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What PC game(s) did you grow up on?

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I've played PC games before Quake and enjoyed them somewhat but that was on school computers or other ppl's computers, once my mom bought our first PC it was Quake that really got me into PC gaming. I played many of hours with Quake Superheros online. I was like 14 at the time.
 
Microprose's F-19 Stealth Fighter was the first PC game I remember playing, I still remember flying low through the valleys on my way to bomb those Russian sites. Sim City was the other early one I remember, this was probably around 1991.
 
Nintendo - Mario + Duck Hunt, Top Gun
PC - MAC games like Oregon trail, Carmen San Diego and Math Munchers (not a game, I know 😛)

1st PC game I ever bought was SimCity. Damn, I spent so much time on that.
 
Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
Microprose's F-19 Stealth Fighter was the first PC game I remember playing, I still remember flying low through the valleys on my way to bomb those Russian sites. Sim City was the other early one I remember, this was probably around 1991.
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I looked it up for old time sakes and it was actually Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0. Great game.
 
since this is a PC thread

doom, mega race ( came with my computer) , 3d dinosaur (haha) ..after that..diablo 1 and starcraft ..doom 2...

if you want to get technical i used to play one hell of a lot of number munchers at school even before i had a home pc
 
The very first games I remember playing are Space Quark and Wizardry on the Apple IIc. Then a slew of Infocom games (I actually read Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy because of the game, the game makes very little sense otherwise). When we got King's Quest II, it was mind-blowingly great (got II before I).
 
Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
Originally posted by: SpunkyJones
Microprose's F-19 Stealth Fighter was the first PC game I remember playing, I still remember flying low through the valleys on my way to bomb those Russian sites. Sim City was the other early one I remember, this was probably around 1991.
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I looked it up for old time sakes and it was actually Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0. Great game.
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There were two stealth fighter games - F-19 and F-117A - that Microprose put out. They 117A game was put out after it became known that the F-19 didn't really exist - they were for the most part identical games though. I owned F-19... man that was fun.
 
Bard's Tale II: The Destiny Knight. Before I was even old enough to know how to play, I loved just watching my older brothers play and asked them if one of the guys in the party could be my character. After that, X-Wing kept me going for years.
 
I think F-19 and its sequal F117A were the first games I ever owned, but it was X-Wing series that got me seriously obsessed with computer gaming.

My first ever multiplayer game was Multiplayer Battletech Solaris which came out on AOL in 1996. I spent an unhealthy amount of time playing that game over the course of a couple summer breaks. Seriously, I would routinely play for 8-10 hours straight.

It was great though, it was the first time I made friends online and often we would just spend hours chatting, or running to enemy territory to challenge rival clans to matches, or occasionally invading AOL chat rooms en masse. Following the demise of Battletech (because AOL decided to charge $1.99/hour to play it) I remained friends with a bunch of my former clan members who introduced me to other multiplayer games such as the original team fortress.
 
Commander Keen, Hellcats Over The Pacific (For our Macintosh), Spectre, and Warcraft. I remember my dad was amazing at Hellcats, he'd actually land on the Japanese carrier, and then take off again just to slap the digital enemy in the face. Then my brother and I played Warcraft on the same system together, and I eventually had enough money to buy another mac and then we linked up on a token ring network and played TOGETHER. God damn that was fun. Then we played that bomber-man clone "B.O.O.M." That was alright, and you could play it on the same computer. Maelstrom was another classic him and I played. A lot of my first games were on the Mac, it was a superior gaming machine back then, more color, more sound, more performance. PC's were just clumsy.

I didn't make the move to PC until starcraft came out, we had a windows 98 machine with, and the day my family bought it my mom and dad bought my brother and I Starcraft. That was great! We also got Mechwarrior 2 and then diablo1 for the mac. We figured out how to network the PC and the two macs, and then we played Warcraft 2 together... (For some reason, we had a Mac version, and a PC version... Probably because only one of the macs was powerful enough to play that game)

During all that, my friend down the street started his own **POWER PC MAC NETWORK**. His dad was into graphics art, so he had top of the line PowerPC systems, and we played Warcraft2 all the time. We had a few kids from all around the neighborhood hang out there all the time, and the two main systems were on opposite sides of his huge house, so it was like two command centers... Then a couple years later, they had two new PC's, and we played Team Fortress Classic online with all the other people... That was an experience for me, from then on, it was all about online gaming.
 
F-19 Stealth Fighter, Sim City and M1 Tank Platoon were the first PC games I really got into. I remember when Wing Commander came out, and I could barely run it on my lowly 286-12.
 
On my Tandy 1000EX I basically had three games for about 4 years:

MS-Dos Basics - basically was a page by page information program about DOS and computer parts and such. Learned a TON of stuff from it, and there was a mini pong-like game I played religiously.

Winnie the Pooh and the Hundred Acre Wood - A storm blew items all over the wood and you had to look around and find them and bring them back to the owners (like eeyore's tail).

Mickey's Space Adventure - You were supposed to get these nine pieces of a crystal spread throughout the solar system. For about 2 years I could never find the crystal on Venus - because of that I replayed the game before that over and over to the point of memorization.

Then one day I found the crystal on Venus by chance. Just imagine looking for something for two years as a kid - the day I found that crystal ranks up there with one of the greatest moments of my life. I vividly remember the joy I felt in seeing it on the screen. I ran out of the room screaming to tell my best friend Stephanie next door, and we proceeded in finding the crystals on the next 6 planets all at once for the rest of the day. Good times.

I credit these games with making me interested in computers and space and pretty much making me a smarter kid. I can remember wracking my brain for hours trying to figure out some of the puzzles. They sure don't make them like they used to.
 
Originally posted by: Czar
Larry
King Quest
Space Quest
Heroes Quest

Everything Sierra at the time 🙂
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Me too. Everything. I'm still waiting on an awesome throw-back to Police Quest. The way I see it, it's an open world where you just play a cop. Have a city the size similar to that of GTA games. Prologue would be Police Academy days where you would learn the mechanics of the game and graduate from your class... depending on how well you do, you get assigned to a certain precinct, etc. You might start out as a motorcycle cop catching speeders, or one assigned to the local ISD keeping an eye on the high-schoolers, or regular beat cop patrolling downtown, etc.

Missions would come about via radio while you're out on patrol, or given at briefings for the day back at the precinct. Random missions would also pop up while out on the beat. After a few good arrests and good marks, the chances for promotion pop up-- narcotics, detective squad, SWAT, e-crime, etc... each with its own missions and stories.

But, yeah, I spent a lot of my youth playing Sierra games. Before that, on the C64, was every Infocom game ever made-- starting with Zork in the early 80s. Later, it became Bard's Tale. Nothing like mowing down 4 sets of 99 Berserkers with your party of monks. I was a huge D&D freak, so this was my first taste of CRPG, and it was good times.
 
Super Mario on SNES; this was my "goto" game when I was bored and young. Once we got a computer, the goto became Doom I & II. I use to spend a couple hours just playing the last level of Doom II, seeing how high I could rack up the %-killed with god-mode on and unlimited weapons. Hurray for respawns.
 
Kings Quest
Police Quest
Some cops & robbers game on Atari
Super Mario Bros on NES

those were like my "marijuana" level games that got me into gaming

then once I was hooked I graduated to the "cocaine" level addictions of games like:

Pirates! Gold
Railroad Tycoon
Civilization
X-Com
Master of Magic
Master of Orion

those games really hit me good. only games to this day that I have on occasion stayed up all night playing.


 
I started out on a Tandy TRS-80 in 1979 and there was this summer olympics game where you were represented by a dot on the track. I dont remember the name but i can tell you that we wasted multiple keyboards due to the constant button mashing.

In between having a Vic-20 / C-64 ect, my first true experience was with an rpg style game called Ultima IV in 1985. Having never ever played any kind of rpg style game ever before this, i was simply amazed how involved i became with it. Maybe even obsessed. This was the first game that truly made me stay up till the wee hours of the morning crawling thru dungeons, trying to figure out how to enter level 8 into the Abyss (among other things). To this very day, many, if not all rpg style games, still take after the fundamentals which were so revolutionary in Ultima IV. I'd have to say this will be my greatest joy in gaming i will remember forever!
 
First ones I played were Rogue and the gorilla throwing bananas game. The most memorable from growing up are the Doom shareware, Diablo, Age of Empires, Starcraft, Baldur's Gate, Half-Life and CS.

edit: holy crap how could I have forgotten Commander Keen?
 
First PC game I played was called Mega Racer that bundles with a Packard Bell IIRC. The game sucked tho. One of the earlier games that I could remember: Alien Legacy, Indy Car Racing, Betrayal at Krondor, Transport Tycoon Deluxe, Jagged Aliance, WarCraft demo, Kings Quest ?, Sim City.
 
Hehe, I seem like I just got here compared to you guys... My first video game was Pokemon Gold, I got into heavy PC gaming with Supreme Commander a couple years later.
 
I played a lot of the Quest games when I was a kid and The Bard's Tale games. I never had a PC myself for the longest time, so I'd go over to my buddy's house and we'd play those games forever.

I can't imagine how many hours I put into the original Bard's tale and the sequels. So much fun though.

KT
 
I remember going to various computer shows and rifling through the massive stacks of floppies looking for games that supported my brand-spanking-new adlib sound card and EGA monitor 😀

Some early favorites: Wolfpack, Battle of Britain, HQ1 (aka QFG1), SQ1, Wing Commander... man those were the days.
 
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