What was Your First Ever Computer Game?

[Sarge Misfit]

19 minutes ago, DamnedFrog said:

... a boosted Sinclair ZX81 ...

Dayum! I had one of those, too. Wrote a D&D Dungeon Master assistant on it using the tables from the DM's Guide (all 1st Edition ). Maps, encounters, DM die rolls, all of it. Worked great .

Especially when nobody wanted to DM a game.

 

[donttouchmethere]

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away

I missed the C64 stuff and ended up with a Schneider Euro PC right away:

it was hard to find a EGA Grafic Card with 4 colors for that one



 

I learned more english with Kings Quest I than in school (i still dont understand "time" tho)



 

My first Space Game was Captain Blood, urghs



 

Falcon was the first Simulator, but the Schneider PC had a Frame Rate of 20 or less... my brain has still difficulty to grasp stuff thats faster than that ^^



 

Battle Isle I, thats my speed, loved it



 

 

well the PC had no problems to handel this game!



 

 

D&D series killed my 3,5 zoll Drive. Without HD it was a pain so exchange the Disks all the time. Well at least i bought a 20MB HDD!!!



 

 

i bought my first lubber in Leisure suit larry I

took me a while to find out what a lubber is xD

 



 

LHX Helicopter game, couldnt get enough of it, was a bit faster than Falcon



 

 

DOOOOM omgz i love it, the PC game shopkeeper needed to hide it below the counter cause it was the english version with red pixel blood!



 

 

Populus, lets kill em all with a VOLCANO muwhahahahahaha



 

Manhunter New York, that was something totaly different from Kings Quest, strange Sierra sold that one.



 

 

 

X Com = DIE Aliens DIE



 

 

688 Attack Soup! it was crazy slow on my PC, but still i couldnt get enough of it



 

 

[El_Duderino]

7 hours ago, donttouchmethere said:

well the PC had no problems to handel this game!

OMG OMG OMG! Another California Dreams classic -- how could I forget about the amazing and mind boggling BlockOut? Gotta find a copy of it online and play it right away!

[The First Lady of Hats]

Dunno if it was "THE" First, but it's definitely one of the first

Lazy Jones!

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7DyoDJCqac

 

As fer rpg's.

Prolly Dungeon Master.



http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/585/Dungeon+Master.html

 

Followed by the Eye of the Beholder series.



http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/98/Eye+of+the+Beholder.html

 

lLater periods I remember spending an inordinate amount of time on Sierra's old point and click games.

Particularly this one. So you want to be a hero.



It had a sort of text thingy, where yer'd type in words to interact with the world and spend forever and a day trying to find the right bloody keyword that makes the object do the thing it's supposed to do. Thus, even as a mere tadpole that hadn't learnt to tie her shoelaces yet, let alone earned her hat, I remember abusing the hell out of this system typing various synonyms  of the word "Fuck", to try and abuse that poor young centaur girl at the market stall.
 

 

[M.BISON]

sonic 2, was the only game i had for a very long time

 

still remember my friend letting me borrow golden axe, that was when we realised more than one console exist, i.e he had a master system and i had sega megadrive lol

[donttouchmethere]

4 hours ago, The First Lady of Hats said:

Followed by the Eye of the Beholder series.

uh oh, i loved that one, after those low grafik D&D series from SSI, the Eye of the beholder was a real easing for the eyes

 

6 hours ago, El_Duderino said:

Gotta find a copy of it online and play it right away!

the last thing i used DOSbox for was: DUNE II, it got addicted immediately again!

 

 

and the DUNE I soundtrack is still haunting me: Adlib

 

[kapete]

First ever was Telebunny on Spectravideo

First rpg was Pool of Radiance on C-64. Didn't really understand english then but it was still amazing.

First nude mod made of her at Space quest 4

First Elder scrolls was Daggerfall

First adult themed game. 

[Captain Cobra]

Runescape Classic.

[DanishPastry]

Wormgame, Egaroids, Sopwith and Aldo for MS-DOS. Got them on the same 3½ inch floppy disk along with some other games that I cannot remember.

[SleepyJim]

Not 100% certain. I do remember playing Pong when I was very small, but it might have been something like PAC-MAN or Space Invaders first. Whatever it was, it was likely played on one of these:

 

 

Possibly using one of these:

 

 

Still got ours tucked away somewhere...

[MrEsturk]

Nice to see so many old timers that started off in the retro budget-grade home computer days Normally when a topic like this shows up on a forum I find myself surrounded by younger range millennials that got started in the 16bit era or later. So good to be around some fellow Gen Xers.

 

As for me it this little C64 game that got me started. I like to sneak that green sumo reference into my modding work when I can get away with it, heehee:

[Canaris]

Honestly i have no idea which game it was because i was 4-5 at the time and it was on C64. The earliest game i remember was some WW1 flight sim that i was never able to identify, earliest i know was also Bruce Lee.

First full game that i owned was TOCA 2 for Playstation 1 that i got with console for free.

First one i bought was ofcourse the masterpiece of Final Fantasy 7, the game that started my fascination with jrpgs. 

Gods i feel old now...

[KoolHndLuke]

13 minutes ago, Canaris said:

Gods i feel old now...

There were no video games when I was 4-5 yrs old. I still remember the first Atari games when they came out. Space Invaders, Missile Command and Pong in black and white. Later when I was around 10-12 I think, we started to play Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Galaga in color when arcades became a thing- Whoo Hoo!

 

 

[The First Lady of Hats]

I should prolly be glad no one's admitted to havine owned this yet.

[Swanky]

First PC games were: Command & Conquer: Red Alert, POD and Archimedean Dynasty (Schleichfahrt).

First games ever: Super Mario Land, Tetris for Game Boy.

 

 

[Dallas-Arbiter]

First game I bought for a PC was Oblivion, in May of 2008. But that wasn't my first video game, I played on consoles up to that point.

[SirDuke]

The classic gameboy Tetris in 1989

 

But the first "good one" was Robin Hood for my Amiga500 in 1991

[Reepa7]

Not sure about first game ever on PC, but I remember G-Nome being my first online game ?

 

[Ernest Lemmingway]

12 hours ago, The First Lady of Hats said:

I should prolly be glad no one's admitted to havine owned this yet.

Oh, Dog! That was a stinker! Ironically I now wish Bugthesda would have their own "E.T."-type title to teach them to shape up by nearly ruining them.

[The First Lady of Hats]

4 minutes ago, Ernest Lemmingway said:

Oh, Dog! That was a stinker! Ironically I now wish Bugthesda would have their own "E.T."-type title to teach them to shape up by nearly ruining them.

Hell, not even just bugthesda, I reckon the entire industry these days could use the wake-up call. Given the constant bollocks Acti and EA pull, I'm honestly surprised it hasn't happened already tbh :3

[HyperActive]

My first computer game is.

 

- Commandos Behind Enemy Lines & Beyond The Call Of Duty

 

After that i soon discovered Age Of Empires, StarCraft, Tomb Raider & Jazz JackRabbit ?

[kmaaier]

Mamba, now better known as Snake.

It was on a ZX spectrum 81, it was even before the release of the Commodore 64. 

And it also was 1981

[Guest]

League of Legends in 2013

[shariecriss]

My very first computer based game was basically Pong, bought at Radioshack. It was a hand-held controller that hooked up to the TV with a few Pong-like games. There was a master controller and a second unit for a second player and a gun for shooting a white block that wandered over the screen. Searching Google for images came up with TV Scoreboard. 

 

http://atariage.com/forums/uploads/monthly_11_2013/post-13896-0-87053700-1384748160.jpg

 

 

[worik]

Is it about

1. the first game I played?
2. ..I had a "copy" of?
3. .. owned?
4. .. or bought by my own money?

It would be 4 different answers in my case 

1. It should be some kind of sports game on Atari. My cousins had computers or game consoles, I couldn't afford one.
2. should be an older text adventure... no graphics ... but something to learn english better and faster than in school
3. difficult to remember the name... so many years ago.. It was gift. Fun fact: I had a game many years before I had a computer
4. Probably Monkey Island, I guess. Fun fact: My certain other half started with that game, too.

On 5/22/2018 at 10:02 AM, donttouchmethere said:

A long time ago in a galaxy far far away

Ooooh, we know them all

 

PS: If you ever visit Berlin - take your time to visit THE museum http://www.computerspielemuseum.de/1210_Home.htm

I've been there 2 or 3 years ago on a business trip and was angry that I had not enough time between work and their closing time