The first PC game you ever played?

[Jason]

Let's be honest, PC gaming is as old as the hills, so what was the first game you ever played on the PC?

Mine was probably a racing game we got bundled free with our first PC called superkarts - looking back, it was a complete dog of a game, but at the tender age of about 8, I was hooked on it. The sequel, Manic Karts was oddly disappointing though...

[Konrad]

My first game... I'm actually not completely certain. I know for sure it was one of these three:

Quake
Duke Nukem 3d
Some Funky Variant of Tetris

In my early days we went through two PCs (or perhaps two formats) and each one came with a couple of new games. It's glaringly obvious to me it was just our local "computer genius" who stuck a bunch of warez on the computer but back in the day I just thought that's how people got all their games.

I don't remember which one was first, I suppose it would be safe to assume Quake as I remember the least of it. Or perhaps itw as Duke Nukem 3D, which provides me with the fondest memories of having played it with my dad when he would walk around and I would shoot. We actually beat the game like that.

Mah pop was more funs in his mid 20's.

[Sahil]

Prince of Persia in DOS. the most awesome game I still remember how when you jumped over and if you fell down the needles would go through you :(

[Landy]

I think it was called 'Cats' or something. Was way back in 88 when i first tried it. My first FPS was 'Wolfenstein 3D'.. ahh the memories.

[Jason]

Ah I remember good old Wolfenstein 3D. There are games you never forget playing for the first time, and that's one of them. I think I found the demo for it on a CD I got with a magazine as part of a 'classics' section.

[Landy]

Ah I remember good old Wolfenstein 3D. There are games you never forget playing for the first time, and that's one of them. I think I found the demo for it on a CD I got with a magazine as part of a 'classics' section.

Woflenstein 3D, Doom, Duke Nukem, Quake.. All quality games. I remember spending countless hours in Duke Nukem, just watching the stippers and playing pool with the shotgun. :D

[Iggy]

Hammurabi...you will probably have to Google it to see what it was...lol

[MyNameDidntFit]

Half-Life.

I had an older friend who was an avid gamer during my childhood and so at the age of six I was introduced to gaming by Half-Life. Which may partly explain why I'm such a Half-Life fanboy...

[Rogue]

Tomb Raider 2. I always played them on the PS but a first for me on the PC.

[Toups]

Duke Nukem followed by starcraft :)

[nilihanth]

I'm shocked most of the mentioned games so far are relatively new in the eyes of the PC gaming lifetime.

I can't remember which came first so I'll just list a few of the older games I played 1st on a PC:

Number Munchers (It was a game for learning, but still a game)
Missile Command (I believe this was the title. The game had a total of about 8 colors and it was the father to games like 'Scorched Earth' and 'Tanks')
Commander Keen
King's Quest 1
Space Quest 1

Something along those lines. By the time I played games like Wolfenstein I had already been playing PC games for quite some time.

[CemeteryGates]

Not sure, but I believe it was Sim Tower.
But at the time I thought of it as solitaire pretty much, and my first "serious" game was Age of Empires. :p

[MotherGraham~]

I believe the first PC game I've ever played is Doom II. Long time ago though and wasn't really a "gamer" back then. The game that really got me into gaming would be Doom III. And it's an awesome game still, I tell you.

[Serio]

That would be Wolfenstein 3D, on a DOS computer. It was a bit backwards. When everyone was using Windows 98, I used MS-DOS. When everyone used Windows XP, I used 98. And so on.

[Lance]

Police Quest 1 for me - I played it again a few months ago (along with 2 other old favorites, Sim City and Civilization II), and strangely enough those old games are better than a lot of modern games

[Jason]

Good old Civ II. I bought Civ III a while back, and whilst it's good, I just can't love it as much as Civ II.