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Perturabo -> RE: How many of you started with...... (5/8/2014 4:24:58 AM)
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I think I started with Arcades. Then C-64. Or maybe first C-64, then arcades.
Damn, I remember the times of going to computer market at weekends, searching for cassettes. There were a few traders that would have tens of cassettes with rips of 10-20 games each.
This way I got Commando, Blizzard! Part I: Commando Libya, Gunship, F-19 Stealth Fighter, Army Moves, Legions of Death, Laser Squad, Twin Tigers, Ikari Warriors, Strike Fleet, Up Periscope, Tomahawk, Druid II, Eagles Nest, Great Escape, Fighter Bomber, Last Ninja, Desert Fox, Green Berets, Hostages and similar games. Often they had only one level.
I think it was in 1991 because I had an issue magazine called Computer Studio published in that year. I've read instructions for Gunship, F-19 Stealth Figher, Jump Jet, Tomahawk in it. Many gaming magazines here started as a source of instructions for pirated games, because up to 1993 there weren't IP laws.
The only originals available for C64 were horrible games from Zeppelin Games and similar. There was literally a single original flight simulation for C64 available called Spitfire '40 which got 0/5 in CGW. Oh there was also a strategy game called Bismarck which had "simulation" torpedo dropping sequences. It got 1,5/5 in CGW.
Then there was the horror called Gunboat. By the way for some reason some shooters like Operation Hormuz and Gunboat were marketed as sims D: .
There were a few good originals like Midnight Resistance or The Spy Who Loved Me.
I remember there was a computer store near with cartridges and game instructions. I remember buying an instruction for Super Huey and getting very excited about it but discovering that the cassette with it was badly recorded.
I think I had C64 from 1990 to 1996. I remember that I had a single issue of Top Secret magazine from 1995 and that I was fascinated by a review of Hero Quest for c64 but I couldn't find it in any store.
After I got my own PC and internet around 2008, I managed to buy original Gunship, Laser Squad, Project Stealth Fighter, Hero Quest and Space Crusade.
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