Reply 20 of 27, by Carrera
I got my first PC in 1991. A Packard Bell, I think it was 60 Mhz, likely only 4 MB of RAM.
I either overclocked it or upgraded it to 75 MHZ and 8 MB of RAM.
My first game was Strike Commander as I was toying with the idea of joining the Air Force.
I really didn't do much more until after college. I was self employed so I started dabbling in various games.
One day I picked up EarthSiege 2 in a bargain bin and I was hooked on Mecha games.
I played all the MechWarrior games up to Mech 4 and I personally love and prefer StarSiege (NOT Tribes).
I bought Heavy Gear 1 and 2 but never finished them (though I enjoyed the TV show...)
I have all the "MetalTech" games but have not played them as they didn't like modern systems (and a great place like VOGONS didn't exist at the time).
After M$ bought the MechWarrior franchise I cooled my jets but picked up on StarCraft in the late '90s.
I tried lots of RTSs that go beyond the time period of this thread but stopped after StarCraft 2.
I still have a ton of simulation games, flight, Mecha, racing but I never played them all the way through... being a free lancer I was always after the next gig...
Since then, kids, pets and a classic car (oh yeah and a wife ...=)=)) have taken time away but my Athlon is still sitting under my workbench and I have a Penitum 233 MMX laptop that still works well in DOS plus an XP machine that will some day be fired up again...