What was your first ever gaming rig?

So, as the title says, what was the first PC you ever had for gaming?

I thought it'd be kinda interesting to see what we all started off with, and how things have evolved over the years as I'm sure there'll be a few on here who started in black and white or something

Post the specs, a link and/or some pics if you have any!

Here goes...

I got my first gaming rig at the beginning of '99 I think, when I was about 7 It was a Dell (boooo, hissss!!) with an absolutely colossal CRT monitor which literally took up almost the entire desk! Not sure about the screen size, but I think it was 17" ish, and not dissimilar to this (although I swear it was even bigger):

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Specs:

Windows 98 SE
Intel Pentium III @ 500MHz
128MB RAM (god knows what speed)
12.6GB Hard Drive (that's what it showed, so I imagine it was a 16GB drive or something)
nvidia Riva TNT2 32MB graphics card

Ooh and it had a DVD drive too!

Good times! I think my first ever game on it was FIFA 98

So, take a journey down the timeline of gorkiness and let's see what you had!

Mine was a Gateway 2000 with 133mhz CPU....... sweeeeet!!!

Linky to review
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/m...g=content;col1

A beast of a machine and as the title of the article says it shatters benchmarking scores

This is going to be a great thread! Around 4 years ago, I played on my family computer; Acer Aspire, Pentium 4 3.1Ghz, 1Gb DDR, and a 512mb X1600pro that i dropped into an AGP slot. I'm only 18 mind, and played consoles prior to having this computer (a supercomputer compared to some first rigs!)

1994 and it was a 386 sx 33 the os it ran was dos 6.2 if i remember correctly from all that time ago it might even have been dos 5.0.

i got hooked on x-wing then tie fighter then had to upgrade to a 486 dx 66 and fork out 110gbp to buy 4mb ram so i could play dark forces.

http://www.cs.cuw.edu/museum/images/vectra386.jpg

hahaha... youse younguns

my first games computer was the mighty ZX-81



then through the sinclair range and on to the Atari ST (and upgraded to an STe)



my first consol was a Phillips Videopac



on to the classic Atari 2600 (cos the Phillips was **** and didnt have Tank or spiderman)...



me and beemer had one of these in our flat about 15 years ago...




i feel proud to have been there since the dawn of the personal computer through all the consoles and pc advancements... still waiting for home use virtual reality to be usable though

I had Zx81, Sinclair Spectrum 48k, commodore 64, Amstrad cpc464, commodore amiga....486'er Pentium 90, 233 350 800 ....... Holy crap I have a serious problem here

Commodro vic 20... had to spend an hour typing in code to play chess... O_o

Toys'R'Us medion with 1.4 Ghz Pentium 4, 256Mb RD ram, Geforce MX 440 & Windows ME. just about ran CS 1.5 so added another 512Mb of ram and swapped the MX 440 for a FX 5200.

hello

my first was zx spectrum 128k at 7
then amiga 600
pc wise an OPUS 133htz on win95 ( and i was 16 then lol )



p3 750
p4 1.5
then a 3.6
quad core 2.6 i have now

ah right thought we were just talking about pc's , my first was a commodore +4 then the old commodore 64, followed up by the amiga.