My memories of 1985

[bee_york]

I always tell people the first gaming console I ever played was Commodore-64. I recently found out this is not true...it was the Commodore VIC-20. (This explains a lot though.) So the first gaming console I ever got into was Commodore VIC-20, followed closely by ColecoVision.

What were yours? What were the first *console* games you played?

The earliest console games I ever got into were Space Invaders (duh), along with a space shooter called Gorf. Ah, Gorf...the memories...
Then there was Mr. Do. Oh gods, do NOT get me started on Mr. Do. I. WAS. OBSESSED. OMG.
I was reaaallllyyy into Ms. Pac-Man at the time, but I'm more interested in hearing people's experiences with console games, not arcade games. :)

Comments

[dzuunmod.livejournal.com]

INTELLIVISION. BOMB SQUAD.

But you knew that. :p

I also played a lot of "Skiing" on the Intellivision.

[dzuunmod.livejournal.com]

Did you ever really play PC games?

[rilms.livejournal.com]

Console games would have to be Mario on NES. I later found an Atari, but that was after '93.

But, I use to play games on an old Apple II...yay for big floppy disks!

[sabatoa.livejournal.com]

I believe it was Atari 2600 or something like that. It wasn't mine, it was a friend's. Asteroids, Pitfall and Joust.

The first PC game that I've ever played was Leisure Suit Larry. I remember that it was a "bad" game and that you had to answer quiz questions to prove that you were an adult before you could play.

The first console system I owned was the NES.

[dzuunmod.livejournal.com]

I remember LSL too. My father got a bootlegged copy from some friend of his, and played it once and then forgot about it. But, he would answer the questions for me and let me play, always saying before he walked off, "Josh, if you get to any dirty parts, you stop playing and come tell me, ok?"

Also, one of my babysitters would play it and actually would get to the dirty parts, and she totally let me watch over her shoulder.

Haha.

[sabatoa.livejournal.com]

All I remember is getting into a cab and not knowing where to go and being in some bathroom with a bum laying on the ground. If you walked into him he complained about stepping on his balls.

haha

So, was this sitter hot?

[dzuunmod.livejournal.com]

See, the thing I remember about that opening scene in the game is that if you went into the washroom and then came back out without telling the computer to "look at shoes", the barflies then would heckle you about "Hey dork, you have toilet paper stuck to your shoe!"

The key to getting past that bar scene was to read the graffiti on the bathroom walls - some of it contained a password that you could use to get into a "secret" room in the bar.

So, was this sitter hot?

Kinda, yeah. Not ugly, anyway! She became a jazz singer and somewhere out there floating around on the web is an album cover where she's topless with someone else's hands covering her up. I'll try and find it when I get home. :p

[sabatoa.livejournal.com]

niiiice, can't wait to see it.

I was too damned young and I was watching a friend play rather than trying to figure it out myself. boo.

[rayefrenzy.livejournal.com]

when i was born my household had 2 consoles. commodore 16 (the poor mans 64) and an NES. One of my first vivid memories is of finally jumping over the first goomba in SMB. I also remember loving Jack Attack for the 16.

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

Haha! Yes, I remember, and love, that conversation we had. ;) I even told Mike about it! Bomb Squad was featured on an episode of Angry Video Game Nerd (I think that's when I told Mike about your memories), and between what you told me and what was happening on the screen and AVGN ranting, I was laughing so hard I was crying.

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

I've played them briefly at Tekt's place. When I was little, I was REALLY into Willy Beamish and a Simpsons game (can't remember the title) that I used to play at a friend's house.

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

Mario was your first?! Awww. <3


And ommggg floppy disks. Fuck yeah.

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

NICE. And omg Leisure Suit Larry. My friend and I played that when we were in....grade 6, I think? We felt pretty hardcore. ;p Ah, being 12!

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

Haha, I remember you telling me this!

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of Commodore 16 before. That's awesome.

[placidian.livejournal.com]

For a while, there was a space invaders game in my parents' restaurant (in the bar area). I played it a few times, but my brother was ADDICTED. (my dad kept a jar of quarters behind the bar to feed the jukebox, and my brother snagged the coins for the game, lol.)

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

NICE!
What kind of restaurant did your parents have?

[placidian.livejournal.com]

It was not an 'upscale' kind of place, but the food (steaks, fish, veal, etc.) was excellent, with a very good reputation.

Dad bought the restaurant in 1976 and they sold it in 1988. All of the subsequent owners kept the name (Jimmy's).
(the last ten years or so, it has been run by a Bosnian family, and they do a mostly Italian cuisine. very yummy food, I always eat there on my trips home, yay)
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Not sure if you listened to her music, but I just found out yesterday that the J-pop artist bice (www.last.fm/music/bice) died of a heart attack in late July. Only 38 years old, so sad. T_T

[bee-york.livejournal.com]

HOLY SHIT, SHE DIED?!

I was never a big fan, but I have some of her songs. There's one of hers I particularly like...I forget the name...Lazy Trip? Anyway. I can't believe she's dead. That is AWFUL.
Thirty-eight years old...wtf wtf wtf. A heart attack, of all things? I wonder if she had heart problems, because that sounds so weird to me...

Omg, what sad news. Thanks for the heads-up. ;_;

RIP bice!!! :(

[xipetotec.livejournal.com]

That's a tough one. I *think* mine is the Atari 2600. Pretty sure I did not play my friend's Commodore 64 before that and I know I got my first PC after that. I also had a Timex-Sinclair, which I wouldn't say counts as a console, but even that I think I got later than the Atari.