Nostalgia: What was the first PC you played games on?

My first PC (personal computer, not x86) was a Coleco Adam. We had Donkey Kong Jr. on cassette tape, and it could play ColecoVision games.
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From there is was a C-64 then an Amiga 500. I still remember upgrading that thing to 1MB RAM.
 
kirplunk said:
Oh man if you got that while they were still being sold you had a solid damn card to play Quake at Uber res no?!

I had so much pride in my S3 SS Trio discreet card back in 1996... came from a trident video card and got use to the character and scrolling speed of Warcraft 1 still - which was really bad and crippled due to not enough beef on the max res 600x800 card. When I popped in the s3 it seemed all my games broke cause everything happened so damn fast.

And the smoother feeling the s3 gave in Hexen and Heretic was my maiden introduction to the world of game induced motion sickness :-)

Wonder what I would have though about my current R9 290X back in those days... only would have been in my dreams.
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Yep, paid a pretty penny for the 3Dfx card, but not as much as when I bought my 7800GTX, my wife (fiance back then) flipped out when she heard the card was upward of five grand.
 
Wow! That is amazing! You guys make me feel like a kid again.

I remember my brother in law (these days) used to have a Commodore 64, if I'm not mistaking. Played a neat simulator on it once at the Church Bazaar.
 
Jaco Smit said:
Wow! That is amazing! You guys make me feel like a kid again.

I remember my brother in law (these days) used to have a Commodore 64, if I'm not mistaking. Played a neat simulator on it once at the Church Bazaar.
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What kind of simulator?
 
I remember my first PC being some 286 or something with a black and white (grayscale?) monitor, not one of those green/orange screen. Played hours of Digger on it.
 
Maybe, before it became MS Flight Simulator, the longest running PC title just before closing it down a year after releasing FSX.
 
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