Quote Originally Posted by Duke John
Sopwith!

This game was great! You can still download it here!

I guess I was 8 years or so. And my farther had one of the earliest laptops on which we played it. It was like a 70x60cm luggage/suitcase and weighed a ton. The keyboard could be removed from a side which then showed a 10" monocolour monitor. Ah, the old days...
Ahhh, those were the days. I followed your link and could relate to more than 50% of the gametitles. It also started with the C-64 for me. Hanging out at a friends and playing a simple "platform-jumping" game I don't remember the title of.....Ah yes "Jumpman".
From there on I played so much C-64 games that I would say "I've seen them all". Elite was the first game I modded with a Hex-Editor. Defender of the Crown took some lifetime fom me but Pirates! even topped that. If you add all those hours I played Pirates it would sum to months. After that the Amiga 500 was purchased and we were exchanging copies of the newest games on the schoolyard. From there on I constantly upgraded. Now, at least 20 years later, I have a 1.8 Ghz etc. and am still playing but much lesser than before.
I sometimes run an Amiga-emulator on my PC to play those old gems. A few days ago I felt the urge to play Air-Ace. Downloaded it and sucked majorly. Without the old "Competition Pro II" Joystick it's not the same.

R'as