Warcraft 3 probably. I played the demo at a friend's house and then saved up my pocket money to buy it. I would have been about 10 or 12 at the time. Absolutely loved the campaigns even though I sucked at them.
Still waiting for Warcraft 4.
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Thief: The Dark Project is probably the first time I spent an entire game going "I didn't know games could be like this!"
Road Rash was the first game that made me love games then it was Need for Speed II I could replay those games for hours. nowadays the only game that gave me good replayability was Hades and live-service games like Valorant.
Gonna date myself a bit, but the Original Descent and MechWarrior 2. The seemless use of a z-axis in a shooter was for some reason mind blowing, and the combination of resource balancing and evaluating pros/cons for how to approach a mission was amazing. TIMBERWOLF is the real Og.
EverQuest completely blew my mind as a younger teen.
The first one that really got me and I just couldn't stop playing was Fables: The lost Chapters (the PC-Port of Fables 1)
Either Mechwarrior 2 or Star Wars X-Wing, probably. Can't really remember that far back but I remember watching my dad play those on his computer, which probably got me into gaming from that moment.
Dungeon keeper 1. Real time strategy and first person shooter at the same time. Its like playing strategy game with a view from the top and then you can switch to Minecraft mode, dig the walls, build things, fight enemies.
Apple II GS - The City & The Dungeon
Minicar racing. My brother and I used to play split screen multiplayer on the pc for hours. Having mostly only played 2d games before, the 3d aspect of it really blew my mind
The top-down one? Ooh that's a hit of nostalgia. I've been playing Reckless Racing 3 on Android recently which scratches a similar itch.
Yeah, Doom. Ran at like 10fps on my family's 386/16.
The very first Sim City. Before that? Pong. I'd never even seen or heard of a video game before that.
Final Fantasy 8 for me. It was the first FF series I played and even after trying many others, still my favourite.
Squall was a moody douche but I still loved him.
Doom, no question. I was an Amiga owner at the time, and we were used to being the go-to platform for computer gaming. Then Doom came along and pretty much sent the Amiga scene on a quest for a "Doom clone" that it would never achieve.
I’d have to say the original Half Life. First time I ever felt like I was actually part of the story.
It might have been the first far cry game or possibly doom 3, I forget what came first.
When I finally upgraded from my ultra-budget NVIDIA GT710 to a GTX 1060, the Tomb Raider reboot blew me away from how good it looked
Earthsiege 2. It had branching mission structures based on previous successes or failures, great resource management mechanics, and a fun plot. I'd love to see a remake.
The first 3d(not top down) GTA game...the freedom to explore was epic
Diablo 2 absolutely blew my adolescent mind. It was also my first PC game!
Quake. With a 3dfx card was the biggest bump for me in fidelity it blew me away.
For me I'd say it was probably playing Carmageddon 2 at my friend's place. I think that was also the first time I played a 3D-accelerated game (Voodoo).
From the sheer size:
X-Beyond the Frontier
I don't remember exactly if it was a DOS game but I really liked Dangerous Dave 2
Hmm, not sure... possibly something from my childhood. Star Control II (now available free/open source as The Ur-Quan Masters is one of my absolute favorites, but I first played it at 6-7 years old -- and English is not my native language, so I can't imagine I understood anything at all about the story at the time.
That or Half-Life is what I usually point to as my all-time favorite games. Half-Life was pretty mindblowing; me and my friends spent a ton with it, so I think it's the best answer for this thread.
Not to mention that we played Counter-Strike so much that even 23 years later, it's likely to be the game I've played the most, despite barely playing at all after my teens.
Habbo hotel followed by Runescape. Habbo hotel was my first intro into PC games then Runescape consumed my life.
Oregon trail... xD
Ultima Underworld for me. Coming from simple 2D NES games, a 3D world populated by NPCs you could hold conversations with and items that respond to rudimentary physics was mind-blowing.
Age of Mythology for me after my first ever game of Age of Empires 2 AOK