Earliest introduction was PONG and the old coin op machines... followed by my first computer a Timex/Sinclair with a tape drive. Best flight simulator ever... haha ASCII for the win... then the usual route of consoles, comodore 64's bards tale, the apple II's at computer club in school, Karateka, SSI Games... wow i sound like a big geek! Some more modern stuff in the early 90's, a 486 with Civilization, ImagiNation Network for online stuff, MUDS in college...EQ came out and haven't really looked back much since then, but man the good ol' days.. still miss the big arcade trips.
Hours of Asteroids and Galaga.
I don't plan on quitting because it's such good fun and a nice escape from the drudgery of real life.
Hello everybody, there are so many opportunities to discover new hobbies. It would appear we've all chosen gaming as one of them.
So what had gotten you involved with playing them, single player or not. My mother had a boyfriend when I was younger that moved in. With him he brought a commodore 64, and the first game he played was Bards Tale I. Thats when I was hooked.
A little background would be great.
I have been playing games since the commodore 64. Some of my favorites are The Bards Tale Series, Zork, Gold Box AD&D, Final Fantasy 7, and way too many PC games to mention all of them.
What do you think will appeal to new gamers?
I think a fresh new way of doing combat/raiding/ and rewards without too much complication will eventually come out and that will draw alot of customers.
Do you think people will try to avoid PC games all together?
Not at all once Vista becomes semi normal and actually allows you to turn your computer on, I believe alot of game devs will start implementing DX10 and that will open up a whole new era of great looking and fun playable games.
Did you ever quit?
Only to paint my 2000 point Daemonhunters Army, go Warhammer 40k
What is your one moment you feel like sharing with us that has happened while you were playing?
When I played FFVII for the first time and finally made it to the Golden Saucer. That place was the funnest part of the game IMO.
Lastly, how long do you think you will be playing PC games/what will cause you to stop?
Im not stopping, my wife can whine all she wants.
Me in Game Mode lol.
This thread is for fun, not debates. Feel free to add screenshots, or a picture of yourself in gaming mode.
i remember playing with the old atari 2600 over at my cousin's, my parents wouldn't let us get a gaming console till a couple years later when they got us the Sega Master System. sometime after that we got a 286 PC and over the years we upgraded to a 386 & 486, played Simcity, Wolfenstein 3D, Mechwarrior, Wing Commander and several flight sim games, probably my favorite PC games back then were the Secret of Monkey Island series games. my brother and i bought the Sega Genesis when it came out, played that a lot growing up also.
my dad gave me his old pentium 90 about 10 years ago, played the Jedi Knight games, and numerous other games. over the years i had stopped playing computer games because my system was very outdated and mostly played my Xbox. my brother started playing SWG when it came out and a few years ago he gave me a CPU & Motherboard for my birthday so i'd be able to play with him--he lives in a different state. SWG absolutely blew me away, till it changed, then we moved to WOW and we're looking forward to Age of Conan and Warhammer.
i would say that some of my favorite times playing PC games would be the Secret of Monkey Island games and playing SWG before they changed it.
Astroids-dragons lair-Quake1-half-life-EQ1-DAOC-AO-Collecting stamps....I so miss the sheer adrenelin rush i got from EQ1 and the severe death penalty.
I, like a lot of people, started out in console gaming. I was already playing the NES by the time PC gaming got its hold on me. I can't recall the actual first PC game I played but I do remember the games that first got me hooked on PC gaming. They were the original Sid Meier's Pirates!.. the classic Sierra adventure games like King's Quest, Space Quest, and Police Quest.. and the old point-and-click Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade.
Such awesome memories! The first year I played a pc game was when I was 7 and we got a 33mhz computer. The first game we got was Simcity and Ultima! Two of the games which shaped the way I game ever since! I loved RTS games like Reunion:Return to Earth,
Master of Orion, Stronghold, Master of Magic, Simcity and SO MANY more! On the RPG from I was really into Arkania, Ultima and the Elderscroll series. Of course meantime I was buying every conceivable console I could get my hands on. I was really into any game on the console which was a rpg. I remember so clearly my first Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana.. that one I still play!
The last console I got was the Gamecube. At that point I was very much into mmorpgs. Somehow or other my name got on a list where if I asked to beta test a game I got on almost instantly. Up until WoW alot of devs even knew my calltag. Not sure how that all that happend.
Now Im on my last computer. The beta tests are become more and more annoying. People are becoming less and less respectful and I'm only gaming because LOTRO came out. I think Lotro may be my last mmorpg. Only two others really hold any interest to me.
Odd how now Im going back to single players... I guess we all end up where we started eventually
I was drawn to PCs because they could do so much, it naturally followed I would sample the gems of PC gaming.(first games I think worms, Black& White, something strategy as PCs good at them-think it with age of empires and something management, I can't remember which football manager game it was.
Hello everybody, there are so many opportunities to discover new hobbies. It would appear we've all chosen gaming as one of them.
So what had gotten you involved with playing them, single player or not.
A little background would be great.
I started to play PC games when I was around 7 - 8 years old (back in Taiwan). I had a neighbor who worked at a computer store, and my brother and I went there some of the times (when my parents are not at home, and ask our neighbor to watch us.) I started on one of the RPG games made in Taiwan, and my brother started on a baseball game made in Taiwan. Then I started to buy more PC games, and such.
Later on, after we bought a computer for our house, I started with games such as C&C: Red Alert and Warcraft 2 (my friend had it, and I went to his house to play it). I also started to play games like Age of Empire and StarCraft (since I like RTS games). I also bought a few Star Wars games (X-Wing vs Tie-Fighter). I later started to play with Star Wars: Jedi Outcast.
Then I started my MMO playing with Star Wars Galaxies: An Empire Divided. I played that game for a good 2+ years (with Final Fantasy XI and City of Heroes added to my MMO playing sometimes during the later years of my SWG experience). I also have played other MMOs since then (all listed in my sig.)
What do you think will appeal to new gamers?
What appeal to new gamers? I have no idea, but I am trying to finish my school (studying Game and Simulation Programming in DeVry University). And I'm more focus in MMO than other genre, so I'm trying to see if better MMO designs can attractive new gamers to MMO yet not making the MMO experience a dull one.
Do you think people will try to avoid PC games all together?
No, but it will be combining with the consoles mroe and more (as PC technologies gets improved, so does consoles, and soon it will probably have no difference between a console and a PC. Most consoles are already a small PC in its own way)
Did you ever quit?
No, I'm a gamer, and I will continue to play MMO (which is more PC friendly for now)
What is your one moment you feel like sharing with us that has happened while you were playing?
Can't think of anything.
Lastly, how long do you think you will be playing PC games/what will cause you to stop?
When the MMO genre gets so saturated with average games and no new concept comes out, I will quit the MMO (maybe PC gaming altogether.) Then it's back to console for me.
This thread is for fun, not debates. Feel free to add screenshots, or a picture of yourself in gaming mode.
Ever since I became aware of what video games were, I've been drawn to them. My first experiences were with arcade machines at the places where my parents tended bar. Over the years, those machines proved to be instrumental in fighting the boredom of waiting for dad to finish one more "last one" before we could go home. Normally that wait ended right around midnight or last call.....
In any event, I became a master at gambling for quarters with the bar patrons. The match game, Horse (Dice not basketball), three card monty, even just flipping a coin for heads or tails. It wasn't really gambling, since I didn't lose any money if lost, but it fueled my video game addiction which, in turn, was fueled my need to get away from the fucking bar. Even if that escape was actually IN the bar.
After my grandmother died when I was twelve, she left us enough money that I could get a computer and my parents bought me a Tandy Color Computer 2. We also got a subscription to Family Computing which had programs in each issue that you could type into your computer and run. Since there weren't a lot of games for the CoCo 2, this was how I got most of the games that I played on it. Although I did get the Dungeons of Daggorath cartridge. I never finished DoD, but I still played it quite a bit.
When I was 14, I bought an Atari 7800 with money I had made detasseling corn over the summer. I had a choice between a Nintendo with no games for $100, or the 7800 for $50 plus $50 of games. Two years later we got an NES and the 7800 started to collect dust. As high school graduation present, my grandfather bought me a Nintendo Gameboy.
During the next two years I was in the Navy and went through three Gameboys (one stolen, one broke, and I think I still have the last one somewhere) and bought, a Sega Game Gear, an Atari Lynx (got stolen), a TuboGraphix 16 with CD-Rom and 40 games (got left in Philidelphia), an SNES, and a Sega Genesis with CD-ROM (stolen one week from the expiration of my contract ). I also had about two lockers (not mine) full of Genesis games and a portable black and white TV. In hindsight, I probably could have put that money to better use....
I decided that College was the perfect excuse to buy a cheap computer and purchased a Tandy 486 / 33Mhz. The thing that really drew me to computer games was the fact that most of the games on the platform were aimed at an adult audience. There we TONS of strategy games, wargames, and military sims that were just not available on consoles and, for the most part, still aren't. I totally got into Civilization, Harpoon, Mechwarrior 2, Doom (of course), and Red Baron.
After I flunked out of college (computer science was not a good major for me), I had to get a job. With gainful employment came the ability to continue my PC gaming hobby. During the five years between 1995 and 2000, I had a blast. There were so many great games that came out at the time. There was Quake and Quake 2 (of course), Half-Life, Rainbow Six, THE ENTIRE JANE'S SIMULATION SERIES, Starcraft, Diablo (1&2), !!!!*****STARSIEGE TRIBES*****!!!!, Baldur's gate..... The list just goes on and on.....
Then, after 2000, something changed. The stoner teenage mentality that had fueled the Playstation's rise to power in the console wars came knocking at the PC platform's door.... The very thing I was trying to get away from by becoming a PC gamer, was now hounding me into a section of the hobby I felt was completely suited to my needs. Military sims died, wargames died, turn based strategy was driven so far into the margins as to be almost non-existent.....
Which brings me to today. Oddly enough, the thing that drew me into PC gaming is a contributing factor to what draws me to play portable games. BTW, when I say the DS has more games geared toward adults, I mean 25 and over. It takes more than dark brooding atmosphere and gobs unnecessary gore laced with sexual innuendo to make a game "mature." You can call the DS a kiddie system all you want but somehow I can't see too many preteens lining up to play Brain Age, Age of Empires, Hotel Dusk, or Trauma Center: Under the Knife. The diagnosis of these games, that I've heard from a bonafide 10 year old, in order is: "God it's just like school!", "boring", "too much reading", and "this game is too hard!!" It's only a matter of time before everyone jumps on the portable bandwagon, but hopefully the video game industry will have matured enough to make games for all sectors of the market and not just whiney, stoner, emo brats that are trying to look "adult."
We were one of the first households to own the ZX Spectrum in the UK (due to my dads engineering/bug thingy job... his title took up 3 sentences - ex HMS Ark Royal Aircraft, ex NASA.. he was a genius until his heart attacks).
First game i played, no idea how old i was.... "jumping jack" don't remember much except you had to avoid things, jump up platforms and you were a stick man. i was too young to play and it was on a black and white second tv we had. (which was fine i realise now because the game was in black and white)
Not that great a game (looking back), and i remember getting hit because i was peeling off the rubber keys on the keyboard one day.
later memories involve the CM 64, Amstrad, Amiga, Spectrum (with the cassete included beside the keyboard wo0o), NES, Megadrive.... etc etc
The other one, apart from Spectrum ZX, was before the NES but consoley.. you got 2 light guns, 2 controllers and had 2 games, shooting discs and pong. No idea what it was called, but a lot of fun.
PC games could be had for free off of a large local pirate BBS when I was growing up, often times before they were in stores. Compared to shelling out $50 for an NES cart, PC gaming was a no-brainer.
Started playing on the pc when games were first showing up. DND, Adventure and Advent (text), Dungeon (text-later called Zork). Bought a TRS-80 Model 1 from Radio Shack in 79. Then Vic-20, Commodore-64, Pentium 75. The rest is history.
I just got done reading all of the posts, such great responses!!!!! We have some truly old school players around these forums! Most of these systems you guys mention are way over my head.
to far back to remember them all but i do remember Playing a LOT of KOEI games, P.T.O and the likes, Dragon warrior, Ghangis Kahn.. Might N Magic. All Good ones like Daggerfell. those were the DAY (heheh). i played all winter because during the summer i worked my azz off 70+ hrs a week. was fun though. i miss em both.
I think probably my first PC game was the original Myst a very very long time ago. I was also only able to play on my dad's computer as the one I had didn't have windows on it. Then I played some little game called Battle Chess, Star Reach and Conquest of the New World... but the games that REALLY got me into how good computer gaming could be was Ultima. Ultima VII and VIII to be exact. I saw U8 first on my friend's computer, but then we got a free copy of U7 with some game bundle cd. They are both DOS games, RPG based, but those are really very good ones. To this day, those are awesome games. They are sort of like what Morrowind / Oblivion is today, except from a overhead view in a 2d world. U8 was 3d though sort of. Or at least an attempt at being 3d was made.
My first windows based games aside from Myst included Command & Conquer, Warcraft and Diablo.
Console games nowadays sort of bore me unless they are multiplayer and I actually have someone to play with.
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Hours of Asteroids and Galaga.
I don't plan on quitting because it's such good fun and a nice escape from the drudgery of real life.
my dad gave me his old pentium 90 about 10 years ago, played the Jedi Knight games, and numerous other games. over the years i had stopped playing computer games because my system was very outdated and mostly played my Xbox. my brother started playing SWG when it came out and a few years ago he gave me a CPU & Motherboard for my birthday so i'd be able to play with him--he lives in a different state. SWG absolutely blew me away, till it changed, then we moved to WOW and we're looking forward to Age of Conan and Warhammer.
i would say that some of my favorite times playing PC games would be the Secret of Monkey Island games and playing SWG before they changed it.
Master of Orion, Stronghold, Master of Magic, Simcity and SO MANY more! On the RPG from I was really into Arkania, Ultima and the Elderscroll series. Of course meantime I was buying every conceivable console I could get my hands on. I was really into any game on the console which was a rpg. I remember so clearly my first Final Fantasy, Secret of Mana.. that one I still play!
The last console I got was the Gamecube. At that point I was very much into mmorpgs. Somehow or other my name got on a list where if I asked to beta test a game I got on almost instantly. Up until WoW alot of devs even knew my calltag. Not sure how that all that happend.
Now Im on my last computer. The beta tests are become more and more annoying. People are becoming less and less respectful and I'm only gaming because LOTRO came out. I think Lotro may be my last mmorpg. Only two others really hold any interest to me.
Odd how now Im going back to single players... I guess we all end up where we started eventually
I was drawn to PCs because they could do so much, it naturally followed I would sample the gems of PC gaming.(first games I think worms, Black& White, something strategy as PCs good at them-think it with age of empires and something management, I can't remember which football manager game it was.
Current MMO: FFXIV:ARR
Past MMO: Way too many (P2P and F2P)
In any event, I became a master at gambling for quarters with the bar patrons. The match game, Horse (Dice not basketball), three card monty, even just flipping a coin for heads or tails. It wasn't really gambling, since I didn't lose any money if lost, but it fueled my video game addiction which, in turn, was fueled my need to get away from the fucking bar. Even if that escape was actually IN the bar.
After my grandmother died when I was twelve, she left us enough money that I could get a computer and my parents bought me a Tandy Color Computer 2. We also got a subscription to Family Computing which had programs in each issue that you could type into your computer and run. Since there weren't a lot of games for the CoCo 2, this was how I got most of the games that I played on it. Although I did get the Dungeons of Daggorath cartridge. I never finished DoD, but I still played it quite a bit.
When I was 14, I bought an Atari 7800 with money I had made detasseling corn over the summer. I had a choice between a Nintendo with no games for $100, or the 7800 for $50 plus $50 of games. Two years later we got an NES and the 7800 started to collect dust. As high school graduation present, my grandfather bought me a Nintendo Gameboy.
During the next two years I was in the Navy and went through three Gameboys (one stolen, one broke, and I think I still have the last one somewhere) and bought, a Sega Game Gear, an Atari Lynx (got stolen), a TuboGraphix 16 with CD-Rom and 40 games (got left in Philidelphia), an SNES, and a Sega Genesis with CD-ROM (stolen one week from the expiration of my contract
I decided that College was the perfect excuse to buy a cheap computer and purchased a Tandy 486 / 33Mhz. The thing that really drew me to computer games was the fact that most of the games on the platform were aimed at an adult audience. There we TONS of strategy games, wargames, and military sims that were just not available on consoles and, for the most part, still aren't. I totally got into Civilization, Harpoon, Mechwarrior 2, Doom (of course), and Red Baron.
After I flunked out of college (computer science was not a good major for me), I had to get a job. With gainful employment came the ability to continue my PC gaming hobby. During the five years between 1995 and 2000, I had a blast. There were so many great games that came out at the time. There was Quake and Quake 2 (of course), Half-Life, Rainbow Six, THE ENTIRE JANE'S SIMULATION SERIES, Starcraft, Diablo (1&2), !!!!*****STARSIEGE TRIBES*****!!!!, Baldur's gate..... The list just goes on and on.....
Then, after 2000, something changed. The stoner teenage mentality that had fueled the Playstation's rise to power in the console wars came knocking at the PC platform's door.... The very thing I was trying to get away from by becoming a PC gamer, was now hounding me into a section of the hobby I felt was completely suited to my needs. Military sims died, wargames died, turn based strategy was driven so far into the margins as to be almost non-existent.....
Which brings me to today. Oddly enough, the thing that drew me into PC gaming is a contributing factor to what draws me to play portable games. BTW, when I say the DS has more games geared toward adults, I mean 25 and over. It takes more than dark brooding atmosphere and gobs unnecessary gore laced with sexual innuendo to make a game "mature." You can call the DS a kiddie system all you want but somehow I can't see too many preteens lining up to play Brain Age, Age of Empires, Hotel Dusk, or Trauma Center: Under the Knife. The diagnosis of these games, that I've heard from a bonafide 10 year old, in order is: "God it's just like school!", "boring", "too much reading", and "this game is too hard!!" It's only a matter of time before everyone jumps on the portable bandwagon, but hopefully the video game industry will have matured enough to make games for all sectors of the market and not just whiney, stoner, emo brats that are trying to look "adult."
We were one of the first households to own the ZX Spectrum in the UK (due to my dads engineering/bug thingy job... his title took up 3 sentences - ex HMS Ark Royal Aircraft, ex NASA.. he was a genius until his heart attacks).
First game i played, no idea how old i was.... "jumping jack" don't remember much except you had to avoid things, jump up platforms and you were a stick man. i was too young to play and it was on a black and white second tv we had. (which was fine i realise now because the game was in black and white)
Not that great a game (looking back), and i remember getting hit because i was peeling off the rubber keys on the keyboard one day.
later memories involve the CM 64, Amstrad, Amiga, Spectrum (with the cassete included beside the keyboard wo0o), NES, Megadrive.... etc etc
The other one, apart from Spectrum ZX, was before the NES but consoley.. you got 2 light guns, 2 controllers and had 2 games, shooting discs and pong. No idea what it was called, but a lot of fun.
To be completely honest?
PC games could be had for free off of a large local pirate BBS when I was growing up, often times before they were in stores. Compared to shelling out $50 for an NES cart, PC gaming was a no-brainer.
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Started playing on the pc when games were first showing up. DND, Adventure and Advent (text), Dungeon (text-later called Zork). Bought a TRS-80 Model 1 from Radio Shack in 79. Then Vic-20, Commodore-64, Pentium 75. The rest is history.
I will post my story soon too.
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My first windows based games aside from Myst included Command & Conquer, Warcraft and Diablo.
Console games nowadays sort of bore me unless they are multiplayer and I actually have someone to play with.
I've never been a big FPS fan.