That first game that made you a gamer.
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I know this is fairly old, but I wanted to chime in. I had a Nintendo controller in my hands before I even hit my Terrible Twos. Our Nintendo Classic broke when I was 5, but for my 6th Christmas I got the N64 with Super Mario 64. That game was the ****. To be honest I grew up thinking that every other little boy and girl out there played video games all day too.
Then again I was way ahead of the other kids in my school (6th grade reading and comprehension level when I was 6 years old. o.o Yikes.)
I didn't realize I was a gamer until...oh, probably not until Pokemon hit me. And oh Lord did it hit me. Even today I know that I'm a born gamer, though I'm also a born rager and that's hindered any sort of progress in competitive games. Currently Silver I, going for Gold next week after I get over this flu and really buckle down on my Jungle and Mid play. 0 -
Super Mario when I was a kid.. Then Heroes III Might & Magic0
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Virtua Fighter... then Zelda... then pokemon... then FFVII-XII... Then resident evil... and a whole lot more. one thing leads to another, i think.0
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snake on my nokia phone0
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The first Zelda. I was hooked after that.0
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Jeez, the memories.. First game that turned me into true gamer would have to be socom navy seals on PS2. The only other mutliplayer game I tried before this was on PC, called age of empires2. With socom though it was different. I lived with a buddy and we played together in the same room with 2 TVs. Soon we met others and found all sorts of friends. Some I still have to this day. We even had a convention at my home where 10 of us all got together, some from across the country, set up 10 TVs and 10 PS2s, and all geeked out for an entire weekend. From socom, we went to socom 2, then I merged over to starwars galaxies. When I started this game it was mainly because it was because of starwars. I knew nothing about MMORPGs at the time. In time I got multiple accounts and ran dual PCs to benifit my main toon with other toons. I unlocked jedi but hated it, I started crafting heavy and made lots and lots of credits. I started looting rare mobs to get better items for PVP. Then the game got an update and broke the game completly. Most of the people I met in this game moved on to world of warcraft. It took some convincing but I ended up joining them. With in a month I had become addicted, had a ventrillo server set up and starting running a guild. That was back in vanilla wow.
We all tried to remain casual and get into raiding, but between the drama and availability it just never really went smoothly. I met some awesome people, and made some life long friends. I even invited a dozen people from wow to my wedding and they all came from across the country. One actually stood in my wedding, imagine that! Never meeting this person IRL but good enough friend that I asked him to stand in my wedding! I still stay in contact with most of them today. Almost all of them moved on to other games or other RL stuff. I moved servers when cata launched to try getting into more serious PVP, unfortunatly PVE took over and thats all everyone cared about.
This went on and off for a few years, trying SWTOR, and some FPS games, league of legends, back to wow, take a break, play some xbox, back to wow. My wife then one day mentioned playing diablo 3 on xbox, totally out of the blue. I jumped up and went to EB games and got the game. Since then that is really all I have been playing.0 -
First Game: Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt
First Game that created me into a gamer: Super Mario Bros. 2 (craved to beat it)0 -
thisFirst Game: Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt
First Game that created me into a gamer: Super Mario Bros. 2 (craved to beat it)0 -
The first computer game I ever played was some puzzle game on a cassette player, hooked to a monitor. It was all text, you had to type out your next move. I can't remember the name for sure, but I think it was Adventureland. I played for hours. I was definitely a gamer!
Then came the consoles and Sonic, Mario, and Zelda. Eventually, I discovered online games and Everquest. I played that game for 8 years and through many, many expansions. Along the way, I did some beta testing and bought some of the games I tested, such as Wow, LoTRO, Vanguard, Darkfall, Warhammer, and Rift. I also have a library of Steam games I dabble in.0 -
Zork on a Commodore 64.0
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The Kings Quest series by Sierra. I've been a computer gamer for what seems like my entire life.
This and Space Quest on my parents' Tandy 1000SX. While I loved Legend of Zelda and the Mario series, what really got me into games though was when I went looking for a game that my friend had for her gameboy. It was a Final Fantasy game, but being a kid, I didn't know there was really a difference between the games based on the system at that time. So I was pretty ecstatic when I found what I thought was the game for the SNES at a pawn shop. I bought it and played it as soon as I got home, and while initially disappointed that it was not the game I'd been playing on her gameboy, I ended up falling in love. The game was Final Fantasy 3 (I later learned that it was the 6th game in the series), and it set the stage for my gaming enthusiasm.0 -
SMB ... NES. Yep. I remember sneaking in the middle of the night to play it.
Then when we got our first PC and Myst... oh my the hours my entire family spent playing that game...
King's Quest V: Absence on NES too. Oh my God... DRAGON WARRIOR 3...
I've got to stop now. Too many memories.0 -
I've been hooked on games ever since I got my first nintendo, but the game that changed it all was Final Fantasy on SNES; I remember staying up all night playing that thing.0
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The Sims. My life didn't involve anything else for a while. I remember waiting until my parents fell asleep and sneaking into the kitchen to make snacks to keep me up all night ;p
I still play it quite a lot.0 -
My parents got a Sega Mastersystem for my siblings and I for Christmas when I was 5. I enjoyed gaming, but it wasn't until we rented Phantasy Star that gaming changed me. That was my first experience with RPGs and I was hooked for the same reasons as the original poster. I loved the leveling up, the fantasy elements, the puzzle/quest elements... We also got a Genesis and I loved Shining Force 1 & 2, D&D's Warriors of the Eternal Sun, and Shadowrun. My bro got into Playstation while we were teens, so I played some Final Fantasy 7, 8, & 9. It wasn't until 2012 that I started to game again, after finishing my dissertation. My boyfriend, a long-time computer gamer, introduced me to Planescape Torment, which really knocked my socks off. I regularly play in the weekends now, and have since played Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Icewind Dale 1 & 2.. I'm currently playing the Neverwinter Nights series. I'm very much looking forward to the upcoming Planescape Torment sequel.0
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I was not aloud to have a gaming system growing up. It wasn't until college that my boyfriend bought me Fable and I was hooked.0
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mortal kombat! I was 4 my big brother was 19, he changed the blood to green so my mom wouldn't freak out (she did anyways)
or at least that's the one I remember! I played with sheeva aaaaaaall the time (that up+down combo dude, got me to shao khan I mean..!) maybe I played something else before (my family is kind of a gamer bunch) but that's the game that got me good
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In terms of playing in general, I honestly don't remember. I played a lot of random things - Pokemon games, Mario Kart, Crash Banda-however you spell his name racing game, some sort of Donkey Kong variation, etc.
But being a serious gamer? Definitely Halo. It changed everything for me.0 -
I played the Atari games and had dozens of those pretty black cartridges but I was probably just a little to young to be a real gamer and would usually play something for a few minutes and switch to the next game. When the NES came out and I got my hands on Mario and that controller it sucked me in. I was coming into my prime hand-eye coordination years and the amount of control you had just blew me away. Hours upon hours I would play which lead me into hours and hours of other great games and I was officially part of the new breed. We read Nintendo Power, PC Gamer, and GamePro. We watched The Wizard and even though we knew it was lame we loved it. We began the console wars with N vs Sega, MS and Sony got nothing on us. We ushered in the golden age that pushed PC's faster and started the enthusiast market just to play games.0
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All was lost for me the first time I cracked a million points in a game. The game was Zaxxon, on my Coleco set. I also played a lot of Mousetrap on it, I would still play that game now.
Out of all the systems I've owned and spent hours playing, I still miss my Goldstar 3D0 the most. I'm seriously considering looking for one to buy again, I should've kept mine!0
