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[Alucard]

Inspired by the "What game made you a true gamer" thread, I got to reminiscing about some of my fondest early PC game memories. Here they are:

I remember playing this game over and over again. I thought the animation, art, and sound were impeccable, and I just loved the characters so much. I bought this with my own money on the cheap, and I never regretted it. I still have the game box sitting in my parents' house.

So epic. A few friends and I would talk about this game endlessly, about the missions we were on, and about Star Wars in general. This game probably helped to turn me more into a Star Wars fan than the movies at the time.

I played the PC game first, and it was magical. While the replay value may not have been extremely high, I remember adoring the world, the music, the characters, and just the sheer fun this game brought.

This was "the big one" for me. Known as "Little Big Adventure" in many places, I had found it for $10 in a bin in a Radio Shack or something. It was ten bucks, and it looked interesting, so why not? I loooooved this game. I beat it a couple of times, and it has always stayed with me. I know only ONE other person who has played this and can understand the magic it had at that specific time in our lives. It just felt so GRAND for a game that came out of a 10 dollar box. It was easily the best gaming buy I ever made as a teen.

Let the nostalgia flow!

 

[Coin Return]

Leisure Suit Larry 7. It had boobs AND it played like Day of the Tentacle.

How could I resist?

 

[Hasemo]

Day of the Tentacle was awesome, but I wasn't ever even near clearing it.
Aside from that, I guess Dyna Blaster (Bomberman clone), Superfrog and a demo of the first Rayman.
As far as older titles go, I'd say Joust, Price of Persia, Wolfenstein 3D and Scorched Earth, all on a black and white screen.

 

[FYC]

One of the best games ever.

 

[Easy_D]

One of my fondest memories is playing Unreal 1 and being scared of the first level, it was unnerving as fuck hearing all the screaming and the alarms beeping everywhere and then finally going near the pilot only for him to move around and moan before dying. I feel this intro level is unmatched to this day.

Another one is also Unreal, when I went into the advanced options menu and found the 3D acceleration toggle, me and my big brother were amazed at the reflections in the main title fly-by. Looked so good.

Those or finally finding the lightsaber in Jedi Knight, "Oh god it's 3rd person now, time to FUCK SOME SHIT UP, JEDI STYLE".

 

[Crub]

An amazing point and click adventure. Even today i consider it one of the best games ever.

 

[Fitz]

The first computer we had in my house was a Mac, so the first PC game I really had at home was Prince of Persia.

There was also a whole bunch of PC games I played on the Acorns at primary school, none of which I can remember the names of.

 

[Stallion Free]

The dogs in Wolfenstein made me feel very stressed back in the day. Delta Force (2 IIRC) on 56k modem was also an amusing memory.

Oh yeah and a shit load of flight sims + a joystick. They always had bitchin' FMVs at the start too.

 

[Diggeh]

Those early The Learning Company games. Seeing the box art brings back hours of joy and charm.

 

[casablanca]

Oh the memories !

On the top of my heas : ultima series , monkey island , king's quest , prince of persia , betrayal of krondor and Wolfenstein 3D, ninja turtles and a martial art game .
I could watch my father playing utlime 6 for hours and never be bored.

 

[LiquidMetal14]

So many games but I hate to break it down to something simple but playing Delta Force online was truly an experience back in the day. This was not at the beginning of my PC gaming but down the line a little. That game is still fun MP these days. I did try to login to DFX about a few months ago but the Novalogic servers seemed to be down.

 

[Tenrius]

I must have played it through about ten times.

 

[Alucard]

I played and finished Doom, but I never really cared for it that much. It just didn't feel that memorable. Duke Nukem 3D was more memorable.

 

[Antiwhippy]

Playing civ 3 and patrician 3 for hours.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

might be the first game I remember playing, not 100% sure.

 

[Dictator93]

hey what is that?!
Oh. OHHH.

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.

 

[Moff]

I loved monkey island and I loved indy

and I loved this, the first game I bought with my own money and I adored it

as a child, star wars was the best thing ever for me, and I was absolutely thrilled by wolf3d, so its no surprise that the announcement of this was probably the most exciting game news of all time for me

and it did not disappoint. there is no other single player game I played more as a kid.

 

[DaBuddaDa]

My very earliest PC gaming memory is the classic:

Played it at some sort of day care I was staying at after Kindergarden I think, on an old Tandy computer. They couldn't pry me away.

 

[drugstore_cowboy]

PC games tended to be monochrome when I was younger, they looked like shit up against Amiga and ST.

I remember being blown away by an early demo of Descent at the ECTS.

 

[TrutaS]

I also have fond memories of playing Adventure Games with my brother for days on end. We would sit and guess what to do next, most of the time not really understanding english at all. It amazes me how we managed to complete these games (some of them really hard) and learn another language while doing so. Day of the tentacle is one of my favorites, but also:

Roger Wilco

Sam and Max

Gabriel Knight 3

And many others by Sierra and Lucasarts.

 

[subversus]

there are too many but this is one of them (edit: I posted more than one, fuck it).

 

[SuicidalSteve]

Always played...

 

[alba]

Had so much fun just messing around with the track editor with my friends, so good.

 

[subversus]

also

 

[bunbun777]

First humble memory would probably be playing Lode Runner over at a friend's house. Loved playing that game. Years later, would play Star Control over at a local church office with some friends after school.

 

[strafer]

Counter Strike using WON

 

[Alucard]

I also played this a bunch of times, and beat it with both orcs and humans. By the time Warcraft II rolled around, I didn't really care. This was the only game that mattered to me.

 

[red731]

Had so much fun just messing around with the track editor with my friends, so good.

Oh my, Stunts for sure!

MechWarrior 2, Pitfall: The Mayan Adventures, Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, HOMAM 2, Settlers 2, MK2-3..
Bedlam, Swiv3d, Crusader No Remorse and Regret...omg nostalgia overloadasdaxcz

 

[injurai]

 

[RazorbackDB]

i have to say starcraft, we had 4 computers between my house and my grandparents house connected on lan, my dad, uncles, and me had some pretty epic battles back then.

I guess that's what made me a "true pc gamer".

 

[xzoowy]

Had so much fun just messing around with the track editor with my friends, so good.

Oh yes this !
Loved the bug/glitch where you could go infinitly at max speed with the F1 car(until you crash) !

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

don't forget

 

[Red]

Dune II for me.

And never figuring out King's Quest.

 

[Necron]

One of the best games ever.

Yep, love Monkey Island.

I remember playing the first Rayman and Grim Fandango:

 

[Trin]

I still remember when I first played Heretic on my piano teacher's computer while waiting for my ride home and how ecstatic I was when my parents bought it for me.

Jazz Jackrabbit and Rayman were close runners up.

 

[Fari]

 

[Nyx]

 

[Glass Rebel]

Sim City 2000 at a friends place might be my first PC gaming memory but the fondest is Delta Force 2 with its huge levels, cheating like a bastard in Age of Empires 2 and playing my ass off in Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2.

 

[Erethian]

Can't go without saying Ultima 7, what with it being the best game ever and all. Also imagine I listed pretty much everything Origin made (Bioforge, WC, Ultima Underworld, etc)

Lands of Lore, Eye of the Beholder, Last Crusade, Castles, Battle Chess... too many to name, really.

 

[alba]

I forgot to add this one, what a magnificent game it was. The customization was awesome!

 

[DrFunk]

-Installing Doom 2 with 5(!) 3.5" floppies
-bursting pedestrians in Carmageddon 1
-Witnessing the Build engine for the first time
-My First 3D accelerator
-Enabling "curved surfaces" Quake 3
-Playing the Rise of the Triad demo endlessly

 

[Blablurn]

I remember playing a shitton of Anstos 2

Good times

 

[PetriP-TNT]

Fuck yeah Street Rod. This plus Wolf3d plus Doom plus Commander Keen plus random Shareware plus Larry and Police Quest plus Civ plus Sim City = my PC childhood.

 

[AEREC]

Damn...shit gave me chills just thinking about...one of my fondest PC gaming memories. Would love to have a remake of this in the same way they did Monkey Island (being able to switch between classic and updated art).

 

[Weenerz]

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

anybody else?

 

[subversus]

Damn...shit gave me chills just thinking about...one of my fondest PC gaming memories. Would love to have a remake of this in the same way they did Monkey Island (being able to switch between classic and updated art).

I replayed this last year and it gave me the same chills.

 

[massoluk]

From the same thread, it was this Alley Cat game on a monochrome monitor.

I would construct the tubing ride all the way around the park, hugging the wall. Everyone came out happy.

Oh, Bullfrog.

 

[Fat Goron]

Still one of the best games ever made.

 

[duckroll]

Some of my early PC memories involve playing hours upon hours of Monopoly on our 286 computer with a CGA monitor. Other games I also played were:

Striker (my dad loved to play this too):

Congo Bongo (terribly hard, frustrating, dumb):

Alley Cat (creative, original, lots of fun!):

Hard Hat Mack (challenging, kinda frustrating, drove me nuts):