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PAGAN_old
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i got nostalgic today and decided to remember my first PC game i ever played. Yes i had a chinese SNES (called Dendi- really popular in russia 90s infact they still sell it) when i was a kid but a PC was something i wanted to have since i was 8 so i can play games on it. The first game i actually played on the computer was diablo 1 when i was like 9. Then i wanted to play this awesome tank game called recoil. tried installing it on my aunts pentium 1- not enough space, sarted deleting stuff and i deleted system 32 and screwd up her work computer. For a while i only played online games. My friend let me play final fantasy 7 but i finished it only a year later. My first significant game i played on my own computer (finally) was jedi knight dark forces 2! i still love that game. but when i discovered morrowind- that was the turning point of my life. The career path i chosen i owe it to morrowind stealing 5 years of my life trying to get my computer to run that game smoothly. That was the end of my so called computer childhood. after morrowind, an idea was planted into my head to some day create a computer game like MW. its what made me discover this forum and DB years later too. I am still trying to make a game but i always aim too high and end up abandoning my projects for lack of programming skills. after that i try aiming a bit lower and now i am just making a 2d linear rpg kinda like old final fantasy games

So what are the first computer games you guys played? (or general experience with your first computer) I am particularly interested in stories about computers because i consider them holy posessions compared to consoles which are just expensive toys lol

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The Even More Incredible Machine, or maybe it was Red Baron. I loved those games.

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First console game: Sonic the Hedgehog on the Master System
First PC game: either: The Secret of Monkey Island or Desert Strike.

All classic. I loved Sonic the Hedgehog on the Master System more than on the Megadrive/Genesis. Desert Strike, of course was a brilliant game, in fact, I have the itch to play it again and Jungle Strike too, though I never had Urban Strike unfortunately. I wonder how I would obtain them legally?

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The first game I ever played was commander keen and after that Rogue Squadron 3D

I still love both
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its been so long i cant even remember... Mario bors for nes... kung fu... duck hunt... for pc... well it would have been Oregon trail or some crap. I cant really remember. The best games i can remember were on snes: chrono trigger, super metriod, top gear, top gear 2, flashback, out of this world (one of my favorites...flashback too.) I was a big arcade junkie too: Primal Rage, killer instinct, metal slug(all of them)... really just too many games to count.

One of the things thats missing from games these days is the fun factor the old games had. Nowadays its the newfangled this and that when that had nothing to do with what makes a classic game....
Its a shame. Now there are exceptions... just not as many these days.

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Graham Gooch's Test Cricket... I spent many a happy hour playing that game too.

Don't let those fancy colour graphics in the link fool you though, our monitor was green screen only.

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It would've been space invaders, pacman etc. I'm old skool. First PC game I played when we got our own PC was probably Prince of Persia.

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We had an old Amstrad CPC when I was growing up, which I remember playing buggy boy on:



Of course, we only had a green screen, so it didn't look as impressive as that. We had other games too, I remember a yogi bear game and others, but none of their names.

Then we got a mega drive, and menacer and my favourite games were sonic 2 and Ready aim tomatos:



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The earliest I can think of was Defender on the TSR-80 Model 1 back in 1980.



This isn't Defender but it was basically the same look just a bit flatter mountains. Whoever took this picture had a green screen on their computer like we had on ours... without the green filter it was just black and super bright white.

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PC Game was Nascar 1998 hooked up on the LAN playin with my cousin and dad. Man that was the best.

First console game was Duckhunt, and super mario bros on the NES.

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wow looking at some of these games people played i realise how young i am lol. friends always told me i was lucky to have my first PC a p3 with nvidia GF mx200 card. My older friends had to deal with 486 mashines and stuff lol. Even back in like 2001, when most of the computers people i knew owned were still crap like p2 s and p1 s, with 2 mb sis mirage cards. me having a card that has the title of geforce on it, was considered super awesome lol.

What slightly annoys me is the modern pirsuit of photorealistic graphics, I do enjoy them, but i also really miss the late 90s era of chunky 3d graphiscs. like people complain that final fantasy 7 charecters look terrible blocky like lego people, In my opinion i like them, they liik really cute in a blocky low poly kind of way. I recentley got into pixel art and i actually find drawing tiles quite challenging. having a limit of 32x32 per tile i have to make it so it looks good, same with FF7 charecters, its hard to make something good looking with so little polys and games from that time did it pretty well. On the other hand, high poly graphics, its quite easy to make something that looks good because the polu count is high, and you have almost limitless possibilities. I find a fun challenge to make something good looking with low poly low res graphics and i just personally like low poly style. Infact i seem to like old stuff better, i love how old computers looked like, i love retro cars, especially american cars from 50s-80s (and some from early 90s).

Its my dream to get an old american car from the 70s. but since they are already hard to find in america, and in russia its impossible, i am planning to get the next best thing. A used soviet luxury sedan from the 80s which looks alot like old american cars from that time.

i like the retro look of it

sorry for the offtop, but anyway, one of my abandoned DB projects i purposly went for the 90s low poly style



high poly detailed things proboly take longer and turn out to be good, but its all pretty straightforward

this guy on the other hand took me about 5 hours to make, but it was hard to make him look good with so little polys, I think he turned out ok. How are my retro 90s modeling skills eh? all it took is milkshape and ms paint

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Posted: 26th Feb 2011 17:13 Edited at: 26th Feb 2011 17:14
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Zarch on an Acorn at my primary school



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Zelda OOT What a great way to start playing video games

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First PC-ish game played was Techno Cop on my friend's Amiga. I sucked at it... Then I broke his joystick playing some pervy game

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Not my first GAME, but...

Back when I was 5, and it had just come out, my dad got me Hellbender. I never beat the first world, but man, I love me some flying spaceships.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellbender_(video_game)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckbM2xCQu4I

Vid says 1996, but is was definitely 1995, seems some people in the comments mentioned so I well.

Sorry, next time I play my first pc game, it will be the good one in the series XD I guess fury 3, the game this was the sequel to, was a lot better or something.


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Carnivores was the first PC game that I played that I *really* played., Circa 1998 :V

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OHHHHH pc game... probably be Red Alert 1

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probably bomberman. though worms is pretty close

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Red Baron (2D, about 3 or 4 colors total), on my Dad's 386DX.

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I don't remember the first game ever, but the first that I can remember right now, is some Tony Tiger game you get from a cereal box. And my friend got a PlayStation one and I remember finding Aliens from there somewhere and then we decided to play it and... well let's say it was quite freaky at the time.

And Dinocrisis 2 is one of the first games I've ever played too... let's just say it was a terrifying start to my gaming life... and as scared as I was about Dinocrisis 2, I instantly fell in love with it, as my life back then used to be dinosaurs 24/7! Now I feel all nostalgic... thank you...

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"First Letters And Words" by First Byte for the Amiga. At least that's my best guess, there were many Amiga games I played but that was most likely the first.

As far as x86 PC goes: Doom, Terminal Velocity, Monkey Island. Chip's Challenge might have been first, I'm really not sure it was so long ago.

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Wow, Technocop! I loved that game on my Atari ST.

My first x86 PC game was back in '91. It was either Duck Tales: The Quest for Gold:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/disneys-duck-tales-the-quest-for-gold/screenshots

or California Games:

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/california-games/screenshots


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Commander Keen and Doom are the biggest ones I remember. I didn't realize until recently they were both by Id...

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There were many years that I didn't pay much attention to video games. The first game I ever played in an arcade was Asteroids. I remember that I REALLY sucked at it, and I thought "Man, this whole game thing is such a gimmick. It'll fade away pretty quickly."

The first game I played that really proved to me how intricate an art form video games have become was Star Wars Jedi Outcast. Having played many other such games since then, I know it wasn't anything revolutionary. But it was the first game that I happened to play that actually had a plot. So if there is any game that has sentimental value for me, it is Jedi Outcast.

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On that note I can remember the first computer i built... lol a 386... with 4 megs of ram. Monchrome video... lol... it was awsome... i remember how excited i was when i was given a svga monitor and video card... Soon after i built a 486 with 85mhz processor... and 16 megs ram later upgraded to 32 (The max for that peticular mother board if i remember.) The computer i have now is the first brand new computer i have ever built... pentium 4 2.8 ghz with hyperthread...(AKA make believe multicore lol.) The rest of the pcs ive ever owned i built from extra used parts when i could get them from were ever. Man have times changed.

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Yesterday I completed a game for the first time that was one of the first I ever played and it was brilliant! It's called Beneath A Steel Sky and it's freeware now so you can download from the developers site for free! I highly recommend doing so.

PS Press the ` key (below ESC) while playing to bring up the debugger, it's interesting to play around with it and try and figure out how the game works.


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The first two games I ever played were:


King's Quest 6, and


Earthworm Jim. Both excellent games And KQ6 got me into adventure games pretty much from the word go.

My first console game was Metal Gear Solid. I can still remember being incredibly excited when I played the demo: "Games like this exist?! I must buy it!"

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earthworm jim! I have that game for snes still, or was it sega? I think I also have the cartoon.


I almost forgot about Oregon Trail for the Apple IIe, that was in grade school.

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@OBese87 - BASS! One of the best adventure games i've ever played. Have you seen the Broken Sword games? They're made by the same developer, also really great games though I do have a bit of a soft spot for point n click adventure games

I think the first proper PC game I played (not including some silly educational 'games' on the Acorn Archimedes at school) was probably either one of my brother's Tomb Raider games or Broken Sword I.

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My First PC Game was Chess Master 5000 (If that's considered a PC game.)

My First Console game was Super Mario World.

I never won a game of chess with the AI, always beat me because I was never good at it. Plus I was too young back then.

I played Super Mario world til' the controller stoped working, that was 2 years AFTER I got my N64 at 1996...My SNES was sold to a friend and I started playing my N64 alot more.

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EWJ was awsome... i had it on sega... as far as kings quest... i thought the space quest series was cooler... lol they had zztop at the bar... lemmings was pretty fun... makes me want to play it again.

I was much more a fan of decent then either fury, TV, or hellbender.

Out of this world, heart of the the alien, and flashback were some of my favorite games. If you have never played them they are very cool combat puzzle wise. There kind of like old school prince of persia with aliens guns and puzzles...

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Quote: "On that note I can remember the first computer i built... lol a 386... with 4 megs of ram. Monchrome video... lol... it was awsome... i remember how excited i was when i was given a svga monitor and video card... Soon after i built a 486 with 85mhz processor... and 16 megs ram later upgraded to 32 (The max for that peticular mother board if i remember.)"


thats badass

Quote: "Yesterday I completed a game for the first time that was one of the first I ever played and it was brilliant! It's called Beneath A Steel Sky and it's freeware now so you can download from the developers site for free! I highly recommend doing so. "


i wanted to play that but it dosent work in win 7

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Quote: "as far as kings quest... i thought the space quest series was cooler"


Ditto. King's Quest was much harder than the other adventure games I played back then. I didn't like adventure games that allowed you to mess up late in the game by not grabbing an item from the beginning of the game, but I always made the exception with Space Quest.

Quote: "i wanted to play that but it dosent work in win 7"


I'm fairly sure it works on Windows 7 with ScummVM


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what is it i think ... space quest 2??? were your a janitor sweeping something in the beginning?? Lol those games were funny.

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I don't remember it being that easy to build a 386, the CPU was usually soldered into place. My first build was a 486, DX4

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Your right there... my 386 (35 i think??) was soldered to the board... but that wasnt my doing... i think the board came as a set with the cpu... im pretty sure... All i remember is that it was a complete set when i got it. Now the 486 had a socket. One of the cool things about my 486 was that it was faster then alot of the 586/ 686 out because it was a...(DX??) it clocked at 85mhz... wich was pretty fast for a 486... i think the 686 was made only by cyrix because intel had switched to the pentium after (486??/586??) anyway the intel 486 that i remember was much faster then the cyrix... but my memory is about as reliable as well... i cant remember what, but its not that reliable. Anyway those were the days... using computers with no power... no storage... well actually those werent the days...

edit... what made it the days were the clever uses of that tech... really... a raytracing engine (doom) that ran on 4mb of ram... really??? games that were full of content full of fun and were limited severly as far as resources. Honestly were all spoiled. My new machine has 6bg of triple channel memory... i think expandable to 24? 3.4 ghz quad core... 1200mb video memory?? Thats pure retardedness.. Now its completely possible to add a ton of detail to a project with that kind of power... but were the old games used to excell was the memory management. A well managed game with tons of fun... we could learn something from them.

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"Pick the last stick" The goal was to pick the last stick, can't remember the rules exactly but I think you could pick either three or one. Maybe on a IBM System/3, punch card loaded programs and paper typewriter type output. Awesome graphics, the sticks where represented by a couple of "I" characters typed out on paper
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Quote: "i wanted to play that but it dosent work in win 7"


sure it does. I haven't checked out the developer's site yet, but at good old games they offer it for free with the vm you need and configured, and it's immediately playable on windows 7.

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My first game was Hugo,then Destruction Derby,NFS 1/2/3.


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I think it was Microprose Grand Prix (Geoff Grammond) - although I do remember playing some old retro asteroids game, I have no idea what it was called. GP was the first PC game I properly played tho, mainly because the PC version had null-modem multiplayer .

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ha ha ha.. first game i play ..
Pong the original..
oooolld.. very old..

haaa. i ' still have my ATARI 65XE (and Cassete games)



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Depends what you mean by "PC" game. Literally an IBM compatible PC would probably be Test Drive at a guess. That was on an 8Mhz (might have been 4 actually, not sure) XT. Nice. Using SimCGA on a Hurcules card I believe so amazingly slow. You could see it redrawing the screen basically.

My first ever proper computer game though (ie. not a console type effort) was probably Harrier Attack on the ZX Spectrum, followed quickly by Horace and the spiders. That's if you don't count the free games that came with the manual (literally BASIC programming manual really) that my dad made me read first before playing any games. Which was good really as that's what I've done for a living for the last 16 years (programming rather than ZX Spectrum coding...)

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Commander Keen was the first game I ever played (Goodbye Galaxy if you're interested), although I'm young enough that I was born just as true 3D games were coming in - I think I was about 2 when the first Tomb Raider came out - so Commander Keen was an old game then. Ironically I enjoyed Keen a lot more than many other games, I don't know if that tells you anything

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Not my first, but

Neverhood

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Quote: "what is it i think ... space quest 2??? were your a janitor sweeping something in the beginning??"


Yep, that's the one I know Space Quest 1-5 all by heart, but I never got around to completing Space Quest 6. By that time the original creators weren't at Sierra any longer and the full talkie voice-overs and animation style annoyed me.

You can buy those awesome games on Good Old Games or Steam. The weird thing is, on Steam it only has the newer SQ 1 VGA version, while on GOG it only has the original SQ 1 EGA version. Argh!


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Posted: 28th Feb 2011 20:29 Edited at: 28th Feb 2011 20:30
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Quote: "Depends what you mean by "PC" game. Literally an IBM compatible PC would probably be Test Drive at a guess."

I remeber playing test drive... it had to be one of my first games too. that and the original microsoft flight sim for dos. My dad had those on one of the first computers i can remember him building. And yep.... lol had the old herc monochrome on his too.. lol i forgot all about that... lol

Oh thats right you were sweeping the outside of the ship?? and your broom flies away?? Makes me want to play again.

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Posted: 28th Feb 2011 20:30 Edited at: 28th Feb 2011 20:34
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The first PC game that I played was Mindsweeper, I remember because at the time, I didn't know much of anything about computers, and I remember thinking the entire time I was randomly clicking spaces on the board; "is this a game?"

The first console game that I remember playing was Duck Hunt on the NES over at my uncle's house with my cousins and I fighting over the gun the entire night. A month or so later, I remember going over to visit again, and I ended up watching my older cousin play the original Resident Evil on the Playstation...in the dark. And I think that was the first time that a video game managed to scared me. It was right around the time the first infected dog jumped through the window.

After that, I remember getting my own file to play on, and every time that I saw a zombie, I would throw the controller to my cousin so he could kill it; because I got scared... and didn't want to die and be pushed back an hour to my last save point.









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CapnBuzz
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Posted: 28th Feb 2011 21:20
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First PC game: ZORK for the Commodore Vic20

First console game: a no-name one-piece beige console sold by Sears on the mid 70's that only played pong. I still own it.
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That Guy John
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Posted: 1st Mar 2011 16:15
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I don't remember my first PC game, but does anyone here remember those contraptions that looked like cassette players that had games?
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