What are your memories of early Mac/PC games?

I remember a game that was sort of based on Jurassic Park... only you were a woman who walked around this dinosaur island and it was one of the first games that tried to use real-life physics (you could pick up objects and depending on their weight, you could hold it up high and throw it).

It got bad reviews, but I thought it was really revolutionary.

A friend of mine played Bard's Tale all the time!!!!
 
Doom crashing networks

I know Doom is predated by many, many games but Doom was significant to to me because it was the first mainstream game to widely use networking for game play.

And the fact that it brought down many corporate and education networks!
:D
 
The first computer (not console) game I remember playing was Aztec on the IIe in high school.

In college, the Big Thing In Gaming was Conquest that ran on the VAX.

I finally got my own real PC in '94, and became fans of:
Jazz Jackrabbit
Doom (1&2; I got a CD full of Doom .WADs as a Christmas present one year)
Descent

Over the years, I progressed to:
Diablo 2
Star Trek: Armada

I don't game very much nowadays. If I do, it's an occasional ST:Armada map on an old laptop I still have, or a round of Paradise Paintball on my Mac.
 
I almost forgot!!!

Probably one of the games I played more than ANY OTHER was a LucasArts game called 'Their Finest Hour: the Battle of Britain' and then it was 'Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe'

The manual itself was one of the best written manuals ever! And you could fly dozens of aircraft!

It's one of those games that should be on the top 10 of all time.
 
Earliest memory is elementary school playing Oregon Trail, Frogger Math and Odel Lake.

When I started playing PC games on my own, it was Doom, Myst, and Leisure Suit Larry (my older cousin played them but let me play too). It was fun for a pre-teen girl even though I didn't get all the adult innuendos.
 
vampyr said:
I remember a game that was sort of based on Jurassic Park... only you were a woman who walked around this dinosaur island and it was one of the first games that tried to use real-life physics (you could pick up objects and depending on their weight, you could hold it up high and throw it).

It got bad reviews, but I thought it was really revolutionary.
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That game is "Trespasser", and it was a buggy as heck game but for it's time was something special for sure.

And some Lucas Arts games have been mentioned, anyone play "Outlaws"? FPS Western/Cowboy game, played online on the Microsoft "Zone" gaming network.
 
I got my first computer game when I was 6/7 years old, it was the collectors edition of Cossacks: European wars, it was in a massive box and it came with a t-shirt. I still have the box. When I first played the games I got pissed of cos I kept losing. Two years ago my mom bought be the gold edition of the cossacks series (2 games + 3 expansions), I fell in love with the game.
 
Sid Meier's Pirates! ~1989?
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Things certainly have moved on. :D
 
I have to admit... I've bought ALOT of games in my lifetime.... but only a few were ever worthy enough to play to the end!!

Another game I remember playing and really enjoyed was Gabriel Knight, a Sierra on-line game.
It had a GREAT story, GREAT music, and GREAT art that tied in with the New Orleans theme.

It's a shame Sierra online went to the wasteland. They had some EXCELLENT IPs in their stable of games that no other company has ever come close to reaching!
 
For me and my brother the first PC game we played was Zed by Bitmap Brothers almost simultaneously with Settlers 2 Gold Edition!

We had this new "P166 with MMX" enabled PC with a Creative Sound Card, and a 14" ViewSonic monitor on which we began gaming. Zed was a relatively tough game to master - especially for newbies like us at that time and we had to resort to altering the maps to fool the CPU in order to move forward in some levels :)

Couple years ago I hunted down a Zed CDROM on ebay for $1.99 and got DOSBOX running on my Mac - I had to complete all levels without cheating and I thought to myself may be this time I can :D

I found myself obsessively completing all the levels multiple times - each time breaking new finish time records and now that I have got nothing left to break I watch my wife and kid play and master it!

Greatest game ever.
 
PC side:
The Ancient Art of War
The Art of War at Sea
Zork I, II and III
Planetfall
Leather Goddess of Phoebe
Infidel
NetHack

Mac side:
Dark Castle :cool:
Moria

So I like Infocom games.:p Graphics back in the day wasn't all that hot.;) I still enjoy the dungeon crawl games (Angband/T.O.M.E/Adom) even now.
 
Dunno where to start really :)

From order of memory...

On Amstrad CPC 464

Alternative World Games
Driller
Castle Master
Pulsator
Infiltrator
Chase HQ
Lord of the Rings, Shadows of Morder and The Hobbit
Trailblazer
some game where I had to run about a school throwing dinners at tables..can't remember the name of it
California Games
Lotus Esprit Turbo
3D Construction Kit
Graphic Adventure Creator (used to produce great int fiction with this(
Mindfighter
Knight Orc
Fighter Bomber
Way of the Exploding Fist (oooeer)

Commodor Amiga

Stunt Car Racer
Indy 500
Wing Commander
Kings Quest
Space Ace
Escape from the Planet of the Robot Monsters
F19 Stealth Fighter
F29 Retaliator

PC

Doom (386SX)
The Gabriel Knight series
Kings Quest series
Ripper
Hell - A Cyberbunk Thriller
Dreamweb
Carmageddon
Tomb Raider
Ultima 8 - Pagan
 
Reading the comparisons, I was a late comer to computer gaming. I loved Chuck Yeagar's Air Combat and Dogfight City multiplayer! I was impressed that while the PC players were thinking they were number one with Doom, we had M-A-R-A-T-H-O-N!! :)
 
my earliest games were of the infocom variety. The two big ones that i played with my brother were Zork and Infidel. Later came StarCross, Enchanter (I think thats what is was called).

Transylvania and Dark Castle were also big ones for me.

Also there was one simple arcade game i used to play that had that Cry of the Valkaries song. Dont remember what it was called.

I miss the old games.
 
Counter-Strike before Steam came along & Roller Coaster Tycoon.

And we can never forget Oregon Trail ;]
 
Earliest Mac games I remember playing were Bolo, Spectre, Battle Chess, Armour Alley, Scruffy, Fury of the Furries and Crystal Quest.

I remember the big fuss when Lemmings and Prince of Persia were ported over to the Mac, was the dawn of a whole new age of Mac gaming! :)
 
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