What was your first PC game? [Archive] - Comic Book Resources Forums

Donald M.

07-09-2006, 06:15 AM

This one I actually know for sure.

Hillsfar. It was a simplified RPG released by SSI as part of their series of AD&D based games.

I can't for the life of me recall what attracted me to the game, but I remember really enjoying it.

Xero Kaiser

07-09-2006, 08:39 AM

Some Carmen Sandiego game they had us playing in 2nd or 3rd grade

Gargus

07-09-2006, 01:50 PM

Mine was a dungeons and dragons game for commodore64 I got from a toys r us. I forgot the name of it but it was hard as balls.

My first pirated game was zak mckracken and the alien mindbenders on the com64. I remember using hole puncher to put a notch on the other side of 5 1/4 floppies so I could copy on both sides of it from a friend.

Bobster777

07-09-2006, 01:55 PM

Everquest, I haven't been the same since.

Chiasm

07-09-2006, 01:57 PM

BlairH

07-09-2006, 02:02 PM

Castle Wolfenstein in early 1993, followed by the shareware version of DOOM later that year.

Clint Barton

07-09-2006, 02:47 PM

Mine was Risk. Great board game...poor PC game. Next came Ceasar II....which my sons still play at times.

MarvelKnight

07-09-2006, 03:00 PM

Jane's Combat Simulations: USNF'97

Serik

07-09-2006, 04:20 PM

SimCity 2000 back in 1994

jwd

07-09-2006, 06:30 PM

I can't even recall.

Ones I can remember the most but I don't know if it was first or not

On the old Apple IIE.

Apple presents Apple - It was a game designed to teach you how to use various keys on the board and at the end you could "draw". Kind of like a week "Paint" program on a black and green screen.

There was Oregon Trail.

I had a very old Wolfenstein game. This was confusing as you had 9 keys for movement and 9 keys for aiming plus a fire button and a grenade button. Sometimes a SS Trooper would show up and the speakers would blare out so loud you couldn't understand it but it'd almost scare the crap out of me everytime.

A game called Star Blazer with a ship that flew in across the screen and you'd shoot or bomb stuff that flew by.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was an old game that was all text where you type in commands like "Get out of Bed" - pretty funny storyline.

No idea which of those was the first I played.

Pepsigirl

07-09-2006, 06:42 PM

Some Carmen Sandiego game they had us playing in 2nd or 3rd grade

If we're counting games like that mine was probably that one where you had to do math to get to the top of a mountain or something like that.

Other then that, the first PC game I remember playing was The Curse of Monkey Island. To this day it's my favorite PC game.

BlairH

07-09-2006, 07:21 PM

Jane's Combat Simulations: USNF'97

Awesome!
I remember playing US Navy Fighters very frequently.

Another one of my favorite flight sims was the 1993 classic "Strike Commander" (made by the same team responsible for "Wing Commander"). It was brilliant.

Lester C.

07-09-2006, 08:44 PM

Oregon Trail.

Xero Kaiser

07-10-2006, 05:52 AM

If we're counting games like that mine was probably that one where you had to do math to get to the top of a mountain or something like that.

I remember that game

But, if we're talking about real PC games (the ones that have explosions), then mine was Descent, Magic Carpet or Hardball '96. Those were the games that came with my first PC, though I can't remember which one I played first. I think Magic Carpet

Zanku

07-10-2006, 06:35 AM

a game called 7th guest, it used to freak me out as a kid.

Kid Kamikaze10

07-10-2006, 06:40 AM

Jazz Jackrabbit. I miss that game so much..... :(

Sorcerer Supreme

07-10-2006, 11:10 AM

Jazz Jackrabbit. I miss that game so much..... :(

Yep, that game was totally beyond Awesome, man the mermories come back. I loved that game.

hoffmandu

07-10-2006, 12:08 PM

Summer Games for Commador 64. To this day, I have never landed the gymnastics jump.

redlantern2051

07-30-2006, 09:38 AM

It would have been some crap game for the Commodore 64. I had several and all were very unmemorable. The first game I had for it which I remember liking was a D&D game called "Pool of Radiance."

The first PC game I got for a real computer was Baldurs Gate back in 1999 or so. I loved that game and still enjoy playing it now and then.

Mate, "Pool of radiance" was GREAT!!! And so were the sequels-we (my geeky mates and me) played them right thru! Apart from the last one which I'd love to play!

My first game on the C64 was "The Last Ninja"...I also recall "Legend of Blacksilver"...top game. Probably my proudest moment in gaming was when I finished it. It was massive.

Athena Bast

07-30-2006, 09:44 AM

It was some kind of murder mystery thing for the commodore 64.

Buddahbelly

07-30-2006, 10:15 AM

Moon Patrol.

Valmore

07-30-2006, 10:42 AM

Probably "Moby" or "West 47" - basically games that taught you typing. In "Moby" you had to type in the correct letter at an increasingly fast rate or the whale would eat your boat. In "West 47" it was basically an Oregon Trail game in which you bought supplies and hunted for food. These were all on those really old monochrone, all-in-one machines that had no real hard drives and ran whatever disk you put in before turning it on.

GozertheGozarian

07-30-2006, 02:59 PM

A basketball program my uncle wrote is the real first, but Microleague Baseball would be the first commercial game.

BlairH

07-30-2006, 03:12 PM

Anybody else remember "Strike Commander"? It was awesome, it was like Privateer with F16s.

Not only was it a great video game, but it was possibly one of the best pieces of speculative fiction ever.

Callie

07-30-2006, 03:14 PM

First PC game I ever played? Black Cauldron on a friend's Tandy. I think I was 6.

First game I ever owned? Bushbuck Charms: it was a geography-style game that was extremely similar to Carmen Sandiego. Then, it was Math Blaster and Oregon Trail. I think my mom was trying really hard to keep the computer for educational reasons. At least, until I got my hands on Wolfenstein 3-D and Out of This World...

Voncaster

07-30-2006, 03:16 PM

This thread makes me feel old. I don't remember the first game I owned...but a few of my old favorites

Matterhorn Screamer (Goofey climing a mnt Disney)
NFL Challenge (x and o's stood in for players)
Rampage (George, Ralf and Lizzie crush buildings)

At school they had Number munchers and Oregon Trail.

Bobster777

07-30-2006, 03:38 PM

My first pc game was lemmings. Man, I loved that game.

Shem the Penman

07-30-2006, 05:08 PM

I don't remember the first I ever played, but the first one I ever bought for myself was Infocom's Wishbringer.

marshal99

07-30-2006, 08:42 PM

Mine was Doom when I was three yrs. old

You can remember playing Doom when you are 3 years old ?!!!!! Wouldn't a Doom game give 3 years old nightmares ?!? :confused:

First game ever bought for my old 286 computer PC. Awesome game.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/MM3_Box_Art.jpg/240px-MM3_Box_Art.jpg

and this one as well. Always loved the intro music. "Into the wonderful"
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/a1/Gods_MD_cover.jpg/150px-Gods_MD_cover.jpg

Brash

07-30-2006, 09:52 PM

Battlechess... but I don't know if that counts or not, because it was on an Apple iie... it was a POS that Mac made.

Mike Pothier

07-30-2006, 10:41 PM

The very first PC game I had came with my first computer. It was The Journyman Project, a pretty awesome time traveling puzzle game.

meethraa

07-31-2006, 01:36 AM

Probably Manic Miner for the ZX Spectrum.

sun tzu

07-31-2006, 07:36 AM

Red Baron. Ah, how I enjoyed it.

The Fury

07-31-2006, 08:28 AM

Ibix the Viking for Acorn.

What? It was class, got it in 91 (I think). Only worked on RiscOS2.

BlairH

07-31-2006, 10:43 AM

You can remember playing Doom when you are 3 years old ?!!!!! Wouldn't a Doom game give 3 years old nightmares ?!? :confused:

When I was 3 I watched the movie ALIEN.

Shellhead

07-31-2006, 11:39 AM

Hamurabi:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamurabi

I played this game on some old NEC or NCR pc way back in 1978. It was a game about managing grain stores in ancient Sumeria, deciding how much to use for planting new crops, how much to save and how much to feed to the people. By today's standards, it was primitive and boring. But as one of only two PC games around at that point (the other one involved nuclear submarines and WWIII) it was sort of fun.

J. Robb

07-31-2006, 12:45 PM

"Lunar Lander", which came with my commodore 64's tape deck. I got "Frogger" not long after.

StoneGold

07-31-2006, 04:45 PM

I don't know if you want to count it as a PC or not, but probably some Space Invaders clone on the TRS-80.

hoffmandu

07-31-2006, 05:07 PM

I remember an old RPG, don't know the title, just the sub-title: Wrath of Nikedemus. It was cool, and fucking huge. Got my ass kicked alot, though.

MKTerra

07-31-2006, 06:33 PM

I believe it was some variation of Connect Four. Don't remember the hardware, but IIRC the display was all black-and-amber.

jabrams007

08-01-2006, 12:18 AM

The first ever game that I bought was California Games for my 286. The half-pipe and BMX stages were next to impossible for me. The next game I bought was the original Space Quest by Sierra which started my love affair with adventure games.

The first games that I ever played on my pc though, were probably copies of The Black Cauldron and Thexder both by Sierra. I was a real Sierra fan back in the day.

MKTerra

08-01-2006, 12:58 AM

Yeah, the Sierra games were great fun in my Elementary school :)

*snaps fingers* Oh, Thexder! Now I remember why that sounded familiar!

I got that game later in life, but there was a glitch that made me keep transforming back and forth whenever I tried transforming. The game was fun, but that bug made things suck pretty bad in places, and eventually I gave up.

*goes searching*

The one I played was Thexder 95.

StoneGold

08-01-2006, 01:36 AM

marshal99

08-01-2006, 05:47 AM

Cinemaware was great , Rocket Ranger and IT came from the desert , classic B movie game. :D

Erebus

08-01-2006, 01:06 PM

Star Wars: Yoda Stories. Ahh, so many wasted hours.

scottv

08-06-2006, 12:01 PM

I think that it was Chip and Dale Rescue Rangers... back on the actual floppy, floppy disk.

Thanos_6383

08-07-2006, 07:58 AM

Some game called Blood.Talk about gruesome:D

Kishan

08-07-2006, 11:42 PM

Oregon Trail.

lol, I remember oregon trail... you can actually still find it in some places online... I was going to say wolfenstein 3D was my first game till you mentioned this and made me remember about it. I plaed oregon trail in grade school but had wolfenstein 3D on our state of the art 286 computer!

Takusa

08-07-2006, 11:48 PM

The first PC game I ever played was Mario is Missing, people say it was bad, but I loved it.

The first PC game that I owned was Duke Nukem...And I think I was only like 8...

rick

08-08-2006, 12:20 AM

My brother and I stole an Astroids game back in '79.

Does that count?

If not, then my first PC game was the text Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy game I loaded up on the IBM PC that I used at work back in 1983 or 84.

We loaded it using the early 5 1/2 inch floppys