What got you into it??

whatever came out around 2000.

i think my first few purchases were

halflife generations (basicly old version of the orange box)
need for speed porsche unleashed
blade runner
4x4 racing ? or some such damn good racing game with offroaders
quake III

looking back at some of the screenshots its amazing how bad graphics were back then but at the time they seemed just as impressive as games do now. :O
 
Half-Life on a pc i bought off my dad. PC133 with 4mb sparkle card, could only play it in the lowest settings so i decided to learn how to build a pc myself. never looked back since, got all the consoles too but i'm always back on pc.
 
Out-growing my Megadrive...

First ran into a PC (I think) round some random guy's house my parents were visiting. While they were talking he sat my on his PC (?), which had Elite running on it...

Also we had one or two PCs and a BBC Micro at school, and naturally all we wanted to do was put games on them :p So I'd buy PC Format/ Zone and bring in the cover discs to school...

Eventually, after enough nagging at my poor parents, they agreed I could have a PC - if I sold my Megadrive. I did, and never looked back.

My first PC - a 486 SX 25 - didn't even have a sound card. A few months (and more nagging) later, we bought a Sound Blaster 2 for about £200. (!!!!!!!)

After playing mostly demos from coverdisks, I found UFO:EU and bought it. I can't remember buying anything before it, but this is a loooong time ago. Freakin' XCOM took away all the time I could have used to experiment with drugs and womens :p After that got into Battle Isle 2, Doom, etc.

Then came Quake, and my 2nd PC was one I built myself. I was about 16, and didn't really have a clue what I was doing. Didn't even order a graphics card until I realised I needed one :p
 
Flickeh said:
Half-Life on a pc i bought off my dad. PC133 with 4mb sparkle card, could only play it in the lowest settings so i decided to learn how to build a pc myself. never looked back since, got all the consoles too but i'm always back on pc.
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i had a glorious p3 633mhz , 256mb of pc133 and a gf2mx :D hellz yea!

i remember when AF and AA were new lol , damn i feel old
 
Dune 2 on a 486 followed by Dune 2000 on a P1 100mhz / 64mb ram / 540mb hdd

:D

EDIT: actually it could have been my amiga 500 which got me into the keyboard and mouse revolution, does that count? If so then cannon fodder and another i can't remember the name of will have been the influence
 
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Solo: Civ2 and Diablo (mainly watching my older brother play it, scared the **** out of little me).

Online: BF2 then CSS. Very quickly dumped the pile of poo that was BF2 and devoted myself to CSS, much to the despair of my A-Levels.
 
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Avathar77 said:
It was on a 286 PC with a huge 5.25 flimsy floppy drive, cant remember the name of the game(think it was paratroopers or some thing like that) but it was about shooting some ppl dropping from planes with parachutes. You have to shoot them all with a cannon at the bottom of the screen(mono chrome). If you miss too many of the they will blow up the cannon!
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Night Raid?
 
cs 1.6 i guess.. and GTA vice city.. i had a modded russian version "gta vice city killerkip" or something like that ;D
 
well how i got into pc gaming was abit random . I got dumped over the phone went to kick the chair missed and hit the radiator broke 3 toes and 7 bones in my foot. AFTER 2 ops and i had 14 weeks off work so bought a pc from aldi ( dont laugh) p4 with 512mb of ram and a ati9600 pro . Brother bought me black hawk down and that was my 14 weeks taken care of .Playing medic was epic . Never looked back . ps2 was put in the bin and never looked at a console since.
 
Was using an Amiga 1200 at the time but a friend was playing Doom - shareware version from a floppy disk. It looked kinda new and the graphics looked awesome at the time..

Went and got a 486 SX-25, but sadly it didn't get used much. I found it too complicted after my easy to use and easy to configure A1200 workbench etc..

But, then came along tie fighter and Dark Forces and I spanked over a grand on a 486 DX2-66 - upgraded it soon after to a DX4-66 or was it a 100 and played Dark Forces and Tie Fighter until I then realised I was now into PC gaming...

1996 - 2001 were golden years of PC gaming. So many games played and I spent thousands on hardware upgrades. 3Dfx was my weapon of choice for such a long time... Quake using openGL on a 3Dfx card. Madness, looked fantastic, until Quake II came along and that was the daddy...
 
Before Doom, Ultima, Rogue, or even Zork, there was Adventure...

I started in IT as a Mainframe Operator in 1980. Amongst the many 'computers' I worked on back then was a DEC PDP-11. A game called "Adventure" (also known as Colossal Cave Adventure) came with it. Well while I was bored on nights I used to play the game. A year later and we got a few of the original IBM PCs to mess around with and the rest, as they say, is history...

* For any old geeks here. In the mid 80s I was at a seminar given by Don Woods, the co-writer of Adventure. I managed to dig out the original map that came with the game and got it signed by him. Sadly it was lost years a go :(
 
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