What was your first PC game?

JustLooking123 said:
Well, not counting games that came bundled with win98, we had a cd with many small games!
Many of them were from Microsoft Entertainment Pack, and some were indie... (not that we could tell the difference at that time!)
I still have them, and here's list of them with their screenshot as a memento of them... what times it was!

Chess (MS)
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Chips (MS)
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Chomp
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It was so old that didn't work well even in win98! speed was blazingly fast!

GoFigure (MS)
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HangMan
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JezzBall (MS)
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We should entrap the balls into tiny space without them touching the red/blue cutters.

Klotski (MS)
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Later levels was as hard as hell!

Maxwell's Maniac (MS)
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Balls of each color should be gone in their matching color ground, we can only control the gates.

Pegged (MS)
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Pipe Dream (MS)
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RattlerRace (MS)
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Rodent's Revenge (MS)
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We (the mouse) should entrap cats without being catch by them.

Ski
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Slam
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Has neat cpu ai

TetraVex (MS)
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TETRIS for Windows (MS)
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Worst tetris ever!

TicTactics (MS)
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Tic-tac-toe with a twist!

WordZap
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There was a few dos games too! But i remember only two of them:

Skyroads
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I thanks @Clippy again for finding its name for me!

3-D TableSports
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Three games in one! was pretty neat!

You can say, all of them were my first pc games ever!
I wonder if some of them can be found in internet anymore...

Edit:
Now they can be found! 😁
I have uploaded them to Game Share Hub except dos ones which i don't have them currently, but those are easy to find in internet.
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Interesting, I'll have to check it out as soon as I can!

My father never installed this package on the PC, also because from what I remember, Windows XP was used in my house at the beginning - and also because his PC was always full of games. But you made me remember the times when I played Purble Place, Solitaire, Minesweeper (when there was no internet) and finally, that splendid PC port of the first OutRun that made me waste whole minutes of my days trying to get to the end of the game.
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AnonymousCookieMonster said:
This is a difficult one. Because the first PC i used, wasn't an IBM, it was an Atari.

First PC game, would probably be either PacMan, Defender, Fort Apocalypse, Joust, Asteroids, Frogger, or something equally in that time range, in or about 1986.
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They are still great games::agree
 
RageBurner said:
I have a vague memory of playing Diablo 2... I think a friend of mine lent me the CD, I installed it, played it a bunch, but he wanted the disc back the next day, so I was basically left with an installed game that didn't work, since I didn't know about certain... solutions, back then.

How did Blizzard ruin it?
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well the game itself was fun for a playthrough with 3 difficulty settings, once you complete hell mode you will be around level 70 and there isn't much content after that other than PvP which was the best part of D2! and mechanically PvP was accidently balanced perfectly with glitches like server desynch, another glitch by smashing W to switch weapons really fast you could escape stun locks, plus a bunch of other bugs and mechanics that were used in PvP.
a general rule in PvP was Skill > Gear. However gear is extremely important, expensive and hard to find
obtaining decent PvP items would take you forever or it would cost you alot!
over the years i had a few rare axes and knives that were worth $500+ US each so you can imagine there were players grinding the Player Vs Monster aspect of the game over and over trying to find a nice items to sell to nerds like me.

In 2021 Blizzard "Resurrected" Diablo 2 with D2R that was on a new Battle.net with the promise of no Bots, No hackers, same game with better graphics designed by Vicarious Visions.
They "fixed" all the old bugs which made PvP into a bad joke and removed the incentive to PvM because without PvP, items have no value..

The new battle.net is riddled with bots anyway. The way that Blizzard makes money is by selling a bunch of copies to botters then ban them all 6 months later to make them all buy another bunch of copies, conveniently there is always a discount sale the day after a ban wave every single time.
the secret is to let them bot juuuust long enough to make it worth buying more bots..
its pretty tragic tbh lol sorry rant over.
 
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Boo Man said:
well the game itself was fun for a playthrough with 3 difficulty settings, once you complete hell mode you will be around level 70 and there isn't much content after that other than PvP which was the best part of D2! and mechanically PvP was accidently balanced perfectly with glitches like server desynch, another glitch by smashing W to switch weapons really fast you could escape stun locks, plus a bunch of other bugs and mechanics that were used in PvP.
a general rule in PvP was Skill > Gear. However gear is extremely important, expensive and hard to find
obtaining decent PvP items would take you forever or it would cost you alot! so it was very important and also people make niche characters that require all sorts of gear, over the years i had a few rare axes and knives that were worth $500+ US each so you can imagine there were players grinding the Player Vs Monster aspect of the game over and over trying to find a nice items to sell to nerds like me.

In 2021 Blizzard "Resurrected" Diablo 2 with D2R that was on a new Battle.net with the promise of no Bots, No hackers, same game with better graphics designed by Vicarious Visions.
They "fixed" all the old bugs which made PvP into a bad joke and removed the incentive to PvM because without PvP, items have no value..

The new battle.net is riddled with bots anyway. The way that Blizzard makes money is by selling a bunch of copies to botters then ban them all 6 months later to make them all buy another bunch of copies, conveniently there is always a discount sale the day after a ban wave every single time.
the secret is to let them bot juuuust long enough to make it worth buying more bots..
its pretty tragic tbh lol sorry rant over.
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No, no, thanks for taking the time to explain it all. Having played D2 only briefly and only in single player I had no idea this whole other facet to the game even existed. I can't imagine how dishartened you must have felt with it all, and it's true current Blizz is a joke. The only reason I even have an account there is for the sake of SC2, even though I rarely play.
 
RageBurner said:
No, no, thanks for taking the time to explain it all. Having played D2 only briefly and only in single player I had no idea this whole other facet to the game even existed. I can't imagine how dishartened you must have felt with it all, and it's true current Blizz is a joke. The only reason I even have an account there is for the sake of SC2, even though I rarely play.
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ive never actually tried StarCraft but i do like RTS games, is it still good these days?
but yeah im kinda done with blizzard lol

im downloading PoE2 right now so hopefully this is the start of a new ARPG saga :)
 
Boo Man said:
ive never actually tried StarCraft but i do like RTS games, is it still good these days?
but yeah im kinda done with blizzard lol

im downloading PoE2 right now so hopefully this is the start of a new ARPG saga :)
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Keep in mind I only play casually and against AI. In this context I like SC2. Broodwar is much more famous, but I can't handle the AI on that one; it seems to play on more even ground on SC2 since I can actually beat it (read: it can play as badly as I do).
 
It depends on what you mean by "PC Game" and "Your."

If you just mean the first one you ever played, and the TI-99/4a counts, then MunchMan on that. For those unfamiliar, it was kinda like a reverse Pac-Man - you left a trail behind you as you went around a maze dodging bad guys, cover the entire maze to go up a level. The monsters chasing you changed as you went up levels. It was good fun. Also on that computer (which belonged to my aunt), I played Hunt The Wumpus, Alpiner (a mountain climbing game) and Parsec (a sort of Defender clone).

If the TI-99/4a doesn't count, I remember playing King's Quest at a friend of the family's house. That would have been on an IBM PCjr running PC-DOS.

If you mean the first one I actually owned, then it was SimCity 2000 all the way in the mid 90s. I can't remember the computer very specifically, but it ran Windows 3.1 out of the box, and it was the DOS version of SImCity2k, and I just now realized how bloody old I am.
 
Cocaine Owlbear said:
It depends on what you mean by "PC Game" and "Your."

If you just mean the first one you ever played, and the TI-99/4a counts, then MunchMan on that. For those unfamiliar, it was kinda like a reverse Pac-Man - you left a trail behind you as you went around a maze dodging bad guys, cover the entire maze to go up a level. The monsters chasing you changed as you went up levels. It was good fun. Also on that computer (which belonged to my aunt), I played Hunt The Wumpus, Alpiner (a mountain climbing game) and Parsec (a sort of Defender clone).

If the TI-99/4a doesn't count, I remember playing King's Quest at a friend of the family's house. That would have been on an IBM PCjr running PC-DOS.

If you mean the first one I actually owned, then it was SimCity 2000 all the way in the mid 90s. I can't remember the computer very specifically, but it ran Windows 3.1 out of the box, and it was the DOS version of SImCity2k, and I just now realized how bloody old I am.
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(I was vague in the title, you're right, but either way it's nice to hear other people's experiences)

In elementary school, I remember that every now and then they took us to the IT room to use the PCs and, together with a history or Italian teacher, we played SimCity 2000 to understand how a city works, its birth, its elements, etc. .
I still play it every now and then, even if it's not really my thing.

Edit: Your username is too brilliant!
 
I have no idea. You guys have great memory.

But the earliest ones I bought I can remember are The Sims: Deluxe Edition and Simcity 4. I was a big fan of maxis. Could waste all day playing one of these. As matter of fact, I still open Simcity 4 from time to time.
 
Tronky.it said:
Although I have always been a person who grew up with consoles, every now and then I played games on my parents' PC. Civilization III, the games included with Mulino Bianco and Ferrero snacks, the browser games on the CN and Playhouse Disney websites.

However, if I had to consider a game started for the first time on MY computer, I would say GTA IV. One of my favorite games, and one of the games I consider far too under-regarded these days.
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purble place

I loved making the cakes
 
Well technically, my first PC game(s) were the ones that came with the old laptop that my family had, running Vista. But I only really remember playing Purble Place and that one ink ball game. They were the only games I actually knew how to play at the time.

The first game I "owned", as in bought, was Garry's Mod in 2020. Finally being able to play it on a machine that could run Steam without exploding.
 
Tronky.it said:
Although I have always been a person who grew up with consoles, every now and then I played games on my parents' PC. Civilization III, the games included with Mulino Bianco and Ferrero snacks, the browser games on the CN and Playhouse Disney websites.

However, if I had to consider a game started for the first time on MY computer, I would say GTA IV. One of my favorite games, and one of the games I consider far too under-regarded these days.
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Zuma.
 
SimCity2000 that happened to come with the windows 95 computer I got at the time. Still remember upgrading to an XP machine, and me being clueless, thought that just copying the desktop shortcut of the game to a floppy drive and transferring it to the XP computer would transfer the whole game with it.
 
DunkeyKong said:
I remember playing those Polar Bear games and it was SO damn nostalgic seeing it now
And those Diner Dash games, also the game is 20 years ago already? (I thought it was at least 10 but 20? Damn…)
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I used to play a lot of Diner Dash and I am pretty sure there was a SpongeBob version if I remember correctly
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My first ever PC games was the Sims 3. I remember playing it a lot and i never got one of the dlc tho since I did not have really hve access to wifi until later on and I also played a lot of simscity (I don’t remember which one tho) but I mainly did play a lot of flash games tho.
 
not sure which was first because my family had computers since before i was born, i have vague memories of some preschool games from way back, but mostly at that time i was trying to learn how to read and also learn how to use dos and windows 95 at the same time, so i was lucky if i got a game running.

my first real pc game was Jazz Jackrabbit. i really should go back and play that again one day.
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JustLooking123 said:
Well, not counting games that came bundled with win98, we had a cd with many small games!
Many of them were from Microsoft Entertainment Pack, and some were indie... (not that we could tell the difference at that time!)
I still have them, and here's list of them with their screenshot as a memento of them... what times it was!

Chess (MS)
View attachment 4709

Chips (MS)
View attachment 4710

Chomp
View attachment 4711
It was so old that didn't work well even in win98! speed was blazingly fast!

GoFigure (MS)
View attachment 4713

HangMan
View attachment 4714

JezzBall (MS)
View attachment 4715
We should entrap the balls into tiny space without them touching the red/blue cutters.

Klotski (MS)
View attachment 4716
Later levels was as hard as hell!

Maxwell's Maniac (MS)
View attachment 4717
Balls of each color should be gone in their matching color ground, we can only control the gates.

Pegged (MS)
View attachment 4718

Pipe Dream (MS)
View attachment 4719

RattlerRace (MS)
View attachment 4720

Rodent's Revenge (MS)
View attachment 4721
We (the mouse) should entrap cats without being catch by them.

Ski
f657526710acbf5d986de3a898daa923.jpg


Slam
View attachment 4725
Has neat cpu ai

TetraVex (MS)
View attachment 4726

TETRIS for Windows (MS)
View attachment 4727
Worst tetris ever!

TicTactics (MS)
View attachment 4729
Tic-tac-toe with a twist!

WordZap
View attachment 4730

There was a few dos games too! But i remember only two of them:

Skyroads
skyroads.gif

I thanks @Clippy again for finding its name for me!

3-D TableSports
3-d-tablesports_1.png
Three games in one! was pretty neat!

You can say, all of them were my first pc games ever!
I wonder if some of them can be found in internet anymore...

Edit:
Now they can be found! 😁
I have uploaded them to Game Share Hub except dos ones which i don't have them currently, but those are easy to find in internet.
Click to expand...
woah i remember some of these! ive got some real vivid memories of rodents revenge lol.
 
Possibly Time Bandits on my Dad's Atari ST was my first memorable PC experience. It introduced me to game mechanics that I had not seen before on my Atari 2600 console, including a hub world and 2-player split screen. It basically plays like Gauntlet, except your health is not tied to a countdown timer.
The sprites were well drawn and varied and enemies even had death animations, which gave everything a lot of character. The stages are more complex than Gauntlet and upon revisiting each one, the map layout would change, making it progressively harder and even introducing new enemies and gimmicks.

I have wonderful memories playing this game with my Dad, one of us would use a joystick and the other would use the keyboard. We could never beat the game, as there were some text input puzzles that he couldn't figure out and were well over my child brain.

I would love to see a spiritual successor to this game.
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Boo Man said:
Diablo 2 was the best game ever created IMO
i played from patch 1.08 to 1.13
they accidentally made that game perfectly and then ruined it eventually by trying to "fix" it
now they forgot the recipe to make a good game
Blizzard sux. RIP
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I'm partial to 1.09d, specifically for playing Zy-El, a heavy mod that completely turns the game on it's head difficulty and features-wise.

Things it includes is scrolls you can find that add minor things to your weapons (like +1 to all assassin Skills, auto-repair, +% damage to demons, etc), posters and charms (takes up inventory space but boost your skills/combat), thousands of words listed in the manual giving boosts in general or class specific, QOL lazy cube recipes (9 chipped -> 1 standard), thumbnail recipies, up to 127x player multiplier experience/difficulty command, revamped skill tree going to 1,000? and balanced even the lowest skills to actually be viable, companions are actually useful, etc).



WARNING: If you play this the first time, i suggest you get someone to offer you either a small poster or follow the tutorial suggestions as you start super weak!!!. Took me about a week to build my first couple posters, til then it was hard as balls against the weakest of enemies in the first area.
 
My Disney Kitchen or Aladdin Activity Center. I wouldn't recommend either to anyone over the age of 5. First real games? Titanic: Adventure Out of Time or Star Wars Rouge Squadron 3D. Those two I do recommend with Titanic being the more interesting.
 

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