Your First Step Into Gaming

[Appiplyer]

As far as we are right now. As much game we have beaten till now we all started somewhere there's this first spark that made you became gamer and became part of this communities.

As for myself i can say i inherited gaming from my parent. Ever since i was a child like 3 y.o i would always sit besides my dad when he played either World of Warcraft or even starcraft, my mom would place me beside my father just to keep myself a lil bit calmer (even tho i would annoy my dad when i sit there lol). And then after i was 5 y.o (i believe) i finally were given access into my dad pc and played a lil bit of gamehouse games like feeding frenzy, that hamster games, another one i remember was this helicopter games. It's super fun i would replay that games for days.

And then i buyed a second hand laptop with somehow a gba emulator with hundreds of roms in there. And then after tens of years here i am.

 

[Brandon Heat]

I started watching my cousin playing Playstation 2, or it was a Dreamcast? I can't remember right, but hold the controller for the first time it was very special.

My dad would occasionally take me to those places where you could rent a video game to play for a certain amount of time. I didn’t even know the names of the games; I’d just say I wanted to play a “fighting game,” so to speak, and the clerk would just hand me whatever fit the description. (I ended playing Final Fight Streetwise in that day, LOL)

 

[GILSAUM_DELAS]

Yeah, i was just like Appiplyer. I think i started playing games at the age of 3 or 4 around 2006. My first videogame was a PS1 Fat i still don't know how it ended up in my house, some rumours say a neighbour sold it to my mother before they moved to another city. My very very first games were Crash Bandicoot 1, 2, Warped and CTR, GTA 1, Vigilante 8 and 2n Offense, and Lucky Luke. That last one was deeply buried into my unconscious until recently when i suddenly revived a lapse of memory.

After that, i got my hand on a PS2, Xbox 360 and since then i've been using laptops. My laptops were always poor for playing games, but recently got my hands into a decent piece of gamer laptop.

Hopefully i'll build my setup in the next 10 years.

 

[Appiplyer]

I started watching my cousin playing Playstation 2, or it was a Dreamcast? I can't remember right, but hold the controller for the first time it was very special.

My dad would occasionally take me to those places where you could rent a video game to play for a certain amount of time. I didn’t even know the names of the games; I’d just say I wanted to play a “fighting game,” so to speak, and the clerk would just hand me whatever fit the description. (I ended playing Final Fight Streetwise in that day, LOL)

Oh yeah the rental gaming will always be an experiences rentaling a consol for several hours then meet a random stranger to challange you in a fighting games.

Man i miss that old days lol

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Yeah, i was just like Appiplyer. I think i started playing games at the age of 3 or 4 around 2006. My first videogame was a PS1 Fat i still don't know how it ended up in my house, some rumours say a neighbour sold it to my mother before they moved to another city. My very very first games were Crash Bandicoot 1, 2, Warped and CTR, GTA 1, Vigilante 8 and 2n Offense, and Lucky Luke. That last one was deeply buried into my unconscious until recently when i suddenly revived a lapse of memory.

After that, i got my hand on a PS2, Xbox 360 and since then i've been using laptops. My laptops were always poor for playing games, but recently got my hands into a decent piece of gamer laptop.

Hopefully i'll build my setup in the next 10 years.

Ngl my first real console that i played was also Crash Bandicot my neighbour have both ps 1 and ps 2 and since i was the youngest child in the neighborhood i will always get destroyed each time i play either FIFA or Naruto Shippuden with them lol

 

[DarkTownStrutters]

Must have been in the early 80s, at a friend's place and the game was a frogger clone on the Atari.

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

I remember watching my dad and older sister going at it in Urban Champion, while diaper-wearing me clapped along ^^!

 

[Princess Viola]

My grandparents buying me a Nintendo 64 either for my fourth birthday in 2000 or for Christmas that year. I was so young, I don't remember which it was, but I do remember unwrapping it and not knowing what it was because I was such a little kid and didn't know what 'video games' were but I also remember my dad figuring it out how to hook it up to our living room TV and turn it on and stuff. Had Mario 64 with it, but y'know being a kid, I think I mostly just ran around outside Peach's castle until I got a little bit older and figured out there's like...stuff to do in this game lol.

 

[Appiplyer]

I remember watching my dad and older sister going at it in Urban Champion, while diaper-wearing me clapped along ^^!

Damn an older sister that playing game '>' mine only play cozy games. Like harvest moon lol

But hey at least she never bullied me via gaming

 

[SamanthaSamantha's icon]

Damn an older sister that playing game '>' mine only play cozy games. Like harvest moon lol

But hey at least she never bullied me via gaming

Mine always liked the violent kind of games, like Lethal Enforcers II and Virtua Cop XD

 

[polter99]

My gaming experience dated back all the way to SEGA Genesis/Mega Drive (Nintendo basically rich kids only plastic in my country), but I almost had no memories of it beside Sonic, and only remember my sister dislike the underwater section.

So, most of my memories is with PS1 and PS2. But what about the first game on PS1? Hmmm, that's a tough one. It's probably something like Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, Gran Turismo 1 and 2, Spider-Man (no idea which one), and Tekken 3. That's the earliest memories I can dig for my PS1-era.

That's my lore when I'm still a dumb kids. But when I got my own PC back around 2008, my first step is with buying burned DVD cracked games, and the first game I bought will shock you. It's COD:MW3, Left 4 Dead, and NFSMW (2012 ver). This is all before I know about Steam.

Unfortunately, my gaming prodigy skill only develop very very very late in my youthful days at March 2018. That day, that month, and that year change my life forever. Months prior I bought PS4 and subsequently PS+ to play MHWorld online, and then Bloodborne become free games for March 2018, at first I suck at it, but after bashing my head against wall thousand times, it's become my all-time favorite and even Platinum'd it, and Chalice Dungeon which is miserable at first become my favorite end-game content even when I can't find random co-op.

Time moving forward, and turn out, Bloodborne was developed by FromSoftware, the same dev that made Armored Core: Project Phantasma, which I play the shit out of it back when I'm still dumb kids (and still am honestly), and my view of gaming landscape broaden since then.

Seriously though, if it wasn't for the fact I bought PS4 and PS+ at that exact time, my perspective of gaming will remain shallow, and probably won't even write this shit. Sorry for the long ass down the memory lane, fellas.

 

[ThomatoSauce]

My first-ever experience with video games was with Dora the Explorer: Journey to the Purple Planet on the PS2. That being said, it didn't get me into gaming wholesale like LEGO Star Wars II would about a year or two later.

As for handheld gaming, my cousin gave me his GBA SP and some games that I would religiously play every day after school. To this day I still have fond memories of some (admittedly mid) movie tie-in games like Brother Bear and Chicken Little.

 

[Stare best girl]

I can't imagine my life without Donkey Kong Country

I still remember how much I liked play it on my SNES Jr. with my siblings and mother

 

[Appiplyer]

My first-ever experience with video games was with Dora the Explorer: Journey to the Purple Planet on the PS2. That being said, it didn't get me into gaming wholesale like LEGO Star Wars II would about a year or two later.

As for handheld gaming, my cousin gave me his GBA SP and some games that I would religiously play every day after school. To this day I still have fond memories of some (admittedly mid) movie tie-in games like Brother Bear and Chicken Little.

Didn't know dora have games lol

 

[RageBurner]

I started on my own... the earliest I can remember were the built in Sega Master System games, Hang On and Safari Hunt, although they felt more like elaborate mini-games. Alex Kidd in Miracle World is my earliest memory.

 

[Azkik]

I think I started with Asteroids on an i486 IBM clone my uncle gave me.

 

[Kobu]

As far back as memory will allow I was just drawn to it. Some of my earliest memories are in Mexico of going to the store and seeing MegaDrives on the shelves and not knowing what they were but wanting one. Especially once I saw one hooked up with a strange blue mouse thing going fast doing loops on the TV.

Some of my cousins bringing their Nintendo to my Grandma's and not letting me play; I remember my Aunt on my Dad's side of the family had a Nintendo there with Punch-Out!!, Super Mario Bros, and Mario Bros 2. I don't remember the exact reason but that cousin was never there when we'd visit and they'd let me sit up in his room and play to my hearts content. He was much older then me I was around 3 or so and I think he was off at college or something. That Christmas of 93' or 94' my Grandma got me my very own Super Nintendo and I was absolutely blown away.

Some nights my dad would take me to the corner store to get junk food/beer and I remember they had what I now know was Shadow Dancer on an arcade cabinet. I loved the fact that he had a Ninja Dog companion. He also used to co-own an Auto Shop alongside my uncle, Rest In Peace, where they had a Street Fighter II cabinet and a Shinobi/Varth: Operation Thunderstorm dual cabinet. My uncle would pop open the coin slot and let me play for free. We didn't know how to set it to Free Play or that that was a thing lol

But yeah, those are about my earliest memories from a much simpler time in this aging gamer's time on this rock. Happy to share!

 

[PSVitaForever]

When I was little I got one of those "Tiger Electronic" little handheld, it was car races.
Some years later, at a charity stand of the local church, one woman beside us won this "GameBoy" (a fake one? I don't know) and we won some fabric. I asked my Dad "Can we ask the lady to trade?", she said "yes of course" and I spent my summer playing tetris!
Some time later I got a pc, first game "Tomb Raider 2" (I knew nothing and that was the most famous on the store shelf) and then FF8... and then the fire consuming a player started burning.

 

[theshiningpath]

I'm old enough now where it's actually hard for me to remember. I believe it started because I watched one of the neighbor kids play Paper Boy for the NES. They wouldn't let me play so I told my parents, and of course they wouldn't have that, so they bought me a SNES (that came with Super Mario World). I was around 4 or 5 at the time.

 

[Bandini]

It was 33 years ago in a far away galaxy called Argentina. I started with a famicom clone (in a super famicom shell) like this one*. It had four integrated games : Arkanoid, 1944, B-Wings and Pinball. I was six years old.
Man, I love B-Wings.
*

 

[No_Life_King]

I won't lie, I'm pretty young, and my first game was nsmbwii.

 

[Kobu]

I won't lie, I'm pretty young, and my first game was nsmbwii.

Is that your favorite? My first was Super Mario World and that's mine followed by the first Super Mario Galaxy oddly enough. I really enjoyed Galaxy.

 

[ThunderBoy]

This

Amstrad CPC6128

 

[extermist]

As early as my brain allows me to recall I remember seeing people on TV getting together to drink beer and play Pong and Space Invaders, they kept tally on score and stuff like that.
I knew instantly that I wanted something like that when I got old enough.

The first time I saw side scrolling my mind was blown and I kept trying to recapture that magic of wanting to explore game worlds.
By the 6th gen my attention shifted towards dynamic action combat.
Then that shifted again to fighting games, then again towards strategy and tactics.

 

[No_Life_King]

Is that your favorite? My first was Super Mario World and that's mine followed by the first Super Mario Galaxy oddly enough. I really enjoyed Galaxy.

Oh no that's not my favorite. I do think it's super underrated though. And I also think it's the best of the nsmb line up.

My favorite is definitely smb3. I played that on my wii too. Let me tell you, I was a tyke. And I was amazed that you could just play super old games just like that.

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Oh no that's not my favorite. I do think it's super underrated though. And I also think it's the best of the nsmb line up.

My favorite is definitely smb3. I played that on my wii too. Let me tell you, I was a tyke. And I was amazed that you could just play super old games just like that.

I miss Virtual Console man.

 

[Kobu]

Oh no that's not my favorite. I do think it's super underrated though. And I also think it's the best of the nsmb line up.

My favorite is definitely smb3. I played that on my wii too. Let me tell you, I was a tyke. And I was amazed that you could just play super old games just like that.

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I miss Virtual Console man.

The Virtual Console was a heck of a ride and I loved it up until its last days on the Wii U. Yes emulation made it redundant in a way but there was something special about Nintendo themselves acknowledging the older fanbase and making these classic games available for purchase once more. The ease of access was great too. Not everyone will want to take the steps to learn about ROMS and Emulators and setting all that up, easy as it may be to you and I. My favorite games to play were the GBA titles on the Wii U GamePad. Especially the Mega Man Battle Network games. For all the crap it got it was incredibly comfortable to use. I'd still play it if it wasn't stolen from me circa 2016.

The subscription service is alright but paying monthly is dogwater compared to what we had.