When you started to work/play with a computer

Back in the early 90s with a 2/86 and MS Dos... Before a littlebit with a C64.
After that 4/86, 6/86 Cyrix (150 Mhz)/ 130 Edo Ram / Ati+Diamond Monster Vodoo 1. I loved this times. :)

Well, I actually didn't have computer at home since I think 2004. But before that I had a chance to get to computer at my mother's job. I don't remember first time but from what I remember it already had Windows 98 installed and I played some F1 game (I don't remember how it was called but I really loved it) and Lines 98. I have no idea about other specifications of that computer. But yeah - now I have crappy HP notebook which I have for about 4 years now. And I still have Lines 98 installed because I remember it from when I was like 5 or 6 years old so I really, really still love it. And yes - now I'm almost 17.

In 96, I had a Terminator console. There were very popular in Europe. We had those yellow diskets, that had games, and some said they have 9999 games, but had only 4-5 :D Than my dad buyed me a computer in 2002, 4gb HDD and 128 RAM, and CD-ROM 8x. Atomic Bomberman was my first computer game, a game that I still rule :D

I started using a pc when i was 6 ( now I'm 16) with an epic game called Pod Gold :D

First seen when I was 3, first used was like 4 or 5, dad let me play an old mario game (can't remember the name).

I think one of my first games was one of the early Freddi Fish ones :P Not sure how old I was when I started playing it, maybe 5?

MK 88 but its not mine , but game first ever PC some kind of Galaxian.

I think the first contact was when I was about 6. My cousin, who at the time was an IT student, was trying to do something on it but for some reason failed time again and again. Then I grabbed the mouse and clicked on a spining globe or something -> problem solved.

And fist 3D game in 1996 Dunke Nukem :)

I first used a computers at school when I was 7 or 8 but I wasn't allowed to do much on them so I don't really remember. First computer I ever owned was a Pentium 4 computer 10 years ago. Bought an Asus laptop in 2009 which I'm still using today.

I'm a computer noob :(

Id say it was a 286 when i was 10 years if im not mistaken, played lots of lucas arts games at that time.
Also Cyberia, that one marked my childhood :P.

Mine was in the early 90s playing a DOS game called Zool. I loved that game :D Another game I played in the early 90s was: Lotus III: The Ultimate Challenge

Honestly I started with infocom, played it with my folks back when I was little, from there I started playing semi educational games like dinosaur 3d adventure back when we had a crapple in the early 90s no idea what it was but it was bad and old XD the first game game i played alone would probably have been space quest.

honestly that whole time is a blur... too long ago XD

after that... things i remember markedy was Myst... doom (first shooter I played)... diablo 1 as the first rpg... and well after that... everything else heh

I started using a computer when I was like 3 or 4. I don't rememeber the name. ^^ I played a game called "USA Racer" alot.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA91y3EZaiA) It was just a more or less crappy racing game but it was great for me. After that I started to play some other games like Anno 1503, later on 1702 when it was released, with a friend. Than Half Life 1 and Spellforce 1. Two of the greatest games I've ever played.

That was way back when. I still remember hearing about this new "computer thing" when it first came out. I helped test it to make sure it was stable and efficient. Had a few bugs, but we worked it out. It used to be only for the rich, but eventually just about every scholar had an abacus in his dwelling. Those were good times. :)

My family got our first computer around '98 or '99. The first game I got for PC was Myst...needless to say the patience of a 10 year old isn't really suited for that game and I was scared away from PC games until I started playing WoW in the beginning of '06.

this is my first gaming computer :)

First game I used to play regularly on a computer was Moon Buggy in 1985 on a C64 that was available in a mall. A year later I purchased a C128, 1901 screen, 1571 floppy disk drive, 1530 datasette with all my savings (that would translate to a current amount of $3'300) and later acquired a C64, C64 portable and a C128D(iesel).

Next big milestone was an Amiga 2000. After owning a couple more Amigas (500, 1000, 3000) I moved over to PC in 1990. I ordered and assembled parts and was able to upgrade my machine(s) by selling custom built computers.

Around that time I started a BBS that ended up with 6 phone lines. I remember traveling once from Central Europe to London in order to purchase a "cheap" 660 MB drive (5.25" full height drive), this was at a time were the standard drive was between 40 and 80 MB.

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My first Computer was a Texas Instruments 99/4a. It had a cartridge and a cassette tape to load games. One of the games I really remember was called Parsec. 1981, I think. I was 7. Now I am old, but still love games.

I started with a TRS-80 Color Computer from Radio Shack in 1983. Sill have it in the basement with the audio cassettes full of games. The learning manual was very well done and set the basis for my programming skills that allowed me to become a software developer.
Moved on to a 4.77 Mhz XT in 1986 for wich my dad insisted that was a work-only computer as there were no games for it. I later found out Jumpman from one of my uncles, then quickly grew a collection of over 300 games over the next couple of years.
Bought my first computer when I moved out of the house for college in 1991. A whopping 25 mhz 386 computer with SVGA video and a whole MB of RAM.
Been upgrading mostly yearly ever since to keep my rig up to date.

I don't remember the specs on my first computer, as I was probably 5-6. Other than some educational games (something about a playground with a creepy robot kid and "lessons" on floppies that I didn't have, I don't remember its name) I played a whole lot of point-and-click adventures. More specifically, Space Quest, King's Quest, Quest for Glory...so many quests. So many hours spent wondering why I had to throw a boot at a cat to not die.

My first computer was one my dad put together for me. All I really remember is that it had a six gig hard drive, and I was probably eight or nine. Played lots of other games over time, like Doom and Quake, Warcraft, Dune II, Ambush at Sorinor, Zork, yadda yadda. Nostalgia!

I miss my old PC Gamer demo discs, and whatever other magazines had demo discs. Coconut Monkey and his Gravy Train. :<
(also, the demo discs with the space ship interior, but they never had games that were as fun.) Since this is a thread full of people who play things, does anyone remember a game in which you play some sort of tank from a first-person perspective, and rolled around a map building/upgrading turrets and towers? It was 3D, but I'll be damned if I remember too many details.

I haven't the slightest idea what the very first computer I ever used or owned was. I was pretty young though when I got my first computer. Now my first game? Well I don't even remember that. I do remember playing Warcraft, Catz and Commander Keen when I was about 4 or 5.

nice story, i didnt know that were old computers like these...

I had a computer running a windows 98 I think it was and i cant remember the first game i played oh well.