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What is your earliest memory of gaming on a PC?
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Martinski43
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Gaming on PC in etiher late 80's or early 90's playing stuff like Space Quest, Police Quest, King's Quest and so on. Those were my jam.
yog-sothot
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Arkanoid on some old DOS system
ClaptoVaughn
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Word Muncher and Oregon Trail on my elementary school's computers.
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MindCollizion
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Mario teaches typing. Or Oregon trail. Or the incredible machine. Good times.
kruis
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A10 Tank Killer and Prince of Persia were the first games I played on my first PC somewhere around 89. It was a PC AT with a VGA card (256 colors!) and an AdLib card (horrible beeps!). I'd already bought a C64, Atari ST and Amiga 500 and I was quite familiar with those machines. This Olivetti M290S was a whole different world: MS-DOS 3.3, QEMM, Word Perfect, Lotus123, Dbase, tons of cool CGA/EGA/VGA software ... It wasn't built for games like the C64 and Amiga were, but it still provided lots of good games.
My earliest PC memory is being unable to play The Ancient Art of War (http://ancient-art-of-war.0fees.net/the-ancient-art-of-war.htm) because it required CGA and we only had Hercules graphics on our 8086 system. You young whipper-snappers have no idea what it was like in the days of SimCGA! 
Baron_Calamity
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If by pc you include "personal computer" and not just ibm compatibles and clones, then its Hunt the Wumpus on a TRS-80.
As for an actual pc, It was probably a Space invaders clone,
As for an actual pc, It was probably a Space invaders clone,
Dr. Zoidberg
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Some breakout clone on the Apple II. Probably around 84. I went to a summer camp at a local college and computers and programming were one of the options there. I also remember a color cycling Van Halen logo that played a crude version of "Jump". Not a game but I thought it was pretty cool at the time.
Self_Destructive
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Hmm, pretty sure it was Qbasic Gorillas on my very first computer. The Tandy RSX 1000.
There was also nibbles. Both were godly games.
There was also nibbles. Both were godly games.
crazyjah2003
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Ski game and minesweeper on windows. First serious games was Command and Conquer; my mind was blown.
SlavetodaBOX
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Fragfests playing "Unreal Tournament" late night on a modem while using a second phone line for chat.
zenspider
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Hahaha same.
If we're counting Apple IIc (a personal computer, not a "PC"), I had a bunch of games from my cousin, including Lode Runner, Zaxxon, Dig Dug, Choplifter, Spy Hunter, and a horrible port of Robotron.
One of the first games I booted up when we got a 386DX was X-Wing. After that, got exposed to Dune, Dune 2, Dark Seed, Kings Quest, Stunt, and rest of the classics. We also got Sound Blaster CD-Rom package (i think it was around $300 at the time) and played Rebel Assault, 7th Guest, and Return to Zork. Good times.
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jimmyjimmyo
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Wolfenstein on a sx25, I became obsessed with gourad shading 😂
jimbosimbo43
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Star Wars Phantom Menace - random but i have some fond memories of this game!
Loved that game! And it is actually one of my earliest memory as well, can't tell. I did came into this thread to post this however:
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ehead
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Minesweeper is probably the first game I've played on PC. Followed by Ski-free, and a trial version of Pinball. It was followed by 2D Duke, Commander Keen, Pre-historic, and Vikings. We also had trial floppy disks for Raptor, the Car game with missiles, some bad 2d fighting game, and that split-screen Ninja side-scroller game.
The most lasting memory is definitely Hunter/Hunted.
That was our very first PC CD-ROM game. That game was the shit. Game was very simple to play, setting was really new to us (as kids), it had a hundred (?) levels, and it also had local multiplayer. I remember tracing the coverart of the CD box. Wishing Sierra would re-release it on GOG. It also came with a demo of Lords of the Realm II.
The most lasting memory is definitely Hunter/Hunted.
That was our very first PC CD-ROM game. That game was the shit. Game was very simple to play, setting was really new to us (as kids), it had a hundred (?) levels, and it also had local multiplayer. I remember tracing the coverart of the CD box. Wishing Sierra would re-release it on GOG. It also came with a demo of Lords of the Realm II.
ehead
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So good...
We never had a chance to play the full version of this game. Finding full copies of games back then in our country was very hard. But I remember being amazed at the animation.
TwiztidElf
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Alley cat
yup.
llien
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End of 80th through early-mid 90th.
F-19
Prince of Persia
Nowadays you can play PoP in your browser:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990
Warcraft I (yay)
And the legend: XCOM
F-19
Prince of Persia
Nowadays you can play PoP in your browser:
https://archive.org/details/msdos_Prince_of_Persia_1990
Warcraft I (yay)
And the legend: XCOM
Oh man, what a tearjerker topic. :...)
For me, the first game i can remember, had to think about it for a while since i played at friends places for a long time until i had my own PC was the home version of this:
It had a few choppy soundbites and i still remember how i loved voice in games.
But what got me into PC gaming i guess was Bioforge. It was basically a Resident Evil in Space with an already pretty complex melee fighting system, loads of voicework, and a killer hardcore scifi story. I remember playing it at a friends, greasing him to let us do a weekend on it and spending ages to get it to run.
:.....)
For me, the first game i can remember, had to think about it for a while since i played at friends places for a long time until i had my own PC was the home version of this:
It had a few choppy soundbites and i still remember how i loved voice in games.
But what got me into PC gaming i guess was Bioforge. It was basically a Resident Evil in Space with an already pretty complex melee fighting system, loads of voicework, and a killer hardcore scifi story. I remember playing it at a friends, greasing him to let us do a weekend on it and spending ages to get it to run.
:.....)
General Lee
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Not sure about what was the earliest game I played, but it was on a 386 in the early 90's. Maybe one of these:
DuckTales: Quest for Gold:
Scorched Earth:
DuckTales: Quest for Gold:
Scorched Earth:
KyanMehwulfe
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Not sure about what was the earliest game I played, but it was on a 386 in the early 90's. Maybe one of these:
DuckTales: Quest for Gold:
I loved DuckTales... It's where I got my start in trading stocks haha.Scorched Earth: (image wasn't appearing so I quickly upload one)
Scorched Earth may have been the earliest though. By DuckTales, I had played a few PC games. Didn't have a PC myself yet but so it was always rarely upon visiting somewhere. Earliest ones were Battle Chess, Prince of Persia, Space Quest... 2 or something, a pretty early one (I know it when I google it), Terminator (the Bethesda precursor to Elder Scrolls).
That last one was probably my earliest serious PC gaming memory. The others were briefly played during holidays when I'd visit for Christmas or such. Terminator though, I played for a week when I stayed with my cousin, and for me it's basically where my future love for GTA and open world began haha.
I always topics like this as opportunities to mention the otherwise basically-never mentioned The Terminator. I guess it's basically where Bethesda got their first-person open world start before Elder Scrolls (1994) and Daggerfall (1996). You think about GTA, early open city games with shootouts, attacks, stores, etc like Shadowrun (Genesis). Terminator basically had open world sort of walk around, steal or shoot shit, really darn early on -- and it's a huge open world.
"The game takes place within a huge (roughly 10 miles by 6 miles) 3-D rendered area of central Los Angeles. The game area runs roughly from Beverly Drive to Central Ave (lengthwise), and from Mulholland Drive to National Blvd (vertically). A game map is included in the box for reference. Though the buildings and their placement within the world is generic, and highways/overpasses have been removed, the streets and their layout are largely accurate. The game also includes some landmarks, such as Dodger Stadium, Griffith Park, and the Silver Lake Reservoir."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ix9iD64pV4
That aside, I do have a few brief earlier memories. If I had to guess, I'd say it was either Scorched Earth or probably Battle Chess.
johannesbergcrantz
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Silkworm on an Amiga 500 in 1994,
since we didn't have a computer or a console at home I went to play with my friends who did. Fond memories, those were the days
Worms and diablo are other games I remember trying early on PC though me and my pal mostly gamed on his snes at the time.
since we didn't have a computer or a console at home I went to play with my friends who did. Fond memories, those were the days
Worms and diablo are other games I remember trying early on PC though me and my pal mostly gamed on his snes at the time.
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