What was your first really great pc game?

[Project86]

On oldschool Apple- Karateka (spelling?) wasted countless hours at school kicking people in the crotch

PC-
First game that I played for a long time, arcade style, was a Dick Tracy game. It came bundled with the Disney Soundsource, an external sound device that plugged into the parallel port. It also worked with Wolf3d. Used it for 6 months+ until I could afford my Gravis Ultrasound.

Then I moved on to some classics:
Chuck Yaeger Air Combat
Sam&Max hit the road
Earthseige

Of course, Wolf3d, but I spent more time playing the next game that they released. Can't recall the name, but it was the same thing except space aliens/monsters instead of Nazis.

 

[CTringali]

I played Spear of Destiny right before Wolfenstein 3D and soon after the original Doom.. anyone remember this, cd\doom3d\doomsw ENTER doomsw?? maybe no one will, but hey, i got a kick out of it!

 

[rmrf]

quake

 

[Bassyhead]

Duke Nukem 3D Atomic Edition

 

[RayH]

Originally posted by: Project86
On oldschool Apple- Karateka (spelling?) wasted countless hours at school kicking people in the crotch

I remember Karateka. If you made the mistake of running toward the princess at the end, you ended up being the one kicked in the crotch.

Some other classic Apple II games:

Olympic Decathlon
Bilestoad
SubLogic Flight Simulator
Swashbuckler
Dung Beetles

Those were the early days when Electronic Arts was like 7 programmers and they got their pictures in their ads like rock stars and games were sold on 5.25" floppies in zip lock bags.

EA ad

 

[dphantom]

Zork, hours and hours :thumbsup: and Commander Keen.

 

[BentValve]

MSN Spades

 

[toekramp]

civ

 

[mordantmonkey]

THEXTER... whatever the hell that was on... some cartridge POS.
after that wolf3d.
but it was definately DESCENT that got me into 3d gaming... oh man so many hours battling my friends and playing co-op over the phone modem. makes me wish i still had that game.

 

[slpaulson]

Probably Warcraft 2, or Duke3d.

 

[abaez]

Mickey's space adventure or winnie the pooh and the hundred acre wood. Both on Tandy 1000EX.

 

[malbojah]

Descent

 

[MegaWorks]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Tie Fighter.

hehehe me too! :thumbsup:

 

[drunk7daysaweek]

Civ II

 

[MisterChief]

Starcraft was the first "gotta keep playing" game for me.

Ooh, and Doom-Knee Deep in the Dead

 

[acid45]

Starcraft!

 

[psiu]

off the top of my head...either falcon 2.0 or prince of persia for the mac.

black and white.

9" screen.

awesome.

 

[bacon333]

slicks n' slide

and

one must fall 2009 or something

 

[ilikesushi]

Lord of the Realms II

 

[cavemanmoron]

same as now,
Solitaire

 

[xSauronx]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
Tie Fighter.

i know i beat that damn game 30 times and still wasn't tired of it.

they need to make it again...with online love, now that weve got better graphics and broadband going for us

 

[BatmanNate]

Starflight (c 1986) is the first game that I would say is truly deserving of "really great" since it had so much depth for the time.

 

[SirPappy]

Originally posted by: ZeroEffect
Tribes Ren Mod was the shooter that really sucked me in.

sniper...

Great fun! (Coca-Cola IDK)

was that your only handle and tribe?

<----[EFF]BULLS-EYE / [P]BULL-DOG / [R]BULL-DOG / (eVo)BULL-DOG

also smurfed under / DirtNap / SgtFury / and BadDream

Purgatory was the team i had the most fun in. T1 ren my fav maps FEAR,BroadSide.





damm, i need to go and install that game agian.....

 

[Gamingphreek]

Man i played a lot of em:

Spear Of Destiny
Wolfenstein 3d
Doom
X-Wing

Then later on:
Chex Quest
Duke Nukem 3d

Good Times!!!

 

[SaberDicer]

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