some one mentioned MS Fligh Sim. That was greatness for the time. I play that for a while until I got a copy of Jet Fighter. I would spend hours flying around San Fran is free mode firing missiles at buildings. Go home, land, reload and take off to shoot more buildings.

but it couldnt match A-10, where you would fly through missings with one engine half a wing and a missing tail and still make it home.

once i got wing commander my favorite missions were against the dessies. wipe out the fighters and then use your rockets up the tail pipe of the big ship.

Once we got Windows 3, I do remember Ski Free. I played that a bit until I figured out how to get my DOS games to work. Then of course I went back to Privateer, Wing Commander Academy, Commanche, Duke3D, etc.

Does anyone remember a C64 game called Ace 2 (i think). It was a flight sim that you could even play two player on using a second joystick. I think that may have been my very first multiplayer pc game, but no one could or would play with me. They couldn't fly the plane. I had no trouble after flying Ace of Aces for about a year or two before that.

I don't remember the order of things, but we had a C64 and an Intellivision when I was a kid.

Intellivision: The Original Civ game Utopia, Tron - deadly Disks, there was a game fighting more and more advanced robots that was good for the time.

C64: I remember playing Neuromancer (With a soundtrack by Devo IIRC!), one of the first games like that I remember playing all the way through and actually beating. Temple of Apshai, Bards Tale I - III, I remember loving Adventure Construction Set at the time.

Atari ST was *my* first Computer: Gunship, Red Storm Rising, Starflight (Best Game *ever*! Races *so* need to be ported over here!), Dungeon Master I and II, Starglider I and II.

Jonnan

I played Oregon Trail when I was in fourth grade in the mid nineties, I think. Old ass mac computers. Our school was behind in tech even then. A few years later I picked up simcity 2000 and have been playing computer games ever since. I used to just play the great sega genesis, still have that old thing too!

I dont even want to remember the very first ones, too crappy technology back then
However the nice ones stand out from later on;

Mystic Quest (simplified Final Fantasy for kidz)
Zelda (duh)
Kirby
Donkey Kong Country
Starcraft
Populus

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Darkness_(game)

It was actually Heart of Darkness

My first game, thought, was Fury 3, when i was like 3 years old...Then after that it was Sonic and Zombies Ate My Neighbors.

I think my first game was Harrier Attack on the Amstrad CPC 464, though my family had an earlier Sinclair and Toshiba home computer before that, but I was too young to remember them. LOL
After the Amstrad, I graduated up to the Atari st, then from there to the Type 2 sega master system, then the Mega drive, PS1, N64, etc etc.
I didn't get an actual PC until about 1998. Though thanks to using PC type computers in my childhood, I took to the PC immediately.

I'll never forget the sound of tape cassette games loading... 3 minutes of high pitch screeching and a loading screen that was built up of lines. LOL
Never want to return to those days!

my wife would probably like me to go computer free for 18 years

one of my first turn based strategy games was on the C64. Defender of the Crown. There was a problem with the game that caused it to crash just before i would win. Eventually i would play it so my enemy would have 1 or 2 territories left and i would just build up everything. hours if not days were poured into that game. it would also crash on me if i saved the priceness.

fun times.

Hmmm might have been Shadow of the Beast on the C64/A500.....

I still have that A500 too. Haven't booted it up for years, but my A1200HD still gets regular use. I still love to play the Amiga version of Deuteros.

The old A1200 still handles quite well too after what, 14 years i think...

I have the emulator too but it's nothing like booting up an Amiga on a 22" screen!!

Maybe we need an Amiga thread here, wonder how many "converts" there are on these forums??

Paratroopers(played in 1989-1990 on XT i can't remember exactly )

i do remember the game. i think i played the shareware version. fps with a map and some other cool features.


@instant, in those days i was already farting around with Macs so the GUI wasnt a stranger to me. I had started using SuperPaint and Pagemaker at a friends house. The games where there but just not many. dos was still my main gaming OS though.