Your first memories of each system you owned?

[Tiago]

First memories on Spectrum 48k:
playing space invaders in christmas back in 84.
I receive my Spectrum with that game an i remember playing it in my grandmother's house in a black and white tv.
It was in a time that in Portugal most of the people had black and white tvs and nobody had any kind of computers.
I remember some time after to spend hours and hours playing Formula 1 that one that you choose the team, the drivers, the sponcers,
where you had to buy the engine and you could change the tires, but you didnt drive, it was only strategy, and you only see the cars passing from right to left.
So good !!!

I remeber when i first saw the Atari St, it was in... i think in 1989, and i saw Captain Blood with the intro music of Jean Michelle Jarre ....
it was very hard to deal with that,
in that time, the best thing i had seing so far was the Spectrum (didnt knew the C64), and then,
sudently, captain blood in the Atary st ..... it was a awesome!

Some Months after i receive the A500 as birthsday present, i remember, the first 3 games : SpeedBall, wings of Fury and Outrun.
I was a superb!!

[Harrison]

Captain Blood was an amazing game for me too. The ST used very good samples and it was some great Jarre music. And the whole game was interesting due to its unique and quirky nature. I remember feeling a great achievement completing it on my ST. It was sad that the Amiga version was badly ported because if it had been done correctly that would have been even better.

[burns flipper]

You'll like this. My first memory of my A1200 was "it doesn't work!!". I hadn't had a computer before, knew I was supposed to see the animated disk on startup, but nothing appeared on any of the 99 TV channels I went through. It turns out it would display a blank screen for 30 seconds before displaying the animated disk, so I'd turn it on and would pass channel 21 before the screen appeared. 2 days later I looked up the answer in CU Amiga, and tried again to success. It was 7pm on a Sunday night and I loaded up Monkey Island 2 which I'd bought for £38 with some money from my Grandad, and I spent the next 2 hours before bed playing it.

My first memory of my first PC was "it doesn't work!!". It was a 450MHz PIII which I'd bought new for £500 out of MicroMart in 1999, made by some Greek lady in a London shopping centre. I tried installing Win98 but it would crash partway through the install. I had very little knowledge of PCs, but eventually tracked it down to the fact that the UTTER MUPPETS had set the processor speed in the BIOS to 500MHz, and the thing couldn't cope. I set it back to normal, and the thing worked. Well, it would still crash every half hour, but that was Windows.