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Posted: Sun Dec 02, 2007 6:01 pm
by gordon
Dragon's Lair. The cassette version. *sigh*

Also: The Prince, a Firebird budget game. It was so bad I took it back and exchanged it for Thrust. Which was rather good.

After that, it was that Five Star compilation, which had Spindizzy on it.

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:37 am
by monkey010101
Dragons Lair was a very frustrating experience I found. In both loading and playing.

The Five Star Compilation was great though if iirc. Struggling to remember what else was on there though. Wasn't Scarabeaus on that?

Posted: Mon Dec 03, 2007 9:51 am
by gordon
Yep. Spindizzy, Scarabaeus, Batalyx, Zoids and Equinox. I persevered with Zoids because of the music, and Equinox was fine once you worked out what to do (the instructions were crap).

Scarabaeus and Spindizzy were ace, though.

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 9:55 am
by Ant
gordon wrote:I persevered with Zoids because of the music...
I wanted to like Zoids, really. It just looked so cool and the music was amazing ... but the difficulty ... Arrgh! Rage building just thinking about it!

Posted: Tue Dec 04, 2007 10:56 am
by gordon
Ayuh. You'll get no argument from me.

Posted: Wed Dec 05, 2007 3:49 pm
by monkey010101
I remember wanting to like Zoids and not really getting it, then pretending that I did get it so not to look stupid to my friends.

Equinox rings a bell. I'll have to look that up.
Scarabaeus was excellent, although I tried to play it the other day and could for the life of me remember what you had to do!

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 4:44 pm
by bent
My first was Skramble (guess it was spelled like that) on VIC-20. Got it before I got my ViC-20 computer in -83. It was a great game :-)

Posted: Fri Feb 29, 2008 6:03 pm
by Iain
:) I bought some games before I even got my C128 as well, bit mad really but at least I could play them on my mate's C64 and I kept a couple unopened to play on Christmas day when I actually got my C128 (though it was DOA! :`-( )

first game

Posted: Tue May 13, 2008 10:36 am
by omega120
I think my first game I bought was Hunchback still like to dabble with it today a real classic. :D

Posted: Sun Dec 07, 2008 9:58 pm
by Auntie Slag
Yeah, Hunchback II for me.

Followed by Super Cycle and Bruce Lee I think. And David Crane's Decathlon (what a joystick breaker), quite possibly started me on the road to sadism.

Great days.

Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2009 3:25 pm
by monkey010101
Other early games were,

Dancing Monster
Archon
Quo Vardis (Did anyone ever win the prize?)
Karateka
Indiana Jones in the Lost KIngdom
Valhalla

Posted: Mon Jun 28, 2010 2:45 am
by luzagodom
My first game is Super Marry

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 7:01 pm
by Lloyd Mangram
luzagodom wrote:My first game is Super Marry
Yes, but your brain is divorced.

Posted: Wed Jun 30, 2010 11:14 pm
by Iain
Hey Lloyd, stop insulting our new "users". There's not too many of them these days! ;-)

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2010 12:41 pm
by Professor Brian Strain
Yeah, insult the old users like you usually do ;)