This weekend's nerdly activities involve capturing bits and pieces of video footage for the video console documentary I'm making. I'm getting some PC game stuff too, to use for comparison. I got an Atari 7800 emulator going, and got some 7800 games. I got some more Colecovision ROMs and got some more Coleco game captures. Then I started into the PC stuff. I got Doom, Wolfenstein 3D, Myst, Loom, Maniac Mansion and others. I'm still installing some of them and messing about with the software. 
So far, I haven't figured out how to DOSBox the D&D games so the fighting takes place at a reasonable speed. I also haven't got sound working for Loom, which is a game all about music.
Wolfenstein 3D really pulled me in. It's so simple and fast and easy. The D&D ones were far too complex and old-school looking to draw me in casually. They require a commitment.
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I think some old version of castle wolfenstein (not 3d) was the first game I ever played on a computer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_Wolfenstein
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