What got you into video games?

[Qwelzaar]

My dad got me into them. When I was around two or three years old I'd sit on his lap while he played his NES and occasionally help out (read: pushing random buttons). The first console I remember being able to play on my own is the Snes, and from then on out I've been a gamer.

[JKDarkside]

My uncle gave me his Sega Genesis with Sonic the Hedgehog and Road Rash. So much time wasted.

Pokemon Blue got me hooked in for life.

[Littledood]

It was my brother that got me hooked. Although it was my father who got me a Gameboy color. It was yellow. I had Pokemon yellow with it. Then I got Pokemon Blue. Blue is my favorite.

[Elin]

My older brother was very big on videogames when he was five and I was about three and a half. He had a couple of second hand Atari consoles, and knew people with NESs, Master Systems and C64s. I played them a little through him, but books were really more my thing. Most of the games he played were really basic, high score-y affairs, and the worlds in them couldn't match up to the ones I saw in my own head while reading. I got into games a little more when I was about five or six, and you had games like Strider and Sonic, with more diverse, colourful, exciting world to explore. Though even then, mainly I still just sat and watched him play, or played two player games with him.

I think I only really started to want to play games myself between the ages of eight and ten, when I came across JRPGs and adventure-y games for the first time. Games like Zelda, Wonder Boy, Phantasy Star, Shining Force, Secret of Mana and the Lucasarts point and click games were much closer to the books I loved, and had the added excitement of putting you right there in the action yourself. At first I'd play through them with my brother, but around about Final Fantasy VIII's era his interest in games started to wane. And since I was still interested, I kind of just... kept on playing by myself. Weirdly enough, I'm now far more into games than he ever was. And though I still tend toward more text-heavy games, I've developed an appreciation for... um... the game-ish side of games as the years have gone on.

[ziegsy]

I used to watch my brother play alien back on the ps1, but he oly let me watch it some times.
So I wanted to find out what on earth it was about so when he was at school Id sneak in and play.

Been hooked since.

[treos]

hmmm... if i remember right playing super mario bros. and other games on nes at my aunt and uncles years ago got me started on them, i was probably around 5 i think.

[foggy_han]

My father bought me a Mega Drive when I was 3-years old!
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It came with Pac-Mania, and then we got Sonic the Hedgehog (1991).
I remember crying and ask my dad to help me jump over the first cliff in the first "meters"... ^^
Good times. Still have the cartridge!

[DylanD]

I don't recall where I may have first played them, maybe at a friends house when I was young (around 5). A while later I recall asking my parents for a Gameboy color for christmas, which was one of my favorite devices ever! The games I would say that got me into gaming were the Pokemon series. I beat those games so many times and just loved it! Silver and Red were the two I had for the GBC and it was a great time. I remember getting up, playing pokemon on the couch all day and then going to bed, didn't do anything except play and eat lmao.

[gezegond]

>be 3
>at my dad's workplace
>play some weird space shooter on one of the computers
>I am 3 and what is this?
>be 4
>play Doom II on my dad's computer
>BFG FUCK YEAH
>Had nightmares about the game
>Continued playing
>Dad got me a genesis when I was 7.
>Gamed to death

[Darklinky]

I remember getting a brand new Amstrad CPC-464, with a large selection of games for christmas when i was like 9 or 10

It was a green screen, and absolutly awesome at the time.

I was hooked on gaming since then

[HugeGremlins]

First games i got obsessed with were Blood and Dungeon Keeper on a friends PC ,eventually i got my own PC when i was 13\14 then a PSX

Not so much a PC gamer anymore, online communities tend to be incredibly anal (SC2, BF3) and all the singleplayer games now come out on console with just a few exceptions

I still play Doom though and some older titles on PC, Doom is epic.

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any Doom fans should check out Brutal Doom if you haven't already

[gezegond]

any Doom fans should check out Brutal Doom if you haven't already

I haven't. Is it the mod that over exaggerates the violence?

[Nemkoon]

Probably my brothers.
They started me out on the PSX wuth Dino Crisis when I was 5, which I didn't know how to play, Area 51, which doesn't work anymore, and Time Commando, which we lost. Still the only one in the family who beat Dino Crisis. Then I moved to Genesis, with Sonic (duh), Asterix & the Great Rescue,Alladin, and Pac-Attack.

[HugeGremlins]

I haven't. Is it the mod that over exaggerates the violence?

Yeah, it's really gotten polished now



A video of a guy running a slightly older version of Brutal Doom over a cool looking map pack, such a beast of a game even when running vanilla.

Edit\actually sorry he is up to date i think

[The Almighty MegaMan]

>be 3
>at my dad's workplace
>play some weird space shooter on one of the computers
>I am 3 and what is this?
>be 4
>play Doom II on my dad's computer
>BFG FUCK YEAH
>Had nightmares about the game
>Continued playing
>Dad got me a genesis when I was 7.
>Gamed to death

Hey brother, we ain't on /v/.
If you want to >greentext and implications, head back there... or at least color your greentext manually.

Answering the question, I started with Mario on a famiclone (I got like 6 of those, they weren't worth much and they broke if you stared at them too hard) on those 5-billion in one carts.
The reason why I started gaming is because I was 4, had a shitload of time on my hands, and nobody to play with.

As time went by it only grew. I was never too "hardcore", but boy, I wish I knew the number of hours I've spent playing my Famicom/Genesis/PS1...