The first "good" old PC games you remember playing.

[Vibhor]

Oldest game I played would be Bard's tale.
It came to me as a surprise when I discovered Wolf 3D wasn't older than Bard's tale.

 

[Extragorey]

Hmmm... The old Amiga housed the first few good PC games I remember.
Top Hat Willy was a great platformer, Crystal Caves was a pretty good action platformer... And Defender of the Crown... Hehehe... One of the first games to boast "stunning full-colour visuals" or something similar.

But on Windows... Age of Empires I, naturally, and Monkey Island was especially memorable. Then there was The DIG... Amazing game. One of the first games with voice acting, I think.
Oh, and I'll never forget The Neverhood - clay animation at its finest. And it was such an odd game - like something out of a Terry Pratchett novel.

Then Sims came along... I bet most of you have played the original Sims at some point or another.
It was great because everyone played on the same account, in the same Sims save, in the same neighbourhood... That's really how the game was meant to be played.

Fast forward a few years... Age of Empires 2, Dungeon Siege (much better than the sequel), Oblivion. Those are the games that stand out off the top of my head, anyway - there were many more in between.

Anyway, thanks for the trip down memory lane. Wow, thinking back to Amiga days makes me feel old.

 

[EvilPicnic]

and

and

3 damn good games.

 

[dakorok]

Myst.

 

[Kneel]

For me, it was the Star Wars Collection 2. Dark Forces, Dark Forces 2: Jedi Knight, Mysteries of the Sith, Yoda Stories, X-Wing, W-Wing vs TIE Fighter, and TIE FIGHTER.

Aside from Yoda stories, easily the best Star Wars games ever made.

Never played Yoda Stories myself, but X-Wing pretty much dominated my game time in 1993. The subsequent Dark Forces/Jedi Knight/X-Wing/TIE Fighter are perhaps my favourite of all time and probably the best on the Star Wars license.

 

[JWRosser]

Rollercoaster Tycoon.

Ah, bliss.

Damn, beaten to what I was gonna say. Rollercoaster Tycoon is so addicting. I haven't played RT3 but I hear that the first one is still better.

In some ways. I mean, RT3 is obviously more advanced, and you can ride rides which is always fun, but sometimes you miss the simpleness of the first game.

Captcha: Action this!

 

[Extragorey]

Myst.

Oh yes, that too. How could I forget - and Myst III Exile has the most amazing graphics ever. To this day. Seriously.

Spoiler: Well...

Okay, there's a catch... The game is kind of... Point and click. But it's still extremely awesome.

 

[Lacsapix]

X beyond the frontier.
god I love that game.

 

[Blondi3]

Wolfenstein 3d and Baldur's Gate

 

[kebab4you]

The first good PC game I played was Dark Messiah: Might and Magic.
I was completely in love with it at the time. I'm sure some will disagree with it being good, but it was good in my eyes.

Good, yes. Old? Not really o.o

 

[QuantumT]

Star Wars TIE Fighter

 

[thatstheguy]

Descent II and Jazz Jackrabbit 2. Don't really remember much else but those were the two big ones.

 

[TheSaw]

Good, yes. Old? Not really o.o

It's the oldest PC game I can remember playing.
I got into PC gaming quite late.

 

[Lopsided Weener]

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Dawn, Homeworld 1... ah those were the days.

 

[meece]

For PC I think it'd have to be Red Alert 2. I still compare all RTS campaigns to that bar....and they invariable fall short. Exceping Homeworld.

 

[commodore96]

Star Wars Tie Fighter, it still is the best game ever

 

[TheKruzdawg]

Age of Empires 1 and "helping" my dad play Myst.

Also, Duke Nukem III when it was on DOS. God I played the shit out of that game.

 

[DaphneRose]

Probably Myst. But I was too young to get very far in the puzzles myself.

 

[KissofKetchup]

TIE FIGHTER!!!!

Although I was like 7 and I sucked at it

 

[hermes]

Pitfall on a friend's PC (although there it was called Tarzan).
On my own PC, the first game I played was FX Fighter...