/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8468018
I remember commenting out all the sound commands in Gorilla.bas and Nibbles.bas so my colleague during apprenticeship could play those game during office time sneakily.

But I personally wasn't that much into PC gaming. I started playing games on some east german home computer (KC85) during school (but I never owned a computer myself until the unification of germany) or on the only east german arcade machine (Polyplay). The games on the school computers usually were clones from western games like Boulder Dash, Pacman, Lode runner etc. My first computer was a C64 and I had it for a long time. In fact during that time mentioned at the start of this post I was still using my C64 for essentially anything and not only for gaming. Later I got an Amiga 500 and again not only used it for games but rather for productive stuff. Then I got a Amiga 1200 during the mid or late 90's and used it mainly for productive stuff including internet (via dial-up), spreadsheet (Turbo Calc), word processing (Wordworth) or programming (but only scripting via the ARexx sadly no higher languages). And since I was poor I used it for a very long time without even seriously upgrading it (again I was poor) until 2008. The only upgrades were a CD-ROM drive and a bigger HDD (3GB), but no accelerator cards of sorts. For games during that time I resorted to used consoles with the Sega GameGear being my first console and later a PS1, while still using my trusty A1200 and I even used the Amiga for some attempts at hacking games via save file manipulation.

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Not sure about the actual game. Either it was an off-brand pong clone (when these already were outdated) in an east german youth hostel ("Pionierlager") in the mid to late 80's or one of the only east german Arcade machine Polyplay (again in said hostel and later during a so called "Pioniertreffen" (a convention of the east german socialist youth organisations) in the Town Karl-Marx-Stadt) or it also could have been one of the many clones of western games on the east german home computers KC85 (that usually only schools owned) like some Sokoban, Loderunner, Boulder Dash or Pacman clone. The last one was called "Hase und Wolf" (hare and wolf) and was based on some russian carton series (Nu Pogodi).

Polyplay:
http://polyplay.de/?m1=play

Almost all KC85 games:
https://lanale.de/kc85_emu/KC85_Emu.html

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>>5780736
Maybe the earliest memory must be those LCD games like Nintendo's game and watch. But not the actual Nintendo stuff itself, since this obviously wasn't available in east germany in the 80's. But rather the many eastern block, russian and maybe chinese clones. Those LCD games were quite popular at the schoolyards back in the day.

But I also remember playing Pong at an east german youth camp in the late 80's. And also playing the only east german arcade machine Polyplay there. And of course also playing some clones of western games on the east german home computer KC85 at school. I never owned an computer for myself after the wall came down (I got a C64 at around '91 or '92 with a tape drive).

>>5719137
AFAIK most games were just hobbyist, school and academic projects. Some got published later in packs, but usually they were copied around and shared. Some programs even were broadcasted via radio. Beside the Polyplay Arcade I doubt that there were any actual commercial games made in the GDR. That Polyplay Arcade you could usually find in youth camps or at occasion when the GDR celebrated something. And in terms of games, as far as I remember most of them were clones of western games like Sokoban, Boulder Dash, countless Lode Runner and Pac Man clones (the later called "Hase und Wolf" (hare and wolf) here after a russian cartoon going by the name of "No Pogodi")
https://youtu.be/zTG6g-ffjco

Many of the original academic or games from school projects were usually simple Quiz games with a heavy socialist and communist edge written in Basic. But again I only played those games in school (loaded via a russian tape deck), since KC85 were hardly available for the public.
https://youtu.be/PUW9MJUSeYA

I still remember getting into trouble by a teacher (they thought they lost me) since I stayed to long at the KC85 stands and the Polyplay machines at the last convention of east german youth organizations in 1988.
https://youtu.be/TsFRC_sp5Cw?t=194

Some schools had stands with those typical KC85 computers
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC_85
(but the other east german Robotron computers like the older Z 9001 too) showing of their work (and of course playing games). On a sidenote. most of the east german computers (and Polyplay as well as some russian computers) used an unlicensed Z80 clone as main processor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U880

At one of the occasions at that convention I even unintentionally met our first lady (a really despicable old hag) who was visiting one of the events.

btw. most of the KC85 games are playable online:
https://lanale.de/kc85_emu/KC85_Emu.html
as well as the Polyplay Arcade (also playable via Mame)
http://polyplay.de/?m1=play

>>4858983
Another east german machine I played on. The Polyplay was the only east german arcade machine.

>>4724749
Probably some clone of a western game like Pac Man, Sokoban, Lode Runner etc. on the east german computer KC85 when I was around 11 - 13.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC_85
http://lanale.de/kc85_emu/KC85_Emu.html

And I still remember playing the various games on the only east german arcade machine Polyplay.
Played the Polyplay machine at some young pioneer camp back than and as well at the last young pioneer gathering in '88 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Pioneer_camp

And I found it fascinating and thus lost a couple of east german 50 Pfennig Marks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Play
http://polyplay.de/?m1=play

The east german equivalent of Pac Man btw. was "Hase und Wolf" (hare and wolf) based on the russian cartoon series "Nu Pogodi!"

The first computer I actually owned myself was the C64 after the wall came down. And my first game was a rather shitty one called Sailing that I bought on tape before I even had the C64.

>>4649662
It was probably the (only) east german Arcade game PolyPlay.

Played it at some young pioneer camp back than and as well at the last young pioneer gathering in '88 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Young_Pioneer_camp

And I found it fascinating and thus lost a couple of east german 50 Pfennig Marks.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Play
http://polyplay.de/?m1=play

But not all of those include games were new to me. Especially hare and wolf (pacman clone that was based on the russian cartoon Nu Pogodi) and some other clones of western games I played on the east german home computer KC85 (but I never actually owned one of these.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KC_85
http://lanale.de/kc85_emu/KC85_Emu.html

The first computer I actually owned myself was the C64 after the wall came down. And my first game was a rather shitty one called Sailing that I bought on tape before I even had the C64.

The game that probably partially inspired the Polybius legend.

Being the only arcade machine in your country automatically makes you an instant classic.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poly_Play