My first PC gaming experience was probably playing the first Wizardry on the Apple II in the library at my elementary school. For some reason at the time my public school tended to get all the latest games. My father was the PE teacher so I often got to school hours early and had nothing to do.

So they set me up in the library to play it. Eventually they trusted me to get the games and load them myself which lead to my first PC disaster; formatting the Wizardry data disk trying to make a save game disk.

Good times.

They also had a lot of those Sierra High-res adventure games. I remember playing Mystery House and how freaky it felt finding those dead bodies in the rooms. That game made of just about stick figures scared me as much as any modern game ever has.

nice story!
Mine was in 1991 with and IBM PS1/pro (386sx20/2MB/VGA/80B HDD) , there was some sort of DOS launcher menu that launched "boring" programs like DOS word processor or MS works or win3... I crapped my pants when I found out that pressing RIGHT the menu changed to the GAMES section! I remember Dangerous Dave in Pirate's Hideout, CD-MAN and Jumpman Lives! (all demos/free/shareware) ... those were my first games on a pc 😁
I later got a Zenith 486/66 and a p1/200mmx etc etc... but the IBM machine is in my heart 😁

Hi

IBM PC games weren't worth playing until DOOM came
out in my opinion. Prior to that they were either inferior
to other platforms such as the Amiga else the IBM PC
itself was far too expensive to warrant playing games on.

In my youth though, the gaming machine of choice was the
Atari VCS, but I am old enough to remember playing
those PONG games 🤣. I owned a PONG machine (who
didn't) but never the VCS.

The very first computer game that I played on my very
own computer would have been `blue meanies from
outer space' on a VIC=20. Now that is a classic! I can
live without playing again though, that's for sure...

cya!

I was playing Ghost Busters, Lemmings and Test Drive on my cousin's Amiga 500 around 1990 and some friends had a Sega Master System with Wonder Boy, Sonic and Alex Kidd that I used to play on... long before I got a PC of my own. We also had Apple II's at school with games like Spy's Demise and Taipan (nobody knew how to program them or anything so games are all they were used for)

It wasn't until early 1994 that my parents bought a 486SX-25, 4MB RAM, Trident 512K video card, 200MB HDD running DOS 6.2. I came home from school one day and the tech bloke was playing Duke Nukem 2 on it. I spent hours playing the shareware version of that over and over. That would have been my first PC game. We soon upgraded it to 8MB RAM, an Aztech Sound Galaxy NX Pro and a 2x CDROM drive. I got Return to Zork for christmas that year, and early next year I saved my pennies and bought Sam and Max hit the Road (still have both). A lot of shops had racks of $5 or $10 Shareware disks and I quickly learned that the Epic Megagames and Apogee branded games were the ones to go for.

The battery on the motherboard leaked all over our sound card so we ended up getting an SB16 and an upgrade to 1GB HDD while we were at it. We stuck with that computer until we upgraded to a Pentium 2 266MHz with an LX chipset board, 32MB RAM, an ESS-Solo and an S3 Virge GX2 running Win98 on a 3GB HDD. I was annoyed that we had an LX board because there was no upgrade path - if we'd had a BX board we could have upgraded to Coppermine up to 1GHz with a slotket. My board wouldn't work at all with a Coppermine or Katmai.

We stuck with that one again until I got my own job and bought an Athlon XP 1800+ with a GF4 Ti4200.

Mt very first gaming experience came when I played the shareware game "balloons", it ran on ms-dos 5.0 and as I remembered it was aimed at little kids (keep in mind I was 5 at this time), and basically if you smashed the keyboard buttons the balloons would be removed from the screen and make pc-speaker noises. Now, the actual gaming experience I had that was actually mastering and playing a game was probably jewel theaf from the Microsoft Entertainment Pack (forgot what number) and it ran on my families old 486 windows 95 gateway computer.

Hmmm, I think it may have been Prince of Persia or Sim City, something like that - this was probably in a Dixons electrical store. I bought my first PC - a 16MHz 286 with 1mb shortly after (still have the board and ram, actually) by selling a whole load of consoles - Master System, Megadrive, SNES, gameboy and my original two computers; a ZX Spectrum and a Spectrum 128. Wish I'd never got rid of any of them - over the next 25+ years I've proceeded to get back all the systems I had at any point (and then some!).

I can't really remember my exact first PC gaming experience because I was really really young at the time (possibly not older than 3-4 years old!!!). From what I know we used to have a 286 until sometime in 1996 when we bought a Pentium 133 with 16mb RAM and an S3 Virge (and from some floppies that I've found a Pro Audio Spectrum soundcard). I loved that PC. It allowed me to play a ton of games, here are some that I remember very vividly:
Worms, Fade to Black, Broken Sword 2, Monkey Island 3, Atlantis The Lost Tales (which I only watched my brother playing), Heart of Darkness, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Fallout and a ton of shareware games and demos.

It served as a family computer until mid to late 1997 when my father got a brand new HP Vectra VL 6 with a Pentium 2 - 233, 64MB (!!!) RAM, a Matrox Millennium II and 4 GB HDD! My brother got to keep the Pentium 1 for himself and I would also play on there. In 2000 or so he decided it was time for a new PC and bought a Pentium III - 733, 128MB RAM and I think a Riva TNT 2 M64, which he soon replaced with a GeForce 2 MX.

I got to keep the Pentium 1 for a year or so and I played even more games on there now that the PC was mine. My brother also taught me how to use DOS to play games (that was before I even knew how to speak English hahaha), format, install drivers etc. I still remember that PC very fondly and I feel awful that I, myself, threw it away a few years back because it produced some error with the floppy and I couldn't install Windows. A shame, I know now that I would have been able to fix it 🙁.