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

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: astrosfan315
Apple II+ my dad got in 1979 or 1980. My brother and I spent a lot of time playing Zork and other infocom games, choplifter, Castle Wolfenstein then Beyond Castle Wolfenstein, and I got my RPG hit with Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord. TILTOWAIT and Bishop hack for tons of gold and levels LOL. Cleaning out my parents house before they sold it a few years back my brother and I found in my dad's computer junk graph paper maps of levels from Wizardry.

I then moved up to a C64 when in the 6th grade. Games I remember fondly playing were Bard's Tale, Wasteland, Pool of Radiance and WASTELAND!

Oh yeah, I remember Wolfenstein... it took FOREVER to load. And it was really hard.
I remembered another one, Eamon Adventures.

 

[gophins72]

mule - on atari
moebius - on apple //e
seven cities of gold - on atari
ultima iv - on atari
defender of the crown - on amiga
empire - on amiga
rocket ranger - on amiga

oh and i guess zork and hitchiker's guide to the galaxy but i sucked at those, as a kid

 

[KeypoX]

nintendo- smb 1 -3. Monopoly on nes. Computer was duke nukem 3d, doom, quake, warcraft 2, diablo, sc, warcraft 3, quake 3.

 

[minmaster]

WHAT PART OF PC GAMING DON'T YOU PPL UNDERSTAND?

 

[CKent]

Doom I & II for the PC

First entirely enthralling game for me though was Dragon Warrior on the NES

 

[Scorp]

Captain Comic running on a 386SX 28Mhz... it ran at 12Mhz stock and the turbo button would boost it up to 28

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Comic

Other notable games on that machine included Outrun, a golf game (only specific I can remember is the commentator would say 'Looks like he hit the tree chip' or something), a variation of the Big2 card game and Golden Axe on the 5 1/4" floppy (B:\ for the win)

 

[tristanic]

I used to love the Last Starfighter game!

 

[you2]

hack (predecessor of nethack) on an ibm pc (around 1983 or 1984).

 

[40Hands]

My Mom bought an IBM 386 with 2 or 4 megs of ram and a 20 meg HD. I was playing Pinball, tetris, nibbles, gorillias, Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego, Kings Quest, etc. I remember the 386 couldn't handle Ultima Underworld IV with it's "3d" enviroment. There was also the obvious Nintendo stage with SMB, Gradius, Dragon Warrior, Final Fantasy, etc.

Ahhh the memories!

That's just what I started on. My first online games were Duke 3d, Quake (TF and DM), and Ultima Online.

 

[bullbert]

Originally posted by: minmaster
WHAT PART OF PC GAMING DON'T YOU PPL UNDERSTAND?

What part of 'Personal Computer' Gaming don't YOU understand? 'Personal Computers' existed long before the Intel based IBM-PC hit the market. A lot of my generation, which has given birth to your generation, had an Apple II (or even an Apple I) personal computer for 5 to 10 years before the IBM-PC was widely accepted as the new standardized gaming PC platform. [/sarcasm on] Thanks Apple for shit canning the entire Apple II product line and offerring no product followup with gamers in mind. [/sarcasm off] There was also the Commodore PET and a few others, but they was not nearly as popular. Also, prior to any PC being commercially available, we had been NON-personal computer gaming for at least a decade on a school's 110/300 baud modem networked 'timeshare' terminal or an employer's networked mainframe, but our total game count at those times barely exceeded Paris Hilton's current panty count.

By the way, hasn't your 'keyboarding' class (aka 'typing' class for my generation) gotten to the CAPS LOCK lesson yet?

 

[uli2000]

Microprose's F19. Played the shit out of that for years.

 

[Soundmanred]

I started out with an Atari 800XL, dual cart slots, 5-1/4 external floppy drive. I still have it. Played alot of arcade ports - Pacman, Centipede, Donkey Kong etc. I also played Star Raiders and Miner 2049'er and Rescue On Fractalus. I learned how to program in BASIC on that thing with the BASIC cartridge, saving files onto the floppy drive.
"Upgraded" to a Tandy 1000TX, and started playing the Sierra games, starting with Space Quest III : The Pirates Of Pestulon, then Kings Quest IV, The Perils Of Rosella. I got Space Quest IV later on (I still own it) when we got a "normal" IBM clone. I spent time playing Test Drive (the original) and got a decent port of an arcade game, Karnov. I'm sure there were tons of other games, but The King's Quest and Space Quest ones stood out the most.
I bought the King's Quest Collection in '98 or '99 and they just didn't hold up well over time.

 

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by: bullbert

Originally posted by: minmaster
WHAT PART OF PC GAMING DON'T YOU PPL UNDERSTAND?

What part of 'Personal Computer' Gaming don't YOU understand? 'Personal Computers' existed long before the Intel based IBM-PC hit the market. A lot of my generation, which has given birth to your generation, had an Apple II (or even an Apple I) personal computer for 5 to 10 years before the IBM-PC was widely accepted as the new standardized gaming PC platform. [/sarcasm on] Thanks Apple for shit canning the entire Apple II product line and offerring no product followup with gamers in mind. [/sarcasm off] There was also the Commodore PET and a few others, but they was not nearly as popular. Also, prior to any PC being commercially available, we had been NON-personal computer gaming for at least a decade on a school's 110/300 baud modem networked 'timeshare' terminal or an employer's networked mainframe, but our total game count at those times barely exceeded Paris Hilton's current panty count.

By the way, hasn't your 'keyboarding' class (aka 'typing' class for my generation) gotten to the CAPS LOCK lesson yet?

Don't forget my beloved Atari 400 with Star Raiders!

 

[SpunkyJones]

Originally posted by: Soundmanred
I started out with an Atari 800XL, dual cart slots, 5-1/4 external floppy drive. I still have it. Played alot of arcade ports - Pacman, Centipede, Donkey Kong etc. I also played Star Raiders and Miner 2049'er and Rescue On Fractalus. I learned how to program in BASIC on that thing with the BASIC cartridge, saving files onto the floppy drive.
"Upgraded" to a Tandy 1000TX, and started playing the Sierra games, starting with Space Quest III : The Pirates Of Pestulon, then Kings Quest IV, The Perils Of Rosella. I got Space Quest IV later on (I still own it) when we got a "normal" IBM clone. I spent time playing Test Drive (the original) and got a decent port of an arcade game, Karnov. I'm sure there were tons of other games, but The King's Quest and Space Quest ones stood out the most.
I bought the King's Quest Collection in '98 or '99 and they just didn't hold up well over time.

lol, I taught my self BASIC on a 400 and saved my programs to a cassette recorder. Cutting edge, whahooo! Good memories.

 

[Modelworks]

Tandy color computer.
Only games were really text based type like:
You are in a dark hallway, there is a door to the (E)ast, a light to the (W)est, what direction do you want to go ?
?


Probably the first really graphical pc game I ever played was Ultima on the AtariST. It consisted mainly of letters on screen that stood for the places on the map with a column on the right of the screen that showed your stats.

 

[Eric62]

I found GTA (the first one) as a free Rockstar download. Told my friend and he loaned me GTA: Vice City. I was hooked. GTA: VC is still my all time favorite game. Made Godfather once - no cheats!!!

 

[Anubis]

man some youngins in this thread

for me Doom/Doom2
GODS - god this game was kick ass, go go Dos
commander Keen
Duke Nukem
Blackthorn
Starcraft/diablo
Marathon series
Heretec
wolfenstine
Sim City
Civ
Ultima 7 i think it was 7


those are the main ones i remember playing when i was a kid
and there there was Nintendo but yea this be PC forum

 

[shortylickens]

Originally posted by: bullbert

Originally posted by: minmaster
WHAT PART OF PC GAMING DON'T YOU PPL UNDERSTAND?

What part of 'Personal Computer' Gaming don't YOU understand? 'Personal Computers' existed long before the Intel based IBM-PC hit the market. A lot of my generation, which has given birth to your generation, had an Apple II (or even an Apple I) personal computer for 5 to 10 years before the IBM-PC was widely accepted as the new standardized gaming PC platform. [/sarcasm on] Thanks Apple for shit canning the entire Apple II product line and offerring no product followup with gamers in mind. [/sarcasm off] There was also the Commodore PET and a few others, but they was not nearly as popular. Also, prior to any PC being commercially available, we had been NON-personal computer gaming for at least a decade on a school's 110/300 baud modem networked 'timeshare' terminal or an employer's networked mainframe, but our total game count at those times barely exceeded Paris Hilton's current panty count.

By the way, hasn't your 'keyboarding' class (aka 'typing' class for my generation) gotten to the CAPS LOCK lesson yet?

Well, most of "your" generation has a nasty little habit of only hearing or reading what they want to and responding as such. And because they come from "your" generation they are automatically right and we are automatically spoiled, poorly-raised little dirtbags if we ever argue.

At no point did he bitch about Amigas or Tandys or Apple I's. If you werent so selective in your reading habits you would notice a lot of folks had posted about Ninendo and Super Nintendo games.
Also, if you were not so selective in your reading habits you would have noticed his caps lock does turn on and off. Not all of his posts were capitalized.

If you are going to crap on somebody learn to do it properly. Hell I just gave you a couple tips right now. Reading is probably the best one. I know its comforting for your generation to think they already know everything and should be able to assume the rest (cuz yur so smrt) but reading is always a plus.

EDIT:
Also, I'd like to suggest Darkseed and Darkseed 2. They were actually crummy games but they had some good elements too and they did make me wanna keep playing.

 

[Fingolfin269]

In no particular order, the game's I have the most fond memories of are:

Pool of Radiance
Bard's Tale 2
Lucas Arts games primarily Monkey Island

I miss my C64! Well, other than the 'insert disk 8, insert disk 2, insert disk 9, insert disk, 4' I used to get in King's Quest 4.

 

[DefDC]

Ahhh.. My good ole' Atari 800. Ultima 3 is probably the first game to REALLY suck me in. All Ultimas after that kept me hooked. Alternate Reality: The City and The Dungeon were HUGE time sinks. It's still hard to find an RPG with as much character as AR.

Great classics like Bards Tale, Archon, Seven Cities of Gold also ate up huge chunks of my time.

My first purchased PC game was Ultima6. Also great!

Played a lot of Leisure Suit Larry 1 at my buddy's house. I knew my way through the whole game because someone had converted the whole game as a text adventure on the Atari 800.

 

[zerogear]

Contra. And Privateer

 

[kapoww]

The earliest non-console games I can remember playing were Shadow of the Beast on my friends Amiga and Q-Bert and Carnival on ColecoVision. Shadow of the Beast was such a bad game to grow up on. Still cannot beat it to this day..

 

[Mide]

Originally posted by: zerogear
Contra. And Privateer

Oh Privateer...so much damn fun even though there were only like 4 ships. Centurion/Tachyon Guns.

 

[esun]

Ones I remember:

- Tetris (no idea what specific version, except that it was for DOS)
- Tie Fighter
- Kings Quest V (I think it was V anyway)
- Prince of Persia
- Doom 2
- Troika (can't find any references online except a link to a non-existent Wikipedia page, but I believe that's what it was called)
- Microsoft Golf

On my friend's computer:

- Jezzball
- Chip's Challenge
- SkiFree

Later on, I played Rebel Assault, some flight sim (all I recall is that you could get nukes in it and blow up a shuttle), Warcraft II, and Quake II.

 

[Atreus21]

GATO.