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

[mzinz165]

Kid Icarus

 

[flyboy84]

C&C Red Alert, Jane's Fighters Anthology, Mechwarrior 2, Duke 3D, Descent, Doom II

 

[Mide]

PC - Wing Commander
Console - Super Mario Bros

 

[mizzou]

The Law of the West
Apple IIe

It's hard for me to not be mean to the hooker

 

[suklee]

Wing Commander was probably my favorite. A neighbor came over all the time.. he'd pilot and I'd be the 'co-pilot' issuing commands on the keyboard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W...mander_(computer_game)

Battle of Britain
http://www.lemonamiga.com/?mai...etails.php%3Fid%3D1052


Apache helicopter game from Microprose, forgot what it was called..
nm found it... Gunship 2000
http://img120.imageshack.us/im...605/gs2000shotshf3.jpg

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: mizzou
The Law of the West
Apple IIe

It's hard for me to not be mean to the hooker

QTF!!! It wasn't my first game, or even close but I LOVED IT! I played the C64 version, the load times between the scenes was crazy long but so worth it. If I knew how to program I would re-make it as faithful to the original as I could except with better graphics. Not 3d, just really nice hi-rez 2d.

And you had to be nice to the hooker or else she might shoot you lol.

 

[spittledip]

King's Quest I was the game that got me into PC gaming. My friend's father had an IBM and had that game. For the time, it was a pretty unique game and experience. I soon saved up for my own Tandy 1000 that didn't even have a hard drive. The first game I remmeber getting was Might and Magic II. I had alot of fun with that one. Of course, as I have mentioned a million times, Wasteland was another favorite. There was another really fun game called Zeliard- a side scrolling platformer. Kind of like a Zelda knock off, but more action oriented and more linear. When I was in college (many years later), we played alot of Scorched Earth

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: novasatori

Originally posted by: Dumac
Everquest.

wow you're just a newbie

Yeah, I'm only 18.

My mom wouldn't let me play video games as a kid, and when she finally did, I just picked up my uncle's Everquest habit.

Weird first game, huh?

EDIT: I have gone back and played a lot of games that I missed, however.

 

[zerocool84]

I remember playing Jordan vs Bird and Where In the World Is Carmen Sandiego on my PC.

 

[irishScott]

I grew up on Educational games.

Reader Rabbit II
Reader Rabbit III
Oregon Trail II
Gizmos and Gadgets
Logical Journey of the Zoombinis
The Time Warp of Dr. Brain
Star Wars Droidworks
Mud Monster, centipede and some number game on an ancient IBM.

First non-education games I ran into were Windows 3.1 freeware games. (Risk and whatnot.) Pretty awesome at the time.

 

[Cabages]

chips challenge, quake

 

[TechAZ]

I can't recall which ones were the very first, but Sierra and Dynamix? is what got me into computers. Space Quest, Police Quest, Kings Quest, Quest for Glory, Front Page Sports: Football, Laura Bow2: The Dagger of Amon Ra, and many many more. Anyone remember the magazine they had? I used to get that delivered and it was like Christmas everytime that magazine showed up in the mail.

Sierra

 

[Craig234]

Originally posted by: TechAZ
I can't recall which ones were the very first, but Sierra and Dynamix? is what got me into computers. Space Quest, Police Quest, Kings Quest, Quest for Glory, Front Page Sports: Football, Laura Bow2: The Dagger of Amon Ra, and many many more. Anyone remember the magazine they had? I used to get that delivered and it was like Christmas everytime that magazine showed up in the mail.

Sierra

Ya, I remeber it, but for old magazines, who else read "Creative Computing"?

 

[Sylvanas]

The original Doom.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

My love for computer gaming started with the Amiga 500. (Amiga) Barbarian was the first computer game I ever played with another player, decapitating your friends head-to-head FTW. The game that ruined me though, and has led me to part with many $$$ since on gaming, was (Amiga) A-10 Tank Killer. After that, anything military flight sims were on my "must play" list for years. When I bought my first IBM compatible since the IBM PC (8088), the X-Wing series sealed my fate.

 

[acheron]

The Sierra magazine! I loved that. Can't remember the name of it right now.

Everyone's mentioned a lot of mine. All the old Apogee sidescrollers... from Pharaoh's Tomb to Commander Keen and all the rest. Sierra games -- Castle and Island of Dr Brain, * Quest, etc. Someone brought up Red Storm Rising -- love that one, still play it now every once in awhile. There was an old freeware/shareware game called Castle Adventure, all done in extended ASCII 'graphics', that was one of my first real introductions to computer games. ZZT and Megazeux. Sure, Oregon Trail. Some of the old Infocom text adventures -- Planetfall specifically.

Apogee games though, were my big thing.

 

[badnewcastle]

Pac-Man on my parents atari, of course Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt, WOLF 3D, F-15 Strike Eagle, some other microporse fighter simulations, Spear of Destiny series, Doom series, and Duke Nukem.

 

[nycdude]

Bards Tale.

 

[PepePeru]

Civ. I
Railroad Tycoon

 

[mooncancook]

Originally posted by: TechAZ
I can't recall which ones were the very first, but Sierra and Dynamix? is what got me into computers. Space Quest, Police Quest, Kings Quest, Quest for Glory, Front Page Sports: Football, Laura Bow2: The Dagger of Amon Ra, and many many more. Anyone remember the magazine they had? I used to get that delivered and it was like Christmas everytime that magazine showed up in the mail.

Sierra

I received lots of those magazines. I remember they were promoting a Rendition Verite 3D card called Screaming3D, and I was drooling at the Indy Car 2 screen shots. And man I really miss all those great adventure games.

 

[Excelsior]

X-Wing, Duke Nukem 3d, Command & Conquer.

 

[bullbert]

Akalabeth (followed by Ultima I: The First Age of Darkness )
Wizardry I: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord
Temple of Apshai
Adventure
Zork
Star Trek (or one of the many early clones)

 

[bullbert]

Originally posted by: Craig234

Originally posted by: TechAZ
I can't recall which ones were the very first, but Sierra and Dynamix? is what got me into computers. Space Quest, Police Quest, Kings Quest, Quest for Glory, Front Page Sports: Football, Laura Bow2: The Dagger of Amon Ra, and many many more. Anyone remember the magazine they had? I used to get that delivered and it was like Christmas everytime that magazine showed up in the mail.

Sierra

Ya, I remeber it, but for old magazines, who else read "Creative Computing"?

Yup.
* Basic program listing for us to type in and actually run on our school's timeshare teletype terminal system (way before IBM epic failed on their first version of their PC and way before Bill Gates pirated CPM and called it MS-DOS)
* ads for the Altair 8800
* articles 34 years ago about the future of computer security, and the expected onslaught of computer crime unless actions were taker (which were ignored) to prevent easy incursions and also to curb the script kiddies from even getting into the act

 

[StinkyPinky]

Lived on Shareware as a kid. Games like Captain Comic, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem (not the 3d game), Ultima Underworld. I remember getting my mother to buy me this Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game and it was so damn hard that I never lasted more than 30 mins into it. The save system sucked too. So after that I resorted to pirating and shareware for years.

 

[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!