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    The game that got you into PC gaming.

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    #51  Edited By Phog_of_War

    Wow, PC gaming it would have to be Kings Quest on the Commodore 64. 

    I'm old.........

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    #52  Edited By JibaaJabba

    Gotta say Doom

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    #53  Edited By Doobit

    I remember I'd go nuts when my dad would bring his notebook home from work, back in the windows 3 days (I was 10ish). I'd sit there for a while trying to remember how to use PKzip to get the split install files off the floppies - I procured from somewhere. And when I finally got everything working... much, much Sid Meier's Civilization ensued :D

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    #54  Edited By Dr_Brocoli

    Half-life 1, Diablo 2, Age of empires 2, Duke Nukem 3d. All around the same time many many years ago!

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    #55  Edited By Abunai

    I think the first game I played on the PC was Commander Keen.
    But I really got into it from Duke Nukem 3D onwards.

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    #56  Edited By The_Dude
    Doobit said:
    "I remember I'd go nuts when my dad would bring his notebook home from work, back in the windows 3 days (I was 10ish). I'd sit there for a while trying to remember how to use PKzip to get the split install files off the floppies - I procured from somewhere. And when I finally got everything working... much, much Sid Meier's Civilization ensued :D
    "
    That reminds me of not ever being able to remember the DOS command prompt to open Duke 3D...Thank god for dad.
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    #57  Edited By xruntime

    Red Alert, Rainbow Six

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    #58  Edited By giyanks22

    Starcraft and Warcraft 3

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    #59  Edited By Tordah

    I can't remember which one was the very first one but there are many golden gems I remember clearly from my youth... Lemmings, Commander Keen, Doom, One Must Fall 2097, Command & Conquer, Heroes Of Might And Magic, Warcraft, etc. :D


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    #60  Edited By Nobility

    The Sims (I didn't like it).

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    #61  Edited By Xero

    it was warcraft,

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    #62  Edited By SphynxTA

    Doom. Thing gave me nightmares but I couldn't stop playing it.

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    #63  Edited By blu_magnet

    Warcraft 2

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    #64  Edited By efrucht

    Mystery Mountain

    This game
    This game
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    #65  Edited By M1

    Diablo which then got me into D2 and Lod, then Halflife which made me spend a lot of time in Counter Strike.

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    #66  Edited By donfonzie

    Dave 1 if my memory serves me right.

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    #67  Edited By NeonBlackJack
    Cry0Tek said:
    "Commander Keen. You cant possibly say that I'm not hardcore on that one. :P

    Doubt hardly anyone knows of that game either. XD
    "
    Oh man, I certainly know of it.  One of my first games.  It's so good. The whole series is.  You can actually get the whole collection on Steam now.  I'd highly recommend it.  That game and COSMO and Crystal Caves, Hocus Pocus, and all those Apogee games were just fantastic.

    I think that my very first game was Warcraft, and it came on an old PC Gamer CD that my grandfather gave me.  In those days the CDs had live action videos on them of some weird underground place.  I also had to walk 3 miles to school uphill both ways.  Ahh...they don't make them like they used to.
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    #68  Edited By Lake

    Centipede on the Atari 800XL.

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    #69  Edited By Hell_Dude

    Grand Theft Auto 2. The game that got me out of it was Hitman: Blood Money.

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    #70  Edited By DualReaver

    Rainbow 6 3: Raven Shield.
    The pistol servers, were some of the most fun I've ever had gaming ever.

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    #71  Edited By nezze00

    Wolf 3d and Commander Keen

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    #72  Edited By The_Dude
    nezze00 said:
    "Wolf 3d and Commander Keen"
    I love your icon!
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    #73  Edited By Vlademir

    Call of Duty 2.

    It was my first real computer game and I loved it. The second I beat it, I tried the online multiplayer and I was amazed that I was playing with other real people (it was also my first online game). I played it every day for close to a year.

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    #74  Edited By Will1Lucky

    Age of Mythology still like that genre of RTS to this day.

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    #75  Edited By themoon13

    Red Alert

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    #76  Edited By sizu

    DOOM!!!

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    #77  Edited By KinRai

    Heroes of Might and Magic. Legdendary game :D

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    #78  Edited By zeniblade

    Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. Hella old school point-and-click adventure game. That and Commander Keen were the two games I played from around 1990-1992.

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    #79  Edited By BigBoss1911

    Thats thinking preaty far back....um....probably  Rainbow Six Rouge Spear.

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    #80  Edited By CactusWolf

    I actually can't remember... I tend to fade in and out with using my PC. There's usually something to bring me back to it though.

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    #81  Edited By RockSteady

    Dark Forces

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    #82  Edited By dreamachine

    i think it was either half life or C&C2:RA. i'd played diablo before id played either of them on the PS1 but didnt get it for Pc til i got D2

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    most likely it had to be Diablo for me.

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    #84  Edited By DarkLegend

    Some rainbow six game.

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    #85  Edited By albaker

    At first I liked Red Alert and Sim City

    Then what got me fully into PC games is Counter Strike Source

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    #86  Edited By warxsnake

    commanche / wing commander

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    #87  Edited By Locke

    DOOM!

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    #88  Edited By RobbieH

    It was either Heroes of Might and Magic 2 or WarCraft 2, I can't remember which.

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    #89  Edited By MartinG
    Leisure Suit Larry in the Land of the Lounge Lizards.

    That was a while ago though...
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    #90  Edited By stAtic

    Paint... xP

    No, it was probably some random motorbike-game. I grew up with my PC. <3

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    #91  Edited By Chad

    star war rebellion is the first pc game i played then TIE fighter

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    #92  Edited By Met2609

    I have never really been a PC gamer, and thus there really hasn't been a game that got me into PC gaming. I do play Half-Life every once and a while on my laptop. That has to be my favorite PC game.

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    #93  Edited By RedSox8933

    Civilization IV.

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    #94  Edited By AegisOfDawn

    Sid Meier's Pirates

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    #95  Edited By MrTaco

    Roller Coaster Tycoon...then games started going 3D and my PC couldn't handle them.  But, few years back I finally got  a gaming-able PC and returned to the greatness it is.

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    #96  Edited By Josef_Nastra

    Well i startet my gaming basically in the C64 days and on different school computers. But the first PC game that got my attention was Dungeon Keeper. And when i got my own PC it was Battlefield 1942. What games they were!

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    #97  Edited By ShadowSkill11

    Wolfenstien 3D and Wing Commander

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    #98  Edited By Falkien

    Battlefield 2, Call of Duty 4 PC version, Crysis

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    #99  Edited By Rowr
    Cry0Tek said:
    "Commander Keen. You cant possibly say that I'm not hardcore on that one. :P

    Doubt hardly anyone knows of that game either. XD
    "
    Totally. I played the hell out of that game.
    One of the earliest i remember, though there where others im sure, i cant quite remember where the Amiga ended and the PC began
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    #100  Edited By WickedCobra03

    First.  Doom or Wolf3D.


    And then what made me really start paying attention was Diablo and Rainbow Six.

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