What got you into gaming?

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Jericho

August 22, 2009, 01:51:52 AM
I thought this would make for an interesting topic. What was the spark that got you deep into this hobby?

For me, it was weekly game nights when I was 3 or so watching my Aunt and Mother go back and forth on Tetris or Super Mario Bros. I just had to try it myself and sure enough, I had become hooked.

Kieran

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August 22, 2009, 02:02:13 AM
Hm.

My earliest memory of gaming was my older sister having an Intellivision in her room.  Then I recall my parents asking if we would play an Atari 2600 if they got one, and I guess that was it.

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August 22, 2009, 02:03:21 AM
it was probably learning how to play the Megazone arcade machine in my grandparents' garage that got me into it. Mario World might've helped too.

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August 22, 2009, 02:04:12 AM
Either Super Mario Bros or Street Fighter 2, can't remember since it was so long ago.

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#4
August 22, 2009, 02:06:59 AM
The first console I can still remember having was the sega genesis...
I think it was sonic that got me into gaming...

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#5
August 22, 2009, 02:09:03 AM
Oh my this brings back alot of memories indeed.  XD

As for me, I can say my first real influence was from my brother and some of my older friends when I was like 5. I was more or less completely hooked when I was given a GameBoy Color and brother brought home a Playstation (which ironically I chose Megaman 8 for one of our first games to buy as well).

Needless to say it was the combined influence of my older siblings/and cousins, my friends and of course The appeal of games in general.
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#6
August 22, 2009, 02:13:20 AM
My childhood memories are quite foggy, but I do remember playing NES way back.
But what I do remember, that was beyond awesome.
Was Sega Channel.
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#7
August 22, 2009, 10:29:38 AM
My dad was the one that got me into gaming, with an intellivision I do believe. I'm not positive though, since whatever system it was broke, and my father's memory isn't reliable enough to yield the actual console name. That said, the first games I fully remember playing are on the NES, with the likes of Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, The 2 Zeldas and the Castlevanias (3 in particular).

Irgendein

#8
August 22, 2009, 03:03:47 PM
My parents had a NES before I was even born, so I played that when I was like, 2 years old, all they had for it though was Duck Hunt/Super Mario Bros. and Paper Boy, I didn't really get into gaming though until I played Ocarina of Time at my babysitter's house when I was about 7

STM

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August 22, 2009, 03:11:19 PM


We had an NES before with Mario 1 and Mario 3, but this one really did it.

Align

#10
August 22, 2009, 03:28:00 PM
I remember at age 5 or so, watching my dad play some absolutely bizarre puzzle game on an Atari of some sort, and some time after that there was Monkey Island and Civilization. Wasn't introduced to S/NES until after Windows, I think, when my mother took me to her job (where there were kids sometimes, so they had those kind of games).
They were more my kind of games at the time, the Atari/PC games were simply too advanced. Visits to a friend that always had the latest and greatest became frequent.

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#11
August 22, 2009, 03:30:38 PM
Mostly PC Simulaitor/Stradegy/FPS/Platformer games *shock horror*.

First time I ever touched a game was basically the Star Wars games on the good 'ol 32x and other games  at the Boomers Arcade, following Mech Warrior 3 and so forth.
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August 22, 2009, 04:08:18 PM
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August 22, 2009, 05:30:20 PM
the classic game halo combat evolved

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#15
August 22, 2009, 05:36:03 PM
Either Sonic 3 or Super Mario Bros. I forgot which i played first but these games really got me addicted.

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#16
August 22, 2009, 05:36:16 PM
Quote from: Sub Tank on August 22, 2009, 05:30:20 PM
the classic game halo combat evolved


XD

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#17
August 22, 2009, 05:45:35 PM
Well... I have to say...
The RM2 manga got into into me into gaming...

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#18
August 22, 2009, 07:02:12 PM
Quote from: Sub Tank on August 22, 2009, 05:30:20 PM
the classic game halo combat evolved

People will actually say that twenty years from now. And then they'll add "Who is Mario?"

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#19
August 22, 2009, 07:07:43 PM
Having nothing to do as a small child.

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#20
August 22, 2009, 07:10:27 PM
Quote from: Acid on August 22, 2009, 07:02:12 PM
People will actually say that twenty years from now. And then they'll add "Who is Mario?"

Especially during the post apocalypse when we use CDs as currency.

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#21
August 22, 2009, 07:11:29 PM
Quote from: Sub Tank on August 22, 2009, 07:10:27 PM
Especially during the post apocalypse when we use CDs as currency.

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Jericho

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August 22, 2009, 07:16:22 PM
Quote from: Acid on August 22, 2009, 07:02:12 PM
People will actually say that twenty years from now. And then they'll add "Who is Mario?"

To which all us oldbies only have one appropriate response -- "GIT OFF MAH LAWN!"

Sub Tank

#23
August 22, 2009, 07:22:53 PM
Back in my day we had to walk 50 tiles to get to the next town, on foot.  Through tall grass.  Without saving.

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#24
August 22, 2009, 07:25:53 PM
Quote from: Sub Tank on August 22, 2009, 07:22:53 PM
Without saving.

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