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What was everyone's first computer and first computer game?
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PantherLotus
Professional Schmuck
Mine was a 386 with Windows 3.11. First game was very very early shareware game -- Scorched Earth.
I've been on the same quest. I've kind of been computer crazy the past years. I was able to salvage enough parts back together to run my first pc (Dell Dimension XPS T500). Got 98 running on it but couldn't find drivers for the ATI all-in-wonder 8500DV I had put in it.
None of the thrift shops around me carry anything computer related and I'm having trouble finding parts. I wanna get a c64 like my grand parents had and a 486 like my parents had.
killatopak
Member
My first is Counterstrike.. or was it Beach Head 2000?
SliceSabre
Banned
Battle Chess
It was on this old computer my mom was given back in like 1995. We didn't have much use for the computer since we only had internet for her job and I was only like 8. But while I was playing around on it I found that game on it and became obsessed with it. I already knew how to play chess but seeing the pieces move around and kill each other was the fucking best.
I was so heart-broken when that computer broke down and I and my mother had no idea how to fix it.
It was on this old computer my mom was given back in like 1995. We didn't have much use for the computer since we only had internet for her job and I was only like 8. But while I was playing around on it I found that game on it and became obsessed with it. I already knew how to play chess but seeing the pieces move around and kill each other was the fucking best.
I was so heart-broken when that computer broke down and I and my mother had no idea how to fix it.
My dad had that card, and no joke still has all his installation CDs. next time I'm over at my folk's place, I'll have a look and see if I can find the CD. If I find it, I'll shoot you a copy of the drivers.
We had SOOOOOO much old PC stuff back in the day, and over the years we threw away so much of it. You know how it goes when you build PCs - it's inevitable that you wind up with enough left over parts to build several computers. We would never get rid of our stuff right away.
So when I had to go back and, as an example, buy an actual Pentium II again on ebay, I kicked myself for having let that stuff go in the first place.
Armitage Shanks
Member
Nope, this was the Hotbit, a Brazilian model made by Sharp. (there was another one, named Expert, made by Gradiente). Good times!
My computer? Probably a 486 IBM PS/ValuePoint I got when my uncle upgraded and I didn't really play games on it because it was really outdated compared to let's say my dad's PC. I didn't really know about DOS games and it couldn't run the new ones, but I was happy to just have a computer - mostly for drawing in Paint and written homework. Alo the built-in games of course and some English-teaching edutainment software.
First game I remember playing were Virtua Cop, The House Of The Dead (I was little - it gave me nightmares back in the day and made me afraid of spiders even years after) and I think one of the early Need For Speed games (I remember seeing Dodge Viper in it and asking if it can shoot, because I've seen the "Viper" series on TV and the car had weapons and gadgets hidden in it) at my older cousin's place since he had a more modern computer.
First game I owned was Gruntz - Monolith Productions' great RTS Puzzler that's quite a hidden gem. I played that on my dad's PC since again, his computer was far better.
First game I remember playing were Virtua Cop, The House Of The Dead (I was little - it gave me nightmares back in the day and made me afraid of spiders even years after) and I think one of the early Need For Speed games (I remember seeing Dodge Viper in it and asking if it can shoot, because I've seen the "Viper" series on TV and the car had weapons and gadgets hidden in it) at my older cousin's place since he had a more modern computer.
First game I owned was Gruntz - Monolith Productions' great RTS Puzzler that's quite a hidden gem. I played that on my dad's PC since again, his computer was far better.
LittleBuddy
Neo Member
First computer was a Packard Bell 386 @ 12mhz, turbo'd to 16mhz. Mainly used MS-DOS as the primary OS, later updated to Windows 3.1. It played Wolfenstein 3D pretty good but had trouble with Doom when it came out so had to upgrade.
First PC game was probably Oregon Trail
First PC game was probably Oregon Trail
TechJunk
Member
Commodore 64 clone... we had a couple games but I think the first one I ever played on it was Ninja. Fond memories of Moon Patrol, Dig Dug, Up n' Down, and of course ALL the Sierra Quest games (KQ, SQ, PQ, QfG and Larry).
I remember waiting for Leisure Suit Larry to load, and hope the questions it asked to "prove" you were 18 were ones we actually knew... usually we didn't and it took us about an hour to get into the game, mostly because of how slow the PC was at loading.
I remember waiting for Leisure Suit Larry to load, and hope the questions it asked to "prove" you were 18 were ones we actually knew... usually we didn't and it took us about an hour to get into the game, mostly because of how slow the PC was at loading.
First computer (not counting a word processor): Macintosh SE
One of my uncles already had a Mac and always shared games with us, but one of the first I remember playing on the SE was The Manhole. It might not count as a game, though, since there was no real goal.
Another game I played around the same time was Scarab of Ra. I was terrible at it back when I was six.
One of my uncles already had a Mac and always shared games with us, but one of the first I remember playing on the SE was The Manhole. It might not count as a game, though, since there was no real goal.
Another game I played around the same time was Scarab of Ra. I was terrible at it back when I was six.
Ah, I thought that font said "hit bit" lol. I knew the MSX was popular in parts of europe, had no idea it was also popular in Brazil! Brazilian gaming history is fascinating, are there many retro gaming shops in Brazil?
Theognosis
Member
Mine was an IBM XT compatible in 1986. My first games were Sierra Boxing by Sierra On-Line and Jet by SubLogic.
Awesome memories!
Awesome memories!
First computer (not counting a word processor): Macintosh SE
Heh, that was my 2nd computer if you consider the TI-99 more a console. After five years of begging my dad to upgrade the 128k we had (first Mac and within 6 months they came out with a 512k and no one made software for my computer after that one came out. Every software/game required the 512k. Sadly if he had gotten the 512k I could have gotten games for quite some years before it got no support).
The Auxiliary
Member
I remember my first computer was some desktop running Windows 95. Have no idea what the specs were. I also have no idea what my first PC game was, but I remember me, my dad, and my brother playing Earthworm Jim, MechWarrior, and Outpost 2.
Mango Positive
Member
I'm not sure of the the model, but it was new 31 years ago and it predated Windows. I taught my parents how to use Dos, or command shell as you kids call it these days. First game was Kings Quest 1.
That Windows 95 version of Earthworm Jim is far and away the best port of the game period. It has all the additional material of the Sega CD Special Edition, but runs in 256 color mode and has things like a game save feature.
MissCauthon
Member
If I remember well, it was a game called Colossal Cave Adventure. I was very young, it was in 1980 that i played it. My dad introduced me to games at a very young age.
As for the game, well it had no graphics from what i remember, it was a text adventure.
As for the game, well it had no graphics from what i remember, it was a text adventure.
You know I mentioned that graphics card by name as a wild ass shot in the dark that would happen. Never in a million did I think it possible. Please shoot me a PM if you find them. I am constantly berating myself over the collection of stuff I'd have if I kept it all. All I have are scraps.
Fisticuffs
Member
A 486SX 33Mhz with Dune. I think it cost my parents around $2000 dollars at the time.
It was such a badass card. I remember being incredibly jealous of it at the time, lol. I would, in the summer time, run a huge cable across the house in my room so I could watch real media bootleg episodes of Dragonball on my television, haha.
The earliest one I can remember having was a Compaq like this one:
First game I think was Atari Arcade Hits #1 which had Centipede, Asteroids, Tempest, Missile Command, Super Breakout and Pong. Great times!
First non-compilation game was Dungeon Hack.
A nice simple introduction to the RPG/dungeon crawler genre as a whole for me. The sound never worked so I would play with my own music in my headphones for hours. Also great times!
First game I think was Atari Arcade Hits #1 which had Centipede, Asteroids, Tempest, Missile Command, Super Breakout and Pong. Great times!
First non-compilation game was Dungeon Hack.
A nice simple introduction to the RPG/dungeon crawler genre as a whole for me. The sound never worked so I would play with my own music in my headphones for hours. Also great times!
Yeah I somehow have all the connectors and remote that came with it. I remember trying to hook my consoles up to it and play games and wondering why there was a huge delay.
This was my first computer
and this was my first game
Was mine also I think, but the first game was actually a program you had to copy into the Vic 20 first to get it to work.
Don't remember what my first computer was.
My first computer game though, was a very simple air traffic control game that I played on my dad's computer. Unfortunately, it's so old and apparently obscure that I can't find it anywhere from images or lists. It had symbols for the planes, I remember diamonds and paperclip shapes, and you typed in the instructions. Had to have been from the 80s sometime.
My first computer game though, was a very simple air traffic control game that I played on my dad's computer. Unfortunately, it's so old and apparently obscure that I can't find it anywhere from images or lists. It had symbols for the planes, I remember diamonds and paperclip shapes, and you typed in the instructions. Had to have been from the 80s sometime.
This:
On this
And then on this:
Yes mine was signed by Woz too.
I got the worst memories of swapping floppy disks and waiting for the game to load omg. Visiting Lord British took forever.
I replayed the whole game 100% a few years ago via emulation and the loading was so much better and made the game go so much smoother.
On this
And then on this:
Yes mine was signed by Woz too.
I got the worst memories of swapping floppy disks and waiting for the game to load omg. Visiting Lord British took forever.
I replayed the whole game 100% a few years ago via emulation and the loading was so much better and made the game go so much smoother.
Nyteshade517
Member
The first computer that we were able to get at home was an old Packard Bell running Windows 3.1 and the first game I tried on it was Chip's Challenge
The first computer we ever had in our family was a Thomson TO7 70
And the first game I remember "playing" on it was a (really) poor man's flight sim my father bought for it.
The first "serious" computer I could game on was our trusty Amiga 2000
And my first game on it having been the awesome The Faery Tale Adventure
The first computer -I- bought was a 386DX33, with Wing Commander in 1991
And the first game I remember "playing" on it was a (really) poor man's flight sim my father bought for it.
The first "serious" computer I could game on was our trusty Amiga 2000
And my first game on it having been the awesome The Faery Tale Adventure
The first computer -I- bought was a 386DX33, with Wing Commander in 1991
BoxManLocke
Member
Don't remember the computer, but I sure as hell remember the game.
Don't remember the computer, but I sure as hell remember the game.
I had this on the 3DO at the time.
Awesome, awesome stuff.
Nydius
Member
texhnolyze
Banned
My first computer game.
Can't remember the PC, it was my dad's factory build PC.
Can't remember the PC, it was my dad's factory build PC.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
A friend of mine had one of those as well as Munch Man. One of the better Pac- Man clones.
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