PC Games of the Ages.

[DSK-]

Total Annihilation. RTS with robots! When you were 10, there was no better thing in the universe!

YES! First game (or demo, if we go into technicalities) I ever played on PC, I believe it was 1996/97. I bought the full game as soon as it came out.

Great to see a fellow lover of the game. I'm actually about to play it over LAN with my little brother

OT: I have many games I look on with nostalgia:

Total Annihilation
Quake
Shogun: Total War
UT99
Operation Flashpoint
Dungeon Siege
Homeworld
Max Payne
C&C95
C&C RA95
Rollercoaster Tycoon
Civ 2
Call to Power 2
Alpha Centauri
Starcraft
Caesar 3
Black & White
Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2
Freelancer

 

[Tiger Sora]

Total Annihilation. RTS with robots! When you were 10, there was no better thing in the universe!

Yes I'm glad someone mentioned this. Greatest RTS game of all time. I want to get TA Spring but it's PC only, I'm Mac. It's 2011 can't we make everything compatible for both or are we gona have a Coke / Pepsi situation forever.

 

[Iori Branford]

No old PC game thread is complete without
http://gog.com

 

[Soods]

Starcraft was so awesome. Still is.

 

[franconbean]

X-com. Ok, so the game is as old as I am, but i love it. Its like total war in reverse (realtime overmap with turn based battles)

Eh, Painkiller was 2004, I don't call that really old.
Of course Half Life is awesome, so is Deus Ex.
I love XCOM most of all though, that game was damned hardcore.

Seriously? Only one other person mentions X-com? You can pick it up on steam for next to nothing: try it out!

 

[Enrathi]

Ah, the good old days. F15 Strike Eagle.

1985 and the first PC game I remember playing.

 

[cgmetallica1981]

The Halo, Counter-Strike, Diablo and Fallout series are the four that I have had the most nostalgia with when playing. All because they were some of the first games I have played.

 

[AntonicKnight]

I would say Hitman ...I loved that game.
Also Half-Life (the first one).

 

[cgmetallica1981]

DESCENT

I remember that. It was a fairly decent game.

 

[AetherWolf]

Roller Coaster Tycoon 1 and 2. I'm pretty sure I've played those games more than any other.

Same here.

The third one was pretty bland compared to them. On top of the high system requirements it just lacked the same charm for some reason.

 

[Xpwn3ntial]

X-com. Ok, so the game is as old as I am, but i love it. Its like total war in reverse (realtime overmap with turn based battles)

Eh, Painkiller was 2004, I don't call that really old.
Of course Half Life is awesome, so is Deus Ex.
I love XCOM most of all though, that game was damned hardcore.

Seriously? Only one other person mentions X-com? You can pick it up on steam for next to nothing: try it out!

I still have a copy of it! That game is awesome, and I regret not remembering it.

 

[Peter Richmond]

Dungon Seige the main theme is AWESOME.

And starcraft non expansion with the spawn thing on the disk
(spawn was a multi-player non-host no-disk version of starcraft that came with the disk"

and Riven... just epic

 

[Whodat]

Doom, Heretic, Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator (WWII Edition) flying the Southwith Camel was so fun and stupid, Shivers, Motocross Mania, original Bejeweled, Myst, Centipede, some Pinball game, and oh so many more. Ahhh, good times.

 

[shaderkul]

Hmmm..lets see. Here goes
Doom
Need for speed II
NFSorsche Unleashed
A jet fighter simulation game, cant remember the name. F14?
Age of Mythology
Commandos (spent ages playing that game!)
Tomb Raider
Thief
Black and White
GTA 3 (that game changed my perception about what was possible in a game)
Jedi Knight: Jedi outcast (One of my best Star Wars games, ever)
Knights Of The Old Republic (my best game of all time!)
Half Life
Freelancer (almost 4got that one)
Quake III Arena
Daikatana (who remembers that?)