What Got You Into Gaming?

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MR.KAZ

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Hi Everyone!

It's obvious that most of you are pretty heavy hitters when it comes to gaming.Just out of curiosity,what was it that got you guys in gaming in general?For me I lived in arcades when I was younger,you?


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MR.KAZ
 
Fr0dus Maximus said:
Final Fantasy.
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I hear you on that one Fr0us!

As odd as it sounds,I myself found that title to be the most difficult in the series.Next to the "Warmech",The enemies that caused me consider taking a mallet to the game cartridge were those bloody "Gas Dragons" in Chaos' lair.How about you?
 
My brother got me into games actually. He would play this GI Joe & Mech Warrior game on Commodore 64 back in the day. I learned how to type at age 5 using that computer, with a Muppet game that helped you match letters, numbers, and colors. Also, this one little game that taught you how to spell and type, the object was to help the little robot get to the treasure island and fight off the spelling monster, in order to win the treasure. I think it was called "TAKK" or something. My parents finally decided to get me a Sega Master System in 87'
 
i was pretty much born a gamer and an otaku, my parents got a sega genesis with sonic the hedgehog when i was born and i used to play the heck out of it, and later on like when i turned 4 my cousin got an NES and we shared it, and then i got my own GBC and that's when i officially became a gamer and not just a little kid that wants to play games XD.
 
My dad got Doom from a friend at his work and we played it together (he moved I shot :lol). Then we got Duke Nukem 3D and I've been loving FPS games ever since.

Also, mastermario helped a lot :p
 
Homicidal Cherry53 said:
I fell in with a crowd of gamers in kindergarten who convinced me to get a Gameboy and Pokemon and I've been hooked ever since. XD
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This, sans crowd of gamers and replaced with kindergarten graduation gift.
 
My big sister got an Atari cart (though we didn't own an Atari) and gave it to me because she didn't like video games. My parents decided to get me one for my birthday since I spent a lot of time at the neighbors playing their 2600. SO I've been technically collecting since I was 3 ish...
 
My sister got a Nintendo for Christmas one year. SMB3, Lazer Invasion, and a few others came with it. I think I spent about 1.5 hours playing with my present that year, before I claimed the Nintendo for myself.

Then, at one friend's birthday party, I was introduced to something called a Sega Genesis and witnessed first hand NHL 93. I don't remember the name of the kid whose birthday it was, but I do remember challenging every other kid there to try and beat me in NHL 93, and said I would pass off once I lost. There may have been cake, I can't be sure, all I know is that I left that birthday party with an addiction so powerful it lasts to this day.
 
stealth toilet said:
My sister got a Nintendo for Christmas one year. SMB3, Lazer Invasion, and a few others came with it. I think I spent about 1.5 hours playing with my present that year, before I claimed the Nintendo for myself.

Then, at one friend's birthday party, I was introduced to something called a Sega Genesis and witnessed first hand NHL 93. I don't remember the name of the kid whose birthday it was, but I do remember challenging every other kid there to try and beat me in NHL 93, and said I would pass off once I lost. There may have been cake, I can't be sure, all I know is that I left that birthday party with an addiction so powerful it lasts to this day.
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...and so the legend cont1nues... eternally retold..
 
CreepinDeth said:
Played Super Mario Bros. back around '88. Was hooked since.

EDIT: At a neighbor's house.
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How many of us can trace our addiction back to Super Mario Bros.? :D

I remember playing Frogger and Pong at my cousins house. But I bought my first Nintendo in the late 80's and I was hooked.

I gave up gaming in the early 90's because I thought I kinda shouldn't .. you know, being a girl and a grown up now. ::) Then in 2000 I went over a boyfriends house and he was playing Final Fantasy VII. A couple of days later I went out, bought Final Fantasy IX and comandeered his PlayStation. Almost 10 years sober and I fell off the wagon. :D
 
hikari said:
How many of us can trace our addiction back to Super Mario Bros.? :D

I remember playing Frogger and Pong at my cousins house. But I bought my first Nintendo in the late 80's and I was hooked.
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Seriously. My first real encounter with video games was a couple of years before and my cousin's had Spider-man for the Atari 2600. It was fun, but didn't hook me like SMB did.
 
Larry Byrd vs. Dr. J on my Atari. My first game and first system. I also lived near a kid who had the Sega Master System. We used to play Rambo, Choplifter, Hang-On Global Defense, and so on. About two years later I landed my first NES. My cousins each got one for Christmas from their grandparents, and ended up getting a third from my aunt. I even scored about 20 games.

Next was the arcades. We lived near a miniature golf place that had a huge arcade. One summer day my mom gave me a $20 bill, and I was there all day long.

I wouldn't say that I am hardcore anymore, but when I get the itch, or have some downtime, I am quick to grab a controller.
 
I can't quite recall it since it's been so long since the day I sat myself infront of that Sega megadrive.

But, from the games I do recall it was one of these 6:
-Aladin
-The Lion king
-Sonic The Hedghog
-Super Mario
-Bubzie (bubsie?)
-Some weird platformer that's name escapes me
-Micheal Jackson: The Videgame

all other (ie, Road Rash, Sonic 2, Super Mario, Alien, etc) came after those first 6 from what i recall.
 
My first game was Combat on the Atari 2600. The 2600 was my mom's best friend's, and they lived with us at the time. So we'd play a lot. When my mom's friend got married and moved out, we'd go to their house a lot still and play Atari. When I was about 6 or 7 we got a Nintendo for Christmas. I used to get in trouble on the weekends for playing games without asking permission first. (As in, I'd get up at 6 am and turn off the morning news to play Wizards and Warriors or Legend of Kage before we had to return it to the rental store that afternoon.) My dad was living with my aunt at that time and my aunt had an NES as well, we'd play with her kids and my dad all the time. When my dad got his own place he got his own NES also. We're a very Nintendo family. My uncle had a Sega though, lol. Because we were a single-parent family we didn't get a new system until the PlayStation came out. I pleaded with my mom to let me have an N64 instead but she was sold on disk-based games for some reason, LOL. Darn newfangled trends.
 
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