What pulled you into gaming?

[xDarkspawnx]

Games are a fabulous thing aren't they? Most of you reading this are gamers obviously but what got you there? What got you into gaming? Not the first game ever but the first one you relished and spent hours upon hours on. And now i can't think of an ending. Damn.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

My brother, mainly, since he owned an XBox and got the game I really enjoyed, Halo.

 

[Kuroneko97]

My brother's been a gamer since he was in elementary, and he's currently 25. I'm 11 years younger than him, so...I just got pulled in. I think my first game was The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

 

[Wapox]

my first game got me into gaming...
it was Pokémon Yellow for the old Gameboy

 

[proandi]

Super Mario Bros on the SNES

I spent way too long playing that, completed it like a million times. Castlevania, F Zero and Street Fighter finished the job and I was addicted!

 

[Collins254]

coolboarders 2 on psx, but i think final fantasy 7 took the cake for me.

 

[LookingGlass]

I'd been playing games since about 1990 (Midnight Rescue FTW), but I think the first game that I got addicted to was Worms, which came out in 1995. I played it once at a friend's house and that was it. I HAD to have it. Then I HAD to play it every spare second I had.

Although, before then I'd spent a pretty significant period of time with the Commander Keen games and somewhere around there I got addicted to joystick style games like X-Wing too and they stole a lot of my early gaming days.


I got into console gaming when I played Goldeneye at another friend's place. Went shopping with my parents that night and we bought an N64 for my birthday, which was coming up.

 

[Use_Imagination_here]

My aunt buying me a gameboy when i was 4. Been gaming ever since.

 

[SckizoBoy]

I got into the gaming scene rather late in life (when I was about 14, and it was mainly RTS's, the early Civ titles and Shogun Total War). But the first title I played madly was Medieval Total War.

Then along comes CS1.6 and I get sucked into the maelstrom of FPS's...

 

[unicron44]

Zero Punctuation, honestly. I just played sometimes and then I stumbled upon ZP and I got more into gaming.

 

[ChupathingyX]

When I was 4 or 5 my sister showed me her Playstation and taught me to play Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon which i played constantly.

Once I got my PS2, I kept playing Crash and Spyro games until I played Dynasty Warriors 4, then that's when I really got into gaming and began to expand to different franchises and game genres.

 

[Valdsator]

I watched my dad play Duke Nukem 3D all the time, and then I began playing it. That's when I realized games are amazing.

 

[rsacks]

Playing old Atari games with my older brother was the hook for me about 20 years ago. We used to spend hours playing Joust, Food Fight, Pitfall and tons of others (we used to go to the flea markets and buy the games for about fifty cents a piece.). I remember spending a lot of time on Joust trying to beat my brother's high score...

But now I spend most of my time playing PC games, and the hook for that was playing Quest for Glory 1, I beat it with all 3 character types then played through again to try and get the max score, then played it again because I wanted to see all the jokes. I was kinda sad when they finished the series off with QFG5 in '98.

 

[fulano]

Oddly enough...it was the storytelling. Odd, right?

My brothers and I had the awesome good luck of booting Ninja Gaiden II in the NES way back in the day as our first ever game. It was vague, and in english, but we could sort of make out some plot progression that had to do with a genuine motivation to set shit right in the world, rescue your girl, find out what happened with Jaquio, 'The Demon', and it had everything; from crazy levels, even crazier bosses, to surprising plot twists: That Jaquio guy from the first game (that we didn't have, back then) was a genuine tough ************ and...he wasn't DEAD...not truly...and he was the one pulling ALL the strings and NOT Asthar, whom he actually used, and the latter dude never even found out.

I was an impressionable kid, and right then I thought "This is way better than the movies or TV." And I was damn right.

 

[surg3n]

For me, it was the social aspect of gaming. Back in the 80's, we'd visit my grandparents and uncles most weekends, they had a C64 so we'd have massive games of Summer Games I and II, Frak, Manic Miner, Hunchback, Miner 49er, Bounty Bob etc etc. It was always a massive competition between the whole family, see who could get the most medals, or highest score, or usually just see who could get the furthest... for bragging rights more than anything.

Then my parents got a Spectrum48k for us and we'd do the same thing practically every night, the platforms and games changed, but we always played games together. My family all play games still, in fact they play games more than they ever did, what with NDS handhelds and cheap laptops and all that.

These days I'm a business systems programmer, and part time game developer, and probably don't play a lot of games compared to hardcore gamers, there just aren't enough hours in the day. When I take holidays, it's usually to play some games or program a game idea at home - that's my idea of an ideal holiday, being left alone for a week just to chill out and play something. I'm saving a weeks leave for Skyrim .

 

[Scarim Coral]

Pretty much my brother since he owned the game Tetris on his Gameboy. Also back then I tend to watch him playing other games alot.

 

[Griffolion]

They called to me, I responded. What a glorious life.

 

[SuperSuperSuperGuy]

I used to watch my cousin play video games all the time. He's the guy who really introduced me to this wonderful medium.