prince of persia.. i played it on my father's office computer, pentium 2 (or less) i think... i thought it is aladdin when i played it. lol
Die Hard - the first game on my first PC, I played it the whole night thinking, how could a game look so great. I got it for free from a game magazine.
Pretty sure the first video game I ever played was either pacman or centipede in the arcade. I grew up playing video games, but back then there was no internet, so you pretty much only had a few that your parents would buy for you. There also weren't many electronics stores. They did exist, but they didn't make much money because computers were really expensive. Most people ended up getting a nintendo and renting games from a video store.
The first game played on a 80286-12 with hercules-graphics card and PC-Dos 3.3, was the ever popular game Space Quest from Sierra on line. No sound card, no mouse, no hard-disk, black and white screen... Imagine that... unbelievable how i started PC. Me and my brother had before that an Philips Videopac+ G7400 game computer. With ROM-packs, i still have it at home and it still works! Can be connected to every TV with RF-in. It had an Intel 8048 8-bit CPU running at 1.79 MHz. The screen was 9×8 background grid; dots, lines, or solid blocks on a total of 160x200 resolution... Haha. 12 8×8 single-color characters; must be one of the 64 shapes built into the ROM BIOS; can be freely positioned like sprites, but cannot overlap each other; each character's color may be set independently. With ROM-cartridges being 2K, 4K or 8K in size! The chip for sound and screen was an Custom Made Intel 8245. Sigh, where is the time?
I started my gaming life with Super Mario on NES, as for the PC, my first game was Counter-Strike, not sure it was 1.5 or early stage 1.6 version.
Pong like many others, it does date me A LOT .. any others remember paper punch tape teletypes? Q, who else got driven insane by the text version of Hitchhikers Guide? .. it's dark!