Poll: So how did you get into gaming?
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13 years ago I had an NES, and I loved it, I wasn't very good, but I played it a lot. When I lost it, I still had my Gameboy and I kinda skated through until the GC, where me and my sis got it for xmas. We both loved it, but as time went by, I ended up using it more than her and now though it's dead, it's mine, I hold it's grave with me on my entertainment wall tower thingy
I didn't get into the culture until about senior year of high school, maybe even freshman year, and I got my first personal new gen system 3 days after christmas. I was mainly a nintendo fanboy, until my friend got me hooked on his xbox games that I'd play when we traded systems, and then learned of Sony and the PS2 around the time the new gens had turned 1 year old. Now I own a PS3, a 360, and I borrow my gf and her bro's Wii, and I'm just starting to get into comp. gaming w/ Steam
I've always been a gamer, I haven't immersed myself in the community until a few years ago, but I'm only 20 now, most 13 year olds are too busy ruining the image of the term "gamer" and those who play video games to care about new titles that don't have a large number on the end and a fancy shmancy franchise name on it in front, screaming over their headphones about how cool they are that they can kill you since they spend every second of their free time playing the same game and never experienceing the true world of gaming. But yeah, wasn't until I hit my late teens that I considered myself in the culture, been a hardcore gamer for years though, got my GC back in Xmas of '00, so about 10 years of hardcore gaming for me
I didn't get into the culture until about senior year of high school, maybe even freshman year, and I got my first personal new gen system 3 days after christmas. I was mainly a nintendo fanboy, until my friend got me hooked on his xbox games that I'd play when we traded systems, and then learned of Sony and the PS2 around the time the new gens had turned 1 year old. Now I own a PS3, a 360, and I borrow my gf and her bro's Wii, and I'm just starting to get into comp. gaming w/ Steam
I've always been a gamer, I haven't immersed myself in the community until a few years ago, but I'm only 20 now, most 13 year olds are too busy ruining the image of the term "gamer" and those who play video games to care about new titles that don't have a large number on the end and a fancy shmancy franchise name on it in front, screaming over their headphones about how cool they are that they can kill you since they spend every second of their free time playing the same game and never experienceing the true world of gaming. But yeah, wasn't until I hit my late teens that I considered myself in the culture, been a hardcore gamer for years though, got my GC back in Xmas of '00, so about 10 years of hardcore gaming for me
i got a couple of Nintendo game and watches for my 9th (8th? 10th??) birthday... Oil Panic and Snoopy Tennis... not long after we got a Texas Intruments 99/4A... did the job but i was happier at a mates place with his C64... that was it. Been hooked on gaming since...
I grew up with this as a form a game media.
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!!! If you're talking about the same Raptor I'm thinking of (DOS-era top-down shooter), you're probably the first person outside my immediate family that I've ever heard mention it. Good times.Harker067 said:
Surprised at the apparent dominance of consoles, and even more to be called "old" at the ripe "old" age of 24. Kids these days... Anyway, I grew up as a PC gamer in the DOS era. Zeliard, SimEarth, and the free games that came along with the QBasic IDE. I remember one was a Scorched Earth clone that involved gorillas throwing bananas at each other. Ten Internet Points to anyone that remembers the Dr. Brain series by Sierra. Hell, five points to anyone who remembers Sierra at all before it went to shit.
The PS3 is actually my first console, and I use it more as a way to stream stuff from Netflix than an actual console. I also tend to play more PS2 than PS3 games, though that's largely due to my refusal to shell out $60 for anything but the most AAA titles. I still firmly believe in the superiority of the keyboard & mouse, but I'm getting more comfortable with a controller. I've just always been happier w/ computer games. I still can't understand how anyone can aim in a FPS with thumbsticks. I don't hate or anything, I'm just fascinated that it's possible. The mouse seems leaps & bounds more precise. Kudos to those of you who can manage it.
Consoles also seem to have a relative lack of strategy games, which I enjoy. Especially turn-based, like Civilization or X-Com (though that's really turn-based tactics, not strategy).
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I started gaming when it was just the Playstation and the Nintendo 64. My dad told me that if I wanted a console, I would have to pick one, and stick with it. I chose the Playstation because that "Z" button on the N64 controller pissed me off. The rest is history.
I remember when my father used to bring home games for my Nintendo every so often.
Anyone remember Animaniacs?
He brought it home after my first day of second grade. Good times were had.
Anyone remember Animaniacs?
He brought it home after my first day of second grade. Good times were had.
I vaguely remember my parents came home with a NES one day when I was very little (born in '86). Back then, I played a little but watched my sisters play Mario quite a bit. Then the SNES came out and that was my time to shine. I played the shit out of SNES, rented games every weekend. My sisters, by this time, had mostly grown out of gaming. I continued on tho, had an N64. Around the end of SNES/early N64 era, was around when my dad had a PC good enough to game on tho (386 or 686 I forget which could game but we had both) so I played Doom waaaay back when that was fairly new, same as Quake and Duke Nukem 3D. My dad was into flight games like Aces Over Europe so I played those, and Tie Fighter, X Wing, Mantis, Day of the Tentacle, Need for Speed (1, 2, 3)... Galaga... Um... yeah all kinds of old school games.
So basically I've been a gamer my whole life, but I also have been pretty balanced, I was a hockey player from age 4 to 18 and these days I have started hitting the gym at least a couple times a week.
Currently I game mostly on my new (April) gaming PC and I have a PS3 and Wii.
So basically I've been a gamer my whole life, but I also have been pretty balanced, I was a hockey player from age 4 to 18 and these days I have started hitting the gym at least a couple times a week.
Currently I game mostly on my new (April) gaming PC and I have a PS3 and Wii.
Umm weil my parents got me this Game Boy for my like 3rd birthday or something. The rest as they say is history. First game I started with was Kirby's Dreamland. Hot damn how I love that game.