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[Umbre]

Homeworld.

Shortly after, the Aliens vs. Predator games.

[ShadowGTR]

Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun.

Fun fact: I actually got this game for free during a trip to Best Buy many years ago. My parents had bought some stuff, and the checkout clerk asked us which game I would like. My parents and I looked at one another, unsure what she was referring to. The clerk pulled out two boxes (back when PC games came in huge boxes ) from behind the counter. Apparently they were having some sort of special where if you bought enough stuff, you got to choose a PC game from a selection of two. I hadn't heard of either game before (I think the other was a racing game). She asked if I liked strategy games. I said yes, and she handed me C&C. She said "You'll love this one. It's really good". She was right. I played that game for hours, and have been hooked on the C&C series ever since.

Edited by ShadowGTR, September 06 2013 - 07:46 AM.

[Xtratega]

Postal 2

[oyoy]

First, It's the interaction with the content that got me to play. for now, it is PC (Best platform for multitasking, work + game).
OK, Lets Sum Up my game history (1 in a decade):

FIRST CONTACT:
Pong - 1974 (Arcade Game)

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FIRST 3D ADDICTION:
Star Wars - 1983 (Arcade Game)

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FIRST PERSONAL RECORD - THE LONGEST TIME SPENT PLAYING (Continuous, Nonstop):
Half Life - 1998 (PC)

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FIRST ADDICTION ON-LINE F2P (Until HAWKEN):
Quake Live - 2009 (PC)

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* All other posts in this topic are Honorable Mention. Woo... the nostalgia.

Did You Know_
The first Game-play with CR-T (Fredrick the 1st) was burn in 1947. http://en.wikipedia....musement_device

Edited by oyoy, September 06 2013 - 08:42 AM.

[DeVact]

Well the first PC game I ever played was probably a learning game called Addy Junior. My parents bought it because they thought i could learn something by playing games (great idea IMO).

What really got me hooked on PC though...

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Personal story incoming: When it was my 12th birthday, I really had no clue what to wish for at all. I had no real hobbies back then and had just enrollled at high school (I don't make friends easily so I was mostly alone at that time).
So my mom took me out shopping but I still couldn't find anything. When she came over and said, "Hey what about this game_ You liked gaming with your friends back in elementary school, right_" I was like, yeah but that was with friends. She still insisted on bying it for me so i got home and installed it.
What followed was probably one of the most intense gaming experiences I ever had. The game she got me is called Gothic II and is a classic RPG. Even though I hadn't played the first part, this game drew me in to an extent I can hardly describe.
To this day this game is one of my favorites and does almost everything better than other games in that genre. I never came across a more defined fighting system, the story is just perfect (for a 12-year-old that is) and the sarcastic humor throughout the game is brilliant. Hell, even the bugs were hilarious (Imagine a big dragon boss just flying in circles and then vanishing).
What sets it apart from your standard RPG the most though is the fact that you can go anywhere. No sealed areas, just high mountains you won't be able to climb (you still could with cheats , nothing to see there though). The only thing stopping you from going everywhere are the monsters that often times are way out of your league in certain points of time. I particularly remember climbing a ram at the back of a besieged castle. Sneaking through hordes of bloodthirsty orks and wargs with your militia armor and a bloody shortsword for a weapon... Still gives me the creeps.
So what if you just wanted to beat the fuzzy bunny out of everything and didn't want to save all the time because you could run into crazy strong monsters_ Just enable godmode and beat down everything.
Actually there's also a few hilarious cheats in the game (like switching bodies or flying by pressing F8 or going through walls).
The good times that I had playing this game made me a PC-gamer forever and I haven't even looked at consoles since.

Right now I'm not particularly looking forward to any upcoming titles (there are a few that spark my interest but I won't feed that money-making AAA-game-producers with their DLCs any longer)

[Sokolol]

StarCraft and Half-Life.

[Cowbow]

Mech warrior 3 I think, there was one more before that but I can't remember the name.(yeah I'm old). I played on the Atari system(the original) and wasted many a night in the early 80's drinkin beer and playing pong.

Edited by Cowbow, September 06 2013 - 09:24 AM.

[N0stalgia]

Marathon. By Bungie. For Mac.

[Creepy_Hitchhiker]

plons, on September 06 2013 - 04:43 AM, said:

after my commodore amiga 4000 .....i had a pentium
the first ever 3d game i ever played on pc ...wingcommander (6 cd game)
i could not stop playing it

i still have a pentium2 processor

and my old commodore 64 include taperecorder and a mps 801 printer  (i lost my diskdrive)
all long time ago  ...i had hundreds of games

I still have Pentium MMX and AMD 486 DX2 (that POWER of 66Mhz) from my first PC. Oh, This memories, of assembling PC's from old parts from Germany...

[Lithonia]

I began playing PC gaming when my brother show me Maplestory. I quit Maplestory though, since I could get to level 200 in like 3 days. And even now the new updates for Maplestory gives away the old gameplay away, too. Then, I found Hawken and been in love ever since.

[Tsyklon]

Ken's Labyrinth, Corncob 3D, and Wolfenstein/Doom really launched me into PC gaming. Been a staunch gearhead and advocate ever since.

[MsNorthernStar]

Aliens vs Predators,

Diablo II

[OneNinetyOne]

Ah and the feels come back...
Welp! My first games (that I can remember) was the DOOM series, the Sonic series, and Mechwarrior 2 & 3

[Preternatural]

Hawken.

I am slightly younger (ok, maybe a lot younger) than most people on here. This is my first real Online game, and I've loving every minute of it.

[Rocky1822]

The first game I played was NFS II... probably extinct now..

And Hawken is my first FPS...

[WalterFeng]

Counter Strike 1.6, Age of Empires II,and also the forgotten Castle of the Winds

[Seburo_]

My fist pc game was a phonics learning game they had at my old elementary school (dont know what it was called),i played it in first grade and couldn't really get away from it. It was on a macintosh. Then one of the teachers at a private school i went to for awhile in 5th grade had Heroes of might and magic II, I think that was when I started to really get into it, I still didnt have a pc at the time I played that and Duke Nukem at her house. But a little after that my parents finally got a pc, that was around when starcraft came out, yea it was full on addiction from then on.

[KraZKill]

Red Alert 2 back in grade 5 i believe, good times.
Too bad EA ruined the franchise, and RA3 is a bunch of bs.
First real multiplayer game i'd have to say Runescape back in 2005

[AsianJoyKiller]

N0stalgia, on September 06 2013 - 09:34 AM, said:

Marathon. By Bungie. For Mac.

Good God.
I remember thinking it was scary as a kid.

[N0stalgia]

AsianJoyKiller, on September 09 2013 - 04:05 PM, said:

N0stalgia, on September 06 2013 - 09:34 AM, said:

Marathon. By Bungie. For Mac.

Good God.
I remember thinking it was scary as a kid.

It was scary. And the multiplayer was awesome. I still play it occasionally now that with Aleph One it has mouse support and other improvements.

After that it was Myth and Myth II - still some of the most fun gaming online I've ever had. Sending out your little exploding dwarves... The glory days of Bungie before they sold out to Microsoft.