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Anyone remember that wireframe rolling ball demo for GWBASIC (?) that looked tron-esque? It used the 4 graphics pages to give the illusion of rolling.

IIRC the land showed lines getting closer together to simulate distance.

* http://www.abandonia.com/files...

The ball wasn't transparent -- it used hidden line removal IIRC.
* https://s-media-cache-ak0.pini...

Now-a-days we would use a wireframe like this:
* http://eleganthack.com/wp-cont...

It would be nice to talk about genders in gaming, without all the faked outrage. I mean, you realise that Anita is just a massive troll right ? Her E3 "1 outrage every minute" type posting was clear as day. I'd like a discussion about actual gender in gaming, and how gaming has always been open to both genders, but still has failed to draw women in further than casual games (my mother was a big fan of Doctor Mario and Tetris for one thing). Even though we had great women designing games like Roberta Williams, and even female protagonists as early as the 80s (Laura Bow anyone ?) : http://www.abandonia.com/games/218 I think Anita doesn't help any. In fact, polarizing the debate, and making it about "either you agree there's an issue or you're a misogynist" doesn't help anything.

It's considered abandonware. http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/386/Elite+Plus.html

I will never forgot the map of the eastern Mediterranean after playing the old game Conflict: Middle East Political Simulator http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conflict:_Middle_East_Political_Simulator. It runs beautifully in dosbox and is available at abandonia http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/24764/Conflict+-+Middle+East+Political+Simulator.html Air Force Commander burned the map of the middle east into my brain at a very young age. It also runs in dosbox and I found it at the home of the underdogs if anybody is interested http://www.hotud.org/home/44-war/21074?lang=en%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_realtyna%2F%2Findex.php%3Foption%3Dcom_realtyna

SpaceChem is a fantastic game, and is the first game in a long while to remind me of the old The Learning Comany games like Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey.

SpaceChem is a fantastic game, and is the first game in a long while to remind me of the old The Learning Comany games like Rocky's Boots and Robot Odyssey.

First "programming game" I think I ever played was the MECC classic, Robot Odyssey When I went to play it a number of years back it just made me recall how easy games are these days - I think I was able to get through this one faster as a kid than as an adult. Then again I was playing around a lot more this time instead of just trying to beat the game... Don't forget that Frozen Synapse is currently headlining the Humble Frozen Bundle! with about 4 days left to purchase!

But you're happy for Mojang to own the word "scrolls"? Remember when Origin and Bullfrog were cool game studios?

I don't know what kind of world you would like to live in but I would prefer one where common words couldn't be trademarked.
If Bethesda want to build a strong trademark around a game title they should not use common words in their game titles, if you call your game for Champions of Krynn you can't complain about someone else using the name Champions of War or something similiar. (Well, if someone created a game named Champions of Flynn you might have a valid case.)
I wouldn't mind if Bethesda tried to protect the name Morrowind since it is pretty unique.
To complain about someone calling a game Scroll when your game is called The Elder Scrolls is just silly.

Here is a link to a game known as The Scroll released two years before the first The Elder Scrolls game but at that time Bethesda thought that it was enough difference to not be a problem. Daughter of Serpents (a.k.a. The Scroll)

Yes. If he had called the game "The Scroll" it could be confused with Daughter of Serpents (a.k.a. The Scroll)
The Scroll was released 2 years before The Elder Scrolls.

One of the best games of the early 90s was Disney's Stunt Island. You could either just play the game as a stunt pilot or better yet was the sandbox mode where you could set up stunts, perform and film them and then edit them with sound effects and music. It was an extremely creative game.
I believe it's available as abandonware now: http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/287/Stunt+Island.html

You are not the only one that gets angry about the whole issue. Tell me how so heck does a copyright term of 70 years is encouraging developers to write games? In the current market a game is old after 6 months and after 2 years you can buy the same game for 10$ or less and after 10 years nobody ever will buy the game. So how are developers benefit from a 70 years protection?

Tell me, what game makes the original developer money after 70 years?

In my opinion the current years (from 1980 to current) will be called the dark ages of digital culture, because no game, no movie, will survive. The code will be lost in some safe because nobody cares and if the future generations like to know what games we played, they can only go to the illegal sites like http://www.abandonia.com/

It's like we wouldn't know anything about Shakespeare, Bach, Beethoven, because the code (words or notes) had the same stupid protection laws.

The only way the owner of the game is benefiting, is that nobody can take their game and port it and improve it. So they are benefiting because they hinder everybody else. You can call it greed and selfishness.

Some other games of similar vintage that I have found very playable still to this day, and stand out in terms of depth:

Jagged Alliance (1994):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagged_Alliance_2
Turn based tactical mercenary shooter. I remember playing this in 1994, but the game largely unchanged (except for screen resolution and color depth) was still being developed in 2005.

Betrayal at Krondor (1993)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal_at_Krondor
Fantastic RPG that doesn't feel dated at all, very atmospheric with fun turn-based combat. According to PC Gamer the 'first ever' 3d RPG, though I find that hard to believe.

Microprose Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 (1991)
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/4553/F-117A+Stealth+Fighter+2.0.html
One of the best flight sims ever made. Sequel to 1988 "F19 stealth fighter". Very simple 3d polygon graphics, but huge amounts of content, great presentation and a sense of freedom not found in any later flightsims I've played (except for one from 1996, A-10 Cuba!). Needs a keyboard overlay.

Quarantine (1994)
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/146/Quarantine.html
I still consider this futuristic taxi driving sim the most atmospheric game I've ever played. A succession of quality, varied levels, entertaining missions and a surprisingly responsive driving model. It's amazing how much of the fun and gameplay features of the 3D GTA games is found in this ancestor, the only thing really missing being the ability to get out of your taxi. You can however purchase weapons and upgrades to your taxi. Far more worth playing today than Doom or Doom 2 imo because of it's depth.

Some other games of similar vintage that I have found very playable still to this day, and stand out in terms of depth:

Jagged Alliance (1994):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jagged_Alliance_2
Turn based tactical mercenary shooter. I remember playing this in 1994, but the game largely unchanged (except for screen resolution and color depth) was still being developed in 2005.

Betrayal at Krondor (1993)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betrayal_at_Krondor
Fantastic RPG that doesn't feel dated at all, very atmospheric with fun turn-based combat. According to PC Gamer the 'first ever' 3d RPG, though I find that hard to believe.

Microprose Night Hawk: F-117A Stealth Fighter 2.0 (1991)
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/4553/F-117A+Stealth+Fighter+2.0.html
One of the best flight sims ever made. Sequel to 1988 "F19 stealth fighter". Very simple 3d polygon graphics, but huge amounts of content, great presentation and a sense of freedom not found in any later flightsims I've played (except for one from 1996, A-10 Cuba!). Needs a keyboard overlay.

Quarantine (1994)
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/146/Quarantine.html
I still consider this futuristic taxi driving sim the most atmospheric game I've ever played. A succession of quality, varied levels, entertaining missions and a surprisingly responsive driving model. It's amazing how much of the fun and gameplay features of the 3D GTA games is found in this ancestor, the only thing really missing being the ability to get out of your taxi. You can however purchase weapons and upgrades to your taxi. Far more worth playing today than Doom or Doom 2 imo because of it's depth.

I agree with this, the Legend of Kyrandia series are a great couple of adventures. Colorful, lighthearted, interesting puzzles and a wonderful soundtrack for it's time.
It's one of the adventures I used to play in my childhood together with my father. Playing the game and trying to solve the puzzles together was always a lot of fun and something we both looked forward to. Granted this was in the days before internet so it wasn't that easy to look up a walkthrough if you got stuck :)

Kyrandia can also be played through SCUMMVM. All three games can be found here http://www.abandonia.com/en/game/all/The+Legend+of+Kyrandia+Trilogy. Though the CD-Rom versions are even better with some strong voice acting.

I think Mario Teaches Typing would be a better joke in this case ;)

Now go celebrate.

P.S. ... You'll need DOSBox or a very old PC.

Years ago I bought an Amiga 500+ with loads of games, one of which was Sim City. I thought it was tough going with my buildings being destroyed all the time by natural disasters. It soon improved when I found the code booklet, which was printed in dark red with maroon letters to stop it being photocopied. Other games like Microprose F1 GP would ask for a word to be typed from a random part of the manual.

Monkey Island 2 and F/A-18 Interceptor had a code wheel, and annoyingly trying to play Another World on my GP2X handheld emulator soon had it asking for codes. It's not so handy having to print 20 pages of gibberish symbols out.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/08/26/wacky-copy-protection-methods-from-the-good-old-days/
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/30/Another+World.html
http://www.abandonia.com/files/extras/Code%20Wheel.zip

Years ago I bought an Amiga 500+ with loads of games, one of which was Sim City. I thought it was tough going with my buildings being destroyed all the time by natural disasters. It soon improved when I found the code booklet, which was printed in dark red with maroon letters to stop it being photocopied. Other games like Microprose F1 GP would ask for a word to be typed from a random part of the manual.

Monkey Island 2 and F/A-18 Interceptor had a code wheel, and annoyingly trying to play Another World on my GP2X handheld emulator soon had it asking for codes. It's not so handy having to print 20 pages of gibberish symbols out.

http://royal.pingdom.com/2009/08/26/wacky-copy-protection-methods-from-the-good-old-days/
http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/30/Another+World.html
http://www.abandonia.com/files/extras/Code%20Wheel.zip

Put some games on the computer that you can play together with them.

When my sister and I were kids, we'd sit with Mom at the computer and play through the King's Quests, Space Quests, and even Leisure Suit Larry 2 & 3.
That was loads of fun, and we all got to pitch in ideas for stuff to do. Granted, I think I was closer to 7 or 8 when we started with those.

Dad was more into Dungeons of Daggorath :)

He still remembers how to play it today, and he's not a computer guy at all.

http://www.abandonia.com/

>>>Well, getting them to run on those PCs by tweaking autoexec.bat and config.sys files

Should have bought an Atari, Commodore, or Amiga. These computers were plug-and-play simple and didn't make you dick around with that shit. You just inserted the game, typed LOAD, and played. Even today I still can't get the Wing Commander 1 and 2 to operate on a PC

Dosbox FTW. Yes, you sometimes have to dick around with it, but you can play tons of old games with it. Go to http://www.abandonia.com/ or similar sites, download a few of your old favourites (WC, Master of Magic, etc) and enjoy them with Dosbox. http://www.dosbox.com/download.php?main=1

How does it compare to Death Track or Death Track Resurrection?

All 3 of them are considered abandonware at this point, you can (legally) download them here if you can handle sprites in this day and age.

The above link might have it too but I found the page a bit garish and figured I'd save others some time.

Civ II was MicroProse (ahh, that list takes me back); Activision did Call to Power.

What I remember Activision for was the original MechWarrior game. I had to underclock my 486DX2-66 (still in my (mom's) basement (no, I don't live down there...yet)) to 10 MHz so the "robots" moved at a reasonable speed. Of course, when starting at opposite ends of the battlefield, it was much quicker to hit the turbo button and jump back up to 66 MHz till they started firing on you and then slow down again. One run in which the button didn't uncatch, leading to many frantic pushes, resulted in having to sell two Battlemechs just to cover repair costs.

Gosh, /., couldn't you have run this story during the day, when I didn't need to go to sleep? Ah, well, off to DOSBox.

How can you distinguish between illegally available copyrighted material and legally material before you downloaded it? How can I know that a publisher of a software, video or song is publishing it illegally and not have the permission of the copyright owner?

If I go, for example, to http://www.gog.com/en/frontpage/ (where I can buy older games and download it) or http://www.abandonia.com/ (where I can download abandoned games), how can I know if the publisher have the permissions to do so?

After this "three strikes law" I can be disconnected without doing anything wrong, except to believe that the mentioned sites have the permission to publish the games.

So, is the circled location labeled "N" supposed to denote the location of the Leather Goddesses' base? Or is this where they've found the first signs of Denizens from Hell?

Actually pretty damn good for adults too :-)

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/25/Incredible+Machine,+The.html

Ok, maybe not /the/ most physically realistic.... but definitely the most fun!

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/566/Outer+Ridge.html

Deathtrack link

http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/194/Darklands.html

I've never played this one.

http://abandonia.com/en/game/Adventure
Though I suppose that technically comes under the heading of grey realms of abandonware. At least it's a well known site.

same here. And since i think your interpretation of the title is more fun:

battle isle 2 in dosbox
Brilliant round based strategy game, quite hard but works flawless in dosbox. Available at http://www.abandonia.com/de/games/10608/Battle+Isle+2.html
The extension is not available though, which is quite sad

Guaranteed to blast your past off or your money back.
Some of the better ones:

Ascendancy -- Space exploration and domination similar to Master of Orion, micro/macromanagement and diplomacy and such.

Gobliiins -- Hilarious puzzle game, point and click style.

Discworld -- Cartoony point and click adventure, based on the book series.

Command & Conquer -- mentioned above, the first great top-down strategy.

Dune 2 -- Precursor to Command and Conquer, and an excellent war strategy game. Interface is clunky compared to today's standards.

Settlers 2 -- Civ-like build-stuff-and-conquer strategy.

NetStorm -- Aerial island based tech/research/attack strategy.

Alone in the Dark -- Spooky 1st-gen 3D third person explorer.

The Colonels Bequest -- Waaaaay old but one of the best mystery/suspense games I can remember.

Tyrian 2000 -- Top-down space shooter, pretty good.

There's hundreds more, check 'em out.
Be advised: you'll need DOSBox or equivalent program to run most of these.

Guaranteed to blast your past off or your money back.
Some of the better ones:

Ascendancy -- Space exploration and domination similar to Master of Orion, micro/macromanagement and diplomacy and such.

Gobliiins -- Hilarious puzzle game, point and click style.

Discworld -- Cartoony point and click adventure, based on the book series.

Command & Conquer -- mentioned above, the first great top-down strategy.

Dune 2 -- Precursor to Command and Conquer, and an excellent war strategy game. Interface is clunky compared to today's standards.

Settlers 2 -- Civ-like build-stuff-and-conquer strategy.

NetStorm -- Aerial island based tech/research/attack strategy.

Alone in the Dark -- Spooky 1st-gen 3D third person explorer.

The Colonels Bequest -- Waaaaay old but one of the best mystery/suspense games I can remember.

Tyrian 2000 -- Top-down space shooter, pretty good.

There's hundreds more, check 'em out.
Be advised: you'll need DOSBox or equivalent program to run most of these.

Guaranteed to blast your past off or your money back.
Some of the better ones:

Ascendancy -- Space exploration and domination similar to Master of Orion, micro/macromanagement and diplomacy and such.

Gobliiins -- Hilarious puzzle game, point and click style.

Discworld -- Cartoony point and click adventure, based on the book series.

Command & Conquer -- mentioned above, the first great top-down strategy.

Dune 2 -- Precursor to Command and Conquer, and an excellent war strategy game. Interface is clunky compared to today's standards.

Settlers 2 -- Civ-like build-stuff-and-conquer strategy.

NetStorm -- Aerial island based tech/research/attack strategy.

Alone in the Dark -- Spooky 1st-gen 3D third person explorer.

The Colonels Bequest -- Waaaaay old but one of the best mystery/suspense games I can remember.

Tyrian 2000 -- Top-down space shooter, pretty good.

There's hundreds more, check 'em out.
Be advised: you'll need DOSBox or equivalent program to run most of these.

Guaranteed to blast your past off or your money back.
Some of the better ones:

Ascendancy -- Space exploration and domination similar to Master of Orion, micro/macromanagement and diplomacy and such.

Gobliiins -- Hilarious puzzle game, point and click style.

Discworld -- Cartoony point and click adventure, based on the book series.

Command & Conquer -- mentioned above, the first great top-down strategy.

Dune 2 -- Precursor to Command and Conquer, and an excellent war strategy game. Interface is clunky compared to today's standards.

Settlers 2 -- Civ-like build-stuff-and-conquer strategy.

NetStorm -- Aerial island based tech/research/attack strategy.

Alone in the Dark -- Spooky 1st-gen 3D third person explorer.

The Colonels Bequest -- Waaaaay old but one of the best mystery/suspense games I can remember.

Tyrian 2000 -- Top-down space shooter, pretty good.

There's hundreds more, check 'em out.
Be advised: you'll need DOSBox or equivalent program to run most of these.

Guaranteed to blast your past off or your money back.
Some of the better ones:

Ascendancy -- Space exploration and domination similar to Master of Orion, micro/macromanagement and diplomacy and such.

Gobliiins -- Hilarious puzzle game, point and click style.

Discworld -- Cartoony point and click adventure, based on the book series.

Command & Conquer -- mentioned above, the first great top-down strategy.

Dune 2 -- Precursor to Command and Conquer, and an excellent war strategy game. Interface is clunky compared to today's standards.

Settlers 2 -- Civ-like build-stuff-and-conquer strategy.

NetStorm -- Aerial island based tech/research/attack strategy.

Alone in the Dark -- Spooky 1st-gen 3D third person explorer.

The Colonels Bequest -- Waaaaay old but one of the best mystery/suspense games I can remember.

Tyrian 2000 -- Top-down space shooter, pretty good.

There's hundreds more, check 'em out.
Be advised: you'll need DOSBox or equivalent program to run most of these.

Guaranteed to blast your past off or your money back.
Some of the better ones:

Ascendancy -- Space exploration and domination similar to Master of Orion, micro/macromanagement and diplomacy and such.

Gobliiins -- Hilarious puzzle game, point and click style.

Discworld -- Cartoony point and click adventure, based on the book series.

Command & Conquer -- mentioned above, the first great top-down strategy.

Dune 2 -- Precursor to Command and Conquer, and an excellent war strategy game. Interface is clunky compared to today's standards.

Settlers 2 -- Civ-like build-stuff-and-conquer strategy.

NetStorm -- Aerial island based tech/research/attack strategy.

Alone in the Dark -- Spooky 1st-gen 3D third person explorer.

The Colonels Bequest -- Waaaaay old but one of the best mystery/suspense games I can remember.

Tyrian 2000 -- Top-down space shooter, pretty good.

There's hundreds more, check 'em out.
Be advised: you'll need DOSBox or equivalent program to run most of these.

Guaranteed to blast your past off or your money back.
Some of the better ones:

Ascendancy -- Space exploration and domination similar to Master of Orion, micro/macromanagement and diplomacy and such.

Gobliiins -- Hilarious puzzle game, point and click style.

Discworld -- Cartoony point and click adventure, based on the book series.

Command & Conquer -- mentioned above, the first great top-down strategy.

Dune 2 -- Precursor to Command and Conquer, and an excellent war strategy game. Interface is clunky compared to today's standards.

Settlers 2 -- Civ-like build-stuff-and-conquer strategy.

NetStorm -- Aerial island based tech/research/attack strategy.

Alone in the Dark -- Spooky 1st-gen 3D third person explorer.

The Colonels Bequest -- Waaaaay old but one of the best mystery/suspense games I can remember.

Tyrian 2000 -- Top-down space shooter, pretty good.

There's hundreds more, check 'em out.
Be advised: you'll need DOSBox or equivalent program to run most of these.

Guaranteed to blast your past off or your money back.
Some of the better ones:

Ascendancy -- Space exploration and domination similar to Master of Orion, micro/macromanagement and diplomacy and such.

Gobliiins -- Hilarious puzzle game, point and click style.

Discworld -- Cartoony point and click adventure, based on the book series.

Command & Conquer -- mentioned above, the first great top-down strategy.

Dune 2 -- Precursor to Command and Conquer, and an excellent war strategy game. Interface is clunky compared to today's standards.

Settlers 2 -- Civ-like build-stuff-and-conquer strategy.

NetStorm -- Aerial island based tech/research/attack strategy.

Alone in the Dark -- Spooky 1st-gen 3D third person explorer.

The Colonels Bequest -- Waaaaay old but one of the best mystery/suspense games I can remember.

Tyrian 2000 -- Top-down space shooter, pretty good.

There's hundreds more, check 'em out.
Be advised: you'll need DOSBox or equivalent program to run most of these.

Guaranteed to blast your past off or your money back.
Some of the better ones:

Ascendancy -- Space exploration and domination similar to Master of Orion, micro/macromanagement and diplomacy and such.

Gobliiins -- Hilarious puzzle game, point and click style.

Discworld -- Cartoony point and click adventure, based on the book series.

Command & Conquer -- mentioned above, the first great top-down strategy.

Dune 2 -- Precursor to Command and Conquer, and an excellent war strategy game. Interface is clunky compared to today's standards.

Settlers 2 -- Civ-like build-stuff-and-conquer strategy.

NetStorm -- Aerial island based tech/research/attack strategy.

Alone in the Dark -- Spooky 1st-gen 3D third person explorer.

The Colonels Bequest -- Waaaaay old but one of the best mystery/suspense games I can remember.

Tyrian 2000 -- Top-down space shooter, pretty good.

There's hundreds more, check 'em out.
Be advised: you'll need DOSBox or equivalent program to run most of these.

Guaranteed to blast your past off or your money back.
Some of the better ones:

Ascendancy -- Space exploration and domination similar to Master of Orion, micro/macromanagement and diplomacy and such.

Gobliiins -- Hilarious puzzle game, point and click style.

Discworld -- Cartoony point and click adventure, based on the book series.

Command & Conquer -- mentioned above, the first great top-down strategy.

Dune 2 -- Precursor to Command and Conquer, and an excellent war strategy game. Interface is clunky compared to today's standards.

Settlers 2 -- Civ-like build-stuff-and-conquer strategy.

NetStorm -- Aerial island based tech/research/attack strategy.

Alone in the Dark -- Spooky 1st-gen 3D third person explorer.

The Colonels Bequest -- Waaaaay old but one of the best mystery/suspense games I can remember.

Tyrian 2000 -- Top-down space shooter, pretty good.

There's hundreds more, check 'em out.
Be advised: you'll need DOSBox or equivalent program to run most of these.

Go check out Abandonia.

Loads of certified abandonware. It was all good enough to sell once long ago. Now it's free.

And since it's for older PCs it should run on your Celerons just fine.

http://www.freeorion.org/
http://www.thousandparsec.net/
http://www.startreksupremacy.com/
http://abandonia.com/
http://gog.com/

These are oldies, but definitely goodies:

Rocky's Boots has you solving logic puzzles involving circuitry.

Robot Odyssey is one of my all time favorites - walk inside of and wire (and re-wire, often in real time!) robots to solve puzzles and make your way through the game world.

You will probably want DOSBox to play these on a modern system.

It amazes me how mentally challenging these games are - I remember playing them in middle school - they were very successful games in their day, but I wonder if kids would have the patience to play them today.

These are oldies, but definitely goodies:

Rocky's Boots has you solving logic puzzles involving circuitry.

Robot Odyssey is one of my all time favorites - walk inside of and wire (and re-wire, often in real time!) robots to solve puzzles and make your way through the game world.

You will probably want DOSBox to play these on a modern system.

It amazes me how mentally challenging these games are - I remember playing them in middle school - they were very successful games in their day, but I wonder if kids would have the patience to play them today.

These are oldies, but definitely goodies:

Rocky's Boots has you solving logic puzzles involving circuitry.

Robot Odyssey is one of my all time favorites - walk inside of and wire (and re-wire, often in real time!) robots to solve puzzles and make your way through the game world.

You will probably want DOSBox to play these on a modern system.

It amazes me how mentally challenging these games are - I remember playing them in middle school - they were very successful games in their day, but I wonder if kids would have the patience to play them today.

I was wondering how a computer game which is no longer manufactured could suddenly have its sales take off.

Just goes to show you how something can mean different things to different people.

This is a reference to XCOM: UFO Defense, an old but very good PC game. Ufopaedia.org has a good overview of the game.

The game is no longer sold or supported, but it is freely available at abandonia. It runs fine on windows XP, although it does crash occasionally when switching from geoscape to combat so save before combat missions.

wcoenen

I'm not as old as some people around here, so I wasn't around for the first pong days, but I was using a PC back around Kindergarten. My dad was/is an accountant and got the computer for his office. I don't remember which one I played first, but there were three of them. Xonix, Bouncing Babies, and Ninja Mission

The reason I got into programming though was combination of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.

I'm not as old as some people around here, so I wasn't around for the first pong days, but I was using a PC back around Kindergarten. My dad was/is an accountant and got the computer for his office. I don't remember which one I played first, but there were three of them. Xonix, Bouncing Babies, and Ninja Mission

The reason I got into programming though was combination of Wolfenstein 3D and Doom.