What's the first pc game you ever played?

I think it may have f1 grand prix on a i386 cpu with ms dos. still one of the best racing games ever made. lots o fun.

pc's and gaming have come along way since then

Dune 2: The building of a dynasty

I played a ton of random games when I first started playing games on PC, but if I recall correctly, the first PC game that I played was probably Jump Start 1st Grade. :P

red alert 1 , Dune 2 . doom 1998

if i recall correctly i had 233 Mhz CPU , s3 4mb gpu , 4 gb hdd and 32 ram ..... AND I GOT TURBO BUTTON IN THE CASE ^^ hehe .

Diablo 1.

I believe it was on an IBM cyrix 200 mhz, with 16 MB of ram, and windows 95.

Quake 2... But that was the first game I played on a PC I owned, first game I ever played on a PC was Tetris at my cousins house when I was 8 on Windows 95 I believe.

The first PC game that I finished was probably Aliens vs. Predator, which I played on my cousin's PC. On my first PC I played AVP2 and No One Lives Forever 2. They don't make them like that anymore...

Relevtivley new to pc gaming, it was penumbra overture.

The influx of horror games like amnesia, call of ktulu, outlast etc made me want a pc as consoles didn't have proper horror experiences like that

Rebel Assault

I was blown away and quickly fell in love with any game i could play on pc with a flight stick.

Operation: Inner Space. Even my dad used to play it... and he never plays games.

Prince of Persia

I can't remember my first PC game. Some of the early games I remember playing were Oregon Trail, Karateka, Lode Runner, etc..

The X files game. I even bought it be for I even ordered the PC. :D

CROC, Warcraft and AOE. They are the first games I remember. There was a huge cereal promo, buy a box of nutri grain and get a free copy of AOE LUL

If not count MS-DOS game(some racing game, maybe F1), first "big" title - Heretic and few days later Doom 2. That was 1995.

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy text adventure on Apple II back in 1984/85 during my college years. :P

Wolfenstein 3d

Windows 3.0 or 3.1...had to run it from the command prompt. Me and BJ Blazkowicz go way back. I even remember dad buying an 8mb ram upgrade for that machine for ~$250.

Sublogic Jet

Technically the first PC game I have ever played was Megaman X3 back in 1996. But the first game I played with my own first build PC was Sonic Generations in 2012, playing that game on an HD7870 at 1080p 60fps in comparison to the PS3 version which was 720p and barely 30fps (with extreme long loading times, motion blur as far as the eyes can see and overall not great quality) I was blown away by the difference, and then I tried Batman Arkham City which looked beautiful at 60fps and then Assassins' Creed II which was a full 60fps (compared to the PS3's 20fps) which way actually playable. There was no way I can possibly go back to consoles and this gen didn't improve things at all.

Hover or Magic Carpet

If we can count personal computers other than X86, then my first Personal computer game was Zaxxon, or maybe Q-bert on the Commodore 64 lol.

Original Diablo.....and it's still great

if we count something like the BBC micro as a PC then it would be elite.

if not then its commander keen i think.

Age of Empires. Still love that game and soon will be getting AOE4.

I honestly can't remember. If I had to take my best guess though... Probably Ski-Free on Windows 3.1.

it was either a rugrats game or lego island. But I am sure it was a rugrats game.

Some type of early flight sim on a Tandy/Radio Shack PC in the mid-Eighties. I had no idea what I was doing, so mostly just took planes as high as they could go and then dove until their wings ripped off. Good times?

Now you rotten kids get off my lawn.

Solitaire . Oh wait you said game then its Jazz Jackrabbit way back in 94

probably this on my parents TI 99/4A in the early 80's

First game, besides Space Invaders on Commodore 64, Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards on P

Some "Lion King" game, can't remember the details specifically but it was one of the best game I ever played when I was 5

Warlords was the game that brought me in to PC gaming

I think it's Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. I got into PC gaming back in 2006 or 2007.

Shadowgate on my mom and dads old Apple. That was a long time ago...

Doom or Commander Keen I can't remember it's been so long.

I remember some arcade style racing game called MegaRace, I'm pretty sure, that I played when I was a really little. First one I remember really getting into, at an age where I could really understand and get into a game, was definitely Warcraft. OG. Orcs and Humans. Followed by all of Blizzard's other games, as they came. Good times.

Combat Arms

Club Penguin! The good old days!

I think it was the original Moto Racer

QBASIC Gorillas. It was included with MS-DOS to promote QBASIC programming language.

You take turns to toss exploding bananas at each other. That turd looks like this;

The first "real" game i played after this was Wing Commander 2.

pong count lol

@Gallowhand: loved that game gallow

Either Doom or Virtual Safari an interesting/awful game that came packaged with Windows 98:

Pong

I think it was played on an Atari. Been near 40-45 years ago and the Atari system cost $300 back then.

Adjusting for inflation that would be $1200 in today's dollars (US) and here I was thinking $400 for a used GTX 1070 was too expensive.

Well technically an Atari 1040ST was a PC but...........

speaking in dos/x86 terms, the most memorable early one was probably the OG Prince of Persia.

Wolfenstien: ET !!!!!!!!!

Hunt the Wumpus

Knights of Legend or Might and Magic One.