First of all let me apologise in advance if a similar thread was opened in the past. I thought it better to start a new thread rather than resurrect a long-dead one.

Fellow PC owners. Inspired by the recent GOG giveaway thread on gaming memories, I invite you to post here the details of your first PC, and the games you remember playing on it. It need not have been specifically owned by you, it could have been the "family" PC. As the GOG forum represents users of many different gaming age-groups, it might be fun to reveal a bit about your gaming PC background: by starting from the beginning!

EDIT: I'm willing to be open to the more ancient gamers out there. If you have a pre-PC computer to tell a story about, great! Go nuts :D

Commodore,20meg hard drive.That's right 20meg.It was a hand me down.

I had an Apple //c with a monochrome monitor.

First game, Aztec. Google it. GREAT GAME.

2nd game, well I bought them all at once, Load Runner, Conan, and Maniac Mansion.

Does this count ?

With Marble Madness, Skyfox and Deluxe Paint for starter. Brataccas soon afterwards. Defender of the Crown. And then, opened floodgates.

There was something truly magical in these first games, and the games of the Amiga era in general. In the way boundaries were pushed (this era saw the advent of the computer mouse, imagine that), with surprising graphics and varied gameplay. Everything felt like an unexpected, miraculous novelty. And you'd never know what was behind the corner.

I've lost this feeling, on the PC. We are now used to expect photorealistic graphics - with mild quantitative evolutions, and gameplays are variations on familiar genres. The sense of awe and discovery is gone. The excitement is different.

In a way, what is lost is what made the success of the first Star War films. Now we know that we can behold anything, in cinema. But Star Wars had propelled us into a believable visual space opera sci-fi world that we hadn't experienced that way. It opened a door, and going through that door is what make people so nostalgic of that franchise. But it's also something that no sequel will recapture. We're now, just as with computer games, simply progressing down the corridor.

My first PC was a Tandy 1000 TX.
Desktop model, CGA graphics, 640k ram, joystick, 3 1/2 Inch floppy, the whole works.

This computer, I shit you not, lasted decades. My parents were using it and the provided word processing software Deskmate for about 20 years, and when it finally left the house to go to the local tip IT WAS STILL WORKING.

King's Quest 3, Space Quest 2, Lex Wizard of Words, Quest for Glory, Zeliard, Thexder and many more...over the early years we had much fun with this unit, and it left us with fond memories.

The unit came with a 3 1/2 inch floppy, which at the time was a rarity as most desktop PCs out there at the time we bought it were still rocking the 5 1/4 inch ones. Pre-HDD, hell, ours was even shipped without a hard-card. You swapped disks in the middle of a game to load the next part of the game.
Dot matrix printer that was so slow you had time for a coffee to print anything substantial...those were the days!

In 1993, when I was a 8 years old, I received an Amiga 600.

It didn't have harddrive and i had to connect it to tv.

Unsure what games i played on it as my sister had Amiga as well and I played Settlers on it, kick off, and Super Frog.
Super Frog I also played definitely on my Amiga as well.

My first PC was my parents office computer. Higher model bought just so i could use it for gaming (and learning)

In 1994.

Specs

486DX2
500MB hdd
CDrom x2
Coloured monitor
later upgraded with sound card (in 1995)

games i played

Warcraft 1
Megarace 1
Transport Tycoon
Lion King
NFS1
and this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electro_Man

and many others. it served me for 3 years

You were lucky, back in my day it was a broken abacus.

Oh, this isn't a month python sketch!

First computer

ZX81

First PC

486DX50 with 4Mb Ram

First x86 PC, or any electronic gaming device or computer? Some of us were born before actual x86 IBM PCs existed.

The first gaming computer:

Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. I had only three games for it (because at some point the importer stopped importing the device and its games to Finland, so one could not buy any more games or peripherals for it; TI lost the market to Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore 64, which is what every other kid here had, not me), but I loved the machine. The games were:

TI Invaders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8otoOFeKYr0
Munch-Man https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Inowxh3yBUE
Parsec https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCSQd0eJKQQ

The first gaming PC:

A 486DX-33MHz, if I recall correctly. The first games I had for it were (are on GOG too):

Wing Commander + expansion(s)
Wing Commander 2 + expansion(s)
Red Baron

I was lucky to get a Roland LAPC-1 soundcard for that PC. It cost a lot, but it made PC games sound GREAT.

Before that my big brother had loaned elsewhere a PC for awhile, where I played e.g. Gunboat:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD0MHkceHBY

My first computer was an Apple ][e. Two floppy drives, dot matrix printer, and a monochrome screen. It was functioning for at least 15 years.

First PC was a Commodore... something. PC40-III rings a bell. Good ol' 80286 CPU. 640kB RAM, which I upgraded to 1 or 2 MB at some point - back then you'd buy a big add-on card and get a whole mess of memory chips in a plastic tube that you would install yourself. 40 MB hard drive, floppy, VGA monitor. Or maybe EGA. Definitely not CGA. Classic beige box desktop form factor.

My first computer was also a TI-99/4a. I remember that it had BASIC (which is how I first learned to program), a cartridge slot, and the only way to save was to connect it to a cassette tape recorder. Yes, we had to use cassette tape to save (and some games were distributed that way); it was slower than a floppy and did not allow random access.

My second was an Apple 2GS; I wish they had continued the Apple 2 line instead of abandoning it at that point. (One complaint: BASIC doesn't allow access to the 2GS specific features.)

Apple ][+, with 48K (yes, K!) of RAM. Two 5¼" floppies, but no hard drive; this was in 1981, when such things still cost upwards of a thousand dollars.

I actually had to physically replace one of the chips on the motherboard in order to get lowercase letters.

Among my first games were Ultimas I and II, and a space battle sim called The Cosmic Balance.

I still have it in storage. AFAIK it no longer functions, but I doubt I'll ever get rid of it.

Behold, a picture which resembles my first wholly owned computer.

I really miss that case since opening it up was as simple as popping two buttons on the side. Kinda wish footprint cases were still a bit more common, actually.

1989 - It was an Alcatel (I can't find anything online about Alcatel ever having made PCs in the 80s/90s)
XT 80086, 640 kb RAM, 20 MB hdd, MCGA Graphics, MCGA 14" monitor, 3.5 disk drive, MS DOS 3.3
I think it was an IBM PS/2 model 30 clone...

It was terrible for gaming; MCGA was rarely supported and a sound card was way too expensive for me back then. I would've gladly traded it for an Amiga 500!

Commodore 64, probably the longest lasting system I had, with a 5 1/4 floppy drive and tape casette. First games I remember playing on that were on the cartridges that you plugged in, primarily Zaxxon, Q-Bert, and Pit Stop. Awesome system back in the day.

First PC was an XT that ran at 4Mhz, and I remember playing Starflight on that one quite a bit... can't remember if I did the old Sierra quest games on this one or waited until I built the 386. Good times.

Oh yeah, BBS's were THE place to be back then!