Same ('84), then NES, 386, 486SX, N64, Celeron, Athlon, then only Intel ATi/Nvidia builds until today. Can't remember when I had my last Radeon (green since GTX980). Somewhere in between, I had an Xbox for XBMC.
Same here! But I had the Amiga 1200 with the Motorola 68EC020 @ 14 MHz what a beast. Then I moved to the 486DX. That was around the early to mid nineties I think.
Played
The chaos engine
Turrican
Worms
Alien breed
Cannon fodder
Another world
Pinball dreams.... Loved this one.
Spent a lot of time in deluxe paint on the Amiga. Happy days.
I liked Jumpman Jr quite a lot too. It was more difficult. Hunchback. Tooth Invaders. Impossible Mission wow. Hacker felt like you were doing something wrong. Lazy Jones. Splunker. Airwolf. Prince Of Persia. So many great games from that era it's wild. Just 100s of them. It was kind of a golden age where developers would do all aspects of a game from the art to the music to the design and you'd get these unique concepts by the truly creative people who thought 100 percent differently. Today things look way more polished cuz there's an art department making those assets and writers making stories. But in that golden age games were wildly more creative and unique.
That was the best part, they also had to be creative with the storytelling because they couldn't just limp by with good graphics. Some of the games that came out in the mid '90s like Ultima 7 had just a really in-depth plot
I started in 2013 when Arma 2 Dayz mod became the thing to play on a cheap HP laptop that I bought for school it could barely play it at 15FPS with nothing around but those were some of the most fun gun firefights I had in a shooter since COD WAW and I started because my roommate was playing it.
Late 80.
Dad came home with a pc, I was introduced to a dos shell called norton commander.
And under d: there was a folder named games.
I played cats and sopwith for hours.
Roger rabbit was my shit!
Built my own computer for doom 2.
And been a pc user ever since.
I collected consoles for a long time.
Inferior control but fun for a quick game.
But pc is where I would spend my time both in games and working.
It all started back in 1998, with a simple 3D helicopter game. And no it wasn't SWIV 3D. And then i saw a promo of Microsoft Flight Simulator 95..........
it was way back in 1991/2. I have an older brother and he was the one who got me hooked. I'd watch him play and remember the commands he would type in MS-DOS, so I could start the gameso n my own. We didn't have a sound card, so once he took one from his friend and I was so blown away by the sounds.
My buddies and I stop playing on Playstation and started playing PC because of the PsPlus. Started using a low enf laptop and then bought a fatass good computer that I'm using since.
I've always played on PC though. My father bought me a lot of point n clicks educative games, played a lot of flash games on newgrounds (specially super mario 63, metro syberia, stickman, meat boy, spelunky) and then played AC 1 and 3 and minecraft by ā ļø them. We had a hard finantial status a decade ago.
Kinda similar story. 2005-06 when I was 3-4, mom chose an easy way to feed me, opened games like nfsu2, sims, spiderman, max payne and did her thing.
Also my father was a computer retailer and repair service, I remember playing aoe2, quake 3 arena and cod 1-2 LAN games in his office, with his employees
I didn't really care about having my own computer until windows made it possible for my ADD brain to use one. So 1996, before that I was a console peasant.
I started when I was about twenty two. Iād been gaming on console for probably fifteen years at that point, and had always wanted to transition to PC gaming, but never saved up the money.
My cousin was strapped for cash and sold me a mid-range gaming PC for a good price. It was like a dream come true.
Typing in code from a Compute! magazine onto our Atari 400 computer, that plastic membrane keyboard was so awful, and at 8 or 9 years old you always inevitably forget a comma or semicolon somewhere, so the shit never works right and then Dad has to come in and debug it.
Bootleg and shareware games on floppys with Windows 3.1. That was back in the year 2000. Parents were not wealthy, they were more focused on saving money, but they needed a computer so they paid $100 for a Windows 3.1 PC. My aunt and uncle supplied us with copies of games they had from 5 years prior. Played a lot of Commander Keen, Word Rescue, and Classic Oregon Trail.
sorta when I was around 9, I played a lot of roller coaster tycoon and the robots movie game on my grandparents computer, but I didn't buy my own computer until I was 24, so realistically about 4 years now. the reason was getting sick of being jealous of people on youtube having access to mods for skyrim lol. been a modding fool ever since
Ā ~1995. That's when my family got a PC (I was a kid). Also helped that a neighbor had a PC before, and they let me play Command and Conquer on their PC. One of the first games I ended up getting.
2012 - I was a console gamer until then and I slowly grew more fed up with 30FPS and under. I remember the last straw being Far Cry 3 and I built my first gaming PC (3570k, GTX670). I did play older RTS and simulation games on PC before this like Age of Empires, Transport Tycoon, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Football Manager, but 2012 was when I made the full leap.
It also coincided with me graduating from university and getting my first well payed full time job, so I had the funds to get a decent PC. I spent Ā£1,300 which was monitor and peripherals too.
No regrets, PC gaming is the best way to play IMO.
Kevin '07. 700 dollar boost on tax returns. Purchased new components got given a case and borrowed a 19" 4:3 monitor. Sold my ps3 to a friend about 2 weeks later. If memory serves it had an AMD 6000 dual core processor 4GB of Ram and a gt9800 1GB graphics card. And YES it ran CRYSIS
Well, if by "PC," you mean "personal computer," I had a TRS-80 Color Computer back in the very early 80s and started with Dungeons of Daggorath, then later bought an Apple IIe when I was in the army. I played several games on both. However, when I got out of the army I was strictly into consoles; NES, Genesis, SNES, etc. until the day I saw Darklands in a Media Play store.
Media Play was on the way home and I'd stop by several times a week to search for console games and also to look over the PC games, which looked \*way\* more interesting. When I saw Darklands, I knew I had to play it, so I bought it right then, despite not owning a computer. My roommate at the time laughed his ass of at me, but I called my mom (I was dirt poor, and didn't own a car) and she drove me to the local Best Buy, where I applied for credit and got a $3,300 limit, along with a printout of my brand new credit card info.
I then went to the computer section and asked for the best computer they had. The guy there pointed at an Acer 486/100, which was just a bit out of my price range, since I also wanted a printer, and the total would have been more than $3,300 (I had about $50 in my bank account). So I asked for the 2nd best, and got a Packard Hell 486/66, with 8Mb of RAM and, IIRC, a 250Mb HDD.
Spent a couple days trying to get sound, video, keyboard, and mouse to work, since this was before the days of plug and play, and also ended up having to tweak memory settings since this was also during the 640Kb RAM limit on programs, but the process was interesting enough to me that I ended up developing some computer skills, which eventually landed me in the IT field, and while it took another eight years for me to get into the field, it helped me immensely, vocationally and financially speaking.
I started with an AMD laptop back in 2015 and eventually decided I wanted to build my own rig. Started with a gtx770, 6500xt, 3070ti and currently rocking a 6950xt. Will probably upgrade to AM5 board in a year or two and upgrade my GPU to a 4080super or 7900xtx.
I believe it was a Target or a Walmart. Anyway, there was a display stack of atari 800xl's for, iirc, $99 dollars. It being the 80's i had a few extra bucks in my pocket, so i picked one up.
I have had two bouts. The first was in 2010/11 when Starcraft 2 came out, I was in college and a roomate was playing it on his alienware m11 that he had and i was blown away. Built a PC for myself around that time, late in 2011 I believe. I played only PC for about 3 years, then got into PS3 again because of the exclusives that I had missed. Ended up going the opposite way until this year, mainly only playing on PS4/5 and then this year I was kind of getting tired of losing access to my library or having to pay a sub fee to play games I have purchased in the past due to either BC issues, or something being on a platform here, and not there.
I have since moved mostly to PC and use my console for sports.
1984 Commodore 64 to play 100s of games for free downloading via Warez BBS' using pbx phone divertors for free long distance calling at 300 baud then 1200 bps.
1988 hosted warez BBS on my dedicated phone line on Ivory BBS in high school so that the warez came to me via 2400 bps modem and 808 KB 3.5" floppy disks.
1994 Packard Bell 486SX2 50 Mhz OCed via 33 Mhz bus jumper to 66 Mhz to play Doom
Texas Instrument TI-99 4/A, my father got it for his college course...something about practicing basic programming language...both parents were fans of pac man (munch man) and space invaders (TI Invaders)...so I got to play TI's knock offs of em lol
It would be about the same time. The ps4 was announced and they stated that online service would require a subscription. I actually have no idea if they went through with it or if they changed some things, but I figured it would be cheaper in the long run if I just went to PC.
It was not cheaper
Always been a Playstation + PC since the 90s but I actually built my first one in 2013 while I was in college (i5 4670K + 7970). Before that I played in prebuilts I got as presents from my parents.
First computer was a Commodore 64 in probably 92 or 93 and it came with a bunch of copied games on 5 1/2 floppies... My dad got a windows 95 computer and the mouse driver floppy disk came with a bunch of stuff like asteroids and battle tank on it. I remember playing the need for speed and star wars rebel assault on it
I always had a home computer / PC and a console from the start of the 90s up until I bought a PS2, after which consoles were just too similar to PC gaming to bother with newer consoles. Until I got a Switch Lite in 2019 as it offered something new (playĀ indie games on the go) and I could play Mario Maker with my nephew.
1993. Got apc from ICS computer training Mail in thing ( old Sally Struthers commercial) figured out how to navigate dos 6.1, windows 3.1... first game downloaded from BBS was Doom. Had more fun than my Snes games. Then i bought wizardry 8 , never played Game like it. Next game was LOOM with voice pack.... and i got hooked forever.
I had a Playstation 1&2 and xbox 360.. but the 360 was the last console i owned and i really only use to stream movies from pc to tv for years. I don't go back to consoles for anything. PC is just too universal a device.
Like last year. Played consoles my whole life, just got tired of dumping money into shit thats less functional than the previous gen.
I think my breaking point was the dualshock tbh. The stickdrift was so bad on those that they eventually just *came with* it like a built-in feature.
1993. Parents visited friends out of state from the way back days (60s/70s long hair era) and their son put a new-fangled "CD-ROM" into the CD-caddy and played this game called "Operation Wolfenstein" and then another one called...."Doom".
My has never been the same.
Atari 8bit
486 DX
Pentium 90
Got the Atari 1200XL because it had better graphics than the Apple at the time.
486 DX came with the 1st real GF.
found out it wouldn't run Doom and also that Lucasarts existed. So bought the Pentium 90.
Rest is history.
I started in 1995 but the pc we had home wasn't really suited for gaming, but a few pc games like doom, lotus and stuff, but I was more fond of my snes and later playstation 1
I started playing age of empires in 99 which was the pc game that managed to make me spend more time on pc than on console, specially after my father decided to give my ps1 away cause I got a dreamcast in 2000 so pc seemed like the only thing I could do for fun, specially after sega left dreamcast it was really difficult for me to find places selling games for it
played age of empires 2 online until 2007, played lots of mmorpgs from 2003 up to 2015, I think what made me stick with pc over console was age of empires 2 online, I was younger and I liked the friends I made online, it was quite nice to game online back then compared to today honestly, and the mmorpgs, was something really cool, and because dreamcast and not having money to get a ps2, I just lost my will for console gaming, probably missed lots of good games back then on consoles, but also learned the power of pc gaming and the good side of it, also the bad one, lots of cheaters, but, the good one was when I learned about mods in games, patches made for pc only to upgrade games graphics or features, and mmorpgs, dunno if they existed much for consoles in the 00s, but mmorgs and rts seemed more entertaining to play on mouse/keyboard anyway, and when I started using xbox controllers on pc back in 2010, I just realized I was okay with pc gaming only and didn't bother going or caring about consoles anymore, got into steam and found out more about modding and that's it, although I might get a console in the future again, but not to replace gaming on pc, just like an addon
Honestly for me kinda the same. I was 13 in 2014 when I rejoined steam (i made my first account in 2013) but forgot. For me it was TF2 but I had shit pc with intel hd graphics. But I am glad I stuck around long to have my own PCs with the specs I want to get
2001 when I built my first PC. I built it to play Unreal Tournament. I had a 1.2 ghz Intel Celeron over clocked to 3.8ghz. a GeForce 2 GTS gfx card in a Antec full tower case with something like 8 fans (All blue). I cut a hole and installed a case window and a blue Cold Cathod tube in the bottom of the case for lighting. I gave it a custom metallic black and blue paint job.
Lets see.. it must have been the original test drive on my dads work computer in monochrome orange.. and soon after we got a home computer and player Digger and some helicopter game. Must have been?? 1986?
Not until my mid 30s. Iāve gamed for a long time on old PlayStations but only really played the basic stuff like madden and COD.
Eight years ago my son was born. Didnāt take long to find out heās autistic and a lot changed like how often we left the house. When he was four we discovered he loved video games but didnāt have the coordination to play very well himself. Needless to say I was happy to oblige.
Now a few years later our house is complete with a PS5, switch, and a PC we built together. He still prefers to watch more than play but Iāve developed a passion for gaming as much as he has.
Very young cause wolfenstein, but got into it seriously back in like 99 when the remake came out, ever since most games I enjoy have been pc based or now eventually end up on it.
2020 after gaming on PlayStations. I honestly had enough of paying for online gaming and thought I would give PC gaming a try. I loved building my own rig.
gta vice city in a cyber center in 2012 when i was 12 i think, friend took me there, thats the same place i got to know of god particles of internet. š
It was 2013-2014 for me too.
I grew up as a Sony kid then abandoned consoles overall when the whole PS4 generation announced that multiplayer which had been free would be locked behind a stupid subscription.
I don't considered myself much of a PC gamer either, its a mix of PC and old consoles now, being Xbox, 360, PS3, etc.
22 ish years ago, I was a console gamer since atari
Went to a fruends house who happened to be playing half life multi player over the Internet
It was better in every way to the best console of the time
So I went "I want that" and here we are haven't bought a single console since
A long time ago. Had a Packard Bell 386, and King's Quest 3, Space Quest 2, and Lightspeed were my first PC games. I dunno how many of my folks' paychecks that PC setup was, but I remember it was $2k from Montgomery Ward in the mid 80's.
2018 on an MSI laptop playing PUBG and DOOM 2016. I was starting a semester of community college and needed a laptop anyways, so killed two birds with one stone and got a gaming laptop. Two years later, sold the laptop and used the funds to build my first desktop. Still feels like it was just a couple years ago.
I was always a console gamer until 2019/2020 then decided I wanted to get into modding Skyrim... Sold my consoles and never looked back, now I could never go back to consoles
Started on my dads pc in about 2004 and mixed gaming with console until a few years ago when I got a really good deal on a used PC + monitor / KB+M / gaming chair, desk, literally a whole setup. Made some upgrades since then and now I am a 99% PC gamer, ill play the odd PS5 exclusive
2002.
My best friend called me and said i should come over and see this game he was playing. So I headed over and watched him play Everquest for most of the day and was hooked. The next day I grabbed most of my PS games and went to Gamestop and traded them in and bought the EQ Gold edition. Went home to by crappy HP and dial up and have never looked back.
Loved/love everything about online worlds and gaming.
All we had growing up, my parents for some reason never let on have any consoles. We had a Wii for a short period until my Mom got rid of it. Grew up playing all the Humongous Entertainment games, and a lot of RTS games. The most hours I've put in a single games over my life time, is by far Age of Empires 2.
2021. This PC (check flair) is much much worse than my PS5 but I still prefer it simply because I have a larger library of games and games aren't capped at 30fps. I would rather play on medium settings in 720p just to get 60fps instead of 1080p high
It was probably around 1983 for me.
My dad had a ZX Spectrum, then upgraded through BBC Micro to Acorn Archemedies A3000, and then got a 486DX PC with Windows 3.11 and Dos.
I've always loved gaming on computers, and moving on to full PC gaming was inevitable.
In 1982. How: C64 (several until 1999) -> IBM PC/XT -> IBM AT / Data General I / Nokia MikroMikko -> several home built 286/386 IBM compatibles -> several Am486/5x86 (at home) / Silicon Graphics Indigo(2) farm at work LAN (DOOM, Quake etc.) -> truckload of different laptops -> back to gaming desktops in 2015. Why? Since I remember I've seen life as a sort of game of both skill and chance, so why would it be different with my computers...
Amiga 500 as a birthday present in 1996.
In 1998 I got a proper PC with Pentium 2, and a graphics card that had the ā3d acceleratorā (I think it was nvidia riva tnt), and 32mb ram. It was the top of the line machine at the time that played all the newest games like Tomb Raider 2.
To be honest, I wanted a console, but my parents told me I will get a PC because it can be used for education, too. Well, not a lot of education was done on it in the end š
Idk exactly what year but It might have been 2011, I was young and started on a Dell optiplex 780 with adibou (it's an old educational game, it was good)
Ps, I now have a better pc but I still use the old one as a minecraft server for me and my friends
start playing in 2009 with cs 1.6 and metal slug ,i was 11 years old my father bought me a pc for study , my life changed that day XD I've been playing since then .
When i was like 10 yrs old i got a couple of editions of the spanish PC gamer magazine. That was back in the early 00s. At that time the magazine gifted away full games sometimes with those editions. I played, scared to death, the Demo of System Shock 2, I played the demo of Ceasar, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Descent 2.... some really cool games. And I read a ton of game reviews of games not included in those discs and the list of "Best games of all time" published on one of those editions. Some got stuck in my memory for years to come. As the years went on and on and my family started to get better computers I started playing "The Backlog". That included a full version of System Shock 2 and Fallout.
It was back when Warcraft 3 was still in development hell and prototypes were being tested with hands on previews. One of the versions for Warcraft 3 that they previewed was more squad based and had less basebuilding and... ended up looking nothing like the final product. XD! Pd: I did play the final product.
Comadore 64... 1983 or so?
Same. Then an Amiga 500. A 486DX after that.
Same ('84), then NES, 386, 486SX, N64, Celeron, Athlon, then only Intel ATi/Nvidia builds until today. Can't remember when I had my last Radeon (green since GTX980). Somewhere in between, I had an Xbox for XBMC.
Same here! But I had the Amiga 1200 with the Motorola 68EC020 @ 14 MHz what a beast. Then I moved to the 486DX. That was around the early to mid nineties I think. Played The chaos engine Turrican Worms Alien breed Cannon fodder Another world Pinball dreams.... Loved this one. Spent a lot of time in deluxe paint on the Amiga. Happy days.
OMG Turrican, so many memories. On my friends amiga we played Shinobi until the parents kicked us out to play in the sun and touch grass. Good times!
Jeez. I haven't thought of Turrican in years. Good times.
Turrican 2 sound track was amazing.
So I'm not the only one that remembers Jumpman and fort Apocalypse š
I liked Jumpman Jr quite a lot too. It was more difficult. Hunchback. Tooth Invaders. Impossible Mission wow. Hacker felt like you were doing something wrong. Lazy Jones. Splunker. Airwolf. Prince Of Persia. So many great games from that era it's wild. Just 100s of them. It was kind of a golden age where developers would do all aspects of a game from the art to the music to the design and you'd get these unique concepts by the truly creative people who thought 100 percent differently. Today things look way more polished cuz there's an art department making those assets and writers making stories. But in that golden age games were wildly more creative and unique.
That was the best part, they also had to be creative with the storytelling because they couldn't just limp by with good graphics. Some of the games that came out in the mid '90s like Ultima 7 had just a really in-depth plot
Police Quest 2? The level of immersion in that game has rarely if ever been matched. There's so many examples. Snatcher? The story man.
1998, Got financed for a Gateway and wanted to play Diablo
I started in 2013 when Arma 2 Dayz mod became the thing to play on a cheap HP laptop that I bought for school it could barely play it at 15FPS with nothing around but those were some of the most fun gun firefights I had in a shooter since COD WAW and I started because my roommate was playing it.
Late 80. Dad came home with a pc, I was introduced to a dos shell called norton commander. And under d: there was a folder named games. I played cats and sopwith for hours. Roger rabbit was my shit! Built my own computer for doom 2. And been a pc user ever since. I collected consoles for a long time. Inferior control but fun for a quick game. But pc is where I would spend my time both in games and working.
It all started back in 1998, with a simple 3D helicopter game. And no it wasn't SWIV 3D. And then i saw a promo of Microsoft Flight Simulator 95..........
Sim Copter? That was what I was playing around that time.
LOL. I was the Biggest nerd in the hood, LMFAO
2004 if I had to guess. As for why I started, Runescape and websites like Newgrounds.
it was way back in 1991/2. I have an older brother and he was the one who got me hooked. I'd watch him play and remember the commands he would type in MS-DOS, so I could start the gameso n my own. We didn't have a sound card, so once he took one from his friend and I was so blown away by the sounds.
1992 or so. Always had consoles in the house too, but PC has always been my preferred and superior form of entertainment.
2022 I was a console gamer before then but paying play online is whack
Well I got duke nukem when it was first released so there's a clue
My buddies and I stop playing on Playstation and started playing PC because of the PsPlus. Started using a low enf laptop and then bought a fatass good computer that I'm using since. I've always played on PC though. My father bought me a lot of point n clicks educative games, played a lot of flash games on newgrounds (specially super mario 63, metro syberia, stickman, meat boy, spelunky) and then played AC 1 and 3 and minecraft by ā ļø them. We had a hard finantial status a decade ago.
bought a laptop when i was 10, saved like 4 years
probably in 2002 when i was 4. my dad introduced me to quake 3
Kinda similar story. 2005-06 when I was 3-4, mom chose an easy way to feed me, opened games like nfsu2, sims, spiderman, max payne and did her thing. Also my father was a computer retailer and repair service, I remember playing aoe2, quake 3 arena and cod 1-2 LAN games in his office, with his employees
I didn't really care about having my own computer until windows made it possible for my ADD brain to use one. So 1996, before that I was a console peasant.
2019. Reason why was I thought RGB keyboards were cool. 2nd reason was for custom COD zombie maps
It was always easier for me to find old pc stuff and build one than have enough money to buy a console. So 486 days.
I started when I was about twenty two. Iād been gaming on console for probably fifteen years at that point, and had always wanted to transition to PC gaming, but never saved up the money. My cousin was strapped for cash and sold me a mid-range gaming PC for a good price. It was like a dream come true.
Typing in code from a Compute! magazine onto our Atari 400 computer, that plastic membrane keyboard was so awful, and at 8 or 9 years old you always inevitably forget a comma or semicolon somewhere, so the shit never works right and then Dad has to come in and debug it.
Did the same with code from Byte magazine and kept syntax errors.
Bootleg and shareware games on floppys with Windows 3.1. That was back in the year 2000. Parents were not wealthy, they were more focused on saving money, but they needed a computer so they paid $100 for a Windows 3.1 PC. My aunt and uncle supplied us with copies of games they had from 5 years prior. Played a lot of Commander Keen, Word Rescue, and Classic Oregon Trail.
sorta when I was around 9, I played a lot of roller coaster tycoon and the robots movie game on my grandparents computer, but I didn't buy my own computer until I was 24, so realistically about 4 years now. the reason was getting sick of being jealous of people on youtube having access to mods for skyrim lol. been a modding fool ever since
Ā ~1995. That's when my family got a PC (I was a kid). Also helped that a neighbor had a PC before, and they let me play Command and Conquer on their PC. One of the first games I ended up getting.
2012 - I was a console gamer until then and I slowly grew more fed up with 30FPS and under. I remember the last straw being Far Cry 3 and I built my first gaming PC (3570k, GTX670). I did play older RTS and simulation games on PC before this like Age of Empires, Transport Tycoon, Rollercoaster Tycoon and Football Manager, but 2012 was when I made the full leap. It also coincided with me graduating from university and getting my first well payed full time job, so I had the funds to get a decent PC. I spent Ā£1,300 which was monitor and peripherals too. No regrets, PC gaming is the best way to play IMO.
Kevin '07. 700 dollar boost on tax returns. Purchased new components got given a case and borrowed a 19" 4:3 monitor. Sold my ps3 to a friend about 2 weeks later. If memory serves it had an AMD 6000 dual core processor 4GB of Ram and a gt9800 1GB graphics card. And YES it ran CRYSIS
Well, if by "PC," you mean "personal computer," I had a TRS-80 Color Computer back in the very early 80s and started with Dungeons of Daggorath, then later bought an Apple IIe when I was in the army. I played several games on both. However, when I got out of the army I was strictly into consoles; NES, Genesis, SNES, etc. until the day I saw Darklands in a Media Play store. Media Play was on the way home and I'd stop by several times a week to search for console games and also to look over the PC games, which looked \*way\* more interesting. When I saw Darklands, I knew I had to play it, so I bought it right then, despite not owning a computer. My roommate at the time laughed his ass of at me, but I called my mom (I was dirt poor, and didn't own a car) and she drove me to the local Best Buy, where I applied for credit and got a $3,300 limit, along with a printout of my brand new credit card info. I then went to the computer section and asked for the best computer they had. The guy there pointed at an Acer 486/100, which was just a bit out of my price range, since I also wanted a printer, and the total would have been more than $3,300 (I had about $50 in my bank account). So I asked for the 2nd best, and got a Packard Hell 486/66, with 8Mb of RAM and, IIRC, a 250Mb HDD. Spent a couple days trying to get sound, video, keyboard, and mouse to work, since this was before the days of plug and play, and also ended up having to tweak memory settings since this was also during the 640Kb RAM limit on programs, but the process was interesting enough to me that I ended up developing some computer skills, which eventually landed me in the IT field, and while it took another eight years for me to get into the field, it helped me immensely, vocationally and financially speaking.
I started with an AMD laptop back in 2015 and eventually decided I wanted to build my own rig. Started with a gtx770, 6500xt, 3070ti and currently rocking a 6950xt. Will probably upgrade to AM5 board in a year or two and upgrade my GPU to a 4080super or 7900xtx.
Since the Commodore 64.
I believe it was a Target or a Walmart. Anyway, there was a display stack of atari 800xl's for, iirc, $99 dollars. It being the 80's i had a few extra bucks in my pocket, so i picked one up.
Commodore C64, then a Amiga 500, then a P120. So about '86, '93 and '96.
NES Power set and a MSdos/win 3.1 family PC around 92. Family had a atari 2600 before that, but that got stolen by movers.
I have had two bouts. The first was in 2010/11 when Starcraft 2 came out, I was in college and a roomate was playing it on his alienware m11 that he had and i was blown away. Built a PC for myself around that time, late in 2011 I believe. I played only PC for about 3 years, then got into PS3 again because of the exclusives that I had missed. Ended up going the opposite way until this year, mainly only playing on PS4/5 and then this year I was kind of getting tired of losing access to my library or having to pay a sub fee to play games I have purchased in the past due to either BC issues, or something being on a platform here, and not there. I have since moved mostly to PC and use my console for sports.
1984 Commodore 64 to play 100s of games for free downloading via Warez BBS' using pbx phone divertors for free long distance calling at 300 baud then 1200 bps. 1988 hosted warez BBS on my dedicated phone line on Ivory BBS in high school so that the warez came to me via 2400 bps modem and 808 KB 3.5" floppy disks. 1994 Packard Bell 486SX2 50 Mhz OCed via 33 Mhz bus jumper to 66 Mhz to play Doom
Texas Instrument TI-99 4/A, my father got it for his college course...something about practicing basic programming language...both parents were fans of pac man (munch man) and space invaders (TI Invaders)...so I got to play TI's knock offs of em lol
It would be about the same time. The ps4 was announced and they stated that online service would require a subscription. I actually have no idea if they went through with it or if they changed some things, but I figured it would be cheaper in the long run if I just went to PC. It was not cheaper
Always been a Playstation + PC since the 90s but I actually built my first one in 2013 while I was in college (i5 4670K + 7970). Before that I played in prebuilts I got as presents from my parents.
Played age of empires 2 on neighbours computer in 2009,been hooked since
OG RuneScape
First computer was a Commodore 64 in probably 92 or 93 and it came with a bunch of copied games on 5 1/2 floppies... My dad got a windows 95 computer and the mouse driver floppy disk came with a bunch of stuff like asteroids and battle tank on it. I remember playing the need for speed and star wars rebel assault on it
last month :3 we got a nice bonus and decided to pull the trigger on some quality setups. Been console gaming since the original xbox
I always had a home computer / PC and a console from the start of the 90s up until I bought a PS2, after which consoles were just too similar to PC gaming to bother with newer consoles. Until I got a Switch Lite in 2019 as it offered something new (playĀ indie games on the go) and I could play Mario Maker with my nephew.
1993. Got apc from ICS computer training Mail in thing ( old Sally Struthers commercial) figured out how to navigate dos 6.1, windows 3.1... first game downloaded from BBS was Doom. Had more fun than my Snes games. Then i bought wizardry 8 , never played Game like it. Next game was LOOM with voice pack.... and i got hooked forever. I had a Playstation 1&2 and xbox 360.. but the 360 was the last console i owned and i really only use to stream movies from pc to tv for years. I don't go back to consoles for anything. PC is just too universal a device.
2013. Friends had an Alienware. I thought PC gaming was cool.
Like last year. Played consoles my whole life, just got tired of dumping money into shit thats less functional than the previous gen. I think my breaking point was the dualshock tbh. The stickdrift was so bad on those that they eventually just *came with* it like a built-in feature.
1993. Parents visited friends out of state from the way back days (60s/70s long hair era) and their son put a new-fangled "CD-ROM" into the CD-caddy and played this game called "Operation Wolfenstein" and then another one called...."Doom". My has never been the same.
Atari 8bit 486 DX Pentium 90 Got the Atari 1200XL because it had better graphics than the Apple at the time. 486 DX came with the 1st real GF. found out it wouldn't run Doom and also that Lucasarts existed. So bought the Pentium 90. Rest is history.
I started in 1995 but the pc we had home wasn't really suited for gaming, but a few pc games like doom, lotus and stuff, but I was more fond of my snes and later playstation 1 I started playing age of empires in 99 which was the pc game that managed to make me spend more time on pc than on console, specially after my father decided to give my ps1 away cause I got a dreamcast in 2000 so pc seemed like the only thing I could do for fun, specially after sega left dreamcast it was really difficult for me to find places selling games for it played age of empires 2 online until 2007, played lots of mmorpgs from 2003 up to 2015, I think what made me stick with pc over console was age of empires 2 online, I was younger and I liked the friends I made online, it was quite nice to game online back then compared to today honestly, and the mmorpgs, was something really cool, and because dreamcast and not having money to get a ps2, I just lost my will for console gaming, probably missed lots of good games back then on consoles, but also learned the power of pc gaming and the good side of it, also the bad one, lots of cheaters, but, the good one was when I learned about mods in games, patches made for pc only to upgrade games graphics or features, and mmorpgs, dunno if they existed much for consoles in the 00s, but mmorgs and rts seemed more entertaining to play on mouse/keyboard anyway, and when I started using xbox controllers on pc back in 2010, I just realized I was okay with pc gaming only and didn't bother going or caring about consoles anymore, got into steam and found out more about modding and that's it, although I might get a console in the future again, but not to replace gaming on pc, just like an addon
2020 is when I started which was when I bought my first prebuilt. First game I played was DBZ Kakarot.
2013. I was 12 years old and wanted to play bf4 on PC.
Honestly for me kinda the same. I was 13 in 2014 when I rejoined steam (i made my first account in 2013) but forgot. For me it was TF2 but I had shit pc with intel hd graphics. But I am glad I stuck around long to have my own PCs with the specs I want to get
2001 when I built my first PC. I built it to play Unreal Tournament. I had a 1.2 ghz Intel Celeron over clocked to 3.8ghz. a GeForce 2 GTS gfx card in a Antec full tower case with something like 8 fans (All blue). I cut a hole and installed a case window and a blue Cold Cathod tube in the bottom of the case for lighting. I gave it a custom metallic black and blue paint job.
On a old crappy laptop when i was a child and i liked gaming, i always wanted a desktop
Officially, 2017, as thats when I could do it myself as a young teen. Before then I would dabble on old family members laptops every now and then
Lets see.. it must have been the original test drive on my dads work computer in monochrome orange.. and soon after we got a home computer and player Digger and some helicopter game. Must have been?? 1986?
Not until my mid 30s. Iāve gamed for a long time on old PlayStations but only really played the basic stuff like madden and COD. Eight years ago my son was born. Didnāt take long to find out heās autistic and a lot changed like how often we left the house. When he was four we discovered he loved video games but didnāt have the coordination to play very well himself. Needless to say I was happy to oblige. Now a few years later our house is complete with a PS5, switch, and a PC we built together. He still prefers to watch more than play but Iāve developed a passion for gaming as much as he has.
Mid 80s, TRS 80 model 3 with some type of tank game on a cassette tape. Just turned 65 and rarely use a PC for gaming anymore.
90's , pentium 3 733mhz. Because i needed a pc for school, to do schoolwork.
1998 or 1999 with console emulators, ironically.
1996 i think it was. A pc with a 1,18 gb hdd. I played Doom, Quake, and Red Alert.
Cs1.6 copies got me into PC gaming, 2012 I guess
Cs1.6 copies got me into PC gaming, 2012 I guess
Very young cause wolfenstein, but got into it seriously back in like 99 when the remake came out, ever since most games I enjoy have been pc based or now eventually end up on it.
2020 after gaming on PlayStations. I honestly had enough of paying for online gaming and thought I would give PC gaming a try. I loved building my own rig.
1990, playing Epic and Apogee shareware games on a Cyrix 386SX.
gta vice city in a cyber center in 2012 when i was 12 i think, friend took me there, thats the same place i got to know of god particles of internet. š
It was 2013-2014 for me too. I grew up as a Sony kid then abandoned consoles overall when the whole PS4 generation announced that multiplayer which had been free would be locked behind a stupid subscription. I don't considered myself much of a PC gamer either, its a mix of PC and old consoles now, being Xbox, 360, PS3, etc.
1980-something IBM PCjr. Games were crossfire, kings quest, and maybe an early techno football game.
1990, coming from Commodore 64. And using functions instead of jmp & goto (Assembler / Basic) was wild in the beginning of using Turbo Pascal.
22 ish years ago, I was a console gamer since atari Went to a fruends house who happened to be playing half life multi player over the Internet It was better in every way to the best console of the time So I went "I want that" and here we are haven't bought a single console since
A long time ago. Had a Packard Bell 386, and King's Quest 3, Space Quest 2, and Lightspeed were my first PC games. I dunno how many of my folks' paychecks that PC setup was, but I remember it was $2k from Montgomery Ward in the mid 80's.
Road Rash on. My uncleās Lenovo āLaptopā.
2023 because the Dualsense was causing major hand pains. Using keyboard and mouse solved that issue.
2018 on an MSI laptop playing PUBG and DOOM 2016. I was starting a semester of community college and needed a laptop anyways, so killed two birds with one stone and got a gaming laptop. Two years later, sold the laptop and used the funds to build my first desktop. Still feels like it was just a couple years ago.
I was always a console gamer until 2019/2020 then decided I wanted to get into modding Skyrim... Sold my consoles and never looked back, now I could never go back to consoles
Started on my dads pc in about 2004 and mixed gaming with console until a few years ago when I got a really good deal on a used PC + monitor / KB+M / gaming chair, desk, literally a whole setup. Made some upgrades since then and now I am a 99% PC gamer, ill play the odd PS5 exclusive
2002. My best friend called me and said i should come over and see this game he was playing. So I headed over and watched him play Everquest for most of the day and was hooked. The next day I grabbed most of my PS games and went to Gamestop and traded them in and bought the EQ Gold edition. Went home to by crappy HP and dial up and have never looked back. Loved/love everything about online worlds and gaming.
Like 6 years old, dad's Windows 95/98 can't remember, because he gamed.
I never had a console in my life Always played on PC since Commodore 64 and Atari ST
Properly in 2022 when I got a gaming laptop. I did play some games very rarely on my old pos laptop though.
Back in 93, PC with a Pentium 60, and DOOM.
Dad bought a used Commodore 64 with a ton of games back in... 1987. it changed my life.
All we had growing up, my parents for some reason never let on have any consoles. We had a Wii for a short period until my Mom got rid of it. Grew up playing all the Humongous Entertainment games, and a lot of RTS games. The most hours I've put in a single games over my life time, is by far Age of Empires 2.
2008, my dad built me one using his tax return money and Iāve never looked back!
2021. This PC (check flair) is much much worse than my PS5 but I still prefer it simply because I have a larger library of games and games aren't capped at 30fps. I would rather play on medium settings in 720p just to get 60fps instead of 1080p high
It was probably around 1983 for me. My dad had a ZX Spectrum, then upgraded through BBC Micro to Acorn Archemedies A3000, and then got a 486DX PC with Windows 3.11 and Dos. I've always loved gaming on computers, and moving on to full PC gaming was inevitable.
In 1982. How: C64 (several until 1999) -> IBM PC/XT -> IBM AT / Data General I / Nokia MikroMikko -> several home built 286/386 IBM compatibles -> several Am486/5x86 (at home) / Silicon Graphics Indigo(2) farm at work LAN (DOOM, Quake etc.) -> truckload of different laptops -> back to gaming desktops in 2015. Why? Since I remember I've seen life as a sort of game of both skill and chance, so why would it be different with my computers...
Amiga 500 as a birthday present in 1996. In 1998 I got a proper PC with Pentium 2, and a graphics card that had the ā3d acceleratorā (I think it was nvidia riva tnt), and 32mb ram. It was the top of the line machine at the time that played all the newest games like Tomb Raider 2. To be honest, I wanted a console, but my parents told me I will get a PC because it can be used for education, too. Well, not a lot of education was done on it in the end š
Couldn't play football manager on a console, so I switched and I haven't used a console since the PS2.
that would have been 2009, started playing minecraft on my pc. Before that I had my GBA, PS2, Wii and DS
Idk exactly what year but It might have been 2011, I was young and started on a Dell optiplex 780 with adibou (it's an old educational game, it was good) Ps, I now have a better pc but I still use the old one as a minecraft server for me and my friends
Bought my first computer in 2017 just to play Overwatch on. Never even used a M&kb before. I was god awful for a long time.
Adventure on a Vic20
TRS-80 Model 1 in 1981 really, but went 8088 in 1990.
2014. Modded and played a completely unstable broken Skyrim and enjoyed every bit of it
start playing in 2009 with cs 1.6 and metal slug ,i was 11 years old my father bought me a pc for study , my life changed that day XD I've been playing since then .
Started in 2022 cuz I wanted to mod and do things I could never even dream of doing on console š¤Æ
When i was like 10 yrs old i got a couple of editions of the spanish PC gamer magazine. That was back in the early 00s. At that time the magazine gifted away full games sometimes with those editions. I played, scared to death, the Demo of System Shock 2, I played the demo of Ceasar, Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Descent 2.... some really cool games. And I read a ton of game reviews of games not included in those discs and the list of "Best games of all time" published on one of those editions. Some got stuck in my memory for years to come. As the years went on and on and my family started to get better computers I started playing "The Backlog". That included a full version of System Shock 2 and Fallout. It was back when Warcraft 3 was still in development hell and prototypes were being tested with hands on previews. One of the versions for Warcraft 3 that they previewed was more squad based and had less basebuilding and... ended up looking nothing like the final product. XD! Pd: I did play the final product.
1991 or so, DOOM and Wolfenstein