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

[Regs]

C&C and Quake.

 

[evident]

Im 23 right now and i started playing pc games when i was about 9 years old on my brother's 486 SX 33 that he left behind when he went to europe. first there was Doom II, but t hen i fell in love with wing commanders 1-3, maniac mansion and monkey island, and then warcraft 1 and 2
my first online games were warcraft 2, age of empires and quake2

 

[Martimus]

My favorite game growing up was Space Quest 3. I loved Wolfenstein 3D as well. My first computer wasn't good enough to play either of the above mentioned games, so I wrote my own. (about 6 completed games, and maybe 20 partially done games which were mostly tech demos for myself to learn new functions and different graphical tricks)

The first game I had for the Pentium 60 that my parents bought was Doom 2, and I played that a lot. Under a Killing Moon was the best adventure game I had played (I long for good adventure games again, it is still one of my favorite genre's, I even played through the Strong Bad Trogdor adventure game [peasant quest?] a few times just because it was available.) I played a lot of Command and Conquer and Warcraft 2 growing up over the modem, or on a LAN. (C&C was my favorite between the two).

 

[KMFJD]

Some strupid game that i had to program into a friends trs-80...after that probably donkey kong on the vic-20

 

[Patt]

Chivalry on the Vic20 ... a little bit of Robin Hood ... then onto the Apple II clone where Conan & Montezuma's Revenge rocked ... then the Ultima 3/4 pulled me deep into RPG territory. I still play those on an emulator occasionally.

 

[exar333]

Space Quest and King's Quest were my first big adventure games on the 386.

TIE Fighter/X-Wing made me fall in love with PC Gaming and burn through a lot of joysticks....

I really miss a great space sim...Wing Commander: Prophecy was the last great one IMHO

 

[Denithor]

Populous
Civilization
Wolfenstein3D
Doom
Might & Magic IV+V = World of Xeen
Wizardry 7
X-Com
Master of Orion
Master of Magic
C&C
Heroes of Might & Magic II
Might & Magic VI

Started PC gaming in the middle of high school and these were the games that took me through college. Wow, I spent so much time on some of those I don't understand how I graduated.

Games today just don't stack up. Designers are chasing visual appeal instead of gameplay.

 

[pugh]

Kings Quest and Oregon Trail.. somewhere around 1983- 1984

 

[thilanliyan]

Wolfenstein 3D, Xenobots, Dune, Test Drive

 

[Net]

starsiege tribes. the best game ever.

 

[Xed]

The first pc game I can remember playing the living hell out of was Heroes of Might and Magic. I was living in Germany at the time (12-13 years old?) and had to get a part time job to get the money to import it from the states. =P

 

[cbuchach]

Wing Commander FTW!!

(Also Commader Keen)

 

[vshah]

descent was the first game i ever played

 

[EvilManagedCare]

First off, as someone pointed out earlier, PC gaming includes home computer platforms, not consoles. I started gaming on my TI 99/4A (with $50 rebate), progressing to the C64, a brief stint on SNES, then to PC when Windows 95 came out. Because I missed out on the golden age of DOS games (around 1989 to 1995), I tried real hard to get DOS classic RPGs to run on my Win 95 Pentium 133 MHz. That was a much bigger chore than MS led us to believe it would be. Anyway, here's the chronology of games that dominated my gaming time:

TI 99/4A: Tunnels of Doom

C64: Bards Tale, Wasteland, Colonial Conquest

PC: Diablo. I have been gaming on my Windows machine for years, but the one that took up much of my time and evokes the fondest memories is definately this title. It's ironically the game that simultaneously breathed new life into the RPG genre, and ruined it too.

I bought a DOS box off eBay to replay some old classics from the 80's and 90's, which was clearly the best time for PC RPGs. They were especially good from Germany. And while their Amiga versions were better, it was cheaper to find a DOS box

 

[Arkaign]

Atari 400/800 : Rescue on Fractalus, Gateway to Apshai, Star Wars, Racing Destruction Set, etc

PC : Thexder, Sierra Games (Kings, Space, etc), Prince of Persia, Wing Commander

 

[Atheus]

On the PC it's got to be Dune 2 and the original X-wing.

 

[flexy]

i started on the C64 ....here most impressing maybe "Elite" and "Hexenküche" (The Cauldron, Witch Cauldron or something)
But the real gaming started on Amiga, COUNTLESS impressing games to list...Eye of the Beholder, Fate - Gates of Dawn, etc..etc...

When i got my C64, i actually manually "typed" in some programs before i bought my first ever game...my first game EVER was some basic game by a dude called "Jeff Minter" about Lamas...which was VERY bizarre ...The very first game i actually BOUGHT was a cheap pacman-clone named "paccacuda"...fish-pacman so to speak. It sucked

A revolution and eye opening "epiphany" happened on my first PC when i got a Riva 128 which was the first affordable combined 2D/3D card. Then i played tombraider since it was "THE" 3D game at its time.

Edit: Btw. there is NO way you are one of those people who owned a C64 and you do NOT mention "Elite" ???

 

[vexingv]

my family had an atari 2600 for a time, but as far as PC games go, i remember watching my older brother play: commander keen, some flight sims, ultima, star trek, star control, mechwarrior, and battletech on our 286. when i got a little older i started playing these as well.

 

[aclim]

My first games I remeber playing was

DOOM 1/2
Wolfenstein 3D
DUNE 1/2
Duke 3D

 

[The Boston Dangler]

atari 2600
atari 600xl
nes
sega genesis
sony playstaion 2
pc
pc
pc

 

[neegotiator]

civ1 first game i really got into

 

[quadomatic]

Duke Nukem side scrollers and other shareware like it, Twinsen's Odyssey, Earthsiege 2, Warcraft 2. That's all I can think of right now. O btw I played these on a 586 and 486 with an SVGA card.

 

[imported_protoz]

For PC my first games were the Windows 3.11 entertainment pack with Ski-Free, Pipe Dream and Chip's Challenge. From there I played some side-scroller Duke Nukem and then moved up to Doom II by the time I was 6. Learning how to navigate in MS-DOS was half the fun of getting Doom II and Tie-Fighter to run when I was that young.

 

[ayabe]

Xwing and Wolfenstein are the two games that made me ditch my C64/128 and go IBM.

 

[RiDE]

Ultima VII, Wing Commander, and Monkey Island

*sniff*

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