When you were a kid and you were broke, was there ever a game that made you think, "Man, it's about time I get myself a PC"

I built a $3k PC for Crysis, still ran pretty bad.

Jesus you make me feel old with PUBG being the game.

My older brother built a PC to play Diablo when it came out in 1997. So I was lucky to have access to PC gaming since I was 12 or so.

Doom, the original one in the 90s

World Of Warcraft

Battlefield 3. That game ran like shit on PS3/360.

"when you were a kid" "PUBG"

God, I'm old.

I wasn't a PC kid until 2012 with TF2. I had the same PC until ~2020 when I switched it so I could play Overwatch, Elden Ring, and Cyberpunk. Though if I had to pick one, I would say Overwatch made me switch, because I couldn't play on Medium or Low very well.

Playing Duke Nukem 3D at a friend's house got me longing for a PC.

“When you were a kid”. Heh good one

When I was a kid, the only computer games in existence were a couples of text based Adventure games that were programmed with cards and ran on mainframe and minicomputers. Think “Zork” before Zork

I spen all my saved money building a PC for battlefield 2. That is still my favorite in the series to this day.

Elder Scrolls Morrowind. I had a PC but I had to lower the settings and view distance so much to play it, it looked like I was walking around Silent Hill. I thought the game was just really foggy until I finally got a decent PC.

There was always a pc in the house because my dad likes to play but I really had to pressure him to get a 3DFX Voodoo 2 to play Quake 2, Turok and NFS2 they way they were meant to be played.

I wanted a PC back in 2012 for Skyrim modding and Minecraft with shaders. Didn't get one until a decade later and first game I bought was Skyrim and just to appease my childhood self I downloaded minecraft and some good shades.

Quake. I played at a friend's house and immediately wanted a PC to play more.

Space Quest IV for the Amiga made me get a job during the summer to build a PC when I was in High School. I'm old. :(

Those first LucasFilm games in VGA256 colors while I was still stuck with Amiga's 32 colors...

It was Battlefield 4. I'd already burned hours on BF3 on console, and hearing how much better BF4 would be on PC, I decided the build a rig just for it.

Maaaaaan, imagine my disappointment when BF4 finally came out and it was a total shitshow. Well, at least I still had BF3 and a better platform to enjoy it.

This makes me feel insanely old because PC gaming once was far more affordable

Yeah was FFXI

I was saving for a PS3 having only ever really played Playstation my whole life to that point. I may have been active in console war nonsense and was a "graphics whore", so when I saw Crysis gameplay, I decided instead to save for a gaming PC.

I got some Core2Duo, 2gb RAM, 8800GT PC and off I went. Crysis was good but not mindblowing like I thought, but I got to play a lot of the PC back-catalog which molded my tastes today, I think.

Played cs 1.3 or something in a friends house, instant hook up. Bought a PC a few years later and been on it ever since.

Gmod (thanks Vanoss)

TF2

The original Command and Conquer. My uncle showed me the game at his house when I was a kid and was instantly addicted.

I remember seeing Microsoft Train Simulator up and running at a Church fair when it first came out and just not being able to comprehend what I was witnessing.

Nagged my dad about it even offering to sell my Playstation just to get it. Thankfully my dad decided we needed a computer (well actually a printer) so yeah got to keep my Playstation and enjoying an ungodly amount of hours playing with virtual trains.

I was maybe 12 years old I went to my cousins for the holidays and he held a LAN party at his parents where everyone was playing the first COD and Counter Strike 1.6, this was 19 years ago! So old now.

I'll never forget it and it was my introduction into hardcore gaming beyond just driving around pointlessly in GTA and I've wasted money on new computers ever since and I regret nothing :)

Not a game. Just tired of paying to play online. That was the main reason I switched

Half-Life 2. I also got Morrowind at the same time. That was around 2004, I had saved up working a part time job for about a year during high school to buy that PC. Worth every penny.

Far Cry. Ran the demo really badly on my dads old computer (minimum setting shit frames).

With the magic of a Radeon 9200 I got it to run sort of okay on medium.

World of War craft during burning crusade and wotlk

A sibling had signed up for years worth of a mobile plan on the late 90s, and they gave her a desktop out of it. It was a peice of crap and she made it the family computer so I had finally had something to play games on. A BIL gave me a copy of Delta Force in that old classic gigantic ceral box sized box, thst had just a CD case and a small instruction manual inside (I miss those boxes). Also begged my mom to pick up a copy of quake 2 so I could play that, I think as a birthday present. That kept me up late into the night many nights, for years, as I would use MSN gaming website to find games and then connect that way. That PC sucked but it was a start.

After bio dad actually paid child support for once in his life, we used some of that money to buy a newer computer for the living room. That thing was pretty sweet, though it ran windows ME at the time which would constantly screw up and freeze, till we bought a windows xp upgrade disc and suddenly it worked so great. Me and my mom still mention that to this day.

Another BIL sold me his slightly better desktop for $300, so I could play the newer games like StarCraft, diablo, thief. I could play other shooters like Delta Force 2 on there, and the old games too. Had to be careful not to fill up the 4gb hard drive though.

And then in 2006 I finally bought my own hp desktop from best buy. Had the bare essentials inside as I didn't know what to look for, and that's all I could afford at the time. That was the point I started to look into how 5o upgrade this thing, change the motherboard and CPU, add new ram that is certified for that new motherboard, give it a graphics card to play at higher graphics settings. A co worker friend got me into the orange box,,and I could experience half life 2, team fortress 2, portal and get into steam not long after that (steam forever).

For me it was The 7th Guest back in '93 when I was in high school. I was able to play it on a friend's uncle's computer but I ended up cobbling together my first computer in early 1994, a 486/DX2 66. The cost of components to build my second computer, a Pentium 133, cost more than any other computer I've built ever since, including recent ones

GTA San Andreas when I saw a mod where someone was playing as superman. I was 8 years old.

I thought it was the coolest thing ever, made me a lifelong pc gamer and modder

An Xbox one for Forza horizon 3. That game looked so damn good, and I finally got that Xbox for $200 - a price no pc at the time could beat while still managing to even run the game above 720p

Feels like we're from the same generation. same start, exact timelines, and I also play coc & cod lol

Pubg was the game that MADE me need to build a pc. Fallout 3 and nv, along with skyrim are what made me switch to pc. I just had to have those sweet delicious mods.

The first game I ever had that feeling with was Doom 3. One of my brothers friend brought his rig over for a big LAN party we had in our basement, and for a project would have people play the first mission of Doom 3 alone in a dark room I'm the back of the basement. Blew my mind and showed me what a dedicated rig could do. The next game, and the one that finally broke me was Metro 2033. Ahh the memories!

I've always played on pc and it happened a couple of times, switched from windows xp to vista because of just cause 2, swapped a core2duo for a core2quad because of gta5 and csgo, switched from I don't remember even what to a 750ti because of just cause 3. Currently rocking a 1060 with an i5 8400 and I doubt I'll upgrade in the near future, the steam deck has destroyed my pc gaming habits.

warhammer online: age of reckoning. I dreamed about that shit for a year before it launched. and you know what? it was great when it came out. still think fondly on that first year of just running around getting into RvR related mischief. sad it's not widely available to play these days, better than most of the MMOs that came out in that time period

Not exactly when I was broke, it's more like when I got a job. Simply put, the original SW battlefront games. Not the imposter EA ones. REALLY wanted to play it but had to dig out my ps2 and a VERY ancient copy of the original game. Until now where I got a job.

No game in particular I just became jealous of the mods of various games

Not really a kid, but I got a PC in college to play the witcher 1. I don't remember why. I'm a huge rpg fan and I think everything being said about it just made me want to play it. I got a gaming laptop and the Witcher and man was the gameplay weak, but I enjoyed the rest of it. Looking forward to the remaster

Tomb Raider (2013). I bought it for $9, thinking that price was amazing. Little did I know, I needed a stronger CPU, a GPU, and more Ram to play it. $500 started my pc building journey.

Gmod. Wanted to be like early vanoss. And beamgdrive

It was 1997. And I asked my mom for a PC. Not even for any particular game. Just because it seemed like PC's were the best choice for gaming going forwards, after I had spent some time in local PC cafes.

Diablo 2

Quake II!

Elite Dangerous (1985 edition)

Counter strike source. Was playing on a shitty laptop that took up to 20 minutes to load into a match. Played with okish frames. After playing on that for 2ish years I saved up enough and bought a proper PC to game on.

Yes. I would visit a friend whose dad was really tech savvy in the 80s. He was one of those dudes that had the truly old school internet connection where you had to take your phone receiver and put it into a cradle device to connect. He had floppy disks with all kinds of shareware games on them. It was all very cool. Asked for and received a Commodore 64 that Christmas

Age of Empires 2 and World of Warcraft, think this was 05?

Lego Creator. Lol. Kinda. Was playing on my dad's PC at the time but that lack of mmx was hurting and made me want something better for myself as a kid.

When bf4 first launched on the xbox 360.....it was baaaaaaad.

Ultima Online in '99~.

GTR 2 made me want to build my own PC.

I had a Driving Force EX that I was using on my PS2 at the time, so I decided a couple of years later that I'd build my own PC.

Still got the same case ten years on, but, like the ship of Theseus, every single component has been replaced from the original build.

call of duty esp when warzone came out

Skyrim with ENB

Toddyhancer for GTA V. It never came out but that mod was what really put me into the "I need a gaming pc asap" mindset.

Quake. I bought it with a bag of change I had collected for years. It didn’t work when I got home but I eventually got a PC that got it working. Still play it.

Then after that, Age of Empires 2. I didn’t have enough RAM and hoped I could add it with a floppy disk. Once I found that didn’t work I took it to a computer shop that tried to add some but the cards were incompatible. Took a few more years to get that going as well.

Begged my mom to ask the PC repairman to put in a graphics card so I could play CS 1.3 at a high framerate. This was in early 2000s, and a good GPU plus DSL made me feel unstoppable.

Anyone remember Omega drivers?

First time I went to my buddies and tried CS 1.6. I was hooked and wanted a PC ever since.

That would be DayZ/ARMA 3 for me. Ended up putting a few thousand hours into CSGO and never looked back.

AoE 2

H1z1 around 2017. Was a console gamer up until that point exclusively and I saw some YouTube videos from "optic bigtymer" playing the game, which made me want to.

For me, it was Battlefield 4 and modded Skyrim after playing both on PS3. Built myself a cheap as chips PC with a G3258 and R7 250 and went from there.

Middle Earth: Shadow of Mordor.

It actually happened almost completely by accident. The laptop I was using at the time was an ASUS G74Sx which had a 2nd generation Intel Core i7 mobile CPU and a GeForce GTX 560M. It ran decently fine for the first few years, but I was really started to feel it go out on me towards the end. I bought Middle Earth: Shadow of War and played it for about a day, but the very next day after I couldn't even open the game anymore. It's not that it was crashing, it was just not opening, period. I couldn't fine an answer.

About two weeks later, I ended up getting my tax returns and used it to buy my first self-built gaming PC.

Lego Star Wars III on the Wii. The version of that game looks blurry even by Wii standards and runs at like 20fps majority of the time, eventually I convinced my parents to get a dedicated graphics card (GTX 680) for our family PC and went from there.

Fallout. Saw it at a friend's house and needed a pc immediately.

i built my pc to play h1z1 by the time i got it together it was dead and pubg was alive and well. good times.

Lmao I bought a gaming laptop just because of that game. Still runs, still play siege on it

X-Wing

I always had access to a budget family desktop and ran games I could run on it. Even got Claah of Ninja 2 to run at 15 fps. Some old duo core cpu. I was quite happy with consoles until I wanted 60 fps in my games after I got a ps5.

i was an xbox 360 kid for a while but really wanted to play csgo

My PC could not run Dungeon Keeper 2 and a bunch of other upcoming 3D games. I remember being really jealous of my friend who had a 500 Mhz AMD Athlon PC while I was stuck on some 200 Mhz Pentium.

Don't even remember what graphics cards we had back then but I didn't get to enjoy 3dfx for a long time, being a kid and all. Like a year or two later I remember secretly installing Turok on my dad's PC which had a 3dfx card then uninstalling it before he got back from work. Never got very far in that game but I didn't care.

Didn't get to build a PC until I went to college and even then it was pretty budget. But it could play all stuff that was current at least.

Atari 2600 was my introduction to console gaming. But I did game on some IBM compatible personal computers back in the day.

There was also some system that read the game off of cassette tapes - Caverns of Kafka comes to mind

Destiny was my most played game on ps4 and destiny 2 was going to release soon. When I heard it was 30fps on console, and a pc port was coming, I HAD to get a pc. I played pc games casually on my dad's computer with an Athlon II and a gt 610, but it couldnt run more than minecraft and command and conquer.

I was also headed to college that next year, so my mom let me pick out a laptop. It has a i5 7300hq, a 2.5ghz 4 core without hyperthreading, a mobile 1050, and one 8gb stick of 2400mhz ram. But I'll be damned it ran destiny 2 at low settings 60 fps.

Way back in 2017?!? Hahaha. 2017 might as well be yesterday. Hell, 2007 feels like yesterday.

Well, for me it was seeing the ads for Ultima VII in 1991 and this crazy new open world idea with NPCs that had daily schedules and stuff and being able to bake bread if you got flour and water and put it in an oven.

I needed some crazy 486 with like 4mg of RAM and an 80mb hard drive that cost 2k to even hope to play that thing. It came on like 10 3.5 inch floppy disks.

StarCraft. I was 12 or 13 at the time and bought it, but couldn't run it on our home PC. One of my friend's dad worked for IBM and was into PC gaming and built a kickass rig that we'd go to his house to use. I remember it had 1GB of storage and him saying, "put whatever game you want on it, things just echo in there." He gave us spare parts and showed us how to upgrade a PC. Next thing we knew, we had a PC good enough to play 1999 OG EverQuest.

Family had a pc before, and got hooked on Runescape.

Wish I had a PC back then for Arma 2 dayz mod. I lived through frankieonpcin1080p

Tf2

I'd had the itch for a gaming PC once I got to high school. Not really any specific games for it, just that I knew there was a ton out there after seeing Doom, Wolfenstein, Unreal, etc.

I built one using money I'd saved from working part time after school and money from gifts for my HS graduation in 2000. The day I ran down to pick up the last part, I asked the dude at the counter if he had any recommendations for a new PC build. He said "Yeah there's a game coming out tomorrow called Deus Ex that's looking like it's going to be awesome, come by and grab a copy."

Never looked back.

My brothers gaming PC he let me share when he wasn’t using it, I would play World of Warcraft after watching him play. That was back in 2009-10. Finally got my gaming PC in 2014 to play WoW

Dota 2 and WoW.

Back in my time PC's were popular at least in my inner circle, most of them were made for office stuff, what I wanted was a laptop, those things were game changer, it just happened I got accustomed to PC that I find not worth buying 2 devices.

When I was a kid, PC's had CRT green text monitors and floppy disks. I was the one that built PC's for others when I was a kid, not realizing I could have capitalized on that knowledge, instead was too naive and dumb and was happy to get $5 in arcade tokens.

I wasn't a kid, I wasn't broke, and I already had a PC, but fully modded SkyrimVR made me buy a new PC. Twice. Does that count? :P

I think Crysis and Crysis 3 particular is what made me go for a gaming laptop

Well maybe not a kid, I had a 486dx growing up in the 90s and Doom was my fucking jam. 30 years later I was actually able to afford one in my 40s. The game that made me really want to get a decent PC was back in 2015 and it was after playing and then seeing Skyrim modded, is when I really wanted a PC. I traveled a lot in my 20s and lived in a lot different places, when I could afford one, then some kids later I couldn't afford it when I was settled down. It was only early this year that I finally pulled the trigger and bought one. Best damn purchase I have made in a long time. Nothing crazy fancy just rtx 3050 and it runs everything on max settings without an issue. Even when I had more than enough money to afford it, I still felt kinda guilty for making such a purchase. Great decision in hindsight because there really is no other way to game.

When I was invited to the CSGO beta in 2011

When cybercafes started popping up in my neighbourhood.

I played both Starcraft and CS 1.6.

My little brain blew up because of the amount happy sensation with it.

Started doing a bunch of illegal jobs like selling bootleg CDs and cigarettes to build my own PC (And with that started going down the rabbit hole of both PC gaming and PC builds)

Batman Arkham Asylum

Half Life and Counter Strike

World of warcraft.

My friends on Diablo 2 told me to play it. I was a little kid and at the time I played Diablo 2 on my dads old laptop.

Well fast forward a couple weeks, I convinced my mother to buy me World of Warcraft. It was excellent! Until I got to the main city, Ironforge. My dad laptop mustve achieved a solid 2 or 3 fps.

Once my warlock entered the great city, he never left. I begged my mother for months to buy me an Alienware PC before she eventually caved in haha. 20 years later and I'm a huge nerd.

Thanks mom.

For me it was Ark Survival Evolved and Minecraft Java edition

It was Garrys Mod for me.
Seeing firsthand how the Steam Workshop worked, and how I could just, click subscribe and add anything I could imagine to the game. blew my mind, and permanently changed how I thought of games.

I spent a summer learning how to build a PC, and the rest is history.
Put a couple thousand hours into Gmod over the years, and even though I'd bet I have more time behind me than ahead of me in it, it will always have a special place in my heart for exposing me to how wonderful more open platforms.

To be honest, it was Rainbow Six Siege. Back then, I used to have Intel i5-2500 and 4GB of Ram and no GPU and I only play older games on Intel HD 2000 and I remember playing Bioshock Infinite on lowest setting 720p I think it was? I beat it multiple times because I was addicted to that one game back in 2016 and being the only game I got no choice and I remember playing CS:GO as well with 40 FPS on the lowest possible setting and I think 480p? Because when playing on 720p it got super laggy so I had to lowered down the setting and I would play competitive all day with a friend who also broke at the time playing on his shitty laptop. I think around when at the end of 2017, I played Rainbow Six Siege at a net cafe because at the time I got no internet (family complication and all) and with the worst possible PC, I played for hours at the net cafe to the point I was saving up my money to get a GPU and got a new internet and all, my first choice was GTX 1050 but I want to play it so bad at the time I got GTX 750 Ti ever since and upgraded to 8GB DDR3, but the card still works right now but the fans is loud ASF for whatever reason. I played until recently for a bit because the newer season is kinda boring, lack of updates and nothing interesting stuff happened but I managed to get around 3k+ hours in total. Nowadays I got a somewhat decent PC (Ryzen 5 5600, RX580) being able to run the games that I wanted to play as a kid but whenever I look back in my younger days, I could not believe I managed to play Bioshock Infinite and CSGO on the lowest possible resolution and being limited to such low FPS but I'm grateful that I spent my times playing it though. RIP my old 2010s office PC.

It was around 2013 when GTA V was released which made me think about buying a lap/build PC.

UT2004 and Far Cry (the OG one).

KFC money put to good use, me and my 9800xt.

Then there was the xbox 360 dark ages. And then around 2010 I got back into it, and the rest is history.

Kerbal Space Program back in 2011. At the time I was using a shitty lenovo all in one with 2gb of RAM, could barely run LoL. Ended up mowing lawns to get enough money to get a decent PC

I had 2. First one was to play the first "Max Payne" with beyond 720p at that time on CRT monitor.

Second one was for "Crysis" which I played with Maximum setting full 1080p decade ago.

Playing Jedi survivor on an i5 10600kf.

Stutterfest the whole game. Upgrade to i7 13700kf, all the stuttering suddenly gone.

Alot of games had problem running specifically BF1 which I liked alot, so got 1050ti and then bf2042 and cod mw2 slapped my 2070 laptop like anything running at 18fps in 128 player mode. So went full on this time and bought the best of the best whole new 4090 pc. I don't play games as much now but atleast when I do it runs it at 144fps locked

Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss. I'm old. I had a PC but it wasn't enough to run that game and it really bummed me out.

I wanted a new PC from the moment HL2 came out and wanted even more when TF2 came out.

I convinced my dad to upgrade to an Athlon Thunderbird 1ghz so I could play Unreal Tournament with high FPS. Must not be understated how big a deal the Athlon Thunderbird 1ghz processor was when it released, it was a monster.

Was rocking an ATI Rage Pro 8mb GPU, upgraded the motherboard, CPU and memory turning the system into a real gaming beast for the time (despite the lesser GPU). My friends around the time had Voodoo 2 equipped systems, but usually with older CPU's (Pentium MMX, Cyrix, Pentium 2's) or lower end models of newer CPU's (like the Celeron 400mhz).

Showing my age, but those were the years when PC gaming really started to explode.

Crysis 2 for me.

Command and conquer. When I saw my buddies play that, I knew I needed a PC and life would never be the same.

The only time I upgraded a PC for a game was as a young man and it was Supreme Commander. I loaded it on my PC, it ran terribly. I kinda knew I needed to upgrade before but was seeing how bad it would be.

EDIT: I may have also bought a new graphics card to play Homeworld. That game blew my tiny little mind.

"Kid"

"2017"

Fuck.

Planetside 2

I wasn't a kid when PUBG was out man why you gotta do me like that

Went to my friends house after school, his older brother was there playing Gmod on his monstrous PC filled with Warcraft and WOW stickers, stacked on top were some GameInformer magazines. My friend also had a PC and showed me Minecraft. After that day, I knew I was meant to be a PC player

2017? .... PUBG? .... Am I high or do I read correctly? You can play that shit on your phone lol.

Anyhow, for me that was like Heroes of Might And Magic 2 ... nervous laughter

Battlefield 3

The time was wild, the hype was so big it was unbelievable. They delivered and the graphics were stunning.

Quake 3 Arena is when I went from family pc to my own.

Crysis.. Still waiting for a PC that can run it to this day.. But sadly the technology is not there yet..

MechWarrior 2, Pentium edition.

I literally bought the game before I got my first computer back in 1996.

What do you mean Were broke?

Counter strike 1.6 amd Half life 2

The half life 2 made me open the case of the pc and I put a fan directly above the cpu, as it was so fu*****g hot that the pc used to turn off by itself.

We had a PC in my family growing up (first a 8068 then a 8468dx2) but me and my brother saved up and sold a lot of our stuff to get a Pentium 2 with like blazing 233mhz and a cd drive. I remember I really enjoyed the cd version of monkey island but I think the game I played most then was X-COM.

That would be wolfenstein 3d on a 386

Morrowind. I was a console gamer for 10 years, but the after playing OG on the xbawkes the GotY edition made me jump ship and necer look back

I played video games in the 70s

Far cry for me!

You guys stoped being broke?

Diablo 2.

Hand me down NES > Sega genesis > N64/PS2/Layaway PC > Xbox/GameCube > 360 > Gaming PC

For me it was Playstation Plus, or better, the lack of.

Day Z. Built an i5 2600k/GTX 650 (1gb) and 8 gigs of ddr3 1333 baby!

When I was 15 and went from roller coaster tycoon to gta5. No way was I gonna play that in front of my parents. That's when I started saving.

Back in 2002, the Spider-Man: The Movie Game made me want a more powerful PC than our Pentium II-based system at the time

First 486 for Doom 1 and 2.

First P3 system for UTT99.

I owned both games before the computer to run them.

These days, a lot of games are hot trash, and the price of hardware is a joke. I'm still running a 3930K (2nd gen) with 16GB Quad Channel DDR3, RIVE mobo, Magnum STH-10, everything water cooled, etc. Got great scores on hwbot.

Only thing I've upgraded since 2012 is GPU, from triple 680 4GB's to a 3060Ti 8GB.

Multiple times:

• Got a new laptop to run Warcraft 3
• Got a new PC to run Doom 3 (and work on my game engine)
• Got a new PC to run Dota 2
• Got a mac, stopped gaming for a long while
• Got a gaming laptop to run Witcher 3
• Got a new PC to run Baldur's Gate 3

Long gaps in between, but my purchases and upgrades are almost always driven by specific games that I wanted to play.

Not once did I think that as a kid about anything but candy because when I was a kid I had like two dollars to my name.

Team Fortress 2. Grinder for years for my first PC... It was a shit PC but was fucking cool.

Doom3. This game makes full use of lighting technology. Seriously deserve a modern RTX treatment.

Mass effect when it came out but dident have money so couldent buy it

Warcraft 3 was the first game which convinced me to save up for a PC with a dedicated GPU. Ended up buying a hand-me down from a rich friend who always had the latest top-end card, that PC lasted me 10-odd years until I started working full-time after uni and built my own high-end beast. Went all out with a Radeon 7990, which was the fastest GPU available on it's release.

Mount and blade warband for the mods.

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Worth it

Doom eternal dawg. Ik low bar but that game goes hard

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Nothing has come close to the atmosphere these games create

I remember upgrading my PC to VGA so I could play Vette (1989) properly rather than just in CGA or EGA.

I remember when CD-roms and sound cards was something you had to save up for. I bought a sound card for my birthday money when I was 13 I think, it was glorious!

As a 39 year old kid I came across this youtube channel that features a guy playing Rust. After spending time with my son playing Minecraft, I really wanted a more "adult" version of Minecraft and this seemed to fit the bill. So I started blasting (newegg my credit card) and here I am at 430 am (everyone else is still sleeping so I get to play now) waiting to load into a server to see if my base is still standing.

cant imagine.. pubg being a defining game for anyone

Always had a PC but built my first at 15 nearly entirely so I could play Doom 3 lol. Felt so good to finally enjoy the game.

Gta san Andreas. That shit played at 10 fps on my cousins pc but still loved every second of it

I cannot remember the name, but this was back in 2002 or 2003...

There was a tech segment on local tv where hosts would be talking about upcoming games. There was one colorful game where you ran around the forest platforming and collecting stuff mario style.

After that when original Far Cry released a magazine here had a double page screenshot of the island and water. It looked so well I was stunned.

Counter strike (The original first mod) jade me buy a PC. I played it once in a cybercafe, then buying PC and get an ADSL connexion became my top priority 😊

Black and White for me, after seeing a review on some gaming TV show that used to be on in the mornings in the UK. Then when it barely ran I first learned about how graphics cards are necessary...

Mine was also pubg. I thought consoles could do it all, had no need for a PC.

Then that game came out and I was obsessed, I had to play it, drove 6 hours in a day to get a 2nd hand PC able to play it

Homeworld. I had to buy an nvidia tnt to properly play if i remember right. Before that, i think quake 1, it required a ... co pro mathematoc something that an 386 or whatever i had that time dint have. There were emulatorus for, but it run like ass, had to buy a 486.

It was WoW for me. Back in 2004/05 all I had was a shitty prebuilt HP PC that I started playing WoW on and it was an utter lag fest. I truly wish I could find gameplay of myself from that era to first of all see how bad I was and second of all to see how I was actually playing a game at probably 20fps or lower.

I was always going on about how I want an Alienware (being young and not understanding PC's then, all I heard was Alienware was for gaming so naturally I wanted one). Never got one, ended up going into a laptop era where I was still only playing WoW and the laptop could handle it far, far better than the PC so I played on that for awhile.

Eventually moved on to pretty much only console gaming so then PC wasn't really needed annnnd then eventually switched back and finally built my PC after my brother built one himself.

Im 23 and About to build my first ever gaming pc And I'm gonna fucking Run at ultra settings and play Every Single player story games there is metro exodus and far cry cry series being first then rdr2,witcher 3 and other after that that takes a while to complete.