When I was younger I had the type of parents who would only get something which could play games and 'ecudate' - so I got a C128 lol
using the SPRDEF function was about as far as I got 'educationally' lol, and typing in 'poke' cheats
mostly I played Mercenary, Ecnounter, Uridium, Paradroid and ACE (using my beautiful 1571 5.25 floppy drive :p).
then when the Amiga came into the forefront, I never actually got round to getting one, although I always liked em a lot
eventually I got a PC in about 1994 - a Pentium (yes standard Pentium) 90mhz with I think 16MB of RAM (which was a big deal at the time). I think the gfx chipset was a S3 Virge or something - Im not sure - but it was just to optimise SVGA output or something, this computing behemoth also sported a CD-ROM drive. At first I wasnt that into the games on the thing, apart from DooM, and flight sims like Aces over Europe. Then I got my hands on Wing Commander III, and then I fell in love eheh. It's hard to explain how amazing those graphics looked at the time. I wore out tonnes of crappy sound card/serial port based analogue joysticks playing that one
.I love all the Wing Commander games - although I do think that Prophecy didnt quite have the same epic feel, and the enemies were in a word - crap. So far it looks like 'Wing Commander: Arena' for XboX Live on the 360 is going to be utter, utter dross, and an insult to Chris Roberts heritage :s. Strike Commander was another game I enjoyed playing a lot, even though it was extremely arcadey, the fact that it had a YF-23 in it was brilliant :p.
Quake was another game which I really enjoyed (as I have every id software game). When that first came out I played it with a joystick lol - using the POV hat for strafe and jump
. I eventually forced myself to use mouse and keys though. Although I do think that the Wii does have the potential to be the best control system for an FPS being played on a console. I still think it will never be as precise as mouse/keyboard (although it may be more fun). I can never see someone for example rocket jumping turning 270 degrees and switching to rail and hitting someone in the head before even landing on a console, unless it uses a mouse and keyboard. Having said that most players nowadays seem to prefer 'realism' in FPS's - so maybe most ppl dont give a crap lol.Quake3 was another game I spent a lot of time playing from the early q3test days. it was my first online game,and i played it every night pretty much for 2 years :p.
anywayz enough rambling, Im going to end my PC rant with a list of the PC games I love/remember, and most of which I still play:
F-22 ADF/TAW
Wing Commander (entire series)
Freelancer
Falcon 4.0
ComancheCD (I love hyperVoxels)
Delta Force 1 + 2 (so i was annoyed when they started using standard polygonal graphics for Land Warrior)
Quake (entire series) (Quakeworld, Rocket Arena 1 and 3, CPMA)
Wolf3d and RTCW
Deus Ex
Tribes 2
Battlefield 1942
Dark Forces/Jedi Knight/Jedi Outcast
Duke Nukem 3D
Rise Of The Triad
Il-2
US Navy Fighters
Half-Life (both)
Descent
yes, some of those games have come out on consoles, but in every case I believe the PC version is superior
Why do say this? I just find it interesting as most peeps seem to enjoy the mouse and keyboard combo much more for it's accuracy and ease of use (or I guess what they think, since you prolly don't find it that way).