What is your very first memory of pc gaming?

I wouldn't know, I played it on my aunt's computer. It was her game.

Let's see...

I remember the Nancy Drew PC games. They still make them, but I see a very clear decline of quality since. Still play them every once in awhile.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone and Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets for PC. I still have the second game installed. Why can't they make games like that anymore?

And, of all things, I remember The Emperor's New Groove PC game.

I remember the magical ADVENTURES I would have on my Human Warrior in World of Warcraft. There was nothing more important than seeing what was in those super high level areas. Something I really remember is watching a dragon kill someone and watching the sky from then on :P

Age Of Mythology. Or maybe Zoo Tycoon. Or maybe Star Trek: Armada.

One of them three, I'm sure.

Digger and Earl Weaver Baseball.

There were other computer edutainment games I played at school(like Oregon Trail ) but those two were basically all that was at home on the PC until we got Windows 3.1(and Command & Conquer)...

MS-Dos and Windows 3.1 games... I'm as old as that 5.25 Floppy talk earlier.

Did anyone else eventually break their games and play around with the console?

I did that all the time in Harry Potter. In fact, I loved playing with the console and stuff so much, I did try to make a mod that remade Hogwarts to the movies, but I never made it that far.

F22-Air Defense Fighter. Didn't like it.

The first non-edutainment game I played was Tyrian. Loved it.

I'm not entirely sure, but I think it must have been the first Grand Theft Auto.

Pinball on Windows

A game cald Blobbo, where you played a little ghost who had to collect treasure chests. It was for macintosh.

My first game was Mixed Up Mothergoose. Not sure if I ever completed it though.

Roland Ahoy! on the Amstrad CPC 464. It was awesome.

Casette tapes, 8 minute load times and the ever-present smell of hot plastic and burning dust! Fun times!

edited 20th Apr '14 5:58:03 AM by InverurieJones

Frogger!Back then we used floppy disks

edited 20th Apr '14 8:44:39 AM by Ultimatum

Red Alert 1. And so it began...

My dear cousin let me sit on his computer and Battlefield 1942.

And thus my love for the series began.

The first PC game I ever played was King's Quest 7. Which helps make me feel a little younger.

edited 20th Apr '14 11:02:33 AM by Jinxmenow

Playing Flight Unlimited II with my dad. All of five aircraft to fly and the San Francisco Bay Area to explore in that.

I remember we always tried chasing the airliners taking off from San Francisco International but no plane was fast enough, not even the Mustang... We got MS Flight Simulator 98 a while later and that came with a Learjet that could keep up with AI air traffic.

@Clarste: Possibly The Manhole?

My first memories are hazy... I don't remember if my first game was on the Apple I Ie, in which case it was probably Doodlebug, an ASCII (or whatever the character set was on the Apples) art game where a letter was displayed and you had to type it so that Doodlebug would jump the letter. There were different animations based on how quickly you pressed the letter, or on the Tandy Color Computer 2 at home, in which base it was probably Shamus, Peanut Butter Panic, or a Sesame Street shapes game (but I don't think it was the one mentioned above). First IBM PC game was probably Ancient Art of War or Hack (precursor to NetHack).

First game I ever played was Battle for Middle-Earth. The first one.

Sim Safari.

Playing or trying to get some old games at school to work, on old Amiga or Commodore computers that had to be Soviet era, making me either very old or the computers really crappy. Old Apple computers when schools were given the funding for those. Air hockey, some maths game where you adjust the angle for a robot shooting hoops, a puzzle game where you can get eaten by a cat, a detective game, and we later got Myst and Return to Zork.

I didn't actually get a computer until 2000 but I did see the PC games you could get, a SAS squad sim before Rainbow Six as well as very technical and advanced games. When I got a computer of my own snapped up everything from Flight Simulator to Michael Jordan In Flight to learn how PC gaming worked, how you had to have different requirements, how you could get emulators and roms, how to reverse engineer to play older games, and the joys of finding old treasures and stuff you couldn't play anywhere else.

I was probably around kindergarden or first grade when I played my first Reader Rabbit game (which, I might add, had a tendency to freeze at unpredictable and crucial moments). I remember my favorite one being the second grade version—but being disappointed at how the ending wasn't a tragedy where Reader Rabbit was eaten by dragon like I'd hoped. (Not for any malicious reasons; I just really liked the idea of getting a sad ending. I wasn't exactly a normal kid.)

I think I also played that, but what I was thinking of was apparently Cosmic Osmo, which was linked to on that page.

My earliest ones involve DOS games like Cosmo's Cosmic Adventure, Jazz Jackrabbit, Jillofthe Jungle, and the first Duke Nukem. There was also a game where you chose different animals to play as and you had to make your way from one end of the map to the other without dying. I don't know the name.