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Our first computer was an IBM, and the first pc game that i remember is called Kindergarten, i wish i remembered more about it though, i would love to watch on youtube and get a nostalgia boost haha

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[–] mystiick@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

The first game that really stuck with me was Warcraft II. I remember my babysitter brought over a bunch of games and installed them on our Windows 95/DOS PC.
He installed a few other games too: Deer Hunter, Loderunner, Quake (only my Dad could play that), Sim Town + Some game demos, and some journal game I don't remember the name of. WC2 is the one I played the most for sure though.
I remember playing the campaign over and over with cheats, but the godmode cheat didn't work against magic, so it was dang near impossible for me to beat the last level. The level editor blew me away too, I would spend so much time in it just setting up large unbalanced scenarios to destroy the NPCs.

[–] ElectronSoup@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

I suspect the first game I ever played on PC was 'Ally Cat' in CGA, it was awful. The first game I bought on PC was either UMS or Carrier Command, I was a big fan of Rainbird's software back then.

[–] Beardedsausag3@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

My families first PC was a Packard Bell, first game I played was Age of Empires. Damn just trying to remember the timeline of things and what I did and when has made me remember alot of stuff.

Times were simpler back then eh.

[–] Whiskeyomega@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

The one I remember being one of the first PC games was The Adventures of Captain Comic. I also remember the first game I played with a sound blaster card instead of PC Speaker was Blues Brothers Jukebox Adventures.

[–] Alto@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Couldn't tell you which came first, but the earliest games I remember were RollerCoaster Tycoon, Tonka Construction, and Treasure MathStorm. Little me was a fool, RT was the one I played the least.

[–] Munisk@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Rats on a #Zx81 an 8 bit machine with a 'touch' sensitive keyboard. It ran a chess game in it's 1k memory. I then got a 16k memory pack that meant it could play rats. A maze game. Oh, I just remembered, it had a fast mode where it switched the screen off to save processing power while it was thinking.
#computer

[–] vegasq@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] tangelo@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

The bomb has been planted

[–] pgetsos@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My very first one was NFS 3 on my father's PC. Remember playing it during the secondary earthquakes in 1999 here in Athens and getting scared.

Then I used to play 102 Dalmatians at a whoping ~10 fps on my aunt's PC. As a 5-6 year old, it was super helpful having the game run on slow motion...

The first one on my PC was The Sims. It was amazing having such a game as a child. Me and my sister have played the series for hundreds and hundreds of hours

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[–] Harlan_Cloverseed@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] s804@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

loom looks pretty!

[–] ArtZuron@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I think my first PC game was Doom 2. I was little and only ever played it on god mode lol. I still know at least one of the cheat codes.

IDDQD I think it was

[–] s804@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

god mode finding the secret head in the end hahaha

[–] Nilesse@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was definitely some educational game, I'm quite sure it was "Leer 't lekker zelf", edutainment from the Netherlands. You had to subscribe and you got a new disc every two weeks. I just looked it up and people have actually archived it online.

[–] s804@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

thats so cool! yeah educational as a kid were big for me too!

[–] Pimastr@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

My first "real" pc game was Team Fortress 2, before that it was probably Lego Island 2 or some Spongebob flash game.

[–] Ataraxia@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First computer was a csx64 8 I still have it but I was so young when I first played a game in it I don't remember... maybe tuk goes to town??

[–] s804@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

oh wow i love the graphics

[–] Fmstrat@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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