What year did you get into PC gaming?

smallkube

Silver Level Poster
My Dad was in IT back in the seventies so when in the early eighties, aged seven or eight, i said i wanted a Computer (ie a spectrum 48k) what i got was a PC. Huge brown/beige box, Green Screen, massive floppy disks. And precisely two games available to me. Zork 1 and a Star Trek simulator. Suffice to say i was not overjoyed and rarely switched it on.

I had better luck in the second half of that decade with the advent of the 286 rocking a 20Mhz processor, followed by a 386. Good times.
 

synkrotron

Member
I just about remember my dad getting a Binatone device that came with simple games like pong. Would have been in the late 60's.

Wasn't until the Atari 2600 came out in the late 70's that I got properly involved in computer games. That thing cost me nearly a month's wages back then. And although I'm not a big gamer I have always been playing something or other over the years.

My main game types lately are either racing "sims" and first person shooters.
 
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