What was your first pc gaming memory?

[TheYellowCellPhone]

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.

 

[Greg White]

Some really old flight simulator that ran off of a 5 3/4in disk.

 

[Something Amyss]

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.

 

[Weaver]

Catacomb 3-D. I played it with my Dad. We ordered pizza and played this game in the basement on a Saturdy afternoon. I have fond memories.

 

[Jeteye]

I had to be 4 or 5 years old. I spend the day watching my dad build our computer. Later that night he installed Janes Fighter Anthology on it. I watched him play it and another game called Pipe Dream. I can remember clicking away making a pipe way in Pipe Dream and taking control of an F-16 in Janes. Flying around, shooting randomly, and the inevitable crash into a building of the ground. These 2 games where a huge part of my childhood. 18 years later and I'm still playing both of them and their just as fun as always.


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[vxicepickxv]

I stuck the plastic feeling 5 1/4 inch floppy disk into the apple 2c and then flipping the switch. I don't remember the game, but I knew it was fun. It might have been Conan, or Pirates, or something else.

 

[purf]

It's a blur composed of c64 games like Pitfall, 1942, Summer Games and such, but the most prominent image in my memory, the one that clearly said to the 11-ish year old me "I want that!", has to be:

Boulder Dash

 

[geier]

Alley Cat from 1984. But my Parents only had a black/orange monitor, looked teribble

 

[AD-Stu]

So many memories looking through this thread... making me feel so old

My earliest memories of playing PC games would've been ancient ASCII games played on a Unix machine at my dad's work. Don't really remember any names of the games.

 

[Erttheking]

A Harry Potter game I would play on my aunt's computer. Thinking back it was pitifully basic, but I still had a lot of fun with it.

 

[Ubiquitous Duck]

I don't know if it truly was the first, but I remember playing lemmings really early on.

The game came on floppy disks and the levels were loaded by a code you had to enter by looking the level up in the manual. You literally could load the last level straight away, if you wanted to.

It really does seem a mile away from where we are at now.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Lemmings at my uncles house! Good times...another really early PC Gaming memory of mine (and this is a game I've asked about before) was a point-n-click that takes place in a haunted house. You have until...either sunrise or midnight to find X keys. If you can't find the keys you'll be stuck in the house for the rest of your presumably short life. It was a game for kids but it was still pretty weird and there was a particularly creepy bit where you get stuck in the attic, trapped by a possessed rocking horse.

 

[jamail77]

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.

Ditto. The world really can feel small sometimes.

Anyway, oh, boy, this brings up some fond memories. My memory isn't the best though in terms of long term details, so they've all kind of meshed together. I don't remember my first game (it was on PC though as it was my first medium for gaming I believe though GameBoy might have been around the same time for me), just some of my earliest PC gaming experiences.

Sooooo, *takes deep breath*Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, Lego Island, Lego Racers, Legoland (I played a lot of Lego games back when the franchise was different from Telltale's current undertaking), The Dig, a lot of the classic 90s Star Wars games, there's just too many to list before Lucasarts fell apart, Steven Spielberg's Director's Chair, and then there were all those educational games such as Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, I don't remember the name but a quick Google search suggests I'm thinking of the Jumpstart grade level series of games, the Freddi Fish series, Pajama Sam.

We owned Quake and I think I might have seen my sister or Dad play it, but I never played it or at least not much of it. My memory gets even hazier than it already is on Quake for some reason. There were other games, but I can't think of them at the moment.

 

[Hieronymusgoa]

Different games back on the 286, the first PC my father got for our family (about 24 years ago or smth).
I played "Castle" "Alley Cat" "Digger" "Arkanoid" "Monkey Island 1" and so on.
And I sucked at most of them back then
Later I got an NES and a GameBoy, then my real gaming career started.

 

[fenrizz]

Either Sim City or Jazz Jackrabbit, don't remember it too well since it's a pretty long time ago.

Must have been 5 or 6.

 

[Bertylicious]

When I was wee my dad had a 286 and fatefully bought a computer magazine with a demo disk featuring the brand new: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderstrike_(video_game)

It was in 3D! My only previous experience with gaming had been coin op arcade machines. After that I was hooked.

My dad acquired a ZX81 and I encountered The Warlock from Firetop Mountain, which I never comlpleted, Star Trek, http://www.worldofspectrum.org/infoseekid.cgi?id=0004885 (also never completed) and a whole load of other games that couldn't even be completed.

Even as a child it was obvious that the 80's sucked and the 90's were where it was at.

A mate of mine had an Atari ST with such titles as Carrier Command, Rainbow Islands and Double Dragon. He hated playing games, however, prefering to play outside which taught me that friends can be great but can also be a sub-optimal use of your time. I did learn that game music could be awesome:

Spoiler

I was too young to really comprehend a lot of the games I played but I did learn a lot from installing stuff on my Dad's PC and having to fiddle about the config.sys file to get them to work. Having to make boot disks sucked balls.

 

[Rot_At_The_Root]

Playing Gauntlet on my Amstrad 64, green screen monitor and a cassette drive!

 

[william12123]

I'm not quite sure which, but my earliest PC gaming memories are of Civilization 1, Sim city 3000 & Jazz Jackrabbit. I think I was 8-9? I have a crap memory for my own life. THey where a bunch of pirated copies my cousin passed us when my parents got their first computer (took another 8 years before we got the web, but eh...)

 

[Not Lord Atkin]

Watching my dad play Prince of Persia on his laptop. Then Sokoban. Then Bumpy's Arcade fantasy.
He would let me play those games later. I liked Prince of Persia the most, but I was too afraid to play it by myself. He had to play the parts with the giant automated guilotine things for me. I was 4 or 5 at the time. By the age of 6, I was able to beat the game in under 45 minutes.

I got my first gaming PC when I was 12. The Sands of Time came out around that time. It's still my all-time favourite game.

 

[Tsurani]

The very first game that I ever got into on the pc was Starcraft mainly broodwar. I got so into the single player story and later the multiplayer that I joined a guild and played every single day for hours on end. Me and my friends played the heck out of that game in junior high school and into high school as well.

My very first gaming memory would be a sort of cliche one and that is super mario world. I remember playing this game to no end when I was like 4 or 5 and being obsessed with it that I would dream about the game. There were so many great levels but the level that I always think of and that I loved the most back then was vanilla dome. Such awesome nostalgia.