/vr/ - Retro Games

It seems like most people here have a lot of nostalgia for consoles and grew up playing them, hence the large number of threads about console gaming. That makes sense, as consoles were a lot more popular, and a lot less expensive than PCs at the time.

But I know that some of us here on /vr/ were still PC gamers back in the day.

So, to those of you who were PC gamers growing up, or just PC gamers in the 90s or before:
>When did you first get into PC gaming?
>What was your first computer, when did you get it, and what games did you play on it?
>Any good stories of early PC gaming you'd like to share?

My family got our first computer in 1996. It was a Cyrix 486DLC-33MHz machine, with 8MB of RAM, VGA graphics and a PC speaker (that was later upgraded to a SB16). I mostly played Apogee and Epic Megagames shareware games: Jazz Jackrabbit and Traffic Department 2192 were two of my favorite games, though the very first game I played was Commander Keen 1.