios was the top game producer in the PC market. With the Leisure Suit Larry, Kings Quest, Space Quest and the really outstanding Police Quest (I kept pulling my gun and shooting the chief ending the game)
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You're right - Sierra led the way in the transition from text to graphic based adventure games. After the Quest series, they came out with Gabriel Knight which is a timeless classic. Dark, moody, and really good story telling.
I think LucasArts took the graphic adventure game to the next level. Day of the Tentacle still stands up today - the quirky, comedic puzzles and really good use of time travel set it apart.
Sam and Max is in the same league.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis was fantastic too, though suffered I think from a couple long maze-based puzzles.
Others like The Dig, Grim Fandango, and Full Throttle are also favorites. I was hoping that Disney's purchase of LucasArts would revive the franchise, but they only bought it to shut it down, it seems. Very sad day.
My first computer that I bought was a PowerMac G3.
People think Apple's expensive today? The 17" Apple Studio Display was $800 bucks. I added a 4x4x16 external FireWire CD burner for antother $500 bucks.
So I took it out of the box wiped it down plugged it in and after 20 years it fired up like nothing. I tried loading some disks but it is failing, google tells me I need to clean the head with some rubbing alcohol. Found a bunch of classics though already listed in here, including the original manual.
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