My first real introduction to gaming was playing The Orogon Trail on the Apple II at my school back when I was kid. I also messed around with the Atari a bit but did not really get into games until I got my original NES.
I loved playing classic platform console games like Mario or Sonic but my favorite games where played on my friend's Amiga; Lemmings and Sim City.
My next big love of games came when I used to go to my friend's house and watch him play Final Fantasy IV for hours. Eventually I decided to try it myself and I have loved the RPG genre ever since.
My final major introduction to being a gamer did not come until my late teens when my older brother introduced me to pen and paper Advanced Dungeon and Dragons 2nd edition. To this day, I still prefer a good old pen and paper game played with real people as opposed to computer, arcade or console games.
It all started with a kiss...... sorry wrong memory
I remember going to Sunday football in the 1970's to be the ball boy and watch my Dad play and afterwards the team would retire to the pub for an after game "shandy". One day in the pub appeared an electronic gaming cabinet that was making strange sounds and had the words Breakout on the front, I was 6/7 years old, I ask for 2 bob (10p) off my Dad and the rest is history as they say. My Dad never understood the attraction because "what do you win?" he understood fruit machines but never gaming cabinets. Roll on a few years and a new school and most of my early teenage years were spent in the local arcade playing Space Invaders, Defender, Pacman, Centipede, Scramble, Galaxians etc.. etc... though my all time favourite was the seminal, Asteriods. I think I grew out of cabinets when they introduced timed games in the mid 80's, you had to feed the machine with money to carry on playing and also by that time I had a Spectrum (a fairly famous Spectrum game is my avatar, can you name it?) then an Amiga so cabinets were losing their attraction.
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I'm a pong baby also. Played it when I was about 9. Graduated to video games like Pac Man and Space Invaders later. When consoles showed up I was on them like white on rice. Later PC games.. Morrowind and other rpgs pulled me in. My first mmo was Everquest. I've played many since, too many to count. I try to visit them all from time to time.
I started playing Chess when I was around 8. Then moved up to Avalon Hill war games in the 1960's. In the 1970's, I started playing Adventure on the UNIX machine I ran. The first arcade games started coming out, and Pong arrived. By the 1980's, S-100 machines came out and then PC's; I bought a Nintendo for my kids in the later 80's. By the 90's I was playing RPG's and adventure games, and by 2001 started DAOC.
From what my father tells me, I was using a computer (Texas Instruments something-or-other) when I was 2 back in 1982. Let me think... Parsec, Car Wars, Frogger, and a bunch of other knock-offs from what I can recall. Shortly thereafter he came home with a C-64. That is where most of my first gaming memories come from.
- Jump Man: Was/is the best platformer of all time. I'll never forget it. The terror that tiny white pixel and the gun shot sound effect could inflict on a young mind...
- Hydrax: First adventure game for me. It scared the crap out of me as a kid for some reason. We had a glitched copy and could never beat that dang wolf room. Argh... still want to see how that game ends.
- Summer Games (and all those early Epyx games): Broke so many joysticks trying to cycle and row in that game.
-Beach Head II: "Ha ha... you can't catch me!" Surprisingly great sound on the C-64. Man, the sound of that guy getting run over by the tank was so visceral. It was a bit of a let down when I started using a 486 without a Sound Blaster... bleep, bloop...
- Seesaw, Dragonfly, Platoon, Impossible Mission, and list goes on and on. So many many many many great games for the C-64.
We had an Atari too of course, and I played plenty of Nintendo at friends' houses, but that was it for consoles for me growing up. I was always on my father's 486 playing Sierra games like Hoyle's Cards and King's Quest IV (Rosella ftw!), then Wolfenstein came out and he NEVER had a chance to use it. When he was finally fed up with me using his PC all the time, he gave me the best present possible: education. He dropped a Computer Shopper magazine on my desk (about the size of the desk too) and said he'd buy whatever parts I needed to build my own computer, but only if I learn how to put it together myself.
That pretty much solidified my love for PCs. Not to mention that PC gaming in the 90's was freakin' heaven.... I lived off of cheap Shareware disks garnered from computer shows, so I tried a little bit of everything:
Stunts
Apogee galore (Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, etc.)
Sango Fighter
Daggerfall
Carmageddon
Crusader: No Remorse
Test Drive
Heroes of Might & Magic II
Sim City
Blackthorne (Blizzard back before they were despised for being popular)
Tyrian (best shoot 'em up ever made)
All of the Infinity Engine goodies
... and way too many others to name.
Dark Age of Camelot was my first MMO, and City of Heroes was probably the last one that I genuinely enjoyed. All of this drivel lately is disappointing. Glad to see Indie developers reaching out directly to their audiences and embracing their niche games. That is the only way games will progress. No risk = no innovation. Publishers want a safe bet, so we get the same crap over and over. Resist the impulse to buy the next shiny title and go outside your gaming comfort zone. You'll find a lot of great stuff out there if you're willing to look!
Quitting my job to become a stay at home mum and going bored out of my mind and deciding to try playing on a PS2 some games I saw in a shop I often saw as I went to the market.
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Everquest 1 Female Gnome warriors is what made me fall in love with MMORPG's
always wanted to be a weak little gnome....Main tanking Giant dragons and Gods
My best memory was server first kill on Quarm during Plane of Power
a Gnome tanking quarm was amazing, Quarm's Toenail was way taller then me haha
My first real introduction to gaming was playing The Orogon Trail on the Apple II at my school back when I was kid. I also messed around with the Atari a bit but did not really get into games until I got my original NES.
I loved playing classic platform console games like Mario or Sonic but my favorite games where played on my friend's Amiga; Lemmings and Sim City.
My next big love of games came when I used to go to my friend's house and watch him play Final Fantasy IV for hours. Eventually I decided to try it myself and I have loved the RPG genre ever since.
My final major introduction to being a gamer did not come until my late teens when my older brother introduced me to pen and paper Advanced Dungeon and Dragons 2nd edition. To this day, I still prefer a good old pen and paper game played with real people as opposed to computer, arcade or console games.
Ever since I could hold a controller. My geuss is that I was around 4 or 5 ? Hew knows I can't rember
It all started with a kiss...... sorry wrong memory
I remember going to Sunday football in the 1970's to be the ball boy and watch my Dad play and afterwards the team would retire to the pub for an after game "shandy". One day in the pub appeared an electronic gaming cabinet that was making strange sounds and had the words Breakout on the front, I was 6/7 years old, I ask for 2 bob (10p) off my Dad and the rest is history as they say. My Dad never understood the attraction because "what do you win?" he understood fruit machines but never gaming cabinets. Roll on a few years and a new school and most of my early teenage years were spent in the local arcade playing Space Invaders, Defender, Pacman, Centipede, Scramble, Galaxians etc.. etc... though my all time favourite was the seminal, Asteriods. I think I grew out of cabinets when they introduced timed games in the mid 80's, you had to feed the machine with money to carry on playing and also by that time I had a Spectrum (a fairly famous Spectrum game is my avatar, can you name it?) then an Amiga so cabinets were losing their attraction.
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I started playing Chess when I was around 8. Then moved up to Avalon Hill war games in the 1960's. In the 1970's, I started playing Adventure on the UNIX machine I ran. The first arcade games started coming out, and Pong arrived. By the 1980's, S-100 machines came out and then PC's; I bought a Nintendo for my kids in the later 80's. By the 90's I was playing RPG's and adventure games, and by 2001 started DAOC.
Yeah, I'm a gamer; an old one
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From what my father tells me, I was using a computer (Texas Instruments something-or-other) when I was 2 back in 1982. Let me think... Parsec, Car Wars, Frogger, and a bunch of other knock-offs from what I can recall. Shortly thereafter he came home with a C-64. That is where most of my first gaming memories come from.
- Jump Man: Was/is the best platformer of all time. I'll never forget it. The terror that tiny white pixel and the gun shot sound effect could inflict on a young mind...
- Hydrax: First adventure game for me. It scared the crap out of me as a kid for some reason. We had a glitched copy and could never beat that dang wolf room. Argh... still want to see how that game ends.
- Summer Games (and all those early Epyx games): Broke so many joysticks trying to cycle and row in that game.
-Beach Head II: "Ha ha... you can't catch me!" Surprisingly great sound on the C-64. Man, the sound of that guy getting run over by the tank was so visceral. It was a bit of a let down when I started using a 486 without a Sound Blaster... bleep, bloop...
- Seesaw, Dragonfly, Platoon, Impossible Mission, and list goes on and on. So many many many many great games for the C-64.
We had an Atari too of course, and I played plenty of Nintendo at friends' houses, but that was it for consoles for me growing up. I was always on my father's 486 playing Sierra games like Hoyle's Cards and King's Quest IV (Rosella ftw!), then Wolfenstein came out and he NEVER had a chance to use it. When he was finally fed up with me using his PC all the time, he gave me the best present possible: education. He dropped a Computer Shopper magazine on my desk (about the size of the desk too) and said he'd buy whatever parts I needed to build my own computer, but only if I learn how to put it together myself.
That pretty much solidified my love for PCs. Not to mention that PC gaming in the 90's was freakin' heaven.... I lived off of cheap Shareware disks garnered from computer shows, so I tried a little bit of everything:
Stunts
Apogee galore (Commander Keen, Duke Nukem, etc.)
Sango Fighter
Daggerfall
Carmageddon
Crusader: No Remorse
Test Drive
Heroes of Might & Magic II
Sim City
Blackthorne (Blizzard back before they were despised for being popular)
Tyrian (best shoot 'em up ever made)
All of the Infinity Engine goodies
... and way too many others to name.
Dark Age of Camelot was my first MMO, and City of Heroes was probably the last one that I genuinely enjoyed. All of this drivel lately is disappointing. Glad to see Indie developers reaching out directly to their audiences and embracing their niche games. That is the only way games will progress. No risk = no innovation. Publishers want a safe bet, so we get the same crap over and over. Resist the impulse to buy the next shiny title and go outside your gaming comfort zone. You'll find a lot of great stuff out there if you're willing to look!
Can't name just one but can name a few.
Bubble Bobble - C64
Maniac Mansion - C64
Pirates - C64
Double Dragon - Arcade ( spend many a weeks pocket money on this bad boy )
Wolfenstien 3D
Commander Keen
List goes on, I had an Atari but i think the C64 is what hooked me
rpg/mmorg history: Dun Darach>Bloodwych>Bards Tale 1-3>Eye of the beholder > Might and Magic 2,3,5 > FFVII> Baldur's Gate 1, 2 > Planescape Torment >Morrowind > WOW > oblivion > LOTR > Guild Wars (1900hrs elementalist) Vanguard. > GW2(1000 elementalist), Wildstar
Now playing GW2, AOW 3, ESO, LOTR, Elite D
Sega Center at Los Cerritos Mall circa 1980. I think its also the reason why I love glitch and breakcore heh