Mad Season
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This was my first computer
and this was my first game
and this was my first game
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What was everyone's first computer and first computer game?
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An epson 8088 IBM Dos Compatable. CGA graphics, 1 MB ram. We used some shell that wasn't the usual MS DOS shell whose name escapes me.
We took that baby ONLINE in 1988 with a 14.4kbs modem. Blazing fast at the time.
It came with Zork, but the first game I remember us buying was Paperboy.
We took that baby ONLINE in 1988 with a 14.4kbs modem. Blazing fast at the time.
It came with Zork, but the first game I remember us buying was Paperboy.
KappaFappa
Banned
Doom and a Compaq, I still have it but it's somewhere in the house, probably the garage.
TangerineCloud
Banned
Can't remember what exactly my first computer was, but the first game I played on it was some bootleg version of Super Mario (the file was just called smb.exe) that was impossible to finish because it ended with a super long pool of lava (or spikes or some other environmental hazard) that Mario couldn't jump past.
Leafhopper
Banned
I was 4 or something. It was Windows 3.1. Probably something like Inkball or some platformer I can't remember the name of. Neither game had color though. That platformer didn't have color at least. I know that much.
i dont remember my first computer but i remember my first game
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Correctomundo
Member
First one I could call my own was an Apple IIe. Couldn't tell you the first game I played on it, but the first one I legitimately owned was Gemstone Warrior.
I'd been playing games on my grandfather's computers for years before that point, though. My memory of games played and hardware in the family is too blurry from the mid 70s until we bought our Apple IIe.
I'd been playing games on my grandfather's computers for years before that point, though. My memory of games played and hardware in the family is too blurry from the mid 70s until we bought our Apple IIe.
Disaster Nebraska
Banned
First game when I was a kid was "Beast" on a green-and-black monitor. Not certain what sort of computer that would've been.
infiniteheteroskdasticity
Member
BBC b micro. Stryker's Run
SoundPulse
Banned
It was some generic beige mid '90s HP computer.
Can't remember what my first PC game was, but Chip's Challenge was my jam.
Can't remember what my first PC game was, but Chip's Challenge was my jam.
I got a Compaq Presario 486, Mega Race.
Not Spaceghost
Spaceghost
This gateway PC from 1997 or so, DOOM 2 was my first game on it followed closely by age of empires.
My first home computer was a Spectrum ZX80 and the first game I ever played on it was Percy the Potty Pigeon. I'd played plenty of other games before that, but the Spectrum was the first one our family actually owned.
It was followed shortly thereafter by an Amstrad CPC6128 with Mutant Monty as the first game played.
It was followed shortly thereafter by an Amstrad CPC6128 with Mutant Monty as the first game played.
LegalEagleMike
Member
I do not remember what computer it was but the first computer game I remember playing was Sim Ant. Spent way too much time on that game haha. DIE RED ANTS!
Wheresmycoffee
Member
A Mac with OS 9 in 1998 and I played Starcraft for the first time. I absolutely fell in love with Starcraft. I envied my friends who could play counter strike and roller coaster tycoon on their PCs though.
I liked macs before they became popular!!
I liked macs before they became popular!!
GraceflAnger
Member
Some random Dell. I remember getting a box set of random games with it but the one that stands out the most is Dungen Keeper 2. Loved that game.
Holy crap, 14.4 in 1988?!
My first was a trs-80, had to program games in basic. First was probably some kind of tank war game, choose angle and power, try to hit the other guy.
Couldn't save the games, so if I turned the power off, poof. Good times.
I don't remember the exact model, but it was an old Compaq similar to this:
We also had an EGA monitor we could hook up to this bad boy when my dad brought the computer home from work.
First game? Not really sure. I played King's Quest and Police Quest early on, but my first actual game was probably something like Kingdom of Kroz II.
Or California Games.
Or honest to goodness, Bouncing Babies.
We also had an EGA monitor we could hook up to this bad boy when my dad brought the computer home from work.
First game? Not really sure. I played King's Quest and Police Quest early on, but my first actual game was probably something like Kingdom of Kroz II.
Or California Games.
Or honest to goodness, Bouncing Babies.
joeygreco1985
Member
My first PC was an IBM PC Jr. Pretty sure my first game was kings quest
BigWeather
Member
Computer-wise it'd be a C=64. I'm pretty sure the first game was the cartridge "Gridrunner".
I miss these early days of PC gaming so much. My father and I have many fond memories of going and exploring to buy weird, beige computer parts. Walking into a dedicated computer store in those days was bizarre. This was long before the days of places like Fry's or online options like Newegg. You had to be a die hard PC user in a special city to get access to great PC hardware.
Here in Houston, there was a hole in the wall vendor in the chinatown portion of the city called Microcache. They were so awesome. My dad and I would drive about an hour across the city over to their place on saturdays (had to get there early because they closed at like 11 am) to look at these flyers they'd have out for their hardware.
It was like the only store we knew of for about a decade where you could buy things like motherboards, or ram, directly there in person, at normal prices.
I bought so many weird pieces of PC hardware in those days. The thrill of buying something that flat out didn't work when you got home, lol. Maybe a motherboard incompatibly, maybe some weird IRQ error. You'd shelve the hardware so that, maybe in the future, you could try it out again when your hardware configuration changed and perhaps it would work.
And sometimes it would! And when that would happen, it was like christmas in July. I remember getting this happauge video card in like 1997 and not being able to use it until like 1999 because of the motherboard I was using, but the day it actually worked was phenomenal.
Those days had this awesome wild-west feeling. There was so much unknown software out there. It felt like unfound treasure waiting. It's sad to think that the software I saw in those days, probably a good 90% of those items flat out don't exist anymore or don't work.
Here in Houston, there was a hole in the wall vendor in the chinatown portion of the city called Microcache. They were so awesome. My dad and I would drive about an hour across the city over to their place on saturdays (had to get there early because they closed at like 11 am) to look at these flyers they'd have out for their hardware.
It was like the only store we knew of for about a decade where you could buy things like motherboards, or ram, directly there in person, at normal prices.
I bought so many weird pieces of PC hardware in those days. The thrill of buying something that flat out didn't work when you got home, lol. Maybe a motherboard incompatibly, maybe some weird IRQ error. You'd shelve the hardware so that, maybe in the future, you could try it out again when your hardware configuration changed and perhaps it would work.
And sometimes it would! And when that would happen, it was like christmas in July. I remember getting this happauge video card in like 1997 and not being able to use it until like 1999 because of the motherboard I was using, but the day it actually worked was phenomenal.
Those days had this awesome wild-west feeling. There was so much unknown software out there. It felt like unfound treasure waiting. It's sad to think that the software I saw in those days, probably a good 90% of those items flat out don't exist anymore or don't work.
CreepingFear
Member
Well, if you don't count playing at school, my first computer was a Dell computer. I think it was a Dell Dimension? It had an intel 133mhz processor, 16mbs of ram, 8mb video card. I think the first game I played with it was :
First system was technically an Apple II e with Stick Bears and Galaxian.
Then my dad got a gateway 2000 (in the cow box!) with the 133mhz cpu for his accounting work but we used it to play command and conquer and commander keen and then quake 1 came out and I was addicted.
I had been playing NES games quite a while before this all happened though.
Then my dad got a gateway 2000 (in the cow box!) with the 133mhz cpu for his accounting work but we used it to play command and conquer and commander keen and then quake 1 came out and I was addicted.
I had been playing NES games quite a while before this all happened though.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Commodore 64. My first game purchase was probably Kung Fu Master or Bop n Wrestle.
ichtyander
Member
I have this vague memory of watching my brother play Jet Pac on the ZX Spectrum, but I must've been like 3-4, don't think I actually played it or anything.
First computer was the C64, with the Super Games cartridge.
That ol' bugger died a long time ago but I still have a working C64 and the original cartridge.
So my first computer game must've been one of those three, but I remember playing Silicon Syborgs the most.
First computer was the C64, with the Super Games cartridge.
That ol' bugger died a long time ago but I still have a working C64 and the original cartridge.
So my first computer game must've been one of those three, but I remember playing Silicon Syborgs the most.
My first home computer was a Spectrum ZX80 and the first game I ever played on it was Percy the Potty Pigeon. I'd played plenty of other games before that, but the Spectrum was the first one our family actually owned.
It was followed shortly thereafter by an Amstrad CPC6128 with Mutant Monty as the first game played.
Mine was also the ZX Spectrum, first games that I remember playing were Manic Miner, A game called Hard Cheese where you were a mouse who had to get the cheese without getting caught by a cat and Paperboy.
FlyingSaucer
Banned
A pentium 75 (I started late in the game). First game may be Fury of the Furies, and a bunch of adventure games (Discworld, Monkey Island).
vainglorious
Member
I don't remember the computer but I remember the game, vividly.
Yup.
Yup.
ShadowOfTheIco
Banned
Commodore 64.
Pac Man Land.
Pac Man Land.
GoldandBlue
Member
Can't remember my first PC but I do remember my first game.
I know, my dad was nuts. The story of how he, and ultimately I, got into computers is funny. He had just gone into business for himself and my mother was watching QVC one day and they were advertising this computer. Even at the time, the 8088 was kind of a clunker, and he paid an arm and a leg for it. My mom reasoned it could be a business expense - she actually pushed him to buy it.
Yes, our first computer, we basically ordered from the home shopping network.
Despite this -- and I have honestly no idea how my dad did it -- my dad became incredibly well versed in computers seemingly overnight. He just read everything he could about them - books, magazines, went to PC users clubs. Its like it struck just the right chord with him and he got incredibly involved in the PC subculture of the time. Being an impressionable kid of the time, and believing getting me involved in computers so early would be a good thing, and because I already liked video games and things of that sort, he sort of brought me along for the ride.
And today I own a software corporation and make virtual reality video games professionally, lol.
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