Old-School Gamers 30 +

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im 17...the first game i ever played was fury 3, used to play it with my dad

got me into gaming

That's hard to say. Not like I time anything.

City of Villains got massive amount of times for sure and it is a recent title. A civilisation title maybe. Romance of the three Kingdoms 2 maybe...Bandits King of Ancient China maybe...the gold boxes maybe...Joust maybe, but I am drunk when I play it, doesn't count! Heroes of Might and Magic II maybe...

Asteroid or Pac Man maybe...I was a kid then...

Glory for Aladda! Zarnix will fall! :P (haha try to guess the game!)

Im 32 and i played WoW every day for almost 3 years. Probably 40+ hours a week or more.

Wish i could get back 1/10th of the time i spent with that game.

I'm 27. Can't believe it's been 10 years since Diablo--my first RPG and the first game I played online. It was also the first game I found myself playing till 3:30 AM one morning, and I remember thinking, "Wow, I can't believe I've stayed up so long playing this!"

The idea of battling together with a group of people online was such a novelty, not to mention the addictive nature of finding cool equipment and showing it off. Its sequel, Diablo 2, just wasn't a worthy enough successor, in my opinion.

While I'm not quite 30, I'd say that I fit into the "old-school" subset of gamers. I'm 26, but I've been playing since the early 80's, on the Atari my parents bought me. While I can't say that the games of the 80's are the ones that consumed most of my time, I did spend a great deal on them. Despite being "old-school", most of the games that took up the majority of my gaming time are the multiplayer ones that came out in the late 90's and early 00's.

1. Command and Conquer: Red Alert: Way too many LAN games with my friends. We would have battles that would literally last 3-4 hours long.
2. Goldeneye: If it wasn't Red Alert, we were playing 4-player deathmatch... we even went as far as creating a 4-player splitter made of cardboard so that we couldn't see each other's screens.
3. Counterstrike: Not only did I play the original PC version for several years, the same could be said of the XBL version. In fact, I was once the number 1 player on XBL for this particular title.
4. Return to Castle Wolfenstein: I bought an extra Xbox just to host dedicated servers!
5. Ghost Recon: While this wasn't as good as CS or RTCW, it did allow for my friends and I to stay connected and continue our gaming habits from remote locations (by this time, they all joined the military while I was an undergrad).

As you can see, all of these games were multiplayer, but there are single-player games I poured enormous amounts of time into as well:

PC:

1. Red Alert 2
2. Counter Strike
3. Tiberian Sun
4. C&C 3

NES:

1. TMNT 2
2. SMB 3
3. ZELDA
4. Mike Tyson's Punch-Out

GEN:

1. Street Fighter 2: CE
2. Streets of Rage 2
3. Streets of Rage 1
4. Mortal Kombat

SNES:

1. Zelda: LTTP
2. SM World
3. The Secret of Evermore
4. TMNT: Turtles In Time

Sega CD:

1. Lunar
2. Jurassic Park
3. Ground Zero Texas
4. Some click-point game that was a lot like Blade Runner

Sega Saturn:

1. Guardian Heroes (which Castle Crashers seems to borrow liberally from)
2. Panzer Dragoon
3. Fighter's Megamix
4. Dragon Force

PSX:

1. Final Fantasy 7
2. Final Fantasy 9 (hated 8's system)
3. Suikoden 2
4. Red Alert: Retaliation (via system link)

N64:

1. Goldeneye (hands DOWN!!!!)
2. Mario Kart 64
3. Zelda: Ocarina of Time (and was disappointed, because I thought/think LTTP is better)
4. Battle Tanx

Dreamcast:

1. Shenmue 1
2. Skies of Arcadia
3. Shenmue 2
4. Marvel vs. Capcom 2

Xbox: (excluding XBL-centric games)

1. Kotor 1
2. Halo
3. Kotor 2
4. Fight Night

PS2:

1. Suikoden 3
2. Final Fantasy 10
3. Dragon Quest 10
4. Grandia 3

GC:

1. Skies of Arcadia: Legends... I can't get enough of this game
2. Resident Evil: Remake
3. Resident Evil: 0
4. Resident Evil 4

Xbox 360:

1. Rainbow Six: Vegas
2. Fight Night
3. Mass Effect (to be honest, I miss Kotor)
4. Halo 3 (yeah... I can't say that I liked how the series failed to recapture the magic of the first one)

I'm not 30 quite yet, but I'm older than your average gamer, for sure.

I remember playing the original Zelda on NES quite a bit, Street Fighter 2 incarnations on SNES, endlessly. Goldeneye on N64, too.

30 here....my very earliest gaming memories are of playing the Atari 2600 (E.T., Pitfall, Combat) and Coleco Vision as well as the Atari ST (Barbarian, Obliterator, Gauntlet and Hostage.)

"Glory for Aladda! Zarnix will fall!"

Is it Sword of Aragon?

I'm not 30 yet but i'm getting there. :P

The first game I remember playing was an Asteroids clone on the ZX Spectrum.

The game I remember playing the most would probably be, Pyjamarama on the ZX Spectrum.

ninja gaiden for nes took up a lot of time. it took me about a month of consistent play time after school to beat it. every other game took me about 3 days or so to beat.

ng 2 and 3 also took up time but i found them much easier than the original. i've beaten all 3 games countless times. i can probably still plow through those games with no mercy if i play them today (even though i haven't played them in years)

i also enjoyed playing ducktales as a kid. that game was great.

30 here....my very earliest gaming memories are of playing the Atari 2600 (E.T., Pitfall, Combat) and Coleco Vision as well as the Atari ST (Barbarian, Obliterator, Gauntlet and Hostage.)

"Glory for Aladda! Zarnix will fall!"

Is it Sword of Aragon?

Rekunta

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