I have an older hand held nintendo .... well, it's not that old but techno wise I guess it would be
considered old. One of my daughters laughed at me when I bought it several years ago...she said
'Why?' and my reply was 'I love the Zelda games'. It's been awhile since I have played it and I have
never ever been able to complete a Zelda adventure.

I knew about 'Zelda' because years before some of you were even born, I had a computer that
was huge and clunky that did not connect to an internet. There was a game called 'Zelda' and
it was like these new Zelda games. I am telling you it was back about 1990. So I believe ole
Zelda has been around a long time.

I purchased the new nintendo 3DS XL and it said the older games would work in it.....no not from
the 1990's but from the more recent DS games. I did also order one new Majora's Mask Zelda game.

I do also enjoy the puzzle games. I probably wouldn't have bought it had it not stated it will play the
older games too.

My kids kind of laugh at me because I guess it is more of kids games but I don't like those war games
or zombie games.

Yes, I agree with You

Yip, got a retropie that'll play pretty much anything from the 70's to the 90's.

Sorcery Plus, Super Sam, Jet Set Willy, Rik Dangerous, Prehistoric, Killer Gorilla, Bomber, Everyone's A Wally, Sabre Wulf, Gauntlet, Golden Axe, Altered Beast, all the classics. But the classic of all classics is Chuckie Egg.

I spend most time playing Collosal Cavern/Adventure/Advent/whatevernameyouknowitas though, because that ships with Emacs, so you accidentally play it all the time when you're supposed to be working.

I think I remember some of those. Killer Gorilla and Everyone's A Wally.

I like some of the 'Mario' games but I am not into those much.

One of my fav's is Tetris.

Zelda, I can spend hours playing those games and never complete the adventures.
One time I went online and did a search because I had zelda stuck some where. I
was surprised to find an entire website dedicated to it with all the images, what to
do, etc. I did get Zelda out of that situation but I did not continue to view the site
or follow their info.

The few Zelda games I have, can keep me going forever. I doubt I will ever get
through any of them unless I do cheat by viewing websites that relay every step.

Seeing this topic about some 'old"games,I discovered I still have my little Tetris box

Zelda Majora's mask and Zelda the windwaker are defenitely awesome games.

I'm not from that era,But thanks to thee internet i've dug up a lot of great retro games like Castlevania 1+3,Super mario 1+2+3 (All are great games) Are there still arcade machines in America??? Cause there's not a single one left in Denmark,Not even in the urban part of copenhagen where i live.

I've completed all zelda games except the one on wiiu,So feel free to ask Valerie

Nikorj wrote: Zelda Majora's mask and Zelda the windwaker are defenitely awesome games.

I'm not from that era,But thanks to thee internet i've dug up a lot of great retro games like Castlevania 1+3,Super mario 1+2+3 (All are great games) Are there still arcade machines in America??? Cause there's not a single one left in Denmark,Not even in the urban part of copenhagen where i live.

I've completed all zelda games except the one on wiiu,So feel free to ask Valerie

You've completed all the Zelda games? WOW!

For DS I have 'Zelda Phantom Hourglass' and 'Zelda Spirit Tracks'. For GameBoy I had 'The Legend of Zelda'.

What is that 'wiuii' ? I saw some games for that but didn't even know what it was.

Good question about the 'Arcade' and I don't know. I would guess, maybe in some more remote
gas stations/mini marts. There was the time when shopping malls had one or more large Arcade
rooms with just about every machine you could think of. I suppose they made a ton of money.
Many years ago I remember my sister that lives in a small town, lived by a mini mart and her kids
would go there almost every day to play 'PacMan' and something else. It was just a small little
store but they had two game machines.

I watch 'Price is Right' rather faithfully every morning. It's a popular game show that has been
airing since the 70's. I can remember when they would give away pinball machines as a prize.

I have not thought about it but you are right, I suppose there isn't any or perhaps a few arcade
machines around. I would guess that perhaps amusement fun type houses might have some.

People did start having game rooms that were simply like the ones we play today on computers.
I know because a friend of mine that works online, opened a really nice one in North Carolina.
I saw pictures of it. He had a very nice room, lots of tables, laptops, computers, play stations,
all that. It didn't fly. Most people simply stay at home and play games on their own machines.

Marcel-R6 wrote: Seeing this topic about some 'old"games,I discovered I still have my little Tetris box

I played some Tetris just last night. I remember playing it way back in the early 90's too before
there were was even much of internet.

I have the DS 'Tetris Party Deluxe'.

So it is interesting to note that some of these games today, were actually in existence before the
internet or at the extreme earliest of the internet, before all the game stations.

Over ten years ago, I purchased Christmas for a family in my area. It was an elderly lady that was
raising her three grandchildren, all boys. The youngest boy was just a little thing and the older boys
wouldn't let him play with the games they had. So I went to a pawn shop and bought an old game
system that came also with several games....it was the machine, controllers, and a few games. It
didn't matter if he tore it up or not but he was thrilled with that system. I think it was some sort of
old Nintendo stuff. It has big clunky games like an 8 track tape.

Tetris is a weird one.

I was addicted to it as everyone on the GameBoy, but it had existed for years before that, and I had loads of copies, many with their own unique twists, and others exactly the same, just with more colour (or exactly the same in every way if you had a green screen). Hell, I've written about a dozen versions of it myself as coursework and interview tasks.

But it was only any good on the GameBoy. I'm not sure why, but the hardware mattered much more than the software.

valerie wrote:

Nikorj wrote: Zelda Majora's mask and Zelda the windwaker are defenitely awesome games.

I'm not from that era,But thanks to thee internet i've dug up a lot of great retro games like Castlevania 1+3,Super mario 1+2+3 (All are great games) Are there still arcade machines in America??? Cause there's not a single one left in Denmark,Not even in the urban part of copenhagen where i live.

I've completed all zelda games except the one on wiiu,So feel free to ask Valerie

You've completed all the Zelda games? WOW!

For DS I have 'Zelda Phantom Hourglass' and 'Zelda Spirit Tracks'. For GameBoy I had 'The Legend of Zelda'.

What is that 'wiuii' ? I saw some games for that but didn't even know what it was.

Good question about the 'Arcade' and I don't know. I would guess, maybe in some more remote
gas stations/mini marts. There was the time when shopping malls had one or more large Arcade
rooms with just about every machine you could think of. I suppose they made a ton of money.
Many years ago I remember my sister that lives in a small town, lived by a mini mart and her kids
would go there almost every day to play 'PacMan' and something else. It was just a small little
store but they had two game machines.

I watch 'Price is Right' rather faithfully every morning. It's a popular game show that has been
airing since the 70's. I can remember when they would give away pinball machines as a prize.

I have not thought about it but you are right, I suppose there isn't any or perhaps a few arcade
machines around. I would guess that perhaps amusement fun type houses might have some.

People did start having game rooms that were simply like the ones we play today on computers.
I know because a friend of mine that works online, opened a really nice one in North Carolina.
I saw pictures of it. He had a very nice room, lots of tables, laptops, computers, play stations,
all that. It didn't fly. Most people simply stay at home and play games on their own machines.

Ha ha what i've meant was the Zelda game on the Nintendo Wii U,guess i'll have to buy one before it's possible

And then again hmmm i'm actually wrong,There are 3 zelda games for an old console named Phillips Cdi which i've never completed "Zelda's adventure,Link :The faces of evil and Zelda : The wand of gamelon" Those 3 are so awful that i've never ever would be able to

Many of my friends call me the Odd modern gamer cause i can't stand(Find them utterly boring) shooters or to name them correctly FPS's,Give me an open world of adventure and i'm all in he he

valerie wrote:
So it is interesting to note that some of these games today, were actually in existence before the
internet or at the extreme earliest of the internet, before all the game stations.

I'm trying to decide which came first - the internet or the computer game.

Like most things, it gets really fuzzy at the edges when you try to decide which was the first anything.

I believe Bertie the Brain was made in 1950, but you wouldn't recognise it as a computer game today. OXO in 1952 could probably just about pass as a computer game as you know it.

It wasn't until 1972, Hunt The Wumpus and Pong were made.

The internet is easier. DARPA in 1962. Not the internet as you know it, but the internet. Packet networking already existed, but nothing you could really see the internet growing out of before then.

So, probably the computer game, but it depends on your point of view as to what counts as the first computer game.

Also, don't quote me on the years. I know OXO and Pong were 20 years apart, but it might not be 52 and 72.

BouldRake wrote:

valerie wrote:
So it is interesting to note that some of these games today, were actually in existence before the
internet or at the extreme earliest of the internet, before all the game stations.

I'm trying to decide which came first - the internet or the computer game.

Like most things, it gets really fuzzy at the edges when you try to decide which was the first anything.

I believe Bertie the Brain was made in 1950, but you wouldn't recognise it as a computer game today. OXO in 1952 could probably just about pass as a computer game as you know it.

It wasn't until 1972, Hunt The Wumpus and Pong were made.

The internet is easier. DARPA in 1962. Not the internet as you know it, but the internet. Packet networking already existed, but nothing you could really see the internet growing out of before then.

So, probably the computer game, but it depends on your point of view as to what counts as the first computer game.

Also, don't quote me on the years. I know OXO and Pong were 20 years apart, but it might not be 52 and 72.

But wasn't Pong the 1st commercial game to be sold in stores, or am i wrong about that?

I don't know which was first, but Spacewar! and maybe more came before Pong. I think Pong was just the first to actually be successful, rather than the first to be commercial.

Yep if you go way back you can locate games such as the 'Tennis for Two' that was created
in the late 50's.

Games like Pong and PacMan I guess was some of the first arcade games.

I can go back to the mid to late 60's as I use to visit 'The Museum of Science and Industry' in Chicago.
They had some pretty cool things that as kids, we thought would never come into existence. For example
at ten years old, my friend and I liked to go there to sit at a monitor. Her on one side and me on the
other. We would push a button and I could talk and she could see me and vice versa. We thought it so
fun and so very Science Fiction. That was about 1966/1967. They also had a game that I would not
be sworn to call it THE Tennis for Two but it was also at monitors....simple black screen, dots across
the screen as a net with a larger dot bouncing around like a tennis ball.

About 1970, pinball machines became so popular that eventually a movie was made 'Pinball Wizard'.
I am not sure what year that movie came out. I don't even remember much about it other than
Ann Margaret rolling around in beans and Tommy being blind.

Oh, I can cheat. I can open MAME and sort by year.

Galaxy Game 1971 is the first actually working game in MAME. That doesn't mean it's the first game, it means it's the first that can be emulated by MAME. There are a few earlier machines, but they a) don't work, and b) aren't games. MAME doesn't have speedway or spacewar! at all though.

I had to look it up 'Pinball Wizard' the movie was in 1975. That really does not seem right to me
as I would have thought more like 1972.

My children play games like Pokemon - Black and white, Heart Gold, Soul Silver, Sun and Moon etc. on the NDS at a friends house. I am planning to buy one, suggestions anyone

perfectshops wrote: My children play games like Pokemon - Black and white, Heart Gold, Soul Silver, Sun and Moon etc. on the NDS at a friends house. I am planning to buy one, suggestions anyone

I have had the Gameboy and I have the Nintendo DS. I am presently waiting on the new 3D XL.
All of them have worked fine without any issues at all. The 3D XL has some additional features
such as Netflix and Hulu. I am a Netflix subscriber so that did aid in my decision to go for it. I
know the main clincher for me is that I can play all my DS games on it. Not that I have a room
full but I have ten.

So just be sure to do your research, know all the features each has, and choose the one you
think you will like the best. I do think at this point in time the new one I ordered will be good
since it will play the older games too.

I was curious because I know I first had a Zelda back in the late 80's, early 90's.

The first Legend of Zelda game appeared on the Famicom Disk System in 1986. It was later converted into a cartridge game for the American NES. The Legend of Zelda, the first game of the series, was first released in Japan on February 21, 1986, on the Famicom Disk System.

I still have 'Pinball Wizard' on my very old desk top,but it still works.