I think I was just kind of born one, really. My memory isn't great, but I remember out house having a NES or Megadrive or something (not that I really knew what they were), and I remember playing them since I could hold a controller. First game I actually personally owned was Pokémon Blue, which naturally I still have. Went through the wash, once, and still works, that engineering quality for you right there.
How Did You Become a Gamer?
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It was so long ago into the recesses of my mind and consciousness thought I don't remember the name of the game or console (somewhere around 1993-4) and I can remember is that it stared a pixel monkey in a pixel forest and a decent into Hell that I couldn't accomplish (because I was 4, and couldn't string thoughts together). Aside from that:
1. Mum got me a N64.
2. Super Mario 64, Mario Kart, etc.
Apparently my mum said that I wanted to be a games designer (or game maker what have you) when I played those games. So one could call that a life's ambition, coming true slowly. It'd go a lot faster if we had any studios left in Oz.
1. Mum got me a N64.
2. Super Mario 64, Mario Kart, etc.
Apparently my mum said that I wanted to be a games designer (or game maker what have you) when I played those games. So one could call that a life's ambition, coming true slowly. It'd go a lot faster if we had any studios left in Oz.
My first console was an N64, and the earliest games I remember spending a long time on were Star Fox, Banjo Kazooie, and Donkey Kong 64.
It's a damn shame DK64 isn't available through the virtual console shop thing.
It's a damn shame DK64 isn't available through the virtual console shop thing.
That was the third game I've ever owned (and still have to this day), yet some people around my neighborhood have reminded me that I should have chosen Pokemon Crystal over Super Mario Deluxe that day...Drummodino said:The first game I owned for it was a remake of the classic Mario Bros called Super Mario Deluxe.
I played it for hours until my mother took it off me though. She only let me play it for an hour on weekends.
OT: I was around 7 spending my vacation at Las Vegas with my family where my mother surprised me with a purple Game Boy Advance with Rayman Advance...
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I don't know if it was the age of 7 or when I was in 7th grade, where participating in a fundraiser-like demonstration at school (that net me A LOT of ones) allowed me to buy my own GameCube, that showed where the "apex" of my gaming legacy started, but I have been known around my circle of IRL friends to be "casually hardcore" when it comes to gaming...
Oh man, the number of times I've butted heads with them (particularly mum) over my gaming. That weekend limit lasted practically until I was in high school. Once I got a PSP I was allowed to keep that in my room and I could play a decent amount of PS3 before I'd get told to get off.Headsprouter said:
Mum's just anti-technology in general really. She hates having to use computers for work. Dad's not too bad but neither of them really get the appeal of games.
Man that makes them sound bad doesn't it? They're actually really great parents and I love them dearly, they just don't like games themselves.
I genuinely can't recall. And it might be because...Drummodino said:
Kirby's Dream Land 2, which released before I turned two years old. My first gaming platform (that I owned), was a Game Boy Pocket, which released the next year. So I was at least three years old when I started playing games.
My older sister and my cousin shared an NES and a Genesis at our house before I was even born, too. For all I know, I played Zelda II before I could even form memories.
I became a gamer because my cousins were gamers and got me addicted, the first game I technically owned was a tiger electronics Star Wars Empire Strikes Back it was a space shooter, hell I'm sure that I still have the damn thing somewhere in my house.
I grew up watching my dad play Roadwar (That game really needs a reboot) on a Dos computer, and trying to play it some while absurdly young. And a story creation game called "once upon a time." A neighbor eventually got Super Mario Bros 2. I watched that some, but never really played.
I got my own NES, and gamed like crazy.
I got my own NES, and gamed like crazy.
My dad had brought in a game system one day to hook up to the tv when I was 4. He thought it was just some kind of new toy sinse I didn't show much interest in any of the electric car things they kept buying. There were two games that I played over and over.
Mickey's Mousecapade - Mickey Mouse from Disney and the most random platform shooter to ever exist.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Donatello or however you spell his name ... OP.
Mickey's Mousecapade - Mickey Mouse from Disney and the most random platform shooter to ever exist.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Donatello or however you spell his name ... OP.
I played a video game.
It was inevitable from that point.
I swear the first one I saw was some ZX Spectrum lawn mowing game (at least I think it was, from the colours). And I was born in 1991, so I have no idea why that was the first.
It was inevitable from that point.
I swear the first one I saw was some ZX Spectrum lawn mowing game (at least I think it was, from the colours). And I was born in 1991, so I have no idea why that was the first.
If you're a nerdy introvert with lots of free time you basically have the choice of videogames and/or books for spending it on. So I naturally gravitated towards videogames early on, not that being into videogames was abnormal even back in my day. I got a Supernintendo when I was 7 or 8 and basically got addicted to Super Mario Worlds 1 and 2 for a long time. That was basically the beginning.
My grandfather had a Windows 95 and played lots of games. From simple DOS games like Lemmings, to Doom.
And I played all of them.
Don't think my grandpa and I had cute gaming family time, he was a grade A dick. I only got to play when he was so drunk he wouldn't be as grumpy anymore/yet or when he was in the hospital.
Weird to think that I'd never use a computer for gaming much afterward. A friend of my dad who owned a thrift store got me and my sisters a SNES and a master sega because my parents couldn't afford to buy us one, and I've been more of a console gamer ever since.
And I played all of them.
Don't think my grandpa and I had cute gaming family time, he was a grade A dick. I only got to play when he was so drunk he wouldn't be as grumpy anymore/yet or when he was in the hospital.
Weird to think that I'd never use a computer for gaming much afterward. A friend of my dad who owned a thrift store got me and my sisters a SNES and a master sega because my parents couldn't afford to buy us one, and I've been more of a console gamer ever since.
The first game I owned was Donkey Kong. I came with the Super Nintendo my parents bought me when I was 6, but, I wouldn?t say the Super NES is what really pulled me into gaming. I certainly enjoyed games then, I had a great time with DK, Mario, Kirby, Castlevania, Mortal Kombat ect; but I wouldn?t say that?s what caused me to prefer gaming as my number 3 pass time.
I think that credit has to go to the PS1 and Resident Evil. Never before had I seen environments in games like that. Mangled dead bodies with forks in their backs splayed out in the foreground, blood spattered on the streets, destroyed cars and buildings. It was so chaotic, so grotesque, and oh how I loved the creatures in those games. I was absolutely fascinated by them. It just blew my little mind away at the time that something like William could exist because at the time all I knew was the more controlled, simple, symmetric character designs from cartoons, movies, and games.
RE was just so twisted and presented so many new ideas and possibilities to my imagination. And as a kid who loved drawing oh man my mind was having a field day with something like the Licker. I mean, a creature crawling around with no skin, its brain exposed, that killed people with its tongue? Man that was awesome! I loved it all and it?s what opened and warped my innocent Yoshi loving mind and compelled me to keep going and get deeper into gaming.
But then I started to waver you know becoming a teenager there are much more fascinating things to pursue. So around 2005 to 6 and beyond I kind of started to not care the only games I bothered with really were Fable Halo 2 and Halo 3 but the game that brought me back and has made me the gamer I am today(which is someone who is head over heels in love with this medium now) is Mass Effect and I am not going to explain the reasons again because well I?ve said it so many times on here and it keeps sounding more and more over dramatic.
So there you go (okay seriously I got to stop with this autobiographical crap)
Resident Evil broke the ice
Mass Effect is what had me jump into the water and continue swimming down.
I think that credit has to go to the PS1 and Resident Evil. Never before had I seen environments in games like that. Mangled dead bodies with forks in their backs splayed out in the foreground, blood spattered on the streets, destroyed cars and buildings. It was so chaotic, so grotesque, and oh how I loved the creatures in those games. I was absolutely fascinated by them. It just blew my little mind away at the time that something like William could exist because at the time all I knew was the more controlled, simple, symmetric character designs from cartoons, movies, and games.
RE was just so twisted and presented so many new ideas and possibilities to my imagination. And as a kid who loved drawing oh man my mind was having a field day with something like the Licker. I mean, a creature crawling around with no skin, its brain exposed, that killed people with its tongue? Man that was awesome! I loved it all and it?s what opened and warped my innocent Yoshi loving mind and compelled me to keep going and get deeper into gaming.
But then I started to waver you know becoming a teenager there are much more fascinating things to pursue. So around 2005 to 6 and beyond I kind of started to not care the only games I bothered with really were Fable Halo 2 and Halo 3 but the game that brought me back and has made me the gamer I am today(which is someone who is head over heels in love with this medium now) is Mass Effect and I am not going to explain the reasons again because well I?ve said it so many times on here and it keeps sounding more and more over dramatic.
So there you go (okay seriously I got to stop with this autobiographical crap)
Resident Evil broke the ice
Mass Effect is what had me jump into the water and continue swimming down.
Hrmmm...first game i ever had was pong but that was a machine in itself. The game that made me want to play it over and over and that eventually lead me to becoming a gamer for real was Rockman on the vic 20. I used to play it at my brothers house when he looked after me and it was an amzing game.
But the reasons why i became a gamer are pretty dark. My father was a **** who enjoyed hitting me when things were bad in his life so staying in my bedroom out of his way was the only sensible thing i could do until i got old enough and strong enough to hit the stupid bastard back. I was the only child in the house (my brothers and sister were far older than me and had moved away) so i needed things i could do with myself. I had a rubber keyed Spectrum ZX81 bought for me when i was about 6 and pretty much became a gamer from then on. Since then i've had most of the consoles and a fair few computers aswell as having access through friends to what i haven't had myself. It wasn't until the 360 era and achievements being introduced that i became a hardcore gamer though...until then i was just a powergamer.
Thing is, afer 28 years of being a gamer i don't feel much interest in it anymore. The industry has changed so much that what lured me into gaming in the first place is no longer present in the new stuff. I find myself at the brink of considering if i am actually still a gamer or just someone who habitually plays games without enjoying them.
But the reasons why i became a gamer are pretty dark. My father was a **** who enjoyed hitting me when things were bad in his life so staying in my bedroom out of his way was the only sensible thing i could do until i got old enough and strong enough to hit the stupid bastard back. I was the only child in the house (my brothers and sister were far older than me and had moved away) so i needed things i could do with myself. I had a rubber keyed Spectrum ZX81 bought for me when i was about 6 and pretty much became a gamer from then on. Since then i've had most of the consoles and a fair few computers aswell as having access through friends to what i haven't had myself. It wasn't until the 360 era and achievements being introduced that i became a hardcore gamer though...until then i was just a powergamer.
Thing is, afer 28 years of being a gamer i don't feel much interest in it anymore. The industry has changed so much that what lured me into gaming in the first place is no longer present in the new stuff. I find myself at the brink of considering if i am actually still a gamer or just someone who habitually plays games without enjoying them.
I was not a big fan of video games and always wanted to play outdoor sports but about 10 years I had a very bad accident and I had to spend few months on my bed. In that time I use to play video games that became an addiction and now I can't live withtout playing video games 
When I was little, my parents (by which I mean my Dad) brought home an Atari 2600 with Pac-Man and Combat. That black box was the gateway to a misspent youth. It called to me.
The first game I ever owned......what came with the Master System? Probably some throwaway title I don't even remember now. I remember Shinobi, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, and Phantasy Star.
I've owned six consoles including PS3. Gaming PCs are harder to keep track of but I've done enough parts swapping that everything but the case has changed five or six times.
The first game I ever owned......what came with the Master System? Probably some throwaway title I don't even remember now. I remember Shinobi, Alex Kidd in Miracle World, and Phantasy Star.
I've owned six consoles including PS3. Gaming PCs are harder to keep track of but I've done enough parts swapping that everything but the case has changed five or six times.
My uncle first introduced me to...a collection of games I honestly can't recall the name of, back when PC gaming was green and black and everything had blocky sides about a centimeter per edge. Some sort of primitive racing game, some sort of primitive adventure game. Being told that I was controlling my very own virtual car leaves quite the impact on a 3-year-old.