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

[Vidda]

Originally posted by: Cabages
chips challenge, quake

Chips challenge, hell yeah. That poor guy's life must have sucked ass though. Those monsters scared the shit out of me when I was younger.

 

[zerogear]

Originally posted by: 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.

Haha, I was playing Righteous Fire before, and just when I finally beat the alien ship, the game crashed on me! No save file, and 30 minutes of battle down the drain! I guess they didn't like it when you win.

 

[Oyeve]

I started in Infocom text games. We had no graphics. Im old

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: Atreus21
GATO.

GATO lol I remember playing that in 6th grade, I know CGA was limited to 4 ugly ass colors but I never quite understood why the water was PINK! And it was completely solid so going underwater made it impossible to see anything. I know for the time the game was good, but wow looking back I can't believe I use to play it.

AHHHH the good old days of gaming heheh.

 

[SunnyD]

Originally posted by: 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.

Well said. Amigas and Apples were indeed Personal Computers. Tandy's - only some models were. The TRS-80 was classified at the time as a mini-computer, but still it shares more with a PC than a NES or Sega did - as they were classified as consoles.

 

[MagicConch]

Originally posted by: 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.

http://www.virtualapple.org/lawofthewestdisk.html


That was one of my favorites also

 

[Harmattan]

Commodore 128
- Bruce Lee
- Flight Simulator
- World-Wide Wrestling

386 w/ math coprocessor!
- Wing Commander
- Doom
- Wolfenstein 3D
- Ultima VII and Serpent's Isle
- Ultima Underworld
- King's Quest V...
- Might and Magic (not sure which)

 

[nanobreath]

Wolfenstein 3d on a computer at my dads work. I also remember leisure suit larry. I was fairly young at the time. I believe my uncle had installed them, and at first my parents either didn't that we were playing or what we were playing. At the time I didn't understand why they got upset and made us stop playing. It was so much fun!

After that on our first computer I remember playing games like Legend of the Red Dragon (L.O.R.D), TW2002 etc on bbs. I've been hooked ever since.

 

[gophins72]

Originally posted by: Oyeve
I started in Infocom text games. We had no graphics. Im old

It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

 

[Magusigne]

First Computer Game I got hardcore addicted to : X-Com series

First MMORPG if you can call it that : The Eternal City (Text based and still around today!)

And of course pretty much every sierra game ever created

 

[QueBert]

Originally posted by: SunnyD

Originally posted by: 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.

Well said. Amigas and Apples were indeed Personal Computers. Tandy's - only some models were. The TRS-80 was classified at the time as a mini-computer, but still it shares more with a PC than a NES or Sega did - as they were classified as consoles.

My dad had a TRS-80, Star Trek & the Horse Racing games on it owned. It was a full computer in my eyes, just loading a game required a lot of knowledge. I remember being 7 and a few times thinking I was loading the game but messing up the process and somehow overwriting the disk lol.

 

[roid450]

my gaming days began in 2001 when i got my first PC. it was a compaw presario 6010US and a 17 inch CRt flat. first game i ever bought was GTA3 and from then i was hooked on GTA games. my onboard vid card couldnt handle it at high res so i got me a FX5600 i believe.

also i got the Medal of Honor games when they first came out. played those forever.

 

[BladeVenom]

Earliest computer game for me was Star Raiders on the Atari 400.

 

[zinfamous]

Originally posted by: Czar
Larry
King Quest
Space Quest
Heroes Quest

Everything Sierra at the time

this stuff. pal of mine up the street had the PC. I'd waste days in his room, typing any manner of gibberish we could think of into those command lines.

 

[imported_apocalypse]

Star Control <- this game rocks
Wolfenstein 3D
F-15
Police Quest I, II, III

And Scorched Earth on school computers

 

[AlgaeEater]

In order:

Tetris
DOOM
Police Quest
Wing Commander


Fuzzy after that. I know my next big game was Diablo, but I'm sure there were others.

 

[Drako]

Zork on a TRS-80.

Then Zork II and Zork III on an Apple ][.

Although I was already out of college at the time, so I was all grown up .

 

[Oceandevi]

Dune 2, and DOOM

 

[udneekgnim]

first game I got seriously addicted to was Unreal Tournament

before that, it went from NES to SNES to Warcraft 2 to Starcraft

with Wolf 3D and Doom 1/2 somewhere along the line

 

[zerogear]

privateer and contra.

 

[slightlyhuman]

quake 2 was the best online exp/community ever. sad to say not one game has satisfied me since. red alert on westwood ladders was fun as hell too. i was top 100 in the world while in junior high.

 

[lxskllr]

I guess Pacman on my Atari 800. My first IBM compatible was Wolf3d and Doom.

 

[Frodolives]

I played a bit on early pc's, but after a long period away from both pc and consoles I got a home pc again and was pretty thrilled with Battlezone, both campaign and online, where I loved strategy maps.

Not long after that it was Tribes, and for me nothing since then has yet realized the potential for team multiplayer as a true sport like Tribes did.

 

[coreyb]

Police Quest was my earliest memory. I always brag about how I beat the game when I was 8-9 and my aunt who was also playing it couldn't get through it!

After that, it was games like Doom, Wolfenstein, Lemmings, etc.

 

[skace]

Growing up: Moria in Unix -> Adventure/Rogue on Coleceo Vision -> Brimstone/HHGTTG/other text based adventure games in Dos -> Sierra games.

It wasn't until Junior High that I played Doom 2, that's sort of when my Sierra adventure gaming kick switched to FPS games. I had to go backwards to play Wolfenstein and Doom 1.