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

[Snotnarok]

Silpheed, Bouncing Babies, Sokuban.

Don't worry, no one else has heard of them either.

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[indiangrunt91]

first one i played was civ 3
man i loved that game, hours and hours wasted

 

[ks1234]

Everquest
I wasted AT LEAST a full year playing that game.. I played it for like 5 years but in that 5 years I literally put a full 365 days (maybe a little more) of playtime in.
I missed out on so much pootie it's not even funny.
BUT... at least I had fun.

 

[Creepybard]

Master of Magic

 

[mattaui]

Starflight. I'd read about it in ye olde Computer Gaming Monthly (RIP) and I didn't even have a computer that was yet capable of playing it (mine only had 128k RAM, needed a massive 640k!) but a friend of mine did, and so I played at his place, or rented time at the local library computer. Wasteland is a close second.

Though the very first game that I bought and played for the PC was Ancient Art of War. I remember I could have picked that up or Ultima III: Exodus. I would later go on to play Ultima IV and the rest, which was another phenomenal title.

 

[The Random One]

Either Prince of Persia or Lemmings. Both where on the first computer I had, which actually was on loan from my father. I played the shit out of Lemmings, but couldn't complete any level on PoP and cheated extensively.

 

[squballs1234]

Balders Gate 1. I played it when i was a kid because my brother owned it lol. I didnt fully understand it all but when i was older i went back through our CD box and dusted it off for a fresh run. AWESOME.

 

[JoshGod]

I remember enjoying starwars galactic battlegrounds. After that it was red alert 2.

 

[GameMaNiAC]

The first Splinter Cell. I loved it so much, I couldn't wait to come home from school and play it.

 

[MajorDolphin]

Doom 2, Star Control 2

 

[MajorDolphin]

Wolfenstein 3D. Plus a Worms-like game called Scorched Earth.

Scorched Earth was the bomb.

 

[Nappster]

Oh Neverwinter Nights.. the game that introduced me to gaming... with 6 years
Although I only hit things with bare hands I had tons of fun with it, and still have

 

[RadiusXd]

some sort of zodiac demo disk, perhaps cold shadow (daffy duck as a ninja). but really, the first pc game i remember playing of note is deus ex, man that sorta left all following games with a "not deus ex" taste.

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

System God damn Shock 2. Played it when I was I think 6 and got through the tutorial by myself before my parents said I was too young to play it.

Went back when I was 14 to play it and I died. It scarred the shit outta me and I now think it was best old PC game I ever played.

If anyone has a download link for it that can work on a windows 7, I will love you forever.

 

[winter2]

X-COM: UFO Defense

 

[Clive Howlitzer]

Doom.

 

[Leole]

- Age of Empires 2 (I wasn't old enough when Age of Empires 1 was out so I never got around to play it)
- Twinsen Odyssey: Little Big Adventure 2
- Banjo Kazooie and Tooie (those aren't REALLY old, but they were my bread and butter when I was young)
- Dungeon Keeper 1 (not that I was conscious enough to know what to do, I just slapped the tiny little Imps for the lols)
- RollerCoaster Tycoon 1
- Claw (Cats and Pirates, what's not to love?)

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

I think chess is a pretty badass game.

Seriously though I will go with Diablo, Mario is Missing, and Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego.

 

[MajorDolphin]

Do Commodore64 games count?

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Questron for the Commodore 64 was the first real classic that I owned and played to death with my brothers

although I do remember playing choplifter on the school's Apple II's (how's that for old!)

Holy shit I remember Choplifter! That game was awesome, and I miss my old Apple II, now I feel old.

I need a drink now.