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#1 Dante2710
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My first exposure to video games was back in the early 90s (PC), the operating system was MS-DOS and my first game was Blood.

Share yours :)

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#2 Phoenix534
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My first exposure to games was Pong at age 2. First PC game was King's Bounty and I used MS DOS, although DOS was outdated in 2000, I still had a PC with it.

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#3 thusaha
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MS-DOS/ Doom.
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#4 k0r3aN_pR1d3
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Windows 95 first OS. First game was StarCraft.
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#5 Nibroc420
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Mine was in the early 90's as well, MS-DOS and first game being Crystal Caves
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#6 Dante2710
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MS-DOS/ Doom.thusaha

My first exposure to games was Pong at age 2. First PC game was King's Bounty and I used MS DOS, although DOS was outdated in 98, I still had a PC with it.

Phoenix534
did any of you ever get around on how to properly use MS-DOS? honestly i completely forgot, but then again, i was pretty young back then.
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#7 Wardemon50
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Windows 3.11 and I think my first game was Commander Keen: Marooned on Mars, although it could've been some other game as well (House of Games II (disc full of freeware and shareware games)
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#8 Phoenix534
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[QUOTE="thusaha"]MS-DOS/ Doom.Dante2710

My first exposure to games was Pong at age 2. First PC game was King's Bounty and I used MS DOS, although DOS was outdated in 98, I still had a PC with it.

Phoenix534

did any of you ever get around on how to properly use MS-DOS? honestly i completely forgot, but then again, i was pretty young back then.

Well, it was actuall 2000(98 was when I played Pong. Got dates mixed up), but no. I never got knew how to properly use DOS. I was four at the time. All I knew was that I could play King's Bounty.

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#9 Wardemon50
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[QUOTE="thusaha"]MS-DOS/ Doom.Dante2710

My first exposure to games was Pong at age 2. First PC game was King's Bounty and I used MS DOS, although DOS was outdated in 98, I still had a PC with it.

Phoenix534
did any of you ever get around on how to properly use MS-DOS? honestly i completely forgot, but then again, i was pretty young back then.

Well, I was 3 and all I remembered were commands to boot from the disc and sometimes do some directory searching in DOS. I mean, we got windows 95 when I was 5 so I guess that kinda phased DOS out of my life.
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#10 HenriH-42
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MS-DOS and Civilization. :) Before that, some random games on Commodore 64 but I dunno if that counts.

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#11 Mazoch
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MS-Dos (can't rember what version) Ancient Art of War MS Flight Simulator (the first one) Star Flight Kings Quest 1 Gato (Old Submarine Simulator)
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#12 biggest_loser
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Gex Windows 95.
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#13 Dante2710
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Well, it was actuall 2000(98 was when I played Pong. Got dates mixed up), but no. I never got knew how to properly use DOS. I was four at the time. All I knew was that I could play King's BountyPhoenix534
i remember that was the first time i saw my first 3D shooter, ah good old memories
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#14 Dante2710
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MS-DOS and Civilization. :) Before that, some random games on Commodore 64 but I dunno if that counts.

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o.o how old are you?
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#15 Mazoch
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[QUOTE="thusaha"]MS-DOS/ Doom.Dante2710

My first exposure to games was Pong at age 2. First PC game was King's Bounty and I used MS DOS, although DOS was outdated in 98, I still had a PC with it.

Phoenix534
did any of you ever get around on how to properly use MS-DOS? honestly i completely forgot, but then again, i was pretty young back then.

I became fairly proficient in using dos. I made my own boot disks back before we had a hard drive and tweaking config.sys and autoexec.bat to run all your hardware (and later on extended memory in various formats) while still meeting the games base memory requirement was quite a learning experience.
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#16 Dante2710
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[QUOTE="Mazoch"] I became fairly proficient in using dos. I made my own boot disks back before we had a hard drive and tweaking config.sys and autoexec.bat to run all your hardware (and later on extended memory in various formats) while still meeting the games base memory requirement was quite a learning experience.

bravo :o taking a blind shot here, did you decide to major in computer programming? :P
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#17 prehuang
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Mine first PC game is Red Alert 1 on Win95...:DA very Crazy War game.

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#18 Mazoch
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Software planning and project management :) I'm not much of a programmer though.
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Software planning and project management :) I'm not much of a programmer though. Mazoch
neat, i sort of wished i would have major in computer science
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#20 RobertBowen
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Video Games in general? Space Invaders when it first came out in the arcades (in UK).

On PC, probably Sopwith in the mid 1980s, running on MS-DOS (version 3.0, I think), with a CGA monitor (revolutionary 4 colours!!) and a 5.25 inch floppy drive.

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#21 Pvt_r3d
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Windows 95 Putt Putt's adventure through,,,somewhere. First real game - Starcraft
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#22 3abden
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Win 3.1, Prehistorik 2, wolf 3d and Alcatraz.

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#23 carthanne
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early 90`s Windows 3.1 (I still have that laptop and use it frequently) first game Freddi Fish missing kelp seeds (most endearing character ever don`t argue with me) still play it often. First real game (by your definition would be Cyclones). Forgotten MSDOS shooter is awesome. I was playing video games when I was 2.

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#24 xcryonicx
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This is a hard one to be sure of, but I first remember playing my father's copy of Doom on Win 93 or 95, if you're not counting playing Oregon Trail on ancient Apple computers at school.
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#25 zomglolcats
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First OS I OWNED was Windows 95. First one I used was some version of DOS on an old Apple computer in elementary school. First game I owned was Doom 2, ran in MS-DOS.
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MSDOS, Mixed Up Mother Goose. Monochrome display, PC internal speaker. Oooh yeah.

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MSDOS, Mixed Up Mother Goose. Monochrome display, PC internal speaker. Oooh yeah.

dos4gw82
OOoh, i miss that game. i found a copy of it like 3 years back and had to replay it
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#28 HenriH-42
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[QUOTE="HenriH-42"]

MS-DOS and Civilization. :) Before that, some random games on Commodore 64 but I dunno if that counts.

Dante2710

o.o how old are you?

19. :P My older brother got me into the classics first, I didn't even know that 3D games existed until 1998 lol.

MSDOS, Mixed Up Mother Goose. Monochrome display, PC internal speaker. Oooh yeah.

dos4gw82

Oh man, me and my friend used to play that game all the time. We had a very similar computer, B&W monitor, PC speaker, some old version of DOS and revolutionary 20 WHOPPING MEGABYTES of hard drive space full of games. Mother Goose, Bubble Bobble and Commander Keen.. ahh the memories. :oops: That reminds me when we found a copy of the first Leisure Suit Larry game on that PC, after I learned how to navigate DOS. That was uh, quite an experience.

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#29 Dante2710
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19. :P My older brother got me into the classics first, I didn't even know that 3D games existed until 1998 lolHenriH-42
:lol: wow, you are actually younger than me, and i think 3D games started in 1994 or so :P
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#30 73X
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I was late to the PC gaming scene: Windows 98 - Amazon Trail (Yes, that educational point-and-click. So what if it came in a cereal box? It was still a good game!)

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#31 flipin_jackass
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windows 3.xx, but most of the games were only compatible with MS-DOS. I think some mega man game or falcon was my first.... good times...
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#32 psn8214
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First game: MS Flight Simulator 98

First OS: Windows 95

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#33 Mazoch
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[QUOTE="Dante2710"][QUOTE="HenriH-42"] o.o how old are you?HenriH-42

19. :P My older brother got me into the classics first, I didn't even know that 3D games existed until 1998 lol.

MSDOS, Mixed Up Mother Goose. Monochrome display, PC internal speaker. Oooh yeah.

dos4gw82

Oh man, me and my friend used to play that game all the time. We had a very similar computer, B&W monitor, PC speaker, some old version of DOS and revolutionary 20 WHOPPING MEGABYTES of hard drive space full of games. Mother Goose, Bubble Bobble and Commander Keen.. ahh the memories. :oops: That reminds me when we found a copy of the first Leisure Suit Larry game on that PC, after I learned how to navigate DOS. That was uh, quite an experience.

HAHA I remember the first Leisure Suit Larry. It had the whole thing where you had to answer three out of five questions right to prove you were over 18. Those questions were sometimes as much fun as the game itself... If you arrived at a party wearing your birthday suit, you would a. make many new friends. b. be thrown out. c. fit right in. d. It depends on the party. Correct answer: d.
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#34 Nibroc420
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First game: MS Flight Simulator 98

First OS: Windows 95

psn8214
can you play flight sim 98 on windows 95? 0.o strange
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#35 Wardemon50
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[QUOTE="psn8214"]

First game: MS Flight Simulator 98

First OS: Windows 95

Nibroc420
can you play flight sim 98 on windows 95? 0.o strange

I played Microsoft Golf 98 on Windows 95, not that strange. What is strange is that I said played which suggests fun 0.o
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I can't remember the very first, but Lego Rock Raiders was one of the first, and that was on Windows 98.

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#37 ravenguard90
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Windows 32 (Don't really know the name of it exactly...). First game was either Mega Race or Battle Chess. I played those so much, I don't remember which I had first :P

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#38 rascoqaz
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windows 98 and pajama sam
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Window 95 i think and Lost Vikings.

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#40 psn8214
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[QUOTE="psn8214"]

First game: MS Flight Simulator 98

First OS: Windows 95

Nibroc420

can you play flight sim 98 on windows 95? 0.o strange

You can, if I recall correctly.

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#41 simardbrad
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MS-DOS with wolfenstein 3D

I got windows 3.1 when a little later.

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#42 Mograine
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Bomberman and Starcraft both on Win95 8)

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Some Daffy Duck detective game on MS-DOS (Unless you count printing basic ASCII art by using some commands, which my mom taught me how). I still have that huge floppy disk somewhere in my basement too :P
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i wonder if all these games still work and hooray,first thread i made that actualy got over 20 posts, so proud :lol:
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#45 Adam_the_Nerd
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First PC game: Need for Speed (or something similar) but I recall playing Doom before my parents became shocked that someone so young (5 at the time) would be playing Doom. Ahh... Windows 95.
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#46 Crimsader
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Windows 98, Super Mario.

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#47 xxxBlackDogxxx
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Windows 98 and the game was .... i think starcraft....and warcraft somehow at the same time can't remeber which one was first(i know i'm young and unplayed:)) )
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#48 Flamuel
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One of those Brick Game handhelds 9999 in 1 even though the same game was repeted 1000 times with one different skin

First game was Tetris and Snake

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#49 Chyropraise
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Windows 3.1 - Betrayal at Krondor

I was about... 12. Tough game to play at that age. I basically got stomped by everything. I mostly watched my dad play it as I didn't know what I was doing.

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Windows 98, my first game was command and conqure