Dating myself here a bit, but I can fondly remember playing Commander Keen with a gravis gamepad on cold weekend mornings. Good times.
Was a very solid game for a kids introduction to pc gaming. I might just have to re-play it soon.
Dating myself here a bit, but I can fondly remember playing Commander Keen with a gravis gamepad on cold weekend mornings. Good times.
Was a very solid game for a kids introduction to pc gaming. I might just have to re-play it soon.
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Pirate’s Cove. 16k on a cassette.
Mine was a game called [The Treehouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treehouse_(video_game)). I remember playing it in pre-school. At the end of the day when waiting for someone to pick me up, I’d be playing this game.
Amiga, Superfrog
either civ (the original), loom, or king’s quest V
The first real game was probably day of the tentacle or maybe that Indiana jones where you end up in Atlantis.
Treasure Mountain
Probably Math Blaster on what I presume was an Apple II in kindergarten 1990.
We had an IBM something at home in 1991 where we had Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, and another TV gameshow based game but I forget what it was called. Mono color DOS based system running games off 5.25 inch floppy.
I think they were GameTek versions.
Gorillas and Scorched Earth
Technically it’d be some edutainment stuff like Oregon Trail or Where in the World/Time is Carmen Sandiego from 2nd or 3rd grade, but if we’re going to go with “real” games for fun…
Alone in the Dark, followed 15 minutes later by Wolfenstein 3D!
Made me lust after a 286. When I finally got one, I got a 286 XT, and I was heartbroken to learn that I couldn’t run Wolfenstein at all on it.
Dos based xwing star fighter
Command and Conquer
Doom
Doom.exe
Hexen and DOOM
I got it too early though, I was too stupid back then to finish those games.
Montezumas Revenge, on Atari 800 XL.
Strike Force Heroes
Simply a game that I loved, it was a 2D shooter, it had a campaign, multiplayer and class system, each class with its own weapon and it had a map that was very well done for being a browser game at the time.
Wizard of Wor
Either some game on Nickelodeon or Matchbox Cars. Can’t remember what was first. Circa 2002ish.
Space Quest III on an old IBM XT with an orange monochrome monitor.
XCOM enemy unknown 1995 on MS DOS
Doom on PC, and maybe pacman on my mom’s Atari
Pong Atari 2600, Space invaders and Combat. The tanks and the planes. Iconic stuff back then. I think ib0layed thousands of hours of Asteroids and defender as well.
[Thinkin’ Things](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55GasE2liUs)
Believe it or not, NFS MW
Leisure Suit Larry In The Land of The Lounge Lizards
Pong in ’71 or ’72. I’m guessing there was a PC inside the big arcade game. There were lots of computer arcade games in the 70s. I bought an Atari 2600 later and played those first arcade games on a console at home.
DigDug on a Commodore 64.
Ultima 1 on an IBM 286
Just as an FYI, you can get commander keen and it’s sequels on steam!
It’s either Myst (which I had NO idea how to play), Encarta (yeah I consider that a game) or Math Blaster.
DooM
prince.exe
Roller coaster tycoon
Lemmings
