Fuck the Parkinson's, the Dr just gave me a reason to smoke MORE!

Richy

Richy

Frequently up in space with Bowie
Funnily enough I was playing Ludo earlier this afternoon with my brother and his daughter. I never learnt how to play backgammon. I've watched a few of my mates play it in a coffee shop in Amsterdam but I was too stoned to really pickup what was going on, also I was playing card at the time so I wasn't really paying that much attention. I should probably give it a try some time.

What game is that lwien?

t-dub said:
Yeah it was awesome. I remember our first LAN setup . . . it was over at a dudes house I was selling cars with. We had hacked together a few PC's from scratch . . . the cases were left wide open so we could work on them quickly, cigarette ash all over the guts with a splash of coffee here and there, never seemed to hurt anything I guess . . . cables everywhere . . .
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That reminds me of when one of my friends got his computer "upgraded" by a local guy in the village. I think he upped the cpu without doing anything to the cooling so after playing a game for a while the buzzer would start to beep and it would slow to a crawl. We used to have open up the side of the case and postion a desk fan so that it drew the hot air from inside the case out the window.
 
t-dub

t-dub

Vapor Sloth
Vicki said:
Dungeons and Dragons! :)
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I grew up throwing those dice and when the online version came out . . . I have crawled many a dungeon my friends . . . Here is Granthor taking a rest . . . :tup:

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RUDE BOY

RUDE BOY

Space is the Place
I don't know why but somehow I missed the whole video game thing . I do remember those little Ms pacman and trivia games that appeared on the corner of every Bar in the 80s but I never played 'em .

believe it or not I had a MFLB and VG before I even knew how to turn on a computer , got my first cell phone 3 months ago . I'm slow.

mvapes a good game of operation with the kids will do it , oppps she got the funnybone .
 
Bob Loblaw

Bob Loblaw

Astralnaut
i love hanging out here. you guys make me feel so young ;)

grew up w/ DOS and all the OG classics like pitfall, centipede, and space invaders.
developed a deep-seated hate for keyboard controls and was that classic Nintendo kid.
and as much as i loved mario and zelda, Metroid and T & C Surf won my heart

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as for board games,
i loved sorrry!


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Richy

Richy

Frequently up in space with Bowie
Is that World of Warcraft t-dub? I loved the first three Warcraft games but I couldn't really get into that one. The idea of having to pay every month really turned me off of it and it also seemed too much of a grind.

My first console was a Megadrive so you're not the only youngin' around here Bob.
 
lwien

lwien

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Richy said:
What game is that lwien?
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Which one? First pic was Parcheesi and the second one was Carroms. Those two were the most often played games when I was younger than 12, but what's really weird is that they are both games from India and I lived in a Jewish neighborhood without an Indian in sight. :shrug:

Richy said:
Is that World of Warcraft t-dub? I loved the first three Warcraft games but I couldn't really get into that one. The idea of having to pay every month really turned me off of it and it also seemed too much of a grind.
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Achhh........don't even bring up WoW. I got so addicted to that game that I had to give my computer to my sister for 3 weeks so I could detox. This was me right after I hit the delete button:

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Richy

Richy

Frequently up in space with Bowie
Thanks for the education lwien, I used to play a little bit of chess in my younger days but I was just kind of shuffling the pieces around the board trying to not let them get taken. I think the idea of strategy was lost on me back then.

I loves me a bit of Trivial Pursuit as well Vicki although my knowledge is pretty much limited to Films, TV and the Science type questions.
 
Enchantre

Enchantre

Oil Painter
When I got my very first PC, it was 1996, and it was loaded with DOS 5.

I played Gorilla, and Nibbles. Then, I discovered I could create batch files, and I skipped game playing and went right into programming.

For Parkinson's people, I would recommend the old Atari classic, Joust, which involves pressing a button with your thumb, as fast as you can, so the steed can fly. :)
 
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Tweek

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lol I think that was around the time I got mine...maybe a year earlier. My dad finally relented and bought the family a computer...we got some no name brand, with a keyboard, mouse and monitor for $1200. It was a special door crasher deal.

Only had DOS on it, but I eventually figured it all out, and after getting bored with DOS shell, nibbles and gorilla, installed Windows 3.1 and some games. It was a major event when I managed to squeeze a 1 gig hard drive in there. RAM must of been 256 mb? I can't recall...but it was pretty small.

I tell you one thing...it was a real pleasure having a word processor and eventually, a printer. Typing school reports and letters on a typewriter, although fun, was a pain in the ass. Cut and paste was a godsend lol
 
lwien

lwien

Well-Known Member
Tweek said:
lIt was a major event when I managed to squeeze a 1 gig hard drive in there. RAM must of been 256 mb? I can't recall...but it was pretty small.
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LOL. My first computer had a whopping 8MHz processor with 1MB of ram. No internal HD. Would only accept 800k discs........and it cost me a fracking $2600 bucks (which would equate to $5400 dollars in todays money). :doh:
 
satyrday

satyrday

Well-Known Member
I believe this was the first adventure game I played (a text adventure):

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Edit: I loaded it from cassette tape! Not disk like this one - was 1982 ...and no graphics! This image from a fancier updated version. It was on an Atari 400.

This looks more like the version I had.

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Enchantre

Enchantre

Oil Painter
When I moved up to Windows (3.1, then 95, 98, 98SE, NT, XP, 7. no, I never had ME), I had gotten a "graphic" game of LOTR. It annoyed the crap outta me, though I could imagine Leonard, Howard, Raj, & Sheldon having a weekend of it.

I also got a copy of MYST. I finally got all the cheat codes so I could "solve" it and see what all the hubbub was about. Yeah, I don't get it.

I did some time as a moderator in an IRC community. I also did a voice-over for an IRC client. Turned out that using that chat client was the first time my hubby heard my voice!

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My first computer...
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I can't say how many hours I spent playing Buck Rogers!!
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That was the ADAM system, right? I wanted one!
 
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