How did you get into PC gaming?

[falcon the fearless]

How?

[L0WHAWK]

Opprinnelig skrevet av vioray:

I've been using computers since I was a toddler, earliest games I remember are The Hobbit, Skool Daze and Cliff Hanger (and his brother Coat!)

I remember playing on a friend's Apple 2c. He had Conan, Wolfenstein, Into the Eagle's Nest, and Oregon Trail.. Those are my earliest experience with pc gaming, but as I stated, I truly didn't get into the pc gaming until I got my own Atari 800XL. :p

[bumbum69]

My ZX Spectrum

[Hippityd]

Anyone remember Flight Simulator 1, Zork 1, Wizardry? I think it might have been a commodore or however you spell it.

[Hippityd]

Wizadry 1 the original was a marvel for its time.

[Doctor Francoise Colas]

The first day I saw a computer I said "Daddy whats that?" He said it was something called a computer that you could do all sorts of magical things on. When i finally got my first PC I was facsinated by the Titanic. So I looked for a game with Titanic. VS7 had the ugliest titanic ever, and Hudizzle hadnt made his ship yet. So I searched Titanic Simulator. It said :Did you mean "Ship simulator 2008 Titanic?" I was thrilled and looked at the results! there was a game called Ship simulator 2008 with a beautiful Titanic! Upon finally getting the game. I realized I had wasted my money. For the only Interior was the 2nd class staircase. I cried every night until recently, Euro Ship Simulator was announced. I cried with joy as I looked at the game and I cant wait until it is released! -Kirito

[krisko]

PC was my first experience with any games period, so there's that. Though as far as getting into more high-end stuff, it was only 5 months ago when I took the plunge for a gaming rig. I'll admit it was partly because I wanted to play Fez, and my laptop wouldn't run the game at all with its Intel Integrated Graphics. I also didn't want to have to buy a next gen console as I had already bought the Wii U, but still wanted a machine that could do more than just games. Haven't looked at my consoles since then.

[Nekosis]

It all started with TF2. And that all started with one video.

One stupid, nonsensical, dumb video. Which I'm kinda regretting sharing with the lot of you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6aYiPr-k2g

[Disaster]

Well I saw that Steam was giving away free cookies one day so I joined for the cookies then I got sucked in by the rather large discounts.

[Plaid]

We had a PC, and it could play games, so, why not?

IBM PC jr. early to mid 1980's, and it just kept getting better from there.
I think the first games we had for the IBM, other than the educational crap that came with it, were Boulderdash, Boulderdash II and Wizardry.

[[drugs]]

Because of the hover-bumper-cars game on the windows 95 disc.

[Kak]

Oh god i have no idea..... First ever game played was snowballfight for windows 95 i think. I also remember the original doom demo, and train simulator 2000. Sim city 3000/4/ roller coaster tycoon 1 were also very big games to me. Any kind of simulator or tycoon game blew me away as a kid for some reason., also some leggo knight castle builder game. Then came runescape in like 04, it was my first ever online game and it amazed me. For a few years that was the game of my life, i would get home from school - get on the hardline phone with a friend and play it until bed. Around the same time my friend got CSS and that was also amazing to me, but my pc couldnt run it. The best game i could really ever run from 04 to 2011` was runescape. Built my first gaming pc in 2012, sold it and built a much better one in 2013 and here i am. I also had a super nintendo, ps2, and xbox360 in there. Havnt touched a console in 2 or 3 years now since they are pathetic

I also remember just dying to play rts games like rome total war and other total war games back in the day, but i never could because my dads pc was junk.

Still play a lot of counterstrike. every once in a while i will play rome total war.

[KalamariKid]

I wanted an alternative to my 360 and I wanted to try out MMOs.

[Azza ☠]

When I was around 9, I discovered a joystick and couldn't stop playing with it. Parents said it's a normal part of growing up as a boy.

[Doctor Francoise Colas]

three words: Not on steam. But not decent either. Plus taht is recent. Did you start 2 years ago child?

[『Sbx』]

wanted to play Team Fortress 2 back on 2010. Back in those days my pc was only able to handle the game on the lowest resolution in orange maps, but a still had fun :D