Who introduced you to gaming?

[deshorty]

My brother. He bartered with his friends to acquire two gameboys and two copies of Pokemon from his friends using his prized collection of Pokemon cards. Unfortunately those gameboys were confiscated and have never been seen since. But I still found a way to game. Anyway, that gameboy is my gaming root.

 

[Corax_1990]

My Uncle, took turns playing through Wolfenstein on the Jaguar. TAKE THAT HITLER.

 

[edudogel]

er um i stole my brothers pokemon sapphire
he got angry i was a noob i though KO-ING a legendary was better than catching lol

 

[Flip-Shying]

My mom believe it or not. She was the one with the computer and I played games like Monster Bash, Commander Keen, etc until I finally got a PS1 for Christmas one day. And the rest is history...

 

[JohnTomorrow]

One of the kids who lived down the road from me got a Nintendo for christmas. We all went to his place and checked it out, and thought it was sweet.

I got hand-me-down games after that, but the ones most poignant in my mind was AlleyCat and BattleChess on my PC. they were pretty awesome.

I think i literally fell in love with gaming when i first played Metal Gear Solid. After that game, i was hooked.

 

[Keava]

Pretty hard to nail it down. I guess i could just blame the arcade machines with Pac Man i stumbled upon in young age tho if i'd have to go all the way back, might as well blame my grandpa that taught me how to play chess when i was 3.
Then when i was 5 dad bought Amstrad CPC to use for work and it came with 2 floppies with some games like prince of persia and prehistorik.

 

[The Epicosity]

My dad got me an original Xbox. Thus began a friendship that will never end with gaming.

My PC gaming/strategy gaming began with a friend showing me a game called Age of Mythology, and amazed me, I had honestly never imagined playing a game on the PC, so immediately talked my dad into getting me Age of Empires III for the PC. I still only play strategy or MC when I do play, but I know how to right click because of it. /queue new smiley face

 

[therandombear]

Alot of "My dad answers"

I'm going on the same wagon though, it was my dad who first showed me games on the PC and later he surprised me with N64 and Super Mario 64 on the bed xD

 

[Choppaduel]

Technically arcades. The introduced me to the existence of such things, but I could never squeeze any quarters out of my parents, so the first time I played a game was in 1996 on one of my dads spare PCs. A friend brought over DOOM on a stack of floppies. Once we figured out how to install it, it was good times, and thus began my going on 15 year love affair with gaming. (I still love run-and-gun FPS)

 

[Padwolf]

My dad and my brother introduced me to gaming back when I was five with the Sega Megadrive, Sonic was my first game, ever since then I've always loved gaming

 

[GOWONZU]

Santa Claus, when I was 5 years old

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

My dad. And I'm eternally thankful for it.

 

[octafish]

I think I have to say Jack Tramiel. If it wasn't for his determination to offer cheap capaably personal computers for the everyman I never would have gotten a Commodore 64.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I don't exactly remember being introduced, I just remember there always being an NES and a home PC. It could be that I was born in 1985 and my family already had the NES before I could possibly remember such things as the family getting new things. So I always remember playing video games. My dad only liked to play Top Gun, I'm guessing that is because he was in the Navy(He served on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise), of course he only set planes off, so I guess Top Gun gave him the ability to fly the plane like I'm guessing he wanted to. Though the game caused problems like with many others, he could never get vary far because he could never get his plane refueled.

My mom loved Tetris and Super Mario Bros. 2. We had like 20 games or more, I usually rotated and played them all. I would say that my five favorites were, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Mega Man 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, and Battletoads.

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.

Atari was violent? I've played a lot of Atari games and I can't say that they were violent. I would consider Mario to be more violent. Mario is jump on and killing all sorts of creatures and firing fireballs, and dropping all the different Bowsers into the lava.

The most I saw from Atari is a group of pixels fires a pixel at another group of pixels and the other group disappears.

It's funny to see how parents of different times react to things.

 

[pauseandeffect]

I don't exactly remember being introduced, I just remember there always being an NES and a home PC. It could be that I was born in 1985 and my family already had the NES before I could possibly remember such things as the family getting new things. So I always remember playing video games. My dad only liked to play Top Gun, I'm guessing that is because he was in the Navy(He served on the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise), of course he only set planes off, so I guess Top Gun gave him the ability to fly the plane like I'm guessing he wanted to. Though the game caused problems like with many others, he could never get vary far because he could never get his plane refueled.

My mom loved Tetris and Super Mario Bros. 2. We had like 20 games or more, I usually rotated and played them all. I would say that my five favorites were, Super Mario Bros., Super Mario Bros. 3, Mega Man 2, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2, and Battletoads.

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.

Atari was violent? I've played a lot of Atari games and I can't say that they were violent. I would consider Mario to be more violent. Mario is jump on and killing all sorts of creatures and firing fireballs, and dropping all the different Bowsers into the lava.

The most I saw from Atari is a group of pixels fires a pixel at another group of pixels and the other group disappears.

It's funny to see how parents of different times react to things.

Yeah, it was like Pitfall was, "too real" because the game would teach you how to jump over pits and that crocodiles were easy to get by if you had a bit of rope. Really spacey stuff...

Mario on the other hand had goomba which don't exist and turtles which didn't look like turtles and who the hell throws fire you get from a plant?

I never said it made sense but this is what we had. lol.