What got you hooked on gaming?
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"TI Invaders," the Space Invaders clone for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. First game I ever played, and the origin of my TI-99 obsession. From play TI Invaders, Pole Position, Parsec, Defender, Jawbreaker, and Car Wars, I started reading TI-99 magazines and wrote small applications for it, and eventually, simple little games.
God, I love that computer. Still have both of mine.
God, I love that computer. Still have both of mine.
I've got an idea. Let's see how many video game related threads we can make in the one forum designated for everything but gaming!
Now that I've gotten that out of the way...
NES on my 3rd birthday with Mario/Duck Hunt. Beat Mario within the first 3 hours.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way...
NES on my 3rd birthday with Mario/Duck Hunt. Beat Mario within the first 3 hours.
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The Mario Bros. on NES fo sho!
[quote name='Eviltude']I've got an idea. Let's see how many video game related threads we can make in the one forum designated for everything but gaming!
Now that I've gotten that out of the way...
NES on my 3rd birthday with Mario/Duck Hunt. Beat Mario within the first 3 hours.[/quote]
At three years old huh.
Now that I've gotten that out of the way...
NES on my 3rd birthday with Mario/Duck Hunt. Beat Mario within the first 3 hours.[/quote]
At three years old huh.
Played an old school NES at my friend's house in the early 90s. Got one for Xmas a year later, and I got a free copy of Dragon Warrior when I ordered Nintendo Power. That was the game for me. I was totally addicted and actually went and maxed out my level so that the only enemies in the game that could do more than 2 damage to me were red dragons and the Dragon Lord himself. Made me feel like a badass...and so i was hooked. THE END!
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The Sega Saturn. I always was a general gamer. Tell the Sega Saturn.
Nights, Dragon Force, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force 3, Dungeons and Dragons Collections, Guardian Heroes. I became a hardcore gamer. Though I become less and less a gamer every generation later. Wii gives me hope.
Nights, Dragon Force, Panzer Dragoon Saga, Shining Force 3, Dungeons and Dragons Collections, Guardian Heroes. I became a hardcore gamer. Though I become less and less a gamer every generation later. Wii gives me hope.
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Easily SMB/Duck Hunt on the NES.
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Duck hunt and the first Zelda game for the NES is what got me into gaming. I was around 4-5 years old and have been gaming since. You know whats funny? I never did beat that 
ing Zelda game....
ing Zelda game....
[quote name='The Crotch']If you're not Strell, don't even try it.[/quote]
I've always been gaming since I was a kid, but as for what really hooked me...I'd say it was probably PC gaming. I played Doom so much, among many other games. I've always been a "gamer".
I've always been gaming since I was a kid, but as for what really hooked me...I'd say it was probably PC gaming. I played Doom so much, among many other games. I've always been a "gamer".
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I would have to say, pilotwings for the super nintendo
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I wasn't fortunate enough to get a console until 1997 (I was 9 at the time) but OH what a game. STAR FOX 64
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Probably the SNES and Donkey Kong Country 2, I remember playing that game all the time.
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Although I had spent much time with the 2600, I think the NES made me a "gamer."
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My cousins who owned an NES and Super Mario Bros 1 and 3.
This kid who was a few years older than me lived across the street; he was getting rid of his system and games since he outgrowing it. However, I will mostly always remember that guy for ing SCREAMING out his kitchen window at me one time when I was riding my bike on his circle driveway ("DON'T RIDE ON HERE!!!!!!!"). Anyway, he dropped off an Atari 5200 and probably half a dozen games - the original 4 controller version, actually. This was probably...I dunno, 1985. It's funny, because many years later I read about the crash of 1983 but I got my first console right in the midst of it so I never had any idea the market had tanked. By '87 games and controllers (the latter of which needed to be replaced frequently) were becoming harder to find in stores and we eventually resorted to ordering several games and controllers through the mail right around Christmas, and it took FOREVER for the stuff to arrive. It still had the best ending ever though, as on 3/23 (my birthday) I was on the bus coming home. As we turned onto my street there was a UPS truck in front. I kept thinking "oh, it's probably my games!" when the odds of that were actually pretty low. Lo and behold, it WAS my stuff as the driver gave me the package after I got off the bus. To this DAY I find it had to believe that my parents didn't somehow arrange that, even though it seems impossible.
Looking back I see why it flopped, but damn if some of those games weren't outstanding. By far the best home version of Pac-Man at the time, and Star Raiders is something I liked then and appreciate even more now.
By the time it was pretty much impossible to get any new stuff for it, the NES had hit its strde and I got one for Christmas of '88. Pretty academic from there.
[quote name='RedvsBlue']Perfected?
Hardly. That's like saying someone's perfected pulling out of your mom, and we all know that's not the case cause unfortunately the world is stuck with you.[/QUOTE]
Ouch. Game, set, match RvB.
ing SCREAMING out his kitchen window at me one time when I was riding my bike on his circle driveway ("DON'T RIDE ON HERE!!!!!!!"). Anyway, he dropped off an Atari 5200 and probably half a dozen games - the original 4 controller version, actually. This was probably...I dunno, 1985. It's funny, because many years later I read about the crash of 1983 but I got my first console right in the midst of it so I never had any idea the market had tanked. By '87 games and controllers (the latter of which needed to be replaced frequently) were becoming harder to find in stores and we eventually resorted to ordering several games and controllers through the mail right around Christmas, and it took FOREVER for the stuff to arrive. It still had the best ending ever though, as on 3/23 (my birthday) I was on the bus coming home. As we turned onto my street there was a UPS truck in front. I kept thinking "oh, it's probably my games!" when the odds of that were actually pretty low. Lo and behold, it WAS my stuff as the driver gave me the package after I got off the bus. To this DAY I find it had to believe that my parents didn't somehow arrange that, even though it seems impossible.Looking back I see why it flopped, but damn if some of those games weren't outstanding. By far the best home version of Pac-Man at the time, and Star Raiders is something I liked then and appreciate even more now.
By the time it was pretty much impossible to get any new stuff for it, the NES had hit its strde and I got one for Christmas of '88. Pretty academic from there.
[quote name='RedvsBlue']Perfected?
Hardly. That's like saying someone's perfected pulling out of your mom, and we all know that's not the case cause unfortunately the world is stuck with you.[/QUOTE]
Ouch. Game, set, match RvB.
[quote name='Eviltude']NES on my 3rd birthday with Mario/Duck Hunt. Beat Mario within the first 3 hours.[/quote]
Hmmm... I just don't think that can be true. I'm not saying you don't remember it that way it's just to me it seems highly highly unlikely. I have a 2.5 year old and I have tons and tons of friends with 3+ year old kids (hey, I'm at that age I guess) and there's just not a shot in hell that any of them could clear the first stage of SMB let alone the entire game. The motor skills necessary to accomplish something like that just aren't developed enough at that age.
I've been trying to get my daughter to understand Pac-man on an arcade machine for the last 6 months and she is just starting to grasp that the movement of the joystick affects what happens on the screen but the whole "avoid the ghosts" concept is still a little out there for her. She totally sucks at Pac-man right now - I think her high score is like 380 or something. It's hard to believe she's actually my kid (yet she can write her name, count to 20, name all the letters and the sounds they make, etc. - she's pretty smart but she has almost no coordination).
Bah, maybe I'm just bitter that she can't play Pac-man yet and when you were her age you were breezing through SMB.
Oh yeah, I got hooked on videogames in the early 80s - it was a combination of the arcade and the 2600 that did it. I still can't get enough...
Hmmm... I just don't think that can be true. I'm not saying you don't remember it that way it's just to me it seems highly highly unlikely. I have a 2.5 year old and I have tons and tons of friends with 3+ year old kids (hey, I'm at that age I guess) and there's just not a shot in hell that any of them could clear the first stage of SMB let alone the entire game. The motor skills necessary to accomplish something like that just aren't developed enough at that age.
I've been trying to get my daughter to understand Pac-man on an arcade machine for the last 6 months and she is just starting to grasp that the movement of the joystick affects what happens on the screen but the whole "avoid the ghosts" concept is still a little out there for her. She totally sucks at Pac-man right now - I think her high score is like 380 or something. It's hard to believe she's actually my kid (yet she can write her name, count to 20, name all the letters and the sounds they make, etc. - she's pretty smart but she has almost no coordination).
Bah, maybe I'm just bitter that she can't play Pac-man yet and when you were her age you were breezing through SMB.
Oh yeah, I got hooked on videogames in the early 80s - it was a combination of the arcade and the 2600 that did it. I still can't get enough...
Believe it or not, the family aspect of it.
My Dad, my brother and I (this was when I was like probably 6 or 7, and my brother like 4) used to play non-stop Super Nintendo, at least an hour a day when we got it. Every game we got for probably 2 years, we'd take turns playing. Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Gradius III, all were a ton of fun to play.
As I got older it became less of a family thing and more of a fun thing for me, especially a nice way to relax, but also a challenge to get everything in the game and beat it.
My Dad, my brother and I (this was when I was like probably 6 or 7, and my brother like 4) used to play non-stop Super Nintendo, at least an hour a day when we got it. Every game we got for probably 2 years, we'd take turns playing. Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Gradius III, all were a ton of fun to play.
As I got older it became less of a family thing and more of a fun thing for me, especially a nice way to relax, but also a challenge to get everything in the game and beat it.
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Atari 7800 + Arcades
I first played my Uncle's NES, with Super Mario Bros. and Zelda. Fantastic night right there.
Other friends had game systems, but I didn't get an NES till Mario 3 had already been out for a while.
I had a Playstation in early highschool but then took a break from owning games for a while. I picked up a refurb Dreamcast on a whim just before they cut its life support, and have been pretty into games ever since. I do think my recent love of games was spurned on by getting a GBA on another whim for a long trip I had. GBA->DS->GC->Wii/360
Other friends had game systems, but I didn't get an NES till Mario 3 had already been out for a while.
I had a Playstation in early highschool but then took a break from owning games for a while. I picked up a refurb Dreamcast on a whim just before they cut its life support, and have been pretty into games ever since. I do think my recent love of games was spurned on by getting a GBA on another whim for a long trip I had. GBA->DS->GC->Wii/360
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I got into gaming with the NES/SNES, but wasn't much of a gamer. PlayStation got me into games more than ever, and I'm still into games. PSP also got me into handhelds more. Basically, the PlayStation brand is extremely important to me, getting me into gaming. I just don't know what I'd do if it didn't exists.
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My uncle came over and let me play Wolf3D on his computer. He never knew what kind of monster he was unleashing.
[quote name='SpecTrE3353']My uncle came over and let me play Wolf3D on his computer. He never knew what kind of monster he was unleashing.[/quote]
I love that game as well, you can never have enough secret passages. I actually didnt get to this one till after i played doom.
I love that game as well, you can never have enough secret passages. I actually didnt get to this one till after i played doom.
[quote name='javeryh']Hmmm... I just don't think that can be true. I'm not saying you don't remember it that way it's just to me it seems highly highly unlikely. I have a 2.5 year old and I have tons and tons of friends with 3+ year old kids (hey, I'm at that age I guess) and there's just not a shot in hell that any of them could clear the first stage of SMB let alone the entire game. The motor skills necessary to accomplish something like that just aren't developed enough at that age. [/quote]
Guess hes like Davy Crockett and "killed his first bear when he was only 3" :lol:
Guess hes like Davy Crockett and "killed his first bear when he was only 3" :lol:
I had played plenty of video games before the NES and I enjoyed them a lot. But I don't think I was ever truly and completely hooked until I played Super Mario Brothers 1 for the first time. That was an amazing feeling and I had never seen anything like it.
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