The game that got you into gaming
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Let's see... my first game was Star Wars Rogue Squadron, way back in '98. The game(s) that really got me into gaming, though, was probably the Crash Bandicoot games.
But the game that totally defined me as a gamer would probably have to be Ratchet and Clank.
But the game that totally defined me as a gamer would probably have to be Ratchet and Clank.
Vector graphics finally got me. As a kid we had a Sears brand Pong machine. And later we'd picked up a Atari 2600, but none of that really got to me. Then I found the vector graphics Star Wars. In the sit down cabinet... with the huge thumping speakers under the chair and behind you. Back in the day when the cabinet still had an ash tray bolted to it.
I fell in love... the arcade became a second home. A few years later (after getting a NES and getting hooked on Dragon Warrior and Nintendo and Capcom games) I got X-Wing for my (at the time) brand new 486 DX with a huge 66 Mhz processor... I've been a gamer ever since.
I fell in love... the arcade became a second home. A few years later (after getting a NES and getting hooked on Dragon Warrior and Nintendo and Capcom games) I got X-Wing for my (at the time) brand new 486 DX with a huge 66 Mhz processor... I've been a gamer ever since.
Diddy Kong racing! That shit was like crack to me. I remember always chasing the ghosts of my dad's best times around the track. He was a demon.
I can personally thank three different games for getting me into gaming:
Super Mario Bros. sparked my curiosity with the medium.
Mechwarrior 2 started my fascination with the technology behind the medium.
Half-Life cemented my love affair with the medium and showed me the potential for unique story-telling held therein.
Super Mario Bros. sparked my curiosity with the medium.
Mechwarrior 2 started my fascination with the technology behind the medium.
Half-Life cemented my love affair with the medium and showed me the potential for unique story-telling held therein.
The first game i ever played was this racing game game in chuckie cheese. I was 4 year old. the reason i picked that game was because i liked car racing, i would watch nasscar every chance I could. I have no idea what its name is, but it is also a nintendo 64 game. the game after that, was THE jarassic park game. you know, the one where you sit on a moving bench and you shoot the dinosaurs with your red or blue joystick depending on wether you were player one or player 2.
Burger Time or Demon Attack on the old Atari 2600.
I got an upgrade to the NES a few years later with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as my first game with it
I got an upgrade to the NES a few years later with Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles as my first game with it
Steel Empire and Sonic 2, both on my Sega Megadrive. The former's title I only found out recently from this very website after putting a description together based on the scattered, fragmented and really damn hazy memories I had of playing that game.
I was really quite young. I'm 20, and the game is at least as old as I am. Now that puts things in a weird perspective. The game that really made me a gamer is as old as me.
I was really quite young. I'm 20, and the game is at least as old as I am. Now that puts things in a weird perspective. The game that really made me a gamer is as old as me.
For me, there is no single game that got me into gaming culture and made me care about the medium the way I do now. I would have to give most of the credit to Mass Effect 1, and Assassin's Creed 1. Both very flawed games (and neither even being in my personal top 5 games of all time) but both displaying so much potential in narrative and game mechanics, that I really started to want more from the medium.
Super Mario World. The real kicker to that game, I discovered video games besides that one existed! As a kid thats kind of a big deal...
Not a single game. The C64 at a friends house got me into gaming. I found my love for beat`em ups like Double Dragon, jump and runs like Giana Sisters (at the time i didn`t know it was a Mario clone), i played my first Lucasarts adventure Maniac Mansion. There where a lot of other games i really liked Turrican, Barbarian, Mafia, Outrun, Law of the West and others i have forgotten (damn i forgot the name of the shoot`em up with the helicopter and the jeep, sorry).
So this was the beginning of my personal little history about this fun hobby.
So this was the beginning of my personal little history about this fun hobby.
