What Game Really got you into PC gaming?

[King Edward]

Mine is a combination, The first game i played was DOOM on my dads Laptop he broght home from work (Purely for DOOM i think be he claimes he did some work to! ) The other one was the Settlers. I played these to no end when i could (It was difficult getting dad of the laptop and the only other PC i had access to was a mates.)

Then One Fateful Christmas i got my Shiny new Pentium 120 with a wopping 1.2gig hard disk and a graphical joy that was 2mb on board graphics!! I purchased UFO Enemy unknown and havent looked back since.....

So post your first steps down the Slippery road that is PC Gaming!!

[Soulflame]

Ahh nostalgia. I think it was the famous Prince of Persia :). Among that same time period Duke Nukem (the first episodes... sidescrolling 2D game, not 3D). And alot of Apogee games.
Pentium? Well our first pc was a whopping 6mhz and had a turbo for 12 mhz . Ah good old times of the blue Norton Commander. No stupid Windows yet.

Been playing computer games ever since. Mainly RTS's (from Dune2 onward) and RPG's (Baldur's Gate was my first conact with those... ahh sweet memories).

[Ser Clegane]

Actually for me this "passion" did not start with a PC but with the C64 of a friend. The first game I played on this computer was "Forbidden Forest" and it got me absolutely hooked.
Since neither me nor my parents could afford a C64 at that time I spend a lot of time visiting my friend and playing lots of games I fondly remember (e.g., Football Manager, MULE, Aztec Challenge).

When my parents bought our first computer, an Amiga 500, it was hard to remove me from the computer to to some homework (at least in winter, when you could not do too much outside). Favourite games of that time include The Bard's Tale, Eye of the Beholder, TV Sports Football, Garrison, Syndicate, Marble Madness and more shoot-em-ups than I can count.

When I started to study I bought my first PC (a 486 66 MHz) and among the first games I got were the Ultima Underworld games and Doom.
Now I am sitting in front of my 5th PC and I do not think that I will stop gaming anytime soon

[Somebody Else]

Strip Poker 3... I was a very wide eyed six year old, until my father noticed it, and took it off my computer. I think it came pre-installed or something... I dunno... didn't ask.

(N.B. I use the age of six for any event I can remember doing before the age of about ten or so, because I can never remember exactly how old I was)

[frogbeastegg]

Prince of Persia on my cousin's PC; it had sword fighting and totally amazed the younger me. Also lemmings and x-mas lemmings; cute puzzliness and oh so addictive.

My first PC was intended solely for schoolwork but I got the borrowed games working before anything practical. Um, about 3 years before anything practical if I'm honest!

[ShadesPanther]

Civilization 2 and Comand and Conquer. So much fun with only 3 CDs (1 for each side in C+C ) They really started it and then I had Duke Nukem 3D and other games like Shadow Warior and Doom

[The Scourge]

The great battles of Alexander.
I was really into reading about Alexander at the time ,and remember thinking ,that there must a game about anything you could think of.

How wrong I was ,and the game kept crashing ,every other turn ,but we live in hope.

[ICantSpellDawg]

When i was a kid - i played oregon trail. Kinda liked it but would rather play war outside

then came Where in the world is carmen sandiego? Loved it and went on to play Castles II and a nameless wargame


stopped videogaming for a while until duke nukem, which made me update my comp

after that, the thing that made computers my life was Command and Conquer and AGE OF EMPIRES

[Tricky Lady]

The first computer game I've ever played was Pirates! on a friend's Amiga. Didn't have a game computer back then, so I had to go to his place to play some games.
Later on he purchased a PC and then Sid Meier's Colonization became our favourite. When I got my first PC (a Pentium 75 with 1 Gb HDD, now ten years ago) the first game I installed was, of course, Colonization. I've played it for almost a year; couldn't stop playing.
And then I gradually switched over to other strategy games, such as Civilization and so.

[A.Saturnus]

It wasn´t a game. It was the simple existence of the computer that attracted me. My earliest memory connected to computers is me and my brother playing with the command line of the C64 when I was 6. My father later installed the first game, Frogger. After some years of C64 we then switched to an AMIGA 2000. We still played it when most had already a PC but some time in the 90ties, my brother got a PC and this become our main platform.

[R'as al Ghul]

It wasn´t a game. It was the simple existence of the computer that attracted me.

Exactly! "The medium is the message!"

R'as

[The_Emperor]

Ahh yes. For me it was my mates C64 as a kid. Spending all that time waiting for the games to actually Load before you played them on a good ol tape drive!!

Elite was one of the classics that started me off...

Later on in sixth form we had competitive Multiplayer games of Doom, Rise of the Triad, and Hi Octane after school hours on many nights with the Network Administrator, the shouts of swearing echoed through the empty corridors in anger when we were fragged...

Anyway you get the idea, I was hooked.

[dlundie]

Wolfenstien, and Net Trek, oh the days when we played them at UNI and every one thought we were studying on the Uni's Pc's. Tennis was the first game i played on console but i cant recall what type of console it was. But i remember we had a BW TV and two controls and we thought two white bars and a white ball were the best thing ever. The sound effects were fantastic "BOYNK" "BOYNK"

[bmolsson]

My first game was "pitfall" on a ABC80 machine. Before the PC was born..... ;)

[william the bastard]

Originally Posted by A.Saturnus
It wasn´t a game. It was the simple existence of the computer that attracted me.


Lol , just the same for me. My first comp game was a pong and now my son explain me how to play MOH and i am still losing

[ToranagaSama]

Pong was the first video game I played, back at the Dairy Queen on Flatbush Avenue, next to Eramus Hall H.S.

I spent 4K on my first PC in the early 90s, a 486. I had taught myself quite a bit re Computers thru work, and wanted my own personal one. Choose a computer over a CAR! I played with it a lot, but had no intention of doing anything as trivial as playing *games*. I intended to improve my knowledge and make some money with it.

One day at a local electronics store a salesman talked my GF and I into purchasing a $60 game, I can't recall the name of. Some sort of Myst type game. We would play it together and she enjoyed it a more than me. Games were still too trivial for my $4K baby.

Several months later I advised a friend on his PC purchase. Included with his purchase was a game. One day he came over to visit, and brought this CD. He said, "...you gotta check this out...." That game was Doom 2! OMG! Soon after, I tried Wolfenstein, again, OMG!

But, the game that truly got me hooked was Descent 2. I tried the Demo, then ran out and bought the game the same day. Then there was Total Annihilation.

It was official, I was a Gamer. Civ2 made me a TBS gamer.

BTW, I never made a dollar with that PC, but I made quite a bit, in the Market, as a result of the knowledge I gained.

[Jacque Schtrapp]

Leisure Suit Larry and the Forgotten Realms series on the C64 way back in 1991 really hooked me. Before that I played some type of bombing game on the TSR80 in 1981 and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego on the Apple II in the mid eighties.

[Lonewarrior]

Wolfestein, that was the only one that got me to gaming pc.

On another note, is that spell fine???????

[ICantSpellDawg]

oh yea! oh my god

full throttle, how could i forget ??????????

i bought the strategy guide and i went all the way to the store to get it

actually my mom and dad drove me

i must have been a freshman

i loved it so much

[Qilue]

C-64 Solo Flight is the only one I can remember.

Later on a friend's comp (early 286), there was Railroad Tycoon, Elite+, Warlords and Sim Earth (I so wish Maxis would do a remake of this)

I finally bought my own PC in 1995 and have been playing games since although one of the first on this machine was Privateer, which also got me into an even better game, maxing base dos memory.

[King Edward]

C-64 Solo Flight is the only one I can remember.

Later on a friend's comp (early 286), there was Railroad Tycoon, Elite+, Warlords and Sim Earth (I so wish Maxis would do a remake of this)

I finally bought my own PC in 1995 and have been playing games since although one of the first on this machine was Privateer, which also got me into an even better game, maxing base dos memory.

I remember Solo Flight my dad used to play it on our old c64! i could never land the damn planes!!!

[tombom]

Demo of AoE:RoR. Got me absolutely hooked. I'd play it whenever I could.

[amir]

belieave it or not... simcity 2000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[solypsist]

Shogun Total War

I had never considered computer games as a regualr hobby (though I had played some here and there on the Commodore 64 when I was teenager).

[TosaInu]

Shogun Total War

I had never considered computer games as a regualr hobby (though I had played some here and there on the Commodore 64 when I was teenager).

I somewhat second that. Unreal and UT are another. Shogun Totalwar made it more serious than anything else. I seriously doubt any other game will ever surpass it.

[Beirut]

Falcon 3 on a 286/16 with no sound and a B&W screen.

Been a flight sim junkie ever since.

[MadKow]

Elite for the ZX Spectrum. Still up there on the hours spent playing rank.

First strategy game was Arnhem, a world war 2 wargame made by a fellow called R.T. Smith. I was pleased to find his name among the credits of MTW, almost 20 years later.

[Togakure]

Console Pong was my first computer game. As home games were slim in my youth, I and my friends spent a lot of time (and quarters) at the local 7-Eleven, playing games like Omega Race, Asteroids, Tempest, Centipede, and Galaga. Before that it was all good ol' pinball.

I think my first PC-based computer game was Doom. My brother had gotten a Commodore 64 and had beaten me to the punch. The only game I can remember him playing on it was called Bard's Tale. Hmm ... maybe that wasn't until he got his Amiga. Anyway, Doom hooked me for good on PC games.

My first strategy PC game was Masters of Magic, followed soon after by Master of Orion and MOO II. All were great games in their time, and I spent hours upon hours playing them.