Not the earliest you still play regularly. Just the first.
Mine would have to be Colossal Cave Adventure, followed by Scott Adams' Adventureland. I played the former, but saw the latter in!color! on the brand new Apple II purchased by a couple of friends. As we were all writers, a merry time was had kicking the shit out of the mechanics and parser. I recall they got it as a freebie (one of several) with the computer purchase. This was back in the late seventies. Had we known then what we did now, we would have invested in the hardware. But then, there were plenty of opportunities for that, that turned into dead ends, too.
Over to you. First computer game you ever played.
Number Munchers!
First cabinet arcade game - Space Invaders in 1980
First computer game - Manic Miner on ZX Spectrum
The first games i ever played on PC, around 23/24 years ago was as it turned out, the best game i would ever play period! My friend introduced me to it first, on his Amiga 2000, so i immediately went out and got that same computer for myself, just so i could play 'Speedball 2' by the Bitmap brothers.
I had always assumed i would eventually find a better game one day, so i never bothered to keep the old Amiga. But as it turns out, that was a mistake because in all these years i have never found a better game of that genre neither can i ever find an Amiga emulator for windows computers that actually works - probably due to the fact that the people who made the emulators seem incapable of writing even the most moderately coherent installation instructions !!
Remembering: Bash center forward, bash goaly, score! repeat enough times and they die!! ahhh those were the days,,, sound effects satisfying to a tee!!
funny thing about old games... when i was a kid with barely any english... there was this fantasy game with staff +1
obviously i didn't know staff means stick. nor did i know +1 refers to enchantment.
so i was wondering why the party size didn't increase...
can't remember tha name of it, all I remember is running around through this labyrinth trying to make sure this dragon didn't get me, well that & pixels
Command and Conquer Tiberian Sun + Firestorm Expansion.
Best.
Game.
Ever.
Solitaire was the first game that I had played on PC.
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Star Trek Judgement Rites
I am assuming you aren't including things like Minesweeper or Chip's Challenge?(Actually, maybe that one counts...)
Starctraft I believe was the first real computer game I ever played. At least, that's what got me hooked on PC games. (Although I do still prefer the non-"laggy" games playable on consoles...
-Twi
You are correct.
I'd say Privateer. I was around six and needed some help from an older brother but I still figured out how to play. Either that or Jane's U.S. Navy Fighters. One time in the expansion for Jane's the two of us did a hack to enable the Aurora spy plane and I flew so high the OS went batshit and crashed with an error message.
Welcome to the uninspired legacy of D&D
I used to play this as well.
My first PC was a tandy 16 colors with a very big and powerful 20 megs hard disk.
My very first game on that thing was Death Knights of Krynn and Eye of the Beholder.
However my very first video game was Pac Man on the Atari 2600. ahhh the hours I spent on that stupid game... that and Plaque attack...
Road rash... I played that game so many times on Genesis with my cousin. We peed in our pants... Dang cows right in the middle of the road.. love clubbing the cop though
Funny thing about this thread is you see which generation is talking... way cool..
Pong. Our father had the opportunity to loan it from somebody for a couple of days in the early 80's. First computer we had was C64, but I really don't remember what were the first games we had on that...
Blue Max and Stix back on C64
I had an Amstrad CPC 464 and Sega consoles, but my first ever PC game was Ultima Underworld 2. As a result there's been a lot of disappointments since.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanitarium_(video_game)
First one i ever owned Loved it
First computer game i ever played was propably Donkey Kong on Commodore
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