How did you get into gaming?

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As with many hobbies, gaming started from something or someone. A family member, friends, events, commercials, anywhere in between.

What made us start gaming and what keeps us engaged with video games?

Share some earliest gaming memories and how they evolved from there.
 
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Then I played some other sports games before realizing sports games are shit.
Then Halo 3 changed the game. (No pun intended.)
 
Grew up with a sister and older brothers who had an SNES (later n64), my dad occasionally played Deer Hunting sims on PC and we had quite a few adventure games, and my mom is really into early 80s Namco games.
 
DiddyKongMain1989 said:
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Then I played some other sports games before realizing sports games are shit.
Then Halo 3 changed the game. (No pun intended.)
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What game is that pictured?

What was your favorite sport?

Frank D'arbo said:
Grew up with a sister and older brothers who had an SNES (later n64), my dad occasionally played Deer Hunting sims on PC and we had quite a few adventure games, and my mom is really into early 80s Namco games.
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How was it PC gaming then?
 
The very first game I've ever played was a Nintendo 64 cartridge I found between the living room couch; it happened to be Mischief Makers and it is one of the best platformers of all time (you should give it a try!).
 
When I was very young I had such bad allergies I couldn't stay outside very long, so the doctor said, "give that kid a TV." Folks went the extra mile and got an NES for the family.

And here we are.
 
My autistic brother suddenly showed a proficiency for Nintendo games, and I went on a wholesome Pg rated cross country hitchhike with him and some bitch so we could get to California and win "Video Armageddon". For some fucking reason Beau Bridges and Christian Slater were following us and I swear I saw Tobey Maguire for half a second.
 
Cousin had a NES and SNES, I also remember two different groups of neighbor kids had a NES which is where I first played Mario 3 and also played stuff like a Tiny Toons game and the NES arcade port of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.

Then later a coworker of my mom's gave me his old Sega Genesis, but what really sealed the deal was getting a PlayStation for Christmas of 1998.

While the Genesis was cool, I'll spend the rest of my life regretting not having a SNES of my own as a kid, that would have been magical, but I was lucky to be able to play one at all I guess.
 
As an eastern european kid I would play nintendo games on knock off chinese consoles, I remember having a grocery bag full of caseless cartridges, I would guess what game I was playing by the shape of the circuit board, I remember playing a lot of Legend of Kage, Contra and some other games I remember well but don't know the name of, one had a cowboy sort of deal going on, it felt really meaty, you could throw dynamite and shit, and the other might not have been a game at all but a contra level, I remember it like a Sci-Fi Castlevania or half way beteween Contra and Ninja Gaiden
 
Dad bought a NES and I wasn't interested but he lured me in and fucked me over hard in Ice Climber, Mario Bros and any other game that could be played by two people at once, games that weren't even meant to be played like that. The creaking noise of trying to break a NES controller in half is burnt into my memory. Me being unreasonably competitive led me to try to get good enough to fuck him over but that never happened, instead I got a lot of new friends curious about video games and then Zelda came out. And Metroid, Kid Icarus, Goonies 2, Metal Gear, Faxanadu - games were you explore and figure things out.
 
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