Who introduced you to gaming?

[Mallefunction]

Question is in the title

For me, it was one of the boys in my neighborhood when I was in first grade or so. We often had supersoaker fights in the cul-de-sac where we lived. One day it was too hot for even that so he invited me in to play with him and his brother. For the next two hours or so, he taught me how to play Spyro the Dragon on the recently released PS1. I never had anyone in my family who played games (unless you count tetris...) so I was late in being introduced to the world of gaming. Even after, he was the only person I ever knew who owned a Playstation rather than an NES or N64.

So who brought the wonderful world of gaming into your lives? I admit, I'm going to be jealous of all those of you who had gamer parents.

 

[Limecake]

My dad, I remember staying up late to watch him play Diablo or the original quake. He was always nerdy from comic books and video games to computers and math my dad is an original nerd.

he even picked up the Witcher 2 recently and already has plans of buying several games this year/next year (crysis 2, Diablo 3, Darksiders 2, etc.)

plus my parents bought me an original NES when I was just a baby so I've grown up playing video games.

 

[pauseandeffect]

My dad. When he bought the Nintendo on release day. I wasn't allowed to play the Atari we had because,"It was too violent." So I played Mario for HOURS.

 

[GundamSentinel]

My uncle. I got my 486 from him. Test Drive, Captain Comic, CD-Man, Tetris and loads of others.

 

[Veldel]

None i just found a game system and started playing it been gaming since I was 3 and dont plan to ever put down the controller

 

[Mister Benoit]

My dad >.> while he didn't mind most games, he's still hooked on Tetris for the nes.

I picked up him a new NES and controllers about 3 years back because his broke. He was my introduction to a lot of stuff.

 

[TheIronRuler]

My dad, Rayman 1 was one of the first games I ever played, along with AoE 1.

 

[DeadlyYellow]

My dad. He used to play games back in the Windows 3.11 era. Namely Wolfenstein.

 

[mik1]

My family had an NES when I was born. I remember watching my Dad and brother play Ninja Turtles (Manhattan project not the shitty one) for hours. Never actually beat that game though....

...someday

 

[Nocta-Aeterna]

My father showed me how to start (not play) the original Prince of Persia on DOS. From there on, it was all self taught.

 

[Thaa'ir]

Two people really...my dad introduced me to PC gaming when I was really little. We would play games like Beyond Time, Rhea, and Myst for hours...

And from there, I moved into all PC games, particularly strategy.

My brother introduced me to consoles through the N64. We'd had the earlier systems, but I never paid much attention to them. When my brother got me to play Ocarina of Time though, I was hooked instantly. I used to fake sick during first grade so I could stay home and play.

 

[DanielBrown]

Not sure, but I think it was a class mate when I was five-six years old. We played NES or SNES at him pretty often and it's my first memory of gaming.

 

[wottabout]

My sisters. We used to play PC games like Loom and Might & Magic. We liked to play single-player games together by having one person control the mouse, one control the arrow keys, and one control all the other buttons. It was awesome.

 

[PissOffRoth]

I think Spyro was my first game too. I played it at my babysitter's house when I was just a wee one. Now that I think on it, that's probably my earliest memory... Amazing.

reCaptcha: guitar player
It makes actual sense for once.

 

[Tilted_Logic]

Definitely my father. When I was still young enough to be playing with barbies and toy horses I use to go down to his office and watch him play the original Half Life for hours. I don't know why on earth I was interested in it, but I absolutely loved watching him play. He was great at the shooting aspects, but often he'd get stuck on the puzzles and that was generally where I helped him out.

That introduced me to the idea of gaming in general, and soon after we got a N64 and a few silly computer games (Lion King/Magic School Bus type stuff) and I thoroughly enjoyed them.

It wasn't till I was around 15 or so that I moved on from the friendly gaming scene to first person shooters and violent stuff though.

Edit: What's with the captchas? I had to watch a Canon camera ad to get the text.... which I suppose could be better than all the foreign symbols I've been getting lately but still, that was odd.

 

[Tuesday Night Fever]

I'm really not sure, actually.

My uncle Jeff had Wolfenstein 3D on his computer which he would let me play whenever we went over to his house.

My older sister got an original gray brick GameBoy with Super Mario Land for Christmas, which she never used, so it ended up being mine.

Which one was my actual introduction to gaming though... I honestly can't remember.

 

[Zebidizy]

my next door neighbour. She had age of empires demo and i fell in love with it =) parents got me the game soon after xD

 

[Nerfherder17]

Older brother, playing Bubble Bobble on the NES. First game I remember playing. Followed by N64, PS2 then XB360. Now I dont even own a console

 

[asthmatichamster]

My mom. We used to play Super Mario on the NES together when I was only 4.

 

[Moontouched-Moogle]

My parents. They got me some games to play on their PC like Lego Rock Raiders and Lego Racers, and some time later bought me a Game Boy Color and a PlayStation 2

A few years later, my neighbor/babysitter also contributed by bringing over Link to the Past and Megaman X2 for me to play on my mom's old SNES, giving me an appreciation for older and/or 2d games.

I consider myself lucky that I got to experience both the old and the new during my formative gaming years. It's given me a wider appreciation and enjoyment of games.