what was your first pc gaming memory?

[BladeVenom]

Star Raiders

 

[dave_the_nerd]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTrZLlC643c

 

[dave_the_nerd]

I have one of those under my bed.

 

[futurefields]

 

[shortylickens]

Civil War in QBASIC.

Text games were the shiznit.

 

[mmntech]

Playing some sort of educational game on the old Apple IIs we had in elementary school. God, I would have been in kindergarten.

 

[shortylickens]

Playing some sort of educational game on the old Apple IIs we had in elementary school. God, I would have been in kindergarten.

Odell Lake?
Odell Woods?
Number munchers?

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Pacman or Omega Race on the Vic 20.

 

[QuantumPion]

Hunt the Wumpus on my dad's Kaypro

 

[lupi]

Snipe and xor football.

 

[blake0812]

Playing Doom 2 when I was around 4-5 and getting really scared by it.

 

[Blue_Max]

I have one of those under my bed.

You get the Speech Synthesizer too? 😀 Parsec was pretty darned cool hearing a female voice say, "Alert! Alien craft advancing!" It was years before the PC would catch up to that.

 

[HeXen]

I have one of those under my bed.

I used to have that, can't remember the games I had for it though. I remember losing the video cable and my mom called Radioshack and they said it wasn't made anymore so I eventually pitched it.
I didn't have any manuals for it so I couldn't do much with it and didn't know much about using computers in general.

 

[Spydermag68]

For me I remember playing zork and the other infocom games. I also played all of the ultimas and wizardy games. I had mastered lode runner. It is annoying that the wii verion I cannot see the whole screen.

 

[shortylickens]

Any of you bastards have Comptons 95 with Patrick Stewart?

 

[werepossum]

First console game, a bright yellow Pong console. It played pong, tennis (pong with a smaller paddle), and hockey (pong with two small paddles.) It had controls for two players and three difficulties which changed puck/ball speed. My father had just taken over his father's part of the auto parts store and a salesman gave it to him as it was originally supposed to be a contest but none of the owners had bothered to sign up to win the damned thing.

First computer game, a racing game on the Radioshack Color Computer with 4k RAM. Had to type in the whole program every time, and at least half the time the tape immediately stretched so that one had a file name with no program body and a program body with no file name - both utterly unusable. When it did work it was one centered rectangle which could be moved up or down and other rectangles moving right to left at different random speeds, representing overtaken racecars which had to be dodged. The entire controls consisted of moving the car up or down on the screen.

First PC game, Rogue, in sixteen glorious shades of amber. I wore out three floppies playing that sucker.

 

[Blue_Max]

I used to have that, can't remember the games I had for it though. I remember losing the video cable and my mom called Radioshack and they said it wasn't made anymore so I eventually pitched it.
I didn't have any manuals for it so I couldn't do much with it and didn't know much about using computers in general.

Too bad... IIRC, there was a way to easily jury-rig any old RF Modulator to do the job.

 

[poohbear]

sierra games back in the 90s, most memorable experience. ofcourse there were other games, but the most memorable were definitely the sierra games (hero's quest being the best!)

 

[MrWizzard]

Organ trail, some math game. Then years later simcity and solitaire then some pinball game build into windows 95

Seeing as my memory seems to be the same as yours was the "game" number muncher? Because for me it was.

 

[ewdotson]

Typing programs into my dad's Trash 80 from magazines. I don't remember much of the specifics of the games, admittedly. I seem to recall one of them being a sci-fi adventure game.

 

[Iron Woode]

let's see:

Super Star Trek, Starforce and Petman on a Commodore Pet circa 1981.

At home I played Jupiter Lander and Star Battle on my VIC 20 circa 1982.

 

[Peter Nixeus]

First PC Game = Math Blaster on Apple II

First person shooter = Marathon on Power MAC 6100

First Console = Super Mario Bros

 

[lord_emperor]

X-Wing on my friend's PC. I had to go get a PC after that.

 

[skipsneeky2]

Battlefield 2, played the demo and then bought the cd rom version of the game from Frys.First gaming machine built just for that game and the only game series that keeps me tracker beamed in still to this day.:thumbsup:

Asus P4c800-e deluxe motherboard and all the parts out of a Dell Dimension 2400 with a bad motherboard minus a $20 fanless 6200le went into my first gaming computer lol.😀

 

[sandorski]

Some text adventure game on the Vic 20. I think there was a castle and vampires, but that was so long ago I can't be sure.