80's computer/console memories

[Norm]

Yes, that's the one. Thank you.

[Roy]

First computer I had was a hand-me-down Spectrum ZX. I was about 8 years old, so 1989.
I can remember playing Space Invaders and another called Attic Attack.
Yes, I still play games (on an Xbox console) - but mostly when ill in bed.

[clibinarium]

Yes, that's the one. Thank you.

I'll give it a go tonight if that's OK with you? (I won't if its not).

Post that link got me thinking. I tend to think games this old should be freely available as a sort of historical record, though there has been some redaction of stuff recently as mobile gaming has brought simple games back into fashion. Being strict, this is piracy as much as with new games, though I think its a sort of spectrum of declining naughtiness as you go further back in technology. It doesn't trouble me if its a game I owned before (having already paid in a sense), its maybe not so clear if its a classic I missed but can play now.
I wonder as a creator of the original software (and bumping into one is a first for me), how do you view the availability of something you created; happy people can still play it, or not happy that its being mooched?

[clibinarium]

1. What was the first game you remember seeing/playing?
2. What was the first computer/console you used?
3. Do you still play games or did you leave them behind in childhood?

https://youtu.be/7IFtV7tdSvE

I just spotted the Lunar Jetman video doesn't make much sense without my answers as I must have removed them when trying to embed the video. To clear that up
1. Lunar Jetman
2. ZX Spectrum 48K+
3. Still playing

[Nosher]

1. What was the first game you remember seeing/playing? Asteroids/Defender/Missile Command

2. What was the first computer/console you used? Very first Spectrum -but never owned it. Used to drop into a computer shop on way home from school with mates. I have NEVER owned a console, don't intend to start now and have always found wargames on consoles and PC'S sadly lacking

3. Do you still play games or did you leave them behind in childhood? Firmly left behind in adolescence.

[Leon]

When I was really young (4 or 5 maybe?) we had some kind of 'Grandstand' console with Des Lynam on the box.  I can't remember what it did.

After that it was quite a few years until we got an Archimedes computer which played a number of early games like Space Invaders, etc. 

Once I hit my teens I've bought myself various consoles, Playstation, Playstation 2, now an Xbox.  I only play a handful of games though, as I don't have time for much more.

[Orcs]

First computer I had was a hand-me-down Spectrum ZX. I was about 8 years old, so 1989.
I can remember playing Space Invaders and another called Attic Attack.
Yes, I still play games (on an Xbox console) - but mostly when ill in bed.

I started work the year you were born - Makes me feel old

[d_Guy]

I started work the year you were born - Makes me feel old

Gulp! And I had already been married a dozen years.

[Ithoriel]

1989. I was 36 ... I had a wife, a job, a large flat in a nice neighbourhood and a son! Where'd the time go?

[Techno]

1989. I was 36 ...

Same here......And I was working for that firm that shall not be named.......You're right, Mike.......Where DOES the time go ?

Cheers - Phil

[Orcs]

1989. I was 36 ... I had a wife, a job, a large flat in a nice neighbourhood and a son! Where'd the time go?

Same here......And I was working for that firm that shall not be named.......You're right, Mike.......Where DOES the time go ?

Cheers - Phil

Phil I think you misread Ithoriel's message.  He said he was 36 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

I was 13! 

[Norm]

Clibinarium - thanks for asking, yes it is fine for people to play and hopefully enjoy :-).

[toxicpixie]

In 1989 I was fifteen and playing a lot of games from the Company Who Shall Not Be Mentioned, along with a lot of games from every other producer our limited money and access could get hold of

Ahhhh, to be so time rich again! Preferably with more money...

Computer memories - I well remember going through about five joysticks and three "keyboards" on the ZX81 playing Dailey Thompsons Decathalon. That was a lot of frenzied action

[Last Hussar]

Daley Thompsons decathalon was Speccy, surely.

3d Monster Maze - now that was a ZX81 game of beauty.  Sometimes letting the T-rex catch you just so you could watch it come towards you

[toxicpixie]

Ah yes, now I check it's the ZX Spectrum not the 81