What's the first PC game that you've ever played?

[Yamamoto]

Mine would be Mega Race on a Packard Bell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBz9KjREdM

[Krylas]

Pinball.

[Temet nosce]

The first game I played on a PC? Wolfenstein I think. (I'm probably wrong though, still it's definitely the first one I spent large amounts of time on)

[Madrandomize]

Xenon II

[WhySoSerious]

duke nukem

waaaay back in like 1996 or something

[Viluin]

http://www.thecomputershow.com/computershow/reviews/pod.htm

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhpaFTh0KC0&feature=related

The graphics appeared to be a lot better back then.

Xenon II

I played that on my Amiga, before I had a PC. That game was great, I loved the customization options and all the cool weapons.

[KoomValley]

I think either quake or doom. Not sure which.

[MyKronos]

Age of empires I think

[Dragonfly]

Parsec on the TI99. I couldn't even speak clearly, but I was able to cycle through the game once before it went back to a harder version of the first level.

http://www.videogamehouse.net/parsec.html

[Haart Maystorm]

Decent... or minesweeper. Can't remember which.

[Salaman]

Some sort of football game on a commodore 64. I was like 3 years old so I don't remember much of it at all.

[Legend-]

duke nukem, on windows 3.11

[Behhemoth]

Minesweeper, but for an actual game it was either half-life or quake, can't remember. But I did play both extensively, as difficult for me as it was at the time.

[Silt]

Some sort of football game on a commodore 64. I was like 3 years old so I don't remember much of it at all.

Thanks you just made me feel very old.... Commodore 64 and those stupid little tapes.... First 'real' game I played was Heavy Gear, gotta love big ass mechs with full customization ;)

[DeathByCactus]

Wolfenstine... or Blood... or Duke Nukem.... or that game for windows 95 where you drive around in bumper carts and collect flags. I can't remember.

[Teutates]

Sonic I think.

[Caffy]

Battle Chess when I was a wee tike.

http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/bchess.htm

[DeathByCactus]

Battle Chess when I was a wee tike.

http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/bchess.htm

OMG that game was AWESOME!

[Baralis]

Wow I can tell how young alot of you are by your answers or rather how old I am. My first game was some Kung Fu game on a com 64 and it was on multiple floppies.

[Master Isaac]

Elite and the Bards Tale triology (commodore 64 with 5 1/4'' floppy).

Greetings Isaac

[kingpin]

i was playing together with my brother golden axe at a computer that had only dos and took those flat floppy discs :O

back then we enjoyed it so much, today it hurts my eyes.

[Drafli]

I think it was called Spy vs Spy, back when floppys were floppy and you had to type /rungame (or something) from DOS.

[kingpin]

Battle Chess when I was a wee tike.

http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/bchess.htm

haha oh the memories :) this is the other game the pc had together with golden axe and a formula 1 game that had mclaren, williams and ferrari to choose.

also the battle chess had no colour.

[Shamoke]

The first computer game I actually played was Baldur's Gate if you don't count oregon trail when I was 6 or something.

[Baralis]

I dont know if its because I am older now or I have played video games for so many years my enjoyment has been deluted. But I remember back then a pc game was the shit! and it didnt matter what it was.

[nooblicon]

Pitfall on Atari 800 in 1988.

[Shaar]

On the PC? Prince of Persia... My gaming career started before that though on an Atari thing if I remember correctly...

[Spk]

First really memorable one was Doom, and it was so cool to kill people with the chainsaw :P Then duke nukem.

[Damwa]

I don't play PC games; PC games are just another attempt by liberals to degenerate the use of the English language and conceal self-evident truths with socialist propaganda. They are trying to covertly indoctrinate the next generation via *games*; wake up and smell the smoke!!
It seems like you can get away with anything these days, as long as you are not white or male.. We are losing the battle.. :(

[Lictor]

The first one, I remember, was Prince of Persia (the classic one, on 286 computer) in 1989/1990. But there were other games on ZX spectrum I do not remember, because I have played them when 5-6 years old and when on a visit.

[Starčevo]

Hey brother! Excellent question! The first game I remember playing was smurfs for the Atari brother!

[Largion]

Tetris! :D

[Lictor]

Hey brother! Excellent question! The first game I remember playing was smurfs for the Atari brother!

Nice way of trolling with this brother thing. You will surely annoy a lot of people, just like Realbigdeal22 with his ineptness in English. You both have found a way to be 120k+ and famous. Congrats!

[Desperado[1G]]

WarCraft: Orcs & Humans

[cosimo84]

On the PC? Prince of Persia... My gaming career started before that though on an Atari thing if I remember correctly...

that was my first pc game too.


that shit was hard

[Daehak]

My first PC Game was The Elder Scrolls I : Arena i still have that computer too... and its still my fave game...

[ExiliuM]

Age of Empires or Monkey Island, I think.

[Mormega]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gorillas_(computer_game)

that one and solitaire

i LOVED to play gorillas VS my brother hahaha

[Icipher]

The original Doom. When I was 5 or 6.

[Unahim]

Total Anihilation

[Tiarilir]

The Settlers II.

[Sargon]

My first PC game was King's Quest, I remember it clearly.

[Kurog]

ah nvm Grim Fandango was for Windows 95 and win98 ^__^
so ye grim fandango was the first pc game that i played

[Barbarossa]

Original Mechwarrior (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mechwarrior/screenshots/gameShotId,342/)

Check out those killer 3D graphics.

[St3n]

Ha Duke Nukem (as PC not console game)

[Artorius]

The 1st PC game I ever played was Warcraft II, followed eventually by Age of Empires.

Ah, those were simpler times.

[Carnifex]

Doom, I think.

[Musketeer]

Doom.

Doom was in fact the sole reason I decided to leap into the computer age.

As soon as a friend showed it to me I went out and bought a computer later that week.

[Bolter]

Jetpack, a nice platformer.

[Mippoose]

My uncle gave me Doom on like 15 floppy discs.

My mind was blown by it's power.

[Knocky]

Some Jane's fighter plane game.

It installed with 4 hard disks, of course these days they are called floppy disks for some reason.

[Wickfield]

Probably...

Some golf game I don't remember the name of.

But my fave pc game back then was probably mechwarrior 3. Customize-able battle mechs, missles, cockpit simulator... that was the best.

[Tronglonok]

First PC game was Doom.

Played commandore 64, amiga 500+ etc before that tho :P

Oh how I loved wings of fury, peppering soldiers with your planes machinegun and they go *ieeeeeeeeeeeee* one after the other :P

Ah the joy... :P

[Lioness]

I believe the first computer game I played was Age of Empires...

The first online game I played was either GunZ or Rakion because my friend got me into it... Can't remember which.

[Nehemia]

All I remember it was this racing game with what, 3 different colors?

At age of what...Uhm, five?

[Sunaj]

Simcity in 1993

[Awrethien]

Hellbender, with a joystick, oh it was so godly!

Followed of course by doom.

[Ziegler]

Transylvania on the IIc.
First RPG was Bard's Tale, which I learned my first exploit with as well, you could save your money in the bank, but if you pulled the 5.25 disk out while it was saving, and then put it back in and saved again, it doubled your money. :D

[Ashfield212]

First PC game would have to be Counter Strike 1.5 at the local Lan City, haha.

[cute naster]

o wow,this brings back memories.. it was called "Sky" it's like.. a spaceship that goes in a very high speed and all u gotta do is jump from one area to the next so u dont fall :) just using the arrow keys and space buttons lol ..the good old times :)

[Spinewire]

Dizzy on the Amiga or was it Battletanks, either way it was very green :D

-edit i think it may have been harrier attack.

[Ultimo]

Probably Ski free on windows 3.11.

[Pernix]

No clue what game it was. But it was on this baby (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZX_Spectrum). Those were the days. :P

[jonyak]

it would probably be this battleship game my father programed for me and him when I was like 3, in 1983 on a computer he had built himself. It ran on a tape machine.

[Tdog]

Pretty sure my first game on a PC was either "Oragon Trial" or "where in the world is carmon sandago"

[Scully]

C-Dogs, Minebomber, Monster Bash, Commander Keen 4. Those are the earliest games I remember.

I remember I thought Monster Bash was Monster Bæsj (Monster Poop) ><

[Ultimo]

Technically if we are talking games on a PC that did not include one I personally owned, it would be something educational like Math Blaster.

[Aragoni]

Worms 1 (http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=c7OuNSFVTk8)

[deadgamer]

Scorched Earth, wasn't my own game though, we didn't get a PC in my home before I was around 16 or something.

[Osirus]

Dungeons of Daggorath

[Odie]

Warcraft 2, Diablo or Doom.. not quite sure which one first

[Forgin]

Keen,
didn't understand it very well but I enjoyed jumping around

[Skyborn]

goddamn you guys are young...or started games late...btw commodore is not a PC.

First one...Kings Quest on 5 1/2" floppy.

[Barbarossa]

Original Mechwarrior (http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/mechwarrior/screenshots/gameShotId,342/)

Check out those killer 3D graphics.

goddamn you guys are young...or started games late...btw commodore is not a PC.

First one...Kings Quest on 5 1/2" floppy.

Ahem.

Mechwarrior came out in 1989, I first played it in 1990.

Most likely before 65% of this forums population was even born.

[Goty]

Battle Chess when I was a wee tike.

http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/bchess.htm

Same here!

Hahaha. Awesome.

[Killuminati]

Prince of Persia

[KoomValley]

I actually played loads of random games on the amiga before I got windows though I can't remember any of their names.

[Mippoose]

Probably Ski free on windows 3.11.

Oh fuck.

Was that the one with the sasquatch that ate you at the end sometimes?

If so... I may have played that first.

I am not entirely sure.

[Loadafreak]

A bunch of floppy disk games including maniac mansion, jazz jackrabbit, duke nukem 1,2 (the 2d ones), night raid, and some other shit I can't remember.

[heroshade]

Starcraft.


Speaking of which...


EDIT:

Actually it was Microsoft Kid's 3d Movie Maker. Every Microsoft compuer used to come with a copy. That game came with some big lulz.

[smurran]

Probably pitfall (not the commodore version)

[Ultimo]

Oh fuck.

Was that the one with the sasquatch that ate you at the end sometimes?

If so... I may have played that first.

I am not entirely sure.

Yup that is the one. It ate me every time...damn sasquatches ruining otherwise fun ski trips.

[Nafelos]

Strike Commander... awesome game.

[akrippler]

The first REAL game I played was UO, before that I think I played "Pagemaster" that shit was off the hook.

[Mosiah]

My first PC game was battle tank.

My first "video" game was Pong.

Here comes my nurse. Time to take my pills.

[Crying Hyena]

Mine would be Mega Race on a Packard Bell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBz9KjREdM

That was mine too. I loved that game. Next was Commander Keen.

[Ocoma]

I don't remember but it would have been on a VIC20 in the early 80's, that was the first home computer we ever had.

Actually I saw someone post Santa Fe Trail....that would probably have been my very first game...in school before we ever got the home computer.

[Mazer]

I'm trying to remember what came first, but it's really hard.

Scorched Earth, Commander Keen, Civilization, Wolfenstein...

I'm sure there were some others.

[tallefred]

I don't remember the name... it was a shareware kart racing game with little animals, I had loads of fun with that when I was a little kid.

[Caedryan]

I think that was on Atari 2600 or Amiga Computer. Something like Indiana Jones, Defender of the Crown, Monkey Island or "The Goldseeker" or something similar.

[Mr.LichTwitch]

Load Runner, Commodore 64. It might have been Balderdash though.

[DipMode]

Qbert or beachhead on the apple IIe.

Nice couple pages of code had to be entered WOOT

[sorros]

A maze game when i was 5.

First real PC game? hmmm

maybe...Medal of Honor, Allied Assault when it was 'new'.

[Rhailith]

The Pinball game on the computer where you use the /key and the zkey.

[DR.NUMBERS]

Lemme see.

Oregon Trail, Hocus Pocus, Wing nuts, Duke Nukem II, one of the Commander Keens.

These were some of the first I remember.

[Virtra]

The first game that I remember playing on a computer was Zork. I was about 6 or so and my mom introduced me to it, I guess to help me read.

[Mulambo]

miner 2049er, apple II e.

[Reckin Crew]

zork and zork II on the commodore 64 in 1985 i think....

[Elix]

I believe it was Blood. Half-Life was next and then games like Counter-Strike and the sort.

[lemmingsoup]

ironic, it was actually lemmings (they had it on a PC at my nursery) after that years of playstation games before leaping onto my PC to play C&C tiberian sun.

[Staatsschutz]

Mine would be Mega Race on a Packard Bell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBz9KjREdM

haha mega race, thats what i played too back in the days. although as far as i remember it was megarace 2, but it wasnt my first pc game ever.

my first pc game ever was warcraft 1

[Marelt]

Caesar 3 Bitches! I beat it when I was 4.

[Zwarp]

some game on apple 2, I don't remember the name, you had to eat rocks and push them to crush your enemies so that they couldn't eat you.

[GFH_Spike]

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. I was at a friend's house and couldn't get over the amazement I had over being able to control the soldiers on the ground by issuing commands. It was magic to me. Following that was Oregon Trail (along with the other trails), Dyno Park Tycoon, and Civilization II.

[Staatsschutz]

Warcraft: Orcs & Humans. I was at a friend's house and couldn't get over the amazement I had over being able to control the soldiers on the ground by issuing commands

dito, it was the same for me. my next game after warcraft was xcom:terror from the deep which i also played at a friends house. i didnt have an own pc until around 6 months after first playing warcraft

[Mordhak]

Settlers 1.

Those were the days.

[Maegras Caranuial]

On the PC? Prince of Persia... My gaming career started before that though on an Atari thing if I remember correctly...

This. :D

[hardboiled]

Alley Cat.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alley_Cat_(video_game)

[Nani]

Age of Empires I

[Ammon777]

On PC? It was Ultima IV.

We had an Apple IIgs previous to that and I played Might & Magic III on that.

[KoomValley]

Some other games that I played around my first PC game are Civilization 2, Warcraft 1 and Settlers 1.

[Ammon777]

After playing Ultima IV, on PC I played a lot of Doom, Doom II, and the Dungeons & Dragons SSI games such of Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds. I loved those SSI so much.

[Staatsschutz]

After playing Ultima IV, on PC I played a lot of Doom, Doom II, and the Dungeons & Dragons SSI games such of Pool of Radiance and Curse of the Azure Bonds. I loved those SSI so much.

Ultima VII and the expansion the black gate (dunno the exact name of it) rocked. i wasnt able to stop playing for like 50 hours straight

[KoomValley]

I forgot to add Lemmings.

[Jezrith]

My Was Choplifter on the C64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0ptqPu1iwM

[Mosiah]

dito, it was the same for me. my next game after warcraft was xcom:terror from the deep which i also played at a friends house. i didnt have an own pc until around 6 months after first playing warcraft

That brings back memories. I got the first X-Com my first semester in college in '95. yes I an ancient. I had to wait until the next semester to get a computer, before I could play it. So I ingested the manual for the next three months. Playing it after I finally downloaded it was everything I ever dreamed of.
I basically played nothing else until my best friend bought UO in '97 and invited me to help him with the key board while he worked the mouse. X-Com gathered dust from that point on. I pulled it out only after that when I got nastalgic for the good out days.

[Mazer]

I forgot to add Lemmings.

Yeah, definitely missed that one. Good call.

Dune II was another game I remember playing early on. First RTS for me I think.

[Viluin]

Settlers 1.

Those were the days.

I guess building an empire didn't teach you how to build up your manhood?




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_War_(computer_game)

On-topic: I used to play this game very often as well.

[Falokis]

My first PC game was King's Quest, I remember it clearly.This. Or Eye of the Beholder I. I don't remember which came first.

[Dahoma]

It would probably have to be Yoshi's Safari, the one with the huge bazooka that malfunctioned every 10 minutes and introduced me to game rage.

[Phaethor]

When I was a kid my mother worked for a computer design company Computronix or something like that.

We had the only house I knew of as a kid with a computer in the '70s. We played Hangman, Maze Games, Space Battle games and a ton of other games.

Later on we had the TI, an Apple, a Commodore 64 and an Amiga. The first computer I built myself was a 286, and later on I built and sold 386's and Pentiums until it became counter cost-effective. I just recently sold alot of my old software to a collector.

Best,

Phae

[Xtra-Medium]

the first pc game i played was exile III, loved that game

[Vertigo Vain]

pong

[LordBritish]

Donkey Kong

[Xzi]

Mine would be Mega Race on a Packard Bell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBz9KjREdM
I remember playing that! But the first one I played was either Warcraft or Command and Conquer. Can't remember which exactly, may have been the C&C demo on DOS.

[Crazy Hermit]

a computer game that i got in a cap'n crunch cereal box where you were this wierd thing that helped the cap'n get some cap'n crunch.

[Daccus]

Mine would be Mega Race on a Packard Bell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6aBz9KjREdM

That's funny, our first computer was a Packard Bell 486 DX2 50Mhz pile of shit from Walmart. MegaRace was the game that came with ours, too. It was the first PC game we owned. But, the first PC game I actually played was the first King's Quest.

[Peith]

Space Invaders.

[Bawlin]

Besides those word games for five year olds, I think my first real game was either that star wars pod racer game or empire earth.

[Signus]

Wow I can tell how young alot of you are by your answers or rather how old I am. My first game was some Kung Fu game on a com 64 and it was on multiple floppies.

I know huh? I'm as old as most of the people here, or younger even, and yet my first games were on dos.

[Saturday Saint]

Oregon Trail.

[Rancid727]

Some bruce lee game way the fuck back in the 80s i had to enter in the code in DOS from a Mag that posted alot of small yet fun games to play.
i had no idea what i was doing lol. just was told if i wanted to play to enter all this code and hit enter and it will work, if you dont mess up the code:ninja:

[Reikson]

I was really young but it was some submarine DOS game

[Yobaj]

Lemmings

[Lethn]

You know what, I can't bloody remember, the furthest I could think back to was on the old original Nintendo where I played co-ops with my uncles all the time, I think that probably was when I first started. Not sure though, like I said a loooong time ago.

[Gloomrender]

Minesweeper or tetris.

[Mordare]

Ultima II, in the early 80s on an Apple IIc

[Proper Talent]

Oregon Trail on old ass mac.

[Saturday Saint]

Your mother was just bitten by a rattlesnake. Your sister has caught dysentery and died. You died from cholera. Your son starved for a month without anybody to care for him before being killed by Indians.

[Carl Ragadamn]

Oregon Trail on old ass mac.

Your mother was just bitten by a rattlesnake. Your sister has caught dysentery and died. You died from cholera. Your son starved for a month without anybody to care for him before being killed by Indians.

the Apple IIe version of Oregon Trail was the best.

[Foodfreak18]

Matterhorn Screamer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bkmxenwQZEE