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    What was the first PC game you ever played?

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by anothergeek, Mar 9, 2009.

  1. anothergeek

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    IGN had just finished their top 10 game designers, #3 being Will Wright, which reminded me of an olde... and I played it exactly like this, black and white on dos :eek: So fun though!

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  2. yuio

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    would have to be Asteroids(the one with the triangle ship) on a old 286(I think?)
     
    yuio, Mar 9, 2009
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    F/A-18 Hornet 3.0 for Macintosh...played many an hour back in 1997 and 1998 with my dad on my old PowerPC. Good times, good times.

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  5. jonhapimp

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    the legend of zelda link of time(?) and loony toons something on super Nintendo
     
    jonhapimp, Mar 9, 2009
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    You mean on a PC or just electronic game in general? First PC game was Reader Rabbit. First electronic game was Super Mario Bros..
     
    Cicero, Mar 9, 2009
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    Dungeons of Daggorath on my TRS-80.

    And now Ive got the urge to play it so I'll have to go digging through boxes to find it. ;þ

    First Video Game was Boxing for the Intellivision.


    It's sad....I remember when pixels per inch used to = 1.
     
    Phinagle, Mar 9, 2009
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  8. FoxTrot1337

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    PC game - Solitaire :D

    Electronic Game - Mario 64
     
    FoxTrot1337, Mar 9, 2009
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  9. mobius1aic

    mobius1aic Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    First real PC game?

    Retaliator F-29 :D
     
    mobius1aic, Mar 9, 2009
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  10. MAG

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    The first PC game I played was SkyRoads.
     
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  11. Chris Redfield

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    Mine was when my father bought our first computer an Hp with windows 3.1 around 90's comes with a bundle of cds inside and the best was:

    Megarace

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megarace

    Excellent game and very enjoyable for it's time.
     
    Chris Redfield, Mar 9, 2009
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  13. AznImports602

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    Some super mario type game in the 3rd grade with those big giant oversize floppies... lol
     
    AznImports602, Mar 10, 2009
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    first pc game...minesweeper :p

    and first cd that i bought was command and conquer tiberium sun
     
    nerever_kuhn, Mar 10, 2009
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  15. yodawg

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    can any1 tell me the first game i played i forgot its name but it was basically controlling a jet at the bottom of the screen and enemy jets came from the top and every few rounds in between you upgrade your jet and buy like homing missiles.lasers.bombs etc and stuff.. any1 know that game?
     
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  16. Bog

    Bog Losing it...

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  17. Gruven98

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    PC - I can't think of the name of it, but I played it on a TRS-80. It was like a fantasy game. You had to type in commands like "pick up rock", "look in room". Graphics were extremely limited.

    First console would be the Atari 2600, and I think that it was Pong. :)
     
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  18. ViciousXUSMC

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    Oldest one I can remember that I played all the time in school was Oregon Trail, I always had way more meat than I needed because I loved to go hunting, my game start stats was like mostly bullets :p
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Mar 10, 2009
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  19. dtwn

    dtwn C'thulhu fhtagn

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    I'm a little fuzzy, but I think it would be One Must Fall 2097 or Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis.
     
    dtwn, Mar 10, 2009
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  20. zero2laptophero

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    Civilization on a NEC DOS based desktop my parents bought for $2200. It had like a 11" screen that weighed more than I did.
     
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  21. Gregory

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    Wheel Of Fortune, Tetris, Where In The World Is Carmen San Diego?, Stunt Chopper, Crystal Quest. Those are the earliest I can remember.

    [​IMG]
     
    Gregory, Mar 10, 2009
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  22. jonhapimp

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    i can't even remember
     
    jonhapimp, Mar 10, 2009
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  23. yuio

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    I remeber Oreagon Trail for mac! I wanna play it so bad! anyone know if any of these games can be had for modern PC's?
     
    yuio, Mar 10, 2009
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    I have Oregon Trail for PC... I think it's designed for Win 95/98.
     
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  25. Hualsay

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    My first was SkiFree. Awesome game. :D
     
    Hualsay, Mar 10, 2009
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  26. Templesa

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    Dune 2
    :)

    Or was it Battle for Atlantis?
    I can't remember.
     
    Templesa, Mar 10, 2009
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    Heretic was first 3d game. I also remember chips challenge and mouse hunt or something with the mice and cheese on win 95.
     
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    Kings Quest. So good.
     
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    Time Commando
     
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    Doom on a 486DX2/50MHz

    Gamed on a Commodore 64 through most of high school, and then became a console gamer (Sega Genesis) until Doom, X-Wing and Master of Orion...
     
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    I believe it was Megarace. That was on my home computer.

    At school on those old Macintosh's (then it was new) I first played Dinopark Tycoon?
     
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    that moon landing game. I remember it was incredibly hard
     
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    Yobi's Basic Spelling Tricks:

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    I remember that one too, they had it in an arcade cabinet at my dentist office as a kid. Kinda brings back creepy memories.
     
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  35. kylezo

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    OMFG MegaRace!!

    How about (off the top of my head)

    3D Dinosaur adventure!
    And, and, that game where you like zap the flu virus inside peoples bodies!
    Then theres Wolfenstein 3D of course, And all those Apogee shareware games (Heretic, Simon the Sorcerer, etc). Snake (that game where you eat the apples and become longer)! I can't remember before those ones...my first game was probably the Oregon Trail, tbh, played that before my family got a computer in school!

    That wierd program, Navigator, where you have the different rooms and stuff, that was kinda like a game. There was a writing room, and a play room, and stuff. I don't recall what it was really called or much else about it...
     
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    Invaders? Classic

    This was on a Packard Bell, btw. Then we upgraded to Dell! And...I think I still have that same computer xD Its a Dell Dimension 4000 or something, like 8 years old. Or maybe we got another one in between..I don't remember.
     
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  37. NegatiVe

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    That is one awezome game. :D That game and Commander Keen are my clearest memories of beginning of 90's.
     
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    Alley Cat and Battlezone were 2 of 6 games on a 5 1/4 inch disk (I don't remember the other 4), first ever experience with a PC. Ended up sticking with DOS for far longer than I expected growing up.
     
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  39. Tinderbox (UK)

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    On an old IBM PET , no graphics just guide an dot between to vertical lines as they get narrower, a kind of driving game!!!!
     
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    I believe Sierra's Space Quest 2
     
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    First electronic game: Mario
    First Arcade Game: Space Invaders
    First PC Game: Space Invaders (one of the first ported versions on the PC)
     
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    plasma. herpyderpy

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    First ever game: Pokemon Ruby on GBA
     
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    PC? Super Karts!! :D

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    Wings of Fury, maybe?
    I honestly can't remember which was my first PC game :)
     
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    Some Beetlejuice game in black and white... A racing game, also black and white, with a cockpit view. I played those in my school... After that, SkiFree, Syberia, Where in The World is Carmen San Diego? and DOOM!!!! (First game i finished)
     
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    chuckie egg and jet set willy on the spectrum 48k with cassette tapes those were the days.just looked on ebay i can't believe how many games i have forgotten.
     
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    Can't remember the first one, but I played the first ones on this, notice the games were on tapes not floppys yet :)
    Commodere 64

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    My first was Doom
     
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