When did you start gaming on the PC? (Poll)

Just want to get a general feel for the age and memory of people who frequent this forum. A lot of times I get the feeling that the majority of people frequenting these boards, or any PC gaming boards for that matter, have only really been on the scene for less than five years or so. It's a discouraging feeling; kind of makes me think that most people who are my age or older have "grown up" and left gaming behind, and that I should have done the same (even though I never will.) :P

Anyway, guess we'll see a ways into this poll.

1992, but the first game I played was from 82', I don't remember the name only the year since I was amazed in 2000 when I looked it up and I saw it was that old.

Well, I started at around 1990...remeber the first game I ever bought was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, then Loom, and I also recall playing a lot of Commander Keen. Yeah, those were the times for me!

Aroudn 1997

My first real gaming PC was in 2001 when RTCW came out.

Well, I started at around 1990...remeber the first game I ever bought was Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, then Loom, and I also recall playing a lot of Commander Keen. Yeah, those were the times for me!

ferran82

when red alert came out. it got me into pc gaming.

1993. I was 3 at the time. My brother introduced me to Civilization and I've been gaming pretty much exclusively on PC since then :P

And yeah, there are a lot of people who were PC gamers in the 80's and 90's and then have "grown out of it". My older brother, and my sister's husband for example. Both were pretty hardcore PC gamers in the 80's and 90's, but they "don't have time anymore". :(

started gaming on a PC in the early 90's with wolfenstein 3d and Doom 1 and 2. Didn't really find a game I was addicted to until Warcraft 2 though. Unfortunately I took quite a few years off and didn't come back until around 2006 so basically I missed the glory years.

Late 80's early 90's

Around 1997

Early 90s playing Doom with my dad as a little kid.

My first PC game was AoE 2, my dad's computer wasn't good enough so I had to bring it to my neighbor's house to play. I actually started 'gaming' when I got Warcraft 3 some time after we got a new computer in '02.

1997, around about the time Quake 2 came out

1993. I was 3 at the time. My brother introduced me to Civilization and I've been gaming pretty much exclusively on PC since then :P

And yeah, there are a lot of people who were PC gamers in the 80's and 90's and then have "grown out of it". My older brother, and my sister's husband for example. Both were pretty hardcore PC gamers in the 80's and 90's, but they "don't have time anymore". :(

HenriH-42

That's to bad that they don't have time anymore. I started in the late 70's on an Apple thing that my dads coworker had. It was a Star Trek type game where you had a field of stars and letters representing starships and you shot them off. I got my first computer as a hand me down from my dad in the mid 80's. First games where the Starflight series and the original Bard's Tales I think. My dad never grew out of it and played till the day he died at age 64. I'm 54 and don't plan on stopping any time soon.

I started on a commodore 64 in 1983.

2006 or '07. I know, there's so much I missed :cry:

~1995, I think. My older brothers all played Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, strife, and heretic, so I watched or played with them. Oh, and Space Quest. Looooooooooots of SQ. Other games I played were Jill of the Jungle, king's quest, Commander Keen, and, my personal favorite, Hocus Pocus.

I second the commodore 64 days. It's been a long time

1981, Atari 800xl which was just a keyboard you plugged into your TV. Great system.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxnHqO39GUY

I started on a commodore 64 in 1983.

Delius

Commodore isn't PC - but Im with ya.

I had a 75mhz Packard Bell - played Tie Fighter, Xwing, Dark Forces - those were the bomb - but try looking at those games now - eck!!

[QUOTE="Delius"]

I started on a commodore 64 in 1983.

Xsan3

Commodore isn't PC - but Im with ya.

I had a 75mhz Packard Bell - played Tie Fighter, Xwing, Dark Forces - those were the bomb - but try looking at those games now - eck!!

You do know that PC stands for Personal Computer (not ibm compatible or x86 tech), and the Commodore was a personal computer. I'll also add that at that time, the c64 was the better gaming machine due to it's superior graphics and sound.

i start gaming in the early 90s on PCs. but i didnt seriously playing and building my own computer until very recently. since i got my computer last fall i havent even touched my consoles at all except for when i recently played and beat donkey kong country 2 for snes.

probably around 94 with random DOS learning games but my real first PC game was Warcraft 2...When I was 5.

1996; was my first gaming platform and still my preferred one.

93-94 or something like that with games like monkey island, jazz jackrabbit,doom, duke nukem ( the 2d one ),descent,system shock

If you count solitaire i started 92 though :D

When Starcraft and Counter-strike very first came out. Those we're the damn days of my highschool sh****tttt

Late 90's, first games I played was Quake, and Command and Conquer.

Got my first computer in 1981.

Been using PC's since the late 80s.

~1995, I think. My older brothers all played Duke Nukem 3D, Doom, strife, and heretic, so I watched or played with them. Oh, and Space Quest. Looooooooooots of SQ. Other games I played were Jill of the Jungle, king's quest, Commander Keen, and, my personal favorite, Hocus Pocus.

DOS4dinner

Had completely forgotten about Hocus Pocus haha. I started about the same time. Loved the commander keen series, and there are tons of other DOS games I've probably forgotten by now.

ya im new to this but i got the hang of it and now oving it, ill stick with pc gaming for as long as it lives

i was like 6 when my cousin gave me duke nukem 3d, and my parents didnt like it (mostly my mom lol), but i played it anyway. I got serious when i was 11, started actually getting into more PC games like, AVP, AVP2, Warcraft 3, Halo 1, Doom3, and all the serious sams.

Ya darn kids and yer Counterstrike and yer Teamfortress2! Back in my days, we only had 3 games tops to choose from. Commander Keen 4, Math Rescue and Battle Chess. And yer know what? We were happy for it!! >: (

1996:Duke Nukem 3D

92... i dont remember what i played..a 2d game on an alien planet that you can change levelsdakan45

I don't know if this is what you are talking about, but I used to LOOOOOOVVVVEEE Crystal Caves as a kid...same kind of premise. It was so great and colorful. Another great for me was the Oregon Trail, and a game where you played as Oscar from Sesame Street. Ohhhh yeeaaaa

I bought my first PC in 2001 and the first game I've played was Lotus Challenge I love that game :)