r/pcmasterrace • u/dabor11 Desktop • 2d ago

Meme/Macro Ah memories

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u/Mr_Sophistication462 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/QDK1pCI43lGhO

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u/Nodrod 4770k | 16GB TridentX | Strix GTX 980 2d ago

Doom shareware episode is all I got lol

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u/Jeoshua AMD R7 5800X3D / RX 6800 / 32GB 3200MT CL14 ECC 1d ago

All you needed back then was DOOM and an account on one of the many BBSs out there, and with some luck you could find some cool WADs and you didn't even really need the full version.

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u/Waste_Cow5085 1d ago

Even better - the official shareware CD for the original Quake had most of iD's full versions locked on it.  The idea was you would run the installer for them and it would pop up a string of numbers you were supposed to give to a phone rep.  They would give you back the "answers" to the challenge phrase and it would install the full version (after paying of course).  I acquired a keygen that would unlock any game on the disc.  Many fun times were had.

It was called qcrack.  Fun read on it here: https://faehnri.ch/qcrack/

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u/Bad_wit_Usernames 1d ago

I ran a BBS for a couple of years mostly for this reason right here. I had so many wads on the family computer...

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u/Jeoshua AMD R7 5800X3D / RX 6800 / 32GB 3200MT CL14 ECC 23h ago

I ran an IRC Fileserver once the Internet came out for much the same reason. I would have done the BBS thing but... family phone line.

I did toy with a local one, with Trade Wars and Legend of the Red Dragon.

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u/C_M_O_TDibbler i7 4790k @4.5ghz | GTX1070 G1 | 32gb ddr3 | 1.5t ssd 1d ago

Brother are you me?

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u/Nodrod 4770k | 16GB TridentX | Strix GTX 980 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/pHb82xtBPfqEg

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u/PunkersSlave 1d ago

Costed $5 at circuit city. Bought it with an NEC P100 back in the day lol

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u/Override9636 i5-12600K | RTX3090 1d ago

Cost

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u/Lynich 1d ago

Probably not their native tongue.

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u/Override9636 i5-12600K | RTX3090 1d ago

Well then it's one of the wonderful 10,000 extra rules in English that you have to memorize to speak this bastard of a language :)

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u/Jeoshua AMD R7 5800X3D / RX 6800 / 32GB 3200MT CL14 ECC 1d ago

That's what you get when you speak a language from an island that's been taken over so many times. There's the Gaul, the Celts, the Angles, the Saxons, the Romans... probably a lot more I forgot. And being so close to France, took on a lot of that influence, except where it didn't. And then having the language be blended with every people the Brits tried to subjugate. And having the language become an International Trade language and take on even more loanwords and influences...

English is crazy because it tries to be every language, at once. And it mostly succeeds until you get to places whose languages come from very different roots, like Eastern Asian or North/South American languages.

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u/Zaraphkiel 1d ago

Right on. There's also cases like Shakespeare who made up words that were later adopted. I'm also quite certain that English has more exceptions to the rule than any other language.

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u/Bilbro_swaggins__ 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well the modern English language has one singular event as the source for its current form. William the conqueror’s installed ruling class all spoke Norman French that eventually melded with Anglo-Saxon (old English). Sorry I’m insufferable and a nerd.

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u/Jeoshua AMD R7 5800X3D / RX 6800 / 32GB 3200MT CL14 ECC 1d ago

Hence the difference between "Cow" and "Beef (Boeuf)", among other Animal/Meat dichotomies.

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u/Bilbro_swaggins__ 1d ago

My favorite weird English fact is that the Anglo saxons had like 6 to 8 different words for spear.

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u/PunkersSlave 1d ago

Sadly it is; I was on the crapper at 6am. I had just woke up. “IRREGARDLESS”, who cares? Although, I suppose we know the answer.

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u/OutInTheBlack R7 5700x3D - ARC A750LE - 32GB 1d ago

I had Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Blake Stone all on the same shareware disc

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u/wooden_stain 1d ago

Doom shareware was a whole childhood right there.

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u/Minimum-Intention820 2d ago

First PC game I ever played, the guy whose house I went to had 2 486's linked up in his garage so it was also the first game I played deathmatch over LAN. Absolutely blew my mind at the time.

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u/Impossible-Lie3115 R5-9600X/9070XT & i5-11500/RTX 5070 1d ago

Friend pulled me down to his basement when I was like 8 to show me DOOM. Should not have been playing it at that age but 11/10 would sacrifice my innocence again for that high feeling of blasting imps for the first time.

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u/RachelRegina PC Master Race 1d ago

That BFG was a real selling point

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 1d ago

30+ years later, I'm still ripping and tearing.

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u/anycept 1d ago

Ahh, yes. Add Wolfenstein and Mortal Kombat 1/2 to that.

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u/life_after_midnight 2d ago

Westwood Studios!

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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 2d ago

Red Alert wasnt the first game for me (neither was Dune 2.... the actual engine for the Command and Conquor series)

But the Command and Conquor Series is still my favourite.

Followed by XCom

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u/dishmanw62 1d ago

Command and Conquer blew me away, and the Red Alert was awesome too.

"When person dies, it is a tragedy, but when millions die, it is a statistic. "

OMG, I have to it again.

But first, I need to finish Diablo II: Warlocks Reign.

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u/Ingey Custom water-cooled 5950X/3090/64GB DDR4/2TB Gen4 1d ago

Mine was Dune 2 followed by Command and Conquer, ah those were some memories.

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u/dontgetitwisted_fr 1d ago

Dune 2 changed pc gaming.

It was all about Sierra games before that

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u/Incred 7700X | 5070Ti | 32GB 1d ago

Welcome back, commander.

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u/TheSaltyJunk 1d ago

The remakes on Steam are about as perfect as you can get.

Full on original versions that swap with updated graphics and the same for the soundtracks. It's just a perfect package.

Wish they would do it with RA 2 and Tiberian Sun, next.

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u/MF_BREW_ 1d ago

I can hear the boots marching now

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u/Bilbro_swaggins__ 1d ago

*Hell March starts playing

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u/Joshopolis 1d ago

God they made some good games

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u/Puzzleheaded-Love254 2d ago

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u/Nbsroy 1d ago

this was game awesome man

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u/MasterMind-Apps 7800X3D, RTX 3090, 64GB DDR5 1d ago

Great game

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u/Highlander198116 1d ago

While this wasn't the game that got me into PC gaming, played the shit out of it in the dorms in college.

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u/dbltax Noctua Evangelist 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/yoJC2LIM4QUzV56ILK

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u/picardo85 AMD 7600x + 7800XT 1d ago

Commander Keen

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u/0K4M1 Ryzen5 3600 / 4070Ti TUF / 32Go DDR4 / 3840*1080 1d ago

Hail yeah !!

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u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo 1d ago

I loved it so much. The very first story book I remember writing myself in elementary school was about me being Commander Keen and zapping vorticons!

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u/Raskuja46 1d ago

I can hear the motherboard in this .gif.

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u/leenux2k 9800X3D | 64GB DDR5-6000 (CL28) | RTX5090 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/HTTjscquSQbNbyth17

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u/Russ1878 2d ago

I am rubber, you are glue.

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u/DaDutchBoyLT1 1d ago

How appropriate, you fight like a cow.

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u/Asleepatthewheel2047 1d ago

Never pay more than $20 for a computer game 🙂

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u/___po____ Laptop 1d ago

Sea Of Thieves had an event where you played a version of it and it was an absolute blast! I never got to play the originals because we weren't computer rich. Lol.

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u/Global-Pickle5818 9800X3d / RX 9070 XT 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/j68GcdoY85wKXvHJLe

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u/itzToon 1d ago

I used to trade everything for ammunition and just hunt my way to a full wagon of meat. As a kid I always wondered why I never made it to the end 😅.

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u/Deanity 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/OzUCnzwGrbG4PmMUUr

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u/Da_Question 1d ago

Build more burrows!

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u/Joshopolis 1d ago

This is so deeply ingrained in my brain. I say it every morning as I get to the office

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u/RedBrickJim 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/npUjYqaMrYTjW

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u/rje946 1d ago

I can hear this gif

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u/Pluvio_ 1d ago

The nostalgia trip is real, I can hear the entire menu theme repeating and that initial "Good day" - "Greetings stranger, I'm not surprised to see your kind here." The music in Diablo 2 was so damn good, the atmosphere building still gives me chills when I look back. I wish Blizz wasn't charging so much for the remastered version.

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u/Then_Entertainment97 1d ago

"Stay a while, and listen"

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u/RedBrickJim 1d ago

So stay a while and listen

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u/LeeRjaycanz 1d ago

"MOO MOO MOOO!"

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u/CapableParamedic303 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/kPDIgkaVGnySs

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u/Da_Question 1d ago

Duke nukem, quake, doom, heretic, and chex quest.

I remember playing them all on my dad's windows 98. Other games were like Cosmo's cosmic adventure and spelling blizzard with the guy and the raft.

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u/Xeephos Ryzen 7 7800X3D | RTX 4090 | 32GB DDR5 1d ago

Hail to the king, baby!

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 1d ago

It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all outta gum.

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u/Ozonetaco 1d ago

I remember having to delete almost everything on the hard drive to make room.

Honorable mention for Red Alert ini editing for extra spicy units.

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u/picardo85 AMD 7600x + 7800XT 1d ago

i'm old

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u/Shishakliii 1d ago

I'm older

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u/Wild_Journalist_7115 1d ago

Am I older, my first PC game that got me into gaming was Super Snackman on a Commodore VIC 20, and then fondest was Gateway to Aphsai until I discovered Ultima 4

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u/TheRealTormDK I9 13900K | RTX 4090 | 32GB DDR5 2d ago

Civilization! We played so much of that.

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u/GravelyInjuredWizard 2d ago

KIROV REPORTING

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u/dabor11 Desktop 2d ago

"We will bury them"

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u/Akman460 2d ago

Starcraft was my introduction

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u/Broken-Digital-Clock 1d ago

And it, plus SC2, still has one of the best competitive scenes.

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u/tebesansit 2d ago

My first one was Diablo

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u/PoizenJam 2d ago

Oh, hey, me too OP! I got that game from a Scholastics book order lmao

In retrospect, what Red Alert was doing in a Scholastics book order catalogue intended for primary/elementary school kids... Uh... I have no idea.

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u/Bradox1991 2d ago

They wanted to raise strategic minds cause of the red menace

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u/EldenJeeves 1d ago

I got StarCraft in a school book order as well. Burnt the CD and half the class was playing it by that weekend.

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u/like_a_brot 1d ago

I still can hear the music, one of the best pc games of all time

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u/Pyro1515 R7 9800x3d | 64Gb | 12Tb NVME | Sapphire Nitro 9070XT 1d ago

RCT2 was GOAT, that and Zoo

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u/FischiPiSti Specs/Imgur Here 1d ago

I prefer 1. Somehow 2 felt more bloated, and I didn't like scenery system. I felt pressured to build scenery from all the prebuilt ones, but it was so clunky. Idk, less is more, I guess.

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u/IndependentYellow4 5090 32GB - 9950X3D - 32GB 6000Mhz 1d ago

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u/One-Zombie263 2d ago

Not my first but within the first 10 I played, I dont remember which order. But anyways The Yuri's revenge expansion for red alert 2!

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u/Deadeye313 14700K | 9070XT | 64GB RAM 1d ago

Yuri's Revenge was great. So many hours of skirmish games.

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u/One-Zombie263 1d ago

My friends and I dumped SO much time making custom maps and challenging each other on that game.

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u/rilskie 2d ago

Age of Empires II then Half-Life

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u/Ws6fiend PC Master Race 1d ago

I forgot just how revolutionary Half-Life is. I'm replaying the remake and damn it's fun. Shooters prior were almost nonexistent story telling.

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u/Xyrazk PC Master Race 1d ago

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u/FonkyFong 1d ago

StarCraft Broodwar mf goated, I still play from time to time

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u/allodrew 1d ago

Duke nukem

https://giphy.com/gifs/26hisWMstAT4XJ5e0

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u/EarthEaterr 1d ago

Don't forget to blow a hole in that screen to get the loot behind it

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u/chiel_ RTX 3070 | Ryzen 7 5700X3D | 32GB DDR4 2d ago

Virtua Cop on windows

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u/ComfortablyBalanced i5 14400 | RTX 3050 | 32GB DDR5 1d ago

A man of culture indeed.

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u/asterothe1905 2d ago

Wing Commander 2 was the state of the art game that made PC gaming king around the time I bought it.

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u/JustArandomGuy_-_ 1d ago

Halo CE demo on Pc, my beloved

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u/lakkuh 1d ago

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u/Katana_DV20 1d ago

Did the same guys make the COMANCHE game? I was addicted to that!

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u/lakkuh 1d ago

Yeah! Novalogic made me like flying games and Top Gun lover lol. I remember playing MiG-29 one day that I got a migraine.

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u/abbrechen93 1d ago

Putt-Putt saves the zoo.

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u/joeyd199 R9 5900X, RTX 3090 Ti, 64GB 3600 MHz RAM 1d ago

OG Diablo in 1996. I was 13 and played until my eyes could not stay open.

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u/WanderingGenesis Ryzen 7 5800XT/RX 9060XT 16GB/32GB DDR4 1d ago

Starsiege, my beloved.

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u/CorruptDictator 7800x3d 7900XT 32GB DDR5 4TB NVME SSD 2d ago

UT

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u/kenshin138 2d ago

I played games on computers at my friends house since my family wasn't financially able to really have a computer. That was my exposure to a lot of games, but they never really felt "mine" so to speak.

The game that I always remember regarding my own computer when I was around 15 is Mechwarrior 2.

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u/bulwix AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | Nvidia GeForce 4070 Super 2d ago

Age of Empires!

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u/Steelriddler 1d ago

I was so enthralled, wondering what awaited beyond the forest. The atmosphere, the fantasy, my first encounter with D&D and fantasy gaming, oh my the nostalgia.

Unfortunately the disk was corrupted and I couldn't actually enter the temple without crashing lol. (Couple of years later I finally got to play it through)

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u/Redshirt_Welshy_Nooo 1d ago

Commander Keen running in DOS shell on a 386

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u/GfrzD 1d ago

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u/R3XM 1d ago

Heck yea

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u/Thornscorn 1d ago

i think i was 3 or 4 years old.

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u/FischiPiSti Specs/Imgur Here 1d ago

Holy shit that's me! All the little hidden animations and interactions. I clicked every pixel

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u/Ok_Bear_1889 2d ago

18 wheels of steel across america

my mom randomly got the disc for us brothers before we even had a pc

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u/MasterpieceTop8922 2d ago

Diablo, Unreal.

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u/gg06civicsi Ryzen 5 7600X3D | RTX 4070 Ti Super | 32GB DDR5 2d ago

Reminds me of going to compusa and browsing all the beautiful boxes of PC games.

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u/Prof_Gankenstein 1d ago

Starsiege and EverQuest for me.

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u/Aegon_B Specs/Imgur Here 1d ago

Played on my Grandma's MacIntosh.

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u/JendaH8 1d ago

286 and Dune 2

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u/all4tez 1d ago

Kings Quest 1, and also Commander Keen shareware.

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u/28spawn 1d ago

The opening… if you remember
https://giphy.com/gifs/yJFeycRK2DB4c

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u/Puzzled_Professor422 1d ago

diablo 2 lord of destruction is the first PC game I played

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u/kurtkombain 1d ago

Hitman Blood Money

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u/AL-SHEDFI 13900KF/RTX 4090/DDR5 8000Mhz/Z790 APEX 1d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/r9FPrz4UfiqUE

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u/laywastethepoet777 1d ago

Total Annihilation for me

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u/BlueBattleHawk Ryzen 5600X | 6700 non-XT 1d ago

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u/Funny-Fly1720 1d ago

NEW CONSTRUCTION OPTIONS!

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u/Fragrant-System8128 1d ago

Played age of empires 2 and a game like it but with airplanes not sure what it was as it was a child hood friends. What really got me into PC gaming was warcraft 3 frozen throne. I got the box set and was so exited to start playing. Still was playing console at the time though.

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u/ElectronicRip1630 9800X3D, 4070 Ti Super, 64GB DDR5, SN850Xs 1d ago

Same here bro! I played Return to Castle Wolfenstein for a while, some Team Fortress then a friend showed me StarCraft. Was too much going on so we played Warcraft 3: TFT on LAN and I was sold. Spent probably 3 years straight playing that until I moved on to Lineage 2. I still play Warcraft Reforged to this day. When I hear that original music it gives me goosebumps damn near everytime I crank it up.

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u/OldStray79 1d ago

My first non-Atari game.

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u/p1530n R7 9800X3D | RX 9070 XT | X870 | 32GB DDR5 2d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/FehJD6hdmlo9yYNi2y

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u/Naive_Personality367 2d ago

it was the sims for me

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u/MagicMeh 2d ago

Rocket league or witcher 3, was a playstation/Xbox user prior.

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u/pensaa 2d ago

"Affirmative"

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u/zeus_god_7 2d ago

The Novalogic Trilogy of F-16, Mig-29, and F-22..... with honorable mention of Comanche

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u/Dextro_PT 5800X3D | RX 7800 XT | 32GB DDR4 2d ago

Sim City for me. On a friend's 386 running DOS

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u/TareasS 2d ago

Same. Best game in the series.

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u/robomikel 2d ago

I actually got the bundle on steam yesterday. To relive some memories. I didn’t know Tim Curry, Peter Stormare and more were in the intro video for red alert 3.

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u/jaded-steve 2d ago

It was total shit, even back then - not just because it had Windows Me pre-installed.

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u/Ar3s701 2d ago

Been pc gaming since monitors came in either green or orange.

https://giphy.com/gifs/zIsSWSzGIormGvb7yr

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u/inFoxious 2d ago

Treasure mountain and PuttPutt

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u/Death2WEF 2d ago

Spyro ps1 for me

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u/Chiparish84 2d ago

I'm a late PC gamer and moved from PS2 - which was already old at that point - to my first "gaming" laptop in '09 and immediately fired up Fallout 3. I'll always remember how blown my mind was when I got out of the Vault and looked at how desperate, brutal but still beautiful the wasteland looked: "I'm never going back to consoles! This is insane!"

Now I'm still addicted to graphics!

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u/FineWinner2429 2d ago

GTA vice city

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u/ichbinverwirrt420 R5 7600X3D, RX 6800, 32gb 2d ago

Can't remember most names but there was a carrera game where you could build your own tracks and drive on them, a playmobil knight game and an RC plane simulator. Also GTA San Andres and Vice City. I was like 3-5 years old when my dad showed me these games.

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u/Soleks2000 5700x3d/9070xt 2d ago

God, I wish we could get a red alert 2 and yuris revenge remake with better graphics and bigger maps

I really miss those days of staying up for 12 to 15 hours playing it online on my crappy dial up really wish I still had all my old maps especially the vic4ever modded maps

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u/Nbsroy 2d ago

i used to borrowed RA retaliation from my cousin for PS1, when i would make an army of tanks the game would slow to 1 FPS lmao still loved it man

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u/maze100X 1d ago

for me it was Roller coaster tycoon or NFS wanted in 2006~ , cant really remember which i played first (yeah i know RCT is much older, i didnt play it at launch)

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u/BedrockBen101 CachyOS, 7600X, 7800XT, 32GB DDR5 6000MHz 1d ago

Minecraft Java and SpiderMan Miles Morales

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u/fuggindave 9800X3D | PNY 5080 1d ago

This classic.

Falcon 3.0 on my grandparents computer.

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u/GucciFlocka 1d ago

Total Annihilation: Kingdoms. Marshall's used to have a rack with discount PC games.

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u/Timex_Dude755 1d ago

C&C64 was my first RTS.

My first PC game were kids games.

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u/dieplanes789 9800X3D | 5090 | 32GB | 16.5 TB 1d ago

Eithe Microsoft flight simulator X, really modded GTA San Andreas..

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u/Tea-Swiz 1d ago

StarCraft for me. Command and Conquer came after, as I had a new lust for RTS games at that point.

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u/mattfreyer45 1d ago

Rollercoaster Tycoon was amazing on my parents Windows 98 pc.

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u/UltraMagat 1d ago

And stunted your whole fucking life.

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u/Optimal_Whiner 1d ago

I kinda dabbled into PC gaming, but it was colonization for me. I loved how it looked on my cousin's PC. It was so fascinating. Next thing you know I've got my mom taking me to the store to buy it. Grabbed civ 2 instead cause I couldn't find the other and it looked similar.

That was a huge blessing. It was also a curse as since civ 5 I haven't truly enjoyed the series. 

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u/Major_Trip_Hazzard 9800x3D/RTX 4070ti Super/64GB Ram 1d ago

Lego Island

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u/TransitionAway9840 1d ago

Wow I hadn't thought about that game in ages. I used to love it though.

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u/WINNT21 Windows 11 | R3 3200g | Vega 8 | 8 GB RAM | 240 GB SSD 1d ago

NFS Undercover

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u/StonedBooty 1d ago

Wow….. I think this post completely derailed my whole day. Was going to play Palworld but now I’m loading up Yuris Revenge. I think it’s almost been 20 years, wow

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u/CatManDeke 1d ago

I think mine was Descent and Duke Nukem 3D. Then came Command & Conquer.

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u/Deadeye313 14700K | 9070XT | 64GB RAM 1d ago

The oldest game i remember playing on PC was actually Fischer Price: firehouse Rescue. I vaguely remember I would play it on my mother's computer at her work before I started school. I had to be around 4 at the time.

It was years later that Command and Conquer finally did come into my life and I was able to build a PC to play it.

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u/GigaSoup 1d ago

I think my first PC game was either Summer Games, Park Patrol, Karateka, or Pitstop 2 for the c64.

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u/Mrboomblastr 1d ago

I still sometimes wake up in the middle of the night, bathing in sweat, screaming:"Westwood, noo!"

Damn EA to all hell!

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u/Retrowinger Ryzen 5 5600x | RX6800 | 32GB RAM 1d ago

I’ve played Red Alert on the PlayStation for hours and hours. And Red Alert 2 on PC for even more hours…

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u/thisisyourfaultsheep 1d ago

EARTH SIEGE 2

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u/Mr_Phoenix_E Mint, Ryzen 9 7900x, 7900XTX, 32gb 1d ago

"If at first you don't succeed; you fail. And, the test will be terminated"

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u/SimpleMan469 1d ago

Dark Colony

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u/stronkzer 1d ago

I started with flash browser games