1st: Commodore VC20
2nd: Commodore 128D (90% of the time run in 64mode *g*)...

That bad boy was better than the Pentium 60.
You're just reinforcing my whole evil twin theory, you know that, right?

My first computer was an Apple ][+, and the first game I ever purchased for it was one called Odyssey: The Complete Apventure. The most expensive game I bought for it was Ultima II for $70 when it was released by Sierra.

That computer was the reason I had to hide my report cards from my parents. Rather than doing homework, I played Zork and Ultima all day.

The computer had a whopping 48k, 16 colors of Low Resolution graphics, and an astounding 6 colors (I count the two whites and two blacks as one color each) of high resolution graphics. My friends and I wrote hundreds of Applesoft programs and games.
Those were the days.

Commodore Vic20 with a god-damned tape deck that used to eat our games. You had to know basic a little, just to come up with games for this stupid thing.

I think my dad picked it up for $10 at a garage sale, the bastard. Coulda sprung for a C64, but nooooooo. :(

First IBM PC compatible was an 8086 XT with not a lot of memory, a microscopic hard drive and a green monochrome monitor. >.>

It was a Radio Shack MC-10 and a C64.

The good old days of BASIC.

My first computer was a Cromemco Z-2, an S-100 bus computer in the mid-70s. The bottom of the computer was all sockets, like today's PCI slots, only much longer (100 connections). The CPU was on its own card and stood vertically in a slot. I assembled the motherboard (soldered all the sockets on the bottom) but bought the CPU card (with a Zilog Z-80), a memory card with 16K RAM, another card with 16K ROM (for the BIOS-like functionality) and the final card had a pair of RS-232 serial ports for connecting to an external "dumb terminal". My first terminal was a Heathkit H-19, which was also assembled completely from scratch as a kit. In the beginning there were no drives of any kind... the only software I had was on punched paper-tape that I fed into a hand-fed optical paper tape reader in my basement. Or, I could use a routine in the ROM that would let you type hexadecimal bytes directly into memory from the terminal, and then "jump" to the routine you entered.

The first "game" I played on the computer was more of a demo than a game. Borrowing a video card from the university, called the Cromemco Dazzler, this was a bit-mapped color graphics card that hooked to a TV or external monitor. It was very low rez... approx 128x128 pixels at its highest configuration. The "game" was a demo of 3D rotatable graphics from a company called SubLogic, supplied on punched paper tape. You spent about 20 minutes hand-pulling this tape through the tape reader (which used a desk lamp for the light source!) and then you could execute the program of rotating 3D objects using keys on the terminal. WOW! :)

By the way, SubLogic made quite a name for themselves in those early days. You may have heard of their early SubLogic Flight Simulators for a lot of the earliest personal computers (including Apple ][). Later SubLogic's simulator became Microsoft's Flight Simulator. SubLogic also made other 3D-based games: a Jet simulator, a Football game, and various scenery packs for the flight sims.

OK, not much of a game computer. Eventually I added 2 floppy drives, and another video card which I believe was the Processor Technology VDM-1. Eventually I sold the entire setup to a local TV repair guy, and bought my first "real" gaming computer... an Apple ][e. THOSE were the real good old days! :)

A Macintosh.

Also, Dark Castle had the lamest hero ever.

First computer used for playing games, either an Apple II or 8086, I really can't remember. It had a green-black monochrome display.

First computer owned, 486 DX2-66.

VIC-20

Those Scott Adams adventures were a blast, if a bit difficult with only a few years of grammar school english, having to consult dictionary for almost every sentence. Those and spiderman taught me the language.

A particular high point was running into the man at Combat Mission forums (years back) and playing a few matches.

C-128 after that, continuing the less than optimal machine choices.
A few less loading breaks on Ultima 5 was what C-128 had over C-64. Meh.

Then a break from computing, followed by

Mac LC, a bunch of other macs and clones, a bunch of PC's, a bunch of consoles.
Currently owning 2 Macs (+4 old ones I don't actively use), 2 PC's and 3 consoles.

I would have never heard of that game if AVGN hadn't just done an episode on it. I'd still go with Mike Dawson from Darkseed II as the lamest hero ever, though.

Not including my dad's old atari and spectrum, my very own first pc was a hand me down (I was very young the details are fuzzy) 286 EGA 10MB HDD (or maybe 20MB partitioned into 2)

I think the first game I installed was Sokoban.
I remember typing lots of crap on wordstar

Ah, the memories!

Mine's a 486. I know. I'm not as old as some of you here :P

My own? I've proubly assembled this horrible thing and it's always a working progress. But in my chilhood. My older brother took one in his room (because he whined a lot, then I played those classic adventures). He used shorts in hot summer and played warcraft 2. It was horrible stench. Anyway. Some IBM 386, well, is commodore a computer, it was before that..

My first gaming experiences were on my brother's Atari 2600. The first console I was able to call my own (also a hand-me-down from my brother) was my beloved NES, which came with Duck Hunt, the only FPS that doesn't make me sick :D