Comments on: From Pong To Warcraft http://steveharmon.com/from-pong-to-warcraft/ Internet veteran Wed, 26 May 2010 16:25:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Michael Parekh http://steveharmon.com/from-pong-to-warcraft/comment-page-1/#comment-43 Michael Parekh Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:07:05 +0000 http://steveharmon.com/?p=118#comment-43 Pong too Steve :) Pong too Steve :)

]]> By: Jeff Pulver http://steveharmon.com/from-pong-to-warcraft/comment-page-1/#comment-42 Jeff Pulver Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:01:45 +0000 http://steveharmon.com/?p=118#comment-42 the first came was my friends Altair 8080. I think that was before the TRS80 games and that handheld. Pong comes to mind also. the first came was my friends Altair 8080. I think that was before the TRS80 games and that handheld. Pong comes to mind also.

]]> By: Steve Jurvetson http://steveharmon.com/from-pong-to-warcraft/comment-page-1/#comment-41 Steve Jurvetson Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:56:07 +0000 http://steveharmon.com/?p=118#comment-41 My first computer game was battleship on a Texas Instruments SR-52 programmable calculator with red LED display. It took a long time to program.... as I did not have crackberry thumbs yet! 1976: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.thocp.net%2Fhardware%2Fpictures%2Fcalculators%2Fti_sr52.gif Most of my early games were on the Apple ][ (breakout, asteroids, etc.) in 1979 I wrote a number of graphics games for the Apple ][ starting in 1978 (Mastermind, a form of Adventure that finally ate up all 48K of expanded memory, which felt like an accomplishment =) The first multiplayer game I remember really liking was Dark Forest (a bit like Risk). P.S. Yes, Trash-80 is still just that. A bad digression on the path to progress. My first computer game was battleship on a Texas Instruments SR-52 programmable calculator with red LED display. It took a long time to program…. as I did not have crackberry thumbs yet!
1976: http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.thocp.net%2Fhardware%2Fpictures%2Fcalculators%2Fti_sr52.gif

Most of my early games were on the Apple ][ (breakout, asteroids, etc.) in 1979

I wrote a number of graphics games for the Apple ][ starting in 1978 (Mastermind, a form of Adventure that finally ate up all 48K of expanded memory, which felt like an accomplishment =)

The first multiplayer game I remember really liking was Dark Forest (a bit like Risk).

P.S. Yes, Trash-80 is still just that. A bad digression on the path to progress.

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