What was your favourite vintage computer?

If like me, you have loved computers from a young age, then you may have fond memories of the old hardware that we all used back in the day, I was born in 1977 so by the time I was walking the video game industry was booming, just before it went into a depression. But just what is your favourite computer? What was your first memory of using a computer and indeed what was your first game you ever played? I bet most of you could remember, especially if you were a geek like me.

When I was 5 I asked for my first computer, understandably my parents got the cheapest thing they could get my hands on and my sister worked in curry’s, so I ended up with a commodore 16 from the bargain basement for about £30.00

I was amazed by this machine, it was rubbish, even back then, but I still loved it and loved typing away gibberish just because I could see it appearing onscreen. Another thing I loved was sitting there waiting for a game to load, the games all came on tapes and you had to wait an hour for a game to load up and most of the time they didn’t lead up anyway, but you still sat there waiting to play the game you were dying to play for the last 3 hours.

Which brings me to the next question, what was the first game you played? I can remember mine because it was on the commodore 16. It was called “punch”. You played punch trying to save Judy from a crocodile (I cannot remember the crocs name) you did this by running and jumping over obstacles and hitting enemies over the head with a club until you saved Judy. I wish I could say that my first game was a better known, glamorous game from the 80’s but unfortunately this wasn’t the case.

There were many other consoles and computers around at the time, I work for an IT support company based in central London and we often sit around chatting about the good old days of videogames. For some people their first console was an Atari 2600, for others it was a NES, some people even played on the old Atari “woody” console from the 70’s while some of the younger staff played on a master system or a Mega drive for the first time.

So just what was your first system? Think long and hard and I bet you will remember!!

As for games, this was a more tricky subject, I thought people would remember but they didn’t to be honest, the most obvious answer from a lot of people was “space Invaders” but I think a lot of the time it was because that was the first game they thought of.

I intend to produce quite a lot of blog entries about this subject as it is close to my heart, please give me some feedback on the games you remember playing so I can use these as examples in further posts.

BACK TO PLAYING PACMAN NOW!!

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IT Support Central London based company where I work (suppose to work) many a long conversastion is had about our past and the games we used to play :)