What was the first PC game you bought and played?

[M31]

Mine was Jet Fighter 2 I bought just after buying my first PC ... a 386 DX 33 with DOS5 back in about 1990, quite fitting really as the machine I owned before that was an Amiga 500 that shipped with FA /18 Interceptor that was the predecessor to this game.

Fast fwd to now and I'm still playing Flight Sim's ! First actual game for the PC would have been Lucas Arts Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis point and click adventure, great game in its time.

What was yours?

[MomijiTMO]

For PC the first game that I got addicted to was Dark Reign.

[WrigleyVillain]

The first one was Bard's Tale on an Apple IIe. I then fell out of the game (heh) for awhile. Played Quake SP in the mid-90s but it was the original Unreal that roped me back in 10 years ago.

[chunkylover77]

First game I played that I bought was Alone in the Dark. Awesome game.

[Bootup05]

Mine was back in probably 96/9. You were a space shuttle who travelled along these coloured block / level type things, you'd have to press left / right / up / down to get to the next brick whilst flying, it was all in a straight line.

Does ANYONE know what this game is called? I used to totally love it!

[Happy Joe]

Probably the first Doom... although it may have been; Duke Nukem or Quake 1 ...

Enjoy!

[Kai Robinson]

First PC game was probably Sim City 2000....on two floppies! :D

[picard]

mech warrior. I now play with ghost recon advanced war fighter

[philbrown23]

oregon trail baby oregon trail.

[stevecs]

The original Eamon Adventure series (text based), written mainly in BASIC, mainly on the Apple ][ (non of the + crap! ;) ). Then there was Adventure (this was on a DEC VAX I believe). Both in the 70's..

[ShArKo]

my first was Mortak Kombat 4..........and I run the game on a Pentium MMX 233MHZ + 32MB Ram SIMM + Diamond Viper 330 Turbo 4MB and Mother Unknow for me =P

Great game, realy :D

[Stumbo]

oregon trail baby oregon trail.

hahaah me too.

[oli_ramsay]

The first game I ever bought was the hive http://www.csoon.com/issue12/hive.htm. A very basic click and shoot game. My favourite game was Rise Of The Triads. It came pre-installed on my PC and it was awesome :D

[Mango31]

Falcon 1.0 :cool:

[M31]

Falcon 1.0 :cool:

I played that and its add ons on the Amiga 500, Falcon 3 and its add ons was the first in the series I played on the PC ... It was Falcon 3 that prompted my first upgrade so I could benefit from a maths co processor and this was my first PC build in fact, built a 486 DX2 66, 4MB ram, Tseng 1MB graphic card (this was before VLB) and I bought one of the first Thrustmaster HOTAS for it ... great times :)

[WrigleyVillain]

Did someone say Oregon Trail (http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html)? :D

[insayno27]

Oregon Trail FTW !!!
I think the first I bought was Monkey Island

[Logos]

first one I played was Doom II on a friend's pc in 1995. First game I bought and played was Quake II after I acquired my first computer in 1998 (Pentium 233/3DFX Voodoo/64 MB RAM...)...followed by Unreal and Half Life...I consider these 3 games (QII/HL/Unreal) as what started the whole 3D gaming madness :up:

[gr8golf]

Half Life - then CS 1.6. Wish I'd never picked it up on sale *just to see* what a 3D card could do. Damn gaming.

[[XC] Hicks121]

Medal of Honor, then MOHAA>>>FTW!!!

[labs23]

Mine was Diablo 2, a collector's edition bundled w/ Diablo 1:up:.

[bullet2urbrain]

Commander Keen and Some tetris knockoff... also Gorillas in QBASIC.

First that i bought and played?? Probably Warcraft 2 on a 100mHz Toshiba.

[Der_KHAN]

... also Gorillas in QBASIC.rofl, the one where you could throw exploding bananas? :D
Fast fwd to now and I'm still playing Flight Sim's !which exactly?

[RAW-Raptor22]

Im a late riser. Battlefield: 1942

[ultimate11]

Doom / Duke nukem

[spookmineer]

Parsec (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsec_(TI-99/4A_computer_game)) for the TI-99/4A.
I remember when I first got 300,000 after 1.5 hours or so.

[Xanadu]

Oregon Trail!

Jenny has Dysentery!

[lefy]

Doom or Duke Nukem, but it was Quake that got me addicted to pc gaming... specifically online multiplayer ctf. good times

[Kobalt]

Jeeze I don't even remember. Bought myself... probably counterstrike. But as far as the first game I owned and played might have been Age of the Empires.

[Stanley Pain]

Dune 2, was the first game I bought with my own money ;)

[M31]

The first Human opposition I experienced would have been with my 486, a friend who had a similar computer left it at mine for a week, we hooked them up together with a null modem cable, it took a lot of figuring out ... this was with DOS 6, remember.

But eventually we got Doom or it might have been Doom 2? but definitely, Falcon 3, Tornado and 1942 the Pacific Air War synced and talking over this short cable ... hard work back in those DOS days.

I was a Flight Sim Geek back then too, so had first gen TM HOTAS and my *then* current TM HOTAS of the time arrangements on same desk, my opponent was right to me on other side of desk and I could not see his screen, he could not see mine, we both had similar HOTAS controllers (he was using my older one) ... though in fairness, I had more experience with mine:)

Eventually battle ensued, we tried Tornado first, we could synch OK but only once saw each other in the air very briefly, we both vowed to stop and actually read the manuals ... my god, they were thick manuals in those days.

Next up ... Falcon 3 ... I was on top and greased my friend, same with 1942 Pacific Air war, this was down to my hours practicing flight sims and combat and familiarity of both sims though.

Finally, Doom ... my friend greased me in this game, he had been playing it solo, just as I had been playing flight sim solo and was better because of it.

Amazing when I think back on it.

I know this is supposed to be first game memory's, but what about your first memory's playing against another Human Player?

Please recall them.

[1Tanker]

Hard to remember...was ~91/92. My POS 386/16 only had 2MB RAM/42MB HDD@84MB via Stacker, so it wouldn't play much(so many TSR errors :ROTF: )...mostly shareware games on 5.25 floppy. Original Links was good, Leisure-Suit Larry :D and Wolfenstein. I spent millions of hours playing Pyramid Solitaire :rolleyes: .

[Blauhung]

commander keen, Wolfenstein are probably some of my first. X-com was in there too along with the first warcraft.

X-com is awesome, I still play that occasionally to this day.

[lepper_messiah]

the first pc game ive played was 'wings of fury'

[Riggs]

Robot arena.. lol...

[ExodusC]

For me it was Diablo.

I had played lots of other games on others PCs, but I didn't get into gaming on my own until I played Diablo.

Since then computers have been my life.

[adamsleath]

pool of radiance.

[IcepiK]

-Leisure Suit Larry 1987 -Willy Beamish 1991 -Wolfenstein 3D 1992

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/ST_Leisure_Suit_Larry.pnghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/The_Adventures_of_Willy_Beamish_Coverart.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Wolfenstein_3D_title_screen.png

[fart_plume]

first video game I had was pong. The first pc game was Gunship on the TRS-1000.

[drbhatti]

the original quake 1.........brilliant game!

[THX1138]

Ouch this goes back a long ways. I think the first game was Pirates on the commodore 128. I played several of the D&D games back then. I really loved alot of the games from Origin. Wing commander, Ultima etc. That brings back a alot of great memories.

[RaZz!]

wolfenstein 3d and all kind of apogee games (commander keen, secret agent, bio menace, monster bash, etc...) as well as lucas arts games :D but i got these games as a gift.

the first game i bought on my own was star wars rebel assault in 1993. hell, i've never beat that game :eek:

[mikey976]

lets see there was a few, commander keen, Ultima II Labrynth of worlds <- spent months in this one

[drtitanium0]

The original Age of Empires. I used to play that game for hours on end. I played the second one even more. By the time the third one came out I was so into FPS's I realized I didn't even like RTS's anymore. However, Company of Heroes recently pulled me back into the genre, probably the best RTS I have every played.

[Zigosity]

Descent I and the two Ultima VI games.

I loved those. Still play through them from time to time.

-Zigosity

[Decami]

Doom / Duke nukem

same here (of coarse besides Oregon trail)!

[Loser777]

Played would probably be Minesweeper or some really old Lion King kids game...

First one that I bought and played would be StarCraft.

[Gunlance]

Jeeze I don't even remember. Bought myself... probably counterstrike. But as far as the first game I owned and played might have been Age of the Empires.

I'm with you on the first game owned and played :up:

[Fungus]

First game I had was the odyssey (sp?) move the dot, lol...

first computer game I bought was paradroid for the commodore 64...

first PC game, wolfenstein3d.

[Mr.Guvernment]

PC - Delta Force 2!!! man it rocked!

[Andrew LB]

First computer game that wasn't on a console was either Kings Quest or Space Quest. I got my first PC immediately after playing the original Doom for the first time.

[Blkout]

I don't recall the first PC game I bought and played, but I do remember the first game I actually played a lot which was Unreal when it was released. I was a little late to PC gaming as I was a die hard console gamer, but once I got into Unreal, I was hooked on PC gaming.

[M31]

First game I played that I bought was Alone in the Dark. Awesome game.

I remember that one well, absolute classic ... I hear the new remake is grim though?

[M31]

-Leisure Suit Larry 1987
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/2/27/ST_Leisure_Suit_Larry.pnghttp://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/04/The_Adventures_of_Willy_Beamish_Coverart.png http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7e/Wolfenstein_3D_title_screen.png

Leisure Suit Larry was a hoot ... A PC game were you tried to get laid :) back in the days of no internet, this was my first indication of the American sense of humor ... games like that were a subtle reminder that real life existed too, though :)

[Piotrsama]

First game I played that I bought was Alone in the Dark. Awesome game.
Alone in the dark 2, here :)


Did someone say Oregon Trail (http://www.virtualapple.org/oregontraildisk.html)? :D

It loads the game, a menu with 4 options appear, but then I don't know which keys to press... it doesn't respond to my commands :(
How do you use that emulator?

[ThugsRook]

1996... Descent

the game is why i bought a computer, pentium 100mhz and DOS :ROTF:

[Hondo=TFD=]

Tony Hawk Pro Skater, came with my Compaq.

[Just learnin']

Either Pharaoh's Tomb, Wolfenstein3D, Crystal Caves, Monster Bash or Goblins1.

[amped_imports]

Hellgate :ROTF:

[rickeo]

Warcraft baby... or was is Falcon 4.0.. Myst? cant remember...

[Zytek_Fan]

Curse of Monkey Island!
And Dungeon Keeper!

[Anemone]

I played the original Pong, but it belonged to a neighbor so I can't say I "paid for it".

Games played that I payed for included Wizardry (the original), Wolfensteing (also the original), and Karateka, back in the days of the Apple II+ and a monochrome green monitor :)

[Katanai]

The first I played I think it was Golden Axe although I'm not that certain, it could have been Lotus or some other racing sim. The first game I bought was LHX Attack Chopper, again not so certain as I used to buy my games in batches. But I was crazy about video games way before I had a PC...

[BakerT]

Little Big Adventure. What a great game...

[Dark Prodigy]

Bards Tale III: Thief of Fate

[gillll]

quake2 and UNREAL.
ahh unreal such memories :)

[hixie]

My first game was Crystal Cave, and that was on windows 3.1. I had to exit windows, insert the 5.25" floppy then command DOS to load the game! :rofl: Brings back so many memories.
Link: http://www.3drealms.com/caves/index.html

[twwen2]

Ski Free for Win 3.1! :D

Although i didn't actually buy that, it came with our family IBM :ROTF:

[Kondik]

I bought Quest for Glory I , as my first game :p then a couple of years "not so legal" practices and then Morrowind + all datadiscs :hehe:

[Chewbenator]

We had some kind of Mac as our first family computer, and my dad bought some like Bert and Ernie Sesame Street game for us. I remember it being on a 5 inch floppy.

But, the first game that I consciously bought was Red Alert after playing it at my best friend's cousin's house. Sadly it didn't work with our Packard Bell at the time and I didn't get to play it for another 3 years when we got a new computer (Dell). I believe the next game(s) I bought were F22 Raptor and a tank game. They were too realistic for me at the time and I couldn't do more than get the plane off the runway. I stuck with a Playstation for a few years for gaming, then when I got my own computer bought a bunch of strategy and turn based games and went on from there.

[Stealth42o]

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six, 1997 as I recall.

[Glyph]

Magic candle 3

Interestingly enough, when i first bought it the game had a bug that prevented me from getting a key quest item. So i played through amassing every possible item but never actually winning.

recently, i found the game again on some "abandonware" sites and played it again. I figure the company was gone and i already paid for it so it was fair game to download it.

Finally beat it and got to the ending.

I can now brag it took me 18 years to beat that game :D

[Mortal]

My first "bought" (:p:) PC game was Full Throttle. I miss Lucas Arts adventure games. :(

[Muhad]

Quake II, love it and miss it.

[Kingcarcas]

Rollercoaster Tycoon 3:D

[KoHaN69]

Crysis

[Razrback16]

Doom in DOS. :) Back in the early 90's. Back in the day...when things were just awesome & tons of fun. I miss those days.

[tiro_uspsss]

NFS2 in '97 - one of the best NFS' ever to come out!

[ownage]

Keen or Hocus-Pocus on floppy's. Screw Crysis, those old games still own!

[Slovnaft]

Baldur's Gate: Shadows of Amn.

I am AD&D hardxcore. :D:D:D

@Kohan
Crysis? Really?? The first??? How old are you>? dayumn

[Sy[N]tH]

Crusader: No Remorse (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusader_(computer_game)) ... Awesome graphics for its time :D

I usually got my games (Blake Stone, Commander Keen, X-Wing...) on BBSes or through my best friend's dad, who was in w@rez big time, believe it or not !

[Section8]

Hmmm I am dating myself pretty bad here but it was Kings Quest. I was addicted bad.

[Loony]

Microprose Grand Prix. A loooooooooooooooooooong time ago. :ROTF:

[DilTech]

King's Quest back in the 80's...Been a PC gamer since before I was even old enough for school.


Hmmm I am dating myself pretty bad here but it was Kings Quest. I was addicted bad.

King's quest owned. I preferred the space quest and hero's quest(later renamed quest for glory), but king's quest was a lot of fun.

[hutkikz]

Zork 1 on my trash80. before that I had a book of games that i had to type in the code myself, spent more time debugging than actually playing.
I remember that when radio shack quit selling pong my local store put them in a bargian bin for a buck a piece, I bought all of them. WE modded the hell out of those things, just like Kelso and Red on that 70's show

[Der_KHAN]

The first game I bought was LHX Attack ChopperMan that game was the :banana::banana::banana::banana:!

i used to play that with a buddy of mine in "coop" :D

one guy piloting with the joystick and the other one at the keyboard selecting targets, weapons and operating chaffs/flares, radar range and stuff...

[Knight203]

first game was America's army, first bought was CS1.6 game still owns BOOO SOURCE

[Mortal]

Baldur's Gate: Shadows of Amn.


You certainly started out on the right foot there. :up:

[hoax]

Hmmm I am dating myself pretty bad here but it was Kings Quest. I was addicted bad.

LOL!!!! this thread was driving me insane because I would read its title and couldn't remember the name of my first game... Kings Quest!!!! hahaha :ROTF:

IIRC it was something like 12+ floppys, and we were soooooo amazed at the graphics when it came out... the only thing I can remember was a mission where you actually had to find a needle in the haystack. classic!!!


thanks for that, great memories :up:

[Zenoth]

It was SWAT 3: Close Quarter Battles, back in early December 1999 (was actually released in late November of the same year). I remember running it on my PCI XFX GeForce 4 MX-440 64MB Sucky Edition at first (I still got that card in its original box to this very day, and I'm sure it'd still work). And some time after I got my AGP Radeon 9600 Pro 128MB, and the performance and visual quality difference was like comparing day and night.

[VoGonPT]

Duke Nukem!

2D, horrible graphics, but loads of fun :D

Graphics wise it was bad for me as I moved from an Commodore Amiga to an 486...

[snipper_cr]

Montezuma's Revenge! One 5.25 floppy disk on an old mac!

[DTU_XaVier]

The first game I ever bought for myself, was Jet Fighter: Full Burn....
Got tons of fun out of it, without ever getting very far in the game (hardcore combat flight-sim + 8 year old = no go :p: )
My brother bought the first Baldur's Gate the same day :D

Best Regards :toast:

[koc]

Doom

[Paladin]

Wizardry on Apple][+. (I still have both it and the Apple in original packaging. :p:)

[Soulburner]

The question is what is the first game you bought and played. In that case, excluding all of the games I grew up with as gifts...the first one I actually bought on my own and played was Diablo I believe.

[DementeD]

i started on Age of Empires(i think i bought the expansion, friend had the first game) then i was introduced to Star Craft by another friend..which at first..hated..cause i was so use to AOE..but..after a little while of playing i was seriously addicted playing hours n hours a day stuck on 56k and having my older brother be a :banana::banana::banana::banana: and pick up the phone so id lag to :banana::banana::banana::banana: n back..then watch me rage over it..haha

god..those were the days..i was nasty at that game..10yr old game that still owns ...i play it here n there even now..

[bhavv]

I started of playing all the kiddy Disney games in my younger years, but my first memorable, addictive, and the game which converted me to PC gaming was...

Civilization II

And then Baldurs Gate 1, Heretic, and Populous the Beginning .....

I got off on the best start you can imagine :)

[Xello]

Half Life: Generations 3 (HL + Opposing Force + Blue Shift + CS), probably the best box set-ish type thing to exist until the orange box :clap:

[WesM63]

Half-Life as well.

I was so dumb founded by the game, didn't understand what was even going on at first. (Used to Doom & Quake) Took me weeks to beat it.

[elite.ire]

hrm, was a game called jumpy (2d) played it on an old apricot we had back in the early-mid 90's, then it graduated to gta and doom :D

[Hell Hound]

RAINBOW SIX THREE RAVENSHIELD Gold Edition,who want some!:up:

[ProStreetCamaro]

RAINBOW SIX THREE RAVENSHIELD Gold Edition,who want some!:up:


Best shooter ever made period end of story. My friends and I started playing it the first day the demo was released. We joined a clan full of super guys and girls and even went as high as #1 in TWL till the cheating became real bad. It is a shame that almost nobody plays any longer. I hop in once in a while but there are very few servers with anybody playing. Our clan was RVS only and when it died out so did our clan. I sure do miss those guys we had many many fun nights.


[F&F]ProStreet :yepp:

[TedShred]

Half Life

Blew me away. I think I actually got a bit of vertigo the first time I crawled out of that cliff-side tube (after the jet flies by - loved that!).

Showed up for work with max 2 hrs. sleep for a couple weeks.

[MightyAA]

Apple IIe; Castle Wolfenstein
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/73/CastleWolfensteinPickChest.png
or GATO for the PC XT (ran on a 5-1/4" floppy, no hard drives on that rig)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e2/Gatoshot.png

[slim142]

First computer game I played was Cosmos Cosmic Adventure (WHAT A FCKIN GAME!!!!)
On my 486 that had turbo button (from 33mhz to 66mhz)

[Herc130]

I had an 8088. While they were putting it together..I picked out a game. That game was Ultima

http://img162.imageshack.us/img162/9209/ulticollscreen003uc2.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

[cabbspapp]

I think it was a few, NFS: Porsche Unleashed, Flight Simulator 2000, and Combat flight sim. I didn't really get into PC gaming until around BF2 came out.

[bowhead]

the Sims 2!!:D
I know that this is a complete delirium and not the game, but it brought my father, and at that time(2001) it was considered cool!

[Hoboclese]

First game i ever bought and played was C&C tiberian sun which then lead me to the rest of the series man i love those games

[Nanometer]

Sim City, the original. Back in elementary school.

[M31]

First computer game I played was Cosmos Cosmic Adventure (WHAT A FCKIN GAME!!!!)
On my 486 that had turbo button (from 33mhz to 66mhz)

LOL .... I remember those Turbo button's on my 486's, always kept it full speed of course.

[BreeSpree]

Anyone say STARCRAFT yet?

[Mr.Kakarot]

doom 3, yes I was late to the party....

[mikeyakame]

first game i ever played was either leisure suit larry (original typed commands) or police quest! that was a long long time ago! I spent so many hours trying to figure out the 18yr+ question protection on leisure suit larry as a 5yr old! if it couldnt even keep a little kid like me out, it was pretty useless! gone are the protections of yester-year!

the day i remember most was when i bought my first soundblaster 8bit card! that changed the whole pc experience, pc speaker became a thing of the past! i remember saving up my allowance to buy that $50 card! it was expensive back then toO!

one of the first games i bought was Curse of Monkey Island back in 90 or 91.

[Oc-Ghost]

Mine was back in probably 96/9. You were a space shuttle who travelled along these coloured block / level type things, you'd have to press left / right / up / down to get to the next brick whilst flying, it was all in a straight line.

Does ANYONE know what this game is called? I used to totally love it!

maybe this? Skyroads (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/63/Skyroads.html)

Mine was Digger (http://www.oldgames.nu/Digger/Digger/77/) & Castle Adventure (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/226/Castle+Adventure.html)

Those were the days :D

[DirkJan]

Transport Tycoon Deluxe

[CowGuy]

I think the first game I played was Mech Warrior. I was 6 or 7.

[slim142]

maybe this? Skyroads (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/63/Skyroads.html)

Mine was Digger (http://www.oldgames.nu/Digger/Digger/77/) & Castle Adventure (http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/226/Castle+Adventure.html)

Those were the days :D

Man! Skyroads! that game was awesome! I remember I played it even when I upgraded to XP...

I also remember playing a game that was similar. You were a spaceship that had to destroy others and the first level was a red floor one. This spaceships werent really spaceships, I remember they looked like blue/white triangles/polygons. Second level was like on the moon and the big monster always killed me :( ....

Dont remember the name of this game though...

[loonym]

hmmm... I played the hell out of qbert on my c64. I still have that computer.

[Frananta]

Its Uncharted water II: New horizon

I played it for 2 days straight, without sleeping and taking bath.

[donmega]

First game played was Starcraft:Brood War....great game(still)!!

first post!!WOOT!!

[Zucker2k]

NFS 5: Porsche Unleashed. Now those were cool gaming days, the 95/96 Porsche Turbos were awesome machines.

[Plan.B]

Might & Magic II, on 5.25 inch floppies, for the Apple IIC, I believe. I still have it.

[SoulsCollective]

Commander Keen, the Dukes, Albion. Oh for the days of plot before pixels.

[mAJORD]

First one I played would have been Alley Cat..

BOUGHT and played,, geeze. wacky wheels?? Pretty sure I 'aquired' everything else from either shareware, allready installed.. off mates, etc etc.

[BiFfMaN]

Bards Tale for the Commodore 64

[RAW-Raptor22]

NFS 5: Porsche Unleashed. Now those were cool gaming days, the 95/96 Porsche Turbos were awesome machines.

I still play that game on occasion, takes me a good 3-4 hour stint to beat evolution mode all the way through. Still my favorite game for customization, and realistic racing. :up::up::up:

[Shogan]

Montezuma's revenge on a 286 for me (first game played), along with F15 Strike Eagle flight sim. All in their monochrome goodness! Although the first game I bought myself with my own money was Myst for Windows 3.1. Also my first CDROM game.

[kuhla]

Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure on my 386.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmo%27s_Cosmic_Adventure

I had so much fun at the time playing that.

[JaYp146]

The first I officially bought was TIE Fighter: Collector's Edition.

Then, two years later, Star Wars: Rebellion.

:D

[ReverendMaynard]

GORF on the C64

[Darrelj]

oregon trail baby oregon trail.

Wow that takes me back to 5th grade in 1982. I was exposed to OT and used to love when the teacher would give us free time on the Macintosh to play it.

[Darrelj]

Hmmm I am dating myself pretty bad here but it was Kings Quest. I was addicted bad.


Oh man! This was one of the best games ever. We could not afford a computer on my mom's salary then, but I would walk down the street to an IBM store in downtown Cincinnati,OH and hang in there as long as I could to play this game.

I hate that fact that being in inner city schools did not give me a chance to be exposed to computers at an early age!

I would take me almost 11 years later to be exposed to the WWW and then another 3 before I would get my first pc.

Did any of you folk have access to a pc in the early to middle 80s??

[OzJustin]

Mid 80s? Not here unfortunately. Wasn't until maybe 95 that we got our first family Packard Bell.

Oh I struggle to think back that far.
For me it might have been Halloween Harry or Commander Keen? Remember playing that with friends out in the back room on his super computer :P

[dethred]

If I don't count games my parents already had loaded on the machine... I think it was "Where in the World is Carmen San Diego" on the mac, but that was a gift.

First bought game that wasn't a gift was the original "Age of Empires". I actually played that game so much online that my dad's $2,000 Pentium 200mhz laptop died after a few month and I had to sneak down stairs in the middle of the night. I think it was when I made a few maps with 1000 soldiers with the console hack and it took about 1 minute to process a frame.

Age of Empires 2 didn't fit on the 2GB hard drive with only 150MB remaining, so I had to delete a bunch of stuff that he needed, and uninstall the game every night so there was space for other stuff and page file during the day.:rofl:

[B.E.E.F.]

I think it was Wolfenstein 3D. Or pack rat.

Pack rat:

http://www.dosgamesarchive.com/download/packrat.gif
I hate this game.

[Zucker2k]

Raptor22;3315808']I still play that game on occasion, takes me a good 3-4 hour stint to beat evolution mode all the way through. Still my favorite game for customization, and realistic racing. :up::up::up:

I still have my CD, maybe we could organize an XS multiplayer session sometime.

[Tech Niques]

First game ever played was Oregon Trail on our school computers. You've died of Dysentry "AGAIN!?".

Then Doom 1 & 2, Duke Nukem 3D (too many memories of lan parties) and Destrucion Derby (Psygnosis).

[DonInKansas]

GORF on the C64

That game was awesome!:up:

My first one I actually bought and played was Hero's Quest (later renamed Quest for Glory). I still think of the Thief's song they played when he broke into a house when I'm walking around in the dark.:ROTF:

[Fac3man]

Terminal Velocity and Wolfenstien 3d.

[DRT-Maverick]

The first one was Bard's Tale on an Apple IIe. I then fell out of the game (heh) for awhile. Played Quake SP in the mid-90s but it was the original Unreal that roped me back in 10 years ago.



I too played craploads of AppleII games including one where you were this square box w/ a hat and had to pick up and drop special crystals or something...


In addition, I played Doom and Quake and everything, but nothing got me into FPS like Unreal did, that brought me into computers and computer gaming bigtime. With that game I was motivated to get into level design, start building computers and much more.

[just a noob]

first game i actully bought was red alert two, of course that was in like the second grade, i can remember i had some tonka game, and then simfarm

[Webster]

Doom on 2 floppies.

[HuffPCair]

My first game EVER on PC was Wheel of Fortune on Floppy. I loved that game

[DataCables]

the first game i played was called mortimer and the riddles of the lost medallion. it was a lucas arts game. played it on my gateway.

http://i6.ebayimg.com/06/i/000/be/90/4fa7_1.JPG

[Monkey101]

Starcraft

[KoHaN69]

@Kohan
Crysis? Really?? The first??? How old are you>? dayumn

/sarcasm

I'd never pay forCrysis or any game from EA for that matter.

[JacobF]

Probably Kings Quest 5, Lode runner, Wolf3D I also have some fond memories of NFS1. Man those were the days :)

[icon57]

Intellivision console hockey, burger time (http://www.addictinggames.com/burgertime.html)

Amiga Games history (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUoJBerFDsA) played most of them then went to PC with 133MHZ OC'ed 150MHz) 32megRAM with RAGEII 2meg video on MB asus p55T2P4 250meg HDD duke Nukem wolvenstien3D but first game brought was TombRaiderII with 200MHz MMX with a voodoo video card

man i loved intellivision, my favs were subhunt, biplanes, boxing, and baseball, had a blast back in 1980 with this system, which sold for 300.00 back then, and games were 60.00 each.
first pc game was doom...1996?