That first game that made you a gamer.
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I missed Dune 2 in the mix of massively addicting games. That one was great!0
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I was 10 years old in 1982 and the game was Advanced D&D for Intellivision.0
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Yeah I did forget Ms Pac-Man...0
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I was 10 years old in 1982 and the game was Advanced D&D for Intellivision.
I only got to play a little of that but I recall it being really impressive.
sofaking: I've been playing as much Ms. Pac-Man on my phone as anything else recently. When I was a kid, I'd just try and rush through the levels, ignoring points. I was a bad player. Now, I'm still a bad player but what's really compelling about that game is keeping your eye on all four ghosts and continually trying to think about your escape options. Which change constantly. It's really, really cool.
Funny pic from Reddit:
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I was in a fun guild on Ultima Online for quite a while. We didn't do much PVP but there was one time in a dungeon a group of PVPs jumped us. We were all on voice chat and several folks started to run. I killed one of the PVPs almost immediately and then just started cleaning house and told the others to come join the fun. I believe I had a patched sword at the time that made me Death Incarnate, and I enjoyed that thing as much as possible.
I would never just run around and attack people, but I would run around and jump in when I thought people were picking on someone. Good times.0 -
Does Hunt The Wumpus count? I started playing Bruce Lee on Atari when I was pretty young, too0
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We didn't even have a TV until I was 8 or 9 lol. I played a little bit of Mario and King's Quest at a friends, but never was interested in video games, until I was 15. We then got a SNES, and Final Fantasy III (VI technically, but the cartridge says III).
I haven't looked back. I am a Final Fantasy nerd girl to the core. I have a Mog tattoo.
I love RPGs, Zelda has a good spot in my soul, as do things like Brigandine, Ogre Battle, Xenogears, Dark Cloud, but FF is my gaming home.
I've been playing FFXI (online) for 10 years now, all thanks to that wonderful SNES cartridge.0 -
Pathfinder was what started me gaming currently. It was my gateway "drug" that let into WoW, Minecraft.
Growing up I remember loving Oregon Trail and both Monkey Island and Manic Mansion. Oh, I also liked Diablo, and Never WInter Nights.0 -
The game that probably made me a gamer was Runescape. I made an account (illegally since you had to be 13) back in 2006 and played that game religiously for about 4 years. It kinda felt the same was as the OP. Start off with nothing but a wooden sword, and before you know it you're off adventuring, killing giants, dragons, demons, and even giant cockroaches.
I stopped playing once I was able to get my own WoW account, but Runescape was definitely my gateway into gaming.0 -
Lego Star Wars for the Gameboy.0
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diablo the first, heroes of might and magic 3, mario party... i wasn't lacking for variety at five.0
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damn that's a tough question lol
I got a Genesis when I was young so Sonic 1 was really big for me0 -
Jumpman on Commodore 64, I'd say Doom on the PC was also a adding factor. Ultima Online was my first MMORPG, though I didn't like it, it lead to Everquest for me.0
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Pokemon Red version, I still remember the day I beat the elite 4.0
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Initially, A Link to the Past. I wasn't very good at it, and I couldn't get past the second temple, but I loved it so much I kept restarting it and playing up to the second temple, then quitting and starting again.
When I turned 12 or 13 I became much "too cool" for video games, so I didn't play them again until my boyfriend introduced me to FF8 when I was 15. I was so hooked. He let me borrow an extra Playstation he had, and I would stay up all night playing and sleep through first period at school. I've since played all the other FF's, but VIII will always have a special place in my heart.0 -
Well when I was a kid, Rollercoaster Tycoon was the *kitten*. Then when I had enough money to buy a gameboy, I got Pokemon Red, Zelda: Links Awakening, and Bionic Commando. Those were my faves.0
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Not sure which game turned me into a "gamer" so to say. Played many in my younger days and have kinda just continued since. My first game EVER was Super Mario World on the SNES - that I do remember vividly, my parents getting the SNES as a Christmas present. That newfound love was soon followed up by Legend of Zelda: ALTTP on the Super Nintendo as well. But the one game I really couldn't stop playing as a kid that probably could most be responsible for turning me into a gamer would be Warcraft II.0
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Not sure which game turned me into a "gamer" so to say. Played many in my younger days and have kinda just continued since. My first game EVER was Super Mario World on the SNES - that I do remember vividly, my parents getting the SNES as a Christmas present. That newfound love was soon followed up by Legend of Zelda: ALTTP on the Super Nintendo as well. But the one game I really couldn't stop playing as a kid that probably could most be responsible for turning me into a gamer would be Warcraft II.
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I think it was a Bard's Tale on a Tandy 1000 back in the mid 80's1
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We had an atari 1700 when I was a kid, and we played so many games on it. Two of my favorites was Adventure and Haunted House0
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Legend of Zelda was definitely the game that got me hooked. Anarchy Online was my gateway drug into the MMO universe, though.0
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jazz jack rabbit, earthworm jim, road rash, lemmings0
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Probably with Pokemon, Donkey Kong on the Super Nintendo, and other smaller games on the Gameboy when I was like 4-8 years old. Then I kept playing a lot of MMORPGs(Maplestory, Mabinogi, etc.), lots of all the Harry Potter games, Call of Duty, Madden, and Battlefield(stole gameplay times from my brother's Xbox 360), kept on playing the Wii games... But I never actually realized and branded myself as a gamer.
Well, that all changed at around high school when I was introduced to Assassin's Creed 2 and Portal 2, HL2, and started talking about games 24/7. I play... a LOT of games lol. Oh yea, LoL too. That's when I turned into an actual "gamer".0 -
Way back in the '70s... Space Invaders - in the pub.
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Pac-Man on the Atari 2600...0
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Aging myself but Asteriods on my dad's Atari computer was the first game to get me hooked, followed by Pac-man. Super Mario Bros got me into console gaming and Megaman into the idea of rpgs ( I didn't own the NES, my friend did and my parents refused to buy me one /firstworldprobs). I was also a first year World of Warcraft player.0
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I started with Mario Bros like most people but the early Megaman games were my favorites.0
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tbh, I don't remember when I wasn't a gamer.
My dad was a nerd, and as soon as I could use a computer I was playing computer games. I remember playing the original prince of persia, frogger, some summer olympics game, pitfall, and a whole swathe of others that I can't remember the name of. I just remember using disks that were actually floppy, and having to know how to spell to load the game using command line.
I still remember my first windows games, and my first games that came on a cd - Privateer II, with actual video cutscenes that featured Clive Owen as the main character and Christopher Walken. To this day I constantly forget Clive Owen's name and just remember him as 'Lev Arris' from Privateer II0 -
My first game ever was duck hunt but final fantasy 2 (final fantasy 4 ) changed everything for me and opened up a whole new world of gaming for me. I've since been in love with RPGs0
