Early computer games

Wibbles

Who remembers when "Doom" was available on Floppy disk ?

I used to play it in 1995 ish on a MONO screened laptop - it ran the whole game from a 1.4Mb single floppy disk !!

Mind you - the Laptop only had a 240Mb hard disk with 1Mb RAM !

Ross1975

I never played Doom back in the day, but I remember the floppy disks, I had an Atari ST.

I also remember the older bigger floppy disks which were actually floppy, and loading games from cassette.

I did play Doom and Doom 2 on the PS3, and Doom 3 on the original Xbox around a year ago, I like all of them.

Wibbles

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1028992#Comment_1028992

Zip disks?

Ross1975

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1029004#Comment_1029004

No, they're 5¼-inch disks, here's a pic:

honeyhoney

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/134650/early-computer-games

… me on PC 386 4MB RAM 🤣 in 1993

Ranald

Head Over Heels on the Amstrad PCW 256K. The machine had a green monitor!

In the 1980s, my best pal, his dad was an academic at the university, he had an office (broom cupboard) with said Amstrad in it. I loved it.

I was just remarking the other day, that this pal's dad was talking about climate change then, and it all sounded so fanciful.

He drove a VW Polo Formel E. This was decades before other cars had the start/stop feature when the car was stationary. It even told you when to change gear (3 forward gears and the E overdrive).

Gloucester_Lad

The first video game I ever played was Lemmings in 1995 at an after-school computer club, running on a PC using a 3½-inch floppy disk.

Viran007

I remember the old good Doom. I had it on pc processor either

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/134650/early-computer-games

@I remember the old Doom but i remember I had it 3.5 disks. On a 8086 or 8088 or 286 processor laptop. I think the first Doom I played as a kid but new Dooms have better graphics but not the same when you play them. What you think?

Amberpearl

I remember playing pack man via the tv

Martinp

Does anybody remember whizkids on tv in the early 80s, got me into computers big time😊

Ranald

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1029105#Comment_1029105

It was followed by Knight Rider lol.

egister

Zork (PDP-11)

ZX Spectrum games, Arkanoid…. (MSX), Prince of Persia, Battle of Britain…(DOS)

Wibbles

https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1029584#Comment_1029584

I was more C64 - It was higher spec and the graphics were better and less boxy