What was your first pc gaming memory?

[scorptatious]

Chrono Trigger came out on the SNES though didn't it?

OT: I think I was either playing one of those interactive storybook games or Jump Start.

When it comes to non-PC gaming, I think my earliest memory was either playing Crash 2 or Donkey Kong for the Game Boy.

 

[Zipa]

The first PC game I owned was Star Trek Starfleet Command.

I remember playing Star Fleet Command III. That was a awesome game.

Yeah I eventually moved onto 2 and 3, each was awesome in its own way. 2 had things like shields that actually regenerated unlike 1 and Geoege Takei reprising Sulu for the Federation a couple of times.

Hmm maybe I should setup an XP virtualbox and play these games again...

 

[loc978]

First memory? I got a bunch of parts for free and got to figure out how to piece them together. I wound up with a 386 DX2@40Mhz in an old XT server case... all to try out Moria [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moria_%28video_game%29], which I found on a floppy disk at school. That was when I learned that Roguelikes aren't my cup of tea. I think the game I wound up playing the most on that system was Falcon 3.0.

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

I was 10 years old, and I was standing in an open field west of a white house with a boarded front door. There was a small mailbox there. I eventually found a dark room in the house and was eaten by a grue.

Obviously, my first PC game was Zork I.

 

[ShinyCharizard]

That would be playing GoldenAxe on my neighbours Commodore 64. Good times.

 

[Denamic]

Does the Amiga count? In that case, dunno. Played a number of Amiga games with my cousin, no idea about any names though. As for 'real' PC games, my first is probably Commander Keen.

 

[Salsajoe]

Laying waste to the pentagon time and time again in Red Alert 2

 

[Evil Smurf]

My mum taught me how to play Solitaire (Patience), when dad was away on a business trip to China.

 

[Xan Krieger]

watching my dad play Doom and being terrified when the guy died. Just that scream used to scare the crap out of me. Looking back on it I laugh at what a coward I was.

 

[DSK-]

Waking up early on the first day we got our first PC (IBM Pentium 133mhz, 32mb RAM, 1GB HD, 2MB ISA graphics card), turning it on, not knowing what did what, randomly clicking on pretty looking icons and going into folders on the C: drive until I loaded up the first PC game I ever saw/played: Total Annihilation.

Jaw dropping moment. Really was.

 

[Entropywarrior]

Rise of the triad back on windows 3.1, good times.

 

[The Hero Killer]

Playing wolfinstein, solitare, and minesweeper on some old black and white only floppy disc computer my mom had.

 

[Frezzato]

Zyll, a text-based (TEXT!) game on the IBM PC Jr. It was about finding and fighting this evil wizard named Zyll. The game was nothing but short descriptions [http://www.abandonwaredos.com/public/aban_img_cover/zyll-splash.jpg] and directions/actions you could take. You also got inventory and such. Incredibly, two people could play at once.

The game was normally just white text on the black background of the CRT monitor, that is until major events take place, in which case the text was a bright green and would say stuff like "An evil wizard has entered the room." So awesome. If you die, which happened often, you would wake up in a random location like next to a river, and you would have none of your stuff. Good times.

 

[username sucks]

My first memory of PC gaming was when I was 4 or 5 watching my sister play a Lara Croft game. I understood none of it at the time, so I got bored and went right back to playing my N64.

My first time playing a PC game was actually Doom 3, when I was... I don't remember. Less than 10 I know for certain. Gave me nightmares for about a week.

 

[SonOfVoorhees]

I remember playing a game called Sin on PC.

 

[Barbas]

I played Duke Nukem 3D on the PC decades ago...it was a great deal of fun at the time...particularly the shotgun and pipe bombs. It was way up there with Rise of the Triad, the Forgotten Realms games and Corridor 7.

Even earlier than that, though, was the original Tank Wars on...I can't even recall what system. That one was a riot.

Spoiler: Tank Wars.

All fairly simple games, but they really helped the afternoons whizz by.

 

[Raziel]

Way back in the day my father was actually one of the very first people to have a computer that I knew. I remember playing games on the really big floppies. Xexon? something basically the same if not that specifically. 3d pacman and my personal favorite was a maze generator where you could just enter the size to make it as large and complex as you wanted.


I can't recall if this was before or after atari consoles. But I had the atari 400 that had a built in keyboard as well as the normal 2600. We had the normal games for that, froger, pole position, pong, etc... But the one I really liked was this space sim game. You were a fighter craft and you entered coordinates on the keyboard to warp to locations and never knew what would be there when you arrived, enemies, space station, whatever. no idea what that was called.

 

[Joey Bolzenius]

My first memory is the original Doom on pc, 93 or 94, good times. Don't mess with the 90s! Har har har! Nostalgia is fun.

 

[Ravage]

I was probably around six or so but I remember playing pinball on Windows 95, or was it XP? Either way that's as far back as I can remember.

 

[Joey Bolzenius]

My intro to PC games & still one of my favorite games of time.

This is probably my earliest PC gaming memory as well.

Yes, this. Not my first pc experience but that was a fun christmas gift.