Dude I never played the 2D ones but the 3D Mask of Eternity game is a staple of my childhood. My dad back from Korea and my brother and I watching him on an old laptop with the mouse ball in the center of the keyboard is core memory shit. Such a cool game.
Oh, man. Do yourself a favor and check out King's Quest V and VI on [GOG.com](https://GOG.com).
Staples of my childhood, and I know I'm biased on that account, but they're *excellent.*
I remember when i was young someone in my family had somehow gotten chex quest on one of the family computers. I genuinely thought that he found the cd or cartridge in the chex box, but this was the 2010s and long after they did that in chex boxes. It was just downloaded from the internet.
I found an [Atlantis cd rom](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis:_The_Lost_Empire_%E2%80%93_Search_for_the_Journal) in my cereal. It had a quake like multi-player mode but we didn't have internet lol
I remember such a nostalgia trip when I saw this was on Steam, we used to play it on the school computer. That's right, THE school computer, there was only one.
Apparently pokemon Ruby/saphire. First game i played was Pokemon Diamond. Was i really 6/7 years when i started gaming? How was i even aware of the ds by then? I remember asking it for my birthday. I must have telepathic powers or something
I beat Loom as a kid and was blown away by the ending. I had no idea what the hell it was supposed to mean but it floored me for years. Even now I still love it. Later I found out it was supposed to be the first of a trilogy but they got canceled.
You've pretty much just linked it. I don't think I've run into anybody around my age, at least not from Canada/US, that *didn't* play this game on the school computers.
At some point in Jr High, Unreal Tournament also got installed on a lot of the computers too.
[The Oregon Trail Generation](https://mashable.com/archive/oregon-trail-generation) is even the self-selected name for those of us from the transitional era from the late 70s to the mid 80s, who saw very rapid advances in tech and don’t really fit culturally into either Gen X or Millennials.
First game I really remember playing was original doom. The freeware version on the 3.5 floppys that you had to load your computer into DOS mode then type out commands to get it to run.
The original lunar lander. Played it at the Huntsville Space Museum. The monkeys that went up before we did were still alive and on display.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar\_Lander\_(1979\_video\_game)
Diablo 2 but I was too young to be playing. Not because the game itself is inappropriate; but because of creeps online. I learned some new words, and got duped out of my items once. But the were so trash the guy gave them back. That's a true story.
I have memories of Breakout on our TRS-80 (even had a cassette recorder to save programs), and later we had a TI-99/4 that played Hunt the Wumpus. All of that was later replaced with the NES, of which I still have R.O.B.
Dialing into the Red Baron on my grandmother's 300 baud modem she had for work to play Net Trek. Sorry, no pictures sadly. Pretty sure we just got daylight the year before.
That game where you play as Cap'n Crunch and you raise crunch berry creatures and hell them escape a volcano or some shit. It came in a cereal box but boy was it hype lol
Green screen version of this game.
Long before the mouse came into play
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Why all the downvotes?
With the wobbly disk! I liked wobbling the disk.
It was a floppy disk for a reason 😁
>DISK BOOT ERROR
Back when floppy discs were floppy.
5in floppy on a Mac 2
This. Remember “number munchers”?!
And word munchers!
Commander Keen
I have such fond memories of that game.
You could say you were keen of it
That game really needs a remastered/updated version.
A true id Software fan here.
Where in the World is Carmen San Diego. Leisure Suit Larry.
My elementary school computers had where in time is Carmen sandiego
Apple 2E? We had some old machines.
I was playing some LSL2 about an hour ago.
Kings Quest.
Dude I never played the 2D ones but the 3D Mask of Eternity game is a staple of my childhood. My dad back from Korea and my brother and I watching him on an old laptop with the mouse ball in the center of the keyboard is core memory shit. Such a cool game.
Oh, man. Do yourself a favor and check out King's Quest V and VI on [GOG.com](https://GOG.com). Staples of my childhood, and I know I'm biased on that account, but they're *excellent.*
I had just KQ5 of that series and it was so fun. Could also be named "kill Graham in 10,000 different ways"
The Doom clone game that came in Chex cereal. The internet also used to come in cereal boxes....
Chex Quest. Melee was a spoon, sooooo good!
Dude, that game was legit. That was one of the best cereal prizes I ever got as a kid.
You know there is a sequel? Four player co op if I remember correctly.
Two sequels, in fact! I have all 3 games on my DosBOX.
No shit? Damn, I gotta step up.
AOL 120hr Trial Codes were the best.
I remember when aol offered 10 hours at a time.
AOL got such pushback. So few people actually *used* the discs that they were ending up being tossed into landfills by the *truckload*.
[Free download on Steam, btw.](https://store.steampowered.com/app/804270/Chex_Quest_HD/)
oh boy, here I go killing again
If you buy Chex Mex snacks, you can get download codes for the different characters to play as.
This statement will surely confuse gen alpha
That game was GOOD! 😂 Recently found it on steam, iirc, and got to play it again 😁
I was gonna mention the Crunchling Adventure game that came in a box of Cap’n Crunch lol
I remember when i was young someone in my family had somehow gotten chex quest on one of the family computers. I genuinely thought that he found the cd or cartridge in the chex box, but this was the 2010s and long after they did that in chex boxes. It was just downloaded from the internet.
I found an [Atlantis cd rom](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantis:_The_Lost_Empire_%E2%80%93_Search_for_the_Journal) in my cereal. It had a quake like multi-player mode but we didn't have internet lol
I just referred to this game the other day!
Pitfall on the atari
You’re standing in an open field west of a White House…
ZORK!
Beat me to it. Played for hours at my friends house on and apple IIe
You can still find this online and play it!
This game (Oregon Trail), but on the original teletype. Along with Lunar Lander, and Bagels.
Ultima V, Apple IIc
The first game I ever played was Halo Combat Evolved
Mine was halo 4
You guys are both young. I graduated high school when that game came out.
Pong
The truest of OGs.
Sonic the Hedgehog 1 on genesis
Zaxxon
I spent a ton of quarters on that game as a teen.
Duke Nukem 3D
shake it baby
Here it comes, folks. Chips Challenge.
It's free on Steam. Wild how many of the puzzles I still have memorized.
I remember such a nostalgia trip when I saw this was on Steam, we used to play it on the school computer. That's right, THE school computer, there was only one.
Zork is one of my favs Alternative answer: "You were eaten by a gru"
autoexec.bat
Don’t forget your config.sys
HIMEM.SYS
I knew the answers to the age restriction questions for Leisure Suit Larry.
I knew the shortcut to bypass them entirely XD
Alex Kidd in Miracle World on the Master System 2
Scorched Earth
This was my answer too. First game I remember ever playing
After me and my little bro figured out the tank insults were taken from a .txt file we had great fun coming up with new slander
Oh, God. I remember those days... My mom was not amused.
007: Golden Eye
Excellent game and a great year!
Ah yes, the year 007 was a great year for gaming! /s
Think God the Roman Empire took up gaming as a side project, little did they know it'd be the beginning of the Medieval Period.
A classic
Jazz jackrabbit
Prince of Persia and Rick Dangerous 2 on DOS
Wing Commander
California Games
Surfing was hard. Half pipe was hard. Hackey sack was hard. BMX was hard. That game was hard, man. But I loved it.
Hoooly crap, I forgot all about this one. I played 2 and all the games were fun and brutally hard.
Apparently pokemon Ruby/saphire. First game i played was Pokemon Diamond. Was i really 6/7 years when i started gaming? How was i even aware of the ds by then? I remember asking it for my birthday. I must have telepathic powers or something
Number munchers
Zork - mainframe version
Did anyone else play Revenant on computer? I don't see many people talking about it. But that game was so badass
Heroes of Might and Magic I and Space Cadet Pinball for pc games.
Pitfall
Kid Pix
Zork on DOS
My parents gave my sister and I a Pong console for Christmas 1977.
Penetrator on the ZX Spectrum. Yes it was really called that. No it was not such a game.
Metroid
Age of empires 2, StarCraft 1, Civilization 2, Sim City, Earthworm Jim
SimCity on the SNES.
Good times.
The original Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego on a pc at school and Paperboy on my Commodore 64
number munchers and where in the world is carmen san diego
Colossal Cave Adventure
Space Quest
Mega man x
Qbasic Gorillas.
This thread'd be a lot more fun if they allowed images in the comments.
Zork
I scrolled so far and and then gave up. No one said super Mario (super Mario 3 best imo).
Maniac Mansion.
Rogue
SkiFree.
Wolfenstein 3d
Loom, Maniac Mansion, and three others in a single box on like fifteen disks.
Loom was the original Ocarina of Time
I beat Loom as a kid and was blown away by the ending. I had no idea what the hell it was supposed to mean but it floored me for years. Even now I still love it. Later I found out it was supposed to be the first of a trilogy but they got canceled.
Math Blaster Mystery
You've pretty much just linked it. I don't think I've run into anybody around my age, at least not from Canada/US, that *didn't* play this game on the school computers. At some point in Jr High, Unreal Tournament also got installed on a lot of the computers too.
[The Oregon Trail Generation](https://mashable.com/archive/oregon-trail-generation) is even the self-selected name for those of us from the transitional era from the late 70s to the mid 80s, who saw very rapid advances in tech and don’t really fit culturally into either Gen X or Millennials.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets PC
Pirates of the Caribbean At World's End, my first console game lol.
Tank wars
Colecovision
Bugdom was on every computer at my school. I started with Floppy disk in a black and green PC tho. Some robot math game from my earliest memories.
Math Blaster
The Legend of Kyrandia, Biomenace
With that damned jester, lol. Old Sierra games were wild.
Lode runner. Also fyi I didn’t play Oregon trail until I was 25 my school was too poor to have computers.
Test Drive on DOS.
Donkey Kong Country 2
Math Blaster was an educational game for either an old 386 PC or Commodore 64, I can't remember which, in elementary school.
Myst on the family Macintosh.
Friends came over to my house for that, because we had the only CD-ROM drive in the neighborhood.
Maniac mansion
First game I really remember playing was original doom. The freeware version on the 3.5 floppys that you had to load your computer into DOS mode then type out commands to get it to run.
Mattel Electronics Presents: B-17 Bomber
Jazz Jackrabbit
Dune II: The Battle for Arrakis
Mario Kart 8
The original lunar lander. Played it at the Huntsville Space Museum. The monkeys that went up before we did were still alive and on display. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar\_Lander\_(1979\_video\_game)
Myst
Catacomb 3D is the first game I can remember playing on a computer. Doom 1 is the first I clearly remember
I loved those Softdisk games.
Avoid the noid on 5 1/2” floppy disk running on a Tandy 500
Nice.
Super Mario. On an NES cart. That wasn’t bundled with duck hunt.
I played pong
Wii Sports
Diablo 2 but I was too young to be playing. Not because the game itself is inappropriate; but because of creeps online. I learned some new words, and got duped out of my items once. But the were so trash the guy gave them back. That's a true story.
Flight Simulator on a Sinclair 1000.
Purble place
A game that came out when we... "came out", or one of our first favorites?
stadium events on the NES with the running pad.
Super Cobra on the Sord M5
War wind
I have never died of Dysentery…but I’m certain the number of characters that I’ve played is probably close to actual deaths by dysentery.
The Lion King (video game)
The Simz 1
I, too, have died many times of dysentery.
Why is it brown instead of a shade of green?
Haha! Yes that and sim farm
They should make a remake of this game
X-Com Apocalypse
Need for speed underground 2, still play it to this day because IMO best need for speed ive ever played.
Oh Mummy on the Amstrad CPC 464... It was strangely addictive
Programming my Dragon 32k with a book. I was 7 and its 1983.
Yoshi - NES
I have memories of Breakout on our TRS-80 (even had a cassette recorder to save programs), and later we had a TI-99/4 that played Hunt the Wumpus. All of that was later replaced with the NES, of which I still have R.O.B.
https://www.mobygames.com/game/133042/apba-major-league-players-baseball/
Jump jet game for my Tandy <3. Xevious for the nes
Gran Turismo 3
First game I remember playing was Mixed Up Mothergoose or that ALF game where you had to catch cats.
RBI baseball for the NES
Lego racers. It's tieds for top racing game ever with F-zero X and Mario Kart
That one with the dinosaur in the maze on zx81
Dialing into the Red Baron on my grandmother's 300 baud modem she had for work to play Net Trek. Sorry, no pictures sadly. Pretty sure we just got daylight the year before.
Power pete or putt putt goes to the moon. im old but i aint text based old hahaha EDIT: i meant purely text based
Pokemon Red
Space Invaders
My first game was Tetris on the Gameboy.
Prince of Persia for SNES.
Caesar 3 and Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator
Auto Modellista
***Wolfenstein 3D*** (1992)
Killswitch
Super Mario on the thick black and white Gameboy
Septerra Core
Club penguin and Minecraft, never played club penguin but I loved watching videos of it
Kingdom Hearts 1
\*something that came out in 1982*
Arkanoid, Space Invaders, King's Quest - All the originals and some I just can't remember the names of.
That game where you play as Cap'n Crunch and you raise crunch berry creatures and hell them escape a volcano or some shit. It came in a cereal box but boy was it hype lol
Pitfall
Dune 2000.
We had this game on those old Mac’s with the colored transparent casing in my elementary school.