What was your 1st computer and what games did you have?

[kvnchrist]

The first computer I had was a Commodore 64. I got turned onto it by a friend I played D&D with in the military. I remember the first game I had was a chess game, that I had to program it in, in dos mode. I never was any good at it, but I loved the idea of having a computer and having something I could do to resemble having a life, somewhere.

 

This was in Ft. Carson, Co and when I went over to Germany I was blown away by a new computer from Commodore called The Amiga 500.

 

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This was my first experience with the use of Icons you could click and it was like night and day over my 64. Thank Griffin, they had a program that allowed you to buy electronic equipment on time. I hated leaving eye brow prints on the screens of those I looked at in the commissary.

 

It wasn't a week, before I had one setting in my room and was working on my gaming library. The games I really liked were the Proving ground of the Mad Overlord, Bards Tale and several others that were RPG. Then out came the Dungeons and Dragons games and I was in love.

 

I was also into simulators, especially the ones from Microprose. I had the stealth fighter and the one for submarines. There was also a tank simulator and I loved Pirates, when it came out.

 

Sadly, I never went back to the chess game, but I remember the cassette it was on made a fairly convincing Frisbee as it headed out of my car, towards that speed limit sign. lol

[Thor.]

Atari Some tank game i can recall the name of

Snes Super Mario World\

Commador 64 late 1990's :biggrin: Of course the it came out back in 1982 the year i was born. That tells you something Eh, never really used it for anything, i had it handed down from some relative of mine

386 the real first pc Commander Keen :thumbsup:

Amiga cd32x beast of a system bought of a friend of mine. Ahead of its time it was. Super stardust, Wipeout 2049 i think it was called.

other then that, several custom builds, forgot the specification of my real first custom pc.

 

Come to think of it, i had a lot of system sense the early 1990's.

Edited April 6, 2012 by Thor.

[Rabbit1251]

Apple II+ from 1982. Some of my first games were Wizardry, Guadalcanal Campaign, Galactic Adventures and a host of others including all of the old Ultimas. I later upgraded to the IIe which I still have as well as all of my old games.

 

 

Rabbit

[DeathWarrior]

Mine was a late 90's Dell or HP with Windows 98 and games such as:

-Empire Earth

-Ground Control

-Star Wars: Dark Forces 2/Mysteries of the Sith

-Tachyon: The Fringe

-TES III: Morrowind

-Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows of Amn

-Quake 2

-Unreal Tournament 1999

-Unreal

[bben46]

My first computer at home was a used DEC VT-78. These were also called a DecStation. It had a 50 pound dual 8 inch floppy drive. (no hard drive) The CPU monitor and keyboard were all one unit. There was actually a place for a small dot matrix printer in that also, but I never had one. Instead my printer was a floor standing DEC 9 pin dot matrix that shook the house when printing. The VT-78 was a variation of the DEC PDP-8

 

Here is a pic - It came with that table - I still have the table - it is still in use as a portable computer table. That large box mounted under the tabletop is the floppy drive unit. :thumbsup:

http://computermuseum.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/dev_en/vt78/

 

I actually did have a few games that had been converted to run under DECs proprietary OS/78, a modified version of their OS/8 operating system, or their proprietary Basic. Colossal Cave, Star Trek, Artillery, and a few others. - Very few. :tongue:

[ElricOfGrans]

The first PC I used was a Commodore 64 (at a relative's place, so I used it often). I cannot remember the names of most of the games on it, but I do remember playing `Breakout' and `Cockroach'. I think Scorched Earth was on the C64, but I am not 100% sure. I also had regular access to an Atari 2600 (a friend's), but cannot remember any of the games now.

 

The first I owned was an Atari PC3. It came with GEM OS, but struggled to run it. In the end, I used a custom OS that ran over DOS. Games that ran on it where hard to find. Lemmings (only the original; Lemmings 2 required a 286), the Commander Keen games, Crystal Caverns, Secret Agent, Star Trek, some Packman/Space Invaders/etc clones. Oh, I almost forgot The Simpsons (forget the sub-title). I think I had some of the Sierra Adventure games, but I may be getting mixed up with one of my latter PCs (I cannot recall if they ran on such low specs or not).

Edited April 7, 2012 by ElricOfGrans

[pseudobio]

My first computer was a Comodore 64. First games were Sid Meiers Pirates, Many of the early D&D games with 4-color graphics, and also Silent Service. Played Pirates to death, and when it was re-released for Windows xp/vista/7 a few years back, had to get it again.

[Delikatessen]

Does an SNES count? That thing's technically a computer...

 

In the late nineties, I had a Windows 98 computer that I used to browse the internet.

 

As for the games I had, Tomb Raider, Duke Nukem and Redneck Rampage, a game made by Xatrix, who also worked on titles such as Return to Castle Wolfentstein and the first Call of Duty games.

[Vindekarr]

Started on N-64 with a number of racing games, including Mario Kart.

 

After that I got my own first console, a then new comer, an Xbox. Loved that, initialy I started with driving games, being a kid at the times, but quickly moved on to shooters, and finaly RTS.

[XanAlderon]

First computer I had was called a Macintosh... 626 or something. Anyway, I used to play Lemmings, Maelstrom, Spacestation Pheta, and a few others... can't quite remember what else.