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Do you remember how you got hooked on this wonderful thing that we call computer gaming?
What age where you? What console and games did you own and play?
I cant remember exactly how I got started but my main influence had to be my dad, He bought an Amstrad, a spectrum and a dragon 32 while I was young(not sure which order he bought them).I used to love playing games and everytime we went out to buy new games I would go along and pick one of my own.(Games were cheap back then) Bionic Commando on the Amstrad was the first game that I played over and over again. He helped me understand the controls, explained the main idea of the game until I was old enough to do it all myself. I also had an amiga then a SNES, PSX and now a PS2.
My dad really likes games not quite as much as me but he's always up for a quik race on GT2 or a multiplayer on red Faction or F1 2001. His taste in Games are quite good too, he buys a few that he likes so he can play them. I came home one night in January and my PSX was gone, I started to panic, ran downstairs to find out where it was and my mum said that my dad had took it out to his friends so they could have a competition.
I thought games where for younger people not my 50 year old dad. Im 19 and I still like to play on my PS2. I'll probably be interested in games hopefuly for alot longer too. My dads friends then asked if they could borrow it every thursday, I decided to let them as this could encourage my dad to buy me more games, and I was right. : )
So how did it start for the rest of you? If it hadn't been for my dad I woud have missed out on alot of the early games and computers. The SNES would probably be the first I played as my friend also had one. The past has made my gaming experience so much better as I can see just how well things have advanced. So if you have someone who got you started then maybe you should go get your console and challenge them to a race/fight/competition. You owe alot to them!
What age where you? What console and games did you own and play?
I cant remember exactly how I got started but my main influence had to be my dad, He bought an Amstrad, a spectrum and a dragon 32 while I was young(not sure which order he bought them).I used to love playing games and everytime we went out to buy new games I would go along and pick one of my own.(Games were cheap back then) Bionic Commando on the Amstrad was the first game that I played over and over again. He helped me understand the controls, explained the main idea of the game until I was old enough to do it all myself. I also had an amiga then a SNES, PSX and now a PS2.
My dad really likes games not quite as much as me but he's always up for a quik race on GT2 or a multiplayer on red Faction or F1 2001. His taste in Games are quite good too, he buys a few that he likes so he can play them. I came home one night in January and my PSX was gone, I started to panic, ran downstairs to find out where it was and my mum said that my dad had took it out to his friends so they could have a competition.
I thought games where for younger people not my 50 year old dad. Im 19 and I still like to play on my PS2. I'll probably be interested in games hopefuly for alot longer too. My dads friends then asked if they could borrow it every thursday, I decided to let them as this could encourage my dad to buy me more games, and I was right. : )
So how did it start for the rest of you? If it hadn't been for my dad I woud have missed out on alot of the early games and computers. The SNES would probably be the first I played as my friend also had one. The past has made my gaming experience so much better as I can see just how well things have advanced. So if you have someone who got you started then maybe you should go get your console and challenge them to a race/fight/competition. You owe alot to them!
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I missed out this by accident:
Before the SNES, I played on my Uncle's Megadrive and was instantly addicted to the fast paces Sonic Games.
After the SNES I played a Saturn in Currys on a game called Bugs. That was an instant hit for me.
And I can't remember when, but I know I have definately played on the Game Gear as well.
Before the SNES, I played on my Uncle's Megadrive and was instantly addicted to the fast paces Sonic Games.
After the SNES I played a Saturn in Currys on a game called Bugs. That was an instant hit for me.
And I can't remember when, but I know I have definately played on the Game Gear as well.
hmmm...
Playing the original Star Wars arcade game... vector graphics one where you had a choice of 3 levels... and because u were with a friend u always had to pick the hardest one! lol. Then you'd start the run down the deathstar! and die almost straight away! oh the joy:)
NiGHTS!
Playing the original Star Wars arcade game... vector graphics one where you had a choice of 3 levels... and because u were with a friend u always had to pick the hardest one! lol. Then you'd start the run down the deathstar! and die almost straight away! oh the joy:)
NiGHTS!
I started by playing a game on a handheld-single game format called "Vampire Attack"
You had to shoot bats which plummeted from the top of the LC-screen. It was basic but cool.
Then around the same time, I was given a ZX Spectrum 48k (Yep, that's the RAM) with a few games, and I played games like Mr. Freeze and my first major videogame: Finders Keepers.
One of my friends had a NES, so that was my first Nintendo console experience. I was hooked on Super Mario Bros right away.
When I was a few years older, I played games on my cousins PC for the first time. These were games like Space Invaders, Zelliard, FX Fighter, and they were great fun. Around the same time I bought a ZX Spectrum +2 (which had 128k Ram) and with it came 178 games.
I was hooked on them for years and I think I'll get it out again and start playing! Around 1993-4, my brother got a Game Boy with three games: Radar Mission, Gremlins 2 and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Those games were so addictive with instant loads and tonnes of gameplay! I think those were some of the best moments of videogaming I'd ever had! I used a 'Goosebumps' book reading torch to play my brothers Game Boy in the middle of the night and couldn't get off it. I was very tired in the day though.
A few years later, my brother had over twenty Game Boy games and I had completed most of them. They may not have been perfect but they were great for killing time. Infact it was handy to be able to play on the Game Boy whilst the ZX Spectrum was loading games. In 1995 I had started to try and learn 'Basic' so I could make my own ZX Spectrum games, recording them to tape. However I gave up a couple years ago so I could learn to program using more modern programming languages (I should try to learn some soon...)
In February 1997, my dad bought this PC and I have had many happy gaming moments on it. i played decent modern games without loading times and with decent visuals. They weren't exactly movie quality, but they were still a huge step from 48k and 8bit graphics.
Christmas 1997 my brother got a SNES. He's now got quite a large collection of games and most of them I enjoy. In fact my so far favourite game of all time is on the SNES: The Legend Of Zelda: A Link to the past.
Christmas 1998 my brother got an N64. He's managed to get himself plenty of games which have kept me going for the last few years. I talked him into getting one because I loved playing my friends Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie.
In the final year of the 1990's I got myself a Game Boy Color. With over twenty game I was able to play already, I was happy only to have Pokémon Blue. I was instantly addicted and so were some of my friends.
After hundreds of linkup battles with my friends, and 14 Color version games later, I got myself a Game Boy Advance and bought Super Mario Advance, Tony Hawkes Pro Skater 2 and F-Zero Maximum Velocity.
Now I am waiting for new releases for the Game Boy Advance and am also waiting for the Game Cube which will be the next major console to carry me through vidogaming.
So that's my gaming history summarised up to present day.
You had to shoot bats which plummeted from the top of the LC-screen. It was basic but cool.
Then around the same time, I was given a ZX Spectrum 48k (Yep, that's the RAM) with a few games, and I played games like Mr. Freeze and my first major videogame: Finders Keepers.
One of my friends had a NES, so that was my first Nintendo console experience. I was hooked on Super Mario Bros right away.
When I was a few years older, I played games on my cousins PC for the first time. These were games like Space Invaders, Zelliard, FX Fighter, and they were great fun. Around the same time I bought a ZX Spectrum +2 (which had 128k Ram) and with it came 178 games.
I was hooked on them for years and I think I'll get it out again and start playing! Around 1993-4, my brother got a Game Boy with three games: Radar Mission, Gremlins 2 and Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves. Those games were so addictive with instant loads and tonnes of gameplay! I think those were some of the best moments of videogaming I'd ever had! I used a 'Goosebumps' book reading torch to play my brothers Game Boy in the middle of the night and couldn't get off it. I was very tired in the day though.
A few years later, my brother had over twenty Game Boy games and I had completed most of them. They may not have been perfect but they were great for killing time. Infact it was handy to be able to play on the Game Boy whilst the ZX Spectrum was loading games. In 1995 I had started to try and learn 'Basic' so I could make my own ZX Spectrum games, recording them to tape. However I gave up a couple years ago so I could learn to program using more modern programming languages (I should try to learn some soon...)
In February 1997, my dad bought this PC and I have had many happy gaming moments on it. i played decent modern games without loading times and with decent visuals. They weren't exactly movie quality, but they were still a huge step from 48k and 8bit graphics.
Christmas 1997 my brother got a SNES. He's now got quite a large collection of games and most of them I enjoy. In fact my so far favourite game of all time is on the SNES: The Legend Of Zelda: A Link to the past.
Christmas 1998 my brother got an N64. He's managed to get himself plenty of games which have kept me going for the last few years. I talked him into getting one because I loved playing my friends Goldeneye and Banjo Kazooie.
In the final year of the 1990's I got myself a Game Boy Color. With over twenty game I was able to play already, I was happy only to have Pokémon Blue. I was instantly addicted and so were some of my friends.
After hundreds of linkup battles with my friends, and 14 Color version games later, I got myself a Game Boy Advance and bought Super Mario Advance, Tony Hawkes Pro Skater 2 and F-Zero Maximum Velocity.
Now I am waiting for new releases for the Game Boy Advance and am also waiting for the Game Cube which will be the next major console to carry me through vidogaming.
So that's my gaming history summarised up to present day.
I started playing games when the Amiga 1200 was still alive!!
Then it was the SNES followed by a GB, then a N64, then a PSX and some more PSX's, then it was a GBC, then it was a PS2, then got rid of my PS2 and replaced it with a Dreacast. And I hope to eventually have a new PS2, GC and GBA added to that collection!! :-D
So it started off quite young, and I was hooked on a certain game on my Amiga cant quite remeber what it was, it had nice colours on it, two player missions, quite futuristic looking, Aliens, and guns, and computers in it and it is all I can remember!
Then I went to Nintendo, and got consoles that were doing well to try them out and they were good, but I still seemed to stick with Nintendo, as for some weird reason I really like nearly everything that NINTENDO produce!
And before TurboNutter comes in here going on about 3mb VRAM and me being a biased Ninty fan, I like Nintendo a lot, but I am also very aware of some excellant quality consoles and games like the PS2 for example! :-D
So from about 5 to 14 I have been computing and playing games!! although I got my Amiga 1200 in its last few weeks of survival and got my SNES near the end of its ERA, about 5months before the PSX and N64 was released!
Then it was the SNES followed by a GB, then a N64, then a PSX and some more PSX's, then it was a GBC, then it was a PS2, then got rid of my PS2 and replaced it with a Dreacast. And I hope to eventually have a new PS2, GC and GBA added to that collection!! :-D
So it started off quite young, and I was hooked on a certain game on my Amiga cant quite remeber what it was, it had nice colours on it, two player missions, quite futuristic looking, Aliens, and guns, and computers in it and it is all I can remember!
Then I went to Nintendo, and got consoles that were doing well to try them out and they were good, but I still seemed to stick with Nintendo, as for some weird reason I really like nearly everything that NINTENDO produce!
And before TurboNutter comes in here going on about 3mb VRAM and me being a biased Ninty fan, I like Nintendo a lot, but I am also very aware of some excellant quality consoles and games like the PS2 for example! :-D
So from about 5 to 14 I have been computing and playing games!! although I got my Amiga 1200 in its last few weeks of survival and got my SNES near the end of its ERA, about 5months before the PSX and N64 was released!
I started my gaming life on a NES, I can still remember when I got it on Christmas and we had it set up on the big telly downstairs and I was playing Duck Hunt and Super Mario Brothers. O JOY!
Then I got a SNES, a Gameboy and now I’m on my current machine… my beloved N64. (which I bought out of my own money I may say)
I wish to get a GC then I will have moved out of home and have my own place. (maybe)
I also have a PS but its broken, so I cant play Driver 2 or GT2. BOOOO
Then I got a SNES, a Gameboy and now I’m on my current machine… my beloved N64. (which I bought out of my own money I may say)
I wish to get a GC then I will have moved out of home and have my own place. (maybe)
I also have a PS but its broken, so I cant play Driver 2 or GT2. BOOOO
The machine that started my gaming "career" off was the Amiga 1200, nicely (i.e. by force) donated to me by my brother, along with a few top quality games including Cannon Fodder, SWOS, Dune II and UFO:Enemy Unknown. Anyone remember that last game?
Atari 2600-best retro games and the first mario
NES-platform heaven-mega man duck hunt
Amiga 500+600-cannon fodder,another world,desert strike
SNES-Class games-street fighter
PC-blood,ignition,duke nukem-got bored soon
PSX-no introduction needed (( WOW ))-res evil,wipeout
PS2-rough start but it's nearly there.
NES-platform heaven-mega man duck hunt
Amiga 500+600-cannon fodder,another world,desert strike
SNES-Class games-street fighter
PC-blood,ignition,duke nukem-got bored soon
PSX-no introduction needed (( WOW ))-res evil,wipeout
PS2-rough start but it's nearly there.
Atari "Pong" > ZX81 > ZX Spectrum > etc...
Another World, Flashbacks prequel (well in spirit anyway) was also a great game.
Back to the main topic though, I began my days on a Commodore 64. My first games were a USGold 6 game pack with hits like BionicCommando, Outrun, Thunderblade and a few others..
I soon moved on to my Amiga 500, MegaDrive, Amiga 1200, SNES, Playstation, N64, Saturn and now 200Mhz PC.
Back to the main topic though, I began my days on a Commodore 64. My first games were a USGold 6 game pack with hits like BionicCommando, Outrun, Thunderblade and a few others..
I soon moved on to my Amiga 500, MegaDrive, Amiga 1200, SNES, Playstation, N64, Saturn and now 200Mhz PC.
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