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What's the first PC game you ever played

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Al Neri

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ohhh for my tandy 286 there was Supersolvers Midnight Rescue, i loved the learning companies games/software (reader rabbit, writer rabbit, their word processor, supersolvers games)
 

imported_KirbsAw

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Originally posted by: gabemcg
Originally posted by: FFactory0x
Striker or Black Cauldron

black cauldren is great! I found a site w/a working d/l of it the other day

I played that game so much, dled it recently also, finished it in a half hour. When I was little i would play it for hours and hours :confused:

Anybody notice that the peasents quest game on homestarrunner is pretty much a copy of the black cauldron?
 

ggnl

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It was some flight sim. F-117A I think. It was some time around 1990.
 

HamburgerBoy

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It was either Mario Brothers 2 for the NES or some MS-DOS golfing game made by Acclaim.

Originally posted by: Snagle
power pete :heart:

That game was so awesome! The tube of toothpaste is one of the best video game weapons ever.
 

xcript

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Some platform game on an Amstrad CPC (don't remember the name), closely followed by Sim City on an Amiga 500.
 

CaptnKirk

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3/4 of the posts are listing things like Atari, early Nintendo, 'Box-Station' games or Arcades, not PC playable games.

First one I played in a pure PC envirnoment was the Leisure Suit Larry I - still have it on the old 5.5 flat cardboard protected floppys - it was around 1987.
 

compudog

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It was a completely text based version of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy." By Infogames IIRC... Long time ago... early '80's.
<---Really Old.....
 

JoeKing

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I think it was a mouse game on an IIe in grade school. I'm forgetting the name but it was a little triangle that you would type coordinates into and it would draw lines or figures for you. Baby steps into basic.
 

aplefka

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Too hard to remember. Asteroids and Battle Tank along with Centipede were some of the ones I remember. Also, Lemmings on a floppy. Plus Treehouse and Playhouse, which also came on floppies. Those were the days.