How did everyone get into gaming
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My dad had an NES before my brother came along... My Ma probably figured her kids were gonna be just like their dad and LOVE gaming.
My earliest Gaming memory is my Ma had just bathed my brother and I together (We are 2 years apart and I believe I was 3 at this time... maybe 2 and a half) and we had gotten our pjs on and our hair combed and we rushed to the living room to play Mario... My brother was first, he's always first... and I had to wait until he died to play (Then when I died he got to play so really, he got to play a lot more than me!) This was Super Mario Bro's 1 on the NES so it wasn't easy.
From there it was a whirlwind of ALL THE NINTENDO PRODUCTS!!! From OG Gameboys to DS's; From the NES to the Wii... We've always had every Nintendo product as soon as it became available... probably why my dad has so much credit card debt... but I'm guessing seeing his kids happy, playing games like he used to made him happy.
My ma took a photo of us to immortalize us forever! So here's the photo:
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Atari 2600 for me! Then up to NES ( rented from the local store over and over ) then my parents finally got me an SNES...I played that thing so much it's mind-boggling. I still have all my systems to this day
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When I was like 6 or 7, my parents got me the NES when we lived in Puerto Rico. I wasn't really fond of it since I was always outside playing in my Barbie Jeep [LOL] until my brother started playing and he wanted me to try it out. Since then, it's been HISTORY.0
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Original Lemmings, Doom and Oregon Trail. Must I say more? ...Not that my mother was pleased about my father letting me play Doom...but that's a whole other ball of wax.
That was the beginning, I won't bore you with my gaming life's story.0 -
Original Lemmings, Doom and Oregon Trail.
I miss Oregon Trail
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My parents bought me a Sinclair ZX81. I remember typing in space invader's. Took me forever to do it. First proper game I played was probably 3D MOnster Maze on the ZX81.... but I did loads of coding as well (including a Traveller character generator and a random dungeon creator for D&D). Really got hugely into gaming through the Spectrum though.0
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I remember being really little and playing on the Dreamcast with my dad.
Loved playing the original Super Mario and The Adventures of Link.
But I didn't REALLY start playing alone until I was about 3 or 4 and my Grandma got really into Playstation.
Hooked ever since.0 -
I never had consoles growing up, and I wasn't allowed to spend much money in arcades, but luckily there were a lot of Mac ports of popular arcade games and my parents didn't object to me using the computer a lot (since home computers were still pretty novel at the time, and they wanted to encourage me technologically. Woohoo for our brand new, shiny Mac Classic! And then the LCIII -- amazing! Colour!!) It was mostly puzzle games and arcade game ports, so nothing too time-sink-y...until Diablo I and Final Fantasy 7 came along. Dun dun dunnnnnnn!0
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My ex bf had me try Diablo 1 & 2, got hooked never looked back =P
played over 15 diff MMOs since lol0 -
When I was a toddler, I used to play with my parents Grandstand 6000 TV Game (which I still have) and my dad also bought a ZX Spectrum 128 when I was a toddler that I used to be left to play, which is very frustrating for someone so young (who knew loading would get so quick) this is unfortunately the one console I sold, when I was about 12, the only games I can remember having, although I know we had quite a few more are The Neverending Story (I haven't even seen the film) and The Rocky Horror Show game! After this era I didn't get a new console until the Master system II, I did however have handheld games, first one being the Game & Play Donkey Kong which I still have (back is missing :sad: ) and also the original Game Boy which I still have somewhere , I still play my original Tetris cartridge on my old GBA. So that's the early years, a lot of gaming has commenced since.0
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I didn't even have a TV growing up...all books or outdoors, all the time!
Hmmm, wonder how I gained this weight? Let's see...6 tvs and 5 computers in the house...:noway:
Anyway, my partner and I met online 9 years ago (in a chat room) and he moved across country to be with me. One of the first things he did was log on to Everquest and raid. Night after night. And I was bored and didn't feel right going into chat rooms with my boyfriend right there, so decided to play EQ as well. 8 years later, I was the leader of a top guild and on the leaderboard game-wide for stats. I've since retired from EQ, but still play other games. We joke that the family that plays together, stays together.0 -
When I was 8 I got a GameBoy for Christmas. My only games were Kirby's Dreamland, Space Invaders, and Street Fighter II. Every year I begged my mom to let me be Chun-Li for Halloween, but she said it wouldn't be appropriate. Lol.
But yeah, it was all about the GameBoy and the N64. I was especially obsessed with Legend of Zelda, probably because it had princesses in it. That was probably the start of it, because I pulled my first all-nighter on the Water Temple and that was about the time my parents knew I was going to have a problem.0 -
I had an OG gameboy when I was like 3, and an original atari aswell0
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Some of my earliest memories involve me glaring at the overworld of one of the Mario Bros. games as I had died for the billionth time. I have been playing since I was in diapers and have enjoyed every minute.0
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Born into it!
(And I miss Oregon Trail, too...)
Seriously, the first "console" I had was a TI computer. Then the computers (Apple //e and IBM) and then the Atari 2600. Been hooked like a fish since I could first type "LINE 1 GO TO 2"0 -
I started out with the Original Nintindo, In fact my mom still has it and the games we bought and they are all in working condition still. Even the accessories and games.
However, I got into online gaming because I decided to see exactly why my RL boyfriend never logged out of his games unless he was sleeping, working, or out with friends. I have been hooked ever since. LOL0 -
My grandmother, actually, is the one that really got me into video games. She was always playing Tetris or Dr. Mario when I was younger on her Gameboy. She taught me how to play those games...when I was older and Game Boy Color came out with their interactive play, we would hook up and play against each other. My skills on those game I owe all to her. Before original Sims came out, I was playing Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, Playstation, or Playstation 2... once I learned more about computers I was playing Sim City, The Sims, The Sims Online, Roller coaster Tycoon, Zoo Tycoon, etc.
But it all started with my grandma. 
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My husband said he wanted to try this game called World of Warcraft and I told him it was gonna be a waste of money and a stupid idea. Some how a week later a 10 day free trial showed up in the mail (he still swears he doesn't know why it came lol), so we downloaded it. I became instantly hooked and have been playing computer games ever since.
As far as other gaming systems I have always had a love for them, I've played atari when I was very little and just kept graduating to the new games, nintendo, super nintendo, sega, 64, wii. You name it I'll play it.0 -
I've been playing on them for as long as I can remember. Some of my earlier gaming memories are of me playing Super Mario Brothers on the good ol' NES. I was probably 6 or 7. I still have that thing.0
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Aging the hell out of myself but need I say more?0 -
Load "*",8,1
Aging the hell out of myself but need I say more?
Nice I've played a few Commodore games myself back in the day! 0 -
I got into gaming from a guy friend. I had no clue what a 'Nintendo' was or a 'Playstation'. I received my first console at 6 or 7 which was a Game Cube and I played my very first game, Luigi's Mansion. I got addicted after that. My mom bought me Super Mario Sunshine and got me a GBA for on the road. I played my very first Pokemon game and then I received my all time favorite game, Super Mario Kart. I didn't sleep or eat until I unlocked everything. That was until I got a DS Lite and got Mario Kart DS. My sister introduced me to my favorite video game series ever and you can probably guess by my username and profile picture but, Legend of Zelda. I had played Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass and I didn't rest until I finished it. Majority of video games was introduced to me by boys that I knew and Youtube, specifically, Chugaaconroy.
Wow...this is long. I apologize for the paragraph.0 -
Mom used to take us to the arcade when we were little. Damn those quarters went fast!0
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First time visiting an arcade at the age of 7. Playing Star Wars(1983, Vector Style) at the arcade at Lakeside Amusement Park, Salem VA.
Dating myself now. :-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars_(1983_video_game)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakeside_Amusement_Park_(Salem,_Virginia)0 -
My first console was an Atari 2600 and it was all kinda downhill from there. I gave up on consoles for a long time after Warcraft 2, Civ2 and Diablo all came out in the mid-90s and didn't come back to consoles until 2005 or so with the Game Cube first and then, later, the Xbox 360.0
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we ran tunnels and trolls in gifted education at elementary school, 1979 or 80, moved on to D&D in 1985, and then AD&D.
atari 2600, arcade action of asteroids, defender, space invaders, etc....haha merlin. LOVED dragon's lair when it came out.
always with the board games and cards. big time CCG player when it launched in early 1990s.
hit me up on scrabble, same name i go by here.
always looking for new victims, er, opponents.0 -
Wow, I guess I'm not the only one in here reminiscing about the "good 'ol days" of arcade gaming and our beloved Atari 2600! My fav arcade games at the time had to be Galaga, Zaxxon, Defender, Tempest and .........wait for it................GORF! Tell me you don't remember getting ticked off when a game would laugh at you "Ha Ha Ha, Space Cadet"!
Still remembering how cool I thought Dragon's Lair was. Then realizing how much it sucked shortly thereafter because I never lasted more than 90 seconds and the stupid thing cost 50 cents to play (back then, that was a BIG DEAL)..............
Loved my Atari console, especially when Activision started releasing games for it. Best buy for me back then was Activision Decathlon; awesome game that gave you the worst hand cramps from manipulating the joystick like crazy. But well worth it. Unfortunately, I also had the dreaded "ET the Video Game" for that as well. Absolutely one of the WORST games ever.......
My little brother and I shared an NES. He had played the Major League baseball game for hours, then finally let me play. He handed me the manual and mockingly said, "Here, you may NEED this". I glanced at it and then proceeded to kick his scrawny butt 11-2; laughing the entire time.............
Got hooked on the college football bug back on the Sega Genesis with College Football National Championship.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_Football's_National_Championship
And satisfied my ancient military history sweet tooth with Centurion, Defender of Rome........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion:_Defender_of_Rome
Can't forget the hand-held stuff from Coleco either. If you didn't get this game taken up by the teacher at least once during the school year, then you were much sneakier than I was.........
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Quarterback
PS1 and PS2 + All versions of Metal Gear up to Metal Gear:Solid = True Love
Now I'm mostly a PC gamer and I am still denying that I have a problem with WoW (I can quit whenever I want!). I'm staying away from Star Wars:TOR for the time being because I like staying married to my wife........................
Dear Lord, I will stop the novel right now. Apparently my life has been about as productive as Comic Book Guy..................0 -
I remember playing Sonic on Sega Genesis when I was about three or four. I guess ever since then I just loved games.0
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I know I had an Atari, but I cannot remember if that was before I got the D&D red box. I still have that somewhere!! One or the other started me off into gaming. Haven't looked back since.0
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My husband tricked me!
He kept telling me about this game called World of Warcraft he wanted to try and I kept telling him it was a stupid thing to waste money on, any ways some how a 10 day FREE trial shows up and he downloads it, I try it out and I'm hooked. I tell him we have to play this game!!
He still won't admit to this day he requested the free trial. Men are soooo sneaky!! LOL j/k
Before wow I had always played console games, couldn't pull me away half the time, guess its just always been in my blood!0
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