My first gaming memory is watching my mom play Wolfenstein 3D when I was four years old. I was scared of BJ's bloody face when her health got low, it took me a year before playing it for myself.
What was your first pc gaming memory?
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What do The Lemmings, Oregon Trails, and The Lion King have in common? I remember playing them all on a old Mac computer when I was 5 years old... The only difference is that I could not beat certain later levels (with the exception of the last level) in Lemmings, I could always beat Oregon Trails even though I had NO IDEA at the time how the game even worked most of the time, and The Lion King game I'm referring to was more of like this promotional demo for the movie, I think, since there were barely any mini-games outside of going through a boneyard labyrinth or playing match up against Simba or Nala as well as a separate section to just watch selected clips from the movie, like Simba learning to pounce...
Then again, during that time, my mom didn't have a computer for herself and the preschool I went to (that also had their own youth program for those attending elementary school) had, like, 7 Mac computers that were kinda old compared to the newer Mac that was just coming out at the time... So, I guess my first PC gaming experience, in terms of at home, was when I was playing this Hot Wheels CD-ROM game that was included in one of my Hot Wheels track sets... The whole game was just a small promotion for this new Hot Wheels CD-ROM game were you're traveling across these tracks that are connected across this standard two-story house with a "sunny" backyard and a "dark" basement (with glow-in-the-dark tracks), according to the trailer that played after you played the selected snippet from the game, I think...
The best part about that "game", for me, was when the game would keep track of your time of completion as well as how many times you "crashed" or "bumped" into certain obstacles that were presented sometimes, depending on how fast or how slow you drove through the track... You bet you ass I tried to get as many crashes (or "accident") as I could in one go... My highest, I think was 76 or something like that...
Then again, during that time, my mom didn't have a computer for herself and the preschool I went to (that also had their own youth program for those attending elementary school) had, like, 7 Mac computers that were kinda old compared to the newer Mac that was just coming out at the time... So, I guess my first PC gaming experience, in terms of at home, was when I was playing this Hot Wheels CD-ROM game that was included in one of my Hot Wheels track sets... The whole game was just a small promotion for this new Hot Wheels CD-ROM game were you're traveling across these tracks that are connected across this standard two-story house with a "sunny" backyard and a "dark" basement (with glow-in-the-dark tracks), according to the trailer that played after you played the selected snippet from the game, I think...
The best part about that "game", for me, was when the game would keep track of your time of completion as well as how many times you "crashed" or "bumped" into certain obstacles that were presented sometimes, depending on how fast or how slow you drove through the track... You bet you ass I tried to get as many crashes (or "accident") as I could in one go... My highest, I think was 76 or something like that...
This thread makes me feel both old and not quite that old at the same time. The first game I remember playing a lot of was Rescue Rover [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rescue_Rover] on the 486/66DX with a 300Mb Hard Drive and a massive 8Mb of RAM when I was 7. Maybe its stockholm syndrome but I still have a fondness for DOS.
The other game I remember was Frogger on the BBC Micro when I was 8. One of our teachers had a disk of games he kept locked away for rainy lunchtimes and a friend and I used to play the games on it after school while our sisters had music lessons.
The other game I remember was Frogger on the BBC Micro when I was 8. One of our teachers had a disk of games he kept locked away for rainy lunchtimes and a friend and I used to play the games on it after school while our sisters had music lessons.
I'd forgotten about that game. My friends and I occasionally tried playing by setting the angle to 0 and just drilled through the buildings.ZodiacBraves said:
I remember playing the Grade 2 version as well as the Typing version... The formal you could technically speedrun through in under 5 minutes, since there were certain sections you didn't have to go through if you knew where that damn rabbit was actually going to appear... And the latter was so broken, you could reach the game's end goal (which was to get that one dude out of that typing-sensitive cage, I think) just by holding down the space bar...Fijiman said:
Still, those games were still fun to play and, I think, I still have my old copy of the typing version in my CD-ROM case next to, possibly, Scrabble and Nicktoons Basketball...
My first memory was playing some sort of "101 Games" collection, essentially 101 different little minigames to play through, like Pac-Man, minigolf, connect 4, etc.
There was this old man who pretty much lived in his garage. It had an office in it and in the office was a computer. It was a long time ago and the old man is ash now. The room smelt of cigarettes and I don't think it was ever cleaned. So lots of dust and what not.
ANyway, when I was a kid I went on to that computer in the office and played the only game that it had on it, solitaire. I had no idea how to play so I tried to learn for about 5 minutes, but then became ill because of the smell and had to leave the room, plus the game was giving me a headache.
That was my first pc gaming memory. tadatada
ANyway, when I was a kid I went on to that computer in the office and played the only game that it had on it, solitaire. I had no idea how to play so I tried to learn for about 5 minutes, but then became ill because of the smell and had to leave the room, plus the game was giving me a headache.
That was my first pc gaming memory. tadatada
We are dating ourselves here! I was in the USAF, playing this in the barracks. This was way before networking, and everyone would come to my room to take turns on it, particularly Ultima 3. Everyone had their opinion about what to do next.KorLeonis said:All hail the Commodore 64 playin' master race. My elementary school had 2 of these bad boys. I skipped recess ever chance I got to play it.Gorfias said:Fortress of the Witch King on the Commodore 64. Turn based RPG that you can start and finish in a single session, text based with some graphics. I was completely addicted.
Great system. It had a printer, separate disc drive, a tape drive. I had a plug in cart. meant to speed it up. I blew that puppy up the first week I had it. As it was, it took about 5 min. to load a game. I'm surprised you had time to play anything during recess!
LOL, you looking at me?!?Ratty said:
Note Bill says the PC is the entertainment device of the future. Now that is supposed to be Microsoft's XB1. I think he was kind of right then. I have a PC in one of my entertainment centers. It can store a terabyte of music, play Steam games, be on the network/internet. Neat video. Thanks for sharing.
My first PC experience was Half life 2. I had played consoles for a long time so my fascination with games was as alive as ever. The physics engine blew my mind and to this day the gravity gun is my favorite weapon of all time (portal gun isn't a weapon).
Yeah, I think that the 3rd grade one was probably my favorite. It's mostly because, well, what's not to love about running around a giant mountain fortress/laboratory while trying to save history as we know it? Our version of the 4th grade disk was crap though as the audio was fucked for some of the minigames, making it very hard to actually do them. Unfortunately, I think my mom tossed out all of the Jumpstart games we had years ago.FPLOON said:
The first game I've played on a PC is the original SimCity back in 1993. Still plays it occasionally (via VirtualBox on Windows 3.11)
Aside from Math Blasters and Pajama Sam (thanks, Elementary School), I'd say that my first experience was Creatures. I had no idea what it was about and no idea how to progress the game but it was a fun, worthwhile experience to "explore" the world with my cute, little monster babies.
Rollercoaster Tycoon. I loved building coasters and log flume rides inside of hills and having them arc through pathways. I also limited each coaster to one cart per ride, so they never crashed the entire time they remained active. Pretty stupid, though, because I knew you could just delete one rail on a ride, rebuild it, and open it again and nobody would be afraid of it anymore.
Also the bobsled rides that always flung off the rails if they traveled around bends or down dips at any speed faster than a slow crawl, and charging money to use the toilets. It wasn't about the economy for me though, it was about building cool shit.
Also the bobsled rides that always flung off the rails if they traveled around bends or down dips at any speed faster than a slow crawl, and charging money to use the toilets. It wasn't about the economy for me though, it was about building cool shit.
All I remember was that it was some racing game. We had a hand-me-down computer and I'm not even sure what brand.
