first pc games I played was diablo ('95 I think), but it was on and off and a friends computer and barely understood anything, because it was all english. though you probably don't need to undestand much to play that game.

first game I owned was myth: fallen lords and wing commander prophecy. played them more or less simultenously. the former started me off the strategy trail that I have adhered to ever since.

that said, I played video games some time before that. mostly the snes and mega drive (genesis) generation games. not even sure anymore, which system came first, I think genesis, so something like sonic would be my first video game ever. lol, though actually some friends had a nes too where I played some age-old ninja turtles game a few times.

My first was frogger for the pc, i think I sill have it.

Think the first game I played on a computer (some type of Apple II) was Castle Wolfenstein. That was in junior high so was about 1984 or so. First game I played on an IBM PC freshman year of high school, 1985 and it was some type of space exploration game, where you had to mine planets, I can't remember the name though... arghh. Really liked it except you had to use one of those stupid paper wheels put together as a form as DRM.

First game I actually bought was first semester in college in 1989 and was SimCity. Damn it seemed awesome at the time! Not sure if that was for the 8088 4.77 Mhz monster or maybe the first 80286 we had.

I miss 2d games when developers could focus completely on gameplay, the amount of quality releases in recent years is kind of depressing =/ Only developers I follow are Blizzard and GPG at this point and I'm not a fan of the dota style gameplay so I'll be waiting for elemental.

The first games I have strong memories of are the Crystal Caves series for DOS, also DOOM

Getting into more serious games, Civilization II when I was 7ish then Starcraft, Diablo II, Age of Empires II and it sort of just exploded into the gamer that I am now.

The Bard's Tale: Tales of the Unknown.  Had it on a series of floppies with no documentation or anything.  Figured it all out and somewhere got a copy of the spells list (I was 11.  In order to cast a spell in that game you needed to know it's 4 letter code.)  That was back when you could save your party on a seperate floppy and keep disk-swapping characters back to your main group to farm them for gold/items...)

Other titles around that time that I will always remember fondly:  Ghostbusters, Bruce Lee, Karateka, Below the Root, Airborn Ranger, Zak McKraken and the Alien Mindbenders.... 

Skipping consoles (Coleco Telstar, Atari 2600, Intellivision, Odyssey II) and the Commodore 64. The first computer game that I really recall playing was an early Ultima on a Macintosh in high school. The first strictly PC game I recall playing was actually...well, two games at roughly the same time: Steve Jackson Games' Ogre and some kind of World War II flight simulator that let me fly an SBD Dauntless in the Battle of Midway. That was in 1988 or 1989, and I didn't get back to PC games until 1994, when I picked up my own PC (486) and picked up a slew of games: X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Doom, Doom II, Heretic, Flying Carpet, Sim City, Star Control II, Master of Orion, Civilization 2, Descent, Rise of the Triad, and so on.

I guess of all of those, I played Doom first. I still regret not purchasing The Elder Scrolls: Arena, X-Com: UFO Defense or Master of Magic when I saw them on the shelves - I have played those since, but it's not the same.

I'm also missing numerous other games. I recall that my cousin (who was living with me, and also had his own PC) was constantly playing my games, too... Fun times.

 Many a moon ago X-Wing vs Tiefighter got me PC gaming.I believe that was played on a Cyrix 233 built computer.

HOLY HELL! so THAT was the name of that jurassic part RTS. I remember playing it in a computer store years and years and years ago and I never could remember the name!

By 3d pinball do you mean hyper 3d pinball? I still have the disk for that around here somewhere...

I have the box on a shelf above me and "hyper" is whats written there. Could it be that they are the same game and package differently? Hyper 3d has IIRC a space table, a mobster table, a circus table, a frankenstein table, a fantasy sort of table that I don't recall very well and I think one more...

Made me queasy, but it was awesome!

Same here, I still play Oregon Trail.. it's so simple yet so entertaining. lol

Math Blasters too, that was great.

ahh childhood memories..

Man, my parents were total dictators when it came to gaming and stuff that wasn't educational.. I didn't get to play any sort of PC games till I was like 16 when my neighbor gave me a (yea, pirated) copy of a bunch of old Sega Gensis games. Shining Force, Sonic the Hedgehog.. Volutron.. it was great.

Been addicted ever since. Thank Piracy or I'd never been a PC Gamer. LMAO

Bad MishYu, stop killing things.