Anyone know of this game where a boy gets his dog stolen by aliens or somesuch thing and he goes on a mission to get his dog back. It was a sidescrolling platformer.

My first game was on PC, the wonderful DOS game Captain Comic from 1986.

It was a side-scrolling shareware platformer like a lot of games were back then. I never got very far in to it but no one is very good at computer games when they're 4 years old.

But the first game I actually completed was probably either Commander Keen Ep.1 or Jill of the Jungle Ep.1 - can't remember, was an awful long time ago.

It would have to be one of those Star Trek games with the ASCII "graphics," where you enter in commands at a command line prompt, flying around a grid to fight a Klingon invasion and defend starbases.

Something like this: http://cplus.about.com/od/starttrekconversion/ss/startrekproject.htm

Or this (playable version?): http://members.aol.com/rrobe71907/stgwb.htm

That game still rocks!

Other than a tic-tac-toe game for the C64 some of the originals that I had played for my PC was A-10 Warthog, Zork, Stellar-7, Stunts (w00t!), Scorched Earth (still play it once in a while), Wolfenstein 3D, SimCity (Shift-FUNDS hehe), Doom, Duke Nukem 3D (BEST Multiplayer Game EVER FPS), WarCraft (I & II)

Early 70s: A copy of ELIZA running at the Univeristy of Florida (on a paper-based terminal). Only got to "play" with it a short while one afternoon, but it left a lasting impression. It's probably where my work and play computer fascination started.

Early 80s: What the frak was the name of that text-only dungeon crawl thing that ran, I think, under TSO (on an IBM 3033 mainframe, or maybe it was the Amdahl)? Adventure Something, Something Adventure, something different? I was doing D&D regularly back then & spent a lot of time trying (& failing) to beat that dungeon.

The first PC games that really put a hurtin' on my wrists were SimEarth and SimCity. In '91 I was living in a college dorm and a wonderful, evil man showed me the original Civilization. I still spent plenty of time watching friends play things like Star Control back then, but that was when I learned I was a 4X freak (took a couple of years after that for the genre to get a name).

Some of my first computer games... lets see now... Doom, Age of Empires, Half Life, Starcraft, Homeworld, Deus Ex, Tie Fighter, and Diablo. Those we some great games.

Now I know its computer game but what the hell my first console games were on the Super Nintendo though. Zelda, Metroid, Soccer (US team Mr. White so many red cards and that the only real sport game I really like lol), Starfox, Mario, etc...

Those were some good times. Now all they need to do is make a modern Tie Fighter, Homeworld 3 or A mmo of it, and a Diablo III. Also I can't forget a Gal Civ III. Now that would be great.

Not the first games but the ones I remember most clearly are, Faery Tale, Elite, Rogue, and EGA Trek, Oh and Xenon 2. I think I remember some of them best because of the difficulty level at the time, I dont think I Ever beat Faery Tale *goes to find a copy so he can have another go*

If others have gone into console territory, I shall go into arcade territory and say Defender, awesome game, even if it did occasionally (ok fairly frequently) make you want to pummel people.

Maybe this forum could help me find the one other person who ever had a real computer game spectator habit. If you make me take the controls, the list gets narrow pretty quickly. The only arcade game I ever mastered was Time Pilot, but I loved knowing and watching some of my town's top Defender, Deluxe Asteroids, and Donkey Kong players.

A second hand copy of Sim City 3 was my first PC game.

I don't remember my first game, but it would have been something keyed in (and converted) from a book of BASIC games or from a magazine. Probably Hammurabi or Trek, possibly Life.

My first computer was a Southwest Technical Products Corp kit built around a Motorola M6800 CPU and 4Kb of RAM. No disk, but I did have a cassette tape interface and a 40 x 20 character video display connected to a TV.

Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to get back to my rocking chair......

That would be "Colossal Adventure" (aka "Colossal Cave", "Colossal Cave Adventure", or even just "Adventure") I'd guess.

Damned annoying dwarves - all seven of them!

I was really Lucky


I got a 486 boxed with Day of the Tentacle and Indiana Jones Fate of Atlantis . Little did I know I was about to embark on two of the worlds greatest PC games of all time.