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Snickersnack: ME TOO!

*high fives Arteveld

Digger was badass. For a pc game at least. ;) It had sound effects and background music going simultaneously on the pc speaker.

I can still hear the music in my head.

One second thought, FU Arteveld ;)



just kidding
I should get used to making people have mixed feelings when i say something.;P

I vaguely remember the music in Digger, honestly. Though, i've played it recently in DosBOX, and if i didn't, i probably wouldn't remember it at all. I was brought up on a C64, so Digger on a IBM XT with Hercules and a PC Squeaker wasn't that impressive to me. Though i'm not sure i could remember my first C64 game, i barely waked then.

It's the first PC game i remember playing, there were also Paratrooper and Alley Cat, but i'm pretty sure Digger was my introduction to IBM PC.
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icepowdah: Hi guys. Just out of curiosity... what is the first game you remember playing ever on a PC? Can be as corny as Windows Solitaire :P. Mine was one of the first Commander Keen titles .. almost sure it was Episode 4: Secret of the Oracle ... `round 93.

EDIT: And if i try to remember even more ... it was on an Amiga 4000 machine that a friend owned. On my first PC (a 586 @ 100MHz) it would have to be DOOM as well.

EDIT2: And by PC yes .. I mean IBM compatible machine.
Star Wars Rebel Assault I believe was my first one. I was like 4 years old I think.
Age of Empires. I hope it'll be available on Good Old Games eventually.
Doom Shareware, I was addicted.
Timon & Pumbaa's Jungle Games. Damn, that game came out for the SNES as well. I say.

First game ever was Super Mario World. One of my earliest memories is standing in an empty store waiting, impatiently for my dad to finish doing something at the counter, when suddenly he asks me to look at something... a SNES in its foam packaging. I think it may have been Bergsala, the Swedish Nintendo branch, as I recall driving past their sign (a squat Mario on top of a pole) a lot when I was tiny.
I had a Vic-20 in 1983 but I only played a few obscure games that I can't remember the names of. Back then I would go to my friends' houses and play games on their computers, but I can't remember much of what I played. I clearly remember playing Choplifter on the Commodore 64, but that wasn't the very first one I played. Also some game called Forbidden Forest, which had graphics that blew my mind back then.

In 1998, when I was older and had my very own pc, the first game I played was MDK on an iMac in 1998.
The first PC game I played was Castle Wolfenstein (back in the 80's on an Apple IIe).

The first game I bought was Civilization III. But the first game I got seriously hooked on was Civilization I.
I believe it was either or [url=http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/shooting-gallery]Shooting Gallery on my uncle's 286 with its B&W monitor.

I was amazed to see those games in color when we got our own computer :)
It was Oregon Trail on the lone Apple computer in our grade school library. We also had a version of Missile Command that drilled arithmetic problems. Hundreds of students rotated through 10-20 minute sessions in pairs. Good times.
North and South when I was 4 years old lol I used to love the noises from the indians apparently, That and superfrog was probably my favorite game
Centurion: defender of Rome
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reaver894: Rogue... Yup that was my first I think, my memory sucks though.
WOW! Someone else remembers Rogue!

That was also my first game if memory serves although it isn't what it used to be either. =P
The first computer game (as opposed to console game) I remember playing was Oregon Trail.

My family didn't have a computer when I was growing up in the 80s. I played the Nintendo mostly, but played some PC games at friends' places. The first time I remember owning a computer was a 486. I didn't have many games back then, so I think I remember all of the one's I owned. They were Full Throttle, Alone in the Dark, Dragon's Lair III, Guy Spy, Wolfenstein 3d, Inca, Spellcasting 101: Sorcerer's Get All the Girls, and King's Quest VI.

At a friends' houses, I also played a significant amount of Doom, Myst, 7th Guest, Return to Zork, Day of the Tentacle, X-Wing, Sim City, Lemmings, and others. Around the mid 90s I stopped playing PC games because I couldn't keep up with the hardware updates needed and I was having plenty of fun with the Nintendo 64 and later the Playstation 2. I only really got heavy into PC gaming again about 3 or 4 years ago.
I think Simcity is the first full game I played, but there were plenty of shareware titles around the same time (Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, Captain Comic, Jazz Jackrabbit, Jill of the Jungle).

Oh wait, it was probably Boulder Dash or Digger actually. Actually, the more I think about it, the more doubt that creeps into my mind about what the first game actually was ... The Castle of Dr Brain is also a strong contender ...

Does Dr Sbaitso count?

"Times times times times times times times times times times times times ..."
Now that I think about it, the first PC game I played might have been M.U.L.E. on a friends Commadore 64.

I played that game about the same time I played Castle Wolfenstein on an Apple IIe at my high school. There was another game we played in class (was supposed to be learning Apple BASIC) but I can't remember the name of it. It was a fantasy adventure game. And there might have been something about collecting gem or crystal fragments while fighting dungeon creatures?