What game started it all of for you, or best memory of?

Probably one of your first games, the game you remember most, for me i think it would have to be the first serious PC game i bought which was Ghost Recon few years ago, played many an hour on it, and then the GTA3 vs Mafia battle is the next best , i remember playing almost the whole of GTA3 at about 5-9fps as my PC just wasnt up to it but i just had to finish the game, sad?

Also Mafia to me still has the best atmosphere of any game ever made, maybe the music is a big part of it but i bet most people got so involved in the game that they actually felt like mafiosa (sp?) ... great game...

As far as theh PC, I remember really liking Dune (I think I was given a Demo), and Wolfenstein. Twas around 1996.

Firstly, Delta Force.

Secondly, Return to Castle Wolfenstien.

Command & Conquer started it all for me. It wasn't my first video game but it was the game that got me hooked on PC gaming. First time when I tried it, I played a LAN game with a friend. It was so realistic, so awesome and so cool to command an army like that. And the whole game was so much different, so much more complex then all the other games. It was especially cool to see all those vehicles that also existed in real life and that you had only seen on TV or in pictures but now you could command them yourself! I loved the way the infantry screamed when they died, it was so brutal and because of that it made the game feel so brutally realistic. It was also the first time that I heard some good electronic music and the music really set the mood. The whole atmosphere was pretty dark, which I like. No shiny collours with rainbows and butterflies and a happy ending, like in most games those days. But just brutal, realistic violence. This game was so much different from all the other games.

That's how I felt about the game those days, I'm not saying that the game is realistic or anything. By the way, that was the first time I played a LAN game so that was also something that contributed to the "addiction". Playing with plastic soldiers felt so out of date after that LAN session.

On PC, Doom, Theme Park and Worms were the games that really got me into PC gaming. Unfortunately, I couldn't get a PC with a graphics card until 2000, so they were amongst the only PC games I played between 1994 and 2000.

I mostly had consoles before then, starting with the Master System when I was about four or five. Alex Kidd in Miracle World was one of the first games I played.

The golden age of pc games..

The bold box games like bards tale, those titles...Civilazation one...Might and magic games...

Before that though the commodore 64 games like my fav, seven cities of gold, the basketeball game cant remember the title now but it had larry bird...You can smash the glass when you slammed dunk...

Got acquinted with Quake deathmatch and original Diablo at work, at about same time. twas 1997 or something like that

Well Half-Life 1 was the first FPS we got with a new computer. A good start you could say...

Probably my favourite two memories though are:

1. Trying bullet time for the very first time in Max Payne. It just blew me away.

2. Completing that Haunted Cathedral mission in Thief: Gold after a two year absence.

More recently the ending of Episode Two and the beginning of Bioshock have become favourites too.

Boy, some of you sure are young. The first serious commercial game that got me into PC gaming was probably Zork or Starflight, although prior to that there were tons of non-serious (casual) or non-commercial games we all played back in the day.

How did EA go from making things like Starflight to the evil empire they are now? I dunno.

Firstly, Delta Force.

Secondly, Return to Castle Wolfenstien.

Kuyt19

My first game was Lemmings, then Duke Nukem, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, C&C Red Alert Aftermath and many many more after :).

My favourite one at that time, was by far Red Alert Aftermath and for fun Lemmings :).

The first game I remember playing on PC was Sopwith, back in 1984.

Or maybe it was The Hitch-Hiker's Guide text adventure game, which I think was the same year. One or the other, anyway.

My first PC game was Battletech way back on some IBM PS1 or 2....maybe a tandy, i dont remember. then Mechwarrior shortly after that, i learned how to upgrade ram for that game. Some Space Quest games as well, those we're funny!

X-Wing on CD-Rom was my first foray into the world of pentium pc's and i haven't looked back since.

Oh, forgot this was the pc forum. :P In that case my most memorable PC game is AoE II.

this thread may as well have been titled: "How old are you?"

some peeps (myself included probably) are dating themselves here :)

this thread may as well have been titled: "How old are you?"

some peeps (myself included probably) are dating themselves here :)

wheezal

Haha thats so true

this thread may as well have been titled: "How old are you?"

some peeps (myself included probably) are dating themselves here :)wheezal

Hehe, yeah you're right. I'm 40 and been playing PC games for quarter of a century - longer that some of these posters have been alive. O.O

Now that's a sobering thought.

I got my first PC at a fortunate time. My first PC games were Sin, Unreal, and Half-Life.

Hero's Quest 1: So You Want to Be a Hero?

I think I might be the only person on this forum who remembers that game. :?

PC = Dune, Wolfienstein, Doom 1 and the Police Quest/Kings Quest series

Consoles = few games on atari and for NES it was Mario 1 (the ORIGINAL ORIGINAL MARIO BROS) and Double Dribble

Dune 2

Dark Forces

Duke Nukem 3D

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe

Aces of the Pacific
mrbojangles25

Ahhhh, another Dune fan heheh, got i spent so many hours playing that game. I also think that was the first videogame to REALLY get my dad hooked when i was younger. He was up till 6am one night hahaha, it was hilarious, he sure was addicted to that DUNE :P

The very first time I used videogames was...many and many years ago and it was "road runner" on commodore64.

And then there was doom...

It was Return to Castle Wolfenstein followed by Doom and Duke Nukem!