What was the first game(s) you ever played for PC (that you remember)?

[Guest]

A MS-DOS game, called News Boy I think, where you're playing a newspaper boy and try to deliver (aka throw) as many newspaper to houses as possible within a route. Either that, or Wizard (maybe) where, well, you play as a wizard in a 2d sidescroll game

 

It was called "Paper Boy". A classic.

[Queen Bee]

This is going to date me, but I played Wolfenstein 3D on my cousin's PC when it was new. I remember being legitimately blown away by the graphics. Keep in mind, prior to that the best we had was NES graphics.

[darkmage64]

Dig dug, pacman, exile pole positio, solitaire

[deathclaw_fantasy]

Very vague memories of playing a Space Invaders port in kindergarten/first grade(?), probably on Commodore 64.

[Jolie Rouge]

Railroad Tycoon, Prince of Persia, Microprose Formula One (1991), Gunship 2000, Test Drive 2, Sid Meier`s Pirates!, Duke Nukem 1 + 2, Red Baron.

Still have most of the discs (3.5").

[Otti]

My first Games are River Raid & Star Raiders on the old Atari 400.(yeah,i´m old).On PC i think International Karate from System 3,and Elite 2.Both in ugly CGA. But the Game for the lonely Island is the 20 year old Master of Orion 2-Battle at Antares.Since 1997 i play this Treasure once a Week.If you don´t know this,try this out.the perfect 4x Game.The new Remake of Master of Orion sucks against this.

[Randomwower]

I very vaguely remember something to do with interactive sesame street, but the first one I actually connected with, legitimately?

Star Wars: Dark Forces.

Kyle Katarn is still one of my favorite characters in the star wars universe

[saviliana]

The first PC game I remember the name was "Screamer 2", I had played serveal before but forgot their name.

[RogueNymph]

I was pretty young when I was allowed on the PC, so i did a lot of the girl games, but I do remember playing World of Warcraft. Trying it out as a little girl was fun ^-^ However, we didn't keep it for long. 

[JobiWanUK]

I think the first game I played on a PC I owned was Elite. I'd played it before on Commodore 64 though.

 

My first encounter with gaming on PC was at school on an IBM machine with a green screen monitor. It was called Star Trek. Basically a > symbol was the Enterprise and another symbol (I forget which) was a Klingon ship and you had to type the angle in for your 'torpedo' and took turns shooting at each other.

 

I was fascinated by this and I've been a gamer ever since.

 

I actually used to work in the game industry doing graphics for C64 games and my partner at the time wanted to move into PC games, but I didn't think it would catch on as PCs were more for business use. 

[dds3000]

was some windows 5000+ plus games on a CD

[Dee383]

Does Anyone Remember The ZX81 Games You Could Get In Various Magazines That You Had To Type In All The Code To Create Them Before You Could Play Them ...

[Quillon]

My first game ever played and bought was Gothic II. Such awesome game for that time

[JobiWanUK]

Does Anyone Remember The ZX81 Games You Could Get In Various Magazines That You Had To Type In All The Code To Create Them Before You Could Play Them ...

 

I do, but I was on the Commodore Vic-20/C-64 path.

 

And often times there was a syntax error in the code and you'd have to wait a whole month to see the correction printed in next month's issue.

[KoolHndLuke]

The first PC game I ever played was Bards Tale on a commodore 64. Another was Gunship that I played about the same time.

[Alva]

First game on PC was Ports of Call and and RPG called Phantasia 1 (CGA colors FTW) - both of which came along side my whopping 2x86, 10 mHz CPU, 1 MB RAM, 20 MB Harddrive Olivetti PC back in '92.
I even opted for only the 20 MB harddrive because I knew I'd never need 40. And I partitioned into a 11 MB C and 9 MB games drive

 

 

Oh the days of tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys to get that elusive 630kb ish free RAM to run the high powered games.

[Chekist]

PC?

Star Control, Prince of Persia and some submarine sim game that I played before on ZX Spectrum.. Can't remember what it's called now..

[Sagebrush61]

Aces of the Pacific, Carriers at War Construction Set and Red Baron 2.  I bought them all the same day and sort of bounced between them until I settled on a favorite.  I  kind of miss Dynamix and the Strategic Studies group.  Sad that they went under.

[FuzzyWonder]

Archon for c64

[oFrenzy]

Karateka - damn, it was long ago