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

Bastables said:
Atari ST
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As a die hard Amiga user i feel sorry for you.

What does the blitter of the AMIGA and the Atari ST have in common?
Both are not compatible to Atari ST games... *SCNR*

What does TOS means?
Trash Operating System

How do you double the value of an Atari ST?
You put an empty disc into the disc drive.
 
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monkey island

the amount of discs...
 
My first computer was an Amiga 600 and it was awesome.

First games, I think it came with Pushover (the domino toppling game) and Silly Putty.
 
Can't remember what my PC was exactly, I think it ran windows 3.1.

My first game was Prince of Persia (1989 sidescroller). I feel quite privileged
 
My first computer was a 2009 iMac. I think Portal was the first game I played on it.

My parents had some old computers but I never played games on them.
 
Was too young to know the name of the pc, but it was green and the screen was made up of letters and numbers you could see when it was turned off.

Spent hours on this game
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Which was a letter 'p' that climbed ladders made of 'H's
 
I am almost sure my first PC was a 386, but could have been a 486. Regardless, I will never forget Prince of persia. Fluid sweet animation, punishing gameplay, satiafactory combat.
Prince of persia was the dark souls of my childhood.
 
I didn't have a computer in the house until 2004-ish, but at summer camp and after school care they had some older computers with this installed:

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I've just learned that it is on steam.
 
First machine I had constant access to was an early IBM brand 286.

The first machine I owned was a Pentium 120 MHz. 1.2 GB HDD. Great times.

First games... Supaplex? Chaos Engine, Wolfenstein, Prince of Persia, all that jazz.
 
PC from 94 I think. It was the first family computer. I remember my dad and two of his friends setting it up. Then they got AOL running on it. The email revolution had hit. I was in awe... But email was useless for a small kid.
I used it for some educational games. Some Snoopy game and Math Blaster. Minesweeper too but I never understood it. Still don't.
 
Back in the 90's, my mom bought a used PC from someone at work and got a bunch of copies of games with it. I'm not sure what PC it was. The first game I played was probably one of the windows games that came with it like Solitaire or that Ski Free game. I also remember playing some Wolfenstein 3D clone with undead creatures. I didn't really spend much time gaming on that PC, because my console games were more fun.

Later, in 1999, I remember we got a Compaq Presario. The first game I played on that was the Age of Empires: Rise of Rome Trial version. I loved it so much, I bought the game. That was when I really started getting into PC games. I even preferred PC gaming to console gaming for a couple years.

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First computer was a SuperMac around 1992, and my first game was Cosmic Osmo and Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: The Graphic Adventure.
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1985 - it was Arcadians on an Acorn Electron. I'll never forget that fear of wondering if the game would actually load or not - and if not - changing the volume slightly on your tape box :)
 
The first computer that I personally owned was a 486 66mhz. I had the opportunity to play a variety of others before that including an Apple II and a Commodore 64, with tape-loading games. The earliest game I remember and whose name I could find was Cauldron 2.

I played a lot of demos and basic floppy disk games in those days. The first game I remember buying myself and paying more than a few dollars for was Total Annihilation with my 2nd computer. I got to play some earlier PC games on other people's computers including Civ 1, Warcraft 2, Under a Killing Moon, and Slam City with Scottie Pippen.
 
It was some bashed together beige box with a Celeron (boo) processor at 400 or so MHz and no more than 64 gb ram. First game was Jedi knight which had an option to use software graphics acceleration (which I didn't discover until I was half way through the game). The dial up online was amazing. Playing against people who had modded it to use darth maul with a fake looking double sabre was great.

Memories.
 
Atari 800 - used to load up my games to the internal memory via cassette tape - talk about loading times. I think an average game took about 5 minutes.

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A "Laptop" the size of a suitcase with a 6" green screen circa 1985/6.

You could play chess on it at least.

I then got a Sega Master System which came with Super Hang On. Urgh!
 
In January 1996 my father brought back home a very strange machine. I could not begin to imagine what it was. I was 6 years old.

I played a game called "Guimo" on it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guimo

The feeling can hardly be described, it was like experiencing something amazing for the first time : something was moving on the screen and that was my doing !

I don't remember the specs however.
 
TRS-80 Model 1 Level II with 16k RAM, got it in the summer of 1979.

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Not sure what the first game was. Zork was early but it was released the following year. Maybe Santa Paravia en Fiumaccio? I ended up writing a lot of games for it myself over the next few years.
 
Can't recall the brand name of the pc but I do remember playing Starcraft, my first pc game on a crt monitor when I was temporarily living in my dad's friend house.
 
Mine was the good ol speccy 128k

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Had a bunch of games, not sure which was the first but here is a couple

Pac Rat
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Enduro Racer
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I barely remember.

I THINK it was a compaq , it was definitely a 386 because it had lots of trouble running doom and had no sound card.

I had to make the screen for doom super small for it to run properly but it was worth it.
 
Can't remember the exact details of my first computer but I remember playing Age of Empires when I was a kid. Also played Oregon Trail on Mac back in the day too.
 
Fun fact: Brazil had some weird import laws back then (80s/early 90s), so my first PC, which I still don't remember if it was a 386 or 486, was smuggled into the country.

Which was actually quite common.
 
Intel 486 with Win3.1.
I had tons of CDs with shareware games on it but I don't remember the names of my favorites. There was one JumpnRun with a squirrel I think and there also was a fun kart racer with this squirrel...
 
The first game I remember playing was Bad Street Brawler. Although I remember playing Pirates! around the same time, but I didn't get into it like my dad did.

Edit: I don't remember if it was an Amiga or if it ran QDOS or whatever. Honest;y, I can't remember a thing about the actual hardware.
 
cyberheater said:
I had a C64 (without a cassette drive) and the first game was something typed out of a magazine which we couldn't save because we didn't have a cassette drive at the time.
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I had a similar situation with my VIC-20. My dad bought it for my birthday, but it didn't have a tape drive. Until my actual birthday, my dad was using it to program a slot machine. He had been working on it for about three days, the computer had to stay on, because otherwise the software would be lost.

Then my brother went over to the computer (the screen was off), turned it off, turned on the screen, said 'huh?' and turned on the computer back on with an 'ah!'. After which my dad angrily asked him if he had just turned the computer off, heheh. That was the last time he programmed anything.

Later on he soldered a cassette player interface on a piece of breadboard, with no housing. It worked half the time. I was very happy when I finally got a proper datasette.
 
Pentium 166 (one of thos desktops that had a turbo button and an small lcd screen with the number you could change when pressing that button), was already 8 when I got it and more of a console kid.
Came with a few CDs with "games"

Space Station Simulator and The 3d Dimension were the better ones. The Third Dimension was like a program that let you make 3d scenes, so as a creative person I really liked it.

No video on all the internet though, only found some images from the cd and a single screen. Does somebody remember of this program?
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My first real game though, was Age of Empires Gold Edition.
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