What got you into subjects of videogames , uptill now?

[Red_Queen]

I was going to post this in classic but since this applies to everybody

 

In the begining.

 

My father brought me a NES but I never liked it since I never understood anything but Mario dying each time I fell. Then I moved and I met my cousin who also had Mario. We played duckhunt, and Super Mario together. Afterwards I really wanted a SNES along with the fact I would watch Super Mario Brothers Super Show all the tim.

 

Part II

 

I would go home and try to play my NES but I never liked playing alone. Later on when everybody had SNES but me I was playing Mario, watching mario, and this continued into the N64 days. During this time I would be playing games with my cousin while he had genesis I had SNES.

 

Part III

 

The Second Generation of RPG for USA had appear and I was high on Super Mario RPG while my cousin was into FF7. This was the time of commercial RPG games that strayed away from the boring DAD board games that we all have come to known more recently. Personally the RPG madness continued into today where I even now prefer the DAD but I have my thoughts.

 

Part IV

 

The dark ages of games with the N64 and nothing to play, everything I sqaundered could have been put into a better investment. It was Naszi germany playing the N64 while the SNES2 ( PSX ) had all that animated madness. Personally games towards the end like perfect dark, and bomberman N64 2 kept me going everything else had me making fun inside my own.

I mean there is lots of good games but to find out.........is like planet of the apes.

 

Part V

 

Again with Nintendo chioce I was playing GCN. During this time I started to careless about game systems and focus of game design along with artwork. Prior to this I was also playing roms on 56K internet, and emulating PSX. I mean god almighty are damned. After the Wii, Re4, and Beyond Good and Evil I gave up all hope and retracted to the SNES.

 

Partt VI

 

The Saturn and SNES is the place to be with supieor graphics. I am now into animation ( which I have been since I was born )

and comicbooks. To be honest I loved games for the creativity they provided us not the programming efforts, 3d, or even realism. 2d was real enough for me and 3d is nice when used correctly but to be honest videogames is a 2d thing. 3d to many newcommers ( three year olds) is something that is new and wonderfull. Personally the idea of 2d is old is dumb.

 

 

Pat VII

 

I am beyond that, beyond the system, I have no for uncannon valley, or realism to the point of me. Animation realism is the realistic I am happy with. I play Game&watch games out of the box as if they were new and gun games with ducks. I buy simon said and have as much fun I had with Beyond Good and Evil. I am tired and I have decided the best games is the ones I create. Nobody elses. I am now even playing Master System and NES games more.

 

I am outside the loop. I see this neo stuff and fall to sleep. FM sound with PCE graphics and little 3d on the side ( Starfox, Panzer ) is good enough for me.

 

In reply to this I now play on a casual scale and is getting into comicbooks more. I am tired of playing hand me downs, and 3d abominations. I am too big to fall for the commercialism of any media format anymore. I don't even own one Ipod in my room or have the need for a mp3 player. The NDS is too small, the PSP is too pointless, the Wii is just a GCN, the 360 shouldn't even be there, and PS3 is just uneeded.

 

I own too many games already, and in fact have doubles of most. I was only into it for the creativity of videogames. I don't carea bout the programming while I do admire the graphics tricks.

 

Red_Queen

 

GAME OVER

[Atari5200]

What got me into video games is simple addiction.

 

I was born in 1979, by 1982, I was playing 2600 games, and have home video to prove it.

 

After I burned out my first 2600, my parents got me a 7800, which I hated and still do to this very day. I ended up selling that and got an NES.

 

Then came Gameboy, then Game Gear, then SNES, then CDX. By the time I was 14, I had got another 2600 and started collecting heavily for that and the bulk of my 2600 collection came from that era in my life, roughly 10-13 years ago. By the time I was 17, I realized I had a pretty decent collection going and the collecting bug totally got to me. I started buying up everything I could at garage sales and flea markets.

 

With my job, I have the opportunity to work indirectly with game companies, like Nintendo, Sony, Microsoft, developers, etc, I'm not going to say what it is I do, sorry. So the addiction has even carried on over into my work, though it is indirectly, it's still cool.

 

And this addiction has let me amass a collection of over 40+ consoles, 3 full size arcade machines, and roughly 1,000+ individual games, and there's no signs of stopping, I'll stop when I'm dead.

[Reaperman]

well, when I was 3-4 my pa got an Atari 800XL, and that was my only game system up until about 1992, when I saved enough money for an NES.

 

Really my interest in game collecting came from my early introduction to video games, coupled with my having *far* fewer and older systems than I really wanted to have. when hit my teen years and started work, I finally had enough disposable income to really launch my collection. Most of my 80+ systems were bought when I was 17-19.

 

I was lucky enough to have a very inexpensive and well stocked game store when I was growing up in madison, WI that pretty well converted every one of my early paychecks into games and hardware. I eventually left the area and headed to the coasts, but I never found an equal to that shop. I wonder if it's still there...

Edited June 19, 2008 by Reaperman

[fdurso224]

Hi guys:

 

I got into video games at a young age. I have plenty of game, systems, & more.

 

I still play plenty of games. I love today's modern systems & video games. I plan to continue to due modern gaming for years to come.

 

Anthony....

[Vic George 2K3]

Being born in 1968, it was the Pong generation of games and game systems that started me off in the addiction of videogames. That, and whatever BASIC game programs one could play on an old B&W TRS-80 computer.

 

When the Atari generation of game systems came along, there was one system that I wanted above all others: the Atari VCS. On Christmas 1981, that is what my family got. Of course, at that time I was also creating my own board game versions of various arcade games, since trips to the arcades were few and far between and very few kids in residential schools owned their own videogame systems there; mostly it's handheld games. Christmas 1982 was when I got the TRON handheld game, which lasted until it got stolen outside of a bus terminal in Providence, RI shortly after New Year's Day 1983. I got another one that summer for $15, which was when the price of Atari 2600 game cartridges went down and I started buying new titles like crazy. Early 1984 was when my mother sold the 2600 in order to get a ColecoVision and a 2600 adapter for it. Summer 1984 was when I bought my first personally-owned game system, the Intellivision II, which lasted about a few months before it started malfunctioning. Summer 1985 was when I bought my first personal computer, which was the standalone model Adam Family Computer System.

 

And it's been one long roller-coaster ride ever since.

[Recycled]

Playing Space Invaders in 1979!!

[dgo]

born in '69, got addicted to the arcades, spent every guilder I could lay my hands on, legally or not, in the machines, although I wasn't particularly good in any game at the time. didn't have the money to get anything other than a crazy orange home pong machine, (can't remember the brand), played it until the buttons came off and it broke down. years later got my c64 for which I worked an entire summer, after that the magical amiga, kept playing like crazy all through my schooldays. couldn't stop, wouldn't stop. got a pc, programmed a little. years later got a dreamcast which I played on a lot, not as dedicated as the earlier systems though. got an xbox after that, modded it. build a mame cabinet, finally got really good in playing my arcade classics into the sub world top for some. Started collecting. I guess it started to go down from there. The more you got, the emptier you feel sometimes. I feel like a woman in front of her wardrobe sometimes: I got nothing to play!

 

I got it all: WE, 360, DS etce etc etc. some classics too, from 2600 to vectrex to dreamcast to lynx, jag etc etc with loads of games...

 

And I do still play of course. but rarely with that same feeling of amazement, that magical feeling you're playing that wonderful computergame in your own home, unlimited in time, not dependent on how much money there is left in your pocket. Totally hooked by the graphics on your screen, the digital sound and sometimes even speech. sucked in to that new experience, gameplay you hadn't experienced before. With exceptions, but I rarely got even a spark of that old feeling. Most of the time I play for a few hours, after that I get bored. Just play for the achievement, to escape from reality or with a collector's perspective.

 

games that did get to me the last years: WoW (I quit out of self protection), Res evil 4, live for speed, the interactive music games GH etc. and I still play arcade games now and then.I guess I just lost that 'lovin' feeling'. Which probably is a good thing for me, otherwise I would've gone the way I came

 

But those sweet memories will remain

Edited June 20, 2008 by dgo

[MetalSlime23]

I got into video gaming when I was 9 years old (1994). My father gave me his old Atari 2600 to take home, and over one weekend I was hooked. I went to school and told everyone about it, and most of them said "Atari? What the hell is that? I have Nintendo!"

 

I got my first Nintendo when I was 11 from my father as well. He bought it at a garage sale with around 5 games for $75. To make things even better, my cousin gave me all of his Nintendo games because he recently purchased a SNES at the time. I spent the next 5 years of my childhood playing NES games.

 

Then there was the magical Christmas of 1997 when my parents bought me an N64! We only had four games: Mario 64, Star Fo 64, Cruisin' USA and Goldeneye.

 

I bought a Playstation right our of high school, and then eventually a PS2, etc.

 

Even today the one thing I remember about my father is the fact that he introduced me to the wonderful world of video games (that and classic rock )

[BydoEmpire]

Born in '73, played an occasional coin-op game in the late 70s and early 80s, then my family got an Intellivision for Christmas around '81 or '82. I was totally hooked, and have loved games ever since. I started programming shortly thereafter, because I wanted to make my own games. A bit later I traded some pirated Apple 2 discs to a friend for his 2600 setup, since he had "moved on" which I guess started me collecting although I didn't really think about it that way then. I just wanted to play those great Atari games I had missed as an Intellivision owner. I was pretty excited Kay Bee was clearing out their 2600 games for under $5, I wish I had bought more of them! Then came the c64, Apple 2c, NES, SMS, 7800, Amiga, PC, Genny, SNES, TG-16, ...

[fdurso224]

I was going to post this in classic but since this applies to everybody

 

In the begining.

 

My father brought me a NES but I never liked it since I never understood anything but Mario dying each time I fell. Then I moved and I met my cousin who also had Mario. We played duckhunt, and Super Mario together. Afterwards I really wanted a SNES along with the fact I would watch Super Mario Brothers Super Show all the tim.

 

Part II

 

I would go home and try to play my NES but I never liked playing alone. Later on when everybody had SNES but me I was playing Mario, watching mario, and this continued into the N64 days. During this time I would be playing games with my cousin while he had genesis I had SNES.

 

Part III

 

The Second Generation of RPG for USA had appear and I was high on Super Mario RPG while my cousin was into FF7. This was the time of commercial RPG games that strayed away from the boring DAD board games that we all have come to known more recently. Personally the RPG madness continued into today where I even now prefer the DAD but I have my thoughts.

 

Part IV

 

The dark ages of games with the N64 and nothing to play, everything I sqaundered could have been put into a better investment. It was Naszi germany playing the N64 while the SNES2 ( PSX ) had all that animated madness. Personally games towards the end like perfect dark, and bomberman N64 2 kept me going everything else had me making fun inside my own.

I mean there is lots of good games but to find out.........is like planet of the apes.

 

Part V

 

Again with Nintendo chioce I was playing GCN. During this time I started to careless about game systems and focus of game design along with artwork. Prior to this I was also playing roms on 56K internet, and emulating PSX. I mean god almighty are damned. After the Wii, Re4, and Beyond Good and Evil I gave up all hope and retracted to the SNES.

 

Partt VI

 

The Saturn and SNES is the place to be with supieor graphics. I am now into animation ( which I have been since I was born )

and comicbooks. To be honest I loved games for the creativity they provided us not the programming efforts, 3d, or even realism. 2d was real enough for me and 3d is nice when used correctly but to be honest videogames is a 2d thing. 3d to many newcommers ( three year olds) is something that is new and wonderfull. Personally the idea of 2d is old is dumb.

 

 

Pat VII

 

I am beyond that, beyond the system, I have no for uncannon valley, or realism to the point of me. Animation realism is the realistic I am happy with. I play Game&watch games out of the box as if they were new and gun games with ducks. I buy simon said and have as much fun I had with Beyond Good and Evil. I am tired and I have decided the best games is the ones I create. Nobody elses. I am now even playing Master System and NES games more.

 

I am outside the loop. I see this neo stuff and fall to sleep. FM sound with PCE graphics and little 3d on the side ( Starfox, Panzer ) is good enough for me.

 

In reply to this I now play on a casual scale and is getting into comicbooks more. I am tired of playing hand me downs, and 3d abominations. I am too big to fall for the commercialism of any media format anymore. I don't even own one Ipod in my room or have the need for a mp3 player. The NDS is too small, the PSP is too pointless, the Wii is just a GCN, the 360 shouldn't even be there, and PS3 is just uneeded.

 

I own too many games already, and in fact have doubles of most. I was only into it for the creativity of videogames. I don't carea bout the programming while I do admire the graphics tricks.

 

Red_Queen

 

GAME OVER

 

Hi:

I have to disagree on your philosophy on modern gaming. I love the current models of modern gaming & I feel the future absolutely looks bright for them!

 

If the Xbox 360 shouldn't be here, then why millions of players (including myself) enjoy this console & its games.

 

The PS3 is a fantastic unit (not needless) and I fell its a far superior console to be called needless.

 

The Wii is a inexpensive, fun unit to play with great features. Regardless if its a modified Gamecube, its selling millions. Plus, gamers (both casual & hardcore) enjoy the console.

 

Just because the Nintendo DS Lite is small, doesn't mean its bad! That hand-held unit has marvellous games & wonderful to play on Wi-fi.

 

PSP is great (not pointless) it offers neat games & good for up-and-coming developers to make games. I own a PSP & I always have it on the go.

 

Anthony....

Edited June 21, 2008 by fdurso224

[Segataritensoftii]

I was born in 1992, but, through a combination of us living in a rural area and my mom only letting me watch PBS, did not know much about video games in the 1990s, except that there were the N64, the PS1, the Sega Genesis, the Atari 2600, the Atari Jaguar, and games called "Pitfall", "Banjo Kazooie", seen at the N64 kiosk at some department stores I went to (I remember really loving the name), and "Crash Bandicoot 2", which I thought existed for N64 at the time. I didn't start to have a good working knowledge of video games until mid 1999, when we got an IBM Aptiva computer to replace our aging Macintosh Classic II. Through the free service Netzero, I slowly started to understand what video games actually were.

 

In june of 2001, I got my first taste of video gaming through a Game Boy Advance that someone had brought to school. I was fascinated with this strange new device. Available to play on it were two games: Super Mario Advance, and Mario Bros. I spent a lot more time playing Mario Bros. than SMA, but from the very moment I first turned on the new machine, I knew that I had to have one.

 

The year after, I went on a shopping trip with my aunt to seek out this "Game Boy Advance". Unfortunately for me, they were out of stock. So I decided to get the Game Boy Color and Rocket Power: Gettin' Air instead. When I got home, I played that game constantly. I went on the search for more games, eventually getting "Donkey Kong Land" and "Super Mario Bros. Deluxe". Which I also played constantly. The next year, I finally got myself a Game Boy Advance, and the year after that, my first console System, a Sega Genesis, which my brother had picked up on a trip to Arizona.

 

Well, that's what got me into them, anyway.

[AtticGamer]

1990: I was born.

 

1994: In the beginning, there was darkness. My videogame knowledge was clouded by SNES which was all I thought existed in the videogame world.

 

1997: My videogame tastes were still without form and void, even though many games I played then I still love to play now, but I still didn't know about anything outside that circle that now included Sega Saturn and PC.

 

1999: In addition to the darkness, there was also me, and money for an N64.

 

2002: Having played N64, I stood upon the face of the darkness, and since I was the one who played it most, I saw that I was alone.

 

2002: I got access to old magazines and bought new ones and internet was finally in my reach. There was light.

Edited June 21, 2008 by Atari_kid