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

[Modelworks]

You know you are old when the only two ways of playing a game was :
Type it in
Load it off a cassette tape.

 

[conorvansmack]

My first games were on an Apple IIGS. My mom was a teacher and got it really cheap, along with all the educational software my brother and I could shake a stick at. We played a crapload of Oregon Trail and Carmen Sandiego. My cousin gave us a bunch of shareware and copied games like Karateka and Fat City.

My friends were all cooler than me and had PCs. X-Wing was ok, but when they got TIE Fighter, I was hooked. Doom 2 was fun, but Betrayal at Krondor consumed my junior year of high school.

 

[imported_Shaq]

I was there at the beginning of gaming. My first system was from Kmart and it had tennis and hockey but it was basically pong. lol And I had a TRS-80, Odyssey 2000, Atari 2600 and C64.

But PC game would probably be Wing Commander. My friend bought a shiny new 386/25 and we played it for hours.

 

[JF060392]

doom, supermario bros and duckhunt

 

[uli2000]

Add me to those who's first game was F19. I could (and still can) play it for hours.

 

[Ika]

My first and beloved PC game? Raptor, Call of the Shadows. God, I loved Apogee. After we got our first Pentium machine, Starcraft.

 

[Martimus]

Originally posted by: 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

Well if you count the TI, A-maze-ing was my favorite game. I had a couple spaceship games that I really enjoyed too, but I don't remember what they were called. One even had voice sounds.

 

[brownzilla786]

Jagged Alliance, Starcraft, Roller Coaster Tycoon

 

[Qbah]

First PC game? Wolfenstein 3D during my Computer Science classes... those were the days.

The first game I truly enjoyed was Heroes of Might and Magic 2 - the demo. That was some years later though. I've played it for months ! One map... One faction...

 

[Pelu]

Lol... I mostly grown up playing Sonic The Hedgehog

 

[sonoma1993]

Jill Of the Jungle
Duke Nukem
Math Blaster
stunts
F-15 Strike Eagle II
F-19
Final Fantasy
Super Mario
Zelda
Earls Weaver Baseball
7th Level GNome
doom
wolfenstien 3d

 

[bullbert]

Originally posted by: Modelworks
You know you are old when the only two ways of playing a game was :
Type it in
Load it off a cassette tape.

Pre-Apple PC days:
(although 'mainframe' peripheries, there were home brews
that allowed both of the following on Altairs, etc):
Load it off a deck of punch cards.
or even
Load it off a paper tape.

Edit: I did get a "free" floppy drive with my Apple II. I had bought it after high school, but left it at home while away for college. I knew my grades would suffer if I played computer games in my "spare time". My dad had gotten tired of having to re-re-retry the load of Sargon Chess off the cassette tape, and on college break I get home to find that Dad had sprung for the floppy disk drive.