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

[Irriduccibilli]

I remember it being Doom. I guess I was 8 years old when I played it at my friends house and fell in love with it. Ah, those where the good old days

 

[vxicepickxv]

Zork, Conan The Barbarian, and Oregon Trail, for the Apple 2C.

I also remember the original Pirates for the Apple 2C, which was where I first played games on them, when they were new.

 

[ph0b0s123]

But mainly Wing Commander as it was the first game that only the PC could do (at first until it was scaled down for other platforms), and it made my Amiga and Atari ST friends green with envy....

Why they required expanded rather than the more available extended memory for video ship communications, I never could understand.

 

[EradiusLore]

X-COM: UFO Defense

that game was awesome

have you tried xcom extraterrestrial gold edition? its a good return to form

You know.. I was eying it when it came on Steam a while ago. So is it worth $9.99?

absolutely its not as detailed as the original but its generaly an improvement. it feels a lot like they tried to tweak the first rather then make a brand new game which i think is the right way to go

 

[gyroscopeboy]

Age Of Empires, Cannon Fodder & Commander Keen...haha i was in love with that game as an 8-12 yr old.

 

[Timmehexas]

Monkey Island, probably THE game to start up my love affair with games in general.

 

[Bostur]

I had an Amiga but a friend of mine had a PC, so I saw some good stuff on his machine. A lot of good games got released on PC first then got ported to the Amiga later. This was actually a handy way to preview games.

The first must have been Populous. Other good PC games I remember from the time was Wing Commander, Dune 2 and of course X-COM.

 

[SaltyOrange]

Serious Sam.It was the first game I ever owned and I got it with my first PC as a gift.I loved everything about it,from the CD cover to the easter eggs.

 

[winter2]

X-COM: UFO Defense

that game was awesome

have you tried xcom extraterrestrial gold edition? its a good return to form

You know.. I was eying it when it came on Steam a while ago. So is it worth $9.99?

absolutely its not as detailed as the original but its generaly an improvement. it feels a lot like they tried to tweak the first rather then make a brand new game which i think is the right way to go

Hmmm... I'll give it a go then, but first I gotta play Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword. An absolute amazing game! Really recommend that one. Especially at the price point of $14.99.

 

[Levethian]

Warcraft 2, Doom 2, Daggerfall, Diablo.

 

[EradiusLore]

X-COM: UFO Defense

that game was awesome

have you tried xcom extraterrestrial gold edition? its a good return to form

You know.. I was eying it when it came on Steam a while ago. So is it worth $9.99?

absolutely its not as detailed as the original but its generaly an improvement. it feels a lot like they tried to tweak the first rather then make a brand new game which i think is the right way to go

Hmmm... I'll give it a go then, but first I gotta play Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword. An absolute amazing game! Really recommend that one. Especially at the price point of $14.99.

yeah i pre-ordered off steam a few days ago and have also been playing it, not sure i like the fire arms very much because your only looking at getting maybe 1 or 2 shots off in a battle so it ends up being a bit of a waste. love grenades though

 

[winter2]

X-COM: UFO Defense

that game was awesome

have you tried xcom extraterrestrial gold edition? its a good return to form

You know.. I was eying it when it came on Steam a while ago. So is it worth $9.99?

absolutely its not as detailed as the original but its generaly an improvement. it feels a lot like they tried to tweak the first rather then make a brand new game which i think is the right way to go

Hmmm... I'll give it a go then, but first I gotta play Mount & Blade: With Fire & Sword. An absolute amazing game! Really recommend that one. Especially at the price point of $14.99.

yeah i pre-ordered off steam a few days ago and have also been playing it, not sure i like the fire arms very much because your only looking at getting maybe 1 or 2 shots off in a battle so it ends up being a bit of a waste. love grenades though

I love the fire arms. I get my gun out and ride around the battlefield on my horse popping the enemy off.. then high tailing it out of there as I reload...

 

[Dark Sup3rn0va]

Doom was my first and only until Unreal Tournament 99. I fucking loved UT99 and still do.

 

[Xanian]

Captain Keen.

Holla at ya'll.

 

[tahrey]

ACTUAL "PCs", as in x86-based vaguely-IBM-compatibles? Or just any home ("personal") computer?

First home computer game I remember playing that was worth a bean is Daley Thompson's Decathlon on the Sinclair Spectrum 48k. My tiny infant mind was overwhelmed. COLOURS! SHAPES! BLERPY NOISES! SQUIDGY KEYS YOU HAD TO HAMMER AT SPEED! It was like being on acid.

At school there's some vague memories of playing some putatively educational rubbish on an RM Nimbus (an actual PC... sort of... even though it was a 186 (aka, "an x86 based Micro-controller") based semi-PC semi-XT semi-PCjr thingamajig with custom graphics and sound hardware)... and a formative time spent playing Donkey Kong on the Atari 800 which was our teacher's replacement for gold stars.

First game on a computer a/ we owned, b/ wasn't embarassingly crap was, pretty much in order, Xenon, Buggy Boy, and Star Wars on the Atari ST. The first one was what the guy selling it used to demo the machine to us, and left it in the drive. The others were on the next disc we pulled out on getting it home and hitting "game over" on that. We got lucky in that all three are actually pretty good games and I'd happily play them today. The system had its share of dreck in-between, but those are solid.

First actual "PC" game (other than Granny's Garden and that)... probably Halloween Harry or Wolfenstein. As my dad brought home a 386 laptop (size of a house, almost) at one point with a few Apogee shareware titles on it. We got to mess about with it for a bit. It was cool and all, but not particularly inspiring - the black & white screen, poor CPU speed and fairly basic nature of the games left us with an impression of "may as well have an ST Book, really".

Then we eventually got our own 486 (the high school PCs had an impressively locked-down network, considering it was 3.11fwg based, so not even minesweeper was available) and a few magazines with demo floppies and CDs on ... Screamer, Tempest 2000, Doom (and its variants), Command and Conquer, Descent... all these, in rather limited form, almost immediately opened up to us. Decidedly a step up at last. It was amazing. Again, we got lucky in that our first experiences in this regard were stone cold classics of the era...

 

[teh_Canape]

Edit: my mistake, first one was the original Prince of Persia when I was 4

Quake, back when I was about 5 or 6

then came Quake 2

then Doom

then Doom 2

then Unreal

then Quake 3

and so on =P

 

[tahrey]

Quake, back when I was about 5 or 6

then came Quake 2

then Doom

Methinks yon timeline is a bit messed up, young 'prentice.
So that would make you... about... 18 now?
Old enough to buy your own house...

But still in Kindergarten when Doom II was out, and just moving up to Elementary when the PSX hit.

This hurts my brain

 

[teh_Canape]

Quake, back when I was about 5 or 6

then came Quake 2

then Doom

Methinks yon timeline is a bit messed up, young 'prentice.
So that would make you... about... 18 now?
Old enough to buy your own house...

But still in Kindergarten when Doom II was out.

This hurts my brain

I'm 19

but that's the order I played it

and no, I won't be buying my own house =P

staying at my parent's until I finish university

because I just had to pick a really expensive career, didn't I? T-T

 

[Dwachak]

First game I remember playing is the original Prince of Persia 2D game. I was probably around 5 and it was awesome back then. Have revisited it, but it doesn't capture me quite as much now, though it still holds up

Edit: Come to think about it, I had more likely just turned 4 when I played it, cuz I was 5 when I got my gameboy for Christmas, and that was before school, and Prince is right on the edge of my memory.. so yea 4