How did you get into gaming?

[† Emotional Outlet]

This has been bothering me for a while. I feel like I'm the only one who grew up with video games, that I'm the only one whose earliest memory was of video games.

So. How did you become a gamer? How far back do your gaming roots hail? How old were you when you first sat and stared at a screen for hours?

Like I said, I was pretty much born with a controller in my hand, as was my little brother. It's probably because of my father, because we had some old-ass systems from the seventies that I could never figure out what they were when I was looking through our stuff when I was younger. The earliest system I personally dealt with was the NES, followed by the SNES. (Oh, the Game Genie. Good times.)

I didn't get into computer gaming until my dad introduced me to ROMs (we played Clue!) when we were still living in El Centro when I was five, six, or seven, and while I watched my dad play computer games like Doom and such, I never played games on the computer until the first Sims (it was MAGICAL, I tell you, MAGICAL).

If it weren't for my dad, I wouldn't be the gamer I am now. Would have never known a damn thing about games first of all, never would've have known about ROMs and emulators, and I never would have been introduced to the Internet. I owe my lack of a life to my father. ;D

And now you know why I am not an active person. Gaming is my life.

[Glock]

same as you EO. i was born with games being around me. my mom owned some old things, and my parents got my brother a NES (this was before the SNES came out). i remember watching and playing with my older bro and cousin on Duck Hunt, Contra, and Super Mario Bros. 3.

[Koby]

I got a NES when I was 3 I believe.. Thats like one of the first toy's or game whatever you wish to call it that I actually remember having. I remember shooting those ducks on that Mario duo game. And jumping on odd looking Owls heads. xD

[//Cloud//Strife//]

I remember my dad buying a Sega Master System when I was about 3 or 4. Lol the Sonic game was a classic. I also had a lightgun for it to play the built in safari hunt game. Then I got a PS1 when it came out which was when I really got into gaming ;D

[† Emotional Outlet]

I don't remember a lot about Sega. I played Mortal Kombat a lot, for sure, and... Aladdin, I wanna say. Can't recall if I ever played Sonic when I was little.

[Slayer]

i used to play street fighter alpha zero lots and lots of king of fighters and there is this game that I played and I used to love it but now i repeat I repeat I swear I repeat I swear I repeat I swear I HATE THAT GAME i blame me wearing glasses solely on that game I used to play it so much urrrrgh and now I have glasses that was like when I was 7

it's name is King OF Monsters.a fighting game featuring big monsters in city environments you could break a half of a building and throw it at the other monster you could throw the other monster on a building you could grab cars bridges planes and tanks and throw them

[-PHXN- New001]

I never played video games till I was about 10, and started getting into trouble... Like serious trouble

So my phsychiatrist said me and my dad should have a bonding thing that we could do together. And she suggested video games

So we baught and n64 and played super smash bros together

Now we both play computer games together like no other. Because hes the pres of his company, when theres noo work to do, me adn him used to play Guild Wars together

Than other games like Civilizations, and uh Dungeon Seige, Titan Quest, Neverwinter Nights... All the way to we played Dark Messiah... which he didnt like

So i still get in trouble, but not as much... and as a result of video games, me and my dad are realyl close

Cute story right??

[† Emotional Outlet]

I don't think I've played a lot of video games with my family. It was, and is, generally an antisocial, independent thing. My dad and brother play games together sometimes, usually sports or fighting, and I'll occasionally play a fighting or party game with one of them or with some friends, but the kinds of games I like tend not to support multiplayer.

And I don't like playing with other people.

[-PHXN- New001]

Yah, well this is a totaly seperate life for me.

None of my friends play anything but madden... and this whole Kingdom Hearts/Halo is somewhat of a secret

[Sakura]

When I was young, my father bought a Nintendo 64 along with Mario Kart 64. He was the reason I'm a Gamer today... But he passed away when I was eight-years-old and I continued having fun playing games ever since.

[Rawkstar]

I got a NES when I was 3 I believe.. Thats like one of the first toy's or game whatever you wish to call it that I actually remember having. I remember shooting those ducks on that Mario duo game. And jumping on odd looking Owls heads. xD

Omg, I know that game!!! It was so FUN!!! Gosh, I miss those good days lol

Same here, EO! I pretty much gotten into video games when I was like really young probably 3 or 4 actually. I was so addictive to video games that I everytime I would come home I would turn on my NES... That was my first console.. I can actually remember right now when my Mom brought it for me... It was during Christmas and I was SOOOOO EXCITED!!! I kept telling my mom "HURRY UP!!!!" Lol I was so young, man I REALLY miss my childhood!

[Slayer]

New001 ]

I never played video games till I was about 10, and started getting into trouble... Like serious trouble

So my phsychiatrist said me and my dad should have a bonding thing that we could do together. And she suggested video games

So we baught and n64 and played super smash bros together

Now we both play computer games together like no other. Because hes the pres of his company, when theres noo work to do, me adn him used to play Guild Wars together

Than other games like Civilizations, and uh Dungeon Seige, Titan Quest, Neverwinter Nights... All the way to we played Dark Messiah... which he didnt like

So i still get in trouble, but not as much... and as a result of video games, me and my dad are realyl close

Cute story right??

that is so damn cool man.i'd love to hook up with my old man in some counter strike source

[† Emotional Outlet]

Gaming, a secret life? A "different" life? NO WAI. What, are you afraid of tarnishing your "rep" as an uber cool d00d? I don't see why anyone would consider gaming a secret life unless they had insanely strict parents.

I always whip out my DS when I'm bored. If the people around here don't recognise me as a gamer, then they're bloody blind. I don't have an issue making it known that I'd rather play a video game than actually talk to people.

[Necrophiliac]

Gore, blood, action, and brilliant game play has always excited me. I have to say I got into gaming when I was about 7. Mortal kombat was my favorite game for the Super Nintendo at the time, then the Playstation came out and Resident Evil became my bedtime story and babysitter. Now that I'm 17 and 10 years of gaming has passed by quickly, I can't seem to put down the damned controller. I think I may have an addiction... :-[

[† Koga]

I got a NES when I was 3. My mom and I lived with my grandma and there was nothing else to do so I played it a lot and eventually became a hardcore gamer. I was 8 years old beating people in X-Men Vs. Street Fighter at the arcade. You know those teens and adults wanted to beat me up. lol. I love games so much that I want to become a video game designer, and I'm working towards that goal. That's why I mess with MUGEN so much. Ah, almost 16 years of gaming.

[† Emotional Outlet]

I want my brother to become a video game designer so that we can totally be a brother-sister duo thingy thingy. I think that would be awesome.

[Guest Faith]

I don't know. I was too young to remember why. I was about 2 or 3 years old when I began playing video games. Things like Mario, Fester's Quest, Sonic, Zelda. Now okay some of those aren't *that* old yet, but some are! I played games like those, and then fighting games and Tomb Raider, and Road Rash <333. Discovered FFVII a while after it was released here.

We had all the old systems, kinda. NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, N64, then the Gameboy, Gameboy Color, etc etc. I don't know why we had video games because my parents didn't play them. Just my older brother and I, and he's only like 21 months older.

[Pandemonia]

I was into gamin since Kindergarten, since my Kindergarten class had some old Dinosaur computer games. And then my neighbor got me into a wholle buncha old games, even Final Fantasy VII. So, yeah...

[Jakki]

Well, I almost too was born with a controller in my hand because of my big brother

The first games that I ever played were something like the early Lemmings, Grand Theft Auto I and II, Aladdin, Jazz Jackrabbit, Monster Bash/Dash, some winter sports game, a winter and summer olympics game and some weird racing game where the characters were some jungle people

then when we got NES, I remember how much I enjoyed shooting those ducks, playing Super Marios and Nemo, and some ninja game and the others, I loved playing pool with NES

I also always watced my brother and dad playing Tomb Raiders and Doom

my brother usually just said that I can't play 'cause I'm a girl, but nowadays I play more than him and I am addicted

I guess that just because my brother always plays, I got to that same way too, maybe it started from Heros of Might and Magic II i guess or then when my brother bought the PlayStation, or the game magazines we always bought, just a great thanks to my brother, I grew up with games

[Mac]

i got into video games when sonic came out and y brother played it, good times, good times...