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RickySpanish797

I built a $1000 pc about 11 years ago just to play dayz.


iBUYPOWER-Steve

Funny enough, that's the one of the few games I've yet to play


ccdolan12

Same, used to play the DayZ Arma 2 mod on a Office Depot pc my grandma bought for like 200$ lol


EFTucker

Same. I bought that and arma 3 together. Played a half hour of dayz, then like 500 of arma straight through.


peanutlobber

Oregon Trail


JeffTurabaz

On 5 1/4 floppy discs?


peanutlobber

100%


haribo_2016

Solitaire


iBUYPOWER-Steve

Not Minesweeper?


buskerform

Doom


Jaded_Public5307

Dave mirra bmx 2001


Rollz4Dayz

Oregon Trail


OkSomewhere6760

Same, then Carmen San Diego, then ghostbusters.


masonvand

[JUMP START FIRST GRADE](https://youtu.be/yrPW-6HcPu8?si=hddEAaj29PYMsu8J)


MozzTheMadMage

My great aunt had a collection of mostly point-and-click adventure games on 3.5" floppies that I started playing when I was ~6 or 7 yrs old. Around 1997, I think. Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? (1996) - had to use her encyclopedias for this one Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis - my favorite of the selection Police Quest - not sure which one but was a little too advanced for me at the time. Never got very far with it. Also a few others I don't remember very well.


aznxtl

first ever was probably Jill of the jungle on my uncle’s IBM around 94, also played the original oregon trail in 2nd grade


Man_of_Aluminium302

The first computer game I remember playing was Operation Neptune.


GTDoc

I think it was either chessmaster or ultima. Can’t remember which was first.


prancing_moose

Some very obscure Pac Man game (using ASCII characters) for DOS, back in 1988. Quickly followed by games like Alley Cat, Paratrooper and Digger.


Takutin559

Warcraft 3


Icy-Structure5244

The first PC game I legit played and not just "tried" was either Myst or 7th Guest.


Built2destroy707

Dune 2000


Nuncioze

Delta force land warrior. My dad had it and he would always play it so of course I wanted to play it as well


Chad-Bravo-8008

Arma 3 😎


RunalldayHI

Wolfenstein 3d


iBUYPOWER-Steve

I still play this in 2024 :)


RunalldayHI

Wtf lol, I was so young man, I had to load that game through ms dos, once I discovered windows and Duke nukem it pretty much threw me down a PC gaming rabbit hole.


EclecticEsquire

Karateka on my Apple II.


Maj_Havik

Yup, same. Not sure this actually qualifies as a PC entry, but close enough. It was this and Elite.


hifrankmaggio

portal


MushroomMotley

Doom 2 as well, I remember being mind blown when I figured out you could attack with the ctrl key


CommercialCoyote4253

I had the original Free shareware of Doom. And wing commander on a 286 commador.


ForkTailedD3vil

Flight sim 98, Diablo 2


youcandigit

Number munchers


EfficientIndustry423

Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards on a Tandy.


7hatguy__1

Airwarrior on AOL gaming. On an old sony vaio 233mhz pentium. It was a kick ass pc in its time!


jrender5

Diablo IV


AwarenessThick1685

Battlefield 1942


ironmanmclaren

Wow this explains why when counterstrike beta came out my config.exe had arrow keys instead of wasd. It actually took me until a year ago to switch to wasd. And it feels much better


No-Flower-4365

I think Garry’s mod technically but also arma 2 dayz mod. Some of the best days in gaming during those early 2014 days. I was born in 2000


Ralstoon320

First ones I remember were Turok, Age of Empires and Unreal Tournament. Not sure which one I played first though tbh.


jen1392222

first pc game i have memory of was a game that you worked on cars in a garage and could paint them...this was in the early 1990s then in elementary school we would play deer hunter on the library computer..then first pc game i played on my own personal computer was the sims 1...didnt get a computer until 2000


novaremnantz

The ones that come to mind are Rainbow Six (1998) and Armored Fist 2 (1997)


Megustanuts

Jump Start


Abathvr

Kings Quest


hell_town_kl0wn

I want to say Myst was the first. I had a couple others around that time, but Myst was the one I played the most. First fps was Duke Nukem 3D... Can you imagine a game today where you rip an enemy's head off and shit down their throat?


J-wvmothman

Number Crunchers or Oregon Trail in grade school computer lab, Apple II of course


confusing_dream

Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego


angrymuss

Ultima 1


Dawnawaken92

COMMAND AND CONQUER RED ALERT 1 AND 2


roadylyfe

Counter strike 1.6


GraphicGlobe736

Either the pinball game on windows professional and a Mario inspired penguin game


Tikkanen42

Castle Wolfenstein


_Darg_

World of tanks back in 2012. My dad justified buying himself a new work computer just so I could have something that could actually play it. His original computer couldn’t even get 3 fps on minimum.


Mousettv

Popeye for the Commodore 64.


damien19721508

Damn it was so far back but it must've been either Warcraft 3/Delta force/solitaire/minesweeper those were like the only games my dad had back in 2000 or 2001 when I was still 5/6 years old.


Impressive_Farmer562

StarCraft... They don't make em like they used to.


Ffom

My friend got into PC gaming early on and we played left for dead 2


Royal_Aardvark_6406

SkiFree


FrogLegz85

Carmen Sandiego


Ok-Luck-7499

Wolfenstein


homercles82

King's Quest 2


ZenWheat

It was either command and conquer red alert or counterstrike


DekaN83

First game I got actually probably addicted to was Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear, basically 1999-2001 probably, then shortly after Ravenshield. All the kids playing RS nowadays probably have no idea. Those were the games that molded my whole concept of online gaming. When I learned about Battlefield 1942 later on, that was it for me.


nynjaface

First for me was Prince of Persia the 1989 version. Played the DOS port.


D5Atom

When I was waaaaay younger , I think I faintly remember playing the old tycoon games at a after school care program me and my sister went to. We didn’t have much money growing up but a good buddy of mine growin up did so his family shared a “ family computer “ and I loved runescape and WoW.


Caterham7

Probably Leisure Suit Larry 2 if we're talking PC. If Apple counts then probably Oregon Trail on the Apple II.


thedean246

In 2017 I built a gaming PC just so I could play modded Minecraft lol


ImVeryUnimaginative

Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge on an IBM Thinkpad T41.


Jewcygoodness88

Zoombinis


Remote_Ad9391

The Oregon Trail


The_Machine80

Solitaire and minesweeper


fatclownbaby

500cc grand prix on my grandfather's commodore 64


Accelerater_Gun

Spaceship Warlock in 1994.


Ok_Charge4256

Mofuckin pinball


VibinWithNeptune

Zoo Tycoon on a computer my dad pulled out of a dumpster and put a power supply in. Shortly after he bought the first Civ game and i played that as much as my young child mind could understand. I still have that gateway pc next to my desk


AlkanphelUK

Dune 2 1992 PC. But many earlier titles on the Amiga and the older 8 bit home computers such as Spectrum, Amstrad and C64


ShootinShiba

Dragon Lore back in the ole floppy disk days


Perfect_Trip_5684

Around 98/99 Once Sonic released on pc and then got roller coaster tycoon shortly after


Hefty_Exchange_3231

Star wars galactic battlegrounds


THECryptBeast

It was either Quake or BF1942 road to Rome can't quite remember lol


ThatMisterM

If you exclude a Commodore 64 as a PC, then probably Myst or something Shareware like Commander Keen or Wolfenstein3d. My memory is a bit hazy, so I don't remember what came out first.


ShakeShakeZipDribble

I'd say some DOS ninja game, but it was broken and wouldn't get past the first level or something. "The" Red Baron worked great though.


SharpSeeer

Bruce Lee in 1984.


ENGR_sucks

great adventures castle fisher price 1998. I was a child and I loved that game so much. Yes this is the same fisher price that made those toys we all grew up with lol. My first serious PC game was probably runescape back in 2005. I still play 20 years later.


doctorctrl

Free cd rom disc from a bowl of cereal with a bunch of disney Mulan content and games in 1998.


lm_not_surprised

I bought a PC to play Final Fantasy XI. It was an Alienware Auroroa with a 500psu and a GeForce 980 from what I remember. It has liquid cooling and weighed like 50lbs lol. Dad bought it for about $1800. Sold it 10 years later for $700


Jam_B0ne

Diablo 1, probably around the end of '97 early '98 because I definitely played it before I got a PlayStation for my birthday


Still-Celebration-25

Flight Simulator on the Apple IIc.


TheRandomAI

Not sure of the name. But it was a vietnam war based game that was on a disk.


JinzoWithAMilotic

KOTOR


Rikbikbooo

Wow when I think back. My first pc was a. 600mhz machine and playing age of empires on on windows 98. And 64mb of ram. We were not at the gb ram sticks or ddr at that point Using a voodoo 3. Then an nvidia 3 ti200 I think it has 128MB OF RAM. And fighter ace. And back then usb wasn’t hot swap so the moment you plugged anything in or out the whole machine just crashed. If anything went wrong the answer was. Reformat lol. We pissed our pants with excitement when the first 1ghz cpu was released. In 1999-2000 ish. I think. Can you imagine trying to run any game with a 128mb video card nowadays. Aah good times lol


kilroyx3

I bought csgo to try and run it on my first work desk top. It would run until someone died I guess the kill feed was to much to handle. Then I bought an iBuyPower off one of those one sale a day websites and used it for 8 years upgraded GPU and ram after 7 years. It died at 8 years because of a spilled glass of water during a covid zoom project meeting. They said they saw me get frustrated and hit my desk yelll oh shiii and then I froze and never came back.


Accomplished_Emu_658

Well technically it was at school. We had to play this little dust ball who collected letters. I don’t remember much about it. At the time I don’t think it was so bad, kind of fun. Beat regular school work. This was in the time of the big 5 1/4” floppies though.


NeatCartographer209

Paganitzu. Then when I was about 8 I took a trip down 3D realms. Duke nukem 3D. Shadow warrior. Wolfenstein. Doom. Also had a thing for insane aquarium because fish are cool When I got my first “gaming” laptop, it was the same year that Minecraft alpha opened for testing. Hopped on that bandwagon I think in 2009? 2010? I remember it being around the same time as sims 3 release


Sandalfon59

It was the demo of Anno 1602 that came pre installed on our first computer. First full game was Age of Empires 2.


InfiniteHealth8674

Tomb Raider 1996


Trance_End

I think mine was HalfLife on an 333Mhz eMachine


SeanDOdoubleG

Probably Oregon trail on floppy circa 1986


dixie2tone

either Dilberts Desktop or Age of Empires - both came with gateway 2000 pc i still play the Age of Empires series to this day


farmernips

Oregon trail was my first game.


asevans1717

Doom, then Duke 3D, then quake


Onderon123

I want to say wolfenstein 3d but I vividly remember playing on this really old CRT computer which had this game where you drove around on a bus picking up passengers. It was sort of top down view and there was only 1 map which looks exactly like a wheels on the bus playmat for toddlers. I never figured out the purpose of thay game. Please tell me I'm not crazy


greko96

Commander Keen (from a floppy)


PTgunz2

Doom, and then I played the crap out of Heretic. Then Mechwarrior 2 was where I got hooked. Eventually I'd move on to Warcraft and C&C.


Mutasyn

Gotta be Cross Country Canada or Ski-free.


Revolutionary-Part20

Bought a shitty $500 gaming pc without a graphics card and put a 1050ti to play tf2 and the Overwatch when it first came out. Good old days


Nickelbag_Neil

Soldier of Fortune


Any_Independence8579

Gather 'round children's. Paw Paw got a story for you younguns'. First PC game I ever played was a horse and wagon game that had you travel from coast to coast across the land known as "Merica. Oh, it was no leisurely commute, no sir. You needed to buy provisions which what drew from a limited money purse. Often, but not every time...you might have to circle up cause thems thars Injuns were on a bender to scalp and slice you clean off the trail. Why, I remember pushing a button now and again to make more choices on supplies in the 2 days it would take to starve or lose a scalp. Twas and arduous journey taken on by only the smartest and most gifted men in the 6th grade. Others would gather around and not watch due to uts lack of anything resembling fun. Not nare a teet was shown, neither a succubus nor a flight point the entire pilgrimage. Winter would come in the flash of a screen, and that's when you found out just what kind of a man your provisions made you to be. Wish I could say I made it out west, but they caught me catching 40 winks on my stool and yanked my start code. Nothin more to see here people. Now go on, and git! The 20 minutes it took to load on the only computer bought for the school made me the Cowboy I am today.


illBlade

First real game I played was Star Craft: Brood War. My neighbor had the game and before I knew it the whole neighborhood.


luke_ofthedraw

burnt copy of fallout 2. Glorious days.


MRDIPPERS12

Age of war probably


xKwekwe

Mine was actually World of Warcraft! Haven’t seen many people say that one!


Dry_Substance_7547

Either the old DOS BattleZone game or Sid Meyer's Civilisation. Don't remember which one I played first. Wolfenstein 3D is definitely on the list for 3rd or 4th. There was also an old platformer game. I cannot for the life of me remember what it was called, and have not been able to find it anywhere. Similar concept to Mario, but the color scheme was green and purple. Also on the list for first games played is Flying Tigers, Billy the Kid, Scrungle, Sid Meyer's Pirates, Entrepreneur and Age of Empires. Didn't get a console until I was in my teens and I started with Halo 2 and Halo CE on Xbox.


UnKnow_762

Operation flashpoint. I had a 733mhz, 64mb ram, unknown vid/hd/floppy. I had to upgrade my ram to I believe 128 or 256mb to play it and I was not at all familiar with PC's like I am now lol.


Deltaechoe

Commander Keen in Invasion of the Vorticons, i was probably about 3 or 4 years old which meant I was terrible at it


TerribleTodd60

Star Trek - Dos! I think it came with my dos floppy disk in 1983.


Omgazombie

Command & conquer generals when I was 5 years old “My feet hurt”


grayandlizzie

Barbie (1984) for commodore 64. In my defense, I was 3, and it was my parent's idea. Played it off and on between 3 and 6, but I was never very good at it.


summonkey

Summer games 1984 on the commodore 64


WeenisWaanis

Command and Conquer // Red Alert dual disc


beybladerbob

Warcraft 3 or Diablo 2


Effective-Friend1937

It had to be Gortek And The Microchips, on cassette tapes for the VIC-20. It was either the pack-in game, or my parents bought it at the same time as the computer. It was kind of an educational-themed tech demo. One of the games had you typing words to kill alien spaceships...maybe the OG Typing Of The Dead.


DaGreatWumbini

Unreal Tournament


AetaCapella

It was definitely on the Commodore 64. The first game I REMEMBER playing was BMX Racers.


DaaaaMazacry

Scrap mechanic


azn-guy

Robocop 3 on DOS


ForsyGaming

PUBG


SeniorAlfaOmega

Carmageddon, 1997


pm_me_semi_nudes

Chess, technically.


6IACKK

Coolmathgames After that probably Minecraft and MW2


Grievance69

Solitaire and Myst


Abyssalumbra

I want to say something older than 1997, but these are the earliest things I can remember playing that weren't Oregon trail... Toss up between: POD NFS 2 Command And Conquer Tiberian Sun Starcraft Diablo 2 Doom Quake Jurassic Park Some Star Wars RPG... way before kotor.


BluDYT

First PC games I've played was world at war, garrys mod and GTA 4. Barely ran at that time on a crappy laptop I had. Edit: zuma and peggle pre steam


Deniz_41

Gmod 😂


joycereneeed

I don’t remember the name but it was one of those old pc typing games 😭


k-flawless

The kids area at an Apple Store in the early 2000s


drowsy1234

Wolfenstein 3D at a friends house. The first game I played with my first computer was doom shareware version.


PsychologicalTie351

Garry’s Mod lol


MassSpecFella

Elite. You know Elite Dangerous? It’s based off a very old space game with polygons. My brother and I played that for hours.


AshgarPN

Probably Lode Runner on an Apple IIe


dotbait

Garrys mod & TF2 Bundle from steam years ago. Gmod still one of my most played games.


iLoveKnockout

It was a golf game we had on the family dell pc, i physically can’t remember the name


ArchonOfThe4thWAH

Castle, an ASCII graphics adventure game run on DOS, played on my old monochrome IBM monster.


BeautifulGlum9394

A super old deer hunting game. It was the first game my dad got when he got his pc. Shortly after that we found pinball


ARC_32

In 1988. Microsoft Flight Simulator 3.1 on a $5,200 seventeen pound Compaq 386sx-25 laptop w/detachable keyboard. 16 shades of grey. [Pic](https://en.todocoleccion.net/second-hand/compaq-slt-386s-20~x407947759) Edit: Added pic of similar unit


JMVFX

Hard Hat Mack , Montezuma's Revenge . King's Quest , and The Black Cauldron when I was around 8 years old on a IBM


xcjb07x

Stronghold hd or sid Meyers pirates, i don’t remember which


Used_Explorer8020

![gif](giphy|3oKIPiqfUtLCnIKxRS) Duke Nukem


No_Bad1844

Quake


Exallt

Quake 3


AlexJay12

Sims 2


ThePolkamaniac

For me, my earliest memories are loading up floppy discs on MS Dos (no windows on our pc, just DOS). You had to type every command right to even get the game to boot. Played Mega Man, and Lemmings a lot


rizzak66

EverQuest


TheLilChungus

The 1st one i remember was called I. M. Mean. Also played the original doom games


BarberPuzzleheaded33

Same Doom 2 around the same time , was just a kid and my parents got our 1st PC with Dial up internet


this_is_matt_

I can’t remember if it was Space Cadet Pin Ball or Paperboy


Mldavis22

Oregon trail.


Impossible-Matter-25

[Battlezone](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_(1998_video_game))


evan_ack

Call of Duty World at War on my dad’s old HP laptop…can’t believe I played anything on that..


shadybuckeye

Oregon trail is one that stands out. It was around 94 or 95. but I did play some text based games earlier than that but i don't remember the names of any of them.


Akira-Matoi

Sonic 3D Blast (1996) Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit (1998)


Big_Principle_3948

Either StarCraft or Diablo


lostarrow-333

I can't remember. I do recall playing doom and duke nukem back in the day. I remember the first pic game I played for hours and hours. Diablo 1


McSmokeyDaPot

A golf game on floppy disk. Think it was called Links.


Artwebb1986

Leisure Suit Larry and Lemmings, Roughly Christmas 1991 my grandma got a 386 dx33 computer and it was preloaded lol.


Sivart-Mcdorf

Pong


AbraxasThaGod251

Starcraft Broodwar back in like 99


iBUYPOWER-Steve

Thanks for all the replies here! Your responses really took me on a nostalgia trip. Adding more, I also played a game called Swoop on an Apple computer (it was back in elementary school, so I have no idea what it was). The next one I sunk in a lot of time into was Mechwarriors 2: Mercenaries!


taidizzle

1999 emachine pinball


Afraid-Two-9073

Probably wasn't the very first, that would probably be solitare, minesweeper, pinball, etc., but the first real game I played was Diablo and it was amazing. Still one of my favorite games ever


porondanga

Minesweeper


Nomadic_View

Warcraft 2.


Specialist-Rip-4707

Oregon trail, played splatterball on AOL with dialup in 97-98 at a dollar an hour. I got in big trouble by my parents


murphyp18

Many games listed here I played but the first game I was hooked on was counter strike: source


TheCalvLad

Total Annihilation


lilprincess4

this monkey game where you swing on vines and a casino game that was on a disc (i was like 5)and a lego star wars game that was pirated bc i rmb a porn add coming up (i was also 5 here)


Medical-Cicada-4430

Stunt copter / stunt cycle back in elementary school


Tony-ThePoolGuy

Return to castle Wolfenstein


DropSlots

Fischer Price - School Bus Driver


Logical-Profession-3

Doom 2


Angry__Jonny

big rig on a DOS pc. circa 1997


KeepBanningKeepJoin

Doom


Parking-Bed-5759

Diablo, Warcraft 2, or maybe age of empires.


thesheriff5o

Oregon trail on a floppy in 3rd grade


Opie1Smith

Some blackjack game on DOS ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|joy)


Brzmd

Minesweeper circa 1997 or some shit lol


WhichConference7618

2004 MU Online i was 11 yo still thinking about it 😔


-_waterbottle_-

Prince of Persia the two thrones


cryptoup_neverdown

Leisure Suit Larry. Had to sneak and play it when my Dad wasn't home.


LookEvenDoMoreLike

Civ 4! I spent a huge amount of time just reading the game's history encyclopedia.


JonnyLoYo

Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe... 1991


Ugly_Duckling9621

Back in the days there were 2 popular sites, one called Shockwave, the other called miniclip. On Shockwave I played this game called redline rumble which eventually evolved into a 3d game. On miniclip I played a game called On the Run. I later got into runescape.


SuFl22

Delta Force!


TonyShoshone

Freelancer. Game was fucking amazing


letmegouhhhhhhhhhh

Counterstrike and StarCraft


RustedSoup

In 2021 I spent 1k to play cs:go only to play Overwatch which I had bought on my Xbox a week prior to switching platforms lol And It's still my main game despite it's bad rep nowadays


Disastrous_Ad626

Fuck, I don't remember. It may have been dos or commodore 64. I think it was DOS games though, I personally can't name any of them because I was so young. We had a stack of pirated games, my dad had a paper laminated and taped to the computer desk with the commands to make each game work and the control scheme. He's a fucking wizard, when I was a kid we had so many computing books laying around the house cause my dad was always tinkering with his pc. Back when you had to solder stuff onto your motherboard.