What is your first memory of personal computers? - What was the peak of the slippery slope that led you to this hellsite.

[User names must be unique]

My first memory of a PC is standing by the teachers assistant while he input my commands into the game Grannies garden on a dusty old BBC micro in the corner of a classroom.

This creepy bitch is seared into my memory

 

[Forsaken Wanderer]

I remember in the 90s the class had Wizkids paint or whatever it's called, Oregon Trail and SimFarm. Also on dial up at home we would look up Gamefaqs and print out guides and put them in a folder. We had the shareware versions of Doom, Wolf3d, Commander Keen and a ton of non ID Software games until we exchanged pirated versions at school on floppy disks. These probably aren't my first experiences with computers but it's the earliest experiences I can remember.

 

[SSj_Ness (Yiffed)]

Elementary school, for some reason they wouldn't let us use the ones with Windows though, presumably because we'd go online, but we could use the trashy old DOS computers and play stuff like Oregon Trail.

My family got a PC around the same time anyway, so unlike most kids I had my innocence shattered at home instead of public school.

 

[Hammerstein]

Space Quest 3 on an ambar monitor.

 

[Rozzy]

When I was 10 years old my dad had a desktop computer with Windows 98 that I was not allowed to use unsupervised.

 

[User names must be unique]

When I was 10 years old my dad had a desktop computer with Windows 98 that I was not allowed to use unsupervised.

and it didn't stop you becoming a furry?

 

[Rozzy]

and it didn't stop you becoming a furry?

I guess it didn't.

 

[dick brain]

That top down maze game where you control a rabbit and navigate to a carrot.

 

[Dysnomia]

In elementary school we had one in the CORA trailer. It was in the 80s and the only computer at school. I have no idea what kind of computer it was. It had Math Blaster and a few other edutainment games.

In the 90s my uncle, who was a lawyer had a computer. He let us play with the old one and I though MS Paint was amazing. I also used the library computer and the one at my friend's house for internet around 96/97. I didn't get my own computer until 2000.

 

[Jason Wynn]

I was around 4 or so in 1988. My dad had a Commodore 64 and I’d watch him play oldschool RPGs like Might & Magic and Phantasie on it, having to draw out his own maps on grid paper.

 

[Pitbull Victim]

I remember having the living shit scared out of me by the SkiFree yeti.

 

[.iota.]

Commodore 64. The 64 stood for the 64kb of RAM. Had quite a few games but the only one I can remember is M.U.L.E.

we also has a commodore 64. my dad would bring home computer magazines and tell me to "enter this exactly as it's written". i would then spend what felt like forever typing line after line of a very specific sequence of random letters, numbers, and punctuation marks, all for my dad's amusement, and the 10-second thrill of witnessing a low-resolution graphic do its silly little thing in a stunning spectrum of sixteen colors.

 

[The Ugly One]

My first memory is my Grandpa's PC. He had Battle Chess and some motorcycle game from Accolade.


The animations in this game were sick. I didn't care about chess. I just played myself so I could trigger all the animations.


All I could do was crash because I was a little kid.

 

[dick brain]

I remember having the living shit scared out of me by the SkiFree yeti.

Chip's Challenge

 

[Mesh Gear Fox]

First computer was an Apple II, with the green and black screen. I want to say it was around 1986 or so when we got it. The only game we had for a long time was Oregon Trail.

 

[Jack Noir]

My earliest memory is me playing games on Newgrounds and thinking I'm awesome for that.

 

[Mojo Thief]

Circa 1997, on a PC running Windows version whatever, my parents installed for me Lego Island, which was neat

I still remember it pretty clearly running like a slideshow and the inputs taking forever to register, but little me didn't care since I was a Lego kid

 

[Delightful Dave]

Hi would you be interested in my leafy greens or garden goodies

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

Lode Runner on the Apple IIe



Apple IIe was 'cutting edge' computing at the time

 

[Gargamel]

The IIe was most definitely not cutting edge at the time.

An IBM 5160 blew it out of the water in all categories other than price.

 

[Drain Todger]

Ancient library terminals with amber monochrome displays. Back in the mid-90s, a lot of libraries still had terminals from the late 80s.

It wasn't until the latter half of 90s that you started seeing Windows PCs with, like, The Magic School Bus Explores the Solar System installed.

This one library I went to had The Neverhood installed on one of their PCs. Man, that shit was trippy.

In '97, we got our own IBM Aptiva with a Pentium II, running Windows 95, with a Diamond Monster 3D II card as an upgrade. My first games for it were NFS II SE and the PC port of Sonic 3 & Knuckles.