How did you lose your gaming virginity?

[MrSnugglesworth]

Rise of Nations for the PC at a friend of mines house.


It was pretty cool.

 

[sonyownsme13]

Well, i guess it was pacman that probably ate my cherry.

 

[ExHail]

The first real game I played was Command&Conquer: Tiberium Sun in 2000. What a fantastic first game to play it was, I was hooked from there and have not looked back since. Continued to explore driving simulation(Need for Speed), RPG(Dungeon Seige, Titan Quest, Morrowind), RTS(Warcraft series, not WoW rubbish, Command&Conquer series, Supreme Commander) and FPS games(CS, TF2, Battlefield, Call of Duty, Half-Life).

For consoles I really can't remember which one I had but I enjoyed Mario Brothers, Battle Tanks and Adventure Island the most. After that on to some Sega console to play Mortal Combat and Sonic. Besides those games I never really got into console gaming, didn't care much for the restrictive game pads and the lack of diversity(lacking RPG, RTS and FPS games at the time) so I became a PC only gamer.

 

[LordGanon666]

Urm i think mine was the very first Prince of Persia game.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

It was either Tetris or Super Mario Bros., both of which on the NES. However, it wasn't until Ninja Gaiden on the Xbox that I actually became good at games. I was a very very late bloomer in gaming skill.

 

[Batfred]

It was a gaming system call a Vectrex which - as the name would suggest - used vector graphics. The first actual game was called Minefiled which to the rest of us was Asteroids. I think I would have been about 6 (26 years ago!). There were about 20 + games available on it and they were great for the time.

Bonus points if you had or even had heard of a vectrex.

 

[Sallix]

I was about 7 or 8 and gto snes, i lost it to Joe and Mac: Caveman Ninja.

i love how dirty that sounds

 

[Sion_Barzahd]

According to my family, almost immediately. After i got home i always wanted to be near whoever was playing on gameboys etc.

Far as i can remember, the original gameboy, SNES, Sega and atari jaguar have always been there.

 

[technoted]

not sure, i always had a amstrad cpc and spectrum in my room as a little kid so probably hammered the buttons to some bright colours when i was born first game i can remember though is either dizzy the egg series or harrier attack

 

[funguy2121]

Yes, this thread is as geeky as it sounds. I was just wondering what games were peoples first introduction into the bright, fantastic and sometimes kinda sad, but in an accetpable way, world of gaming.

For myself I was a late bloomer and was about 7 when I first played on what I consider a proper game, i.e. one that has levels and not just adding numbers, and that was Yoshi's Island on the SNES; which I still consider to this day one of the best games ever.

Parsec, a side-scrolling space shooter on the TI-99. And no, Americans, that's not a calculator. We also had Pac-Man, and that's about all I was old enough to play.

Then we went to a restaurant, Bobby Valentine's (cookie for the athlete reference), in 1987. And guess what game I played for the first time there?

Super Mario Brothers. Wasn't even aware of a home system. I got it the following christmas.

 

[Gasaraki]

total annihilation when i was maybe 7 or 8

even to this day it's still the best rts that i've ever played and i still play it every once in a while

 

[Muffinthraka]

I was gangbanged by a combination of Sqweek, Onslaught and Rick Dangerous on the Atari ST.

 

[mindclockwork]

pac man on commandore 64. it was simply legendary.

crimson skies was first 'proper' game i played along with homeworld and need for speed II and III. and also there was bit of rollercoaster tycoon... ah those times.

 

[Amenta Kaiser]

Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis was my first, but Sonic Adventure on the Sega Dreamcast was my love.

 

[Drone89]

Super Mario/Duck Hunt and Ultima Exodus on the Nintendo NES... I was 5 and had noooo idea what an RPG was lol

 

[Vrex360]

The first game I played that I can recal was a simple game of Space Invaders. Before that I was a young naive boy but then I met that girl Space Invaders and she showed me things I could not even imagine and was one of the main things that would lead to a whole new world for me.

 

[cheeseslapper]

first games i played was the indiana jones point and click games by lucas art quickly followed by Doom when i was about 4 which hassnt harmed my mind in anyway playing suck a brutaly violant game when i was soo young cause im a real person not some ficional character who thinks since ive seen it in a gmae i should go out into the street and start shooting ppl.. im not australian btw.

 

[slackbheep]

When I was about four, with Mario Bros for the NES. I liked it so much at a cousins while visiting that I got one for Christmas.

 

[Pacman_69_42]

When I stumbled upon this thread I was ready to talk bout my first time playing mario kart ds during sex but I read a few posts and yea so onto the ot I woulda been about 4-5 and we had an old dos computer with doom on it the games were awesome for the time