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[Great Order]

Just asking out of curiosity.

For myself, it was Spore. 2008, Christmas time, new PC upgrade from the old beige PC with a CRT monitor and speakers that could pick up an incoming phone call. Game that my parents got me with that PC? Spore. Loved it. I wouldn't defend it as a good game nowadays, but it was certainly the most memorable. That was probably the age I was getting into animals and evolution as major interests, and it gave a huge amount of creative ability that I'd never seen in video games before outside of Paint.

[Djohaal]

Childhood? Outpost 2, simcopter and simcity 2000
Teenager years? Chrono trigger, simcity 4, final fantasy 6...

[AlStar]

If I had to name two games that I would have to say defined my childhood / teenage years, they'd probably be Star Control 2 and Darklands. I never did manage to defeat the major challenges in Darklands - the dwarves in the mines, the witches' gathering (I got a party there, but the witches and demons chopped them to bits), or the dragon.

For later teenage years/college age, it'd probably be the Close Combat series and War in the Pacific, since I was engaged in campaigns in those against my cousin. For WitP, it was near daily turns played over email, spending hours managing all my shipping, planes, and armies.

[ChairmanPoo]

The 2 first pc gamea I played were Indiana Jones and the Fate od Atlantis and Sherlock Holmes: the case of the serrated scalpel

[Great Order]

I'm going to also have to add Halo Reach for the local multiplayer parties at my friends houses. Out of the three Halos I played, definitely my favourite.

[AlStar]

Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis

A classic - probably one of my favorite of the point-and-click VERB *foo* WITH *bar* games, although my top spots for that genre remain Grim Fandango and Monkey Island I and II.

[Akura]

My childhood? Super Mario World and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Maybe add Super Mario Bros., Dragon Warrior(aka Dragon Quest 1), and the Legend of Zelda for the NES as well.

[Djohaal]

My childhood? Super Mario World and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Maybe add Super Mario Bros., Dragon Warrior(aka Dragon Quest 1), and the Legend of Zelda for the NES as well.

I had that sonic 3 & knuckles CD collection as a kid. Sadly I didn't know of GameFAQs and got stuck on THAT GODDAMN RED BARREL in the cursed carnival zone for years.

[Biowraith]

A bit of nostalgia as I get older?  Don't mind if I do...

Taking "iconic" at a personal level, cos I'm unsure how well known some of these examples were:

First game I played was either Space Invaders or Bomber, on the ZX81.  Games like Hungry Horace, Jetpac or Thru the Wall also spring to mind.

First game I played on a joystick was Sabre Wulf.

I remember being blown away by the monks chanting sound on Bard's Tale as the first game I played on the Amiga that my aunt's boyfriend had - it was all bleepy ZX Spectrum sounds until then.  That prompted me to start saving for an Amiga of my own (first game I got then was Turrican - I was similarly blown away by the intro voice and overall graphics).

Dungeon Master was the first one I played that required a RAM expansion for the Amiga 500 - I remember opening it on Xmas morning and being dismayed cos I thought my mum & dad didn't know it needed the expansion, which turned out to be the next present.

Then towards my mid/late teens there's more generally iconic stuff like Lemmings, Monkey Island, Civilization, Speedball 2, Syndicate, UFO Enemy Unknown... honestly I could list a lot of games that feel iconic to me from that era.

I'm unsure which if any of them was my first PC (as in IBM PC & Compatible) game - for some reason I have no memory of my first PC or my first experiences with it.  Which is mildly concerning, now I think about it.

[Folly]

I'm going to say Scorched Earth, as that's the earliest computer game that I can recall playing together with friends.

[Darkening Kaos]

    Personal computers weren't a thing when I was a child, had to wait 'til I started uni and had access to a few Apple ]['s and played Galactic Adventures for far too many hours, then doing part-time work at a computer shop, discovered Wizardry, the very first one and that started a life-long addiction to RPG's.

[Strongpoint]

Games I spent an unreasonable amount of time on -

Master of Orion 1 and later 2
Panzer General 1 and later 2
X-COM: UFO Defense (disliked the theme and gameplay of the second one)

Earliest childhood memory - Tetris on ZX Spectrum

Later childhood entertainment - Hotseating Contra, TNMT2 and Battletoads (F this game, seriously, I have never beaten it and the two-player mode was even HARDER) on NES with my older brother. Plus we played some NES hockey game in which players could beat each other.

[Telgin]

My childhood? Super Mario World and Sonic the Hedgehog 2. Maybe add Super Mario Bros., Dragon Warrior(aka Dragon Quest 1), and the Legend of Zelda for the NES as well.

I had that sonic 3 & knuckles CD collection as a kid. Sadly I didn't know of GameFAQs and got stuck on THAT GODDAMN RED BARREL in the cursed carnival zone for years.

Carnival Night Zone is such a fascinating case study for bad game design.  I hope that level and game design courses teach about it now.

Anyway, despite that, the first 3 Sonic games and the first 3 Mega Man X games are probably the ones I've played the most in my life.  I probably played through one of each of those games at least once a week for most of my childhood.  Mario World got a lot of love too.

On PC, I played the X-Wing games a ton, as well as Sim City 2000 and 3000.  Fallout 1 and 2 came a bit later for me.  Then there was an obscure and old flight sim called Star Crusader that I played a lot, and an obscure mech game called G-NOME that I was very bad at.

By my teen years, Mario 64, Goldeneye 007, and Mega Man X4 were probably the ones I played the most.  I missed a lot of classics of this era until I got them in adulthood, like Banjo Kazooie and Spyro.

[zhijinghaofromchina]

Angry birds and Plants VS Zombies, I still remember that when my family’s economic situation was not so good, my dad costed a lot to buy a computer, the first two games he downloaded on it are Angry birds and Plants VS Zombies.

It took me a lot of time to pass the first level of the Angry Birds , because I didn’t make the birds flys out in a parabola, during when I was too young to understand it.

After reading the tips given by the zombies, I waited stupidly for the zombies to enter my house and eat the brain ,and wondered why I didn’t win.

[EuchreJack]

SimCopter was the best game ever.

It linked up with SimCity 2000.  Streets of Sim City also linked up to SimCity 2000, although was slightly less iconic due the prevalence of car combat games in the late 90s early 2000s.

God, if someone were to sell a version of those three games compatible with modern computer systems with minimal fuss, it would be a dream come true.