what was your first pc gaming memory?

[you2]

Oh yea; around the time of the IBM pc there was a computer called (I think) victor 9000; under CPM it had some great games - some sort of space/astoriod game and some sort of lunar landing game and a few others. This was a very interesting computer unfortunately less than a year later CPM was out and DOS was in and the games depended on certain memory being free (basically DOS took out 1/2 of one frame buffer due to high/vs low memory layout between the two OS.

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

PC version but this picture was better resolution of box.

 

[exar333]

Loved this game. Played this on my dad's 8086.

https://archive.org/details/TommysGorillaBalls1986TommysToysAction

 

[Blue_Max]

Flightmare on DOS

Oh man, that was an AWESOME game!! (Even though women weren't fully represented in a positive, powerful light!) [/dripping sarcasm]

 

[nickbits]

wing commander 2 & ultima underworld combo cd-rom. came with my media vision fusion 16 cd rom kit. I never really got into wc2 but i did eventually finish uw.

 

[shredz]

TRS 80 - In the Hall of the Mountain King

First computer I ever owned, 16kb ram. I had to run to radio shack to buy a cassette recorder to save my basic programs. How things have changed.

 

[santz]

i remember playing on my very first computer half-life in the dark with headphones... shudder

 

[Stewox]

dangerous dave, commander keen, bomberman
golden duck shoot or something, dune 2000, AOE2 ... im not sure which one was the first, i had a PC at home for a brief period in 1997-1998 and I think also in 1999 in the classroom (only one classroom for 3rd grade had one really weak "portable" PC with a bunch of id software games - the PC i had at home I got dune 2000 from a friend and AOE2 from a fathers friend, but that office computer got ruined 3 times so father taken it way until 2004 when we got broadband and a new family PC, played a lot of GCN and N64 in the meantime which got me into zelda and metroid prime, but i haven't been really established on PC until 2008 when I got my own high-end PC, ofcourse custom built.

It's a too deep hole of gaming trivia, sometimes I wish I could go back to those places and turn those old PCs up to see what else really was on them I forgot.

I also played a game called Prehistoric at friends house, the name of the game was so funny so we had many jokes about it, it's a caveman running around hitting with the stick.

My 2 friends down the road and also classmates were way more advanced early on when it came to PC hardware, software, gaming, PC maintenance & troubleshooting, overclocking, they were around 12 years old and they knew all the stuff and they usually played Counter Strike and Quake later in the 2000-ies, but that's just because their parents could afford those expensive GPUs, PCs and internet service to give them a huge platform to learn on, one of the guys built a really good PC but only had one, the other guy got above average but he had like 3 PCs in the house with one, father worked at some economic-strategic-logistic company that just bought new PCs every 2 years and instead of throwing away he could just bring them home a few.

 

[TeknoBug]

On a Tandy 8088 playing Roger Wilco and PGA Tour Golf, however I wasn't into PC gaming that much since I was playing my NES a lot, but it wasn't until DOOM and Wolfenstein 3D- those FPS games got me hooked.

But played games on an Apple IIc and Comodore 64 before that too.

 

[papapapapapapapababy]

commodore 64 master race ....

 

[mizzou]

commodore 64 master race ....

I had a good friend who would rub their smug commodore 64 elitist attitude in my face. But damn if I didn't love spending time there playing Star Control :\

 

[BW86]

Doom