The Shrine

I thought this was an interesting topic on another board, so I thought I would ask the question here as well!

For me it was Megarace



It came bundled with my families first computer. I played the hell out of this game!

Very interested to see what it was for all of you!

I umm, I don't know? Warcraft? Does that count? lol.

I dont know...maybe Ultima Online.

Interestingly, I remember floppies better. One of the Police Quest games (my dad played it) was first, Terminator was the next one.

Do PSX and DC games count? If so, I think we pulled out Mega Man X4 last year some time

Myst? or whatever the third one in the series was.

Zeus wrote:Do PSX and DC games count? If so, I think we pulled out Mega Man X4 last year some time

Yes they count. The first game you ever played, console or PC, that was on a CD and not a floppy/cartridge.

I was like eight or nine so it's hard to say. I THINK someone lent my father Myst (and being so young I would have basically only watched it being played), but I also remember playing Day of the Tentacle (rented from Blockbuster for the PC LOL, remember that?) and X-Wing from that era. So I would say either Myst or X-Wing, since it seems kind of unlikely that the first one would have been a rental.

Myst, Kings Quest 5, Sonic CD, or Lunar. I had X-Wing as well, but I think mine was on diskettes... Some games around that time came with up to 6 diskettes to install.

Probably Loom, because I remember that game was one of the first on CD so that there's enough room for voice acting or something.

Julius Seeker wrote:I had X-Wing as well, but I think mine was on diskettes... Some games around that time came with up to 6 diskettes to install.

Yeah, I had a few games that came on lots of disks. I think Earthsiege and it's expansion were 7, and I had some old Terminator FPS that was like 8 or 9.

M'k'n'zy wrote:

Julius Seeker wrote:I had X-Wing as well, but I think mine was on diskettes... Some games around that time came with up to 6 diskettes to install.

Yeah, I had a few games that came on lots of disks. I think Earthsiege and it's expansion were 7, and I had some old Terminator FPS that was like 8 or 9.

If that was the one where you could play as Kyle or the Terminator, that game was awesome...and I sucked at it.

And since consoles count, I think I can change my mind - Sega CD, either sewer shark orLunar.

kali o. wrote:

M'k'n'zy wrote:

Julius Seeker wrote:I had X-Wing as well, but I think mine was on diskettes... Some games around that time came with up to 6 diskettes to install.

Yeah, I had a few games that came on lots of disks. I think Earthsiege and it's expansion were 7, and I had some old Terminator FPS that was like 8 or 9.

If that was the one where you could play as Kyle or the Terminator, that game was awesome...and I sucked at it.

And since consoles count, I think I can change my mind - Sega CD, either sewer shark orLunar.

I think it was, I remember a level in an office building and getting lost in it for so long that even though it wasn't hard, I got whittled down just by respawning enemies that slowly wore me down.

Sounds like a different / later one. Man games have come a long way since.

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kali o. wrote:Sounds like a different / later one. Man games have come a long way since.

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That is a bit of an understatement

M'k'n'zy wrote:

Zeus wrote:Do PSX and DC games count? If so, I think we pulled out Mega Man X4 last year some time

Yes they count. The first game you ever played, console or PC, that was on a CD and not a floppy/cartridge.

Shit, first, not last.......ummm, I would say a PC game for sure, likely Wing Commander 3 or something right around that era

Well, it would have been something on the old 486 (computer before that was a tandy, good ol' 5.25" floppies!)....

Oh, I remember now. It was one of those old shareware compilations by Apogee/Id with games like Commander Keen, Duke Nukem 1 and 2, an old Robocop game that I remember, etc.

Probably the 7th Guest on PC. I believe that was the reason we got a CD-ROM drive.

Hmm, well i certainly bought a Playstation solely for FF7, but that was obviously much later than PC games. I think it might have been Doom for me, which was released the same year as Myst (had to wiki that). I wasnt much of a Myst guy until later, then played a bunch of those style games.

I remember playing a lot of SimCity, Dune 2, Kings/Police Quest games, but those were all floppy. The era of Warcraft 2 and Duke Nukem was a little later in the 90's.

Probably Myst, on my Packard Bell

Anyone remember Microsoft Encarta?

Julius Seeker wrote:Anyone remember Microsoft Encarta?

Wow I haven't heard of that in ages. We had that on our old Packard Bell, along with Packard Bell Navigator.

Julius Seeker wrote:Anyone remember Microsoft Encarta?

Oh Encarta - the first to allow children to copy/paste entire reports rather than having to write out entire Encyclopedia articles