What was the game that made you a gamer?
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Donky Kong. i still recall the day my mother sent me to the local grocery store with a $5 bill to get a loaf of bread and i spent the $4 in change on playing that game. boy did i catch hell when i got home. keep in mind though that was back in the day when a loaf of bread was 75 cents and the minimum wage was only $1.35 an hr.
my first serious addiction to video games was the the atari 2600 though. the first time in my life when i stayed awake a full 24 hrs was playing 'river raid' for the first time with my cousin at a sleap over. cought hell for that too as i recall.
come to think of it ive been spending a good chunk of my life playing games then catching hell for it one way or another.
its just sad for me that no game in the last 10/15 years has even come close too that magic i felt the first time i dropped a quarter into that donky kong machine. even the best titles in the genras i enjoy most only engender a resounding ....... meh .... most of the time now days.
my first serious addiction to video games was the the atari 2600 though. the first time in my life when i stayed awake a full 24 hrs was playing 'river raid' for the first time with my cousin at a sleap over. cought hell for that too as i recall.
come to think of it ive been spending a good chunk of my life playing games then catching hell for it one way or another.
its just sad for me that no game in the last 10/15 years has even come close too that magic i felt the first time i dropped a quarter into that donky kong machine. even the best titles in the genras i enjoy most only engender a resounding ....... meh .... most of the time now days.
I'd have to say it was either Halo (recall peeking in on my dad playing from behind the sofa) or the N64 games (mostly multiplayer), like Smash Bros., MarioKart, and Yoshi's Story (notice the wholesome, kid-friendly Nintendo-edness of it all).
DOOM. I played that game over and over again and that's how I picked up my playing style in FPS games in general. In DOOM you're always searching for keys and secret items and in harder difficulties trying to get every possible ammo clip and weapon you can find. You also had to memorize many parts of the level and use the map when needed (I rarely did though). At least that's what I did and funnily that's how I still try to play modern FPS games which are totally different. Thus I feel pretty awkward in most of them and don't really enjoy most shooters nowadays.
Easy. Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt. That game defined my early childhood. I remember sitting on my bedroom floor with my father (R.I.P. Dad) taking turns as Mario and Luigi. He also bought me my first Playstation.
Its gotta be Resident Evil 3 Nemesis, or should i say Biohazard 3 Nemesis, i played that so much until had every weapon unlimited and i completed the game in under 56mins, i wqs trying to break Daniel Jordan's world record of 39 minutes but i figured i just wasn't good enough... *sigh*
i think it was a console not a specific game. the snes was the first time i played non-stop all the time, it was mainly mortal kombats, super donkey kong island or whatever it was called, i remember playing the shit out of that to get everything you could (but now can't even recall the games name or whether it was bananas or barrels you collected...sigh)
