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So, I got the Bard's Tale new game - the one from last year that was supposed to be snarky and stuff. for $3.99. Good game, overall.

I was looking it over last night and saw a label that said, "Comes with the original three Bard's Tale Games!"

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HolyCrapOhMyGoshIHopeItsTrue!

It was! So I'm borrowing a pad of graph paper from work and heading into the dungeons, old-school style!

I'm really excited, I can't wait to play. :D
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Sweetness. What a deal you picked up!
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Ah they old days of having to draw your own dungeon maps...I think the graph paper industry collapsed when they started including in-game maps.
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Heh. Cool. We had a look at the Xbox version just last week (have to wait for my mate to come visit again in a few months before we finish it though...he has to watch it too), but it didn't come with those games in that rendition.

Might have to have a look at the PC version...

The Bard's Tale was one of the first ever computer games I played. Showing my age, eh?
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I think Prince of Persia was my first game... memories... and some other puzzle game, that to the best of my recollection, involved moving trees and rocks in a maze, and the whole thing had something to do with Einstein...
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First for me was either Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego? or The Magic Schoolbus inside Arnold's Guts*


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Jackhass wrote:Ah they old days of having to draw your own dungeon maps...I think the graph paper industry collapsed when they started including in-game maps.
Pfft! I never drew maps! I kept it all in my head! 'Cause I'm f'ing metal, baby!

I also screamed insanely, jumped up and down, and chewed on controllers and keyboards a lot.
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Jim North wrote:I also screamed insanely, jumped up and down, and chewed on controllers and keyboards a lot.
Now why isn't that surprising? ;)

My first game was King's Quest 1, the SCI EGA remake. After that, the originial Leisure Suit Larry. Everything in my life went downhill after that. :P
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Sorry guys, my first game was pong.
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rkolter wrote:Sorry guys, my first game was pong.
Yeah? Well, my first game was on the first pong console. I was the one who jammed it up.

Or maybe Space Invaders on an Atari 2600. I get them confused sometimes.

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My first game was either Space Invaders or Zork. On a 286 mind you, not the atari version.
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Pong man here.

But first game I really liked was "Legend of Kyrandia 3: Malcolm's revenge"
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Well geez, if we're talking about consoles here, then Mickey Mouscapades for NES, I think. :P
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Jim North wrote:I also screamed insanely, jumped up and down, and chewed on controllers and keyboards a lot.
Um, Jim? You still do that, dear.

My first games...let's see...for computer it was Carmen Sandiego and Oregon Trail. And for console it was Mario Bros/Duct Hunt and Marble Madness.
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My first vidgame was the Pac, man.
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Jim North wrote:I also screamed insanely, jumped up and down, and chewed on controllers and keyboards a lot.
Um, Jim? You still do that, dear.
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I think our first machine was called a Personal Computer. I don't think it even had a brand name...the first EVER game I played (not from any company) was one Dad programmed up with BASIC where simple maths questions dropped down the screen and you had to answer them before they reached the bottom or you died. No graphics...just green little sums dropping down the screen one line at a time...
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Dutch! wrote:...simple maths questions dropped down the screen and you had to answer them before they reached the bottom or you died.
Therefore you had to think fast, huh? Cogito ergo sum.

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My first game was either Pong or Pac Man. Can't remember which came first chronologically but I played both arcade machines in the fuzzy third and fourth years of my life.

God. Bard's Tale. Bard's Tale III. That was indeed the very game that made me break down and start using graph paper to draw dungeon maps.

GOD. JESUS GOD. THE WEEPING.

Actually, I think I cried more when the random monster that would join the party would inevitably betray us. I THOUGHT THAT LICH WAS OUR FRIEND.
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Jim North wrote:
Jackhass wrote:Ah they old days of having to draw your own dungeon maps...I think the graph paper industry collapsed when they started including in-game maps.
Pfft! I never drew maps! I kept it all in my head! 'Cause I'm f'ing metal, baby!

I also screamed insanely, jumped up and down, and chewed on controllers and keyboards a lot.
You tried to get through without making maps? Are you some kind of masochist?
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First ever game?

Star Trek played on a timeshare console.
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