# Computer/Video Games Most People Don't Remember
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594
**Category:** The Game Room
**Tags:** video-games-e-games
**Created:** [March 8, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594 "2024-03-08T03:41:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 10
### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [March 18, 2024, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/181 "2024-03-18T23:04:18Z")
Someday we’ll find it, the Starwars Connection, the Wookiees, the Jedi and me . . .
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### Author:  [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/182 "2024-03-19T00:45:15Z")
> [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](#):
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> I’m sure that a number of people here have heard of “Rogue-like games”. How many have actually played Rogue?
Yep, on DOS and Linux. 😃
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/183 "2024-03-19T02:22:58Z")
I wish there were more screenshots of some of these ancient games. The names ring a bell, but the image is worth more to me than a generic description.
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### Author:  [@SunUp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SunUp)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/184 "2024-03-19T03:04:28Z")
> [@Odesio](#):
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> I thought it might have been based on one of Avalon Hill’s many board games, but it looks like this was an original game.
Avalon Hill earliest games were written in BASIC for the various computers of the time - TRS-80, Apple II, Commodore (PET & 64), Atari and I think even the TI-99/4a, as well as the IBM PC when it came along. Most of those games were new creations with at most a tenuous connection to any of AH’s board games - probably the closest was their Midway game, which benefited from easier fog of war available to a computer adaptation.
Later on, they adapted a few of their boardgames, including Advanced Civilization, Advanced Third Reich, and Diplomacy, once computing power had reached a level sufficient to implement a 64-page rulebook along with graphics, sound and passable AI.
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/185 "2024-03-19T03:23:15Z")
When SimCity became all the rage in the late 80s I remember telling my friend “It’s like Utopia we used to play to death on Intellivision back in 1982”.
We don’t remember anyone having ever played that game or even heard of it but it was one we had many late night gaming sessions with.
> **[Utopia (video game)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(video_game))**
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> Utopia is a 1982 strategy video game by Don Daglow released for the Intellivision and Mattel Aquarius. It is often regarded as among the first city building games, and credited as "arguably the earliest ancestor of the real-time strategy genre." In July 2010, the game was re-released on Microsoft's Game Room service for its Xbox 360 console and for Games for Windows Live.
> Utopia is a two-player game in which the two players each control one of the game's two islands. It lacks an AI opponent, alt...
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/186 "2024-03-19T03:26:31Z")
I think Atari 800 had two simpler, early versions of “Heroes of Might and Magic”.
Some of the best games were very simple. There was one with two players. Each player used a joystick that controlled a lengthening line, which we thought of as snakes. The goal was to cut-off your opponent so the head of their snake hit the body of yours. Much harder and more fun than it sounds.
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### Author:  [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/187 "2024-03-19T03:35:44Z")
Heheh, I think most thing Intellivision are poorly remembered, at best.
I had a friend who had an Intellivsion and a copy of B-17 bomber with the voice synthesis module. It was actually a pretty complex game for a couple of tweens to manage. I’m pretty sure we never actually finished a mission.
[ ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dM1EW-eQEIo)
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### Author:  [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 3:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/188 "2024-03-19T03:43:16Z")
I had a friend who owned dozens of Intellivision games. They varied a lot, but the baseball one was very good for its time.
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### Author:  [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/189 "2024-03-19T03:49:38Z")
“Mattel Electronics Presents…. Bay-Sevuntain Bawwmer!”
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### Author:  [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/190 "2024-03-19T03:51:32Z")
I had however many hours into _Fortune Builder_, but apparently they were late to the party…
> [@SunUp](#):
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> Avalon Hill earliest games were written in BASIC for the various computers of the time
I liked “Sail” by Dave Riggle, but I think that one was not in BASIC?
ETA anyone remember _Qix_? Fun Taito game. I do not remember if it was possible to split a _single_ Qix
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### Author:  [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/191 "2024-03-19T03:57:39Z")
Hehehe, “That wuz awn target!”
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### Author:  [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/192 "2024-03-19T03:58:03Z")
[Summoner](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summoner_(video_game)) and its sequel Summoner II. Summoner is available on GOG at least but not the sequel.
[Sentient](https://obscuritory.com/adventure/sentient/); a game that I always died at without getting too far but found wandering around interesting. The characters were _hideous,_ though.
[ ](https://obscuritory.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/sentient_5.png)
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/193 "2024-03-19T03:59:44Z")
> [@Hampshire](#):
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> We don’t remember anyone having ever played that game or even heard of it but it was one we had many late night gaming sessions with.
Utopia was awesome. Played it on an Intellivision clone and found the cartridge along with the backgammon game at a garage sale back in the 80s. One of the proto-Civilization-type games.
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### Author:  [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/194 "2024-03-19T05:17:22Z")
> [@DPRK](#):
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> ETA anyone remember _Qix_? Fun Taito game. I do not remember if it was possible to split a _single_ Qix
I played Qix on my C 64 all the time. I’ll never forget the time I covered 99% of the screen. IIRC Qix also had an edition for the Genesis.
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/195 "2024-03-19T06:24:17Z")
That sounds like a homemade text star wars game that made the rounds edit: lol ninjaed …bleh that teaches me to read the thread before answering lol
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/196 "2024-03-19T06:26:10Z")
might have been kings field which was the proto homm
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/197 "2024-03-19T06:36:41Z")
oh, the Atari 2600 game StarMaster by Activision was 1 an attempt to outdo Ataris Star Raiders and 2 an unsuccessful attempt to get the Star Trek license since Sega already had it. Still, Gary and co simply "improved ( ripped off) the grid-based star trek games and made one of the most technical 2600 games that was a “total bitch to program” and took 2 years longer to make than anticipated because they had to figure out the color/bw switch map toggle …
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### Author:  [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2024, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/198 "2024-03-19T06:44:36Z")
> [@nightshadea](#):
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> might have been kings field which was the proto homm
meant to say kings bounty
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### Author:  [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2024, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/199 "2024-03-20T03:52:23Z")
> [@DocCathode](#):
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> I played Qix on my C 64 all the time. I’ll never forget the time I covered 99% of the screen. IIRC Qix also had an edition for the Genesis.
And Atari 5200.
I also managed to get 99% of the screen covered in that one. (Had a friend growing up whose family had a 5200.)
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### Author:  [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)
#### Post date: [March 20, 2024, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/computer-video-games-most-people-dont-remember/998594/200 "2024-03-20T05:31:16Z")
Hehhehe, I remember that I played Qix somewhere, sometime, but I’ll be damned if I remember the platform.
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