PC Gaming

GTA Vice City. I remember "concealing" weapons by switching to the empty hand near police officers, since open carrying a minigun didn't seem legal. The cheats were very fun in that game aswell, like cars driving on water, or who could forget the classic "panzer". Also it really looked like real life, but if one were to play VC now, you'd wonder what was wrong with my eyes as a kid lol. That seems to be a common sentiment about old 3D games though, really impressive how advanced 3D tech became in a few years.

Math Blaster for our Tandy 4000. My parents got it for me because I was shit at math. I’m still shit at math.

It would have to be the Learning Company's Treasure Mountain!, which the computers in my classroom had in Grade 1. I liked it just fine, but a few years later my Grade 4 computer had Ancient Empires and that's the one I really got into. My teacher once agreed to break school rules and send the floppy disk home with me because I refused to get off the computer at the end of day.

Loderunner. Yeah, back when people had 5 1/4" disks for games.

'Where In the World is Carmen San Diego' on a Commodore 64 in elementary school! I loved that game so much. Looked forward to computer class every week. Also, my cousin had a mac, I think, that had a game where you played two tanks on opposite sides of the screen, and the tanks shoot each other and drop bombs on each other. Edit: wiki tells me it was called Scorched Earth. I can still remember the sound effects...wish I could remember the name of that one! The first PC game that I really gave huge chunks of my life to was Ultima Online (Pacific shard woop woop). My first Guild experience...first dungeon crawl..ahh the nostalgia..those were good times. Cor por!

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. Played it on a monochrome green EGA monitor. The "copy protection," such as it was, asked us who Richard Nixon's running mate was and we didn't know enough English at the time to comprehend. After trial and error, managed to get into the game and didn't have a flaming clue what we were doing. A ripping good time, it was.

It's very likely one of my first PC games was a Humongous Entertainment game. Putt-Putt Joins the Parade or Putt-Putt Goes To The Moon were probably my introductions. I also remember playing Elf Bowling on my Grandma's Windows 95 computer every time I would visit her house.

My uncle gave us a bunch of PC games for my 286 pc. Among them was a Spider-Man game, a chess game, a couple classic arcade games, and ascii game that started with a Z that I can’t remember the name of, Leisure Suit Larry, and a side scroller with a woman with a sword. I was so young. I learned DOS fast and was playing the games. I liked to walk around as Leisure Suit Larry but I never understood the point of the game until I saw the sequels in my later teens.

The first computer my family had was a really old one with MS DOS. First game was either Nibbles, or a weird platformer called Dark Ages (can't remember which I tried first).

Oregon Trail. I died of dysentery.

Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo. I loved that game, and all the other Humongous Entertainment games

Frogger on DOS, fuck I feel old.

SimCity 2000. I loved building giant grid cities and then destroying them. My dad was always kind enough to cheat in a bunch of money for me.

Best I can remember it was a DOS game called Number Munchers. You had to dodge monsters while solving math.

Roller Coaster Tycoon is the first that I really remember. I don't even remember which cereal it came in but that was the best value ever.

Zork!

Oregon Trail for sure at school, but I also remember playing The Secret of Monkey Island on our Tandy at home alongside a Wheel of Fortune game.

the first PC game I actually played was WoW. And how I reacted was proceeding to grow up addicted to wow, spending over $3000 dollars on the game, and now play league of legends.

Our first computer was a crap 486dx with a turbo button. My dad bought a red demo cd with a bunch of different game demos.

Boy that CD had some shitty games but some were golden.

My days were filled with typing d:\go.bat And seeing which games I could bludgeon into working by editing their ini files in doshell.

Age of empires. Straight out of a Nutri-Grain box like 20 years ago. Always thought I was pretty good at it because I played when I was a kid. Turns out I used cheats a lot and the game is actually super hard for me.

My first was hangman in kindergarten. I think it was on a Tandy. It was so simple but still enough of a reward that the fear of losing access to it was though to keep most kids in line.

Red Alert 2. I played the shit out of it in elementary school and once in a while afterwards up to this day. What a banger.

Hmmm

Probably SkiFree on an old win3.1 pc.

But if we want to play with the rules, i "played" the fuck out pf MS Paint.

The first actual computer game i bought was Morloc's Tower for the Apple II+, which i bought when visiting San Francisco.

Temple of Apshai for the Apple 2... Brings back memories.

California Games for DOS on a monochrome orange and black monitor. This was the late 80s and I was just starting school. I remember it being extremely difficult but thought it was amazing all the same.

The first I remember was in my cousin's computer in 99 or 2000, and it was Motocross Madness or Motocross Madness 2.
I remember just going out of bounds for hours just to be thrown into the air ahahah

When I got my personal PC in 2005, my first game was, Need for Speed Underground 2, followed by Pro Evolution Soccer 4, CS 1.6, GTA: San Andreas, and Football Manager 2005

Channel Crossing on the ZX81. A frogger rip off on a computer so primitive the only graphics were numbers and letters plus some predefined block shapes. Of course in glorious black and white. We still thought it was amazing.

The first ‘computer’ game I ever played was some lunar lander on a teletype hooked up to a mainframe. Make updates to your thrusts and watch the results print out on paper

The first actual game with a screen was the original Adventure game on a minicomputer.
XYZZY motherfuckers!

I think Heart of Darkness was one of the first PC games I played. I was probably around 5 years old at the time. I remember finding it really scary, so I never managed to finish the game 😅

The first game I played on PC that I can remember was probably Word Munchers or Oregon Trail in elementary school in the late 80s.

Hocus Pocus on DOS. I was only 4 or 5 at the time, and my brother would have to set it up for me since I didn't know how to use DOS. I'd tell him I wanted to play my Lucky Charms game, because for some reason my child brain associated the main character wit the Lucky Charms leprechaun.

nfs2 se and i was blown away. i was later blown away by the cheats and whatnot you could race as.

My first computer was an ancient Tandy that my uncle gifted to me when he upgraded. It used large cartridges for programs, and while it was mostly (very primitive) productivity software, I did have a very janky Pacman-style game.

I spent many hours playing that game. Many. It as objectively awful, but it was all I had, even gruel looks like a delicacy when you're starving.

The first computer we owned that I was allowed to use was a windows 95 machine, so my earliest games were built in stuff like Hover, Chips challenge, and skifree.

First game I bought was Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's stone, it ran horribly on the computer for a little bit, then crashed and would never run again.

Oregon Trail via 8 inch floppy. Highly recommend Organ Trail for nostalgia part deux.

In the 90s, my father had an IBM running DOS so he could get work done at home. He also had a huge floppy of Friendlyware, which was a suite of family friendly games. Some of these were clones, but they all definitely had their charm. I played the hell out of those games. One of my best childhood memories.

Me and my sister would also love to type gibberish at the DOS prompt and try to pronounce what crazy mess we typed. That was a game in and of itself.

For the curious and nostalgic: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friendlyware

Sonic Adventure DX and the Putt-Putt games were my first exposure. And then later Sims 3.

93' Sid Miers Civilization on a Macintosh LC III.

I still cannot find that game anywhere or emulated. Anytime there's hope, or anyone gives a link, it's always the chonky dos version.

My older brother was very much into pc gaming while I was a few years behind so things get a bit foggy, however my best friend's dad at the time has multiple computers for work and we ended up playing adventure Island and commander keen a fair bit, later on my memories of games at home include stuntz, Street rod, the incredible machine, jetpack, there was one where you where a drug dealer?, Diablo, blood, doom, leisure suit Larry and so on but I guess my earliest memories would be of adventure Island and at the time I thought it was pretty fantastic and it was cool to play a game that wasn't my brothers

The first game I purchased with my own money was tomb raider and I'll be honest, it was mostly because of the cover art but looking back it was quite a technical achievement

My first pc was a 286 sprouting an amazing 1mb of ram with cga graphics on an amber screen. Games like Leaderboard Golf, Police Quest, Leasure suite larry and so on were played. The quest games were probably our first serious PC games I had a Commodore 64 for more arcade style stuff. Back then it had better sound and graphics.

It was Marble Madness. I was terrible at it, so I mostly remember the first level.

Morrowind. As a kid I would watch my mom play it, and around age 12-13 I began playing it heavily. Learned how to install mods by .exe and by hand if necessary, grew up in the Morrowind mod community (which was great people) tried to make a few mods myself...good fuckin times man. Sometimes Morrowind scared me but mostly I marvelled at the beauty of it, and I love it to this day.

God, probably Starcraft? I got it on the supercheap at Walmart a bit after I got my first PC (around 2000 or so).

The first PC game I ever played? That's a bit subjective, but I'll bite:
The first computer game I played was either Word Munchers, Number Munchers, or Oregon Trail on my school computer lab's Apple ][e. Again, this wasn't mine, nor was it a PC!
The first PC game I ever played was likely Math Blaster, but again, this was on a school PC this time. Not mine though.
Finally, my first PC was a 386. The first real game I played on it....Battle Chess!