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Our first computer was an IBM, and the first pc game that i remember is called Kindergarten, i wish i remembered more about it though, i would love to watch on youtube and get a nostalgia boost haha

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My brothers are about 10 years older than me, and we had computers from the mid-80s due to dad's work, so I would've seen my first game probably before I could talk!
The earliest games I remember playing are Digger, Moonbugs and other CGA/EGA era stuff. This would've been around 1990 or so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The bomb has been planted

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was definitely some educational game, I'm quite sure it was "Leer 't lekker zelf", edutainment from the Netherlands. You had to subscribe and you got a new disc every two weeks. I just looked it up and people have actually archived it online.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

that sounds really interesting!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

thats such a cool way to get you into coding!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The first game I bought with my own money for my PC was either "JetFighter III", "Master of Orion 2" or "Super EF-2000". The first PC game I played? It was probably "Galactic Conqueror" by Titus Games, though I'm not sure. It definitely was a game by Titus, as I remember the fox. Then it was either Microprose F-19 Stealth Fighter, Civilzation 1 or F-117 Stealth Fighter 2.0 (there's a good chance I played F-19 on an Amiga, not a PC). I should also mention Wing Commander 1 as a possibility; my friend even bought the speech pack back then.

Ah, obviously the first games I played, are the reason why I like complex games and I also have programmed primitive small games inspired by them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First computer was a csx64 8 I still have it but I was so young when I first played a game in it I don't remember... maybe tuk goes to town??

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

oh wow i love the graphics

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

red alert 2 and generals were so cool, played so much with friends

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