What got you into it??

Coming from a

Spectrum +2
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Then onto a

Amiga 500
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I was destined to be a PC gamer :)

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I guess it was 4 player Gauntlet and Elite on the Amiga that got me interested in PC gaming. As soon as I explored what Doom on the PC was I was hooked. I can remember playing this on a second hand 386 which had a processor and a maths co-processor which took some of the workload. Madness, 2 processors!
 
Starting in 1983 with my C64: Smooth transition from:

C64 -> C128 -> Atari ST -> 386 PC

The 2 games I actually bought together with that were Civilization 1 and the Sublogic Flight Simulator II.

I was spitting blood at the cost of upgrading from 4 MB to 8 MB RAM almost straight away.
 
Trackmania got me into PC gaming, Battlefield 2 got me into the online side of things and into upgrading/fixing computers (needed to upgrade my geforce 4 mx440!)
 
Duke Nukem, Rise Of The Triads, Transport Tycoon, C&C1

no wonder im so messed up lol...

EDIT: First games machine i think was the NES.. which i still have and use occasionally.. im still yet to find a game to best Super Mario Bros. 3
 
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Binotone > Atari 2600 > Spectrum 48k+ / Amstrad / Toshiba MSX > Commodore 64 > Amiga 600 > PC

What really got me into PC gaming was Doom and System Shock which were awesome at the time. Legacy of Kain should get a mention to being one of the first full priced games I purchased. Also emulators (mainly MAME, CCS64 and WinUAE) played a massive part.



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I can't really remember what made PC gaming click with me, but the first game I played on my own PC was Kings Quest V. Great game. :)

My auntie had had a PC for ages and had PGA Tour Golf, little speaker clicks replaced the sound of the club hitting the ball, until I convinced her to get a sound card.
 
Megahurtz400 said:
Dad still has his in the loft, trying to convince him to get it down!
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I got my A4000 out of the cupboard the other day for a nostalgic poke around with it and found that the plastic front of the thing had turned bright orange. It used to be beige. Strangely the floppy drive was still beige.

I remember I used to go to a computer club where everyone had migs, mainly just playing games or mass boinging. Then one bloke started to bring a PC. Everyone laughed at him initially, expecting some beepfest manic miner job. Then he loaded up Doom. I think that's the exact moment in history when the Mig started its death throws.
 
I started out on Close Combat on my 128mb ram "time" pc. It went wrong two days after then the company went bust. However i was hooked and ended up with a fujitsu siemens then i went to dell, and finally to custom made. PC is the only way baby
 
Gimpymoo said:
Coming from a

Spectrum +2
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Wow I must have had one of them too! It's exactly how I remember it, I never realised I had a Spectrum as I used to call it my Amstrad...

I'm so proud I played on a Spectrum for so many years without knowing it lol..... I was only 3-4 when I got it so I couldn't read hehe...

loved Harrier Attack on it.
 
I had various Spectrums over the years, starting with an Zx81 with a 15k ram pack attached. The I had the 48k with the Rubber Keys. I loved games like Dynamite Dan and Commando.

But I moved on and left gaming behind, until I played Syndicate, which blew me away and I have gone back into gaming ever since :)
 
My dad bought a computer from PC World back when Windows 98 was all the rage. I was still gaming on my PS1 at that point but my dad got a rally game for the computer from somewhere and I used to spend hours on that despite it being incredibly simple. Then Midtown Madness came out and I somehow discovered Zone.com despite not really knowing my way around a computer at the time, got hooked on Midtown Madness and Midtown Madness 2 online and all the mods that were coming out even though we were still on dial-up internet at the time so the phone bill must've been pretty steep. Console gaming was then a thing of the past from then on really.
 
My first computer which came bundled with Civilization

I then went out and bought Unreal Tournament, life hasnt been the same since.
 
Bumhug said:
Same here. I hung on to my amiga as long as I could, got into shareware games and was some really great stuff out there but Championship Manager 2 being PC only was the deciding factor
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Hung on to my Amiga 1200 until 1994 then I finally conceded that to play the latest games you need a PC. Was a sad end to my Amiga, owned one since 1989, I gave my Commodore C64 to my brother – well it wasn’t really mine so he got to use it a bit more once I got my first Amiga 500.

I know 1996 was a really good time to be a PC gamer. There were just so many new and interesting games coming out. And the technology being released for PC was starting to become mind blowing. 3D accelerators, high speed CD ROM drives, 32bit sound and much larger storage capacity, but I do remember RAM prices being obscenely expensive. If you had 16MB of ram in 1996 you was a very rich kid for sure.

I fondly remember Half Life, as we’d all played Quake etc but Half Life seemed to be set in a real world we could relate to, and was IMO one of the finest games ever to grace the PC. I only think Half Life 2 went one better as it made fantastic use of current, and it seems future tech of the PC platform, but the story in Half Life and the campaign was second to none. A true gaming history moment, pleased I got to play it when I did… It was worth being a PC gamer for that one game alone.

Memories – so many good times with my PC. And I used to spit on PC owners whilst I was an Amiga owner. I was young, but might still be dumb.. lol
 
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