PC Gaming

Red Alert 2. I played the shit out of it in elementary school and once in a while afterwards up to this day. What a banger.

Channel Crossing on the ZX81. A frogger rip off on a computer so primitive the only graphics were numbers and letters plus some predefined block shapes. Of course in glorious black and white. We still thought it was amazing.

Our first computer was a crap 486dx with a turbo button. My dad bought a red demo cd with a bunch of different game demos.

Boy that CD had some shitty games but some were golden.

My days were filled with typing d:\go.bat And seeing which games I could bludgeon into working by editing their ini files in doshell.

Oregon Trail for sure at school, but I also remember playing The Secret of Monkey Island on our Tandy at home alongside a Wheel of Fortune game.

The first actual computer game i bought was Morloc's Tower for the Apple II+, which i bought when visiting San Francisco.

I don't remember anything about our family PC but the first games I played on it were Runescape, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Age of Empires 2. Runescape I mostly just played with friends from middle school but I spent hours upon hours on Age of Empires 2

Unsure which actually came first but it was a rotation of Lego Rock Raiders, Lego Racers, Lego Island 2 and Roller Coaster Tycoon.

I can't really remember which was first but I think it was Rollercoaster Tycoon or Warcraft 3.
It could also be some random learning game my parents got me lol.

It was for my Mac, an Apple Performa 550.

Marathon. Made by some relative unknown company, Bungie.

So much god damn fun

I think it was StarGoose from the 80s. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Goose

The first game I played on PC that I can remember was probably Word Munchers or Oregon Trail in elementary school in the late 80s.

My first PC game was Portal 2 iirc. I was ~10 at the time and it really opened my eyes to the wide world of PC gaming, and the different types of games that were on PC compared to console. It also slowly got me started and eventually transitioning from Controller to Keyboard and Mouse as my preferred input scheme.

I suspect the first game I ever played on PC was 'Ally Cat' in CGA, it was awful. The first game I bought on PC was either UMS or Carrier Command, I was a big fan of Rainbird's software back then.

The one I remember being one of the first PC games was The Adventures of Captain Comic. I also remember the first game I played with a sound blaster card instead of PC Speaker was Blues Brothers Jukebox Adventures.

Couldn't tell you which came first, but the earliest games I remember were RollerCoaster Tycoon, Tonka Construction, and Treasure MathStorm. Little me was a fool, RT was the one I played the least.

Counter Strike 1.3 :)

The first game that really stuck with me was Warcraft II. I remember my babysitter brought over a bunch of games and installed them on our Windows 95/DOS PC.
He installed a few other games too: Deer Hunter, Loderunner, Quake (only my Dad could play that), Sim Town + Some game demos, and some journal game I don't remember the name of. WC2 is the one I played the most for sure though.
I remember playing the campaign over and over with cheats, but the godmode cheat didn't work against magic, so it was dang near impossible for me to beat the last level. The level editor blew me away too, I would spend so much time in it just setting up large unbalanced scenarios to destroy the NPCs.

Rats on a #Zx81 an 8 bit machine with a 'touch' sensitive keyboard. It ran a chess game in it's 1k memory. I then got a 16k memory pack that meant it could play rats. A maze game. Oh, I just remembered, it had a fast mode where it switched the screen off to save processing power while it was thinking.
#computer

Spindizzy II its musics are great

My very first one was NFS 3 on my father's PC. Remember playing it during the secondary earthquakes in 1999 here in Athens and getting scared.

Then I used to play 102 Dalmatians at a whoping ~10 fps on my aunt's PC. As a 5-6 year old, it was super helpful having the game run on slow motion...

The first one on my PC was The Sims. It was amazing having such a game as a child. Me and my sister have played the series for hundreds and hundreds of hours

My families first PC was a Packard Bell, first game I played was Age of Empires. Damn just trying to remember the timeline of things and what I did and when has made me remember alot of stuff.

Times were simpler back then eh.

The guy living across the hall from me at Georgia Tech in about '80 had bought an Apple II with a 50hz power supply. He was an electrical engineer and rigged up a new power supply for US grid. All he had was the motherboard and a keyboard, the screen was an old TV. The memory was a regular audio cassette player. He had a game called "Orbital Mechanic" and we played with it quite a bit. It turns out that the paths of objects thrown from one orbit to another are not so intuitive - so it was a real challenge to toss a wrench from Astronaut A in orbit 1, to Astronaut B in orbit 2. That game used WASD for aiming the throw, and when I later began playing PC games, I wondered if that old game might have been the originator of the concept or if it goes even further back.

The Lost Vikings in Windows 3.1
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The only other games I played before were Super Mario 3 and Battle City in our Family Computer.
The game blew my little 6yr old mind that I can play 3 characters at once!
Though I thoroughly sucked, I liked watching my dad and older siblings play.

It was either Digger or Paratrooper. Both still hold up.

Populous, and I still consider it one of the best games ever made.

i am prettu sure it was zork 1 but there was also kings quest 3

I don't remember my first PC game but I do remember I was hooked right away. That shit was magical.

probably SimCity 2000
I don't think I understood it at first but I did love messing around in it but overtime I did actually learn how to make a successful city