My first experience

plonk

I wake up one christmas back in early 90s to find a pc i my sitting room. I was no older than 5 probably. With the excitement of a alco after finding a can i press every button I can see and it turns on. The screen flashes, so do my eyes wih excitement. Then after 5 minutes waiting for it to warm up a black screen with a green menu appear.

Not really knowing what im doing i press a number. 1-7 on each page with 7 pages, 7 pages of content I have never seen before.I press another number 4 and what pops up the adventures of aldo, then gapper and then ( possibly the most additive game Ive ever played Silpheed) Oh and who can forget commander keen 1 and 2 but what games do you rememember off your old pc and why.
Brilliant

Ps why when i play these games now with my speakers muted does it make such a horrible noise.

DublinEvents

My first PC was a 386 DX-40. Oh those were the days! DOS based games weren't much of a visual treat but boy were they fun! Yeah I remember spending hours with Keen too. And Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. Too many games to remember. Then I upgraded to a 486DX2-66. I remember DOOM started playing much fluidly and this just filled me with a great sense of euphoria. Then it was a Pentium 166MHz (sans MMX). After that, a Pentium II 350 MHz. Then a Celeron 700 MHz for a taste of SSE. And finally, a Sempron 2600+ (1.6GHz 128KB L2 cache) is my current PC.

K.O.Kiki

Err... I was too young to remember our first DOS box clearly, but I do remember (miserably) trying to play TIE Fighter & Commander Keen on a Win 3.1 machine... and some pinball game, too -- always had to boot into DOS & try to remember how to run them... Happy Days...

Retr0gamer

I used to laugh at the PC owning kids. All those DOS games were no match for what was on offer on the consoles. Commander Keen was no match for the platformers on the consoles and tyrian, silpheed and raptor were a complete disgrace compared to console and arcade shooters. Wolf 3D interested me and the adventure games were good but I didn't have any interest in the PC games.

Until Doom came along and blew me away. The surge in quality in PC gaming once doom and Dos 4GW came out was remarkable since they proved that the PC was by far the most powerful machine to write games for at the time.

jimmythekidd

ah yes the old days were rad, I remember my mate coming around and playing double dragon constantly on the old pc. I was always jealous of other people with consoles but I still had a great time playing games on my dads pc, a 80186 with 2* 5" disk drives and a very small hard drive (too young to remember the rest of the specs) had a great time playing zaxxon, alley cat, sopwith. I remember getting a christmas present one year, I wanted a video game, dad gave me a copied version of "the ancient art of war" I spent hours playing it, cheapest christmas present ever but it worked!
I also remember we had a program that was supposed to be lke a psychiatrist. I remember constantly asking it rude questions and having it answer "i'm sorry i dont understand what you are asking"
well I thought it was fun!
when doom came out I had to turn it off when I got to the first deamon because I was scared of the noise it was making and I couldnt see it! :rolleyes:

the_syco

My dad brought home a 386, once. Used it for applications. I started to mess with DOS, and soon after got some very basic games for it (such as Secret Agent, Commander Keen, Grand Prix, etc). Played Wolfenstein 2 years before the Playstation came out, and never really got into console gaming, aside from one or two games my mates had.

Always found the PC games to be easier to play, and a better, less dumbed down, way of playing, versus some of the consoles.

ambro25

Is that first gaming experience, first PC gaming experience or, given the sub-forum, first 'retrogaming' (&/or emulation) experience?

First gaming exp. was arcade-perfect Donkey Kong on a CBS Colecovision, probably around 1982. All downhill after that

First PC gaming exp. was a built-in (as an easter egg) pacman in some Digital PC in the early 80s, followed by X-Wing as a first 'proper' DOS games on an i386.

Fist Mac gaming exp. was Shufflepuck Cafe on a then-current Macintosh (dunno specs, in B&W anyway).

First retrogaming exp. was some years back when I started collecting with a vengeance, and finally got the 3DO FZ-1 I'd always wanted.

As for MAME, I've been using since just about its inception, and I just can't believe how far it's come along and the titles it is now capable of emulating!

Pretty much the same for evey other emulator out there, after owning for a period or another virtually every single console format and Intel-based PC (i286/i386/i486/PI/PIMMX/PII/PIII/P4... though currently AMD64 ).

After all these years, I've pretty much given up on consoles [though a Wii is forthcoming, but that's for 'family entertainment' (wife + daughter) so it "doesn't count" ] and finally bought a HotRod arcade twinstick. Commando and Cabal, here I come! Now, to find the time to build my own MAME cab... :rolleyes:

condra

First gaming experience ever was tabletop arkanoid in some hotel out near Dalkey on my first communion.

Not long later I got a c64 and the first game I played was:



midnight resistance.

i played it so much that christmas day that i couldnt sleep that night, i was tripping.

LoGiE

Midnight resistance was definitly one of the better arcade > C64 Conversions and made great use of the SID chip for it's music.

My first venure into the world of computers was my trusty C64. I had hundreds of games for it. Turrican and wonderboy will always hold special memories for me and possibly night shift because I hadn't got a clue what was supposed to be going on!:) Does anyone remember the dodgy light gun that was released as part of a c64 bundle?

As for arcades my first memory is playing Pacland, arcanoid and the New zealand story in ALSAA Bowl.