Our first computer was an IBM, and the first pc game that i remember is called Kindergarten, i wish i remembered more about it though, i would love to watch on youtube and get a nostalgia boost haha

  • zxvro
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    51 year ago

    GTA Vice City. I remember “concealing” weapons by switching to the empty hand near police officers, since open carrying a minigun didn’t seem legal. The cheats were very fun in that game aswell, like cars driving on water, or who could forget the classic “panzer”. Also it really looked like real life, but if one were to play VC now, you’d wonder what was wrong with my eyes as a kid lol. That seems to be a common sentiment about old 3D games though, really impressive how advanced 3D tech became in a few years.

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    Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. Played it on a monochrome green EGA monitor. The “copy protection,” such as it was, asked us who Richard Nixon’s running mate was and we didn’t know enough English at the time to comprehend. After trial and error, managed to get into the game and didn’t have a flaming clue what we were doing. A ripping good time, it was.

    • DoucheAsaurus
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      11 year ago

      Oh man, that game was an experience. My friends and I had to discover everything through trial and error. I remember laughing so hard when we clogged the toilet in the bathroom and drowned haha

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        11 year ago

        I went on to play all seven (well, technically 6: see here) and the two reboots by a German studio that came out a year or two ago. Al Lowe’s is a master of the lampoon style of humor

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    41 year ago

    Math Blaster for our Tandy 4000. My parents got it for me because I was shit at math. I’m still shit at math.

  • The_Digitalfigment
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    41 year ago

    It’s very likely one of my first PC games was a Humongous Entertainment game. Putt-Putt Joins the Parade or Putt-Putt Goes To The Moon were probably my introductions. I also remember playing Elf Bowling on my Grandma’s Windows 95 computer every time I would visit her house.

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      11 year ago

      The Putt-Putt games were some of my first too! I used to love Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo.

  • wnose
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    41 year ago

    Loderunner. Yeah, back when people had 5 1/4" disks for games.

  • Hyacathusarullistad
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    41 year ago

    It would have to be the Learning Company’s Treasure Mountain!, which the computers in my classroom had in Grade 1. I liked it just fine, but a few years later my Grade 4 computer had Ancient Empires and that’s the one I really got into. My teacher once agreed to break school rules and send the floppy disk home with me because I refused to get off the computer at the end of day.

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    ‘Where In the World is Carmen San Diego’ on a Commodore 64 in elementary school! I loved that game so much. Looked forward to computer class every week. Also, my cousin had a mac, I think, that had a game where you played two tanks on opposite sides of the screen, and the tanks shoot each other and drop bombs on each other. Edit: wiki tells me it was called Scorched Earth. I can still remember the sound effects…wish I could remember the name of that one! The first PC game that I really gave huge chunks of my life to was Ultima Online (Pacific shard woop woop). My first Guild experience…first dungeon crawl…ahh the nostalgia…those were good times. Cor por!

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      11 year ago

      a few months ago i saw the netflix show of carmen!

  • can
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    31 year ago

    Roller Coaster Tycoon is the first that I really remember. I don’t even remember which cereal it came in but that was the best value ever.

  • @Tahssi
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    31 year ago

    I don’t remember anything about our family PC but the first games I played on it were Runescape, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Age of Empires 2. Runescape I mostly just played with friends from middle school but I spent hours upon hours on Age of Empires 2

    • s804OP
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      21 year ago

      age of empires 2… i played so much of this game! age of mythology was awesome too

  • BaldProphet
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    31 year ago

    Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo. I loved that game, and all the other Humongous Entertainment games

    • JIMANG
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      21 year ago

      This might be my first one too. Either this or SkiFree.

  • MeowKittyWow
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    31 year ago

    The first computer my family had was a really old one with MS DOS. First game was either Nibbles, or a weird platformer called Dark Ages (can’t remember which I tried first).

  • Montagge
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    31 year ago

    Best I can remember it was a DOS game called Number Munchers. You had to dodge monsters while solving math.

    • s804OP
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      11 year ago

      it was really smart to make games that help educate you and are fun. i remember i played a mario words game SO MUCH!

    • jargoggles
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      11 year ago

      That’s probably the first game I remember playing, but that was at the computer lab at school.

      I’m having a tough time remembering the first game I actually had on our own computer at home. It might have been Encarta Mind Maze which came with the Encarta Encyclopedia CD.

      • PlainsKeeper316
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        11 year ago

        Yeah, I played it in the computer lab. At home my first game was probably solitaire or minesweeper on Windows 3.1. That Encarta maze was fun!

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      11 year ago

      so much death in this game. depression simulator

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    My uncle gave us a bunch of PC games for my 286 pc. Among them was a Spider-Man game, a chess game, a couple classic arcade games, and ascii game that started with a Z that I can’t remember the name of, Leisure Suit Larry, and a side scroller with a woman with a sword. I was so young. I learned DOS fast and was playing the games. I liked to walk around as Leisure Suit Larry but I never understood the point of the game until I saw the sequels in my later teens.

      • s804OP
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        11 year ago

        i have never played this game, seems like it was a gamechanger

    • s804OP
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      11 year ago

      these are such great memories hahaha