I think my first dedicated computer for gaming was a 386, God only knows the specs that it had at the time but im pretty sure my watch has more processing power than that thing had.

This was the first PC I played games on (or something very similar - pretty sure it was a Compaq).

Every night my dad brought it home like a briefcase and I couldn't wait to play games like Kroz, Hoyle, Bouncing Babies (, [url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CdB8y3GHvs]video), and others.

He had a laptop as well, but our first proper desktop was a Gateway Windows 95 machine. First generation Pentium, 100 MHz.

My first computer was a Spectrum +2

My first "PC" was a Packard Bell P100 with 8MB EDO RAM 1GB hard drive, CDROM(Pretty big deal then)and onboard video. In the days when you had to commit your salary if you wanted to keep a computer modern.

My first computer was the C64.

But if we are talking about a PC then it was an IBM Aptiva with 4 MB RAM, a dual-speed CD-ROM, 33 mhz CPU and a 3,5 inch disk drive and 270 MB harddrive... and I payed 2500 dollars for it - ah, those were the times!

I have had a few random, crap big store PC since 2000', but just recently (2 years?) spent some more for a build of a gaming PC, and luckily I'm quite pleased with it..

Windows 7 Home Premium 64
Intel Core i3-2120
CPU @ 3.30 GHZ
4.0 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti

Costed me about 700 euros if I remember well.. Plays almost anything great by factory settings, I'm using it on my big TV with 1280x720 for proper 16/9 ratio and ease of eyes to read the small prints.

Oh, this question again. So here goes:

First gaming machine (computer): Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. What especially won me over was that many games on it were actually superior to the arcade originals, while usually the home version of an arcade game was inferior, like looking at all those silly Atari VCS or Sinclair Spectrum arcade ports. I mean, TI Invaders was clearly superior to Space Invaders arcade, and I'd say so was Munchman compared to Pac Man. And Parsec, that game had nothing to to be ashamed of when compared to side-scrolling shoot'em ups on arcade from the same era, even if Defender coin op was still flashier, louder and faster.

First gaming PC: 486DX 33MHz. Before that we had some 386 PC borrowed for a month or so (I don't recall why, and from whom), and that already convinced me I want to have a PC as my next gaming machines. I remember playing mainly Gunboat on it, and having lots of fun with it.

I had years earlier also played King's Quest 1-2 on some IBM PC machine, but they were far too pricy back then. And having no sound card support also always irritated me with PCs back then. So I rather had an Amiga 500 back then, not a PC.

My first 'gaming rig' was a PS/2 (the IBM PC, not the Playstation 2)

I just realized that my next 7 computers all had a PS/2 port, only my current computer doesn't have one anymore. Wouldn't go quite as far as to get emotional about this but it's a semi-interesting little fact.

Ah, memories. My very first computer was an Atari ST. I remember games like Lotus Challenge, Mousetrap, Crack'ed, and a chess game.

But my very first PC was a 286 (25 MHz) with 2 GB RAM (later upgraded to 4 GB), an EGA graphics card, and only PC speaker for sound. I could play quite a few games with it, but the graphics card was the bottleneck. If I'd only had the earliest VGA, I could've played many more games on it. Still, it introduced me into the wonderful world of gaming, and was the first in the series of gaming rigs that I now change every five years or so.

don't remember exactly, i think it was around 2004 or so, I know i had no idea about computers.

it had 256 RAM, intel celeron with 2.4 GHz, and I got some retarded integrated card. I know i was super pissed when i found out I can't play my favorite Lotr game, because graph. card was taking part of my RAM. It needed 256 RAM for the game... Damn game...

well i suppose so but when i made it i built it almost exclusively for video games but i still had Microsoft word and stuff because otherwise my mom and dad would have never dropped so much on something that wasn't "educational" which by the way i think my ma and pa dropped something close to 2500 bucks on the parts and i had to assemble it myself

My first rig was a ColecoVision.

Looping ROCKED on that system.

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If you count consoles, my first gaming system was the Atari VCS (aka Atari 2600 in later years). There are some timeless classics on that system that I still enjoy playing today, especially Pitfall and River Raid. Pretty much anything from Activision was a safe bet. My dad bought us the original "Heavy Sixer" model, complete with faux wood grain trim. My brother and I played the heck out of that system and dad eventually had to replace it with the later "Darth Vader" model (named for its all black appearance and slight resemblance to the Dark Lord of the Sith). My dad knew a guy at work with a ROM duplicator, and every Friday night he'd come home with a case of chips that we'd plug into a special cartridge that played duplicated games. We'd still buy games we enjoyed, though. It's funny, back then we had no idea about things like DRM or copyright, but we still knew that if you liked a game you should buy it to support the developers, and if you didn't like a game enough to want to buy it then you should stop playing it. We didn't need some draconian government organization to tell us to "do the right thing."

The first computer I played games on was the Coleco ADAM. It was essentially a hopped up Colecovision console with added memory, tape storage, keyboard and printer. It also had a cartridge port and two built-in joysticks, so it could play all Colecovision games. Much like the Commodore 64, it was one of the console/computer hybrids of the early 80s. Unfortunately, the thing suffered from some serious design problems. The biggest issue was that whenever you'd turn on the thing, it would emit a massive electromagnetic surge which over time would start to erase any data cassettes you left in the tap drives or even next to the computer. It didn't help that some programs advised you to put the data cassette in the drive then turn on the computer to boot the program. ADAMs also had a pretty high failure rate. I remember taking ours in to a service center at least two or three times because various components blew out. But the games were awesome -- even better than a Colecovision and easily on-par with a Commodore 64. The ADAM didn't have anywhere near as big of a catalog as the C64, though, but the games it did have were all very high quality for the time.

The first "PC compatible" system I used for gaming was an Intel 80286 based system with 640 KB RAM, 5.25" 1.2 MB floppy drive, 30 MB internal hard drive and CGA graphics (640x480 with a whopping 4 colors!). Of course, I didn't buy it specifically for gaming. My high school offered a series of programming courses (BASIC, Pascal, C, FORTRAN and COBOL), and they all used PCs. So my parents very graciously bought me a mid-range PC clone system. The games definitely paled in comparison to other home computers of the time, and especially game consoles. Aside from the 4 color graphics, PCs didn't have sound cards yet so all you got were primitive beeps and boops from the internal speaker. I didn't really do much gaming on PCs until the advent of Super VGA graphics and the Sound Blaster audio card.

The first system I built specifically for gaming (namely, to play TIE Fighter and Warcraft 2) was an Intel 486DX2-66, with 8 MB RAM and some variety of Diamond Stealth graphics card (one of their high-end ones from the early 90s). I paid a lot for that system, but it ran every game I threw at it for several years smooth as silk. The first games I played on this system included X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Warcraft 1 & 2, Doom and Wing Commander. Some of those I also played on my older 386SX system first, but that system didn't have a very game-worthy graphics card so most of the games really chugged along. That's what prompted the upgrade to the 486DX2, and then I was in gaming nirvana until a little gem called MechWarrior 2 Titanium Edition convinced me that I needed a Pentium CPU with a Voodoo graphics card.

Ah, good times, good times.

Apple ][e with 2 floppy drives and color screen.

First Microsoft OS'd machine was a Commodore PC40-III, a 286-12MHz (I think that was the speed) to which I eventually added a 1 MB memory card.

I'm not exactly the oldest GOGer here, but hey, you have to start somewhere. My first gaming computer (not first computer, just first for gaming) was a late 2004 budget build.

- AMD Athlon 1.2Ghz
- 512 MB DDR RAM
- Geforce FX 5200
- 40 GB hard drive

I could play Half-Life 2 at medium settings, UT2004 at high (but not max), and San Andreas at medium, all at 1024x768. Morrowind played flawlessly, but for Oblivion I needed a mod called Oldblivion, and even then it ran pretty poorly.