Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards. Played it on a monochrome green EGA monitor. The “copy protection,” such as it was, asked us who Richard Nixon’s running mate was and we didn’t know enough English at the time to comprehend. After trial and error, managed to get into the game and didn’t have a flaming clue what we were doing. A ripping good time, it was.

GTA Vice City. I remember “concealing” weapons by switching to the empty hand near police officers, since open carrying a minigun didn’t seem legal. The cheats were very fun in that game aswell, like cars driving on water, or who could forget the classic “panzer”. Also it really looked like real life, but if one were to play VC now, you’d wonder what was wrong with my eyes as a kid lol. That seems to be a common sentiment about old 3D games though, really impressive how advanced 3D tech became in a few years.

‘Where In the World is Carmen San Diego’ on a Commodore 64 in elementary school! I loved that game so much. Looked forward to computer class every week. Also, my cousin had a mac, I think, that had a game where you played two tanks on opposite sides of the screen, and the tanks shoot each other and drop bombs on each other. Edit: wiki tells me it was called Scorched Earth. I can still remember the sound effects…wish I could remember the name of that one! The first PC game that I really gave huge chunks of my life to was Ultima Online (Pacific shard woop woop). My first Guild experience…first dungeon crawl…ahh the nostalgia…those were good times. Cor por!

It’s very likely one of my first PC games was a Humongous Entertainment game. Putt-Putt Joins the Parade or Putt-Putt Goes To The Moon were probably my introductions. I also remember playing Elf Bowling on my Grandma’s Windows 95 computer every time I would visit her house.

My uncle gave us a bunch of PC games for my 286 pc. Among them was a Spider-Man game, a chess game, a couple classic arcade games, and ascii game that started with a Z that I can’t remember the name of, Leisure Suit Larry, and a side scroller with a woman with a sword. I was so young. I learned DOS fast and was playing the games. I liked to walk around as Leisure Suit Larry but I never understood the point of the game until I saw the sequels in my later teens.

It would have to be the Learning Company’s Treasure Mountain!, which the computers in my classroom had in Grade 1. I liked it just fine, but a few years later my Grade 4 computer had Ancient Empires and that’s the one I really got into. My teacher once agreed to break school rules and send the floppy disk home with me because I refused to get off the computer at the end of day.

Our first computer was a crap 486dx with a turbo button. My dad bought a red demo cd with a bunch of different game demos.

Boy that CD had some shitty games but some were golden.

My days were filled with typing d:\go.bat And seeing which games I could bludgeon into working by editing their ini files in doshell.

Loderunner. Yeah, back when people had 5 1/4" disks for games.

Math Blaster for our Tandy 4000. My parents got it for me because I was shit at math. I’m still shit at math.

SimCity 2000. I loved building giant grid cities and then destroying them. My dad was always kind enough to cheat in a bunch of money for me.

Zork!

Putt-Putt Saves the Zoo. I loved that game, and all the other Humongous Entertainment games

Frogger on DOS, fuck I feel old.

Roller Coaster Tycoon is the first that I really remember. I don’t even remember which cereal it came in but that was the best value ever.

The first actual computer game i bought was Morloc’s Tower for the Apple II+, which i bought when visiting San Francisco.