The first computer game you ever played?

[sheogoraththemad]

It's all very fuzzy... I know it was a platformer and I believe it had Sci Fi elements to it...

Damned if I remember the name or anything... just a 'T' for some reason.

commander Keen?
that was my first game

 

[SuperNashwan]

The first game I played on a computer was either Lemmings or, Wolfenstein. I really can't remember which because they were both introduced to me at a younger age...I'll guess it was Wolfenstein though.

The first game I actually played was a Super Mario Brothers on the NES

Oh yeah Lemmings! There is a 3D version that came out on PC I found the other day, and quite a community that still plays the original.

 

[SuperNashwan]

Hugo 3: Jungle of Doom for DOS...but I never beat the game because I always got stuck at the same part.

That sadly sounds like about 60% of the games I owned on older platforms. Thank god for the cheat column in C+VG magazine ...

 

[Timmey]

Duck Hunter. Ah the classics... brings a tear to mine eye.

This was actually an amazing game, with that gun attachment that made a really annoying clicking sound.

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

commander Keen?
that was my first game

Nah not that, I can't remember anything specific so I'll probably never find it again.

 

[hardpixelrain]

First one I can remember? Sonic the Hedgehog 3.

 

[Natmonkey]

Diablo II, I think. I didn't want to play it, but my friend kept on insisting, and insisting... I played it, became hooked. But I suppose that before that, long before that, I had an Atari or some such on which I would play Pac-man.

 

[solidstatemind]

Honestly? Probably Oregon Trail on the Apple ][ in my school's computer lab. Other possibilities? Probably Xyphus on the same hardware (once I whined until I got my dad to buy a computer).

Choplifter was also an early fave, but I sucked at it.

 

[NinjaRabies]

I think it was PacMan

 

[hurfdurp]

First PC game would have been Stuntz. I thought it was amazing that I could switch gears, and go upside down through those roller coaster type areas. The characters were hilarious.

 

[Do4600]

Oh my...I was incredibly young, Either M.U.L.E. or Lazarian for the Commodore 64. I also have brief but fond memories of playing Frogger on the Atari 2600.

The first games I really remember playing for long periods of time were for MS-DOS; The King's Quest series, Quest for Glory series, Secret of Monkey Island, Overlord, Wasteland, Ultima II, Fountain of Dreams, Tie Fighter and the like, back when games were on 4-8 floppy disks. Then of course later when CD-ROM games were released I played Return to Zork, X-Com, Ascendancy and Warcraft to name a few.

'Loading level 3 - Please insert disk 4" .. graunch ...graunch ... click click click ... yay!

Monkey Island was a HUGE title back then. I only ever got about 1/4 of the way thorugh it though No stamina .... and I got fed up with "use feather on monkey ... use feather on door ... use feather on foot" etc etc and nothing happening ...

My dad was a software engineer, he first learned how to program a computer using punch cards, so at the time we had almost every computer system on the market somewhere in the house. We must have had more than a thousand 5.25 floppies, we had a copy of the evaluation version of windows on something like 40 single sided 3.5 inch floppy disks.

The 5.25 floppy drives were scary, you'd just ease them in and wait for the "KA-CHUNK" that shook the whole table and your hand would reflexively shoot back.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

Quake at a neighbors house.

 

[SuperNashwan]

Duck Hunter. Ah the classics... brings a tear to mine eye.

This was actually an amazing game, with that gun attachment that made a really annoying clicking sound.

Now you have to wonder, if they had continued the development of the 'gun' peripheral market, by now we would have tricked out M4 Carbines to blast through FPS's with.

I have no idea how that would work, but I remember how many arcade machines had a gun on the front. As long as its auto-scroll, you dont need other inputs. Werent there some arcade games with a little pedal that let you take cover?

I dunno. I just want a plastic gun to point at things on TV

 

[WOPR]

for people naming gameboy games I should remind them this says COMPUTER GAMES!!!

mine was WarCraft (the first DOS one)

 

[ragecandybar]

Not sure it was my first, but it's the earliest one I can clearly remember playing. Eye of the Beholder II: The Legend of Darkmoon.

 

[Qmonster]

I know I played games before this, but what really got me to be a gamer was the original Marathon made by Bungie on my dad's Macintosh Quadra. First time I shot an alien with dual-wielded sawed off shotguns, I hooked. Yeah, that's right, gaming for me started on a Mac. Who would have thought?

 

[the_pleasure_is_mine]

first game i remember playing is a toss up between pajama sam and........ uhh.. god i cant remember the name of it but it was a kid themed point and click about two fish and im pretty sure the main char was yellow.
all i could remember about that one is you could make your sidekick drink various drinks in a bar for some humorous responses. that was way back in early 97, when i was one and a half ish.

Oh wow I remember those... haven't played them in like 10 years though...

 

[jowo96]

First game EVER was Granny's Garden on windows (I think 32 bit) I remember that the witch scared the shit out of me.

The first actual game I played was centipede on the Atari. I was awesome at that.