• When and how did you first get into PC gaming?
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2004 Runescape
my old man let me have a go at red alert 1
My mother introduced me to solitaire on her work computer back in 2002. More serious gaming started with Red Alert 1 and Counter Strike on library computers. 2004 was the year I think.
Does roblox count? ;_: probably about 6-7 years ago Watching Garry's mod machinimas is what lead me into Steam, making me a dedicated pc gamer
Toontown Online may it rest in peace.
I think a pirated copy of Tomb Raider II my sister got from a friend was probably the first PC game that got me hooked. Must've been in '98 or something.
UT99 back in 2004. A bunch of guys I met on there are still my best internet friends to this day :v:
Dunno if Comodore 64 counts as PC, but 1987. Sometimes during Computer Class in elementary school we'd get a free period and we'd get to play games. Granted they were supposed to be somewhat educational. Only one I recall off hand was called "Chase On Tom Sawyer Island", which was pretty much a Pac-Man clone.
I saw my Dad playing an old brilliant game called Battlezone and occasionally he let me play. He made me a PC one day and I played it but sucked balls at it generally. Later I tried titles like COD, Free space, Freelancer, Star lancer, and other games that escape my memory. There were some early games I played that were really fucking hard -men of valour, KOTOR (at certain points) because I didn't understand levelling or the dice mechanics at all, Commanche 4, Hidden and Dangerous, jesus, games today are a cake walk. Also, Breed. That game existed to make you cry and rage. And oh my god PCG demo disks were my child hood.
When I was 6 I installed a bunch of game CD's that came from cereal boxes (Freddie Fish, Pajama Sam etc.) My first non-children oriented PC game was probably Half-Life
In middle school when i started playing games like Doom, Quake 2 and Warcraft 3. But also remember playing the phantom menace game when we got our first computer in the 90's.
For me, honestly, the first thing that got me into PC gaming is Garry's Mod.
I was another DOOM child But other than 2.5d FPS's it was: Flight Simulator, C&C, TES, CS, and later on GMOD.
my dad taught me how to shoot Somalis when I was 6 and we had 1 vs 1 LAN games all the time [img]http://cdn1.spong.com/pack/d/e/deltaforce81041/_-Delta-Force-BlackHawk-Down-PC-_.jpg[/img]
It was this Amiga game that started it all [img]http://101videogames.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/stunt_car_racer_amiga_nitro.jpg[/img] I remember exactly the setup of the Amiga, the smell and the noises. But I don't remember how old I was back there.
My uncle sat me down when I was 5 and said "This is called Duke Nukem."
Unreal Tournament/Runescape
I was three years old and the game was Duke Nukem 3D with the Duke Caribbean: Life's a Beach expansion pack. He let me and my brother play that version of the game because it was way more upbeat than the original. I remember my favourite weapon being the coconut-launcher because, you know, exploding coconuts.
Quake II in 1997, right a week after his release.
Had a friend around 8, we'd play Tomb Raider, Red Alert, Time Crisis on his PC, though I was pretty much a PS1 and GBC player Then 2005/6 a friend introduced me to HL2 and GMod, thats where it really took off, then being a FF fan I got FFXI for a while I have no preference over console or PC, some games are just better with a controller
With the release of Quake back in 1996, I would watch my Dad play it sometimes. Then, in 1998, when my Dad bought Half-life 1 (he even brought me along on release day,) that pretty much sealed my fate forever. We've still got the same retail copy he bought back in '98.
Battlefield 1942 when I was like 8 was the best shit ever
My Dad played a mix of console and PC games when I was younger, he liked to play on the Nintendo 64 if he wanted to play the kids games with me and if he wanted a more mature experience he'd move onto PC and play Half-Life. Just seeing him play Half-Life shooting the Grunts and the Aliens wanted me to try it, but he kept me away from the game, only getting to play it when my Dad turned his back. But I truly started playing on PC when Vice City was released. He hidden the shortcut to somewhere he thought I couldn't find it and I managed to play the game while he wasn't looking. I was hooked onto PC games when my other family members shown me all the other stuff that could be done. Though I stuck with consoles for quite a while because the computer my Dad gave me wasn't powerful enough to play most games on PC. It had trouble running Half-Life 2 at medium so last year I had the chance to upgrade. I'm thankful my Dad was there to show me Half-Life, Unreal, Quake and so on.
When we first got a family computer it came with a pack of 5 games. Command and Conquer, Theme Hospital, Fifa 97, Magic Carpet 2, and PGA Golf 96. I constantly played Theme Hospital and C&C so I guess that started it.
I don't remember :(
I never really owned a console until I was 12, when we bought a GameCube. The only reason I bought it is because Nintendo games weren't available on the computer. The only consoles I even bother with buying anymore are Nintendo consoles
When I was about 4 my father let me have a go at Midtown Madness 2 and that's where it started
Waaay back in 1995 my mom had a windows laptop. It didn't even have a color screen. But when she wasn't using it I was, and I was always playing Hearts...well, I say playing, mostly I had just found that you can mash space bar and the game plays itself, which to my then 5 year old mind was winning the game soundly. Been a PC gamer ever since. I mostly stuck with driving games for the longest time, though. I didn't get out of the vehicle sim genre until I got Garry's Mod roughly when GM10 came out. My family never could afford consoles. First one I had was a handmedown fatty PS2 long after the PS3 was commonplace, and that barely saw much use because by then I was on Steam. [editline]18th September 2013[/editline] [QUOTE='TheDark[PL];42234984']When I was about 4 my father let me have a go at Midtown Madness 2 and that's where it started[/QUOTE] Midtown 2, eh? I credit that game with getting me into modding games. All the glorious car mods that I never got to download because I had to limit myself to 5MB or less. Sometimes I still try to play it but it really doesn't like Windows 7. Midtown 1 was fun as hell, too. Especially when you entered the cheat code that made honking the horn shoot mailboxes forward :v:
[QUOTE=cheetahben;42234972]I never really owned a console until I was 12, when we bought a GameCube. The only reason I bought it is because Nintendo games weren't available on the computer. The only consoles I even bother with buying anymore are Nintendo consoles[/QUOTE] "When and how did you first get into [B]PC gaming[/B]?"
I think it was back in 1998~ from watching my parents play Unreal and Half-Life, then I played Unreal and Half-Life which soon was followed by Age of Empires
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