Eagler put me in a time machine...

[AKDejaVu]

I remember playing pong in 77 or 78 at a friend's house.  That is the first home video game I remember.

As far as pc based goes.. I played some kind of tank battle game on an old tape-loaded computer we made in high school.  Moved up to comodore pets from there.. then to Macs.

When I went into the military, I got my first exposure to x86 pcs.  The first game I played on them was Falcon.  I loved this game so much that I went out and bought an 8086 computer.

Its kinda funny, but Falcon 3.0 encouraged me to by my first 486 system too.  About then, I'd played every flight sim released for PCs.  I loved them all.

I have to say my all-time favorites have to be Falcon 3.0, Castle Wolfenstein (started it all as far as FPS goes), Warbirds (introduced me to all human opponents in aircraft), Indy Car Racing, X-Soldier (on LINUX), and the Rainbow 6 series.

AKDejaVu

[Hamish]

1. The First game I played on a computer would be "Dungeons of Daggorath" on a TRS-80 with an amazing 16k of RAM. Loved the game but hated that it took me forever to beat it (I didn't have a cassette player to hook up to it and save games for a long time) I think it took me 3 hours to beat it in one sitting the first time.

2. wow, hard to pick 5, but I'll try.
When my brother and I were real little, it would have to be COMBAT for the Atari 2600. and the hours we spent trying to make "pool shots" off the sides of the screen to kill each other.

When I was young and my dad splurged and bought a tandy 1000SL PC, I'd have to say it was Civilization. I spent hours upon Hours getting nukes and taking out Ghandi.

As I got Older, I went on to Ultima 6, because of the involuted storyline, and it took me forever to finally figure out how to put that damn balloon together.

My first Online game would have to be "Rites of Passage" which was an all-text D&D type role playing MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) of good vs. Evil. It was a rush to get a group and kill a couple of "Evil" characters making them lose their equipment.

And Finally Aces High, because I've loved airplanes since I sat and watched TORA TORA TORA, Midway, Black Sheep Squadron, and all those movies with my parents. AH lets me Fly, try to shoot someone down, and die in the process, loving it every time.

I'll do the honorable mentions list too:


Battlehawks 1942: My first airplane game (and it only fit on one 3.5 low density floppy!) god was I addicted to that one for a while
Red Baron
Wing Commander, All of them
Pirates!
WB, because that's what started me flying online


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Hamish!

[Ripsnort]

 

Originally posted by Nath-BDP:
eh? In 1993 I would be 10.

1989, first online game I logged into, you were 6 years old.

[AKSeaWulfe]

First game was Doom and then Doom2(D2 was trippy man!) I also played MS FS4.0 in DOS Format.
First combat game(s) I played were AOE/AOTP when they hit the shelves(this was in '92/'93) A friend gave me Red Baron, I was addicted to that for a LONG time!

First online game: Confirmed Kill v.91 in late '93. I was 12 when I started playing it.

Games since then in:
Way too many to list.

Only ones that stick out of my mind:
RB3D, FS:SDOE(for like 2 days, what a joke), Flight Unlimited from Looking Glass(that thing was amazing for a 2D game), B17 Flying Fortress, Unreal(man that thing was detailed!!), Half-Life, Half-Life:Opposing Forces, Tribes, European Air War. There's more but don't care to dig through my stuff to list them. Well except for 1942:Pacific Air War and Pacific Strike and Wings of Glory.

-SW

[Mickey1992]

I just remembered my first on-line game.
Net Trek on Unix workstations over the Internet.  My guess at the year was prolly 1989.  It was a definate GPA buster.
The player score in that game was your DI, or Damage Inflicted per time played.
The saying was always that: DI + GPA = A Constant

[Superfly]

1. Hunt the Wampus on the old TI computers when I was about 5, I think.  I played Pong before that, but I consider that a console game.
2. Baldur's Gate series - BG2 rocks! I am currently wasting my free time on this one.

   Captain Goodnight (Apple IIe) A great game about a guy that has to save the world from some sort of doomsday device.

   Half-Life - Many a night has been spent at HTC having LAN death matches.

   Ultima V (Apple IIe) - I think this is the best Ultima title ever made.

   Pool of Radiance (Apple IIe- I wasted a lot of my early teenage years on that stupid computer!)

AH, of course, but that doesn't count since I help develop it.    

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[Eagler]

Gaming history .. sorta:
Pong - Ataria (1973?) on the LR tv, 7th grade.
Space Invaders - (1976?) Video Game at corner hangout
Galaxia (?),Asteriods and Missle Command (1979) Showbiz pizza parlor on lunch break
Nintendo, Sega Genesis then Super Nintendo (for the kids during the 80's) Had a blast with Zelda  
As stated b4 - first cpu was a 12mhz 286 which chugged out Battlehawk 1942. (92 -93)

Favorite??
Each generation has been better than the last, good memories from many... as I spend too much of my life on AH, it's my fav now. Haven't seen anything I'd rather be doing on line or off  
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St Peter at the Pearly Gates:

St Peter - "So Eagler, what did you do with your life?"

Eagler - "I broke 100 during tour 10 in Aces High!"

St Peter - "CU Eagler" .. hits trap door button.

Eagler - Lands in a warm place "Hi StSanta, how's the lag down here"  

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[Nath-BDP]

When I was 6 I had a huge Lionel train layout, it was about 7x12. Lots of fun.

[kidcol]

Anybody else find it ironic that at least 3 of SUPERFLY's fav's were apple-specific & yet there is no AH mac version?

Oh God, I didn't just say that, did I? I don't even like mac's. (Wrapping body with asbestos & hiding in corner)

hehe

p.s. Love to see pyro and/or HT post fav's. Just really curious to see what they were into.  

- kidcol -

[Eagler]

 

Originally posted by Nath-BDP:
When I was 6 I had a huge Lionel train layout, it was about 7x12. Lots of fun.

Hey Nath

Is it still working two years later?

 

Eagler

[Rickenbacker]

First game, ummm, some Pacman clone on the Commodore VIC-20.

First Flightsim, Private Pilot (I think it was called) from Sierra, you flew a PA-28 from external view only, no scenery except rectangles for fields, and all you did was deliver mail.

Best games ever... I'd have to say Doom, since it's the reason I got my first PC, AW DOS (couldn't believe how good it was back in 1994, can't believe how bad it is now  ), X-com, and anything by Microprose for the Amiga or C-64.


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the Independent Swedish Air Force