I started on Haunted Halls: Revenge of Doctor Blackmore.  I wonder if this is the game ERS started with the cute animals.  So far in chapter 1 I saw 5. A kangaroo, ostrich, pheasant, sting ray and 1 other one.

Oscar...I really liked Resurrection: New Mexico.  On allaboutcasualgame.com I see that there will be a new one Resurrection: Arizona.  It doesn't say when it will be done though.

I first started buying online games at Gamehouse.  My first ones were Dark Parables: Curse of Briar Rose - Campfire Legends: The Hookman - Twisted Origin: Shadow Town - Cooking Dash: Diner Town Studios.  All in 2010.  In December 2010 I moved to BFG and bought Mystery Chronicles: Murder Among Friends and MCF 13th Skull.

I was just looking at Gamehouse and they also started a punch card.  6 punches to a card and premium editions are 3 punches.

My first ever game was bought at Real Arcade in 2004.  It was Zuma.  Second game was Inspector Parker.  I was still at RA when MCF: Huntsville was released and still there for MCF: Prime Suspects.

Only 4-6 games were released each month, usually every other week (on Tuesdays and Thursdays?) and you had to use your membership credit within a month or you lost it.  And if you wanted to get more than one game a month, you paid full price ($20) for it.  Sometimes you got lucky and ther was a sale, so additional games were only $15.

 It became harder and harder to find games to I wanted, RA suddenly pulled all games created by BF from their site and people weren't allowed to mention their name on the message boards.  (I remember people calling them the Large Guppy site to get around the autocensor).

Don't remember exactly when I dropped my membership, but around the time RA merged with GameHouse, I got interested in games again, wanted to get Dire Grove.  Checked RA to discover that they had merged and that many of my games (not just the ones made by BF) had either disappeared or would no longer play when I downoaded them.  Read the messageboard at Game House, learned that other people had the same issues and had been promised coupons to replace the missing games but had never received them, decided to cut my losses and joined BF.

I finally finished the factory in ZOMBIE SOLITAIRE but can't figure out how to get to the crane.  I panned all the way to the right and saw the box but I wasn't able to pan back left.  I'll try again this afternoon.  I looked in the Game Forum but there isn't anything there about getting through the fence.

Wow!  Kudos to sandhan!  I have no idea how she is playing this game without using power-ups!

My very first computer game, from 1980, played on an Apple II Plus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure
 

oscar66 wrote:

My goodness! was it a game using yes no and the arrow keys only?

I do remember the flashing green cursor of old, but I don't think I even got a home computer until the early 90s nor a game console until then either.  We just got rid of the old Sega Genesis system, I shall miss Earthworm Jim, Vectorman, Ghouls and Ghosts and original Sonic games, but the plug to the console was getting dodgy.

You typed in commands using one or two words (get axe, go north, open door, etc).  No walkthroughs, no maps, you made your own.  There might have been a book you could buy if you needed help.  I knw that there were books for Zork.  But they weren't cheap.