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TI 99 / 4A - My First Computer

I ran across a picture of this system on a forum somewhere this morning, and recognized it as my first ever computer! I could never remember what it was that I used to play with when I was a kid, other than it was a Texas Instruments machine of some kind. So it was really cool to run across this and remember the old games I used to play on it. According to Old-Computers.com it had a 3.3mhz processor, and 256 bytes of RAM. Wow! That’s an old computer. It could display 16 colors and had 16kb of Video Memory.

There are apparently emulators for it, which run on just about every modern operating system. Here are some screenshots of some of the games I used to play on it:

Parsec

From Michael Fox’s Homepage

“The player battles alien ships on a planet in outer space. The aliens attack in waves of different battle ships. The player guides the ship through the attacks and must successfully guide the vessel through refueling tunnels. Up to 7 different types of alien ships attack at different levels. The player must also guide the ship through an asteroid belt to advance to the next level. The game features speed/sensitivity control, pause capability, and female speech to tell you the current conditions. Excellent hit-map graphics, sound effects and never-ending action. Peripheral requirements: Joysticks are optional. Speech Synthesizer is optional.”

I had the speech synthesizer add-on, though I don’t really remember this game talking… But anyway this is a popular shooter type game and I played it quite a bit.

Alpiner

“This one or two player game is a “climbing” game of skill and challenge. There are a total of six mountains that one can climb; Hood, Matterhorn, Kenya, McKinley, Garmo and Everest. Climbers must face different animal hazards including lions, bears and skunks. They must also face natural hazards such as rockfalls, forest fires, and avalanches. And watch out for the Abonimable Snowman. This program features excellent color graphics, sound and color. Peripheral requirements: Joysticks are optional.”

I remember this one too! Again it’s hard to remember every detail, since I was like 4 or 5 when I played with it I think. But I do remember it looking like that, and I seem to remember the Abominable Snowman would kill me everytime and I couldn’t get passed him.

Carwars

“If you enjoy the excitement of high-speed racing, combined with the challenge of out-maneuvering a canny opponent, then Car Wars is your kind of game. Pit your speed and skill against the computer’s as you try to get your car around the track without getting “crashed” off the field. Various levels of difficulty allow you to add even more excitement to the action of this one-player game. The TI Wired Remote Controllers are optional.”

This one was kind of like Pac-Man with race cars in a way, but I remember playing it a lot and it seemed pretty fun. :)

MunchMobile

I remember this one the most of any games on that system… You drove down the road in this car, and extended our arm out to grab food from the side of the road. You had to time it just right though, or your arm would be extended and hit a garbage can or something and damage you. And when you got to the end of the level you parked at your house and it added up your score. It was a fun one.

Just thought I’d share my first computer experience… And post it here for my own info and nostalgia too.

That was my first, too! Sort of. I had the TI 14-A, which I think was slightly different, but ran the same games and used the same peripherals. It looked different, all putty instead of silver and black. Parsec was great, Alpiner was fun (that damned snowman on his skis), I’d forgotten car wars completely… I also liked Hunt the Wumpus and Munchman… but my favorites were scott adam’s adventures, which used the tape drive. You can play those online for free or download them.

The speech synthesizer I remember most from parsec. It would warn you when you approached an asteroid belt, and when you crashed it would say “game over, press redo or back”

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