The very first load you made... :D

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The very first load you made... :D

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So this has probably been done to death (perhaps). But...

What was the very first thing you loaded into your first home computer?

My Mum & Dad bought a 48K ZX Spectrum for me Christmas 1983. It was supposed to be a Christmas present but my Dad decided to have a play with it before it was wrapped up for Santa that year. His mate at work had lent him a bunch of tapes to try out. Except he didn't know what he was doing and so he called me in. To be fair I was a nipper and I'd not really used PCs much at that point either but I was techie bent back then and liked poking around with electronics and stuff so between us we got it all hooked up and loaded in PSSST from Ultimate Play The Game. It was fantastic. Arcade quality graphics lighting up the TVs phosphors. It was a revelation. What a machine.... literally life changing at that point for me. :)

Of course I had to act all surprised on the big day as I loaded Manic Miner up to show a room full of family what this electronic gizmo that plugged into the TV could do! :) Never really got on with my Dad most of our lives really. Many differences of opinion and other things. He did however do an awesome thing for me at that point. He gave me the gift of a computer. My life has never been the same since. Bless him. No longer with me but that memory will stay with me. :)
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Easy : the Psion "Horizon" demo tape ...
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gilesgoat wrote:Easy : the Psion "Horizon" demo tape ...
:D Foxes and Hounds Oh man... that tape.... So did you end up just playing Thro' the Wall?!

It was actually a really good introduction to computing... worked out what a Bubble Sort was from that.. :D

EDIT : It was Evolution I was thinking of and it was Foxes and Rabbits.. :D
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Mastertronic's 3D Maze for the VIC-20 for me. http://www.retrogear.co.uk/software/com ... -maze.html

I'd actually had the machine for a month before that but got it without a datasette so I was just playing cartridge games which don't really get loaded in the same way.
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First... homemade programs but the First Game was Space Action (for C64).

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Oof...can't remember exactly, but the earliest game I remember playing on a computer at home was 3D Monster Maze on my Dad's ZX-81

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Blue Meanies was the first thing I could actually "load". Never had a tape interface for the microtan as I had the cheap version of the TANEX board (very cheap, the whole ting was given to me)
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tufty wrote:Blue Meanies was the first thing I could actually "load". Never had a tape interface for the microtan as I had the cheap version of the TANEX board (very cheap, the whole ting was given to me)
I was thinking I had no clue, but, thank you, it probably will have been Blue Meanies on the Vic for me too but could have been Blitz.

I have a feeling BM caused a lot of angst as my Vic came with a 3.5k RAM pack and it didn't work with this in. The problem being we didn't know the pack was installed as it was a preinstalled bare circuit board plugged into the cartridge slot and didn't stick out the back of the computer.

So not only did we have the issue of contacting the company who supplied it about the missing pack, we couldn't work out why things weren't working either...
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WiteWulf wrote:Oof...can't remember exactly, but the earliest game I remember playing on a computer at home was 3D Monster Maze on my Dad's ZX-81

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I honestly can't remember. Videogames have been a huge part of my life yet its so very odd I can't remember what that first game I loaded myself (as opposed to watching someone do it) was. My first computer was a ViC-20 but for the life of me I can't remember the game (and it would have been a game because, come on, what else are computers for eh?).
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Arcadia 64.

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I am ashamed to say Crazy Kong from Interceptor (really really sorry Jeff)
It was totally unplayable.

I learnt my lesson with them after that.
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Johnny Reb from Lothlorien on the C64.

One of the two other tapes I got that day was Time Lords from Level 9. Got the adventure bug from public domain stuff on the PET at summer school. Oh Medusa...
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MattyP wrote:So this has probably been done to death (perhaps). But...

What was the very first thing you loaded into your first home computer?
Our first home computer was a Spectravideo SVI-728.
I think it came with a bundle of 10 not very interesting games. Frogger could have been one of them.

The first game that really hooked me was Chuckie Egg.
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Imagine's Zip Zap for me on my Speccy :)
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