My first computer, if you want to call it that, was a Commodore-64. Thing was awesome. The memories:
I was little at the time and my cousin or uncle or another used to send me these boxes of floppies filled with copied games! All I remember is having these sheets of BASIC code I had to type in just to get the games to run. They weren't like the real games either. Like if "Kung Fu" was popular I got "Kung Fighter" or something bootleg. There was this one game I remember that was just like Gauntlet, and overhead dungeon type game. Sorta like Zelda too, you would have to push blocks and warp to levels and stuff. That game was cool.
My first real PC was in '94, a 133 MHz Pentium! Boy was that monster back then. I think it had 16MB of RAM and 2x CD-ROM! I remember it was right when the FMV games were popular. I had this game 'Under a Killing Moon', literally, best game ever. It had real actors and fully textured 3d environments, spanning 4 CDs. That was the first game I played when I got the PC and it blew me way. I got it hooked up on the DOSbox recently and the graphics are still good. Way ahead of its time. I liked MYST and the 7th Guest a lot. I remember playing Descent, that game was friggin' sick. So intense. Also Full Throttle was awesome, they just don't make games like they used to. And who could forget DOOM and all its rip-offs. Most people remember Duke Nukem. But who remembers Rise of the Triad? First game to feature dual pistols baby! Out of the World, the other best game ever. Although I may have liked Flashback better. Also, what about Blackthorne? Who would have thought Blizzard of all developers would strike gold?
I think the first 3d accelerator card I got was Voodoo3000, man was that killer. I think it came with Unreal 1, what ever happened to that series...?
After that point I was just building my own PCs so who knows how many upgrades constitute a new computer. I could probably put a computer together right now with all the junk laying around my house I don't know why I keep all this stuff.
(man computers were slow back then).
(amiga doesn't count right?)
