What was your first PC game?

[MasterEn]

Rome: Total War

 

[Ian Naxieas]

I wish I could remember the name of it. It was some super old DOS game on a floppy disk. That shitty DOS computer was the only one my mom and I had until the mid 90s. x) All I remember is that it was a black and white (well orange and black with our monitor) maze game with the ASCII smiley face as the player character. I think it had baddies roaming around the maze too. I was terrible at it but I remember spazzing out on the keyboard sometimes let me skip levels. x) There were a couple others later but I don't remember almost anything about them, except one where you drove a school bus and were on a time limit as you picked up kids and brought them to school. Oh, there was also Oregon Trail on the school computers.

When we got our Windows 95 machine Space Cadet Pinball was all I played until we got a Duke Nukem 3D shareware disc. It only had the first episode and had no sound effects or music, just dead silence. x) Thankfully my mom had no idea what kind of game it was, so I felt really sneaky playing such mature stuff.

 

[χKai]

When we got our Windows 95 machine Space Cadet Pinball was all I played until we got a Duke Nukem 3D shareware disc. It only had the first episode and had no sound effects or music, just dead silence. x) Thankfully my mom had no idea what kind of game it was, so I felt really sneaky playing such mature stuff.

Oh my GOD
I haven't thought about this in years!!

 

[Xdqwerty]

The preinstalled Windows 7 games

 

[Grumpy_Old_Man]

The earliest, I can remember was a arkanoid, breakout either original or clone in a monochrome pc.
The first game, I played in a computer I "owned" it was either a shareware version of either epic megagames Tyrian or Jazz Jackrabbit.

 

[TheREALBLUEdragon]

Dark Forces. It may not be the first but it's the earliest game I can remember playing on a PC. It was also my first First Person Shooter. I was only eight at the time so had no idea about the existence of Wolfenstein 3D or Doom. It's not a horror game but at the time I found it terrifying.

 

[rexfenix]

My computer class teacher was a cool guy, so he had both Alien Breed and Dangerous Dave on one of the computers. He let me play them a bunch of times and that would be my first experience with PC games.
As for first games on a PC I actually owned, that would be Unreal Tournament 99 and Giants Citizen Kabuto.
It was a great time for PC.

 

[Prism_Red]

Either Chip's Challenge or Theme Hospital for windows 98?
Those were the only games on dad's pc besides the pre-installed Solitaire, Minesweeper etc.

 

[YuriSukiSan]

Technically the first one I played was Unreal Tournament 99 around my cousins back when the servers used to be really alive and fun! My own actual first PC game I'm pretty sure was Age of Empires 2.

 

[CaesariusMagnum]

Lego Rock Raiders, I think that might've been my very first PC game in general. I believe I still have the disk somewhere around here in my home. Still have a love for that game, though my PC cant run it at all.

 

[Trainer Red]

i'm gonna assume 'first pc game' as in the ones that aren't of demos packed in one cd ... ummm
the rocketeer ... and it just ... second game was battleship ... at least that was fun though!

oops ... i forgot that the first pc had sim city 2000 pre-installed so ... i'll probably count that as the first pc game :D

 

[shinta505]

Unreal Tournament 99, i firstly played at a friends house and than bought an original cd. Still playing. Feels like i am at some party shooting people, soundtracks of arenas awesome.
There was an half life, cs, quake hype those days.
2nd is half life with lots of mods and cs with podbot, it was a russian cd at street bazaar, had a lot time with it, years later bought valve complete pack for 3 accounts at steam.
3rd game was quake 3 my first try buy it appeared to be some awkward program cd instead so bought original later. Loved the player models at it they all were some original character.
4th Age of Empires 2 My friends were always talking about it for years finally bought, had hard time figuring out.
5th Medal of Honor Allied Assault cds disappeared after some hands exchanged.

 

[coolguy21]

Plants VS zombies on a windows 7 laptop, that sound track has shaped my love for video games

 

[frankied85]

First PC game ever is probably Space Quest 3 on an old 8088/Hercules monochrome

First multiplayer PC game was Warcraft II.

 

[Tonberry]

As far as "real games" go (as in not like kindergarten educational games), I'm pretty sure it was either Croc or Jazz Jackrabbit 2.
I don't remember much of Croc except for the music and that a boss scared me, but I still love Jazz2. One of my favorites, probably.

 

[Jeff]

I would have to say, Solitare. When me and my family moved to our new house, we got ourselves a Compaq computer in 1993 with Windows 3x built in (Later Windows 95). I was 3 at the time, so my parents would get me lots of educational games.

 

[Ikagura]

The Sims 1 had that unique feeling compared to the subsequent game.

 

[Dakarus]

 

[Skeetos]

I mentioned this briefly on a obscure ps3 thread, but back in the 2000's there were a lot of small indie companies that put out shovelware titles that were really popular back then. One of these companies was Aliasworlds Entertainment. They were under a publisher called Alawar back then. They don't exist anymore but they put out different titles based on a polar bear character they made called Snowy. The first pc game I played was Snowy: Treasure Hunter 2, A Lode Runner clone. I still load it up from time to time and even have a box set of a few of the games in the larger series.

 

[bloodywing]

The first pc game that I bought was Black and White 1

I got Wing Commander 3 a few years before that but gave that to my friend since i didn't have a pc that was able to run it. I had only an old Acer with grayscale display and floppy drive only.

 

[NoctemDead]

I was using a computer at such a young age that I don't have a clear memory of what the *first* was. We had some kind of games on school computers around 2000 when I was about 5 years old. I would play SkiFree on my grandparents' computer and a variety of other games - I remember a Chevron-sponsored game with anthropomorphic cars where you would do a variety of little activities.

3D Dinosaur Adventure (1996)

A little after that was Age of Empires II and some kind of Hotwheels slot car racing game with FMV cutscenes

 

[Stingy Perry]

Mine was kinda vintage it’s Dune 2 The Building of a Dynasty.

 

[King Koopa's iconKing Koopa]

Doom I think

 

[bjork]

My first computer was a Commodore 64, and my first game was Death in the Caribbean. Graphic adventure game that is clearly basic by today's standards, but going from a 2600 to this at the time? It was great. I loved putting a tape on (no music in this game) and just trying to find my way through it.

 

[groundbeef]

Back in 2001 I bought my first PC and I bought it because I was graduating from my Dreamcast console to the 'Master Race'. The game that elevated me to big leagues was Quake 3 Arena. I was huge into the Dreamcast version and played heavily from 1999 to 2000. I decided that if I was truly going to play games at an elite level with the best available graphics and possibilites it was going to have to be on a PC. Nowadays I am spoiled at the inifinite options with PC games including current gen, classic, old school, emulation, ports, mods, browser based and anything else that is available to windows gamers. Quake 3 was merely the traveling vessel from the island of console gaming to the vast continent of PC gaming.