I just got around to reading ALL the posts, very interesting. Its incredible to think that those early games changed our lives forever. I'm willing to bet that no one could have forseen that we would still be gaming 15+ years later. Imagine if any of you had never played that very first game, you could be living a very different lives right now (we'll never know!). There are moments in our lives that are more significant then we can image, they shape our future without us ever noticing. They make us who we are today!

BTW, my 5 first games:

1. Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty
2. Doom
3. Alone in the Dark
4. X-Wing
5. WarCraft: Orcs & Humans

One more question, how come they dont make games like they use to? Back then, there was very few games, but most of them where really good. Take 1996 for example, Windows 95 was still very new, and games were amazingly fun; Heroes of Might & Magic II, Master of Orion II, Red Alert, Diablo, Tomb Raider, Civilization II and many more! And thats just for 1996. I feel there are too many games out there and not enough good quality games.

OK, enough philosophy for today!

Please continu with the feedback.

I sold a few of these in a Radio-Shack store back in summer '82... i tell ya, those were the days where DOS 1.0 was a swift loophole towards Realistic own "operating system".

Snap a cassette, watch a bunch of multicolored rectangles in a fully rendered 256 depth (80 columns!) in a 16k ram monster tower of power.

Our first PC was a Commodore 64.

There were a LOT of games going around on floppies for that system. The ones I remember the most are:

Shamus (1982)

Impossible Mission (1984)

The Bard's Tale (1985)

several ascii games:

Star Trek

Rogue

Empire

cant remember the 1st pc game... but i do remember what was my very first online Game... it was Barren Realm Elite and Solar Realm elite... those text only where played on BBS..... u know B4 internet!!!!!!.... i know im old.... i do remember also my first experience on Star Control 1 and 2...... and... the all mighty Another wOrld... all on my 286.... with a 1200 baud modem that cost me a big 200 $....  (geez ... this thing was so slow... u can OVERLOAd that modem by typing too fast)...

First computer game was a BASIC rendition of Star Trek on the campus 360-50 (aka Fat Albert).  You could play it over the teletype/terminal (assuming you had an account with time on it.....)

Ignoring the Atari 2600 and the many cartridges....

First PC games were on the Sinclair 16K (you had to enter the programs line by line, tho), and later, on the C64, my main time consumers were Elite, the D&D games, and one little game (the name escapes me at the moment), but you had to clear spaceships of rogue robots via a control unit/robot (weaker than everything else).  To take over other robots you had a quick "battle" against the target robot by activating various electronic inputs leading through logic gates to the controls.  Yes, you had to recognize/read logic diagrams on the fly.

Gee that reminds, i did play a sort_of Space trading connect the dots by feeding the 300bauds Terminal with asciis on the TI/99-4A for a few weeks before buying VGA Planets (on the first PC, a 386DX40).
Can't recall the exact title, maybe someone here will?

Ultima 2 and Caverns of Larn on my AtariST 520.

Barring educational games like Oregon Trail and Carmen San Diego, Kings Quest. Do not remember which one though. After that, Duke Nukem 3D.

starcraft 2, wow talk about advance copy lol.

My first pc game was starcraft though, awesome game.

Settlers II - What a game! (Or so it seems through these rose tinted specs ). I can sort of sing the main background music, and can sort of hear the sound effects in my head.

I spose before them I played some tiny adventure game at school that took (I think 6 or 7 year old me) about 15 minutes to complete, and an artillery style game with cannons. I remember I worked out how to play it - no one else could figure it out, and of course at that point we were like "WOW CANNONS".

I also have vague memories of an angle related snooker game, where you could put in angle 999, force 100, and win every time.

King's Quest was "educational".  King's Field was not