Custom PC that I built for a “senior project” in high school.
Holy cow man. We are very similar in how
Our computers evolved though I was more EQ/EQ2. But my all time favorite game, the one that truly got me hooked on RPG was Might and Magic 2 and Bards Tale 3. Played for 2 years every day all day in college lol.
Dell laptop with an IGP and a pentium 3 mobile It was second hand when I got it and it would periodically blue screen due to temperature issues on account it was never intended for this.
The computer had changed hands a good dozen times before I got it, we were a poor family so others were running far better stuff. This was the 2000s in the burning crusade prepatch
Gateway desktop with a gen2 i5 (still have but my dad uses for bills and such )
A custom built with a 6 gen i5 and a asus gaming board (died early 2021)
Now a HP gaming desktop with a Ryzen 5
i5-something00k
gtx 750
8gb ram
windows 10 OS
this was 2016
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I think it was an old Compaq. All I know is I could barely play because Iron Forge was a stuttering mess every time I went there.
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The first computer I used for anything was an IBM/360 in 1970. My mom was a student at NSTI (go Nasty!) and was more interested in carrying on an illicit affair with her Art Professor than she was in Business Computing. One evening she was swearing at her flow-chart homework and I made the mistake of pointing out a error she’d missed. She tossed me across the room and threw her textbook at me and said, “If you’re so d---- smart, you do it.”
So I did.
I did her homework.
I coded her projects (on an IBM Model 26 punchcard machine). I turned them in and got the output (a 9-year-old programmer at that school was something of an anomoly, but it was 1970 - lots of wierdness was going on).
She got a B+, mostly because I couldn’t actually take the tests for her.
The first computer I owned was an Altair 8800 I built myself in the summer of 1975. It was part of my home-grown physical therapy after a stroke I’d had about 18 months prior. In today’s money it would cost about $10k and it was a circuit board and a bag of loose parts that had to be soldered in place. There was no monitor, mouse, keyboard, floppy drive, hard drive, SSD - just some RAM, some LEDs across the front, and toggle switches to set and load one BIT of memory at a time. If you managed to assemble it correctly and program it correctly you could just about get it to admit that 2 plus 2 was 4.
I think the first computer I played WoW on was a home-built PC based on an AMD XP 3000 but I could be off on that a touch.
I’m currently playing on a home-bulit PC with an AMD 3600X and an XFX RX 3800 GPU. I plan to upgrade the Motherboard and CPU in December or so in time for Dragonflight.
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Some viao laptop from 2015 or so.
The first computer I ever games on though was an apple II. Text adventures, bards tale, lemmings.
Console was a late 1970’s Pong is all you can play model.
An Asus laptop from 2016
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Custom built PC around November 2003. Struggling with Celeron 1Ghz, 256MB DDR400 and GeForce 4 Ti4200 64MB. Then went for Pentium 4 2.6CGhz, 512MB DDR2-800 X2 and GeForce 6600GT 128 MB.
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Refirbished HP with a 1.1ghz intel celeron processor, 40gb hard drive and 256mb of ram. My Dad bought it for my 8th grade graduation in 2003 and was 300 bucks at the time. Those were the good ole days where birthday and christmas gifts meant more RAM and better graphics cards!
Prior to that i was playing counter strike 1.5 and team fortress classic on the family PC on 33.6k dial up modem. I eventually filled his 2gb hard drive and I remember him lecturing me about how half life 1 was 500 mb which is half a gig and way too big lol!
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Tried it on a few Dell laptops but they could never get the game to download or install. Then I got a MacBook Pro and that ran it fine.
a piece of crap thing my brother scabbed together, had a 1/2 g hard drive all i remember, enough room to play 3 or 4 games back then.
Until about 13 or so years ago, the newest computer I had ever owned was a C-128 setup. Everything else had been a hand-me-down of one kind or another. (I was the older uncle who was always behind the curve, mostly because of monetary issues.) Then one Xmas I was with the family (back when we all used to gather for the holiday-- these days, not so much, we’re all scattered about) and I was delighted (and floored) to open up an actual PC that was (at the time) very up to date, if not SOTA. (I was amazed to find a flatscreen monitor.)
In other words, I had a PC that could run the most recent software decently if not spectacularly.
I’d seen friends playing WoW at their homes on gaming nights, and being a fan of Final Fantasy XI Online (decent PC I might not have had, but a PS2 I did) thought to myself, “You know, that new machine can run this program.” At the time, I lived near a game store, and had noticed the Battlechest, which (for the newer adventurers in Azeroth) was the Vanilla and Burning Crusade programs, manuals, strategy guides (hah!) and a month of game time. And it was cheap at 30 bucks, so I picked it up, thinking, “If I like this enough to get through this content, I might go for that Wrath expansion, even if it’s a bit pricey.”
Two days later, I walked over to the game shop, grabbed Wrath, set up a continuing sub, and have never looked back.
No, I don’t recall the actual stats of the PC. But I certainly recall it!
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Please dont remind me. It was some crappy HP desk top.
With everything turned down as low as possible, I was getting 20fps.
But at the time. It was all I could afford.
I don’t remember but it would be the equivalent to what you would find digging through the dumpster of a 1999 bowling alley.
Nah it was an OG MacBook I got in 2007
A desktop PC with no hardcore gaming hardware… Is WoW really the only thing pushing players to buy extremely expensive gaming PCs? What else are you going to do on a game PC? Send emails through Outlook?
There are lots of games that only run on gaming computers.
Start naming them… XBox and Steam don’t count! 
Why doesn’t XBox count?