Started gaming on my PC when I was 5 with WC2, I've been playing PC games since. I would say I've been an avid PC gamer (Gamer in general) since that time, but only in the past 4-5 years have I begun to refer to it as my hobby.
I would say around 3-4 years old. I learned the importance of correct spelling from King's Quest I...now that brings back memories....
pvtdonut54
Look awound *What is "awound"?* Open dour *What is "dour"?* Put on nostalgia glasses *What is "nolstagia"?*
Not quite. It was always a collaborative effort (for a single-player game, King's Quest was a great co-op experience). My brother and/or father would tell me what to type, I would try to type it out, I would probably get it wrong, one of them would correct me, then I'd type in the correct word/phrase. Learning by doing...it was great.
I would say around 3-4 years old. I learned the importance of correct spelling from King's Quest I...now that brings back memories....
Ein-7919
Look awound *What is "awound"?* Open dour *What is "dour"?* Put on nostalgia glasses *What is "nolstagia"?*
Not quite. It was always a collaborative effort (for a single-player game, King's Quest was a great co-op experience). My brother and/or father would tell me what to type, I would try to type it out, I would probably get it wrong, one of them would correct me, then I'd type in the correct word/phrase. Learning by doing...it was great.
I used to watch my brother play Space Quest. When he survived the ship in the beginning for the first time, he was so happy...hurm..:(
I used to watch my brother play Space Quest. When he survived the ship in the beginning for the first time, he was so happy...hurm..:(
pvtdonut54
Yeah, I did that too. It wasn't until Space Quest IV that I really got into the SQ games. Of course, I think that might've been due to the VGA graphics and revamped control method.
25 My family never had enough money to buy a computer growing up so I was always stuck with NES, Sega Genesis and Playstation. I remember going to the stores and seeing all the PC games and thinking how much more interesting they looked than the console games I was stuck with. I remember friends talking about fraging eachother online playing Doom and Quake. I remember getting my first taste of RTS genre via the Playstation port of Warcraft 2. I remember feeling disatisfied with console games in my early 20's and at 25 I was able to save enough for my first computer. I've always worked **** minimum wage jobs all my life and after paying rent and bills never had too much to spend on myself. Now 3 years later at 28 I don't think I even want to go back to consoles. The only thing I miss about consoles is gathering around with a few friends and playing some co-op games together on the couch.
Well I first played on PC around 1993, at the age of 3. I was playing on Commodore 64 before that. I wasn't gaming THAT much until 2001 when my brother helped me build my own PC. So I guess at age 11.
There were computers at my kindergarden which had educational games, but I started realpc gaming when I got myown computerwhich came bundled with Age of Empires, I was around 5 or 6.
There were computers at my kindergarden which had educational games, but I started realpc gaming when I got myown computerwhich came bundled with Age of Empires, I was around 5 or 6.
Tuky06
Did you play The Incredible Machine? That was a fantastic game.
There were computers at my kindergarden which had educational games, but I started realpc gaming when I got myown computerwhich came bundled with Age of Empires, I was around 5 or 6.
Swiftstrike5
Did you play The Incredible Machine? That was a fantastic game. I loved that game as a child.
wtf? 3? 5? Could you even feed yourself at that age? Let alone remember anything? I don't think you can call it a hobby at that point, since you barely know what's going on.
wtf? 3? 5? Could you even feed yourself at that age? Let alone remember anything? I don't think you can call it a hobby at that point, since you barely know what's going on.F1_2004
19 or 20 in late 2006. Until I built (with help) my own gaming computer, I had been solely a console and handheld gamer. These days the PC is my preferred platform. Had a Wii but sold it after 2.5 years and haven't gotten another current gen console since. I'm happy with my comp. :)
Even tho my first computer was a Tandy TRS-80 in '79, i didnt really get into "gaming" (if you can call it that yet...) untill '82 when the Commodore 64 came out. My most played games were Jumpman Jr and International Karate, then later in 1985 I had my first love affair in the RPG genre with a game called Ultima 4 (on C64) This is really the first time ever that I started playing into the wee morning hours and pulling all-nighters.
Going to school at age 14, looking like crap and being tired the following day never felt sooo good! Ontop of being really the only kid in school to even have any gaming tales to tell of by 1985 makes me feel like a true old school gamer at this point.
12-13. I got Gmod and C:SS (got it for Gmod, but heard ccss was good) and C:SS got me into real pc gaming. once i realized my computer was crap i got into building pc's. I just turned 15 yesterday so thats 2-3 years. Not as much as most of you, but that doesn't mean I'm not a real PC gamer.
wtf? 3? 5? Could you even feed yourself at that age? Let alone remember anything? I don't think you can call it a hobby at that point, since you barely know what's going on.F1_2004
Nope, I remember perfectly how my Bomberman games went, and a few months later SC came. I'm pretty sure noone remembers all of his first games on a RTS he spent over 12.000 hours on so age doesn't really matter :P And by the time I learnt to play I was already kicking casuals' asses. Considering that at the time I also loved throwing random the meaningless insults I was used to read in chat and I didn't know a single word of english yet there was a truly magic atmosphere in playing it :D
3 years old? wtf? A toddler playing games on the pc, I doubt it.
GenericUser12
You gotta learn how to spell, eventually. There was also this other game that I played back then too. It was like a fantasy RPG with impressive ASCII graphics. I can't even remember the name of it, but that game was how I learned the word 'inventory'. What can I say, I grew up with access to a computer (an IBM PC Jr.). Seriously, I've had a keyboard at my fingertips for as long as I can remember.
3 years old? wtf? A toddler playing games on the pc, I doubt it.
GenericUser12
I learned most of my English (non-native speaker) from adventure games and Civilization 1 (reading the Civilopedia.) When I started school the teacher was impressed of how much I knew English at first grade, and largely because of games I always got 10/10's from English tests. :D Games can be really educational you know.
last year, when i was 18. i had just gotten a job so i bought a laptop and started amassing a collection of games. i had been playing guild wars for several years but i got tired of it so i started buying non-mmo games and i fell in love :P anywho in the 11 months i have been a pc gamer i have gotten 21 games.
edit: before hand i was a console gamer since i was 8 though
i didnt start pc gaming properly til the mid 90s around 95 when i was 16. before there just seemed to be more games on other home computer systems, i had an amstrad cpc 464, a commodore 64 and atari st in the eighties (my dad had a pc he had brought home from work which had all the old sierra adventure games on it) and in the nineties a commodore amiga 500+ then a 1000.
every game available for the pc was avaialble for the amiga, plus loads more. my dad always had a pc so i could compare the two and the amiga used to beat it in every department. it wasnt until support for the amiga began to dry up in the mid nineties that i made the switch
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