What game was released the year you started PC gaming?

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I remember years ago, reading a review for Outcast in PC Gamer. I had bought a subscription simply out of curiousity about the hobby. I didn't have a computer at the time, but the game has been one I intended to play ever since.

Somewhere around the same time, I read a review for Thief: the Dark Project in PC Gamer, also. The entire description was glowing, and made the game out to be some type of paragon of world building, stealth, and nail-biting tension that had yet to be equaled. It was a universe I held my breath to enter.

It was then, after this review, I decided to get into PC Gaming.

My first computer was an old IBM, given to my by my grandfather, who had bought a new PC to carry on his Diablo obsession. It was only capable of playing old video games. My first PC game was Lands of Lore: Guardians of Destiny. I played it, and was hooked! Since then, I have only been capable of getting into first-person dungeon crawls. Sadly, this was my first and last game of that type! After 1995, the game market for PC games gravitated towards shooters, as Half-life (fantastic!) released, and then Unreal and other, similar games. While I enjoyed a few scarce shooters, like Painkiller and Unreal 2k4, since then, my interest waned until eventually I had nothing to play. I sold my old computer for a netbook, and am now playing the older classics--games I should have, but didn't, get around to playing around the start of my gaming career!

Other games I remember around the time were Gabriel Knight II, Baldur's Gate, Diablo, Age of Empires, Total Annihilation, and Star Craft (woohoo!). What were your first gaming memories? And what games released the year you started gaming? Most of all, what got you into the hobby? And what was your VERY first game, or at least the first game that grabbed you, held you by the testes, and wouldn't let go! Until you become an obsessive nut, like me.

Hide your children,

Arc-y

Oddly, same thing happened to me with Outcast.

i started learning english while playing police quest and that got a little bit fun. it was all adventure until ultima 6 came out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Achtung,_die_Kurve!

No, wait, never played it.

Let's see... I know I played when I was in my first grade already, so it's about 1995. Chrono Trigger... funny, I played it for the first time just a year ago. Maybe it would be my favorite RPG if my NES did't die. Discworld - I even read a solution in second issue of one of the first russian gaming magazines. Still have it, actually. Full Throttle - looked how my dad beaten it. Warcraft 2. Played that a lot. HoWM - did't like other dragons than purple after that. Hexen - I can still imagine that staff with a shiny gem in a center of the screen. It made me to play spellcasters in other games after that.
Little Big Adventure stands out as probably one of my favorite childhood gaming memories.
System Shock, Ultima 8 and Wizardry Gold were too difficult for me. I can only remember SS. Worms - played it with friends constantly. X-Com - strangely enough, I failed at it miserably (hey, just a kid, remember), but continued to struggle with it by some reason. I think I found equipping squad of characters so much fun that I was satisfied when I killed just anything. So I ran the game every day to get those little pixel bros killed in the first encounter, and still enjoyed it. Kids are strange.

Terror from the Deep. I have read the review in a local gaming mag, procured the game through illicit means and then proceeded to get horribly raped during ship terror missions. Good times.

Can't say I know the year, really.

The first video games I ever played were Prince of Persia, Dragon's Lair, and this Doom spinoff called Corridor 7 all on the Amiga; so whenever those were kicking around, I guess. The blunt sounds of PoP and the gruesome, flashing deaths were awesome. My heart would always skip whenever I ran into something bad or an evil swordsman showed up. I thought the graphics were fucking amazing, and they still are, really. Dragon's Lair was just hilarious fun. Father had a red-joystick thing with one button on it, used that to play it and I'd usually just watch the animations; constantly had to change the floppy disks in and out between cutscenes, too, and I didn't give a shit because what else was there? I thought Corridor 7 was awesome at that time; I soon found Doom and Ultima Underworld (which I found extremely scary) a little while later. I heavily got into wargames when I was like 10 years old and that's when I really dove into PC gaming. Of all kinds. Met a lot of bros playing Close Combat online. Even got a guy to send me a package to which made my parents uneasy and, in retrospect, was probably a bad idea, but nothing came of it.

He sent a CD of mods for Close Combat, btw, since our internet was garbage. True bro even if he might have been a butt lusting online pedophile.

Well, if we go by when I got my first PC (not my first encounter with games), I'd say Planescape: Torment and System Shock 2.

Tiberium Sun.


Still got the disks.

I got three games with my first PC, Civilization, Dungeon Master and Subwar 2050 (I think). With hindsight, it was the perfect starter package.
Quite a step up from my good old Atari XL/XE

I played various kid-friendly shovelwares on my XT in the late 80's. Divided my time between that and the NES. Later, Commander Keen (which was awesome).

My first "serious" games were Lucasarts and Sierra adventure games, sometime around 1992-1994 I guess.

I am interpreting that as when I seriously started PC gaming, Deus Ex.

I don't remember what year was, but my older brother introduced me to a monochrome version of Prince of Persia, afterwards I ended up with a 386 playing Maniac Mansion, Street Rod and Wolfenstein 3D.

I ended up discovering RPGs when I played Dark Sun and for the first time pulled an all-nighter playing it.

Before all that I had a NES, which I sold to a kid from my school (I had the Maniac Mansion version for it, too).

Doom II, System Shock, UFO: Enemy Unknown... Didn't play any of them at the time since I was six years old. I was mostly just playing Tetris at the time, even though I also played some older games like Spear of Destiny, Prince of Persia and Star Control 2 (didn't understand shit about the game). I think the shareware version of Duke Nukem 3D in 1996 was the real starting point for me, followed by Quake and NHL 97.

1991 Prehistorik
I guess my soul belongs to Herve.

I'm certain my PC-gaming days started in late 1987 or early 1988, and Pirates! was the biggest game of the time. There was also a compilation pack that came with the first PC in my home, comprised of PSI-5 Trading Company, Tag Team Wrestling, Bruce Lee and The Dambusters.

Later I got some shovelware compilation discs as a Christmas present, and there were TONS of games on there. Alley Cat, Bushido, Flightmare, Digger, Janitor Joe and loads others I can't remember the names of.

I didn't get into EGA graphics until 1991, but that was only for a few months before I was lucky enough to score a VGA set. I didn't get a real soundcard until late 1992.

Around 2001 with Codename: Outbreak and Mafia.

Play it bro.

1992 was the year when my father bought me an Amiga 500 and I played to sleepless nights with It came from the Desert.
Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Ultima VIII The Black Gate, Alone in The Dark, Wolfenstein 3d.
Not that I played them at that time.

I would kill to get back all of those ancient gaming magazines and game boxes. My mother threw them out, naturally.

http://www.mobygames.com/game/dos/magic-candle

Wasn't old enough to appreciate it when I had it, should try to play it again someday.

First 3 games I played that came with my 486dx & b/w 12" monitor around 1994: Spear of Destiny, Cool-Spot, Battle Chess
First games I bought with new computer in 1996-1997: Terminator: SkyNET, Tomb Raider. Damn my parents were angry because I was glued to the screen. Then I got my hands on Fallout... I started doing sports around that time so I had less time to play, but I think I played it for almost a year! Good times.

Started playing games on the Commodore at a friend when i was a kid. don't remember what games.
Later in school i started with Desert Strike, Doom and Wolfenstein and the likes, and had a SNES.
When i got my own PC in '96 or so i think, i got Warcraft II as the first game that was actually mine, short after that HoMM II.

Good times.

The first game I really remember playing was "Lazy Jones" on my older brothers' C64 sometimes in the 80s. The first RPG I seriously played was Wizardry 6 and this got me hooked to the genre.