Poll: Childhood gamer moment

[byte4554_v1legacy]

It's in the title, what childhood moment (if you had one) made you say, on the spot, I want to be a gamer?
For me it was watching my dad play games like rainbow six and half-life on his PC. Because at the time, it looked like the coolest thing ever...
So, again, what's yours?

 

[IllumInaTIma]

I don't remember that much, but I think it all started when my grandfather brought home good old Sega Mega Drive. I remember spending countless hours with my cousins playing that thing. Then there was first PC with very first Need For Speed...

 

[FalloutJack]

Since a gamer merely a person who plays games, you actually afford us an unnecessary title. One does not decide to 'become a gamer'. You simply pick up a controller and go at it. Suffice to say, I started with an Atari 2600...

 

[byte4554_v1legacy]

Since a gamer merely a person who plays games, you actually afford us an unnecessary title. One does not decide to 'become a gamer'. You simply pick up a controller and go at it. Suffice to say, I started with an Atari 2600...

You have a fair point sir... let me rephrase my statement...what was the first time that you said "I love videogames!"?

 

[FalloutJack]

Since a gamer merely a person who plays games, you actually afford us an unnecessary title. One does not decide to 'become a gamer'. You simply pick up a controller and go at it. Suffice to say, I started with an Atari 2600...

You have a fair point sir... let me rephrase my statement...what was the first time that you said "I love videogames!"?

Well, as I said, I started playing around the Atari 2600 era...

(So, the Extra Credits speech on Missle Command was fricking Fridge Horror/Brilliance to me.)

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

When I was born my Mom played on a Gameboy when she was still in the Hospital. Less than five years later (I know that because I do remember still living in England at the time) it was passed down to me and my fascination with gaming pretty much took off from there. All thanks to Super Mario Land, Tetris, Sneaky Snakes, Alfred Chicken and Krusty's Fun House.

 

[Skorm034]

Before I was 5... Thats all I know..

 

[Scrustle]

I started with the Pokemon craze. I was about 8 or 9 then. I became interested in games shortly before that since one of my neighbours got an N64. The first game I ever saw was Yoshi's Story. I remember thinking it was incredibly strange. But when the Pokemon craze started I got myself a Game Boy Color and Pokemon Yellow, and I was instantly hooked. Shortly after I got my own N64 with Pokemon Stadium and Snap, and then not long after I got Majora's Mask.

 

[zxvcasdfqwerzxcv]

Original greenscreen Gameboy and NES back when I was 5 (or maybe 4). Was dedicated to a very small amount of games for a long time (Super Mario Land, Tetris, Donkey Kong Land, Link's Awakening) for a very long time. Games were damn expensive back then. Each purchase was such a treasured investment, I really miss that feeling of excitement and dedication of a new game, even a mediocre one (oooooh, Captain Planet for NES, why you so difficult?)

 

[Tom_green_day]

I started by playing really crappy PC games, like The Hobbit and Sea Dogs. This wasn't actually a whole long time ago. I even kept that up through games like Spore, RTW and Battle for Middle Earth (loved those games).
I eventually got bored of these games and bought a PSP, playing games like Medieval Resurrection and Locoroco (I THOUGHT IT WAS FUN AT THE TIME OK D: ) before picking up the Monster Hunter games and loving them to bits.
This led me to my PS3 and to properly enter the gaming community as someone who kept up to date on games and announcements etc.

 

[Daaaah Whoosh]

I remember playing my friend's Nintendo 64 and really liking it. I asked my parents for one, but they gave me a PS2, because they'd just come out. From then on, I was a gamer.

 

[DoPo]

Technically, I had been playing video games for a long time - including Super Mario Bros, Doom 2, and so on. But it wasn't a hobby thing, so to say, I was just a kid - I'd be entertained by multicoloured objects, after all. But the time I actually decided to devote more time to it, was when I was around 10 - that's the first time I stepped into an internet cafe (although it had no internet...or drinks) and saw people playing. Delta Force was the first game I witnessed being played there (in LAN, even. It was like seeing sorcery at work) and then the first time I played was Blood 2. And..since then it became a more regular part of my life. And just then I became friends with somebody who was also into games - our quickly friendship blossomed and we did it together. Yes, he was my first LAN partner. We played Quake 3, now he is now one of my best friends.

By the way,

For me it was watching my dad play games like rainbow six and half-life on his PC. Because at the time, it looked like the coolest thing ever...

Stop making me feel old - HL came out just around that time, too.

 

[Maximum Bert]

I was pretty young probably around 5 or 6 I reckon I got a C64 which I played a lot but my friend down the road had a NES so I used to play that a lot as well, mainly Mario 1,2,3 Punch Out and Double Dragon.

Favourite game on the C64 was bubble bobble friggin played that to death for years.

I used to play things like Outrun in the arcades occasionally as well not that I went much as I was a bit to young to go by myself.

 

[Sansha]

It's in the title, what childhood moment (if you had one) made you say, on the spot, I want to be a gamer?
For me it was watching my dad play games like rainbow six and half-life on his PC. Because at the time, it looked like the coolest thing ever...

Boy, do I ever feel old. Mine is playing a Duke-esque side-scroller when I was five years old, followed shortly by Jazz Jackrabbit. All downhill from there.

 

[King of Asgaard]

My earliest memory is of Christmas Day when I was four, when I got my first console, which was a Playstation.
Apparently, I was a natural, and 14 years later, I'm still going strong.

 

[blink]

I grew up watching my brother and receiving his hand-me-downs. I'm still only just getting his gameboy advance with pokemon. So there wasn't really a time, I just grew up with video games. Kind of like when you learn the English language (or whatever your native tongue is), there isn't a specific time.

Plus I don't label myself as "gamer" anymore. I do too many other things and don't spend enough time on them anymore

 

[blizzaradragon]

Depends, do we have to actually realize what we were doing for it to count? Cause if not then I started at about 4 months old when I'd sit in my dad's lap while he played Wolfenstein and I'd slap the keyboard and mouse along with him. Otherwise it'd be at about 2-3, when I'd start playing old floppy disk games that I don't even remember the names of(the one I remember most was like a puzzle/platformer thing in an Egyptian pyramid, and the character had the most triangle head I've ever seen in a game). From there I was enthralled by games, and it skyrocketed from there when I got my Gameboy Pocket at age 5.

 

[Andy Shandy]

Somewhere between 2 and 4, I believe. I used to play Sonic The Hedgehog on the Mega Drive a lot, although I could never get past Labyrinth Zone because the drowning music always scared me so much that I inevitably drowned. Hell, the music still can spook me!

 

[lRookiel]

5, my dad bought a PC and I played Baldur's gate and the original age of empires on it.

No wonder I'm so warped ^^