Poll: So how did you get into gaming?

[calsonic]

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...

 

[Keava]

Summer vacations, year 1984, i was 5, the beach was boring, no one built a sand castle impressive enough for me to bother with destroying it, local fried junk food shack had arcade machine with Pac-Man.

 

[Dimitriov]

I can't remember how I got into gaming, played the NES and a bunch of DOS games, then so on and so forth.

 

[Dr. Manhattan]

I just kinda...did.

 

[Nevyrmoore]

I grew up with this as a form a game media.

You want to complain about long loading times? How about waiting 5 minutes only to find something went gone fucked up in the loading process!

 

[John the Gamer]

Got into gaming during the windows dos/3.1 era.

 

[Tigurus]

I always watched my brother play some games and I would stare how he played them.
Then I was sick this one time and he picked me up from school (kindergarten!!!) and asked if I could play Command and Conquer and he said yes.

So I got addicted....Hurrah!

 

[Neuromaster]

Well actually I grew up on dos with games like raptor, duke nukem 2 and math rescue.

!!! 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.

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).

Edit: 200 posts woo!

 

[shadyh8er]

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.

 

[8-Bit Grin]

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.

 

[Dr. Paine]

Been a gamer since the PS1 era, started with Spyro the dragon. Later got into Twisted Metal and whatever else I could get, with the odd GB/GBA game or two. Now I've moved onto the 360 as my primary platform.

 

[ShadowsofHope]

I shit you not, Pokemon for the original Gameboy Color.

 

[Flamma Man]

Pokemon Red on the Game Boy...

Those were the days...

 

[hawkeye52]

i was first brought into gaming at the age of 6-7 when i played worms with my brothers

 

[Wolfram23]

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.

 

[The Infinite]

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.

 

[TG MLPDashie]

DOOM at the age of five, hooked ever since

 

[Mechsoap]

it started with me and a friend as infants where gifted with a nes. we never stopped...

 

[Frozen Donkey Wheel2]

Uh....Other?

Quite a few years ago(at least a decade) two of my older cousins brought their PS1 to a family renunion, and we spent it playing Spyro The Dragon(BEST. GAME. EVER.). And when they were leaving, they let us keep it, because they were planning on buying a PS2.

And I've been gaming ever since.

 

[Buizel91]

First Console i owned was a Keyboard that used Floppy Disks, it plugged into the back of the TV, think it was called The Amiga(?)

First game i acctualy enjoyed was Pokemon Yellow then my bastard Cousin decided it would be funny to save over my save -_-' i had just beaten the Pokemon league :[ Ever since then Pokemon has been a must for my Hand-Held Consoles <3

Then got a PS1 and fell in love Digimon...how i loved that game <3.

But what got me into Gaming properly was Halo 2, (I saw Halo: CE on adverts but i didn't think i would like it) First Shooter i acctualy grew to love, all other had me bored after 1 week. So after that i got Halo: CE but didn't enjoy it as much, still liked it though. So Blame Halo 2 for me being here without it i probably wouldn't enjoy gaming as much as i do now.

And that's my gaming story for you =D