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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. jeremysdad

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    Horse racing game on a C64...dots moving across teh screen, but it was 1987, we were poor, and it was the coolest thing ever!!!

    After that, probably Frogger on the old IIe's. And Oregon Trail, of course...agree with the poster way back, that I always had waaaaay more bullets than needed, but was never out of meat...
     
    jeremysdad, Mar 11, 2009
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  2. ARom

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    I think it was like rabitrun or some nonsense like that...
     
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  3. Red_Dragon

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    Other game i have memories of playing at the beginning was Unreal tournament, Quake 2, and American Mcgees alice(they are remaking it!)
     
    Red_Dragon, Mar 11, 2009
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  4. Thaenatos

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    I would have to say sim city classic as well, although I did play ski free on my uncles PC. Played it on my 80286 that was the first PC I ever built or owned in late 1992ish.
     
    Thaenatos, Mar 11, 2009
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  5. klauza

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    where in the world is carmen san diego?
     
    klauza, Mar 11, 2009
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  6. Red_Dragon

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    lol that made me laugh wow i remember that show.....it was annoying she always escaped though.
     
    Red_Dragon, Mar 11, 2009
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  7. tuηay

    tuηay o TuNaY o

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    Solitaire :D
     
    tuηay, Mar 13, 2009
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    Oregon trail
     
    Reaper05, Mar 13, 2009
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  9. hoodomoo

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    my first pc game was civilization! Followed by Age of Empires, my parents wouldn't let me play computer games until i was like 10...
     
    hoodomoo, Mar 13, 2009
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    my first pc game was A-10 Cuba.
     
    xxERIKxx, Mar 13, 2009
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  11. avanish11

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    Doom and Age of empires, when I was 5 :D
     
    avanish11, Mar 13, 2009
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    5?! Lol. Man i can imagine you must have had a hard time playing right? I remember when i was young and i played the first Unreal that game drove me nuts it was so hard!
     
    Red_Dragon, Mar 13, 2009
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    half life when it first came out
     
    kal360, Mar 13, 2009
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    Nibbles in DOS 5.0 using QBasic in the early 90's
     
    mooler, Mar 13, 2009
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  15. namaiki

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    Ringworld or Blue Force..
     
    namaiki, Mar 13, 2009
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  16. mechrock

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    I think it was Age of empires or the Sim when I had a Mac.
     
    mechrock, Mar 13, 2009
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  17. gekk_gad

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    starcraft!
     
    gekk_gad, Mar 14, 2009
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  18. conejeitor

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    Montezuma was one of the first ones:

    [​IMG]
     
    conejeitor, Mar 14, 2009
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  19. conejeitor

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    And this was the first Mario, by Atari:

    [​IMG]
     
    conejeitor, Mar 14, 2009
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    I found it!. This was my favourite game of the 80's. Believe it or not, it was a 3D first-person-view game, you got a spaceship to kill ETs, with a radar, and you can even travel to other system by hyperspace (A concept lost: the precision of your HS travel depended on your skill with the Joystick), and dock with a friendly mothership to do repairs and get fuel.
    Here is the precursor of all spaceship games: Star Raiders (Atari, 1979).

    [​IMG]

    [​IMG]

    [​IMG]
     
    conejeitor, Mar 14, 2009
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  21. notyou

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    First PC game was Monster Truck Madness (and man did it look like crap). Ah, '97.
     
    notyou, Mar 14, 2009
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    Hover on windows 95, probably wasn't the 1st game tho, i used to play video games at my public library on those old 5 1/4" floppies but i cant remember there names lol [​IMG]
    [​IMG]
     
    j-dogg, Mar 14, 2009
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  23. avanish11

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    Yeah doom was extremely hard. I kept dying on the first level on the easiest difficulty, but I pwned at Age of Empires. I could beat the campaigns on the trial version of the gam on hard difficulty (never got around to trying harder or hardest...)
     
    avanish11, Mar 14, 2009
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  24. miro_gt

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    well I think I beat you ALL :D

    digger, as far as I remember, was the first game I played on computer. I used to go to my moms work place where they had 2 computers I think, and on one of them was that game that was soo good, lol.

    then the next mania was Double Draggon .. oh man, game for 2 players that played at the same time on one KBD.

    that must have been like around 1985, we used DOS 3.0

    the computer itself was 86. Yeah, the first 16-bit computer. After that one they developed 88, then 186, then 286, then 386, then 486, then pentiums .. and so on.

    so games like SimCity 1, Prince of Persia 1, Doom, Dune 2 .. were long time after I played that game Digger :D
     
    miro_gt, Mar 14, 2009
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  25. klauza

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    I remember now that at school I used to play sokoban lol
     
    klauza, Mar 14, 2009
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  26. Harleyquin07

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    Grow up kid, any of the gamers here who've played on the original Atari and Commodore 64 platforms will show you what veteran gaming REALLY means. Hell anyone who's played the game Pong when it was first released for the PC's predecessor can truly be considered an "old" gamer.
     
    Harleyquin07, Mar 14, 2009
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  27. miro_gt

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    ^ hey I've had atari. But the question was about PC games

    and I'm not really a kid since the past .. 20 years, lol.
     
    miro_gt, Mar 14, 2009
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  28. Harleyquin07

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    Fair enough, but starting a sentence with "I think I beat you all" really doesn't give me any other impression than that of a kid who can't wait to show off how much better he/she is than anyone is.

    Although the Atari and Commodore 64 platforms aren't true PCs, I consider games on them to be the predecessors of the DOS-era and would count them in my opinion.
     
    Harleyquin07, Mar 14, 2009
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  29. Colton

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    I think my first game was tetris... :D
     
    Colton, Mar 14, 2009
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    I still have a classic pong console. :cool:


    My first hand held "video game device" was a racing game that worked by flashing light bulbs in rapid sequence through cut-outs of cars to give the appearance that the cars were moving. You had to avoid the cars as they moved down the "screen" by switching lanes.

    It was grade school science project level tech and it was cutting edge!
     
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  31. HTWingNut

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    My first hand held "video game device" was a pinball machine with flashing LED's. I must have played for hours and hours.
     
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    not sure if it was on the atari or some other device before that, but we played that game that had a ball going from left to right and two lines (on the left and on the right side of the screen) that would bounce the ball and not let it pass through .. dont know the name of the game, sorry. Similar to pinball I guess
     
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  33. namaiki

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    Pong??!!!??!
     
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    that was a great game
     
    mooler, Mar 15, 2009
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    Either Crystal Quest or Dark Castle on my old black and white Mac I cannot remember which.
     
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  36. NJoy

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    mmm, some sort of arcanoid on 8086XT, 1991 :D
     
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    wolfstein 3D
     
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    I believe mine was wolfenstein 3d
     
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    Zork on a commodore 64, Monkey island series, oh that silly Guybrush Threepwood.
     
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    That name takes me back, makes me think of Odell lake too. :D
     
    Thaenatos, Mar 18, 2009
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    Busy Town on DOS
     
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    Chips challenge, I don't know if anyone remembers that. But boy was it fun.
     
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    ha some dinosaur game
     
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    The first game I ever played was one of those dumb I Spy games on the Mac.
     
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    Leasure Suit Larry on a monochrome black and orange screen.
     
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    Ghostbusters on Commodore 64
    [​IMG]
     
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    Those ones:

    [​IMG]


    [​IMG]
     
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    Ahh I still regularly play galaxian on my calculator. :D
     
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    Galaga>Galaxian
     
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    Something with worms for Dos
     
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