How many years have you been a PC gamer?

[dfonda]

(Credit Janus for the question)

How many years on the PC gaming. What was your first? :shrug:

Since 1997 here. Myst was the first I played. Diablo 2 was the first really great game I played.

[metloaf]

Since '89, thats when I first really got into PC gaming playing an F-16 flight simulator, then Codename Iceman, that was the best on a monochrome monitor! :cool:

[Mustanley]

About 25 years. Started on a Radio Shack TRS-80 model 1 when I was 4 years old or so.

[ziggo0]

Poll Plox!

I'm currently 17...been playing games since I can remember.

[Rattle]

20 years eazy on my uncles old machines...if not more, I am 28 and I figure i was 8 years old at the most ... probably less

[ShadowPho]

1992 my dad got a picture of me (4 years old) playing on a lappy RETAL (F16 simulator) :D

[MEMex]

not sure if C64 is considered a pc... if so 19 yrs
i486SX - 14 yrs, /me remembers back then playing that game with the monkeys on the skyscrappers throwing bannas at eachother. :D

[puremanb]

Since 2000 started with runescape. I am now 17

[mage_x]

modern pc's - 10 years
dos games - 16+ years

the 6 year gap was the genesis/snes days :)

[Aidenswarrior]

my whole life, 18 years. Started out with an Apple II Gs :)

[TrunkZ]

lol my first game i ever played on pc which i love the most is hmm..quake 3.. then i moved on from there. so i'd say ever since quake 3 came out.

[lucasp]

The first game I remember really liking on the PC was Stunts Racing. I had a blast creating tracks, driving through cork screws, and doing loops.

Then once I started playing Quake II, it was all over. Jailbreak was my favorite mod.

[Gabkicks]

since i was 4... so i'd say almost 15 years.

[Flip-Mode]

First ever was some console with pong on it and it also had a gun and you would shoot the square on the screen that was moving, I was about 5 I think.
From there it was C128 and C64 and then some 386 comp and then my first 486 and so on.

[Anjow]

I first played on a BBC micro with a cassette drive, other things I remember are Arctic Adventure, Captain Comic (both on 5.25" floppies I think) - some of my favourite moments were from the space quest series.

Edit: jesus I just looked up captain comic on wikipedia and it's dated 1988... I had no idea I started so young - I was only born in 1985!

[Susquehannock]

Approx. 7.2 years.
Ever since I got my Dell P-2 system in late 1998. Haven't spent a cent on console gaming since.

[Indyxc1]

Lol, Quake 3 first game. :) Man, I'm old at 22.

The first "computer" I had was a radioshack computer with tapes, but that was more of a console.

First actual computer was a 486 dx 66, 8mb ram, with games like:

Stunts
Test Drive
Doom 1/ Doom 2
Wolfenstein

So give or take 17 years.

[Elif Tymes]

Oh wow. Don't get me started.....

Hmmm, I was.... 3?4? when my earliest memory of gaming on a computer... There were these two people, a guy and a girl and they had to go through a cave or a house or something. Man, this is 13 + years ago! Don't expect me to remember!

I must say my earliest FAVORITE game was Gorrilas(Which was in QBasic, for those of you who don't know) I'd also count it as my most often returned to game, beating Homeworld by just a hair, and AOE2 by even less.

[PLOBBY]

Pc, 2 years. Console since I was, ohh 6 or 7. Started with a super nintentdo. Im only 15 now...But ive stopped with consoles since i found the pc.

[futura2001]

Heh, I'm 21 now, and I have been playing computer games for about as long as I remember. Used to play Tetris for hours and hours when I wasn't playing with Legos before I went to Kindergarten. Rectangles were my friend. Pac Man was another fetish of mine back then. Got a Gameboy the first week they came out, and that ate up my life and my batteries.
Then I went to Kindergarten and started playing the original Oregon Trail. Yes, even at that tender age I was one of the sick disturbed kids that would ford the deep river without preparing the wagon just to watch the wagon sink and the hat come floating to the surface...
My most nostalgicly loved game would have to be Full Throttle. I got for free with the original Dark Forces demo disk, and I still have that disk so I can ScummVM the game every few years. Still kicks ass even though I can beat the game in under an hour now.

[Sjaak]

I started playing lemmings and supaplex on my fathers PC when i was about 6 years old. Then when i was 8 in 1995 he bought a pentium 2 and red alert 1 / 1602 ad kicked in :D

[oner8214]

Well, I started PC gaming when I was 12 and stoped when I was around 14. Loved playing DOS games. Now I'm 23 and got back into the gaming scene around a year ago. What a big difference. Started playing "Red Faction" and moved on to "Condition Zero". Now I'm playing all the favorites. :cool:

P.S: Ever since I got back to the gaming scene, I havn't been able to get back to playing console. :shrug:

[PhoenixOfChaos]

~8 years pc, ~11 console.

[koss20100]

half life was the first game i ever played on pc .. and damn ... well anywayz .. after that i didnt play for ages cuz i was opssesed with gay social things ..

Anywayz i would say 1-2 years .. .. but ive played cs 1.0 to css !

[squads]

I played Apple IIC+ games, but I won't count that. I played the Original Tomb Raider and been playing various types of PC games ever since. This must have been around 1997 or so.

[LegolasElf]

since 2000, started on a Pentium 486 @ 66MHz by playing some old flight simulators, then got an Apollo Pentium 3 mobo @ 550MHz which was a pretty big steup up and played games like NHL 2000 and FIFA 98 and Theme Hospital

[FlakMonkey]

Since the beginning of CS.

[RoadWarrior]

Since 1981, that's one, two, umm many, years ago, started with stuff like Hungry Horace, PSSST, Galactians (Galaxians rip off), Jet Pac, Lunar Jet Man, Manic Miner....

[Randyman...]

0 - unless you count playing "Hangman" on an old Commodre-64 like 20 years ago. I have been meaning to get around to playing games on my new screaming fast PC's (PC#1 and #2 in my sig), but I just never seem to have any time for that. Life, a full-time job, 2 1/2 bands, and lots of pets to maintain don't leave me with any time to play games :( . I use my fast PC's for Audio Processing and Production if you are wondering...

:cool:

[Madmike2]

all pup's all of you ... i started playing in 1982 on a tandy (radio shack) 80 .. then the pet and it went on from there .. my life though in gaming started with asteroids in the arcade in 1980 when i was like 11 or 12

[Nexus Realized]

Around 85' 86' when I was playing on a commadore at my grandparents house game was space invaders I think. After that it was console till around 00' and been playing ever since.

[Feydd]

Since I was seven. My dad had an old DOS game called 'The Mines of Moria'. That was around 88-89. Then came Wolfenstien and it was just non-stop from there.

[funzie]

Since I could talk and tell my father to do the run command so that I could play Ghostbusters on the good ol' C64.

[roid]

Pc gaming started in 1996 with doom.
Before that I played the old C-64 atari ColecoVision Intellivsion and the old pong game that was a whole console itself.

[Nexus Realized]

Pc gaming started in 1996 with doom.
Before that I played the old C-64 atari ColecoVision Intellivsion and the old pong game that was a whole console itself.

Man, forgot about that :bang head
I played Doom and DoomII for awhile along with R.O.T.T. the stopped till 00'

[theoilman]

when I was 5 my aunt left Doom within my reach. that was in 94

[turd]

Well besides going back to being hooked on Zork in 83, I have been playing UT steady since I think 99. Before that mostly modern game would be all the Quakes.

[Wiggles]

When was Wolfenstein 3d released? I just remember being young and playing this game on the computers at the Force Recon office at Camp Lejeune while my dad worked.

n/m: 1992

[David Coleman]

Since '89-90 or so on the old 286DX (math coprocessor baby!). Gorilla = ownage! So thats like 17 years...not too shabby :) Gaming before 3d accelerator cards is unimaginable to anyone who has grown up in the post-VooDoo age...

[maelstromracing]

Ok
Games on Apple II
Apple II+
Apple IIe (had lowercase, woot!)
Apple IIGS
Trs(h) 80
Atari 400 (and 800, no 2600 junk)
Apple IIC
IBM AT 8088 with 8087 Math Co
AT 286, 386, 486
P66, 75, 100, 120, 133, 166, 200, 233
etc etc
Let's say 1980 to be safe, 25+ years (I remember loading games from a CASSETTE!!!)

[David Coleman]

I thought the 80286 was the XT? Or was that the 8088?

[Nick59007]

wolf-3d was my pc game i guess i have been playing for like 13years

[Sliver]

I've been gaming on the PC literaly as long as I can remember. But if I had to pick an arbitrary number, I'd say since 1989, when I was 5 on old Sierra adventure games.

[twEEkerAreUs]

1987 I'd say off the top of my head sounds about right

Apple IIE = School
C64 = Home

Oddly enough the school system was what really kind of got me going into them even if it was an Apple Computer. Sort of lucked out being the first generation, well around here that is for the schools introducing them in a more then one quanity. Lol how were some of you guys playing Computers Games at age 1, let's be a little realistic here.

[Celeron_Phreak]

Thirteen years and a month, literally.

I actually own an Apple IIc+ in mint condition. Great system to play with, and with ProComm Plus, I can connect the IIc+ to the PC to transfer downloaded game images and write them to disk on the IIc+. Playing with old technology is an addiction of mine. =\

[Anjow]

Since '89-90 or so on the old 286DX (math coprocessor baby!). Gorilla = ownage! So thats like 17 years...not too shabby :) Gaming before 3d accelerator cards is unimaginable to anyone who has grown up in the post-VooDoo age...

Haha yeah I remember gorilla - where you could shoot the sun and it would pull a face!

[sulretal]

No one here remembers Kommander Keen? Shame on all if yous dont!

Kommander Keen was a DOS game of a little boy who took acid and warped into space.

[Anjow]

Yeah I remember that, I played one of them - I think it was the vortigons one, and there was some pogo stick? That's all I recall.

[Prodigious]

I'd say about 10 or 11 years.

[RoadWarrior]

No one here remembers Kommander Keen? Shame on all if yous dont!

Kommander Keen was a DOS game of a little boy who took acid and warped into space.

Don't think he 'zactly took acid, the story was that he built a spaceship out of junk in his backyard.

It was the game that launched id software, John Carmack and John Romero wrote it, then they wrote Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake...

These days, post Doom III, John Carmack is building a spaceship out of junk in his backyard..
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home

:D

You can DL the shareware levels of Commander Keen from id's site still.

[Owenator]

About 25 years. Started on a Radio Shack TRS-80 model 1 when I was 4 years old or so.

Me too. I had a Radio Shack TRS-80 Color computer and a cartridge game from the movie Poltergeist. Yikes, it was released in 1982! So 24 years.

Before that I used to play text based games on the mini-computers in my dad's office. I think I was around 10 when I started at my dad's office so that would be 27 years if you count text games.

An original Macintosh was was the first computer that was actuall "mine". I did had to share it with my brother but it was in my room. The TRS-80 was from my uncle but my aunt took it back when they split.

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[tropicaldawn]

I'm 14. I've been console gaming since I was about 3. I have many a fond memory of Sonic the Hedgehog on the mega drive. I mean, who doesn't?

I got into PC gaming in 1999, I was 8. The first PC game I played was Age of Empires. On my 13th Birthday (28th February 2004) I bought The Sims and have been a die-hard simmer since then, can't wait for Open for Business, looks much better than Nightlife.

[Wiggles]

Haha yeah I remember gorilla - where you could shoot the sun and it would pull a face!

I played that to with my father at work when he had a break. I have that game on my Win 98 machine still.

[ManOman]

I can't remember the exact year, but I think I got my Commodore 64 around 1985 and have been playing since.
So about 21 years :)

[unreal]

i think i started in 1990 with prince of persia and jill of the jungle, also terminator 2, not the new ver,of course, not sure which came out first, i had allof them on there, and played mogs on bbs's before that..

[Celeron_Phreak]

Commander Keen was actually the first PC game I ever played. His ship actually consisted of old soup cans and rubber cement, powered by a car battery and a vacuum for a propulsion system. A PC joystick for navigation and his dad's window cleaner or something as fuel. Just read the help file (press F1 in game) and you'll get the full story. :)

Commander Keen was my childhood hero. I wanted to be just like him and I even built a spaceship out of wood like his. Come to think of it, I've got a three-ring binder filled with Commander Keen stuff.

I've got a picture of one of the Yorps, the one eyed vorticons, that my little bro and I made out of snow....a snow yorp. :D

[metloaf]

Ok
Games on Apple II
Apple II+
Apple IIe (had lowercase, woot!)
Apple IIGS
Trs(h) 80
Atari 400 (and 800, no 2600 junk)
Apple IIC
IBM AT 8088 with 8087 Math Co
AT 286, 386, 486
P66, 75, 100, 120, 133, 166, 200, 233
etc etc
Let's say 1980 to be safe, 25+ years (I remember loading games from a CASSETTE!!!)

I personally miss the 5 1/4" floppy disks! :p

[Krusty]

I really got into PC games in about 1989. Of course, I played computer games as soon as about 1986 (7 years old), but I didn't become an avid pc gamer till around '89 or so.

First PC game I remember playing the hell out of:
http://www.the-underdogs.org/game.php?id=1647

[Deanzo]

Mmmmm The first PC (if you would call it that) I played on was a ZX81 and then there was a neat we game I used to play on a Spectrum sorry cant re-call its name..
So in other words a long time

[Enablingwolf]

I remember a game I played the heck out of. You inserted a casette into the tape drive and the game was letting the computer pick the animal you was thinking of. It asked you questions, you gave a yes or no. I cannot remember the model of the computer(TRS80?), or the name of the game. It was in the early to mid 80's.

Dang I feel old now..

[dfonda]

Now I remmeber we had one RPG text game at work in "85" anyone remember "Beyond Zork". I remenber solving this riddle. "My tines be long my tines be short my tines end ere my first report". I think when I solved it I became more intelligent and my fingers grew longer and slimmer. LOL Any one need the answer? ;)

[DipStickTony]

1991-2004. The gamer in me has died off.

[joethemole]

i started in grade... 3? i'm 18. first game i think was some duke-nukem-like platformer... forgot the name. games that i do remember from around that time include war craft 2, one of the old heros of might and magic, and theme hospital

[Enablingwolf]

Oh my, it ihas been a long time since I played Theme Hosptial. So I went digging around, I found a few classics. I have LOADS more. This is just the top of the collection, the rest is somewhere round here. This is part of 'the turn of the century' of my game collection. Plus some are on loan. You might see some classics in this pile. Like the original Warcraft and GateKeeper. If I find the really old games on Floppy. I might edit the picture. I know I have alot of pre-3.1 games, I just have to want to find them.

http://www.enablingwolf.com/OCpix/PICT1350.jpg

[OC Noob]

Since trs80 and C64 days... did I really admit that :eek:

[ju5tin99]

Began in '92-'93 when we got our first family PC playing DOS games and MahJong. First real game was Warcraft. Man I used to spend hours playing that over the modem with friends, telling my family "Don't pick up the phone I'm playing the computer", and hoping no one would call so the call waiting wouldn't mess it up. Ahh....the memories.

[Tall_Dallas]

I started at 5 years old with this:
http://www.pong-story.com/pics/magnavox/o2000b.jpg

Graduated at about 8 to Atari 2600...

I then graduated at 10 when my father took a loan from his employer and bought our first XT...
Played the monochrome Falcon flight sim game.

Also played Kings Quest & Space Quest.

Kings Quest IV was a family event that lasted months.
Finally beat it in about 4 months.

Conquest of camelot! ... remember THAT?!? With the riddle stones?

I was big into flight sims (as everyone was) and played every sim I could get my hands on.
M$ Flight Sim 98 was a big one...

and I was also big into Doom...
I was one of the few that would come home, with 3 friends, and had 4 other friends at another buddies house, we'd dial up, and play doom for hours!

I was a big Diablo fan...

Duke Nukem was a good multiplayer too.
I loved putting the laser trip mines everywhere.

Descent... and Descent 2 were amazing games! I played those for hours... also online was great when I'd beat up my buddies from work (16 and 17 years old)

I still got my old 486 DX 33 with 64 MB RAM ... and a 500MB HDD... somewhere!

[TheGreySpectre]

Started playing games at about 3 when my dad started me playing pong (a old game at the time but good for a 3 year old) Then I moved on to Doom and Catacomb Abyss, and dark forces was in there somewhere and then later on i moved on to mechwarrior 2

so about 16 years

[cmat]

Around 1988 I played The Ancient Art of War and got completely hooked on strategy gaming. It's amazing how things have changed since then...

The first real game that hooked me and had me playing until early the next morning was Heroes of Might and Magic II. And once Heroes III came out, I don't think I slept for months...:)

[deathman20]

Ummm, was in the 1986 or 1987 can't remember I was 4-5 at the time we had it and I knew it was before I moved to my parents current place. Had some wierd screen also, we had it for the longest time and in late 90's we sold it at a computer swap fair.

[usp8riot]

I had a TRS-80 but my parents were too cheap to buy games for it. That and I didn't think it was a good gaming system. I could'nt have imagined playing with a keyboard in those (NES) days. Then 9th grade I was skipping study hall to play Alleycat, Moon-something, (it's on the tip of my tongue), MJ vs LB one on one, pool, LodeRunner, Chess, etc. Wasn't til I got my own PC after military service I became a somewhat avid PC gamer.

[Indyxc1]

Anyone here remember the birth of online gaming with Kahn and Kali?

Those were the days. :)

[deathman20]

Anyone here remember the birth of online gaming with Kahn and Kali?

Those were the days. :)

I remember Kali. Oh what a pain getting that to work properly. I never tried Kahn.

[TreeNode]

I remember playing some games loaded from the 5.25...

As for multiplayer, does anyone remember Legend of The Red Dragon? Sometime in the early 90s it came out, was able to play over a BBS line with various people. We even had a few guys from Tokyo on our BBS board. LOL.

I also remember using Kali, and agreed, it was difficult to get it setup correctly.

[cornbread]

My first pc game that I can remember was on the C64, Dr. J vs Larry Bird, lol. I remember when I would break the backboard with a dunk, I thought that was awesome, the little ref guy (that looked like mario to me) would come sweep it up.

[RoadWarrior]

Meh, how can the piccie show "classics" they're all on those new fangled CD ROM things :D

[Falcon-K]

probalby 12-15years or so. 1990-1992 or so I started PC gaming.

[Janus67]

If playing during recess on an AppleII counts: 13 years. If really getting into the whole pcgaming scene counts: 7 years (my first big game was Half-Life)