What was your first pc gaming memory?
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My very very first:
Age 4, watching my Uncle play Chucky Egg on ZX Spectrum. I was mesmerised, a cartoon... that you controlled, it was like a revelation, like someone took the blindfold off and I had found what my life was.
I think a lot of Britains in their late twenties and up have very differing experiences to others in regards to this topic, the original console market crashed and the rise of the home computer Spectrum vs BBC Micro, it was the Apple vs Microsoft of the early 80's, if you want to find out how tight the competition was I recommend the highly excellent BBC docu-drama: Micromen.
Age 4, watching my Uncle play Chucky Egg on ZX Spectrum. I was mesmerised, a cartoon... that you controlled, it was like a revelation, like someone took the blindfold off and I had found what my life was.
I think a lot of Britains in their late twenties and up have very differing experiences to others in regards to this topic, the original console market crashed and the rise of the home computer Spectrum vs BBC Micro, it was the Apple vs Microsoft of the early 80's, if you want to find out how tight the competition was I recommend the highly excellent BBC docu-drama: Micromen.
Basically the original(?) worms style game. You threw explosive bananas at each other after inputting your angle and velocity values.
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Both came bundled with a Power Mac that we bought in about 1995 and I played a ridiculous amount of them. Spin Doctor in particular was a complete swine in the later missions - just because every mission was technically possible (whereas the harder difficulties on Super Maze Wars were functionally impossible) but required perfect timing - or at least it seemed that way to six-year-old me.
Might have played stuff on PC as well as consoles earlier than that, but since I was really small then it all kind of blurs together. The above is the earliest that was definitely on PC.
Also, this:
Both came bundled with a Power Mac that we bought in about 1995 and I played a ridiculous amount of them. Spin Doctor in particular was a complete swine in the later missions - just because every mission was technically possible (whereas the harder difficulties on Super Maze Wars were functionally impossible) but required perfect timing - or at least it seemed that way to six-year-old me.
Might have played stuff on PC as well as consoles earlier than that, but since I was really small then it all kind of blurs together. The above is the earliest that was definitely on PC.
Watching my mom play Wolfenstein 3D on her work PC, I think.
She was killing that shit. Hardest difficulty, knew all secret areas and every single enemy. Blasted through the game without any issues.
My personal first would be some racing game. I don't really remember anything, but in the beginning you could choose male or female driver, pick a color for them and the car(the graphics were really crappy and blocky). Tried going off course and driving in the wrong direction, out into the wilderness, to see how far I could get. Put a weight on and went for maybe half an hour into the nothingness. Don't remember if I was just driving against a wall or if I actually moved away from the tracks. Don't think I found my way back though.
Was maybe six-seven at the time.
She was killing that shit. Hardest difficulty, knew all secret areas and every single enemy. Blasted through the game without any issues.
My personal first would be some racing game. I don't really remember anything, but in the beginning you could choose male or female driver, pick a color for them and the car(the graphics were really crappy and blocky). Tried going off course and driving in the wrong direction, out into the wilderness, to see how far I could get. Put a weight on and went for maybe half an hour into the nothingness. Don't remember if I was just driving against a wall or if I actually moved away from the tracks. Don't think I found my way back though.
Was maybe six-seven at the time.
First electroic game I eve played was Asteroids on arcades but on PC it depend on weather you talk about Personal Computer in general or IBM PC compatible.
For the first it was Lazy Jones on Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, and first on IBM PC compatible was Tetris
For the first it was Lazy Jones on Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K, and first on IBM PC compatible was Tetris
Ballerburg on the Atari ST. A game wherein you have to decide how much powder your cannons use, what angle they fire at, where the wind is coming from and so on in order to destroy the enemy's castle or rather their king inside. Taking turns, the two castles fire on each other. You earn money to buy replacement wall-bits, powder, cannon balls and cannons.
We also had a handful of other games on that system. Colours are for noobs!
Actually, it was an incredible leap for me from that device to our first 386er.
We also had a handful of other games on that system. Colours are for noobs!
Actually, it was an incredible leap for me from that device to our first 386er.
My earliest PC gaming memory?
32 Megabytes. Ba-dum tish.
I played many games before Commander Keen (1990), but that would have to be the first game I can actually remember the title of. A lot of my memories of my first ten years of life probably aren't too time accurate. There was a lot of crap you booted off a diskette in those days and most of it was pretty random, indistinguishable from other titles or plain unmemorable. I think I mostly played mixed demo disks from magazines right through to the mid 90's.
One memory stands out though. My dad was a computer technician at the time. I remember going into his work after school, and he and his workmates would play games on the computers they had fixed before the clients were due to pick them up. I used to go in pretty often, but I don't remember too many of the games we played until the day when Doom was released in 1993.
As an 8 year old, that game blew my damned mind. It was so unbelievably far ahead of anything else at the time. We played 4 player (I think) co-op for hours on end. It was like someone had invented the fucking flying car or the Star Trek teleporter and they were selling it for like $10 or $20.
These days it's pretty primitive, but I've got a ton of great memories of playing Doom with my dad in that techie shop with computer parts strewn everywhere, and his crazy workmates who would take particularly frustrating PCs out to the shooting range to finish them off.
32 Megabytes. Ba-dum tish.
I played many games before Commander Keen (1990), but that would have to be the first game I can actually remember the title of. A lot of my memories of my first ten years of life probably aren't too time accurate. There was a lot of crap you booted off a diskette in those days and most of it was pretty random, indistinguishable from other titles or plain unmemorable. I think I mostly played mixed demo disks from magazines right through to the mid 90's.
One memory stands out though. My dad was a computer technician at the time. I remember going into his work after school, and he and his workmates would play games on the computers they had fixed before the clients were due to pick them up. I used to go in pretty often, but I don't remember too many of the games we played until the day when Doom was released in 1993.
As an 8 year old, that game blew my damned mind. It was so unbelievably far ahead of anything else at the time. We played 4 player (I think) co-op for hours on end. It was like someone had invented the fucking flying car or the Star Trek teleporter and they were selling it for like $10 or $20.
These days it's pretty primitive, but I've got a ton of great memories of playing Doom with my dad in that techie shop with computer parts strewn everywhere, and his crazy workmates who would take particularly frustrating PCs out to the shooting range to finish them off.
Ask and ye shall receive. [http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekplay.cgi?title=Rainbow+Islands&pub=Ocean+Software+Ltd&year=1990&id=0000724&joy=kemp&game=/games/r/RainbowIslands.tap.zip&emu=1]Caliostro said:
Grew up on the Speccy - I remember many, many hours playing Head Over Heels and the aforementioned Cobra, both from the quite spectacular Magnificent Seven compilation doubletape (Wizball, HOH, Arkanoid, Cobra, Frankie Goes To Hollywood, The Great Escape, Short Circuit and Yie Ar Kung Fu, most of which I clocked). We had Spectrums in my first school, and I was once called out of a maths lesson to go and fix the school one (it had crashed on some educational program they were running). I was seven at the time, and that started me off on the journey of fixing PCs being a Thing for me.
First game I remember playing on what we'd now call a PC was probably actually The Settlers, after I'd become addicted to it on a mate's Amiga.
It was being let onto the PC to play some games my Dad liked playing or games that were installed just to keep me occupied. I was three, I can't remember anything before I was three.
So, it's either I got to play Half-Life, or I was playing some Wacky Races game. I'd have to do more thinking.
So, it's either I got to play Half-Life, or I was playing some Wacky Races game. I'd have to do more thinking.
Doom. On that old DOS computer of my dad's whose startup sounds I can still recall with great fondness, the game in hindsight was laggy, slow, and almost impossible. The rocket launcher was a weapon to be avoided since it could easily kill you. (Yeah, dad and I sucked at the game. ^_^) It was the most amazing thing to behold, and I loved just looking at it and everything that looked like it, from the maze screensaver in Windows to Hover, a game I'd forgotten existed till LGR reviewed it. (Funny story, I wouldn't see Wolfenstein 3D until a few years later, and when I first saw it, I thought it was Doom and so told my cousin who was playing it "not to get the rocket launcher".)
I also fondly remember God of Thunder (a Zelda clone with Chibi-Thor), Bio-Menace (an Apogee action-platformer in the same vein as Duke Nukem), and Jetpack (a puzzle-platformer).
I also fondly remember God of Thunder (a Zelda clone with Chibi-Thor), Bio-Menace (an Apogee action-platformer in the same vein as Duke Nukem), and Jetpack (a puzzle-platformer).
Oh shit! You just reminded me of a game I played a lot as a kid.Skeleon said:Ballerburg on the Atari ST. A game wherein you have to decide how much powder your cannons use, what angle they fire at, where the wind is coming from and so on in order to destroy the enemy's castle or rather their king inside. Taking turns, the two castles fire on each other. You earn money to buy replacement wall-bits, powder, cannon balls and cannons.
We also had a handful of other games on that system. Colours are for noobs!
Actually, it was an incredible leap for me from that device to our first 386er.
Who remembers this bad boy?
My first memory for a game that I remember was learning how to run Commander Keen 1 from DOS. We had a bunch of games before that, but none of them were so good that I even remember much about them. Keen was like "Mario, but on the computer".
