What actually got you into gaming?

So we all had to start somewhere. But what actually got you to REALLY REALLY be into gaming? For me it was the PS1 when I began to realize games could have really great stories to tell and could be a really enjoyable all around expierience.Games Like silent hill, MGS and Resident evil showed me games could be a lot more in depth and have really deep character development and have a lot more substance.

the first system i ever owned was the atari 7800

but what got me into gaming was the first time i sa contra 1 on the NES

i loved games as long as I could rememberJandurin

Same thing here.

Super Mario World got me started and Crash Bandicoot and FFVII got me hooked.

I've always liked games, but FFX really got me into gaming. As a kid I would play games for a small amount of time just to laugh or kill things in Mortal Kombat, but FFX really got me into collecting games and playing for the experience.

The original Spyro The Dragon commercial had me sold. :P

The Dreamcast Sonic adventure 1 and 2 got me into Gaming later it was the Ps1

I started when I was very little (4 - 5 years old) on an Atari 2600. I just liked it. When I got my NES with Mario bros I was hooked.

I started when I was very little (4 - 5 years old) on an Atari 2600. I just liked it. When I got my NES with Mario bros I was hooked.

NielsNL

Super Mario World.OreoMilkshake

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I started when I was very little (4 - 5 years old) on an Atari 2600. I just liked it. When I got my NES with Mario bros I was hooked.

Jandurin

Didn't get Tetris until I got my first Gameboy a few years later. Duck Hunt also didn't really do it for me. I always cheated by sitting right in front of the tv :)

I always cheated by sitting right in front of the tv :)

NielsNL

This was the first game I became obsssesed with, although i do remember playing q-bert and pitfall.

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I always cheated by sitting right in front of the tv :)

Jandurin

Well.. let's just say that the distance between me and the tv would be considered cheating by most...

my cousin playing his PSone, it was like 8 years ago.

commodore 64

Pong

So we all had to start somewhere. But what actually got you to REALLY REALLY be into gaming? For me it was the PS1 when I began to realize games could have really great stories to tell and could be a really enjoyable all around expierience.Games Like silent hill, MGS and Resident evil showed me games could be a lot more in depth and have really deep character development and have a lot more substance.

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I was "gamer" since Amiga gamer / atari ST and Atari 2600 era , but when i saw Street Fighter 2 in arcades.. Oh god..!! That was it. Wanted a console just for that. I even dream of it !! lol!! Thats was the start.

I can't remember really. I was really young when I played my first game, about three years old I believe, I barely remember those days. I probably just wanted to play the SEGA Megadrive we had after watching my brother play it or something.

My good old NES did ^^ in truth I was interrested in gaming way before, but it was the first system I owned myself, and opened up the possibilities that gaming had to me.

My brother got a PS1 when I was 1 year old, so I basically learned to game before I learned to walk ;O

My dad brought me that old pong game at a garage sale and then later on a NES with Mario/Duck Hunt. My love for gaming grew from there.

The NES, Genesis, and SNES. Donno which games, but I do know that I played a lot of them. Tons of multiplayer fun.

One year for Christmas when I was really really young, my dad bought the family an Atari 2600. It came bundled with pacman and donkey kong. I remember being so young Iknew what it was, bought hadn't actually HEARD of an Atari before. I was also way too young to be able to play Donkey Kong because it was just too hard.

We also lived in a very small town atthat time and there was no cable or anything like that. We gota couplebroadcast stations like CBC and CTV and then the town had a dish so we got Showtime or something. That was it. So there was no watching TV for me except for Saturday mornings.When I wasn't playing with He-Man or Transformers, or running around outside, I spent my time playing Atari. I played a LOT ofAtari, especially as I got older.

THEN, while our towndidn't really have TV, we did have a local arcade that was pretty impressive in its ability tokeep its small selection VERY up to date with the latest, most popular arcade games. Wonder Boy, Double Dragon,etc. Soas I got older, and Atari slowly started to fade (I still played it though), I moved tothe local arcade where I spent pretty much every pennyand free moment I could.

THAT was what got me into gaming. Now I'm older and have many other responsibilities but I still game whenever I can. IWISH I had more free time, but that's life.One day when my kid gets a little older we can game together, which I really lookforward too. When my wife asks why I feel I need to play games, I tell her I can't remember a single time in my life when gaming wasn't a part of it. It's become a part of who I am and how people see me (who have known me a long long time). I wouldn't know what to do if I could never game again.

Atari 2600 when some doctor or something told my parents games and computers would help my development...thus making it so i played atari 2600 only about once a month cause my parents had to be around when i played it cause i was 3 and didn't trust me with the TV cause back then electronics areas of stores had idiotic concepts of tvs being damaged by the most mundane things.

I started out with a sega genesis, but then when i got the nintendo 64 I was hooked. That as well as playing the pokemon series when it debuted.

Uhhhh...Tetris on the brick Gameboy(which I still have 2 of, are they worth anything?) and California Racing on N64. Just began playing games like Goldeneye with friends, next gen consoles came out...bought a PS2...next gen bought a PS3 and now I've got a PS3/PC/PSP.

I played the NES and SNES as a child, but I wasn't really that into them. I sort of stopped gaming. Then some new neighbors moved next door, and the kid had a PlayStation. When I saw Twisted Metal and the (supposedly) 3d graphics, I was amazed :o. That Christmas I got a PSX and my brother got an N64, and the rest is history 8)

MY cousin having a GBC(game boy color) with pokemon. I tried to mimick him with buying a GBA, and ever since, I've been into gaming.

I use to just watch my cousin play games. I would play a little here and there but, it wasn't until Ninja Gaiden on the NES that I really got into it. The difficulty was just so off the charts it made me want to master it. It took a long time but, I was finally able to beat it without dieing once. I still remember the last boss was the hardest to beat without dieing cause you would run out of the special attack after fighting the first 2 bosses one after the other. This happen for months, I would get through the whole game without dieing up until the last 3 boss fights. It's been so long now I doubt I can even past the first level without dieing a few times.

playstation

pokemon. all the cool kids were doing it.

NES w/ Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt and the Nintendo Zapper. My family got it in 1988 I was 2 years old so I started playing games then. Before that I would watch my brother, Sister, and Parents play Atari 2600.