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

M first was the Atari 800xl computer. Still remember having a cassette tape drive with it and trading games with people at school. Me and my friend learned to program some games and sold them at school. It was great. I then moved onto the Atari 520ST, then a 1040ST and finally a Mega ST which was my favorite one since I had run a bulletin board (BBS) back in the day.
 
I don't know what computer model it was but it was an IBM that took 5 1/4 inch floppy discs. I played Kong on it which was just a ripoff of Donkey Kong. First console was an Atari 2600 and I think the first game I played was Desert Falcon.
 
Beartruck said:
Windows 95.

Screw what anybody else says, this game is the bomb:
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loved playing that in the arcade back in the day
 
An Apple II with some kind of educational spelling game. I actually remember the moment I spelled a word out loud for the first time.

The first computer we had where I played a lot of different games though was a new Mac PowerPC running OS7. I played a lot of Mac Brickout and SimCity 2000, but I also remember playing Power Pete, Syndicate, Populous II (I literally did nothing in that game except try to drown people by removing the ground from underneath them lol), and a Felix the Cat movie maker.
 
No idea what my first game was, iirc I had some kind of word/spelling game I used to play all the time.

But the game I played most on my Atari was probably Stealth
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My family's first PC was some IBM DOS compatible Epson with a whopping 64kb RAM and 1 MB HD space.

First game was Where in the USA is Carmen Sandiego. Played the crap out of that.

EDIT: First PC I personally owned was a Compaq with 32mb ram, and the first game I got for it was Starcraft.
 
IBM PC 8088 compatible with massive speed of 4.77MHz, two 5 1/4" floppy drives, beautiful 4colors CGA graphics adapter with an advanced DOS 3.3. My first game is the Tetris game, but my memorable one is the Ultima VI. Yeah I played Ultima VI with no hard drive.
 
My first pc was a computer that I built myself with an Athlon 64 3000+, 512mb single-channel ddr400 ram, msi k8n neo-fsr mobo, and geforce 5600le 256mb videocard. I think my first game was Star Wars KOTOR.
 
My first PC was a custom build someone did for me before I knew anything about PCs. I think it was around 1997?

Pentium 133 Mhz with 16 MB of ram, a crappy 2MB 2D video card, 33k modem, 2 GB HDD, 12X CD drive. Ran Windows 95. First game was Diablo.
 
2001 home built and bought at some computer convention. Windows ME was on it.

The first game I remember playing on it was either Max Payne or Unreal Gold.
 
It was a Packard-Bell that my parents got at Costco. It included the PC Jurassic Park game by OCEAN, and it took like 8 weeks for them to mail the floppy disks. I was terrified at the 3D levels, and had our exchange student from Denmark beat it for me.

I also got Civilization II shortly there after and that was my main game for like 6 years. Loved that computer, when I was older I kept it in my large closet and got a hold of a ton of really old games from my Dad's friend who had owned a software store.
 
My first computer was just a typical generic household one from ~2000 or slightly before. I think the one PC game I really cared about for quite a while was Robot Rage:

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Loved that game. Was mostly a console gamer besides that.
 
We were lucky enough to have a Radio Shack trs-80 and a apple ][ in our house, most of the early games were us learning to code by rewriting existing games. First game I ever played/created was a variant of hangman.
 
My first PC (or rather, the first PC we ever had at home) was an IBM PC 300PL desktop with a Pentium MMX processor, 16 MB of RAM, a 4 GB hard drive and it came with Windows 95 preinstalled. I'm not sure how well it compared to the PC's at the time, since I was 6 years old when we got it because my mom won it at a raffle at her job, but sure as hell I loved it. I still miss the keyboard it came with, and I still kick myself for throwing it away without ever finding out if it was possible to repair it. Nicest keyboard I've ever used in my life.

As for the first game I ever played? I want to say Hocus Pocus, but I'm not sure since it came in a shareware disc along with other games, like Wolfestein 3D and Bio Menace. I remember playing a lot of Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit on it, though.
 
An IBM Aptiva, with the first game I remember playing being Mechwarrior 2 with my dad (possibly circa 1993 or 1994). He let me move the joystick and pull the trigger to fire missiles as I was too young to be able to control the full game myself. Those were the days.

EDIT: Must have been 1994 or 1995 as the Aptiva was released in '94.

EDIT 2: Other classics I remember playing on that machine include the first Warcraft (and eventually 2), Caesar 2, Simcity 2000, and classic Sierra adventure game Torin's Passage. This thread triggered so much nostalgia.
 
My first computer was an Amstrad CPC6128:
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The first game I remember playing on it might have either been Batman or Ghosts'n'Goblins.
I remember in the latter that I never got past the first raven enemy. Not even the Red Aramer, just the regular raven.
I don'remember much about Batman, except its isometric few and totally strange look. I only learned about a few months ago that this game was actually the very first Batman video game ever.

I remember this computer fondly. Very nostalgic to me.
 
My parents had a home Pong/Tennis/Skeet machine in the late 70s, but our first home computer came a couple of years later in 1980 and was the VIC-20.

Code: 
**** CBM BASIC V2 ****
3583 BYTES FREE
READY.

First game I ever played was Blue Meanies From Outer Space.
 
First game on a home PC - Space Invaders on a Commodore PET

First arcade game - Asteroids or Defender

First computer owned - Sinclair ZX-81
 
my first was Color Computer and Tandy 1000, but I remember going to school at a new jr. highschool and they asked what computer you had, if you said IBM, Tandy, ect. you would be snubbed, but say C64, and they would ask what games you had. Pirating was huge in those days. They was looking to copy your games. Bruce Lee, Lode runner, ect.
 
My first computer...I remember it was a Compaq but otherwise I don't have a clue. First game for it was some Rugrat's Mystery Adventure game. I still remember that mid-90's computer smell.

I guess my first "serious" computer game would've been Half-Life. The sequel had just come out but I couldn't run it, but still wanted to get into the series. Thankfully 13-year-old-me was smart enough to redeem it on steam so now I get an 11-year badge on a profile that went completely unused from 2005 to 2012, heh.
 
Old HP that my parents bought from my uncle who was upgrading. It had the 5 1/2 floppy drive (had some games on those, but can't remember), 3 1/2 floppy and a CD Drive for King's Quest VI.

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Remember spending a lot of time on that game. Don't think I knew half of what I was doing though.

Also remember playing a lot of Encarta Mindmaze later on.

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I remember it well.

Commodore C128D (I still have it), with Jump Man, Raid Over Moscow, and Dr Who and the Mines of Terror.
 
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