What game first got you hooked on gaming?
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Mavrickx888
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The first game that truly got me hooked on gaming was the original Age of Empires. The lengths I would go just to play that game still makes me question my sanity...
Rewind the clock a few years... (Ok, maybe a little more than a few). My dad gave me an old HP laptop that was from the late 90s running Windows 95, a processor that had less clock speed than a bottle of water, and just enough hard drive space to squeeze the OS and maybe one or two low-end games. The screen was no more than 7 inches and it had one of those pop-out mice attached by a flimsy piece of plastic. It didn't even have an integrated CD-ROM drive! The only option I had was a battery powered (Yes, that's right, 6 AA batteries!) LPT CD-ROM drive that lasted all of about 10 minutes at max speed before the batteries went dead. If I even wanted to install the game, I had to do extra chores for an entire week just so I could go and buy the batteries required to power it. I had my house, my backyard, and front yard looking pristine just so I afford the batteries to play what may have been an hours worth of that damned game.
Looking back, it was all worth it, as gaming has been a big part of my life ever since and I wouldn't trade a second of it for anything.
Rewind the clock a few years... (Ok, maybe a little more than a few). My dad gave me an old HP laptop that was from the late 90s running Windows 95, a processor that had less clock speed than a bottle of water, and just enough hard drive space to squeeze the OS and maybe one or two low-end games. The screen was no more than 7 inches and it had one of those pop-out mice attached by a flimsy piece of plastic. It didn't even have an integrated CD-ROM drive! The only option I had was a battery powered (Yes, that's right, 6 AA batteries!) LPT CD-ROM drive that lasted all of about 10 minutes at max speed before the batteries went dead. If I even wanted to install the game, I had to do extra chores for an entire week just so I could go and buy the batteries required to power it. I had my house, my backyard, and front yard looking pristine just so I afford the batteries to play what may have been an hours worth of that damned game.
Looking back, it was all worth it, as gaming has been a big part of my life ever since and I wouldn't trade a second of it for anything.
This one's actually a multi-way tie for me;
Metal Gear (NES)
Gato-1 (PC)
Stunts (PC) - the only make-your-own-track racing game I've sen to date..
Prince of Persia (PC)
Doom (PC)
Metal Gear (NES)
Gato-1 (PC)
Stunts (PC) - the only make-your-own-track racing game I've sen to date..
Prince of Persia (PC)
Doom (PC)
psycros
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I was totally hooked the first time we fired up the Pong console. Not long after came the 2600, and I actually got one for Christmas (with Combat, of course..think they got me Space Invaders, too). Only those who came of age in that era understand how magical a time it was. All this video game stuff was new and there was <b>always</b> something just hitting the shelves that you desperately wanted. Nowadays you almost have to fund a Kickstarter project to get a game you'd actually want to play.
KG363
Posts: 526 +15
Command & Conquer.
C&C set the bar for me. I grew up with C&C 95 and all of its subsequent iterations. Westwood set the bar so high that I've never really been able to enjoy any other RTS as much, save the first two Age of Empires. I still go back and play as the GDI looking to stop the terrorist NOD organization, or I play as the right-hand man to Kane in a bid to dominate the world. I'm getting way too nostalgic to keep on writing. The only thing I dislike about it is that Win7 doesn't support it.
Where's my XP disk...
C&C set the bar for me. I grew up with C&C 95 and all of its subsequent iterations. Westwood set the bar so high that I've never really been able to enjoy any other RTS as much, save the first two Age of Empires. I still go back and play as the GDI looking to stop the terrorist NOD organization, or I play as the right-hand man to Kane in a bid to dominate the world. I'm getting way too nostalgic to keep on writing. The only thing I dislike about it is that Win7 doesn't support it.
Where's my XP disk...
T
thewoosterisroot
I would have to say Total annihilation. Counter-strike and starcraft are close seconds though.
Omnificent
Posts: 7 +1
Hey there, the first game that got me hooked was Super Mario Land (the one with the little dots on the map and the secret star world) for the Super Nintendo.
My dad bought me it when I was real little 5-6 and I loved the game and the console. It was a great addiction for my friends and I. Other notable mentions are quake 1 and rise of the triad, and doom, all of which I played while sitting on my dads lap using our Win 95 machine. LOL
Anyways I'm glad I was introduced to the world of gaming and I continue it to this day.
My dad bought me it when I was real little 5-6 and I loved the game and the console. It was a great addiction for my friends and I. Other notable mentions are quake 1 and rise of the triad, and doom, all of which I played while sitting on my dads lap using our Win 95 machine. LOL
Anyways I'm glad I was introduced to the world of gaming and I continue it to this day.
Tomorrow_Rains
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Star Wars Dark Forces for PC. big star wars fan, so I got hooked on video games since that day
The first game I ever played was called Midnight Madness on the Atari, I was probably 5. It was a pinball game separated into a top and bottom screen if I remember correctly. My father actually bought the Atari with Midnight Madness to take with him when he went on the road. Well he was playing it very late one night and I woke up. Him and I sat there for a few hours mesmerized by the graphics, being Atari they were just blocks, but I was amazed.
Well, as far as I remember it was Civilization I running on 4 floppy discs on Intel 286 processor in DOS system. Ahh good old times.
We had a Pong clone hooked up to our TV back in the 70s, and I was instantly hooked by the interaction. Space Invaders (arcade and Atari 2600) is probably what cemented my lifelong love of playing video games.
I had always wanted to fly, so when I got an Atari 800 computer I immediately bought Star Raiders, and later I played the snot out of F-15 Strike Eagle. I also immensely enjoyed The Great American Cross Country Road Race on the 800, and have always had at least one racer on every platform I have owned.
I bought my first (and every subsequent) PC for gaming, and played a ton of Freespace 2 and Crimson Skies. Unreal Tournament got me hooked on FPS games, and much later, Command & Conquer 3 got me going on RTS.
I had always wanted to fly, so when I got an Atari 800 computer I immediately bought Star Raiders, and later I played the snot out of F-15 Strike Eagle. I also immensely enjoyed The Great American Cross Country Road Race on the 800, and have always had at least one racer on every platform I have owned.
I bought my first (and every subsequent) PC for gaming, and played a ton of Freespace 2 and Crimson Skies. Unreal Tournament got me hooked on FPS games, and much later, Command & Conquer 3 got me going on RTS.
TS-56336
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I have Gameboy Advance. I play Pokemon and was particularly addicted. I have about 12 versions of Pokemon. But I got switched to PC because my Gameboy was wiped out by Typhoon Ketsana. So then, I give PC gaming a shot. I started to play Fallout 3 and it's still very good past-apocalyptic genre.
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