What age were you when you started gaming, and what was the game?
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I was wicked young... probably between 2 and 5. Somewhere in the middle at best.
My first game, I think, was either Super Mario Brothers or The Legend of Zelda for the NES.
Actually, thinking back (as far as my memory takes me) it may have been Super Mario Brothers 3, but that's a shot in the dark just the same.
This thread made me feel old.
My first game, I think, was either Super Mario Brothers or The Legend of Zelda for the NES.
Actually, thinking back (as far as my memory takes me) it may have been Super Mario Brothers 3, but that's a shot in the dark just the same.
This thread made me feel old.
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About 6 when my dad brought home his first 186 PC fron work (2Mhz IIRC! and 640Kb RAM!) and a copy of the original teris.
I then went through a phase where I had to code my own games in BASIC. Honestly.
I was never allowed near arcades or whatever. Played on a friends BBC Micro a bit. truly awful games like chucky egg.
Saved up for a C64, second hand. Loved "Operation Wulf", "Cyberdyne Warrior", "Creatures", "Arnie" and many more. I always craved a proper racing game. I had a Ferrari F1 game that took hours to load and was rubbish. One of my dads friends once brought over a monochrome laptop with a copy of "test drive" and I loved it.
Atari PC and Stunt driver was cool too.
A neighbour had an Amiga 1200 and Elite 2: Frontier and I was blown away by that. Used to get lost for hours in it.
Eventually the console age dawned and I got a SNES and Mariokart (bought it myself with christmas money against my parents wishes -£79.99 for the mario all-stars pack). I Still have it, hooked up to my 40" tv now! Games were £40-£60 so it was a really big deal aged 14 saving up for them. I could get maybe 1-2 games a year and relied on swaps and rentals to play more. Starfox was great too, and I loved Stunt race FX and Super Probotector, along wih Donkey Kong Country which I remember being a graphical benchmark.
Aged 17 I got a Playstation as I worked in a music store over summer. My parents didn't know, I had to hide it and only play at night which ruined my A-Levels.
Gran turismo was a gaming epiphany for me. A "true" simulator for cars. tomb raider, resident evil, loads of great games made possible by the power of that console. It genuinely was the shift of games out of the toy cupboard and into the mainstream.
Whoops. Started typing and forgot to stop!
I then went through a phase where I had to code my own games in BASIC. Honestly.
I was never allowed near arcades or whatever. Played on a friends BBC Micro a bit. truly awful games like chucky egg.
Saved up for a C64, second hand. Loved "Operation Wulf", "Cyberdyne Warrior", "Creatures", "Arnie" and many more. I always craved a proper racing game. I had a Ferrari F1 game that took hours to load and was rubbish. One of my dads friends once brought over a monochrome laptop with a copy of "test drive" and I loved it.
Atari PC and Stunt driver was cool too.
A neighbour had an Amiga 1200 and Elite 2: Frontier and I was blown away by that. Used to get lost for hours in it.
Eventually the console age dawned and I got a SNES and Mariokart (bought it myself with christmas money against my parents wishes -£79.99 for the mario all-stars pack). I Still have it, hooked up to my 40" tv now! Games were £40-£60 so it was a really big deal aged 14 saving up for them. I could get maybe 1-2 games a year and relied on swaps and rentals to play more. Starfox was great too, and I loved Stunt race FX and Super Probotector, along wih Donkey Kong Country which I remember being a graphical benchmark.
Aged 17 I got a Playstation as I worked in a music store over summer. My parents didn't know, I had to hide it and only play at night which ruined my A-Levels.
Gran turismo was a gaming epiphany for me. A "true" simulator for cars. tomb raider, resident evil, loads of great games made possible by the power of that console. It genuinely was the shift of games out of the toy cupboard and into the mainstream.Whoops. Started typing and forgot to stop!
First game I played was Galatia(sp?) on Atari when I was around 3. Course I was way too young to be considered a gamer.
Didn't become a gamer till I was about 7, playing A Fairy Tale Adventure on Commodore 64. And a couple of years later when we got our first IBM compatible, might as well forget about it.
Didn't become a gamer till I was about 7, playing A Fairy Tale Adventure on Commodore 64. And a couple of years later when we got our first IBM compatible, might as well forget about it.
4 years old and an Floppy Disc game from duracell. God it was great XD Took me two hours to complete the first time and less than an hour the next. XD
I was about 7 or 8, and the game was Donkey Kong on the Colecovision (which was like the PS3 of its day).
Yeah, I'm that old.
Yeah, I'm that old.
3 years old (and i dont live in an english-speaking country), the game was Heroes of Might and Magic 3. my dad taught me how to play (hes a gamer too, but he plays RTS and MMORPG). Heroes of Might and Magic 3 to 5 is the 3 best strategy games ever made.
Well the first time I played a game was when I was about 8 on what looked like one of the first laptops ever made. It was space invaders. Then at about 10 it was commanche, which I liked, but at 11 or 12 I played mechwarrior 2 and that is probably one of my favorite games ever. Hmm, but then again, I think at around 10 I got the curse of monkey Island which might be one of my favorites as well. I couldn't beat the fucking thing so I put it away until I was 14 and then just flew through it. But that time is all mushed together so my first game could be any of those really.
I was 3 years old and the game was DOOM, which my cousin installed on our computer. I loved that game so much (still my all time favorite). My parents were convinced that it gave me nightmares for years...
Maybe not the best game for a 3 year old, but I wasn't complaining.
Maybe not the best game for a 3 year old, but I wasn't complaining.
