The very first PC game you bought and when that was?
For me that would be the F-14 flight sim called “Jet fighter”. I bought it at a Radio Shack in 1989. This is the game:
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That’s a tough question… As I had my Amiga 500 when I got my first PC, that period is a bit of a blur. I think that the first PC game I bought was Tornado, by Digital Intergration.
I had to look up your Jet Fighter: The Adventure as I hadn’t heard of it. Found a video on youtube.
I was astonished by how similar it was to F/A-18 Interceptor, for the Amiga. US West Coast, F/A-18, F-16, with the inclusion of an F-14…
Sure enough, when looking at the credits on Mobygames…
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Watching the YT clip was a serious nostalgia trip for me!
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The first one that I bought?
I fear I don’t. I didn’t have any money as a kid so I had to persuade my mom and she bought the games.
Which did have it’s perks btw., I could ignore the age restrictions if my mom was convinced that the game was OK for me to play.
I played a LOT of old games and shareware games in the first few years of having a PC, and of course games that I borrowed from friends.
My first new game that I personally bought was probably something simple from the bargain table.
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My story is similar. First pc game I actually bought myself was probably Crysis: Warhead.
Great timing btw, my girlfriend and I recently started playing Crysis again. It runs pretty well on my Steam Deck, much better than it did on my brand new pc back in 2007.
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Yeah when Crysis first came out there was no PC hardware at the time that could run it at max detail with high frame rates.
Same for the Wing Commander games back in the day.
Always pushing limits, needing EMS, XMS and stuff. The 286 was at its limit to run WC1.
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For me it’s Falcon 3.0
I played so motherloving much of that. I bought a soundblaster to make “psschchrt” sound like “pull up! Pull up!”. I bought a joystick that had my elder sister make sex toy jokes for ages. I bought the very first generation of thrustmaster gear. More sex toy jokes. It was the worst of times, it was the best of times. “Scratch one, down in flames!”
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Probably 1984 or so… SubLogic Flight Simulator II…
That wasn’t the first flight simulator I played…the original Flight Simulator for the PC was a couple years earlier…
And at some point my parents I think bought me SubLogic Jet.
Then probably came things like Gunship, SubLogic ATP…etc…etc…
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Spitfire Simulator by Mind Systems (first 3D wireframe?) for the Apple II was the first I ever bought… WAY back in the day.
The list would grow from there… lol
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With my own money?
Terminator: skynet
And Z by the bitmap brothers.
Still play both. Amazing use of paper round money
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Comanche Gold…for Macintosh…it was a stutterfest on my really low specs machine…I could only really play 1 mission…blowing up oil tanks…but I loved it.!! 
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I don’t remember the first game I purchased with my own money, but my Dad got me into flight sims with Psion’s Flight Simulation for the ZX Spectrum followed by Digital Integration’s Fighter Pilot.
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The FIRST SIM that I purchased with my money was Jetfighter, Followed by USNF, Then MF, then a full on Jane’s addiction. Jetfighter II, and a few other MP Sims. Fleet Defender and Fleet Defender Gold as well as Top Gun Fire At Will *(and the Branded Joystick abd Throttle Combo)
The first sim brought into the home was Falcon AT, Knights of the Sky and Chuck Yeagers Air Combat.
I had a different Chuck Yeager game, as well as a Blue Angels SVGA title.
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It did not run on the old family computer. When we got a better one years later I didn’t understand anything. So I was relegated to playing Ace Combat 2 for a few more years.
My dad and I also played the Novalogic F-22 and Flying Corps Gold a lot in that time. The first sim that I bought with my own money as in money that I actually worked for was the DCS: Ka-50.
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Oh man apache vs havoc brings back some memories!
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The first computer game that I ever bought was the Asteroids cartridge for an Atari, sometime in the early '80s. I didn’t have the console, a friend down the road did, but I bought it because it was my favourite arcade game at the time and he didn’t have it.
First PC game, not until I bought my first PC in 1994. Doom. They had a demo running at the store and I looked at the awesome “jih-raffics” ( @Torc 
) and had to have it.
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Until recently, I played way more Enemy Engaged than I did Falcon 4 - I think it was easier to connect with the dynamic campaign, you actually felt like you were having an effect on it rather than existing within it.
I also really liked how when you bought Commanche vs Hokum you didn’t effectively have to put Apache vs Havok in the bin - if you linked the games you could fly the Apache and Havok in the new game!
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I forgot about that!
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