Yeah, last time I dared the venture up there I ended up playing through most of the Quest for Glory series over a couple of days. Maybe I should just stick to playing my Impulse (and other more current) games with my spare time. Although I can hear many titles call out to me from the darkness. I will probably be better of not getting hold of my Ultima 7 box again for example... ;-)

Yeah, I stopped nostalgia trip at 5 for a good reason...  otherwise I'd still be playing Ultima 7 right now

Unreal the single player game before Unreal Tournament back in 1998. The graphics blew my mind back then, and so did the power of the keyboard, and mouse for first person shooters.

Yeah, very understandable, Ultima 7 is one of my all time favourite games. I don't think the countless hours I spent on the Ultima 7s back in the days has yet to be rivaled by any other game or game series to date. I've been meaning to try it out with Exult (http://exult.sourceforge.net/) for years, making it playable without having to kick that old steamengine in the corner into action again. But for similar reasons as you I have been putting it off.

Lets get into the way-back machine....C-64...M.U.L.E.

The first one I ever got hooked on.

I sadly have no idea what the first game was, probably something on a c64, with the annoying tapes where you had to wait ages for a game to load.

First game I vividly remember playing was prince of persia on a 386, after that it all becomes a bit of blur, Dune II, master of orion, x-com, x-wing. Btw this was all at friends house, we got an Amiga 500 a bit later. Played the first settlers and lemmings II to death on that thing.

meh, those where the days.

Zork

Defender of the Crown

Pirates! All on the c64..

Descent and Alone in the Dark were the only games installed on my first computer. I had to turn down the graphics in Descent as my rig could barely run it, I think it was 160hz (with the turbo button on!).

Before that though I used to play Dune2 and some pirates (sid meyer's?) game on my dad's puter, and Parsec on his Texas Instruments which I think was the first game I ever played.

Volfied.

My first was Starflight.

I believe the first game I played on PC was Prince of Persia. It was on an old x286, in black and white...

Oh gee! I really don't remember which one was the first. I do think however it was Bard's Tale III: Thief of Fate.

Funnily enough I do remember some details about the game itself. Like that my wizard died in the fight against the first big baddy before the summoned Brothers Kringle and my rogue killed him. And when he got resurrected he suddenly was an archmage.

Never managed to play it to the end though. I got stuck in some maze between universes or such and never found my way out.

On the C64 I guess it was Pharao's Curse.

Civilisation. I saw this game on the shelf and wanted to try it on my parents PC. This is what got me into PC gaming about 18 years ago.

woooooaaaaahhh ^^ how cool, u played SC2 before it was even twinkle in its dads eye ^^ srry had to be said

Anyways... onye of my first games on the PC i remember was

UFO Enemy Unknown!!!

Followed by xcom terror from the deep and evetnually xcom apocalypse.

Some where between was syndacate and swars.

and somewhere between those, was in actual fact, master of magic

i miss all those games winks at all of stardock team for future, shall we say, projects

First "PC" game was Populous, on the Amiga.  Man, you got'a be lucky to have such a classic game as your very first game.  That's was the first time I ever went to work with no sleep.  You know your in trouble when you hear your alarm go off, and realize you did'nt even notice the sun came up.

Before that, Intellivision; before that Pong; before that was the Wheel, ya, when they invented the wheel I loved that thing. . .

My first pc game was IronBlood -Pumping iron never felt so good.

Awesome game.

oh ya, now that I look back to the odies, I remember one game where you are a cave man, its more like donkey kong, where you have to jump for drum stick for foo and you die if you get killed by a dino, I also what type of media it ws on.. on the large floppy disc, not the smaller version... the big ones... the 8 inch floppy dics rofl

Boy, I was really young when I started playing games on the computer.  I'm not sure what my first ones were.  I remember some of the classic DOS Star Wars games like Dark Forces and X-Wing.  There was also Descent and Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D.  Privateer 2 (awesome frakking DOS game that came on 3 cd's) came later.  But I didn't really get hooked on computer games until WarCraft 2 came out.  Later on I got addicted to StarCraft (don't worry, I'm all fine now, that PoS known as WoW killed my fanboyism of Blizzard) and Total Annihilation.  They simply don't make any addicting games any more it seems like.  Deep, involving gameplay has seemingly been ignored.

I spent a long time with an Apple computer as a kid, so I'm trying to remember what game was the first for our new PC when we finally went that direction. I'm pretty sure it was either Empire Deluxe or Doom...those were the first 2 I had but I cannot remember in what order they were purchased.

Accidental post.

My first computer game was SimCity 2000 for the Mac. I played that game probably more than any other, except maybe Civ 2. After purchasing my first PC, the first game I bought was SimCity 3000.

wait there was a sim 3000 version? the only one I have ever seen Sim 3000 was Sim 3000 unlimited ironically it is also the first game that I offically owned or wait... I remember it was probably the Magic School Bus explore the solar system one rofl.

Warcraft:2

Commander Keen - on an old DOS machine

Man that was great graphics... for DOS...

SimCity 3000 came out first. SimCity 3000 Unlimited came out later