My first pc game was probably Zoo Tycoon complete collection...played that game to death when I was a kid!

I actually just started playing it again today after 12 years of not being able to find it in my stack of games :p

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First game I ever played was ALF on my dad's TRS-80.

Another game with great memories. I made so many tracks for this game, from twisty mountainous mazes to super fast banked tracks with crazy jumps for the car with the top speed lock bug.
I think it's also the only 3D racing game that lets you drive from a static external camera view, like controlling a real life sized rc car.

I have entire files separated by a lot of categories of different types of tracks that I made. I must have over 3000 different tracks , not counting those that I've downloaded over the years from the 4D Stunts community. 

I love how different the cars feel (my favourite is the Countach) and how they react on the different terrains (I love making Snow terrain tracks), which is a pretty good feat for a 1990 racing game.

I think Re-Volt also had a similar camera to that one, if I recall correctly.

There was this old adventure PC game that for the life of me I can't remember the name. It was like the princess was missing and you were looking for her. During the day you would travel through this wood to explore and get information. I remember one place where you would fight these ghost. At night you wouldn't want to be out because the monsters got stronger and this strange black alien centaur would come out and chase you down. The battle system was like attack, defend, and direction that I think you could use to dodge enemy attacks. At night your best bet was to stay at the inn or persuade this cat family to let you stay with them. I think sometimes they would steal your stuff. In town there is this dark alley. At night there is a strange hooded figure who talks to but then you get assassinated in the alley. If anyone knows what I am talking and can tell me what game it is that would be appreciate is has been bugging me for years.

I remember playing games like Loom and Indiana jones. I played doom and duke nukem. I really enjoyed rts like warcraft and command and conquer. At school we would play those apple games like oregon trail, some mining game.

Casear 3 is where it was at

As far as I can remember it was stuff around Oregon Trail. But there is a game that I absolutely spent a ton of hours trying to figure out, I was way to young to get anywhere but I really liked the graphics. It was when the first Radio Shack Tandy's became available and it was a game where you were in Egypt trying to discover clues (or some such thing). I remember finding an oasis and a pool. WTF was that game!? (It may have been a generation after the Tandys)

I remember Sticky Bear Typing

LOL Yes. That maze minigame was scary as shit.

I remember starting gaming on the PCJr. That thing was awesome, I played Zork, Jumpman, Shamus, and a bunch of other games. I even played some cool educational games on that. I remember playing this long before I started playing the NES.

I don't remember much of my PC gaming experience between that and the mid 90's, I think I mainly did consoles once I got my hands on an NES. I remember in middle school in our computer class we had to learn Basic and QBasic so I made a few games in that. I remember thinking that if I make my QBasic program as cryptic as possible, that meant it was really good people because people couldn't look at my code and figure out what was going on.

Beyond that, I remember playing Heroes of Might and Magic III *online* with a friend. I thought it was the coolest thing ever. I would take a turn, wait 30 minutes for him to take a turn, and back and forth.

I also remember fiddling around with a bunch of hex editors and messing with save games, I thought I was a big-time hacker then.

I also have many PC bad memories-- like one game not even able to get past the home screen, other games randomly crashing, and all sorts of no quality control antics.

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