What was your very first game you ever bought?

[Santa]

What was your very first game you ever bought?

Mine was "FX Fighter". Got our first computer when I was in 7th grade, Intel 486 FTW! I convinced my dad to let me buy FX Fighter, which was $50USD, with my own money (no chump change for a 7th grader!). I got it home and started playing. I ruled that game in no time and my friends and I would always go head-to-head, but the controls were a little funky when two people played so it could get difficult.

Honorable Mention: "Dawn Patrol: Head-to-Head" WWI dog fight flight simulator. My dad and I put countless upon countless hours into that game! It was the best! He still wants me to try to get it to run on his "newer" computer, but I doubt it... I'll have to try it in dosbox.

[Ojnod]

Well this is in PC games so my first PC game I ever bought for PC was NBA Live 95, my computer couldn't even run it so I never did play it on the PC. The first game I ever got on the PC was Doom II. My aunt bought it for me when I was only 8 or 9 years old. According to a conversation I was having with some friends the other day I think Doom II was the first PC game a lot of us ever had.

The first game I ever bought on any platform was Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Turtles in Time on the SNES. I had to use almost all of my christmas money for it.

[DanTheManPR]

It was probably Microsoft's Best of Entertainment Pack. The games were actually quite good. I haven't playing Chip's Challenge in awhile, but I might get addicted to it again.

On a completely unrelated note, how far has anyone gotten in Chip's Challenge? I got to level 40 or something (out of something like 160). That game is so long.

[NotSoFast]

My first game other than on a console was probably Pool of Radiance on the Commodore 64. I loved that game, but never could beat the dragon at the end. :mad:

I don't remember the actual first PC game when I bought my 350mhz beast back in 1998. I remember playing Descent 3 and one of the Star Wars Dark Forces games pretty early then.

[Jagndeke]

Early 90's... Star Trek 25th Anniversary game from Interplay. Got me hooked on PC gaming. I think I've still got the game around here somewhere.

[Tehgiggles]

Lol, probably some lame pinball game

[readville]

DOOM 2 in 1995 in anticipation of buying my first computer that year......never did. Bought my first HP in 1998 and jumped into HL1 instead. That D2 cd is still in my cellar somewhere....unused.

[Johnny Mullet]

I got my first PC in 2002 and I am actully replying to this thread on the same trusty Dell :)

The first game I bought was Quake 3 Arena and still play it almost daily.

[Sno]

^ Wow, that's pretty... uh... recent.

Anyways, i honestly have no recollection of what the first PC game i bought with my own money was.

It would have probably occured in around the early-to-mid nineties.

Lot of great games from thereabouts, but can't remember what was lent to me, bought for me, shareware`d, or etc.

[Rafal Dudek]

Lands of Lore for my 486dx25 8mb ram 200mb hd system :p:

[OldsterHolster]

Doom II was my first game, but it was given to me. The first game I bought was Half-Life. Edward.

[Kane]

Fatal Racing CD version. You've got crazy tracks and you can damage your opponents or perform fatality on them.

[Karlsweldt]

Some of the early Hoyle card games, Duke Nukem' 3D and others, Sub Hunter, Heretic, Ken's Labyrinth, Wolf 3-D, Cosmo's Adventures, D&D, Pitfall and others. That goes back over 30 years! Remember Q-Bert? 7-Up put out a small game called "Spot". Decent.
But, hey.. all we had back then was CGA or EGA setups, best would be 640x480 in 16-color!
Bought some early CDs from "Tons O'Gigs" that had a lot of shareware/freeware games. Still have them! First 'real' game was Descent 1. Remember "Battle Chess"?

[draco7891]

First game I ever bought was Epic Pinball. I think I still have all the floppies in a box (there were like 5 different packs of tables).

I got that with Hardball 4, which I am still convinced is one of the best baseball sims ever. :lol: This was on "my" Cyrix 486DX2 50MHz.

The first game i ever played was Oregon Trail, because the //e's owned (and, we got out of class to play it, bonus!). Edutainment FTW.

Draco

[Rob]

First games I bought were Robin Hood: Legend of the Longbow (still an awesome game and I wish I were able to play it again) and Railroad Tycoon.

[SupaTroopa]

First purchased PC game was Myst, followed closely by Marathon and The Ultimate Doom for Mac. (I owned a Mac until 1997-8)

[Kalbrecht]

Absolutely no idea. It was long enough ago that I don't remember.

[Chylde Roland]

King's Quest III. It's also the game the got me hooked on gaming for good.

[OmegaBob]

If memory serves, it was Defender (Atari 2600)

[Shoboy]

^ Wow, that's pretty... uh... recent.

Anyways, i honestly have no recollection of what the first PC game i bought with my own money was.

It would have probably occured in around the early-to-mid nineties.

Lot of great games from thereabouts, but can't remember what was lent to me, bought for me, shareware`d, or etc.
I'm with SNO on this one........... I would have no idea what the first game I ever bought was.........hell, I dont know if I can really say what my first PC game was..............

I used to be a teachers assistant for Computer Class WAAAAAAYYYYY back in the good old days of the Apple 2e.......GREEN MONITORS FOREVER!!!!!!

Ha, we had 30 apples in that class and only 6 had a color monitor. I ALWAYS had one with color and who ever kissed my butt the most, I'd give those top 5 the other color monitors........

I remember California Games (on the apple2e) was very popular at that time................

Wolfenstien 3D was a game that was very early into my PC gaming days.........

Crusader was the first game I ever played that got me hooked from the get go. I would do NOTHING at all until I logged in quite a few hours each day playing it until I beat it. Then I went back and tried it on a harder setting. This is the ONLY game I have ever done that with. I'll replay a game but not right away. Crusader (no regret and no remorse), I would start all over again at a harder difficulty setting and still be so enthrawled as if it was my first time playing..............

[Lou Cypher]

I know it was a "Mechwarrior" game but I can't remember which one, it was about 1998.

Lou :globe:

[CrimsonKnight13]

1st game I ever owned & loved was Mechwarrior 2: Matrox Mystique Edition. That was in the day when Matrox Mystique was renowned for being the 3D decelerator.

That definitely wasn't the 1st PC game I ever played though. That game would be Alone in the Dark or some other... might've been Duke Nukem 3D too..

[Dragosani]

I was in my mid-late teens, when thumbing through some magazine, a Warhammer was busting out of the page unleashing an 'Alpha-Strike'. I was like 'Whaooo!!!' being a player of TT Battletech. When I noticed that this game called 'MechWarrior' was made by Activision, I boogied up to Kiddie-City to grab an Activision console to replace my Nintendo.

That is when I discovered that it was a PC game, not a console title. Took me 4 months to get up the $2000 to get an Amstrad PC with a 20MB HD and a whopping 8MBs of RAM, DOS 4.something, and I believe it was a 40 or 80 Mhz processor.

Anyway MechWarrior and the SSI D&D titles dragged me into the realm of gaming, and I'm still addicted to this day.

[Sno]

The Activision-made MechWarriors are frickin` classics, even the first one.

The other early Battletech games for the PC are awesome too.

Crescent Hawks ftw!

[Circlebreaker]

The original Command & Conquer. Still one hell of an RTS. :):

[Chylde Roland]

Crescent Hawks ftw!

qft.

:yes:

[Sno]

Why the hell hasn't anybody ever done another Battletech RPG?

Crescent Hawks Inception was friggin` awesome.

[CrimsonKnight13]

anything with Battletech would be awesome if implemented correctly

[gorilla325]

king's quest mask of eternity. i like it a lot, the story, puzzle and the fighting is merely ok. but the music the freedom of camera control were so memorable!

[Joe Cool]

Frist game was with a Amstrad cpc 464 my mum bought me second hand for my birthday in 1991 I think. It was already 3 years old and came with 30 games lol. I cant remember all of them, just a few like Roland on the ropes/Roland in the caves (wtf was that one about, still dont know) Viper, Dick turtle, Time cop and of course the cream of the crop Harrier attack my first love.

My first pc game was Shogun Total War, my first love on the pc.