What's the earliest PC games you remember playing?

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#1 meatgrinderz
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I played a lot of adventure games as a little kiddo.

 

Quest for Glory 3 to 6 (I *loved* these games), Kings Quest games,  Space Quest games, Carmen Santiago, Tales of Monkey Island, Myst, Legends of Kyrandia...but PROBABLY THE EARLIEST is this game which I recently found online and have been playing...

 

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MANIAC MANSION! I still remember being a kid and getting freaked out when Edna or one of the others caught me in the mansion. 

 

what were yours?

 

p.s. What ever happened to Sierra? 

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#2 tobes1993
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First game i can remember (i'm not THAT old) is an educational game called treasure mountain. Epic game.
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#4 call_of_duty_10
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Future Cop demo and Happyland adventures.

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#6 gogoplexiorayo
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The first game i played on pc was in october 2003. it was delta force black hawk down. i also remember other games like call of duty, doom 3, joint operations typhoon rising and rome total war.

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#7 TheBlackKnight3
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A Bug's Life at a school computer for some reason. Also i remember this game called Pokeman or something, completely unrelated to Pokemon.
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#8 whitey_rolls
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The first computer games I remember playing were on a Commadore 64 but I couldn't tell you the name.  In elementary school we used to play a game called Cross Country Canada (loved that game) and that wasn't on Windows either so not sure if that's a PC.  The first real PC game I remember would be Wolfenstein 3d back in the early 90's.  The first PC games I played A LOT of were Warcraft II and Doom II.

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#9 mrmarrero
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I can't remember any titles at this point, but it would have been something on an Apple II. The first game I remember playing on a DOS system was probably Zork, or some other text based adventure...

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#10 commander
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TEST DRIVE in black and white, however this is a compatible x86 pc (an xt at 8 mhz or something lol) The first game a pc in a broad sense was kung fu master on the commodore 64 (which is also a personal computer) It could have been bruce lee or way of the exploding fist too, or gi joe. It's 23 years ago for christ sake, i'm getting old :cry:
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#11 JKnaperek
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I can't remember any titles at this point, but it would have been something on an Apple II. The first game I remember playing on a DOS system was probably Zork, or some other text based adventure...

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#12 Gallowhand
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I played this in college...

THGTTG

Ah...the memories...

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#13 flipin_jackass
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The first PC game I played was Prince of Persia The oldest game I played? I'm not quite sure. My dad gave me this 300 classic PC games in a CD sometime in 1996, and it had some pretty old games, like text based ones, monochrome colored games, etc... It was pretty sweet.
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#14 Stinger78
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Canyon Climber, in 1982 on a Radio Shack Tandy TRS-80 computer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnJU4fiiE2w
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#15 Twisted14
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I was born in 1992 and I would have started playing stuff at 3 or 4 I guess. Some of the earliest games I remember on our old 286 PC are Word Rescue, Digger, Monster Bash, Prince of Persia, Sokoban, Xenon and Commander Keen. (I was looking at a video of old games and found some of these that I remembered) A year or two later I was playing Wolfenstein 3D and Duke 3D at my cousin's house. Ahh nostalgia.
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#16 PernicioEnigma
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Commander Keen, Doom and some other game which I cannot remember the name of. Good times...
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#17 jun_aka_pekto
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I remember Sierra Gold Rush, Sublogic's Jet!, and Bruce Artwick's (aka Sublogic) Flight Simulator (pre-MS).

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#18 skipper847
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My very 1st PC game was the Xfiles the Game and even bought it be for i got the PC lol.

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Fury^3 The Hive Descent
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#20 mAArdman
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commander keen and wolfenstein 3d. i remember sitting on my father's lap when he was playing wolf 3d and he would move while i pressed ctrl to shoot them damned dogs. top notch coop action right there.

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#21 call_of_duty_10
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A Bug's Life at a school computer for some reason. Also i remember this game called Pokeman or something, completely unrelated to Pokemon.TheBlackKnight3
I too remember playing a pokemon game that wasn't related to pokemon at all.Not my first game,though.
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#22 telefanatic
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It was Prince of Persia, sprites edition. 

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#23 EliteM0nk3y
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First PC game I remember playing was Red Baron 3D.
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#24 ferrari2001
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Time Commando

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#25 Mavlow
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Bump N Jump on commodore 64! so fun!

i bet most people in here have never seen one of the 5" flippy disc you had to load it from :)

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#26 _SKatEDiRt_
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The first roller coaster tycoon

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#27 mep69
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Civnet, what a horrible game to play now. But back then i was amazed :O lol
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#28 mep69
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My very 1st PC game was the Xfiles the Game and even bought it be for i got the PC lol.

skipper847
Arr the Xfiles point and click game ? I played it on the Ps1, creeped me out. But it was a good game; not many games like that these days.
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#29 SKaREO
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Sierra Championship Boxing
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#30 Brean24
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First game I remember watching is Simcity 2000 or 3000. First game I remember playing is Battlefield 1942 and Call of Duty 1. I remember playing some games on the PS1 and Dreamcast but not the specific games.
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#31 skipper847
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[QUOTE="skipper847"]

My very 1st PC game was the Xfiles the Game and even bought it be for i got the PC lol.

mep69

Arr the Xfiles point and click game ? I played it on the Ps1, creeped me out. But it was a good game; not many games like that these days.

Yup that it. I can remember i bought it about a month be for i got my very first PC and boght the game on release day and i was hugging the box every day until i played it. lol

They dont make any interactive movie games any more because it cost too much and cheaper to make 3d animation these but back then it was the other way round. But them type of games back then was my fav as well. If i want to no when i first got my very first PC i just look at the release date for this game. :P

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#32 k2theswiss
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PC games? games on cartoonnetwork

i use to play toontown until they went P2P

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#33 nooblet69
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Jurrassic park or warcraft 2 tides of darkness.

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#34 theshadowhunter
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Lemmings, still love that game too.

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#35 sleepingzzz
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Karateka was my first game.  It's still a great game even today.

 

Karateka

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#36 faizan_faizan
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Lemmings, still love that game too.

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#37 mhofever
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SimCopter, SimAnt, Warcraft :Orcs and Humans, the first Sim City, Sim Theme Park, Theme Hospital. Boy, those were awesome back in the days.

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#38 GeneralMufinMan
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Diablo

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#39 AmazonTreeBoa
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The first Diablo, but not on my PC. My first PC game that I owned was Soldier of Fortune 2.
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#40 AmazonTreeBoa
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Future Cop demo and Happyland adventures.

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Future Cop L.A.P.D.?
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#41 AmazonTreeBoa
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Oh crap. I take that back. Diablo wasn't my first PC game. My first was Oragan Trail. That game was a blast to play.
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#42 bobbetybob
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Some DOS games that came free with our old PC, the only one I really remember was Jazz Jackrabbit and obviously years later I found out Epic made it and now I know WHY I enjoyed it so much, even though I remember being awful at it.
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#43 Miroku32
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Doom, Wolf3D and Commander Keen.
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#44 wis3boi
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Fallout.jpg.

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#45 hrt_rulz01
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The earliest games I can remember playing were the original Need for Speed and Operation: Inner Space. Great memories.
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[QUOTE="call_of_duty_10"]

Future Cop demo and Happyland adventures.

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Future Cop L.A.P.D.?

Yup. I found the full version at a store 1 year later.I used to play it religiously:P
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#47 PcGamingRig
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I remember playing a simpsons alien game, can't remember what it was called though. :)

EDIT: I believe this may be it. Bart Vs The Space Mutants

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#48 Prexxus
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Back when it was DOS only I had games like pong and snake :P Awesome fun!

 

Scorched Earth was the first game that really impressed me.

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#49 MonoSilver
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Does an Amstrad CPC 464 count as a PC? If so that was the first machine I ever played games on:

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I played games like Adventure Quest, Biff and Rocky Horror Picture Show (all I can remember) on the classic green screen. On cassette! Kids these days don't know what they missed. :)

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#50 II-Siamak-II
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kinda embarrassing but here we go: Disney's Hercules

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disney's_Hercules_(video_game)