The games that started off PC gaming for you?

For me its gonna have to be F-19 stealth fighter II on my first PC, a viglen 286! Christ that makes me feel old! HAHA, the other classics were the commander keen and wing commander series
 
I'm 34.

The first game I remember playing was Horace And The Spiders on my Spectrum. Classic stuff!
The first addiction I experienced was with Racing Manager (old horse racing sim, and I hate horse racing in reality!).

The first PC game, well I once bought 8 x quarter mb simms to get the 4mb I needed to play Doom!
However, more specifically I think X-Com Terror From The Deep is the first I really got sucked into, I remember completing that on my 486 SX25.
 
24.

First pc was a Windows 95, 486 100hz :)

Pretty top end at the time, think my parents paid about £1500?

I started off with Doom (1 or 2) I think and an old footy game, Ultimate Soccer Manger or something? I remember it being very addictive :D

Both the games were on floppies, which I "borrowed" from a friend...

SW.
 
Big Red Racing was probably the game which I enjoyed the most out of my early PC games, smooth as butter on my old Cyrix 686. Always been more of a console fan though : (
 
28.

Sometime around 1986 or 1987 my Dad got an Amstrad PC1512 with an 8MHz 8086 processor and 512K RAM. It had with F15 Strike Eagle on it.

Ignoring my Spectrum and Amiga years, I think Final Fantasy 7 and Half Life were the first PC games I owned.
 
37 (another old fart).

My first computer was a C64 in 1982. Went through C128, Amiga - consoles. Never considered a PC until a workmates brought his 486 into the office and showed my F1GP which was in the early 90's. That sold it for me and I had spent 2.5k on a 486dx2 with 17" monitor (flash git) not far after.

For me the biggest impact for PC gaming was Quake. From the original test - upgrading to use sli voodoo2's, getting the internet (33k modem) to play quiake online (not quakeworld at the time - just vanilla quake), getting ISDN to be an LPB - so much fun & friends made back then. Moved onto RPG's but now more casual and console gaming for me - though COD4 multiplayer is taking my time atm :)

Many many upgrades ( would scare me to work out the cash :O )after I'm typing this on my quad core 8800 etc still playing the latest FPS's even though I'm rubbish and my reactions are shot ;)
 
I think the way gaming progressed from about 1990-2000 was immense, and even now from 2000-2007 the way it's moved forward is crazy. I wonder what we'll be seeing 10 years from now?

Computer prices back in the 90's seemed high (£1500-2500), or would they be on par price wise with a system today for £500-1000?
 
mp3kla said:
I think the way gaming progressed from about 1990-2000 was immense, and even now from 2000-2007 the way it's moved forward is crazy. I wonder what we'll be seeing 10 years from now?
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The biggest steps have probably already been made though , I can't imagine thing's progressing by 'that' much again.. if progression continues in the same way things will end up totally real.

My best christmas ever was getting street fighter and playing it alllllll day til I finished it.
 
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The game that started PC gaming off for me was Roller Coaster Tycoon, infact it might of been Sim City 3000, after that I was hooked on UT2003.
 
Lowra said:
The biggest steps have probably already been made though , I can't imagine thing's progressing by 'that' much again.. if progression continues in the same way things will end up totally real.
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Probably most progression will be in the way we play games rather than what the games are like, since we're probably reaching a peak in innovation. I think the Wii has taken the first step with the Wiimote though I'd like to see something similar in PC gaming, which I think sadly will go toward more MMORPGs in future rather than the other traditional genres.
 
When I was about 5 I had a Commodore Amiga. I had games like the Lotus Turbo series, Prince of Persia, Lemmings, Robocod, James Pond (awesome games).

My first real PC game was Wolfenstein 3D when I was about 6 or 7. That was probably what really started it off. I'm now 20 by the way.
 
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