World's most popular computer is 30 years old.

[Tiberius]

When I was a kid I had an Apple ][e that my mum got from work. It was awesome. I loved Arcticfox, best game ever. I could make that tank dance. Also played dig dug, but once I showed my mum how it could play solitaire I could never get enough time on it.

 

[Candlelight]

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Hehehe.

Loved Wizard of Wor, played it for years and years.

I remember getting the Commodore 64 for Christmas one year, along with 5 cartridge games, then later got the tape drive with heaps of games, and finally upgraded to a 5.25" disc drive.

Pity the entire system went into the trash in the late nineties but it wasn't behaving itself towards the end, plus I had a pentium computer by then packed with heaps of DOS games.

I remember other games: Bubble Bobble, Dig Dug, Ollo, Calvin, Robocop, Blue Thunder and a few others. One of my favourites was 1942, which I played for hours on end.

 

[RyanKCR]

My brother and I had one. We used it for games. Many games. We had a word processer on it but never used it. One of the games I had I couldn't figure out how to play and wanted to so bad: Star Trek Kobyashi Maru.

 

[gturner]

I had a VIC-20 with an 8K memory expansion and the assembly language cartridge. My dad later bought a C64. By then I'd been programming the VIC-20, TI-994A, Atari 800, TRS-80, and ended up with a Kaypro-II with a Z-80, 64K, and the CP/M operating system.

Anyway, perhaps one of these C64 emulators would be fun to investigate.
http://www.zzap64.co.uk/c64/c64emulators.html

 

[LitmusDragon]

I had a Commodore 64, and then later, an Amiga. I also just used it for games. Some of my favorites were Legacy of the Ancients, the Ultimas (I only had 3 and 5), the old SSI Dungeons and Dragons "Gold Box" games like Pool of Radiance, Knight Games, Mr. Robot and his Robot Factory, Adventure Construction Set, Ms Pac Man, Spelunker, Forbidden Forest, Doriath, probably lots more I'm forgetting.

Also Ghostbusters.

This too, Ghostbusters was awesome. I'm not sure if I ever beat it. I wasn't particularly focused back then.

 

[Trekker4747]

The "IBM/PC" version of Ghostbusters was perhaps the best version of the game. (Far better than the NES or "console version".) I played that many, many times as a kid and my parents even reversed a computer purchase/upgrade when the newer computer couldn't run it. (A later computer upgrade, however, could.) Wish I could find a ROM of that computer version of that game, it'd be "fun" to play it now.

 

[Redfern]

I inherited one from a younger cousin who was going to college. I was taking courses at a local tech school and I used it as a word processor, composing term papers and related materials. It DID help me ace those classes, so I am pleased, but that bloody setup was certainly not WYSIWYG. Having a screen limited to 80 columns max, I never knew how my documents would print. Thankfully, the instructor was not concerned so much with appearance as content.

Neat machine, in certain ways, actually ahead of the curve, but it suffered a deadly design flaw, for the computer, that is. A "port" was positioned right next to the power switch. One time when I booted the keyboard housed process, a static charge bridged between my finger and that port where there were several exposed leads. The "spark" traveled to the motherboard and fried the main chips! Alas, since IBM and Apple making headway into the personal computing fields, I could not find anyone to possibly repair it That was the end of that handy lil' box.

Sincerely,

Bill

 

[MacLeod]

I played Summer Olympics! Also Ghostbusters.

I still remember my first word processor: PaperClip.

Then came the love of my life (up to that point): GEOS. Next best thing to having a Mac.

Games like the Olympics, where button bashing games if I recall correctly.

 

[Brolan]

I remember it as part of the "Big Three", C64, Apple II, and TRS-80. It seemed like any family that had the money for a computer had one of these.

 

[Unicron]

We never had the C64 when I was growing up, but we had one of it's competitors.

Anyone else here remember the TI99-4A and it's tape drive backup?

I still have mine, though I no longer have the tape component with it. The tape player eventually died. The TI-99 was always sort of an oddball system, in a good sort of way, having some strange games.