How did you get into gaming?

[The Last Stand]

As with many hobbies, gaming started from something or someone. A family member, friends, events, commercials, anywhere in between.

What made us start gaming and what keeps us engaged with video games?

Share some earliest gaming memories and how they evolved from there.

 

[Klaptrap]

Then I played some other sports games before realizing sports games are shit.
Then Halo 3 changed the game. (No pun intended.)

 

[Nathan Higgers]

I didn't choose the gamer life, the gamer life chose me.

 

[starborn427614]

Good question, I think I've forgotten at this point. My first console was a SEGA Master System, but even that might be a muddled memory.

 

[The Cunting Death]

Grew up with a sister and older brothers who had an SNES (later n64), my dad occasionally played Deer Hunting sims on PC and we had quite a few adventure games, and my mom is really into early 80s Namco games.

 

[The Last Stand]

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Then I played some other sports games before realizing sports games are shit.
Then Halo 3 changed the game. (No pun intended.)

What game is that pictured?

What was your favorite sport?

Grew up with a sister and older brothers who had an SNES (later n64), my dad occasionally played Deer Hunting sims on PC and we had quite a few adventure games, and my mom is really into early 80s Namco games.

How was it PC gaming then?

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

dad had a sega genesis and it went off from there. used to play the shit out of sonic 2/3 and one of the NFL hockey games.

 

[ReeferRoach]

The very first game I've ever played was a Nintendo 64 cartridge I found between the living room couch; it happened to be Mischief Makers and it is one of the best platformers of all time (you should give it a try!).

 

[Burgerasssand]

dad let me play RE4 on his PS2 when I was like 5 or 6, and it was all downhill from there

 

[The Last Stand]

The very first game I've ever played was a Nintendo 64 cartridge I found between the living room couch; it happened to be Mischief Makers and it is one of the best platformers of all time (you should give it a try!).

Whose system was it?

 

[Klaptrap]

@The Last Stand
"Backyard Baseball 2003"
It was this children's baseball game, as the name implies.

I played a snowmobile game on PS1 as well as some early 2000s NCAA and wrestling games.

 

[Mimic]

When I was very young I had such bad allergies I couldn't stay outside very long, so the doctor said, "give that kid a TV." Folks went the extra mile and got an NES for the family.

And here we are.

 

[From The Uncanny Valley]

Peer pressure and lack of interest/ability to do "outdoor" things

 

[Quantum Diabetes]

My autistic brother suddenly showed a proficiency for Nintendo games, and I went on a wholesome Pg rated cross country hitchhike with him and some bitch so we could get to California and win "Video Armageddon". For some fucking reason Beau Bridges and Christian Slater were following us and I swear I saw Tobey Maguire for half a second.

 

[Dom Cruise]

Cousin had a NES and SNES, I also remember two different groups of neighbor kids had a NES which is where I first played Mario 3 and also played stuff like a Tiny Toons game and the NES arcade port of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Then later a coworker of my mom's gave me his old Sega Genesis, but what really sealed the deal was getting a PlayStation for Christmas of 1998.

While the Genesis was cool, I'll spend the rest of my life regretting not having a SNES of my own as a kid, that would have been magical, but I was lucky to be able to play one at all I guess.

 

[Mr_Sam_Bones]

As an eastern european kid I would play nintendo games on knock off chinese consoles, I remember having a grocery bag full of caseless cartridges, I would guess what game I was playing by the shape of the circuit board, I remember playing a lot of Legend of Kage, Contra and some other games I remember well but don't know the name of, one had a cowboy sort of deal going on, it felt really meaty, you could throw dynamite and shit, and the other might not have been a game at all but a contra level, I remember it like a Sci-Fi Castlevania or half way beteween Contra and Ninja Gaiden

 

[Chaos Theorist]

Playing Super Mario Bros 3 and 2 on a NES at the respite place I was sent to was my first memory of vidya. My first actual console was a Megadrive with the 6 in 1 game cartridge with Shinobi and Sanic.

 

[Dojima's Dragon]

First console of mine was ps2 and man i remember coming back from school taking and instantly booting up ps2 and playing some re4,gta sa,silent hill 2,etc the PlayStation 2 now that was a good console *sips*

 

[McAfee'sCorpse]

it all started with

Lego Batman: The Videogame​

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Dad bought a NES and I wasn't interested but he lured me in and fucked me over hard in Ice Climber, Mario Bros and any other game that could be played by two people at once, games that weren't even meant to be played like that. The creaking noise of trying to break a NES controller in half is burnt into my memory. Me being unreasonably competitive led me to try to get good enough to fuck him over but that never happened, instead I got a lot of new friends curious about video games and then Zelda came out. And Metroid, Kid Icarus, Goonies 2, Metal Gear, Faxanadu - games were you explore and figure things out.