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[Ramsiege]

We had a Commodore when I was a toddler, but I never used it and that doesn't count so...

PACKARD BELL PACK-MATE 3987CD (picture is just one i found on the net)

Not my first, but this is one I remember the most. Or at least one like it. When we got the Bell though, it came with the far more memorable Journeyman Project: Turbo.

These two guys know what's up! My computer came with not only Journeyman Project Turbo, but a whole slew of other games with it, the only other big one I can remember being a Spider-Man cartoon maker. Good times!

I remember the PC having a Pentium 1 processor (I think at 166 Mhz, 16 MB of RAM, 4x CD drive, and a 14.4 modem.

 

[Business]

It was a 486 DX2 66Mhz. Can't remember my first game on that. Had a NES much before.

 

[Aaron D.]

He said pc not console.

I thought about including Atari 2600 in my vote as their Basic program predated TI-99 by a couple years ('79 vs '81), but opted for the latter instead.

 

[Vitten]

A 486DX2 with 66Mhz and I think 8MB of RAM. Was pretty speedy at the time ( early 90ies )

Don't remember my first game but I do remember playing Dune II countless nights, one of the first RTS games. Aah.. those where the days.

 

[boofahead]

HP 50Mhz
4MB Ram

First computer game: Megarace

 

[jett]

 

[Mad Season]

First computer was a family computer in 1987 when I was 8. It was a Tandy 1000 HX. It featured an 80286 processor, 256 kB of system memory, and came with Tandy DOS. There was no hard drive. It had only a single floppy drive. We had the version with the 3.5" floppy drive instead of the older 5.25". One of the best features about it was the beautiful 16 color EGA graphics which were cutting edge at the time.

The very first game I got for it was King's Quest II: Romancing the Throne. I'd seen an advertisement for it in a magazine, and as a child it captivated me. I remember the graphics looking so cool at the time. That was my introduction to gaming. I devoured the Sierra catalog and would spend hours looking through the Sierra Online magazine when it would arrive. One of the things about Sierra was that they were amazing at staying in touch with their fans. It really felt like being part of a community of gamers long before I knew anything about networking or the Internet.

Is Graham black on that box art but he is white in-game? confusing marketing

 

[Arkhanor]

I think it was a Pentium 166 mhz, 16mb RAM, 2x CD-ROM drive, 1gb HD and 16" monitor and some weird sound board that I can't remember its name. I think it was Mozart sound.

The first game probably was Prince of Persia (or Microsoft 3D Pinball Space Cadet - which is awesome).

 

[indecks]

sorry to bump a somewhat older thread.

One of the first games I played on PC was Ninja

When I was 12 or 13, (maybe up to 15 or so) I used to go to my friend Jacob's place. He and his brother had a Tandy 1000 computer, and they had several games we used to play. I remember we played Operation Wolf, and that Ninja game. I think it was just called "Ninja." But I also remember playing stuff like Outfox, Kingdom of Kroz, and a Star Trek game.

When I google "tandy 1000 star trek game" the hits I get always refer to a Star Trek 25th anniversary game by Interplay, but that wasn't it. The game I remember didn't really have graphics, it was more ascii based (iirc) and I remember typing in random coordinates and I'd run into different enemy ships, and I always lost because I had no idea what I was doing. Id love to find out the actual name of the game.

The other game I remember and can't seem to find featured a helicopter, and it was very close to "Super Cobra" in many ways, specifically it was a sidescroller. Except in this game, I remember the player could fly to the right and the left at any time. And I seem to remember being able to "hit turbo" or something, and you could make holes in the side of the mountains and crash in there. Once we cracked ourselves up because we went so fast and crashed so hard that we were stuck in the mountain and had to restart the game. I think you could land and rescue soldiers as well, but I'm not positive. I could have sworn my friends brother would call it something like "Cobra Copter" or "Super Cobra Copter." But when I search those names I see games that look like it a little, but there's no flying to the left. Incidentally, I used to own the little table top version of "Super Cobra Copter" so that's definitely not it.

Do any of these games ring a bell for anyone?

 

[Bo Knows GAF]

Packard Bell Pack-Mate 3987CD. I was the first of my friends to get a home computer. First game was pinball and minesweeper. I thought I was the shit with my dial up Internet.

 

[Elitist1945]

No idea about the computer, but the very first legitimate video game I played (which was on PC) was this gem of a game:

 

[Iscariot]

Apple IIe

Wishbringer and Wizardy. Both being nigh impossible for my little kid self.

 

[Sydle]

I think it was a Compaq and Ducktales the Quest for Gold. I never made it very far, but I enjoyed trying.

 

[Timu]

It was some HP prebuilt and the 1st PC game I owned was Star Wars Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight.

 

[rpg_fan]

First game system, probably pong. But first computer would be Atari 800. First game I bought for that Atari was Temple of Apshai on cassette. Probably the game I played the most on that system was Ultima 3.

 

[s_mirage]

Commodore 64. First game I played on it was either Trivial Pursuit, Confuzion, or Snare (they were some of the pack-in games).

 

[The Albatross]

IBM 386, and the first game I played on it was probably minesweeper, but the first game I actually wanted to play on it was Where in the World is Carmen San Diego.

BUt, the first computer game I played would have likely been something in elementary school on the the Tandy TRS's... Oregon Trail, the star trek typing game, or something like that.

First PC with a CD drive was a ... IBM Aptiva? It had a 122Mhz Pentium chip and I can't remember anything else in there, I think a 1.6gb HDD.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Commodore 64

It accepted cartridges, so my first game was most likely Pac-Man, or another classic arcade title.

Edit: Actually the first computer game I played, was Miner 2049er on an Atari 800.

 

[Muffdraul]

TI994A was the computer, pretty sure Parsec was the first game I got for it. This would have been 1983, maybe 82.

lol

Spoiler

EDIT: Holy shit, I should have read the previous pages before posting, lots of people said Parsec. I had no idea, it just happened to be the latest game when my parents finally caved in and bought me a TI.

 

[jhmtehgamr20xx]

2003 HP Pavillion w/ Windows XP.

Can't remember my first game tho. I was more into PS2 and Gamecube during that time.

 

[JayhawkerStL]

My first computer was a C--64.

The game?

West of House
You are standing in an open field west of a white house, with a boarded front door.
There is a small mailbox here.

 

[bjork]

First computer: Commodore 64

First game: Death in the Caribbean

I thought about buying a copy to replace the one I had, but then I looked it up on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Death-in-th...242546?hash=item5d53676132:g:eC4AAOSwQiRUmzYQ

yeah, no

 

[Fixed2BeBroken]

my first computer was a IBM ps/1 or whatever, and wikipedia says 1mb of harddrive space, but it was 2mb, i specifically remember...LOL

and my first computer game for it was this game...

 

[Dalauz]

Atari 800 XL

HERO

it has better textures than Atari 2600 version

800 XL

2600

 

[Beartruck]

Windows 95.

Screw what anybody else says, this game is the bomb:

 

[L Thammy]

My first computer was some CGA. Not really sure what my first game was. Maybe Asteroids or Moonbugs.

 

[Ceadeus]

Pentium 3 and réd faction. Good memories.

 

[Ceadeus]

First computer: Commodore 64

First game: Death in the Caribbean

I thought about buying a copy to replace the one I had, but then I looked it up on ebay:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Death-in-th...242546?hash=item5d53676132:g:eC4AAOSwQiRUmzYQ

yeah, no

What! Oh noes

 

[Einchy]

My first computer was an eMachines I got from Wal-mart in 2005.

Looked exactly like this.

The first game I played was mostly likely Street Fighter 2 in the arcades around 1997 or so.

If it wasn't that then it was a side scrolling shooter with dinosaurs.

 

[MrCunningham]

This son of a bitch, right here:

The Radio Shack Tandy Colour Computer 3 with 128K of memory.

The first game I had for this was probably Zaxxon or something. To be honest, the COCO line of computers had a pretty weak library of games.

 

[johnnydrama]

EA Cricket 97.

 

[najehe]

My first personal computer was a 2004/2005 HP media center. My first game I think was operation Neptune.

 

[gnexus]

My first computer was some really old Compaq Presario. It had an AMD K6-2 processor running at a blistering fast 400mhz, and 64ish mb of RAM. My first PC game was Rainbow Six... I was like 11 years old and hated it at first. Then I grew to love it, and the rest was history...

 

[jellies_two]

It would be tough to go back further than these, it was..

on one of these

It was a school holiday "computer camp" at a university, and I won a phillip K dick book for getting the top score.

Although hmm before that I also played naughts and crosses, the program was fed in with punched cards, on one of these:

in about 1975.

 

[eifer]

First computer was an apple IIGS and first game was probably math blaster lol.

 

[Lys Skygge]

I don't really remember what my first computer was because I was like 7 when my family got one. I think it was like an HP Pavilion of some sort?

Anyways, I absolutely remember my first PC game.

It's a pretty shallow RTS game but when I was a kid I thought it kicked ass!

 

[artsi]

The computer was a IBM, don't know the model.

My first game was Keen Dreams.

 

[roadrunn3r]

486DX2 with 4MB of RAM if I remember correctly.
Dangerous Dave 2

 

[KaoteK]

My first computer was a Sinclair ZX81, which I had to programme games on myself (in 1k!)

My first game was a hand held my dad bought in the States for me, it was shaped like a space shuttle and made (I think) by Mattel. You had a missile to shoot down a UFO that got progressively faster, you had to kill it before got to the bottom of the screen. I remember it being called a "Master Blaster" but Internet searches have pulled up blanks so I may have that wrong.

I got it in the late 70s, if anyone knows what the hell I'm on about, it'd be cool to know what it's called.


Edit: it was called the Master Blaster, but it wasn't made by Mattel.

 

[ghibli99]

Apple IIe, and the first game was something like Microwave, Swashbuckler, or Eliminator. All excellent.

 

[Dicer]

Timex sinclair 1000 w/frogger that never loaded...

So really a C=64 with Jumpman Jr. and Forbidden Forest.

 

[Ludger Kresnik]

something something Windows 3.1 something Commander Keen

 

[Kieli]

First computer game was a side-scroller. All I wanted to do everyday was play that game so badly. But the comp was in another teacher's class than the one I was in.

 

[Rival]

First computer was a Hewlett Packard 486 dx2 50mhz and my first game was either doom or the seventh guest. Don't really remember. I do remember not understanding why I couldn't just put a cd in and play the games like a game console.

 

[tiebreaker]

Can't remember exactly but it was on pentium 4. The first game was either Warcraft III or some korean MMO in a net cafe.

 

[Sugarmonkey]

and

 

[Machinehead]

My first experience with a computer was an Apple II at my father's job, those with giant floppy disks and green screens. I remember playing the heck out of Karateka; I still love this game to this day.

But my first Personal Computer at home was a 386; how did I love it. I'm not sure what exactly was my first game, but it most probably was either Lemmings or Stunts, two amazing games that are rarely emulated nowadays.

 

[naib]

Vic-20. Fast Eddy.

https://youtu.be/cv8q2QhtuMw

I still remember my mom could wreck shit in that game.

Then Congo Bongo was some next level shit.

https://youtu.be/0hsiXyT_I3MM

 

[mattiewheels]

My first of game ever was Secret of Monkey Island. Pretty good choice, huh? I picked it out because 12-year-old me saw the fact that you could talk to a dog on the back of the box and thought that was so awesome.

 

[Phediuk]

Commodore 64, first game was probably Jupiter Lander.