What games first got you into PC gaming ?

Actually I tell a lie, I remember my dad buying a new PC for work, a Pentium 133mhz (it was a monster at the time, my mates at school had Pentium 60mhz and one of them had a 75mhz). I was hardly allowed on it though as my dad used it for work, so I used to go round my mates house and play Doom and Duke Nukem 3D, which was awesome when you were 13 :D
 
Playing Premier Manager on my mate's Mac. Soon realised the limitations of footie manager games on the consoles and pushed for my parents to get a PC. A used 486 (or was it a 386....?) with a 40MB hard drive is what we got.

Had previously gamed on a C64, prior to SNES and PS, but no PCs.
 
Counter strike CZ - a mate at work went on about it so I thought I'd give it a try, from that moment I was hooked!
It wasn't really the game, I was really bad at it. It was the social side, never had so much of a laugh.
Never been the same since, happy days :D
 
I was a big console gamer till the Xbox 360 but I used to play some games on my Dad's PC and when I went to college I finally bought my own PC as they are superior!

Games like Battlefield 1942, Half-Life & Jedi Knight were some of my first true PC games.
 
My gaming began on a vic 20, commodore 64, amiga 500+, amiga 1200 then my only console was a SNES (for street fighter 2.)

My first PC was an Intel Pentium 2 233 with 32mb ram, 4.3gb hard disk and a 4mb s3 virge vga card.

As I recall the first 3 games I got for the PC (bought before I got the PC actually) were Riven (sequel to Myst,) Fifa 98 and Star Wars Jedi Knight Dark Forces II. After that I got the awful Death-trap Dungeon (opened, installed, played once, removed.)

First fps on PC was Unreal and then Quake 2 They led to my first PC gaming obsession which was Unreal Tournament - which was also my first online gaming experience.

After UT came my first (and still best) MMO in Star Wars Galaxies which I played till it closed down alongside World of Warcraft.
 
Assuming we're skipping over Spectrum/BBC-B etc...

The first game I recall playing on a PC (then referred to as "IBM-compatible" if I recall) is Wolfenstein 3D.

That kicked off the Shareware bug, and Commander Keen and the many others followed swiftly.

God, I recall the sheer power of the 386 -> 486 DX -> Pentium jumps :D Amazing!

Having to run clock-limiter programs to run your old games properly, then messing with Autoexec.BAT and Config.SYS and EMS/XMS setups... DMA conflicts... All this was fields... Respected our elders...

P.
 
It was probably playing games like Civilisation and Geoff Crammond's F1 Grand Prix on my mates Amiga that made me realise it was time to leave the 8bit days behind. Though by late 1993 the CPC gaming scene was all but dead anyway...

Once I had my first PC, the first set of game purchases were Civ, the aforementioned Formula One, Elite 2 Frontier, Ufo: Enemy Unknown and M1 Tank Platoon. From there on in I was hooked.

21 years... :eek:
 
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XplosiveHamster said:
Stronghold (2001/2002)

Still holds up today as a good strategy game (might be biased since everyone loves their first PC game! :p)
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This was the first for me, watching a friend play it, awesome game, Stronghold: Crusade I still play today. Sims also intrigued me into PC gaming. But both of my PC's back then, were just standard ones which ran simple games.

My first actual dive into PC gaming was only a few years ago when I got my first gaming PC, after playing Runescape for a long long time on my old PC/laptop.
 
Commander Keen is one of the first i can remember playing on a pc, down in the basement of my first job on a pc hidden in the corner of the workshop.
 
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