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.

[Sasaki Kojiro]

VGA civil war strategy. Heck, I still play it!

[lancelot]

Star Wars Supremacy and command & conquer.

All those chicks brushed aside for the pleasure of beating the snot out of the rebel alliance.....sigh.....wasted youth

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

I used to play Lemmings, Thundercats and a dunebuggy game on my grandfathers Amiga. That was what started it off for me.

[zelda12]

Ahh, nostalgia.

I was introduced to gaming as a child, just before we got our brand spanking new computer (Pentium 1 115mhz, 2 gigs hard drive and 16mb Ram), I was at a friends birthday party who incidently had a new computer and an age of empires demo. From that moment on I have been hooked.

Joke is a virus then a lightning strike killed my new computer, leaving me with our very first. Even funnier is that it actually works on the internet and only takes between 10 and 60 seconds to load most sites. Faster at times than my new one.

[Duke Dick]

i was always a console gamer to be honest,and i still pre-dominantly, however, two games got me hooked to the PC for quite a while, the original Half-Life(more so opposing force) and Total Annihalation. I still play half life, and i look forward to thesecond one, but for me, the game which got me into gaming was Legend of Zelda on the NES, the best game series ever in my opinion, and one with which i own every title.

[Kraellin]

what a bunch of newbies :)

'Trek' on a mainframe, circa 1972-3. and here you thought 'Pong' started it all :) wrote my first code on a TRS 80 in that same computer lab with the mainframe terminals :)

K.

[Teutonic Knight]

practically an infant compared to you guys, AOE II got me into PC games with a serious conviction...

[TheSilverKnight]

AOE II for me, also. Then I got into the Cossacks Series by GSC...still into GSC games! American Conquest: Fight Back, and Cossacks are still my favourites from them, course...never played anything else by them

[DisruptorX]

Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse was the first non-educational PC game I got. It's an action-rpg (a good one, not like the Dark Alliance crap they push on us now) set in the AD&D world, for those who haven't heard of it.

The first PC game I ever played was Prince of Persia.

[Papewaio]

C-64 games... part of science course at school... and scouts... as our scoutmaster was also the science teahcer... so lots of games and roleplaying types... really started on paper and dice D&D (almost bought warhammer first) and then went onto computer games later...

[Muneyoshi]

Scorched Earth, and the Atari. That game and that console, thats all I needed to become an addict *twitch*

[Efrem Da King]

AOE2 FOr me too guys!


I played it at a friend of the familys house! OMG!! I have never looked back.

[Duke John]

Sopwith!

This game was great! You can still download it here!

I guess I was 8 years or so. And my farther had one of the earliest laptops on which we played it. It was like a 70x60cm luggage/suitcase and weighed a ton. The keyboard could be removed from a side which then showed a 10" monocolour monitor. Ah, the old days...

[econ21]

Elite on the C-64 was my first taste of computer gaming. An amazing game. One feature was you could press a button for a "rearview mirror" button to check if you were being pursued by alien craft etc. I played it so much I remember taking a driving lesson, looking in the rear mirror and seeing a black galaxy with white stars. Scarey.

I did not play much else until my son got a Super Nintendo. He had a Japanese language WW2 game that was a very like prototype for Panzer General, my first real PC game and the game that really got me into PC gaming. The combination of historical units and scenarios, very easy but fun gameplay and a wonderful campaign hook was incredibly addictive.

I also got into CRPGs, the SNES Secret of Mana being a first taste and my first CRPG proper Might and Magic VI being a jaw-dropping discovery. Graphically it recreated a plausible world so vividly it was like finding a world in a bottle.

[R'as al Ghul]

Sopwith!

This game was great! You can still download it here!

I guess I was 8 years or so. And my farther had one of the earliest laptops on which we played it. It was like a 70x60cm luggage/suitcase and weighed a ton. The keyboard could be removed from a side which then showed a 10" monocolour monitor. Ah, the old days...

Ahhh, those were the days. I followed your link and could relate to more than 50% of the gametitles. It also started with the C-64 for me. Hanging out at a friends and playing a simple "platform-jumping" game I don't remember the title of.....Ah yes "Jumpman".
From there on I played so much C-64 games that I would say "I've seen them all". Elite was the first game I modded with a Hex-Editor. Defender of the Crown took some lifetime fom me but Pirates! even topped that. If you add all those hours I played Pirates it would sum to months. After that the Amiga 500 was purchased and we were exchanging copies of the newest games on the schoolyard. From there on I constantly upgraded. Now, at least 20 years later, I have a 1.8 Ghz etc. and am still playing but much lesser than before.
I sometimes run an Amiga-emulator on my PC to play those old gems. A few days ago I felt the urge to play Air-Ace. Downloaded it and sucked majorly. Without the old "Competition Pro II" Joystick it's not the same.

R'as

[AlexPeters]

Competition Pro-Joysticks - they've been the best - i think i've broken three or four while playing the winter-/summer-olympics (Biathlon and 100m races, nothing for couch potatoes). Oh those days - i started playing games on a friends Commodore 16+4 with a tapedrive, a motorcycle racing game i can't remember the name.
My first computer was a C64 - i bought it with my first earned money - and played so much on it that i still don't understand how i managed to pass school. Pirates and Defender of the Crown were my favorite games. The next machine has been an Amiga 500 (remembering Ghengis Khan ?) and then the first PC, a 386, 4MB Ram, 40MB Rom and i was so proud of it

[The Tuffen]

I have to say that doom, civ 2 and C+C red alert were the first games that got me into pc gaming.

[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.

[Teutonic Knight]

AOE II for me, also. Then I got into the Cossacks Series by GSC...still into GSC games! American Conquest: Fight Back, and Cossacks are still my favourites from them, course...never played anything else by them

total dittoes here...

[IrishMike]

The orginal AoE and the orginal Red Alert. Still good stuff.

[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