First Game Ever - Page 2

Psy · 2006-02-07, 04:40 AM

Command and Conquer

Jennyboo · 2006-02-07, 07:21 AM

Kings Quest and Space Quest

so long ago

Hamma · 2006-02-07, 08:12 AM

In retrospect I think one of the first games I played was this old DOS game called Chopper Commando. It owned.

Originally Posted by Biohazzard56

Jumpstart 1st Grade. Wayy back in 1995

What got me into PC Gaming: Unreal Tournament.

That makes me feel old

Originally Posted by firecrackerNC

For computer it was DoomII and Age of Empires and Civilazation. Also Tribes2 was the first serious online game, I was in a number of sweet clans.

What teams?

jsloan31 · 2006-02-07, 08:33 AM

Hmm, think it was Need For Speed III for me... That or Streets of SimCity.

Marsman · 2006-02-07, 09:51 AM

Lets see - 1st game on a PC huh? Well played lots of games b4 the PC but the first one had to be on the old XT I had with the monochrome green screen - I think it was called "Trucker" - a text based 18-wheeler driving game. Titles like Leasure Suit Larry, Duke Nukem, Rise of the Triad, Wolfenstein, and many more followed. First game even was probably a game called 23 Matches - played on a teletype back in 1974.

For more of my gaming history, check out my blog. I did a three part podcast on my 30 year history in computers.

See it here at: http://marsman.members.dragonwolves.com

Evilmp · 2006-02-07, 10:29 AM

First PC games for me were also the C&C series..best series ever made. RA2 was my first multiplayer experience..and Planetside was my first massively multiplayer experience. I've always loved strategy games.

BlackDrop · 2006-02-07, 10:44 AM

Apple IIE version of Oregon Trail - I always considered that the first game I ever played on a computer.

PC was Leisure Suit Larry and this Police Crime Scene game a buddy of mine had.

Console game - Pong. I use to play that for hours...I tried playing it recently and almost gouged my eyes out after a minute.

I'm going to take it up a notch:
First Pr0n on the computer:
Commador 64 - Strip Poker - the first time I ever heard/saw the word "teddy" used as a piece of underwear.

SecondRaven · 2006-02-07, 11:41 AM

First game ever was Mother goose for my old Mac..first game that got me started in gamming was Tribes

OneManArmy · 2006-02-07, 01:18 PM

of screw that you didnt tell me we were counting oregon trail... then thats my first game... but that was crap they made us do at school.. so i dont count it. I just spent all my time hunting and hoping my kids would die of some indian disease

Lartnev · 2006-02-07, 01:40 PM

First computer game was probably Pong or Space Invaders.
First PC Game was Hi-Octane
First online game was Half-Life Deathmatch

Hamma · 2006-02-07, 03:52 PM

Yea thats true.. my first would be oregon trail as well. I guess they make everyone play that

On a side note EA re-released all the C&C games in some kind of box set today.

Kyonye · 2006-02-07, 06:24 PM

The first Game I ever played on the computer was Either Hangman, or Wheel of Fortune.

On Computer:
First FPS: Castle Wolfenstein
First RTS: Original C&C
First RPG: Don't really remember
First Favorite Game: Oregon Trail

Baneblade · 2006-02-07, 06:41 PM

Empire: Wargame of the Century.

BUGGER · 2006-02-08, 12:34 AM

Originally Posted by jsloan31

Hmm, think it was Need For Speed III for me...

yeah that was my first racing game but i first played it on the Playstation. Later bought it for my computer That game made me a god of all racing videogames.

Electrofreak · 2006-02-08, 03:27 AM

I feel old because back when I started playing games, they were 2 or 16 color DOS games, and there were no IIs or IIIs . Everything that came out back then was the original. This was back when having a CPU with double digit megahertz was some serious processing power, hard drives were optional (5.25 floppy ftw).

I remember for a while, one of my favorite games was SimAnt. The Sim game where you were an ant and had to conquer the whole yard. When I was 12 or so I was subscribed to this programming magazine (I forget what it was called) and wrote QBASIC programs from the EDIT function of DOS (you older folks will remember it as that blue-background program, which the first Word Perfect spun off of).

When most kids dads were giving them the sex talk, I got the hack talk. This after I wrote a program that looked and acted exactly like DOS and would only return random error messages like "Bad command or file name" or "Read error. Abort, Retry or Fail?". It drove my dad absolutely crazy until he finally figured out that it was something I did (namely because it would work fine right after rebooting and only happened after I'd been on the computer).

Then came Windows 3.1 and a the amazing world of an OS with a GUI. Games like Kings Quest and Colonization (my first RTS) kept me busy, along with the games my cousin was game developer for and had me testing, like The Incredible Machine when he worked for Dynamix, and most of the Carmen Sandiago games after he worked for Broderbund (which was king back in that day).

After that came the Internet, which at first consisted of my dad using the 2400k modem to connect to various gopher sites, and then graduated to Prodigy, which I played Othello on half the day. By then games like SimCity, SimAnt (I played a LOT of Sim games) and Oregon Trail were out and so much fun. My mother never bought anything but educational software, so I had to resort to going over to my friend's house to play Duke Nukem (and later Duke Nukem 3D), Wolfenstien, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, and COMMANDER KEEN (every single one, beat multiple times). I managed to get a hold of Civilization, Outpost and became one of those teens that played on the computer until it got unplugged and I got sent outside to "do something worthwhile". Outpost 2 was my first multiplayer game, I used to play against my friend whenever I could. I went into an RTS craze, playing mostly Starcraft, Outpost 2, Civ II and Age of Empires (Never did play Red Alert or C&C, which I regret), until I hit my first MMO, Earth and Beyond. Played it religiously for a year through the beta, easily being one of the most powerful characters, until release when I realized that I was now a nobody again and would have to grind my way to oblivion.

After that, about 2 years of my life were sucked away from the computer by a girlfriend and the chaos surrounding my parent's divorce, when I started playing PlanetSide on and off. That relationship ended in ruin and I started playing EVE alongside PlanetSide, with PlanetSide slowly fading away and being replaced by EVE. So here I am, getting my RTS fix with Ground Control II, my FPS fix with recent bouts of PS as well as some occasional BF2, and my MMO of choice remaining EVE, which I haven't been playing much due to work keeping me busy.

Wow that was a lot more than I intended to post, but there you go, a rough sketch of my life and PC games, I may have gotten some games out of chronological order somewhat but it's hard to remember it all for sure... plus there are about 50 other games I left out (just so this wouldn't be a book). Fun times though... I still aspire to be a game dev myself, some day.