[blueoceans]

Oh man. I'm pretty sure the console was the Sega Master System. I'm not sure though. It was kind of squarish and bulky and had a fun feature I haven't seen in a console since; it had two ready made games INSIDE the console, that you could play if you turned the thing on without a cartridge stuck in. One was a shooting gallery type thingy, with various animals running about, that you had to shoot with the light pistol whatchamacallit and a motorcycle racing game.

So either one of those. I'm not sure which.

sounds like it was the Sega Master System, and the games you are referring to would be Hang-On and Safari Hunt. Its interesting that you note that these games were built-in, because some versions of the console did feature these titles built into the console, later versions did not. The consoles that have the games built-in are uncommon in American markets.

source: http://en.wikipedia....a_master_system

[SimeSublime]

I still have a Sega Master System 2 with Alex Kidd built in.

[barend]

in an arcade: space invaders
on a console: some empire strikes back game
on a IBMC PC: police quest
on an amiga PC: the killing game show (i think)
on a mac PC: beyond dark castle
hand held: oil panic or donkey kong or greenhouse or something...

i played something on an old apple IIe, and a micro bee, spome text driven adventure games...

[Supes]

The first game I recall playing was on a Hanimex cartridge system. Not sure if this was the name by which some larger brand went by, but it was certainly before the Atari 2600 because I do recall the envy when friends talked about it.

The first games on this system were both Pong (or a variation of it) and a motor cycle jump game where you had to build up speed, but the bike ran across three levels on the scree. It started at the top and then went off the sceeen to the right, reappreared on the left one level down and then continued until you hit the jump on the bottom (3rd) level. You never really crashed, it was more about how much speed you could build up and then thus how far you could jump. Ahh the old dot matrix games...

[David-kyo]

Funny, my mum always begged me to let her play those games too. I wonder if she needed to vent a bit...

Cheers for having a mum who enjoys computer gaming instead of condemning it. Lucky sod.

[SimeSublime]

I remember once my grandmother was looking after my brother and I when we were kids. We were playing Lotus Turbo Challenge 2 on our old Amiga 2000. I had just beat him (which lets face it, wasn't a major feat as he probably wasn't old enough to go to school at this stage) but he continued to claim that he won. We got into an argument, and Grandma got fed up and bet she could beat us both. So we instantly stopped fighting and told her to proove it. So, we loaded the 2 player mode up. She had the good joystick. I had the bad one, and to make matters even harder for myself I was playing with the drift correction knobs instead of the joystick itself. I finished the track, she ran out of time before the first checkpoint. I still remember that rather fondly.

This post has been edited by SimeSublime: 28 February 2007 - 11:25 AM

[blueoceans]

Ahh the old dot matrix games...

dot matrix hasnt went away,..just improved considerably: Game Boy Advance

[looktothesky]

on a IBMC PC: police quest

Great game.

[Lefty]

I fondly remember "Mr. Doo's Castle" in the arcades of the 1980s, where you played as a clown with a giant hammer (always a bad idea) running through castles, knocking blocks out of the floor that the enemies would fall in. I never really saw that again on any home-console, more's the pity.

Similarly, "Kanga" & "Pengo", when it comes to southern hemisphere animals starring in videogames..