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

BrrnugT said:
My Tandy 1000
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Mine too. It was the EX model w 384k ram, cga gfx, a 9 pin dot matrix and a green monochrome monitor.

First game was family feud.
 
My own first computer was a Pentium something.
Not sure what the first game for it was. Possibly Duke Nukem 3D. I played the shareware version at a friend of mine and was going nuts over it. I also recall playing Bioforge and Ecstatica early on.
 
Forgot what the exact model was but....

It was a Windows 98 HP PC lol

First computer game was Duke Nukem 1 and I had a demo of Quake 1.

Good times.
 
I think it was a Pentium 3 with a new Voodoo card and the first Unreal...graphics where amazing lol...Aol rocked and Mplayer was the shit... ;)
 
Playing on my brother's Commodore 64. The very first game I played... it's tough to say, I doubt have a ton of memories of that time. It might have been California Games.

The first computer I owned and bought with my own money was a Pentium 2 233Mhz in 1997. With Blade Runner.
 
Windows 95 Packard Bell, which had the Packard Bell Navigator, which looked something like this:

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Brings back memories.

First games were those 100 in 1 CD's with many 2D platformer demos and things like minigolf, but the most memorable was probably Carmageddon and some other 3D city based driving game.

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Also Croc, but I don't remember it being fun. There was also an isometric CRPG, but I didn't know the name, I just remember dudes hitting their heads against the wall in some area.
 
Amiga 500 was my first computer. Bought a few games with it, but the first I remember playing was Defender of the Crown.
 
dont remember the exact order but it was half life, ecstatica 2 and sanitarium.
i was 8, and out of these 3 ecstatica was the only one that scared me for some reason.
 
An old Windows 95 desktop that looked similar to this one, and it had Quake and the Windows game pack already preinstalled. I just remember Quake not having mouse look enabled. Game is still one of my favourites, and I still want them to make a proper sequel that has the same puzzle based gameplay (fuck the Stroggs, b).

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Felspawn said:
PC

AMD 386dx40
4megs of Ram
100meg Harddrive
1meg trident video card

Game

Ultima 7 (still one of the best games I ever played)
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This was my exact new PC. My first PC game on that was X-Wing, which was just so awesome back in the day. Did play on my friend's PC prior to this, I think it was a variant of Amiga and Atari.
 
Well, my family's first home computer was an IBM something or other, running Windows 95. It was pretty high-end at the time, but the specs escape me. I just remember it had miniscule amount of storage capacity (far less than 10GB I believe) but the salesman told my dad he'd never be able to fill it up! And truth be told, I don't think we ever did.

Most of our games ran through MS-DOS, and I think the first I managed to play myself was this:

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But my best memories come from:

Jammit
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(Pictured: inferior console version)

And my favorite, Megarace!

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Compaq Presario if I remember correctly. Had 128MB of ram and a 32MB Video card. 8GB of storage.

My first game was

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Also got one of those monster feedback Logitech joysticks too with it lol

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I don't remember which one was my first computer, it was either a i486 or a Commodore 64.

I'm pretty sure the first computer game I ever played was Wolfenstein 3D but these are the games I remember most and were some of my favorites of the time:
Police Quest In Pursuit of the Death Angel
Oregon Trail
SimCity/SimAnt/SimFarm(yup)
Castles
Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego
Command and Conquer Red Alert
 
First PC games I ever played were Wolfenstein 3D and Commander Keen.

Our first family PC was 200MHz, 32MB RAM, and a 8MB Diamond Monster 3D II 3D Accelerator.
 
VIC 20 REPRESENT!!

First game was a pinball game on the Vic. Can't remember the name. The game I really remember playing with any focus was Harrier Attack on the CPC464....colour monitor, obviously.
 
VIC-20 MK-II with the grey function keys and DIN powerplug, this was my own computer.
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With Gorf (the VIC-20 had some really great arcade conversions)
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I programmed lots of games on it, partly in machine code at one point, for which I wrote my own assembler (opcode to machinecode converter) when I was fourteen.

After that a Spectravideo 328 MKII, with a 64KB memory expansion (you had to use bank-switching for that), an expansion case, diskdrive (5 1/4 inch), centronics interface, ColecoVision hardware emulator and a drawing tablet. I still have some of these, including a hardware MSX emulator.

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Wrote a very extensive drawing program for the graphics tablet, that could do things like pattern-floodfill, print images and detect if your hand was resting on the tablet. Also a 3D animation program, with 3D editor (all wireframe) and a desktop system similar to the Amiga's workbench.

After that an Amiga 2000 with two drives (and later on a harddrive and 68030-CPU 68882-FPU turbo card), followed by an Amiga 4000 (later on with a PowerPC card and matching videocard). Still have that one. Programmed a lot in assembly and C on that one, also released commercial software on it.

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ViciousDS said:
Compaq Presario if I remember correctly. Had 128MB of ram and a 32MB Video card. 8GB of storage.

My first game was

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Also got one of those monster feedback Logitech joysticks too with it lol

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I had the Wingman Warrior; the red knob was like a dial to turn. It was kinda shit.

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ZX Spextrum 128k, wish I knew what was the name of the first game I played though. I actually try to find it from time to time, but alas no success so far. Maybe I should make a post on the games you remember, names you dont thread.
 
Pentium 1. 1Gb HDD and 16Mb RAM

And the first game Warcraft2





Also MSX and a megapack with games like Donkey Kong, Survivor, Spirits, Colt46, Arkanoid...
 
Did i already post in here?
Anyway it was a atari 2600 (wooden looking one) and pitfall.

but if talking computers it would be the Comodore 64 and manic miner.
 
The year was 1985, and I was 11 years old, I remember my uncle had a Spectrum 48k, and we used to play the hell out of Hungry Horace on it when he brought it to my nans on a Sunday afternoon at a roast dinner.

I think my nan must have know just how much I like it because shortly after that she purchased for me (can't remember if it was a birthday or christmas present, or just a one off gift though) a Spectrum 48k with the "Six Pack"

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I played the hell out of Chequered Flag, and that started off my life long fascination with racing games, I also played the hell out of Horace goes Skiing as well!
 
danowat said:
The year was 1985, and I was 11 years old, I remember my uncle had a Spectrum 48k, and we used to play the hell out of Hungry Horace on it when he brought it to my nans on a Sunday afternoon at a roast dinner.

I think my nan must have know just how much I like it because shortly after that she purchased for me (can't remember if it was a birthday or christmas present, or just a one off gift though) a Spectrum 48k with the "Six Pack"

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I played the hell out of Chequered Flag, and that started off my life long fascination with racing games, I also played the hell out of Horace goes Skiing as well!
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Horace goes skiing was that naughtydogs first game (prior to been ND that is)
 
CHEX QUEST SON

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I got for free in my cereal.

I don't remember the exact PC I was using. It was an old Gateway with Windows 95.
 
Technically not mine but my dads. An old 486 66mhz. This was back in 94. The game was Nascar Racing by Papyrus. that game was the reason my dad bought the computer ( for a ridicluous 17000 swedish kronor).

We had nothing but trouble with that computer. We never learnt what was wrong with it. Installing one game would ruin another game etc.
 
I had consoles before my first PC.

But my first PC was a Packard Bell 486SX 33mhz. 4gb of RAM and 180mb hard drive. Eventually added 8gb of RAM so I could play Duke and Doom without the need of a boot disk.

First PC game I guess would be Megarace, it came with the computer.
 
first pc was some packell bell windows 95 desktop, no idea which model or what the specs were.

first pc game was either hover or descent.
 
My first PC was a Celeron 433 MHz, which I used to play Championship Manager on!

First console was a Sega Master, which was used to play World Soccer on, with my little brother.
 
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