I've been a personal computer gamer for decades!
Starting from a C64 over a Amiga500, 2000 and 1200 (which I still have) and from 1998 a PC with Windows 98 (which I still have, and at the time it was one fast thing, as is my current one I built in december).
Early Breadbox-games (nick-name for the C64 due to it's shape) include Pipeline, Pit Stop, Pole Position, Miami Vice etc.
Amiga-games: F/A-18 Interceptor (fightsim historians will really know this one!), Flight of the Intruder (and this one, I got a special edition with the original book included), The Secret of the Monkey Island! Classic!!! I love early LucasGames (now LucasArts) adventures, Monkey Island II, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, then some car-games, Super Cars, Jaguar XJ220, Lotus Esprit Turbo Challange, James Pond II: Robocod, Premiere, Lemmings etc. etc.
PC-Games:
Classic adventure-games: Monkey Island 3: The Curse of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 4: Escape from Monkey Island, Syberia,
Action-adventures: Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, Blade Runner, Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Star Wars: Jedi Knight II Jedi Outcast, Star Wars Jedi Academy, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic 1+2
Flight-sims: Terminal Reality Fly!, Terminal Reality Fly! II, MS FS2000 Professional Edition, MS FS2002 Professional Edition, MS FS2004 A Century of Flight
Action-games: Deus Ex 1+2, Star Trek: Elite Force 1+2, No One Lives Forever 1+2, Grand Theft Auto III+Vice City + San Andreas Note: I'd prefer the games without violence, I actually play them to finish the missions so I can walk, drive and fly around and listen to the in-game radio
Space-games: Freelancer, Starlancer, Star Wars: X-Wing Alliance, Freespace 1+2.Carsims: rFactor, F1 Challange, Grand Prix Legends
Cargames: Midtown Madness 1+2, Every Need For Speed game from NFSII SE to now although the older ones were better, that Fast'n'Furious street-race with head-on traffic colissions just isn't fun for me, the last one, Most Wanted even less so. the 5th game, exclusively with Porsches, made with Porsche AG, was a gem and had a giant online community with online races and racer-clans, of course there are bad seeds in all things but generally there were many gentlemen and lady-racers with good maners and the talks in the online pits were sometimes as fun as the racing, and that says a lot!
NOTE: All pc-games above were bought in stores with my own money (before that I mostly got my games from my dad when my mom wasn't watching over the money
), no pirate-versions or cracked versions. Can you see how much you can get instead of smoking alchohol and drinking tobacco?
Hmm, I think I've forgotten several but that should answer your question, and maybe raise a few new ones
Oh yeah I almost forgot, I got Halo with the Xbox I bought a few years ago, I'm not good at it and normally use god-mode cheats since I dislike dying, it's kind-of too close to home you know and besides I'm more interested in the story than how to kill a guy/monster. I actually bought the Xbox for Midtown Madness 3 and the sequal to Crimson Skies for the PC, ah yes I forgot that one. Sadly both of these seuqals were very bad, Crimson Skies 2 especially!!!
If you have a PC and like flying and awesome atmosphere then get Crimson Skies for the PC, it's an older game but the quality and flight-dynamics and storyline and actors are fantastic! The Xbox-only sequal was awfull!!!! Generic arcadish flight-handling, totally nuts floating power-ups, generic 3D animation for every cut-scene instead of the fantastic atmosphere of the 2D system in the original and most of the original crew's voicecast was gone as well their characters
Frank