The original Age of Empires - still go thte disk around here somewhere...

Then it was on to Microsoft combat flight simulator I (I was a WWII buff, even at age 8)

then it was AOE II: Age of Kings gold edition (expansion pack and game strat manual included)

and so on...

First PC game:

Prince of Persia (the original one).

But I'm a far older gamer. Atari 2600, Intellevision and so on.

I guess the "Home computer" is a class of PC's, so for me it would have to be boulderdash. That was one epic game.

Oh for gameplay of the 80's with graphics of the 00's...what games we could imagine.

My first pc game was I believe ELITE  or one of the might and magic games- I had a commodore and a osborne before I had a pc So can not say what my first pc game I played was

Mortal Combat?

my first game was FreeSpace.  Still playing it sometimes with SCP ofcourse..

Heh, had to text my older brother. The name of the game was...Ninja, apparently, lol: http://www.mobygames.com/game/ninja_

Came out in 1986. I just remember throwing shurikens at anything that moved. Memories...

Oh it's been a long time, but I believe the first PC game I ever played and loved was the original Bard's Tale.

Man this thread really brings back memories. It saddens me a bit that all of you new generation folks never got to experience the golden age of educational gaming. Most people I talk to these days don't even recognize The Learning Company that gave us such classics as Operation Neptune and a long line of super solver games. Gizmos and Gadgets being my favorite.

 EarthBound for SNES, it was def what got me hooked onto RPG's for the rest of my life, amazing game really, i'm not sure if anyone has ever played, but truly awesome game, next to maybe, Lufia Rise of the Sinistrals, i mean the game is so long you literally have a kid at one point, get married, the amount of content was insane.

 But anyways theres been a lifetime of great games...and not so great since, but till this day i still remb my first .

hmmm... first that i can really remember would be either Starcraft or Riven.  both were great games, though very differant...

Lets see, I got F-18 Hornet, simcity 2000, and civilization 2 on my old old mac, but first PC game(s) would have to be cnc tiberium sun, star trek starfleet academy, and of course civilization 2 test of time.  Good ole times!

I remember hmmm, wizardry 1 2 3 4...., ultima 1 2 3 4....

just forgot, as the post above hithcikers guide ane all text base adventure,, those were the times