What is your very first memory of pc gaming?

I have 1 good memory - my older sister (she is a real geek) [URL=http://chronotriggerwalkthrough.net/quest/chrono-boss-fights/]playing Chrono trigger in her room[/URL]. i was really fascinated with the game and later on she let me play too and taught me a lot, i started to understand her more, why she spent so much time behind the computer. My parents looked that they have 2 geek kid for that day on :D

MS-DOS version of Prince of Persia and a "Formula 1" racing game were my first memories of PC gaming.

edited 19th Apr '14 4:08:52 AM by entropy13

..Isn't Chrono Trigger only on SNES and the original Playstation, not PC? 6_o

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I pretty much grew up playing PC games, so it's really difficult for me to point out any one thing. I remember Warcraft and Mortal Kombat as easily as I remember Zool & Putt Putt. Same goes for all the games Windows 3.1 had built into it, and a myriad of others I can't even remember the names for. Commander Keen, Jazz Jackrabbit, Hocus Pocus, and Wacky Racers are among the few I do remember the names of.

My very first memory was being terrified as hell of a part in one Sesame Street game where Ernie and Bert morphed into different geometric shapes along with everything else in their house.

Other early memories include a dinosaur-themed game that played like Bubble Bobble called Dinomite. I actually looked it up again recently so I could play it on a virtual machine, and... every site it's available at warns that it has a virus in it. Oh well.

edited 19th Apr '14 5:02:04 AM by BaffleBlend

I believe mine is the old classic Elmo's Playschool.

Heretic on Windows 95 is the first PC game I remember playing but I have been playing consoles since the late 80s.

edited 19th Apr '14 5:15:54 AM by Halberdier17

A game called Hexxagon on Windows 3.1 on a laptop that could run on D-size batteries.

One of those old Edutainment games when I was like 4-5 years old.

The first PC game I ever recalled playing was the first Commmand & Conquer on Windows 98. I also had the N64 version of it (and had actually gotten the console version first!) I ended up liking the PC version way more: better sound, the Covert Ops expansion, live-action FM Vs, and the game just played way better with the mouse. Took me awhile to actually get used to the keyboard though, I didn't know how to type back then and hated trying to memorize all the keyboard command shortcuts until C&C3 rolled around.

Ah, I remember when I didn't know how to type... I had a ton of typing-teaching games and I was always just like "YOU CAN'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO!" and I always cheated through them by hunting-and-pecking.

edited 19th Apr '14 5:29:53 AM by BaffleBlend

Some kind of point and click exploration/puzzle game. Like Myst, but black and white and very surreal and cartoony. I believe it had line drawings, like sketches.

...can't remember what it was called and now it's bugging me.

edited 19th Apr '14 5:31:51 AM by Clarste

Playing Age Of Empires on my cousin's PC. I asked if I can borrow it and he said "sure"... I still have the disc.

Some old math edutainment game that came on 5 inch floppy disks.

...and now I feel old. Great.

Vividly? Age Of Empires I baby.

That and Putt-putt, Pyjama Sam and Maths Blaster

edited 19th Apr '14 5:59:42 AM by PippingFool

When floppies were still actually floppy. Good times.

This. I remember those large floppy disks. They were replaced by hard floppy disks shortly after.

My dad playing Doom II, or Quake, or Rebel Assault, or maybe Megarace.

I think it was when my parents were out, sneaking on to the computer to play Doom.

Assuming the Commodore 64 doesn't count (), it was a combination of playing and watching my dad play the old Gold Box games, along with some old BattleTech games out at the time (Crescent Hawks' Inception and Crescent Hawks' Revenge, along with the first MechWarrior).

A pinball game on MS-DOS...can't remember its name tho...

One of those old Mavis Beacon typing programs that was installed on this old Win98 PC I used to have. Man I used that thing well into when XP was a thing, and it had no USB ports, either.

The first memory I have is when my parents got an Apple Macintosh and being allowed to play Tetris on it. And a followup memory where I think I messed with the game settings so that the game was so fast as to be unplayable (I don't remember the details) which got me temporarily banned from being allowed to use said computer.

edited 19th Apr '14 2:12:28 PM by TheSpaceJawa

Playing a simulator of the Pokemon Trading Card game. It was a demo where you could only pick between 2 decks, a fighting type deck and a water type deck.

Hey, I had that too! That's something they gave away at Toys R Us stores, right?

Anyway, aside from edutainment games (like the Jump Start games or Math Blaster) and Living Books games based on the Arthur books (oh, and I guess Snood and Elf Bowling), my first memory of PC gaming is frustration at everything being slow and not working since I've never had a computer that can handle PC gaming. Oh, and I guess there's that one time I tried Toontown before quitting due to not liking that so much stuff is locked off unless you pay a subscription fee.

edited 19th Apr '14 3:30:44 PM by Odd1

My parents had this old Tandy laptop-thing (and I'm talking old — two-color black-on-green screen, back in the days when every computer company had their own OS that shipped with their hardware), and it had this one floppy that had a copy of Hangman on it. Loved that game. I'm still kinda mystified by the fact that I knew how to enter the command prompts to get it to run when I was six or so.

First "proper" PC game (i.e. after Windows started consolidating its hold on the IBM PC clones) was probably MECC's Yukon Trail, which shipped with our old Compaq. Fun times with that one, too.