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What was everyone's first computer and first computer game?

First computer I grew up with that our family had was a Commodore 64. I think the first game I played on it was Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. The one from back in the day that came bundled with the world almanac.

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My country came late to the party, the PC revolution didn't start here until the late 90s. I had an unbranded desktop with a Pentium III and a Voodoo2. It ran Windows 98 SE and man, I thought that thing was a beast at the time, lol.

This was my first PC game:

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No idea what the computer was called but I remember I had duke nukem 2, some game called hocus pocus that was awesome, lemmings and jazz jack rabbit.
 
Radeon 9700 Pro
Athlon XP 2700+
1GB RAM (I think)

was the first PC I actually owned myself (must have been 2005 or so, handed down from my dad). First PC game? Probably some Löwenzahn learning game (in 1999) (or Kellogs Tony and Friends: New adventures - Invasion in Kellogs land) :)
 
The Atari ST. My first game was MIDI Maze, but we also had Winter Games, Summer Games, Backlash, some flight simulator, and my personal favorite, Road Runner.
 
It was a 286 IBM compatible that didn't even have DOS installed and had a puke yellow monochrome monitor. Everything had to be launched from disc. My first game was called "Bouncing Babies", followed by "Jumpman".

Bouncing Babies was your typical fireman style game where firemen are tossing babies from a burning building and you have to move 2 firemen at the bottom, holding a trampoline. You had to catch the babies and get them to the ambulance.

Jumpman was the worst Donkey Kong clone you've ever seen, and was nearly unplayable.

Both games were on the same 5 1/4" floppy disk, along with like 18 other trash games.

1989 was not kind to me when it came to PC gaming, yet I played it all, regardless.
 
Huggers said:
Does anyone remember playing Lander on the Archimedes? Not my first game as that would have been Ghostbusters or Pole Position on the Commodore 64 but really stood out to me. Maybe because we had it at school and we're allowed a go on it every now and again.

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I only played the Amiga 500 version (Virus) and I loved that game, once you've mastered the mouse controls it felt overwhelmingly powerfull flying around the environment and destroying enemy ships.
 
An Atari 800 XL in 1984- fantastic machine for the time. Not sure about my first game- my uncle had one first, and I played a lot on his with my cousins before I got my own. It was probably something like Star Raiders or Miner 2049-er.

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Some generic 286 with a hercules graphics card. California games is the only game I can remember playing on it...
 
Apple IIgs in 1986. I think the first game we had was Tass Times In Tone Town.

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My dad got an Apple //e
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only with a different, green monochrome monitor and a single disk drive. He'd use it for work, and I'd play games on it given the chance.

Though my siblings acquired a big stack of games from their friends, the first one I purchased for myself was probably this one:
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which was a pair of basic top-down RPGs with mythological themes and a precursor to the "Adventure Construction Set".
 
Mine was a Commodore 64. I can't remember exactly which game would have been the first, but I remember playing some light gun game with my dad.
 
Apple ][c

I'm not sure which computer game was first, but it was one of the following:

Mickey's Space Adventure
Karateka
Snoopy to the Rescue
 
First computer was an IBM PS1. Think I got it around 1990. The first game I bought for it was Space Quest 1 (the VGA remake). Sierra and Origin were kings at the time.
 
Apple 2 Plus, the game was text only, and the story was some sort of mystery set in Egypt. Can't remember the name for the life of me - I do remember that there was a series of these text games. Its gonna kill me now, engaging GoogleFu ...
 
My first pc was a pre-build Gateway pc that had a Pentium II - 400hz cpu, Voodoo Banshee gpu, 12 gb hdd and I think 512mb of RAM. I remember buying that back in early 1999.

My first two pc games were Half-Life and Unreal and yea...I was f'n blown away. I remember buying them at Software Etc which used to have a massive pc gaming section and every pc game had wacky and huge boxes.
 
I could have sworn it was a Dell-brand computer around 1993, but I can't find a single picture of it. Anyway, it had Windows 3.1 on it and my parents bought a bunch of sweet DOS games/demos for it. It could only handle EGA color mode (or some 16-color mode) and had no fancy sound card just the internal PC speaker (so single-channel beeps), but being 5-6 years old it was still fun. I can't pick out a single game since we had a bunch from the start.

Some of the old games I used to play were:
Duke Nukem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JgmMC9qXOv8
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnDr171K3dE
Captain Comic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZW0A3zFUTU
Commander Keen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YUyQSfKRU1w
Nightshift (can't find footage of the gfx/sound mode I played): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO16thk3vOk
Mega Man (this game was an impossible nightmare): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wXvQQZwKE1I
 
My first PC was my dad's really, it was an IBM and probably a 386. My first PC game was that Windows 3.1 game where you're a mouse and have to push blocks around to get cheese while avoiding a cat.
 
my family wasn't very technological so our first computer was an old 286 with window 3.1 when I was around 10.

I didn't really play much on it, since I had a SNES and gameboy with way superior games, and mostly used it for QBASIC.

The only decent games I remember playing for any considerable amount of time was Prince of Persia and Kosmonaut
 
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Beloved C64!

Think the first game I actually played on it was Buck Rogers, followed by Ballblazer (classic).

So many great games...

Paradroid
Leaderboard Golf
Spy vs Spy
Fairlight
The Last Ninja
Head Over Heels
The Sentinel
Dropzone

Peeks and Pokes...
My first foray into programming...

Good times!

Still play some C64 on Frodo on the OG Xbox!
 
Looks like others had more or less the same starting point as me. My first home computer was probably a Macintosh LC; first game was almost certainly Carmen Sandiego. I had to work hard at convincing my mom to buy Pathways into Darkness for it.
 
first one i can remember anything about it probably oregon trail in kindegarten. I know I played something on the commodore 64 before then, or perhaps combat on the Atari ( dunno which ) but its all a blur back then. Dunno which came first.

All I do know is it would sometimes take 2-3 hours installing some games off their floppies and trying to get it to work right.
 
No idea what my first computer was. It was beige and old looking and ran Windows 3.

First PC game was Wolfenstein 3-D
 
Compaq Presario

First game was called "Spelling Jungle". Collect the letters to spell a word in the correct order, avoiding obstacles and enemies and solving puzzles.

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That game was awesome, actually.
 
too much speccy here......



new C64
International Soccer

1987 iirc

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I still remember how much time took to me and my dad to understand how to start the game, damn F1-F8 keys... :D
 
a TRS-80:

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You saved your games and programs on tape recorder!
With this little gem of a game:

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Dinowars!

Game sucked balls except for being dinosaurs that could roar
 
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IBM Aptiva in 1995. I was 7 when we got it. It came with a whole booklet of CD-ROM games, including Hyperman, Cyberia, Blockbuster Movie Trivia, and a couple others. My first "real" PC game was Quake in 1996.
 
First computer was a Commodore 64.
First game on it I do not remember at all as I had so many...
There was a kid in my class who clearly had dreams of being an entrepreneur as even in 2nd grade he was selling bootleg tapes with as many games as he could fit on one. I can only imagine he had an adult helping him but it meant I had a whole library of games.
IIRC I would get about $3 a day for lunch from my mom. I would give a $1 to the same kid who sold the tapes to get his free lunch card so lunch was covered, he saw this as an investment towards his own business. I would then spend .50 cents to a $1 on Now & Laters at the corner store, and pocket at least a $1 a day.
Toward the end of each week I would pick up a tape from him full of games for $5 a tape.
I never knew what I was going to get, and most of the games were shit, but he usually put one "big" game on each tape.
He also sold mix tapes of Hip Hop. This was between 1983-1988. I owe it to this kid for not only supplying me games, but exposing my very young ass to real Hip Hop music.
Wonder what Damen is up to these days.
 
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