What was your first really great pc game?

[WPFossil]

the original Wolfenstein

 

[Blueoak]

Originally posted by: LordMorpheus

Originally posted by: TheBDB
Wing Commander

 

[nemesismk2]

I know it's only great pc games but alot of my fav games are also on other computers:-

sinclair spectrum 128k (8bit) = lords of chaos, laser squad, chaos, elite
atari 1040 stfm (16bit) = captive, super cars 2, warhead, frontier elite 2, cannon fodder, deuteros, millenium 2.2, another world, armour geddon, carrier command, the chaos engine, gauntlet 2, silkworm, exile
pc = conflict freespace 2, master of orion 2, total annihilation, unreal, star control 2

My all time fav PC game has to be Total Annihilation and I still play it all the time. To be honest I think most pc games suck, I completed both Doom3 and Halflife 2 quickly and there was no replay value at all!

 

[jedidrw]

DOTT - Day of the Tentacle

 

[klispic]

Wolfenstein or Gold Rush (good old Tandy1000 computer) or Ancient Art of War at Sea

 

[fatkorean]

I forget the name, but it was where you were this canon and had to use angle and power to kill the other one?

Ultima, Bards Tale, Zork, Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, Zany Golf, Wizardy?..

One of the older ones I can recall that I played a lot was some math game that was like space invaders on a tsr-80 on tape...Math Blaster?..

 

[WhiteWonder]

Originally posted by: Baked
X-Com is the greatest game ever made.

yeah

I was also into the starwars X-wing games.

I think that i just liked games with X in the title.

 

[Sphexi]

Hmm...ever play ThinkQuick? Old educational game, very fun. Played it on an old IBM PC, the one with a 10MB harddrive and two 5 1/4" floppies.

KQ1-5
SQ1-4
PQ1/2
King Arthur (the Sierra one)
Scorched Earth
Warcraft 1/2
Wolfenstein 3d
Doom/Doom 2
Starflight and Starflight 2
Original Simcity (with the godawful red copy-protection thing)
SimEarth/SimAnt/SimTower
Civ (DOS version)

Lots and lots more. I have most of these archived still, and pull em out from time to time on an older P133 Win95 based system

 

[Sphexi]

Hah! "Sun Tzu's The Art of War." Now that brings back memories of archers and barbarians (whatever they were supposed to be) scaling block-pixel castle walls. And it came with a full copy of the original book. Remember when games came with some fun extras, not just a CD case and a slip of paper telling you how legally screwed you are if you have any problems? Anybody remember an ancient text-based Infocom title called "Wishbringer?" That one actually came complete with a bound novella and the "magickal" stone from the game (a luminescent hunk of plastic, but hey, I was six).

-HC-

Remember all of the Sid Meiers originals, ie SimEarth and Simcity? They came with HUGE books, and they were actually educational. I still have my SimEarth guide, about 10% of it is game related, the rest is just interesting facts on evolution and whatnot.

 

[Zelmo3]

Dungeon Master II: The Legend of Skullkeep
It was a full sequel to earlier games made for Amiga, Apple IIGS, and Atari ST. First game I ever bought, and one of only a few software purchases I've considered worth making.

 

[QueBert]

Sopwith, I also spent an unhealthy amount of time playing Alleycat

 

[Al Neri]

Originally posted by: spidey07
Winter Games.

:beer:

summer games too! on my old atari 130

EDIT i put atari 2600

 

[Al Neri]

Originally posted by: bpatters69
Ummmmmmmm............showing my age..........

Some Jungle Program on my Atari 2600.......


I am getting old.

jungle hunt !

 

[Al Neri]

Originally posted by: roguerower
Ladies, ladies. Chuck Yeager's Air Combat on 3 or 4 1.44 mb floppys. boo-ya

good one!

(i have a few more posts coming)

 

[Al Neri]

Originally posted by: Project86
Anyone remember Cyberstrike on Genie network? Genie was like Prodigy/Compuserve/Aol at the time. Anyways, that was my first attempt at multiplayer gaming, and with a 2400bps modem, a failed attempt at that. But Cyberstrike had lots of potential-cool polygon graffix (WAAAY before starfox made them popular), chat with other players, etc.

GEnie was General Electrics answer to P*/Compusterve/QLink [aol] (i think it was qlink).. only place i saw GEnie mentioned was on the seirra manuals...

 

[FP]

King's Quest 1... Great game. Had to call the Sierra hint line after spending 3 days looking for a damn key!

 

[Kenazo]

Castle

 

[SilentRavens]

Probably Commander Keen

Edit: Scratch that, Super Mario World for SNES

 

[NietzscheRCN]

Doom II

 

[mwmorph]

oh ,amn, it's probablyy Master Of Orion 2 or some olde school intellivision classics.

 

[Zelmo3]

Oh, Master of Orion. I forgot about that. I might have been playing that before Dungeon Master II. I still play it when I have half a day to kill.
Come to think of it, Scorched Earth came way before either of the above, and it still kicks much ass. The new Scorched3D is even better.

 

[Project86]

Originally posted by: matstars

Originally posted by: Project86
Anyone remember Cyberstrike on Genie network? Genie was like Prodigy/Compuserve/Aol at the time. Anyways, that was my first attempt at multiplayer gaming, and with a 2400bps modem, a failed attempt at that. But Cyberstrike had lots of potential-cool polygon graffix (WAAAY before starfox made them popular), chat with other players, etc.

GEnie was General Electrics answer to P*/Compusterve/QLink [aol] (i think it was qlink).. only place i saw GEnie mentioned was on the seirra manuals...

GEnie went back at least as far as 1987 (that's when they first got some online games) and for a while was the undisputed leader in online gaming. They peaked in 1993, with over 115,000 users and average of 2000 users at any given time. Classics like Air Warrior, GemStone III, Island of Kesmai, and of course Cyberstrike were all available only on GEnie.

 

[imported_Skorpio]

Delta Force 2...you wont believe how many players play that game still....I mean come on its pixel based!!!

 

[straubs]

Original Doom on a a 9600 baud modem, 4-player. I believe this may have been the first online multiplayer FPS, and I don't know that I've ever had as much fun since then. I was difficult getting 4 players together on the BBS and getting it to work, while dealing with modem init strings, line noise, connection loss, etc. But when it worked, oh man, played for hours!

 

[Law]

Doom 1, The Return of Zork, Crusader No Remorse