What games first got you into PC gaming ?

Although I hammered Doom, Doom II and Quake the first game that got me to invest heavily in PC gaming was Unreal Tournament 99. As broadband wasn't available at the time I invested (heavily!) in channel bonded ISDN lines to get my ping to playable levels, I even played a few pro tournaments for the clan I was in.

No other game has even come close since.
 
First games that got me into PC gaming were not PC games. I started on a Dragon 32, then onto a C64 then on to an Amiga 1200 so I have been gaming for many years. The first PC games I purchased before even owing my PC were Quake 2 and The Settlers 2... I got my PC some two weeks after. ;)
 
When I was a kid some of the very 1st games I played were:

Championship Manager 98/99

Rollercoaster Tycoon

Sims

Can't remember the computer. I was one of those Time machines with a CRT monitor that had speakers glued to the side of it.
 
Starcraft 1 in my first ever build.

I used to play though Barbarian: The Ultimate Warrior at a family friend's it was either the ZX Spectrum or the Commodore version i think it didn't have colour. I couldn't afford to have one on my own, parent's didnt want me to get hooked up back then, i was 5 when i played it :P. Had to wait for almost 10 years for my home PC.

Still playing SC1.
 
Started from Defender on the Atari 2600 (the first game to actually resemble a arcade game) and since them been addicted to electronic cocaine.

But for PC it was DOOM at university. Too many late nights staying in that should have been put to better use on fatty batties, drinking and womanising, Ok the drinking and fatty batties was not neglected so much :)
 
Some DOS games in the early days, namely Commander Keen 1, Dark Ages, Cyberdogs, Cyberbox, Jetpack and Scorched Earth...

Later on though Red Alert was what really got me into Networking and PC gaming...
 
No idea what it was called, but game we played at primary school, must have been late 80s on a BBC. Some sort of adventure game, after that it was a flight sim in spectrum z80, then fireants & midnight runner in c64. And finally doom and UT on a proper pc. And then online red alert 2 got me proper hooked in online gaming.
 
There were loads of great games when I first had a PC...

Warcraft (the original one Orcs and Humans).

The Lucasarts point and click adventure games (Day of the Tentacle, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Sam and Max Hit the Road).

The early XCOM games.

Doom.

Champ Manager.

Duke Nukem 3D.

Quake.

Diablo.

Command & Conquer.

Under a Killing Moon.

Gabriel Knight 1 and 2.
 
Doom initially (spent a lot of time modding it too), then Quake, Quake 2 and Red Alert once I discovered online gaming (albeit with a 56.6k modem). When NTL Cable came to our area in around 2000 or so that changed my online gaming forever haha.
 
Oh I just remembered Wings of Glory, was a good game :)

I have fond memories of spending hours of tinkering with config.sys and system.ini to create a boot disk that would keep enough XMS memory free for drivers to get it to run. Noob kids don't have to do fun stuff like that that these days.
 
Several years ago when my brother built his first custom pc incorporating E6600, 2GB ram and amd 1900xt.

Seeing him playing games such as Call of duty 4 MW, Half life 2 & battlefield 2142 on his 20" monitor blew me away. At that time I was so impressed with the design & graphics of these games, that few years later down the line, I became full time PC gamer myself :cool:

Prior to that, I have just been gaming on consoles (PS1,PS2 etc)
 
Nelly said:
First game I got on the PC was Pirates Gold, got my PC back in 1995 I think 486 25sx

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First game I actually remember enjoying was The Hobbit on Commodore 64.

To think we used to type things like "N" to go north, and then wait for the next screen to load...

..."You are in a large open area, exits are North, West ....." :cool:
 
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