childhood games

[kale99]

what is your first child hood video game which you get addicted to and refuse to go to school just to play that awesome game.

 

[N6MAA10816]

Not exactly in my 'childhood' but the first game I got hooked on was 'Asteroids'....there was an Arcade machine
in a shopping precinct and used to go 5-6 miles out my way to play it while the wife did the shopping! Happy Days!

 

[Surfinjo]

Again, long past childhood, but one of the first I couldn't put down as Xor.

I spawned a huge number of clones, some of which were brilliant. But I still have a copy of Xor.

 

[Aster321]

Not that long ago, but the first game that made me lose any sense of time was the Ratchet and Clank series on ps2^^

 

[Hooplah]

I wasn't a child when video games were invented...How about Pickup Sticks?

 

[kilvenny]

Another too old child here - Subbuteo - table top football game where you had to flick the players to the ball with your index finger. Fantastically skillful game. Elite/Lords of Midnight for video games but I was moving into my twenties by then.

 

[deMangler]

I used to go to school to play computer games, But it would have been games like Star Trek or Hamurabi.
Actually I was proper addicted to that Star Trek game. Did used to like text adventures and some acornsoft games, like Defender. Apart from that I think it was probably Elite that got me the most when it came out. Got a home computer pretty much just to play that.