starcraft was my first and is still my favorite game ever but it is about time the starcraft came out seriously 10 years and yes i have seen the starcraft 2 webpage it looks pretty good but the protoss seem more overpowered then before sins is a good game the scale is good but it needs to be better it good game though and i love it

some one mentioned MS Fligh Sim. That was greatness for the time. I play that for a while until I got a copy of Jet Fighter. I would spend hours flying around San Fran is free mode firing missiles at buildings. Go home, land, reload and take off to shoot more buildings.

but it couldnt match A-10, where you would fly through missings with one engine half a wing and a missing tail and still make it home.

once i got wing commander my favorite missions were against the dessies. wipe out the fighters and then use your rockets up the tail pipe of the big ship.

Once we got Windows 3, I do remember Ski Free. I played that a bit until I figured out how to get my DOS games to work. Then of course I went back to Privateer, Wing Commander Academy, Commanche, Duke3D, etc.

Does anyone remember a C64 game called Ace 2 (i think). It was a flight sim that you could even play two player on using a second joystick. I think that may have been my very first multiplayer pc game, but no one could or would play with me. They couldn't fly the plane. I had no trouble after flying Ace of Aces for about a year or two before that.

I started back with the ol' C64.

Ultimate Wizard- even my Mom loved this one.


Knight Games! I got to hit my brothers in the nads with a poleaxe. A classic favorite.


AlleyKat- I just loved crashing the ship...


The Grand Daddy of all CRPGs- the Adventure Construction Set. Ooooohhh yeah.
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I don't remember the order of things, but we had a C64 and an Intellivision when I was a kid.

Intellivision: The Original Civ game Utopia, Tron - deadly Disks, there was a game fighting more and more advanced robots that was good for the time.

C64: I remember playing Neuromancer (With a soundtrack by Devo IIRC!), one of the first games like that I remember playing all the way through and actually beating. Temple of Apshai, Bards Tale I - III, I remember loving Adventure Construction Set at the time.

Atari ST was *my* first Computer: Gunship, Red Storm Rising, Starflight (Best Game *ever*! Races *so* need to be ported over here!), Dungeon Master I and II, Starglider I and II.

Jonnan

Fury 3 for PC and Zombies Ate my Neighbors + Sonic 2 on Genesis. I'm young

I played Oregon Trail when I was in fourth grade in the mid nineties, I think. Old ass mac computers. Our school was behind in tech even then. A few years later I picked up simcity 2000 and have been playing computer games ever since. I used to just play the great sega genesis, still have that old thing too!

Haha, I was/am still a space sim gamer . My first PC games were star wars tie fighter, wing commander prophecy, and homeworld..

I dont even want to remember the very first ones, too crappy technology back then
However the nice ones stand out from later on;

Mystic Quest (simplified Final Fantasy for kidz)
Zelda (duh)
Kirby
Donkey Kong Country
Starcraft
Populus

Homeworld

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness_(game)

It was actually Heart of Darkness

My first game, thought, was Fury 3, when i was like 3 years old...Then after that it was Sonic and Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

oh boy talk about taxing the memory cells..

i think the first game I played was called the The dark cave or some thing like that. Was a text adventure on the microbee in 1983 or 1984

I think my first game was Harrier Attack on the Amstrad CPC 464, though my family had an earlier Sinclair and Toshiba home computer before that, but I was too young to remember them. LOL
After the Amstrad, I graduated up to the Atari st, then from there to the Type 2 sega master system, then the Mega drive, PS1, N64, etc etc.
I didn't get an actual PC until about 1998. Though thanks to using PC type computers in my childhood, I took to the PC immediately.

I'll never forget the sound of tape cassette games loading... 3 minutes of high pitch screeching and a loading screen that was built up of lines. LOL
Never want to return to those days!

my first game was atari missile command on cassette for the atari 400, it was also the only thing that worked on the silly thing{1983}. my next game was activisions call to power 2 which I played on an E machine my wife bought in 2000. Yes I went computer free for almost 18 years.

my wife would probably like me to go computer free for 18 years

one of my first turn based strategy games was on the C64. Defender of the Crown. There was a problem with the game that caused it to crash just before i would win. Eventually i would play it so my enemy would have 1 or 2 territories left and i would just build up everything. hours if not days were poured into that game. it would also crash on me if i saved the priceness.

fun times.

2 words...
JUMPSTART

Hmmm might have been Shadow of the Beast on the C64/A500.....

Now thats a good way to get into computing!

Hope you keep the AMiGA spirit alive

.. Think my first personal computer game was something on the Philips Videopac G7000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Videopac-pete-screen-800px.jpg) back in 1982 or thereabouts cant remember what game it was.

I still have that A500 too. Haven't booted it up for years, but my A1200HD still gets regular use. I still love to play the Amiga version of Deuteros.

The old A1200 still handles quite well too after what, 14 years i think...

Oh.. Deuteros: The Next Millenium (?).. now theres a great game!

I still remember manually decoding that first transmission you got from the aliens or whatever it was.. Using my "skills" from the Microprose game "Covert Action"

Unfortunately my A1200 Tower died on me and I never got the "time" to fix the HD, I guess its just teh controller, since the rest works ok.. Luckily I got an A500+A590HD and a CD32 still working + AIAB on the PC (Amiga in a Box, Emulator).

I miss the AMiGA experience every time I boot my PC.

I have the emulator too but it's nothing like booting up an Amiga on a 22" screen!!

Maybe we need an Amiga thread here, wonder how many "converts" there are on these forums??

great now im feeling left out since i never used an amiga.

i do remember playing the heck out of an apple IIe though. i ran through a half dozen games or so and eventually found Print Shop. that was probably my first experience with a desktop publishing program.

Paratroopers(played in 1989-1990 on XT i can't remember exactly :P)

Hopefully many, you know what they say "Great minds think alike"

I believe Stardock would have been a nice company to have supporting the amiga back in the days (and still), they seem to have the same spirit that surrounded it

Sorry for the derail btw.

DauntlessAnsible: I feel bad for everyone who did not experience its splendor in its heyday (85-92). Windows 95 did not feel so amazing when you've been using an Amiga for almost 7 years already

(Shame OS\2 did not win on the pc platform, it was more like AmigaOS than Win, heck, it even supported REXX!)

M3nt0ras: Ah, Paratroopers was a fun game.

i do remember the game. i think i played the shareware version. fps with a map and some other cool features.


@instant, in those days i was already farting around with Macs so the GUI wasnt a stranger to me. I had started using SuperPaint and Pagemaker at a friends house. The games where there but just not many. dos was still my main gaming OS though.

dune 2000, command and conquer, war craft, star craft, Jane's fighters anthology, European air war, and some motorcycle game.......
but i loved dune 2000 and c&c.