First Sci-Fi game

Hieuphung
23 Sept 2019, 09:13

What was your first Sci-Fi game? How old were you when you play this game?


jmnevil54
26 Sept 2019, 00:15

Probably X Com. But Rayman Raving Rabbids might be a Sci-Fi.


DarkLizerd
26 Sept 2019, 00:27

An Atari game I bought with the computer... Star Raders.
1981 or 82... Should make me about 20.


mrangel
26 Sept 2019, 07:00

Probably Xargon's Revenge. Or if you're limiting it to adventure games, The Time Machine by Brian Howarth. In both cases when I was around 6 or 7.


XanMag
30 Sept 2019, 10:25

The first I remember...

Rendezvous with Rama. Based on an Arthur C Clarke novel. Mid-80s. I would have been 9 or 10.


Zesc
01 Oct 2019, 18:19

Since this is an IF forum, i recall reading a CYAO sci-fi book aimed at teens when i was a very young. Prolly early 2000s. I still remember the overly polite robot buddy though.

When it comes to actualy videogames, the earliest thing i recall is LEGO Star Wars. Which is really recent compared to the rest of you, which puts either me or my leaking memory to shame.


Sh4dowGaming1234
04 Oct 2019, 03:46

Well, my first sci-fi game was probably ratchet and clank, which not many people have heard of. It was really hard because I played it when I was about 7 or 8. It's kind of violent for a kid to be playing, but it's perfectly fine.

*Malevolent laugh


R2T1
04 Oct 2019, 04:43

The earliest Sci-Fi game I can recall is Star Trek. (The text version) This was somewhere around 1979 or 1980 after I bought my first computer - an Exidy Sorcerer. Originally I had to type it in from a listing in a magazine but later I found it as a cassette tape that could be loaded up. Prior to this I think I had a simpler version that I could play on my TI 58 calculator, but I can't find it nor remember much about it. I vaguely think it was some sort of Moon or Mars lander. Nort sure if this qualifies for Sci-Fi though.
I would have been around 25 at the time for Star Trek but probably about 19 for the TI 58/59.