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.
