The first computer game you ever played?

[the Dept of Science]

I was first introduced to games because my best friend had a SNES and I used to go round his house and (watch him) play Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct. I can't have been more than about 7 when I played those games.

I think the first game I ever owned may have been either Zombinis or Tomb Raider 2. I can't really remember.

 

[SuperNashwan]

The absolute earliest I remember is Solitaire on Windows 3.1. I couldn't have been more than 3, and my dad had me play it to teach me how to use a mouse. For something more serious, I'm not sure, but it's a toss up between Spectre Challenger, the original blocky dos version of Reader Rabbit, a demo of Tie Fighter, and this educational thing that had four games on one floppy disk. I guess that would make Spectre Challenger my first hard core game, since most of what I remember about that Tie Fighter floppy is the thing being too corrupted to work. I've still got the Spectre Challenger disk, at the very least. I wonder if it would still be readable if I could find a computer that I could slap a floppy drive into.

Wow, so you've been a PC gamer right from the start?

 

[BodomBeachChild]

Oregon Trail and Word Muncher in school. We had Macs from the 80s. Go private school!

 

[nofear220]

Since Im only still a teenager, I never got to play the original oldddddddd old games but I probably played duke nukem 3d and/or road rash first on a pc. I bet Jack Thompson is suprised I havent murdered anyone yet or raced motorcycles with baseball bats and chains.

 

[imperialus]

First game I ever played? Probably Blue Max or Centipede on the C64.

First game I really played? Probably Final Fantasy 1

 

[LastMondaysHangover]

I don't specifically remember the name, but I remember that it was a point and click adventure game. The plot of the game revolved around traveling around the world and picking up pieces of trash to recycle. And I remember that the characters in the game consisted of nothing but dinosaurs.

Ring a bell for anyone?

 

[SuperNashwan]

I was first introduced to games because my best friend had a SNES and I used to go round his house and (watch him) play Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct. I can't have been more than about 7 when I played those games.

Dont you just love friends who wont let you have a go and just make you watch

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

Myst. Ah I do remember that game so fondly.

I knew some guys at uni who used to talk about that a lot, but I never played it. What platform was it on?

Quick answer: all of them.

Long answer: Pretty much anything that could read a CD-ROM at the time, as well as a much later port to the Nintendo DS. It was originally a PC game, but it was kind of the Farmville or Plants Vs. Zombies of its day, in that it was resource light, extremely popular, and widely ported; pretty much everybody who had a computer -- even parents and grandparents -- played it, and there were so many copies floating around in the wild that not only could you still find them at any EB games right up until Gamestop bought them out and got rid of the used PC section, but they went for all of $1. It was actually a pretty cool little adventure game, too.

 

[SuperNashwan]

I bet Jack Thompson is suprised I havent murdered anyone yet or raced motorcycles with baseball bats and chains.

LOL yeah its nice to see we've all turned out OK

 

[Darth Sea Bass]

Possibly chuckie egg or manic miner on the speccy 48k.

 

[the Dept of Science]

I was first introduced to games because my best friend had a SNES and I used to go round his house and (watch him) play Mortal Kombat and Killer Instinct. I can't have been more than about 7 when I played those games.

Dont you just love friends who wont let you have a go and just make you watch

In fact, initially, I was pretty content with watching him play. I thought that I would be really bad and just lose. I even think he offered to let me play and I turned him down. When I was that age, I didn't really think of it as any different from watching a TV show.

 

[DSEZ]

i think it was gunbound

what?

i know i was late to the party

 

[SuperNashwan]

I don't specifically remember the name, but I remember that it was a point and click adventure game. The plot of the game revolved around traveling around the world and picking up pieces of trash to recycle. And I remember that the characters in the game consisted of nothing but dinosaurs.

Ring a bell for anyone?

Nope sorry

Someone on IMDB is asking the same question and no one has answered ... maybe someone here can help out?

 

[SuperNashwan]

Possibly chuckie egg or manic miner on the speccy 48k.

Yeahhhh go spectrum! Was that the one with rubber keys?

 

[solbadguy37]

I remember failing at Oregon Trail in 4th grade because my friends and I tried to see who could kill their party the quickest.

 

[SuperNashwan]

Oregon Trail is getting lots of mentions. What was that all about? I must have missed that one

 

[Ruffythepirate]

Chips Challenge on an old windows 3.11 pc.

 

[The Journey]

I can't honestly remember the very, very first.

Before I had a home PC I played a few arcade machines here and there and my Grandad's old Commodore.

One of the first games I can truly remember clearly is Wolfenstein 3D on my uncles PC. Then it was Doom on my fathers in later years.

There honestly were some earlier ones but for the life of me I can't really remember much except a lot of bloody pixels.

The first one I played and owned (at least, by proxy anyway) would have been Doom.

There are a few games that truly won me over to gaming as a hobby though and those are the original Command and Conquer: Red Alert and Doom, through all the Quakes and then Half-Life. This thread is making me nostalgic.

 

[Owyn_Merrilin]

The absolute earliest I remember is Solitaire on Windows 3.1. I couldn't have been more than 3, and my dad had me play it to teach me how to use a mouse. For something more serious, I'm not sure, but it's a toss up between Spectre Challenger, the original blocky dos version of Reader Rabbit, a demo of Tie Fighter, and this educational thing that had four games on one floppy disk. I guess that would make Spectre Challenger my first hard core game, since most of what I remember about that Tie Fighter floppy is the thing being too corrupted to work. I've still got the Spectre Challenger disk, at the very least. I wonder if it would still be readable if I could find a computer that I could slap a floppy drive into.

Wow, so you've been a PC gamer right from the start?

Yes, I'm pretty sure I was playing PC games before I even saw my first console. Then again, I had my own NES at the age of 5, and I had fairly regular access to an NES and an Atari 2600 at the same time as or shortly after I started PC gaming, so I've never really been one of those guys who's all one or all the other. When I was a kid, the consoles were different enough from the PCs that they usually didn't even have the same genres, let alone the same games like they do today, so they weren't really in competition for my brand loyalty; in my mind, computer games and video games were two different things, and I loved both of them.

 

[Vault101]

hmmmm ski free? rodents revenge I think