Daybreak Posted February 15, 2006 Share Posted February 15, 2006 Some of the first few games I remember - Donkey Kong, Lemmings, Alley Cat, Digger, some version of Carmen Sandiago, and Pirates. Couple of others that stuck out from the early days (although much later) were Wolfenstein 3D, Loom, King's Quest III, Ultima IV, Wing Commander, Dune and Dune II. Brings back those memories though - the good old days where 5.14 floppies (which were really floppy) was pretty much THE data exchange format, stickers to fill the holes and make em read only. S3 cards were considered amazing and VGA was rare with EGA/CGA being the standard. Screen burn-in was actually an issue and screensavers had an actual use. PC speakers were the norm and SoundBlaster was then unheard of. Back when it actually mattered if you were using a math co-processor or not, when 4M of memory was the norm, 8M a dream and 64M something that only the filthy rich could concieve of. Oh, back then if you wanted to game, you had to muck around with AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS, mess with TSRs and HIMEM.SYS to free up conventional memory, with MOUSE.COM being a necessity if you actually had a mouse. When McAfee and Norton were actually high quaity products, PKZIP, ARJ and LHA fought it out for the compression throne, when GWBASIC/QBASIC was the norm on every DOS installation. Windows 3.0 was a relevation when it was first released (although it pretty much was unstable like hell). The Internet back then was something you used if you were at some educational institution. Newsgroups were pretty important, Lynx was the de-facto browser, and spam was actually unheard of. The average means of networking was modems and BBSes, where you could engage in all sort of nefarious activities, mantain upload/download quotas and play fun door games (LORD, Food Fight etc). The newbies of today really have it easy :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pinserz Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Freespace 1 was the first ever! It was so fun. I think I might play again... hmmm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saiz66 Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Heretic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masterren Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 I think it was Sokoban for DOS. The first real non-puzzle action game was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles for DOS: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
indianN00b Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Far Cry baby! best game ever! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z3r0n3 Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 The first game i really got into alot was chuck yeagers flight sim for DOS, then on to Command&Conquer for 95. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wheazel Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Beneath a steel sky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AsciiSmoke Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Knight Lore, Knightmare and Sabateur 2 the CPC464 still Rules! Oh, you mean this computer, erm. Doom? I guess, seems to nearly always the first thing I play on any new toy, I.E. Mobile Phone, PDA, PSP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guolung Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 3D monster Maze, ZX81. Wobbly 16K, yes K, RAM pack . OLD SKOOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebarmy Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 On PC - Pre Windows -Some Star Trek Game thing - it was played on a terminal (green text on black background) Windows - Not sure what the first one was I played, but one I certainly remember is LHX Attack Chopper - hmm actually that might have been DOS as well - It rocked :D Other gems from memory are: C64 - Paradroid, Exile BBC - Stryker's Run, Spy Hunter Reading the rest of the posts, I feel positively old ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trix.Neo Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 Boulder dash on a 3.5" and then Delta Force, 1 2, LW, TFD and the halflife. Best game ever was XIII! And then Half Life 2 (both too short). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neoadorable Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 X WING!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VazaGothic Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 (edited) I believe it may have been either Prince of Persia or Defender of the Crown (back in the mid to late 80s), though I played it on a PC which didn't belong to me (I used to be a part of the, so called, computer club, hehe) Well, it must have been the "Defender of the Crown" since it was released in 1987, while the Prince of Persia was released in 1990 (according to the http://www.abandonia.com/ ) Just looked through the site and I recalled that I also played the "Life and Death" game - good old times :-) Edited February 16, 2006 by VazaGothic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
w33zy Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 haha WOLFENSTEIN 3D I was little, i said momma im sick so i didnt go to school and could play all day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mousepadtech Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 (edited) EASY Atari PONG by Sears. Then we got Super PONG Edited February 16, 2006 by mousepadtech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
3rdDin8 Posted February 16, 2006 Share Posted February 16, 2006 well .. it was Unreal .. first one :p .. great game . Cosmin Same here :yes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak IS an Understatement. Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 :shiftyninja: Red Alert '95 :shiftyninja: heck I still play it!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drshdw Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Commander Keen 4 :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
morgs Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 First games I really remember playing... Gods and Magic Pockets Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tokar Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Heh...it really depends. The first game on a PC our family owned was Wolfenstein 3D demo. The first game on a school PC...or well...Apple II GS...was either Price of Persia or Oregon Trail. The first game on a day-camp PC (386)...woo boy...Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem 1 or 2... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimbo11883 Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 (edited) IIRC, Wishbringer on an Apple][c... I can still play it by sending an AOL IM to InfoComBot... :D Edited February 19, 2006 by jimbo11883 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xantheus Posted February 19, 2006 Share Posted February 19, 2006 Being 17 now, pre-windows 95 my first one was Snakes and Numbers (which owns) and the first game i ever played on windows 95 was Close Combat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crazymoronx Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Well I'm sure I played the Oregon Trail thing at school, but at my home PC, the first game I can recall playing was, you guess it... DOOM. After that I tried to get Duke Nukem 3D to work, since I loved playing that at school, but my 40mhz processor, and 14mb of RAM just wasn't enough. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
costanza007 Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 My first PC game was OutRun (like the arcade game) that we downloaded from a BBS. Of course I did play Oregon Trail on an Apple IIe before that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ethere Posted February 24, 2006 Share Posted February 24, 2006 Hi-Octane was one of my most favorite PC games when I got into gaming: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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