Name your first.

[Train]

the hitchhiker's text game was infuriating haha. i remember banging my head against my keyboard playing that game more than once.

It wasn't until about 15 years later that I looked up online how to win that stupid game.

 

[Jeffg010]

Kings Quest

 

[arredondo]

Counterstrike, definitely. It forced me to buy my first gaming rig.

 

[VtPC83]

Sid Meier's Pirates! on the Apple IIGS....

 

[Wordplay]

Number Munchers

 

[darkewaffle]

Oh man, Ragnarok Online and then Neverwinter Nights. Good times.

 

[acheron]

Either Alley Cat (1983) or Paratrooper (1982). My father took me to their office where I played on PC for the first time. I was sure command.com was a game it just won't start

yeah Alleycat.

I probably tried to run command.com too.

 

[Corporate Thug]

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/myththefallenlords/index.html

 

[Possessed Freak]

Secret Weapons of the Lufftwaffe in 1992. Followed by Doom.

Wehn my dad bought a creative cd-rom/soundblaster combo it came with this, Loom, and Monkey Island.

Can't say which hooked me, probably all 3.

 

[Maleficus]

Subspace, I was completely and totally addicted for about 4 years. then it was just mild addiction, then I broke free. Still I hear it's siren song though...

 

[sash1]

Sim Ant

 

[s1175290]

Duke Nukem in college.

 

[KeithTalent]

yeah Alleycat.

I probably tried to run command.com too.

Lol Alleycat. I freaking loved that game. :awe:

KT

 

[stevty2889]

the original Civilization, X-Com, Tie Fighter, and Master of Magic

 

[misle]

First computer game: Ultima VII

 

[boran]

Pac Man on my dads 286.

 

[disappoint]

Pitfall on the Atari 2600 circa 1982
Space Quest I on the PC in 1986.

 

[The Green Bean]

Gizmos and Gadgets and Dangerous Dave

 

[Phunk0ne]

Definitely would be space quest 1 (1986), first started playing the game in 1988

Wait a minute... I was 9 years old then! . . .

Thanks to this game, it helped me to get hooked to pc games/gaming. Best part about that game was that it helped me a great deal in understanding a plethora of English words and sentences.

At that time, the walk through was only avaiable in English, so that definitely pushed me in understanding the language.

Very soon afterwards, my days were filled with all the other Sierra quest games, not to mention a wealth of other computers and their games.... and yes you've guessed it... all in English . . .

 

[dud]

Other than M.U.L.E. on the old Atari 800 I forgot to mention the ORIGINAL 2D Castle Wolfenstein for the Apple 2. I was hooked in college (about 1983) when I would walk into the computer lab and half the computers were being used to play. I grabbed myself a copy and the rest is history.

 

[fatpat268]

I played other games before it, but Sim City 3000 was really the first game that I played extensively on the PC. I had always been console only before that.

 

[The Green Bean]

Number Munchers

The PC version sucked compared to the Mac version. We had Macs in school and I remember loving to play that game.

 

[shurato]

The original Leisure Suit Larry 1 got me into PC gaming. Pretty silly now but as a kid that game was quite taboo for it's time. As VGA graphics progressed, all of the old Sierra games got me hooked. I still remember going to Babbages and buying Police Quest 3 and Leisure Suit Larry 5 and having the time of my life. Wing Commander 1 and 2 were epic... Civilization 1 was the first game that I can remember having marathon 12+ hour sessions on.

The DOS games back then were so much fun. My favorite DOS game ever would be Syndicate.... one of the best game of all time.

Quake 2 got me into competitive gaming.

Now I'm an old fogie trying to keep up with the kids in Starcraft 2.

 

[simonizor]

Number Munchers

I remember playing that game in school