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30th Mar 2014 at 8:36 PM
Last edited by sugarbeet : 30th Mar 2014 at
8:46 PM.
I love the breadth of answers in this thread, everything from Pong consoles to Playstation.
My very first game was probably Pac-man. The bar in my old hometown had a tabletop Pac-man console, and after my traditional cherry Coke the bartender would give me and his little boy some quarters so we could go play while he and my Dad talked about whatever it was they talked about after the rugrats were out of earshot.
My first game at home is a little harder to remember. We got an IBM when I was four that came with a Software of the Month Club membership, and we had funky shareware games out the wazoo, some bargain-bin Broderbund games like Animal Quest (I only played as a grizzly bear and a killer whale; I ain't about that prey animal life) and Hugo's House of Horrors, along with some Sierra adventure games that were fascinating but way too hard for me. I remember playing a lot of Sierra Hoyle Card Games, too, where you could play cards against characters from other Sierra games, which was a strange concept. Play poker with King Graham, Roger Wilco, and Leisure Suit Larry? Why not, I guess?
Man, now I really want to track down some of these to see if they hold up to my memories of them.