According to current data, 30 million people play games in Turkey alone. So yes, it is clear that we love consuming games. So, do you know our first game production?
The first worldwide computer game was “Tennis for Two”, which appeared in 1958. Many more games were produced over the years, and in the 1980s play a game It had become an ordinary thing.
In these periods when game consumption and production increases Türkiye is not left behind from the world and produced the first video game. This game was Barbaros. Even though there are not many resources about him, let’s tell about Barbaros as much as we can with the information we can find.
UFO Software released Barbaros.
Video gaming began to rise in our country in the 1980s. There were Star Wars games, there was Pac-Man, there was Rogue: Exploring the Dungeons of Doom… In 1986 made in Turkey A game emerged. The first game released by UFO Software, which has two games in total, for the Commodore 64 platform was “Barbaros”. The other game was “Strip Backgammon”.
There is not much information about UFO Software, but there are unproven rumors. Those who live in Istanbul know that in Suadiye “UFO Computer” There was a shop called. According to some, UFO Software was affiliated with this store and Barbaros was a game from there. According to some, UFO Software had nothing to do with UFO Bilgisayar and the company was founded in Germany.
So what was this game?
Although we cannot find many sources about the game, which has passed almost 40 years and has not made much noise, when we look at its visual, sailor Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha we can see.
The game could be played with Commodre 64 emulators if the ROM file was found. There is no information about who the software developers are. Barbaros game, played in Turkish, tells us that Turkey’s The game production history is not far behind the rest of the world. It actually shows.
Let’s also take a look at “Strip Backgammon”, another game released by UFO Software.
Strip Backgammon, also designed for the Commodre 64, was, as its name suggests, a backgammon game. However erotic elements It also contained. You chose one of the beautiful female characters as your opponent, and as you started to win, the female character distracted you by taking off her clothes. Now you can guess the end of the game…
In short Strip Backgammon and Barbaros, It constituted the infancy period of Turkish game production history. Does anyone remember these games or ever played them? If so, please enlighten us in the comments!
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