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[booster_gold]

I think it was Duke Nukem 3D that started it all.

 

[Talian]

I think It all started with flash games on ebaumsworld

 

[FIDAIN]

Quake

 

[Rinuruc]

My progression of loving PC games went from just tinkering around on games to full-fledged passion over the course of my childhood. When I was 7 a friend of mine's parents had a PC and they had King's Quest on it. We only got to play it a little bit so I didn't have much time to play it. Then there was Oregon Trail on the school PCs that we tinkered around with. My parents got our first PC when I was around 10, and I remember playing minesweeper and Solitaire on it (they wouldn't let me put any other games on it). In high school I became friends with the brother of a girl I was dating at the time. He was very much into computers and gaming, and he'd let me play Team Fortress and Quake on his PC. I saved up some money and bought my first PC. I'd cart it back and forth from my house to my friend's and we'd spend hours, sometimes all night, playing Half Life or Day of Defeat or whatever else we could get our hands on. It was at this time I truly fell in love with PC gaming, in large part because of the great friendship that became of my interest. Twenty years later, though we live on different sides of the US, we're still best friends and we still game together.

 

[ScoTDevil]

I got hooked by playing Age of Empires first, then when the witcher 1 came out I just kept playing on pc, also I didn't like playing so much with a ps3 controller or xbox thing... keyboard and mouse are better imo

 

[BananaPhone]

Playing starcraft (Broodwar) with friends and family. oh man those were funner and simpler times, also good luck to all who entered :>

 

[gimigimone]

It was the original Elite game that did it for me..

 

[Moo]

Civ2, I spent most of my uni days playing it

 

[S!AM13]

My first gaming experience was playing browser games on CoolMathGames. Eventually I got my own laptop for school and started playing Star Wars: The Old Republic and have gone from there.

 

[Ary666]

I got hooked on pc games when the coin rooms started to close, with quake 3

 

[MightyMike2001]

I got hooked on PC gaming because of the vast variety of games available for PC.

 

[Mightymane]

What got me hooked to PC gaming was my uncle! He started me off playing World Of Warcraft and Unreal Tournament on his old rig. In fact he was subscribed to PC Gamer and still is to this day. I remember opening up your guys' magazines and just adoring every moment of gamer enthusiasm in each page.

 

[babyhuey0]

Sopwith on our old 286 started it then between Civilization 2 and the PC Gamer demo disks there was no going back.

 

[Rasler]

I started playing on PC with Fable as that was the only way to get the DLC for the game way back when. I started playing that and just never stopped. It wasn't immediate as my computer was so bad back in the day but once I really got into WoW I started playing games on PC more and more and haven't stopped.

 

[TheSoaringDingo]

I got hooked to pc gaming because of dont starve. I didnt have a phone but I had a computer so I bought dont starve on steam and now Im a pc gamer.

 

[Mstrchfmike]

I've been into gaming my whole life. My dad was a mainframe systems engineer, and I was one of the lucky nerds that always had a PC... Apple IIe, GREENSCREEN GANG BABY!!!

 

[OmbraX]

I remember fighting with my brothers to decide who gets to play Warcraft 3 back in the day, being the youngest it usually lost, but theyre very fond memories and what got me into building my own PC and gaming in general.

 

[Tenzay]

What made me addicted to PC games is Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood released in 2002, I played there for two days. And then I didn't really like console games anymore.

 

[JSBowden]

It was the late 80s. I used the computer for class. Gaming was a side benefit. Still the best platform for it.

 

[NautiousArtz]

I got on hooked on PC Gaming because of the plentiful, unique, and fun mods that are available

 

[Auraline]

ultima online

 

[aflacdawg159]

I got hooked on PC gaming after a friend built me a PC for audio engineering. He insisted I get a 1050 Ti so I could at least try some gaming. I installed Skyrim and was amazed at how versatile everything was compared to console. I've now played entirely PC for like 5 years.

 

[PC-AMETURE]

i got into pc gaming when the MEDAL OF HONOUR games for pc were released nearly 20 years ago. i did do some old point and click games a good while before that. but really liked them MOH games fighting nazis is real fun ( i think )

 

[castle02]

I got hooked on PC gaming, playing Masters of Orion in the early '90s on my friend's computer. 27 years later, still gaming on PC.

 

[kimmykiao]

My mum bought me my first PC in December 1997, I was a little kid and knew nothing about PC gaming. The PC was supposed to be a tool to help me in school... but behold my Uncle gave me a copy of Age of Empires. He installed it in my PC and ever since then I have never stopped playing games in PC. Now I am working in the Game Industry and I owe it all to that moment in 1997 where I discovered PC Gaming.