IFIRC the very first computer game I remember playing was the Oregon Trail in grade school on an Apple 2. Teacher told us to play. Other than that Blake Stone, wolf3D, Pirates on family computer.
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Windows What was your first PC Game?
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First game, pong but that was a console.
First game on the PC, was Adventure.
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First game on the PC, was Adventure.
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I was digging through some old stuff and found the first PC game I ever bought. Sure I’ve had some preloaded games like solitaire and minesweeper but I remember picking this game up at a local computer store.
I had no idea how difficult it was to even run this game and after a day of trial and error, I made my very first boot disk to play the game in my 386SX PC work 2MB of RAM.
The old desktop that I had didn’t even have a soundcard so I had to use the internal speaker and listen to all the beeps and bops in the game. My uncle at the time upgraded to a sound blaster 16 so he gave me his old sound blaster and I was amazed to hear MJs voice in the game.
We’ve definitely come a long way after the past few decades!
I can’t remember but I think it was a rpg on cassette and atari’s star raider on cartridge for the 400/800 computer system.
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I was digging through some old stuff and found the first PC game I ever bought. Sure I’ve had some preloaded games like solitaire and minesweeper but I remember picking this game up at a local computer store.
I had no idea how difficult it was to even run this game and after a day of trial and error, I made my very first boot disk to play the game in my 386SX PC work 2MB of RAM.
The old desktop that I had didn’t even have a soundcard so I had to use the internal speaker and listen to all the beeps and bops in the game. My uncle at the time upgraded to a sound blaster 16 so he gave me his old sound blaster and I was amazed to hear MJs voice in the game.
We’ve definitely come a long way after the past few decades!
You know, soundcards are not even reviewed anymore.
Zork 1 (I am talking the very original version)
First game graphical game is kind of tough as I was a game console person at the arcade. Though Donkey Kong has to be right up there on the list and of course Pong. I remember as a child playing on a big screen that was specially made for the game (I would say it was at least the size of a pool table if not bigger) at the K of C (Knights of Columbus where my father was a member). As silly as it sounds I wish I could have that screen version of Pong as it was cool. I think I remember someone saying that they paid about $6,000 for the pong game. That was a lot of money in the the 70s.
Games today are awesome graphically, but a lot of them don't have the game playability as the older 8-bit games did.
First game graphical game is kind of tough as I was a game console person at the arcade. Though Donkey Kong has to be right up there on the list and of course Pong. I remember as a child playing on a big screen that was specially made for the game (I would say it was at least the size of a pool table if not bigger) at the K of C (Knights of Columbus where my father was a member). As silly as it sounds I wish I could have that screen version of Pong as it was cool. I think I remember someone saying that they paid about $6,000 for the pong game. That was a lot of money in the the 70s.
Games today are awesome graphically, but a lot of them don't have the game playability as the older 8-bit games did.
Zork was just words on the screen with no graphical icons at all, there were a few games like that except for wizardry.
I started on PC with Infocom's: "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and after that all the Zorks
. I did not keep the boxes though. I lost those games years ago when I was moving house.
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Not sure I can remember that far back. Stoneville Manor on the TRS-80 (word based adventure game).
Castle Wolfenstein (Apple).
Space Invaders on TI-994A.
Castle Wolfenstein (Apple).
Space Invaders on TI-994A.
It wasn't Windows or Mac, but my first computer game was Wizardry: Proving Grounds of the Mad Overlord on our Apple //e in probably 1983. I remember making my own maps on graph paper. I played the first two sequels too (Wizardry II and Wizardry III) before losing track of the series.
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