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    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.
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    Starcraft.I hadn't used my pc for gaming but after reading a review somewhere i bought this game leading to an endless series of upgrades.Thanks a bunch Blizzard.I still wasn't an avid gamer however until one fine day i picked up a copy of Shogun TW off a shelf(having heard nothing about the game.Still playing it.
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    The first game i ever played was "Romance of the three kingdoms" from Koei.
    That was...uhm.....in 1989? I was in my first year at my tertiary collage then.

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    I just remembered my first real game: California Games
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    forgot colonization. Was very disapointed when it wouldn't work on my w98 computer (it may of worked but i couldn't get it too even when i ran it though dos)

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    Quote Originally Posted by 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 :)

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    HE!HE!HE! Agreed!!! What a bunch of newbies!!!

    An even older user than me!!! Bravo!!!

    For me it all started when I was 12 (in the early 80's) and recieved as a birthday gift my state of the art brand new high-end ZX Spectrum 48K!!! After I've played for the first time with games as varied as Knight Lore, Pac-Men, Chuckie Egg, etc... ...I was hooked!!!

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    As for PC gaming start, since I only ever bought electronic material related to school and work, I never got spoiled by pure playing systems or consoles. So I went from a ZX Spectrum to a 286 (when the processors were still called 80286).

    The first games that got me hooked in the PC were Full Throtle and Grand Prix on a blistering fast high-end (at the time) Schneider PC 286 (12.5MHz, 1MB of RAM and a gigantic 80MB!!! hard disk).

    Needless to say that I'm still from the time when the initialization scroll of MS-DOS was a way to measure PC performance!!!

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

    On another note, is that spell fine???????
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    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
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    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 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.

    I remember Solo Flight my dad used to play it on our old c64! i could never land the damn planes!!!
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    Demo of AoE:RoR. Got me absolutely hooked. I'd play it whenever I could.
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    belieave it or not... simcity 2000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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    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).

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    PC-gaming: Westwood Red Alert.
    Mac-gaming: ID's Doom2.
    C64-gaming: 3? Last Ninja.
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    Quote Originally Posted by 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).
    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.
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    Falcon 3 on a 286/16 with no sound and a B&W screen.

    Been a flight sim junkie ever since.
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    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.

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    aymar,

    you prolly remember the timex sinclairs also. i wanted one of those soooo badly :)

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    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"

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aymar de Bois Mauri
    Needless to say that I'm still from the time when the initialization scroll of MS-DOS was a way to measure PC performance!!!
    Anything loading faster than 45 seconds on the C64 was bugged ;)
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    The first PC game that made me play with a passion was Civilization (the first one). I found it intsalled on a computer at my university. Fond memories.

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

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    The first computer games? It would probably be a tie between Ultima IV, Silent Service, and the Wizard's Crown series on my Apple IIgs. My Atari 2600 had all of my attention before the IIgs was around.

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    Quote Originally Posted by chemchok
    The first computer games? It would probably be a tie between Ultima IV, Silent Service, and the Wizard's Crown series on my Apple IIgs. My Atari 2600 had all of my attention before the IIgs was around.

    Silent Service? Yeah i played Silent Service 2 before. A very cool submarine sim game at its time. I sink a carrier once with 12 torps ( actually 16, but 4 of them are duds ). Have to limp back to my based afterwards..... those destroyers are really pain in the ass.

    The realism is there and to me its a rare gem during those time.
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    First computer game had to be warlords. I still buy every Warlords game that comes out in hopes of getting the same feeling that I had playing that game. Age of Rifles was good as well.

    On consoles, I had an Intellivision. For some reason I loved baseball and burger time. I tghought the little man looked almost real.
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    Well, I had been playing a few misc games before this but the game that first got me really addicted was Warcraft. It was like a revelation, wasted so much time playing it, WC2, and then Starcraft became worse then drugs for me and a few of my friends. But Warcraft is where it all started, still have fond memories of killing orcs.
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    Kraellin's got me beat by about a decade, as the games that hooked me on using computers for playing were things like Shooting Gallery and Megabug on the TRS-80. Nothing like talking your mom into a decision on a computer to buy with the ulterior motive of the games you can play on it. That ran through the years, from the C64 to the Amiga. Heck, while all my pronounced reasonings for going to a 386 were sound, I'll fully admit it was to play Civilization and Falcon 3.
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    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by Kraellin
    aymar,

    you prolly remember the timex sinclairs also. i wanted one of those soooo badly :)

    K.
    I believe so. Wasn't that the one that came with two colors (silver or black) and the larger keyboard with the monstruous 128KB?

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