Matrix Games Forums

 Forums  Register  Login  Photo Gallery  Member List  Search  Calendars  FAQ 

My Profile  Inbox  Address Book  My Subscription  My Forums  Log Out

My first pc game

 
View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest
Users viewing this topic: none
  Printable Version
All Forums >> [General] >> General Discussion >> My first pc game Page: [1] 2   next >   >>
Login
Message << Older Topic   Newer Topic >>
My first pc game - 1/26/2017 10:12:02 AM   
operating


Posts: 3158
Joined: 1/19/2013
Status: offline 		Got my first computer in 2000 from Dell then went shopping at a Circuit City store (now long gone) for supplies, that's where I first came into contact with a wall of pc games on display. Always have been a fan of the Civil War, so when I spied this beautifully boxed cd game about the Civil War, thought to give this new way of gaming a try. Got home and absolutely had a blast with it, a simple fun game to play, which at the same time created a thirst for more of such gaming that continues to this day. It's been many years since playing that game, yet the experience always stayed with me. Here's the first pc game that I will never forget: (History Channel) Civil War Great Battles (price sticker still on it for $19.99 us)





Attachment (1)

< Message edited by operating -- 1/26/2017 10:13:55 AM >
Post #: 1
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 10:31:11 AM   
zakblood


Posts: 22687
Joined: 10/4/2012
Status: offline 		my first pc didn't come with games, well not that you could go out and buy, you had to copy the magazine code in and type it all in first before you run it





Attachment (1)

< Message edited by zakblood -- 1/26/2017 4:16:43 PM >

(in reply to operating)
Post #: 2
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 12:01:42 PM   
berto


Posts: 20708
Joined: 3/13/2002
From: metro Chicago, Illinois, USA
Status: offline
My first PC game: Archon, for the Commodore 64 IIRC.

My first PC war game: Either TOAW, or JTCS Rising Sun, I don't remember exactly.

_____________________________

Campaign Series Legion https://cslegion.com/
Campaign Series Lead Coder https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tt.asp?forumid=1515
Panzer Campaigns, Panzer Battles, Civil War Battles Lead Coder https://wargameds.com

(in reply to zakblood)
Post #: 3
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 3:40:22 PM   
lecrop


Posts: 412
Joined: 4/14/2009
Status: offline 		Spectrum's Sabre Wulf


(in reply to berto)
Post #: 4
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 3:47:17 PM   
Greybriar


Posts: 1148
Joined: 2/9/2007
Status: offline 		I got my first computer in 1989 and don't remember what the first game was that I played on it except that it was a text adventure. I do remember playing Larn early on and that many of my early purchases were by MicroProse, SSI, SSG, and Sierra.

_____________________________

This war is not about slavery. --Robert E. Lee

(in reply to lecrop)
Post #: 5
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 6:32:49 PM   
wodin


Posts: 10762
Joined: 4/20/2003
From: England
Status: offline 		Beside the intellivision console which had Pac Man a football game and one were you were Indian Jones I think (found it was called Pitfall https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitfall!). Actual computer games I can remember playing when my Dad bought the BBC B are Elite, Erik the Viking, Defender, Football Manager and The Hobbit.

< Message edited by wodin -- 1/26/2017 9:01:23 PM >

_____________________________

My website


https://www.awargamersneedfulthings.co.uk/

(in reply to Greybriar)
Post #: 6
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 6:56:58 PM   
Aurelian

 

Posts: 3916
Joined: 2/26/2007
Status: offline 		SSI's Broadside

_____________________________

If the Earth was flat, cats would of knocked everything off of it long ago.

(in reply to wodin)
Post #: 7
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 10:10:20 PM   
Zorch

 

Posts: 7087
Joined: 3/7/2010
Status: offline 		Backgammon on the TRS-80 Model I. Loaded by cassette.

(in reply to Aurelian)
Post #: 8
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 10:19:30 PM   
Red2112

 

Posts: 1355
Joined: 9/9/2006
Status: offline 		Microprose Gunship 2000...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HQi9wqJaXY



_____________________________


(in reply to Aurelian)
Post #: 9
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 10:24:07 PM   
Rodwonder

 

Posts: 193
Joined: 12/7/2013
Status: offline 		Panzer General then Steel Panthers....

(in reply to Red2112)
Post #: 10
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 10:30:45 PM   
Rosseau

 

Posts: 2757
Joined: 9/13/2009
Status: offline 		Wow, you guys are old

Chris Crawford's Eastern Front (circa 1982) really hooked me on wargames for the first time. Although as a kid Risk I loved.

(in reply to Rodwonder)
Post #: 11
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 10:45:32 PM   
waltero


Posts: 202
Joined: 1/24/2008
From: Alaska
Status: offline 		pong

_____________________________

"WELL ~ Mrs. LIncoln,
other than that, How was the play?

(in reply to Rosseau)
Post #: 12
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 11:14:10 PM   
radic202


Posts: 598
Joined: 6/7/2012
From: Ontario, Canada
Status: offline

November 8th 1995, with 3 young kids this was the firs PC game I could afford and I played the heck out of it. I still have the boxed copy somewhere in my storage area in the basement......hm might go looking for it!



_____________________________

It is much harder to think about doing something than actually doing it!

(in reply to waltero)
Post #: 13
RE: My first pc game - 1/26/2017 11:20:29 PM   
radic202


Posts: 598
Joined: 6/7/2012
From: Ontario, Canada
Status: offline

First War Game I ever purchase was D Day: Thew beginning of the end (1994) by Impressions Software (not sure if I still have the boxed copy). Even though it came out before Stonekeep I could only afford one game at a time, so bought this maybe 6 months after Stonekeep. I really enjoyed this war game but now looking back, I wonder why as compared to the Avalon Hill PC Games this was no where near as good.







_____________________________

It is much harder to think about doing something than actually doing it!

(in reply to radic202)
Post #: 14
RE: My first pc game - 1/27/2017 12:25:06 AM   
goodwoodrw


Posts: 2661
Joined: 2/14/2005
Status: offline 		Can't remember if my first was Action Stations or Firebrigade


_____________________________

Formerly Goodwood


(in reply to radic202)
Post #: 15
RE: My first pc game - 1/27/2017 4:19:30 AM   
Challerain

 

Posts: 270
Joined: 6/16/2001
From: Mansfield, Texas
Status: offline 		First game: Temple of Apshai for C64

First wargame - SSI's Knights of the Desert for C64

(in reply to goodwoodrw)
Post #: 16
RE: My first pc game - 1/27/2017 4:46:31 AM   
wodin


Posts: 10762
Joined: 4/20/2003
From: England
Status: offline 		zak I remember the magazine games..you spend hours and hours typing it in only for it not to work and then spend hours and hours trying to find what you typed in wrong..eventually you'd sort any issues and get to play..and the actual game would be awful..or even worse the magazine printed part of the code wrong so you never end up playing anything at all!! My experience was using BASIC on the BBC B

_____________________________

My website


https://www.awargamersneedfulthings.co.uk/

(in reply to Challerain)
Post #: 17
RE: My first pc game - 1/27/2017 5:50:48 AM   
zakblood


Posts: 22687
Joined: 10/4/2012
Status: offline 		yes that's so true, even worst when in two parts, so second page was another month away, then another month for typo fixes, and yes, 2 weeks or typing and re checking, for 2 mins of utter boredom when or if it worked at the end, so yes all true, these younger ones have it easy

(in reply to wodin)
Post #: 18
RE: My first pc game - 1/27/2017 7:23:41 AM   
Pvt_Grunt

 

Posts: 327
Joined: 2/13/2007
From: Frankston Victoria
Status: offline 		Warcraft 2. Played humans and orcs all the way through many times. "We're being attacked!!"

_____________________________


(in reply to zakblood)
Post #: 19
RE: My first pc game - 1/27/2017 7:51:26 AM   
shunwick


Posts: 2426
Joined: 10/15/2006
Status: offline 		Well... not a PC game, it was a long way before that... Zork. Graaphics? Who needs graphics?

< Message edited by shunwick -- 1/27/2017 7:54:33 AM >

_____________________________

I love the smell of TOAW in the morning...

(in reply to Pvt_Grunt)
Post #: 20
RE: My first pc game - 1/27/2017 10:23:35 AM   
ularkusut

 

Posts: 8
Joined: 1/22/2017
Status: offline 		mine is Command n Conquer, but now i forget anything about that game. because of many games i played afer that era

(in reply to shunwick)
Post #: 21
RE: My first pc game - 1/27/2017 11:23:14 AM   
Franciscus


Posts: 809
Joined: 12/22/2010
From: Portugal
Status: offline 		My first PC game was, I think, "Tyrants of Athens", for the 48K ZX Spectrum. In 1982 or 83...

It had mind-blowing graphics for a 14 year old kid of the 80's




I played lots of great games in my Spectrum (all pirated copies, but bought and sold openly in legit stores...yes, the 80's... ), but then entered med school and gaming was...relegated to the back burner...

My first "IBM-like" real PC was a 80286, and my first real game on it (using I think already Windows 3.1) was Civilization, the first one...back in 1992 I think.


Great memories...

Attachment (1)

< Message edited by Franciscus -- 1/27/2017 11:56:17 AM >

_____________________________

Former AJE team member

(in reply to shunwick)
Post #: 22
RE: My first pc game - 1/27/2017 8:03:16 PM   
Curtis Lemay


Posts: 12969
Joined: 9/17/2004
From: Houston, TX
Status: offline 		I don't count games I may have played on work computers. When I finally got my own PC, it was the early 90's. The first game I grabbed was Aces of the Pacific:




Attachment (1)

_____________________________

My TOAW web site:

Bob Cross's TOAW Site

(in reply to Franciscus)
Post #: 23
RE: My first pc game - 1/27/2017 9:02:24 PM   
TulliusDetritus


Posts: 5521
Joined: 4/1/2004
From: The Zone™
Status: offline 		Maniac Mansion 1!

1990 or 1991 IIRC




Attachment (1)

< Message edited by TulliusDetritus -- 1/27/2017 9:04:38 PM >

_____________________________

a nu cheeki breeki iv damke

(in reply to Curtis Lemay)
Post #: 24
RE: My first pc game - 1/27/2017 11:00:59 PM   
Wolfe1759


Posts: 798
Joined: 1/20/2008
From: Shropshire, UK
Status: offline 		ZX81 Game of Life




Attachment (1)

< Message edited by Wolfe -- 1/27/2017 11:06:29 PM >

_____________________________

"In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill." - Winston Churchill

(in reply to TulliusDetritus)
Post #: 25
RE: My first pc game - 1/28/2017 12:11:34 AM   
nelmsm1


Posts: 1041
Joined: 1/21/2002
From: Texas
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: Curtis Lemay

I don't count games I may have played on work computers. When I finally got my own PC, it was the early 90's. The first game I grabbed was Aces of the Pacific:





Same for me

_____________________________


(in reply to Curtis Lemay)
Post #: 26
RE: My first pc game - 1/28/2017 1:45:38 AM   
Agathosdaimon


Posts: 1034
Joined: 7/8/2012
Status: offline 		The first computer game that i really got into was FA18 Interceptor on Amiga when i was 8 years old back in 1989

When a pentium finally came to our household - a Pentium 133 16mb ram computer in 1996, the first game that i actually got was Empire Interactive's War in the Gulf- loved it! played it as much as i could, but the final mission was ridiculously hard, in fact i have read elsewhere similar sentiments and i have never heard of anyone completing it
I also got Chronicles of the Broken Sword and Lost Eden, but point and click adventures just simply did not do it for me - it was armored land warfare games all the way - armored fist 2, then M1 Tank Platoon 2 -this was the best, i devoted far too much time to m1tp2!

(in reply to nelmsm1)
Post #: 27
RE: My first pc game - 1/28/2017 4:07:29 AM   
goodwoodrw


Posts: 2661
Joined: 2/14/2005
Status: offline 		That was the first game I bought for my Amiga. The one thing I remember in that game was, you never were able to see another a/c just a shining dot.


_____________________________

Formerly Goodwood


(in reply to Agathosdaimon)
Post #: 28
RE: My first pc game - 1/28/2017 8:21:08 AM   
Agathosdaimon


Posts: 1034
Joined: 7/8/2012
Status: offline
quote:

ORIGINAL: BASB

That was the first game I bought for my Amiga. The one thing I remember in that game was, you never were able to see another a/c just a shining dot.



lol, yes that was my experience! I was adamant that it would be possible to get closer but the enemy was always at most a dot on the horizon - i spent most of the game, flying around san fran and flying under the golden gate and then trying to just successfully land on the carrier again

i think it was part of some suite of games that came with the amiga 500 - because we had technocop, hard drivin, dogs of war, some tennis game that my sisters always played, silkworm, xenon, - i am not sure where these came from, i never saw my parents buying them, they just were there one day, maybe a friend gave them or something.


(in reply to goodwoodrw)
Post #: 29
RE: My first pc game - 1/28/2017 6:06:37 PM   
Capt. Harlock


Posts: 5358
Joined: 9/15/2001
From: Los Angeles
Status: offline 		Guadalcanal Campaign by Gary Grigsby.




Attachment (1)

_____________________________

Civil war? What does that mean? Is there any foreign war? Isn't every war fought between men, between brothers?

--Victor Hugo

(in reply to Agathosdaimon)
Post #: 30
Page:   [1] 2   next >   >>
All Forums >> [General] >> General Discussion >> My first pc game Page: [1] 2   next >   >>
Jump to:





New Messages No New Messages
Hot Topic w/ New Messages Hot Topic w/o New Messages
Locked w/ New Messages Locked w/o New Messages
 Post New Thread
 Reply to Message
 Post New Poll
 Submit Vote
 Delete My Own Post
 Delete My Own Thread
 Rate Posts


Forum Software © ASPPlayground.NET Advanced Edition 2.4.5 ANSI

1.766