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[Gunstar Green]

I got into PC gaming in the 90's because a friend's brother going to college to be a programmer and thus he had a lot of hardware laying around the house. It also meant his brother would show us all of the latest shareware stuff. One of the games that really caught our interest was One Must Fall 2097. The tournament mode was like nothing we'd ever seen in a fighting game, allowing you to customize your character and upgrade them with light RPG mechanics.

We must have played through that shareware tournament hundreds of times. The day his brother brought us the floppies with the full version on them was like an early Christmas. That's only one of many warm and fuzzy shareware related memories. It was a really cool time where you felt like part of an underground gamer community.

[Tanooki]

I got into it thanks to what was meant to be an educational tool from the grandparents back in Christmas 1990. They were well off (small business owners, retired) and she was an ex-math teacher. So they paid for this Magnavox Headstart 500CD a 386SX16. I still remember it having a huge 80MB HDD, 4MB of RAM, S/VGA 640x480 card, SB Pro, and the first commercial CD drive (it was like a 1/2 speed one) that used trays you put discs in, and of course the 1.44 floppy with DOS5 on there and the monitor could do 800x600. Since it was educational it came with this huge New Grolier Encyclopedia, the best version of 'The Manhole' (kids ver of Myst, same makers), and other compilation discs, one was nothing but like 100 games on it. They opted into that monitor and according to old magazine scans I can find that was $3K for the system and 500 for the SVGA monitor...nuts how expensive the stuff was then compared to now.

That got me really started, amazing 1987-90 PC unique or conversion games from C64, Arcade, Amiga, etc. I put so many hours on that computer I probably should have died on it like those net cafe koreans who sit there and don't eat or defecate for 2 days. Some of my favorites on it were Skyfox 2, Into the Eagles Nest (nazi gauntlet), Infiltrator 1 and 2, Road Runner, Pebble Beach Golf, Willow(far better than NES one), Captain Blood, Iridium, and lots more. I'd kill to find a copy of that CD, at least a listing of the games so I can go raid some crusty abandonware sites and rebuild the beast for dosbox fun.

[Exhuminator]

My first strong PC gaming memories are from 1987. A friend of my parents had an Amiga and he was a PC gamer. He showed me Leisure Suit Larry 1 and Dungeon Master, both games which released in 1987, at the same time. Those games blew my mind because they were so far advanced compared to the console games I was playing at that time. It took two years of pleading to finally get my first computer after that. It was a Tandy 1000 TX and I have a lot of great memories with that machine.

From there I got a 386 two years later. And a 486 two or three years after that. I had to pay for the IBM 486 myself though.

[Gunstar Green]

My first strong PC gaming memories are from 1987. A friend of my parents had an Amiga and he was a PC gamer. He showed me Leisure Suit Larry 1 and Dungeon Master, both games which released in 1987, at the same time. Those games blew my mind because they were so far advanced compared to the console games I was playing at that time. It took two years of pleading to finally get my first computer after that. It was a Tandy 1000 TX and I have a lot of great memories with that machine.

From there I got a 386 two years later. And a 486 two or three years after that. I had to pay for the IBM 486 myself though.

The very first time I played a game on a PC was the original Space Quest. I still have a soft spot for text parsers over the point and clicks.

[ElkinFencer10]

My first PC gaming memory is from....it was probably 1997 or 1998. I think I was in the first grade. Anyway, we had a big white Gateway running Windows 98, and the first game I played on it was called Winged Warrior. It was a shareware series from Dataware Games. I don't know if it was actually a good game, but at the time, I thought it was the greatest thing ever.

[Exhuminator]

The very first time I played a game on a PC was the original Space Quest. I still have a soft spot for text parsers over the point and clicks.

The very first PC game I ever bought with my own money was one of those. A text parser that is. Said game was Quest For Glory 2: Trial By Fire. I spent an entire summer as a kid beating that game, and I did beat it. That meant something back then because I had no walkthrough, and that game was hella challenging. Also as a kid I had endless free time apparently.

The coolest thing to me as a kid playing QFG2 was its setting and themes. I had zero acquaintance with Arabian-anything. It was all magic and mystery to me. An unforgettable experience and I remember parts of it very fondly to this day.

[Markies]

Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

It has just been fantastic. And it has been bringing up so many Paper Mario warm and fuzzy memories. I loved that game so much and this game is feeling exactly the same.

I've loved every second I have put into it. Just fantastic.

[laurenhiya21]

I don't have too many great gaming memories, so here's the only one I can think of:

So my mom has never been that interested in video games, and for a while she was a bit against my sister and I playing them. She wasn't too pushy about us playing so much though, probably because they kept us entertained so she kind of up with them. However, one day she was watching me play a bit of Harvest Moon: Another Wonderful Life. I'm not sure if she watched a bit just to see what sort of things we played or if the theme was interesting (she loves animals and used to have a farm of sorts), but then the cow I brushed mooed and a little heart appeared. I can't exactly remember what she said but she that that was adorable.

It's kind of a silly thing to remember to be honest, but I think that was one of the first times I can remember her liking something about video games.

[Tanooki]

Fun the first PC game feel bought was the Simpsons Arcade Game that came in a cool big green box with lots of art. And around the same time my first shareware was the first generic text labeled Wolfenstein 3D disc I played both to death.

[Gunstar Green]

The first PC game I bought goes back to Wing Commander 2 followed shortly by the GT Interactive retail release of Wolfenstein 3D's full version. It came with an amazing hint book. The cover fell off of it because I used to take it to school and study the maps while waiting to go home and play them. Good times.