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

[Duoleb The Chosen]

wolfenstein 3d and command keen

 

my childhood wad id thanks to my cousin

[Ark of Truth]

not the first game that i played, but this is the game that got me into fps. Tiberian Sun

Silly Mail Tiberian Sun is a RTS not FPS

[WrythePhokas]

First PC game that I remember playing is Kings Quest on a monochrome monitor - made it tough to find some of the stuff you have to find to play the game. Helped me learn English though. 

[Mailamea]

 

not the first game that i played, but this is the game that got me into fps. Tiberian Sun

Silly Mail Tiberian Sun is a RTS not FPS

 

 

miss typed. oopps

[Ark of Truth]

miss typed. oopps

 

Excuses

[Guest carywinton]

>.>

 

<.<

 

Gorillas

 

*flees*

I remember programming in basic, well trying to learn it and Gorilla.bat was one of my first attempts. Making him dance I thought I was a serious bad ass, lol.

[Guest carywinton]

My first game predates all of you by quite a bit, it was called Ricochet and you plugged a controller type device into your TV set, yes this actually was considered one of the first computer games. It was just a line and a ball that you reflected off of the sides of the screen, but I played it for hours.

I guess the next big games for me were probably, Commander Keen, Doom, Neverwinter Nights, Half-Life, Diablo and Diablo2.

Neverwinter Nights is where I started to get involved in the Entertainment and Game Development industry, I started modding on the Aurora Toolset and was slowly brought into the game development groups after producing my first mod "Hyatt". The IGN Vault amazingly enough does still exist, but it is far from what it used to be, nearly nighty percent of the mods and work that used to be there is gone, including "Hyatt". I fortunately still have the majority of that mod here in tact, along with hundreds of other works from that era. I suppose I will end up being a Game Modders Museum of resources some day, lol

[Cynical Misanthrope]

Tbh, it was so long ago, so I can't really remember. I think it was Doom. I just have images of it, in the head when it happen.

The first game I completed was Evolva. No idea when it was thou, but 15+ years.

[Xee]

I do remeber it was on my old Amstrad CPC664, before my dad upgraded to Windows 95. There was lots of games, but the first one I ever played was a platformer with a guy jumping on stuff avoiding spikes; sadly I can't remember its name.

 

Soon or later I need to open that old box and check the name on the floppy disk because now I'm so damn curious.

[Pkatt]

I don't remember the name, but it was some baseball game in the mid 1980's.    We played it after work on an IBM 8088 machine with a monochrome monitor they had.  

 

I think King's Quest and The Black Caldron were the first ones I actually remember the name of.  Or maybe the original Leisure Suit Larry.  I remember playing that one on an orange monochrome monitor.  

[WrythePhokas]

My friend had a super-gaming rig back then (it had a vga monitor) so we played LSL at his house.

[Guest carywinton]

I do remeber it was on my old Amstrad CPC664, before my dad upgraded to Windows 95. There was lots of games, but the first one I ever played was a platformer with a guy jumping on stuff avoiding spikes; sadly I can't remember its name.

 

Soon or later I need to open that old box and check the name on the floppy disk because now I'm so damn curious.

Sounds like it might have been Pitfall.

[Kodiak]

If you are counting the Commodore-64 as a PC, then my first computer gaming experience was;

1. F15 Strike Eagle

2. Silent Service

3. Sid Miers Pirates 

 

If you don't count the C64 as a PC, which I would have to question your logic behind it, then I'd have to say it was one my friends i512? I really don't remember what he said it was. It was circa 1992 damnit. He invited me over to play Warlords. .... the original. I didn't own a computer after the C64 and that went tits up on me 1990ish? Maybe? Just started high school and did not have the luxury of a computer at home, so yea.. 1990.

 

Personally though, even though Warlords was great and all. I was down right addicted to Pirates!

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Still am really.

[sora3]

X-Wing vs TIE Fighter

[Emprah]

Probably..... C&C Red Alert 2, the Soviet campaign. Thats probably why I can't make myslef play as any other faction in the Red Alert games.

[Xariama]

Ultima III.

[LordJerle]

Oregon Trail for Apple IIGS and one of the Carmen Sandiego's.  I dunno, I was in the 2nd grade, I'm 30 now, was 7 then... Hrmmm... 23 years ago?

I'm an old fogey.

[Dracogena]

hard to remember which one I played first...

 

I had one of the first PCs from around so kids came sometimes to play.

 

And funny thing that made me remember one game... Golden Axe... my friend broke mouse on it (by playing) 

[un0wn]

- those microsoft game obviously (mineswepper, hearts, freecel, solitaire)

- dune2k

- RedAlert2

- tiberian sun (or something)

- diablo & diablo2

- age of empire 2

- old counter strike, the one with dark background

i think thats all, not many game in those era :/

[Cezul]

I came in kinda late into the PC gaming thing, probably around 2000's for me as well. Had to be about 11 at the time, with a copy of Deus Ex. Later on I'd pick up Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Rune and Quake 3. Those four right there are pretty much what I started out on.

 

Most people, I don't think have heard or know about Rune, the others I listed are pretty famous, but I would totally recommend Rune. It's a third person Hack 'n Slash adventure steeped in Norse Myth. I think HumanHead even released it on Steam some time ago.

 

There's a bunch of other games I kinda grew up on too, I remember playing Thief, Unreal, Doom, Dungeon Siege. Pretty sure there's more, my memory is just bad.

[Athenaa]

Rainbow six

[Victoria K.]

Very very first ones Alone in the Dark and Prince of Persia (ported).

I was 6 or 7 years old, I don't know.

The former never played again after years, the latter I re-played maybe 2 years ago. It brought lot of memories.

[canderes]

First actual games  that I liked were waterballoon drop by 3djoe or c&c tiberian sun. I remember those shitty math games we played back in elementary school, it was like a ripoff of ninja gaiden or something or oregon trail.

 

On another note: omfg shockwave.com still exists.

[Lodakai]

Hunt the wumpus

[Diffident]

The first game I can remember playing was

for the Apple ][.  And the original

by Muse software which was the original game that Wolfenstein 3D was based on.