Writer's Block: Beep, Bop, Boop

[mdlbear]

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Spacewar, on the PDP-6 at the Stanford AI lab. Yeah, I liked it a lot.

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[judifilksign.livejournal.com]

Pong, at Sears while I was waiting for my folks to buy back-to-school clothes for my sister. I thought it was fun. My parents were nonplussed.

[mdlbear]

*chuckles* Go ahead, make me feel ancient!

I remember when the original arcade version of Pong came out; it was installed in the Stanford coffeehouse next to the Galaxy Game, a PDP-11 port of Spacewar. I was in grad school.

[patoadam]

Yes, my first was the Galaxy Game at the Stanford coffeehouse. Thanks for reminding me of the name.

[the-s-guy.livejournal.com]

Whew. Well, assuming dedicated games systems count, probably something like Space Invaders or similar-era arcade machines when every corner shop had them, or maybe one of the Game & Watch LCD hand-held jobbies.

On an actual general computing system... there was a kind of monochrome first-person-perspective 3D airhockey game on a parents' friends' original Mac I played around... 25? more? years ago.

I guess my very earliest electronic-game experience would have been sometimes around the late 70s, early 80s. I didn't gain access to general computing platforms until the early-to-mid-80s, though.

[mdlbear]

I remember that airhockey game, from the Mac II. Forget the name of it, though.