From Console Gaming to PC Gaming.

Technology and Gaming
#1

Since most users of this forums are PC gamers I figure this would be a good place to ask this.

How many of us actually started gaming on the PC. No I am not talking about if you mostly played NES but played a little Doom on your computer or something. The majority of you gaming was done on PC.

I know I started on consoles. I played some games on my computer Diablo, Half-Life, Doom and Command & Conquer games but mostly it was Nintendo consoles from the NES to Gamecube and then 360. Until the begging of last year.

I’m simply curius because PC seem like a weird place to start gaming. Most parents don’t think of a PC the same way the think of a PlayStation or Atari.

#2

I started on the PC back in the 90s’ with the Commander Keen series.

#3

I have always been a PC gamer. I’ve very recently bought a PS3, my first console ever, and I’m loving it so far, even tho I still struggle a lot with weapon aiming with the sticks.

#4

Didn’t start with computer gaming, but first games on PC were Jazz Jackrabbit, Death Rally, Rayman, Sudden Strike (first MP game) and RollerCoaster Tycoon.

edit:

Oh, and Pacman 3D

#5

I started on the N64 at my downstairs neighbors house. Then I moved and had only a computer, and stayed there since.

#6

Started with playstation in 1998.

Unlike some people that are PC GAMERS I do not think that I am somehow above people that are CONSOLE GAMERS simply because my computer allows me to mod the shit out of everything and not pay for addons.

You’d think that maybe if you had a console you’d stop whining about games ported from them to pc, but then you’d be wrong.

#7

I started playing pc games in the late 90’s with a very obscure star wars game called “star wars: rogue spuadron 3D” and another obscure game called “deer hunter 2”

#8

I started with Super Nintendo.Then i lost interest in gaming for few years,because my SNES broke.And then i played few games on a PC at my friend’s house. (Heroes of Might and Magic 3,half-life,counter-strike,quake 2 and 3)
And i still prefer PC over the console,when it comes to FPS games.

#9

Sega Megadrive > PC (and PS2) > Lack of money > Xbox 360

When you flop down at the end of the day (only time I really play) it doesn’t really matter what you play on, long as you enjoy yourself (giggidy)

#10

I started both at about the same time, PC for Half Life and Jazz the Jackrabbit 2 and the SNES for the Mario stuff.

#11

I started out on an Intellivision II, then the Atari 2600. After that personal computers were more readily available so I got a CoCo 2 (Color Computer 2), then a Commodore 64. The Commodore 64 blew everything else away!! Better games,graphics and sound. I remember playing Maniac Mansion, The Last Ninja, The Great Escape, hundreds of games! I still remember the old text adventures too!

Over the years I branched out to NES, then Tandy 1000 TL2 (My first IBM Clone, no hard drive, 8 MHz Intel 80286 processor, built-in DOS OS with Graphical DeskMate interface similar to early windows, and everything ran off floppies.), SNES, PS, 3D0, N64, etc… etc… Strangely I never owned a Sega…

Overall I prefer computer games as better graphics and much better games if you are into FPS, RPG, and Adventure games. Also the ability to mod the games is something you simply can’t do on a console. Well not easily anyway. I have modded some NES and SNES games in the past. Not easy to say the least.

#12

I was born in 85 and immediately started playing video games with my siblings. We had a PC and I played a lot of Space Quest, an adventure game series by Sierra. My parents bought us an NES whenever it was released and I have always had a console since.

I have always played both console and PC.

#13

Lets see, I’m pretty sure my first gaming was on the PC in the form of interactive kid CDs. Then there was a period where I mostly used a playstation and gameboy (then continuing with PS2 and GBA) before gradually switching back to PC when I was about 12. I still use the old consoles from time to time but mostly PC now

#14

I used to watch my dad play DOOM, then I started playing the Harry Potter games, then eventually I found Half-Life, and here I am today with over 40 games on my Steam list :slight_smile:

#15

I started on the Gameboy, and eventually moved on to the Playstation. Just last year I bought a new PC and got really into PC gaming. Now my Playstation 3 is a competant and rather expensive dust collector, though I still play it every so often.

#16

The first games I ever played were PC games. I didn’t get a console until later in my life. (Born in 1993)
I remember the first games I ever played were played on an old PC running 95. I guess I was around 4. The one I remember the most was Myst. That game actually probably had a pretty big change on my personality.
We also had a few very little kids edutainment games (remember, I was 4).
Later on, with a newer pc, I got some of my first realtime 3d games. The one I remember the most was Lego Alpha Team. Haven’t played it in a decade, but I remember it being a pretty challenging puzzle.
Then we got a Sega genesis, which was old at the time. Had a bunch of games, but none were very memorable.
Then when I was about 8 (around 2000), I saved up and got a playstation. That was great, and lasted for years. Loved the Crash games (Played CTR constantly with my family, after school).
At maybe 2003-2004, I got a PS2. This was amazing. I remember my first games included Tekken Tag and Gran Turismo 3.
I played my Ps2 for years after that, becoming a fan of the Ratchet games, Burnout 3, and countless others.
Soon after it was released, I got a Wii. Then, across 2008 and 2009, I began to realize that developers were ignoring it’s potential. I got a slim Ps3 right after they were released, and have been quite happy with that since.
I’ve never really had a great computer to handle newer pc games. Consoles are nice because they cost so little compared to a decent pc. My laptop cost $800, but I know that it couldn’t handle just about everything my $300 ps3 could.

#17

My computer was around £500, and it was bought from Dell then upgraded, and Dell are expensive. If you had the time to make your own computer from parts, then it would cost considerably less, and run faster than your PS3. Don’t get me wrong, It would probably be more expensive, but not by much and justly so.

#18

I Started with PC gaming, with CoC games and Simcity, Later, I moved off to the Gamecube, and kept playing on Nintendo systems (Portable and Home) until the Wii came out, and I’d say i was pretty disappointed as a result of the gimmicky games, and hard to play shooters. About 2 years ago, i found Halo in a box of my brothers games, and then quit playing that and started playing L4D and A lot of other Source games, And that brings me here.

#19

Same here.
In order:
Commander Keen, Railroad Tycoon, Prince of Persia, Donkey Kong 64… then all PC.

#20

I started on the console at 8 or so, went to PC at 11, back to console at 14, and I’m 20 now and just recently went back to PC (just built a new one) and now I play on both pretty equally.

The 14-20 console stretch was so long because I didn’t play video games as much for a little while and I didn’t have a PC capable of playing the new titles.

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