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You all know the most obvious reason for my being here. I am a fan of videogames and like to come here to join in discussions with other gamers about different videogaming aspects. But how did it all happen? How did I come to be here?
Well it all started in 1988. I was three years old and had my first games console experience with the ZX Spectrum 48k. I wasn't interested in the games at that age. But I did like the TV, and the ZX Spectrum allowed me to control what I saw on TV. My uncle who gave me the ZX Spectrum set it up and programmed a very short Basic program which made random squares of colour appear on the TV screen. This fascinated me at the time and I wanted to know how to do it. It didn't take me long to find out how fun the nearly-monochromatic games were. I played games like Firebird's Mr. Freeze (Firebird being a well known ZX Spectrum developer of the time with their own unique game-loading), and I played them for hours and hours. However, when I say hours, at that age I was restricted to a couple hours per Sunday when nobody watched TV, as at the time there was only one TV in the house.
In 1989, I started playing on my friend's NES. I couldn't really begin to appreciate the lack of loading times for much better quality games, although I didn't see the loading times of the ZX Spectrum as anything more than a well worth-it wait. I loved playing Super Mario Bros on the NES though, and I tried to go over my friend's house as often as I could to play the NES. It was a pleasure to play a game on a joypad, be it the shape and size of a Penguin bar, seeing as I had to put up with the ZX Spectrum's keyboard with it's usual controls being Q, A, O and P for up, down, left and right directions respectively and the space-bar for any other functions. As you can imagine, multiplayer gaming was very difficult.
However, despite my childish nagging for a NES (even though the SNES was near release) my next console was a ZX Spectrum +2 128k. I bought it second hand and managed to get over 170 games with it!
Well it all started in 1988. I was three years old and had my first games console experience with the ZX Spectrum 48k. I wasn't interested in the games at that age. But I did like the TV, and the ZX Spectrum allowed me to control what I saw on TV. My uncle who gave me the ZX Spectrum set it up and programmed a very short Basic program which made random squares of colour appear on the TV screen. This fascinated me at the time and I wanted to know how to do it. It didn't take me long to find out how fun the nearly-monochromatic games were. I played games like Firebird's Mr. Freeze (Firebird being a well known ZX Spectrum developer of the time with their own unique game-loading), and I played them for hours and hours. However, when I say hours, at that age I was restricted to a couple hours per Sunday when nobody watched TV, as at the time there was only one TV in the house.
In 1989, I started playing on my friend's NES. I couldn't really begin to appreciate the lack of loading times for much better quality games, although I didn't see the loading times of the ZX Spectrum as anything more than a well worth-it wait. I loved playing Super Mario Bros on the NES though, and I tried to go over my friend's house as often as I could to play the NES. It was a pleasure to play a game on a joypad, be it the shape and size of a Penguin bar, seeing as I had to put up with the ZX Spectrum's keyboard with it's usual controls being Q, A, O and P for up, down, left and right directions respectively and the space-bar for any other functions. As you can imagine, multiplayer gaming was very difficult.
However, despite my childish nagging for a NES (even though the SNES was near release) my next console was a ZX Spectrum +2 128k. I bought it second hand and managed to get over 170 games with it!
Good topic there, Edgy.
I can't really remember much of how this site came to my attention. When I was about 10, I can remember coming onto this site for cheats, and cheats only. I never noticed an online shop or forums, so I don't know if they were actually there. Maybe I just didn't notice, as I wasn't really interested.
I left this site as I grew up. I realised I no longer wanted to ruin my games by cheating, so I *thought* this site was of no more use to me.
About 1 year ago, in march, I was looking for a PS2. I looked in my favourites, to see if there were any sites about games. I saw special reserve in there, so, curious to find out what it was, I clicked the link. I arrived here, and signed up for the forums, but never bought my PS2 from here.
I forgot about the site again :D But, about 6 months ago, I came back and started regulally posting here.
To this day, I can't actually remember how I found SR. It's just been here with me as I have grown up.
I can't really remember much of how this site came to my attention. When I was about 10, I can remember coming onto this site for cheats, and cheats only. I never noticed an online shop or forums, so I don't know if they were actually there. Maybe I just didn't notice, as I wasn't really interested.
I left this site as I grew up. I realised I no longer wanted to ruin my games by cheating, so I *thought* this site was of no more use to me.
About 1 year ago, in march, I was looking for a PS2. I looked in my favourites, to see if there were any sites about games. I saw special reserve in there, so, curious to find out what it was, I clicked the link. I arrived here, and signed up for the forums, but never bought my PS2 from here.
I forgot about the site again :D But, about 6 months ago, I came back and started regulally posting here.
To this day, I can't actually remember how I found SR. It's just been here with me as I have grown up.
You all know the most obvious reason for my being here. I am a fan of videogames and like to come here to join in discussions with other gamers about different videogaming aspects. But how did it all happen? How did I come to be here?
Well it all started in 1988. I was three years old and had my first games console experience with the ZX Spectrum 48k. I wasn't interested in the games at that age. But I did like the TV, and the ZX Spectrum allowed me to control what I saw on TV. My uncle who gave me the ZX Spectrum set it up and programmed a very short Basic program which made random squares of colour appear on the TV screen. This fascinated me at the time and I wanted to know how to do it. It didn't take me long to find out how fun the nearly-monochromatic games were. I played games like Firebird's Mr. Freeze (Firebird being a well known ZX Spectrum developer of the time with their own unique game-loading), and I played them for hours and hours. However, when I say hours, at that age I was restricted to a couple hours per Sunday when nobody watched TV, as at the time there was only one TV in the house.
In 1989, I started playing on my friend's NES. I couldn't really begin to appreciate the lack of loading times for much better quality games, although I didn't see the loading times of the ZX Spectrum as anything more than a well worth-it wait. I loved playing Super Mario Bros on the NES though, and I tried to go over my friend's house as often as I could to play the NES. It was a pleasure to play a game on a joypad, be it the shape and size of a Penguin bar, seeing as I had to put up with the ZX Spectrum's keyboard with it's usual controls being Q, A, O and P for up, down, left and right directions respectively and the space-bar for any other functions. As you can imagine, multiplayer gaming was very difficult.
However, despite my childish nagging for a NES (even though the SNES was near release) my next console was a ZX Spectrum +2 128k. I bought it second hand and managed to get over 170 games with it! So as you can imagine I had so many hours of gaming fun. I had the chance to try out 170 games that I didn't have any idea about which meant I had many a Sunday playing a new game! I played games like I-Ball II, Finders Keepers and even a playable demo of the original Street Fighter!
It wasn't til a couple years later when my brother got the first console our house had ever seen with instant gaming. Well, it wasn't a TV-games console, but a handheld which not many people seem to know about for some reason. I heard it didn't sell too well, and not many games were released for it. Well, if you didn't guess, that was a poor attempt at sarcasm. It was the Game Boy. Over many years of squinting at the dark-green screen my eyes became long-sighted, so I am now supposed to wear glasses. However, despite my slight eye-problem, I enjoyed nearly every moment I had playing on the GameBoy, despite having to ask my brother to play it. To his annoyance, I completed nearly every game before him whilst he watched. I mostly enjoyed the Nintendo games, especially Kirby's Dream Land, Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land and the original Super Mario Land based on the Super Mario Bros game on the NES. However, one of my favourite games was what I consider to be the first Zelda game on the Game Boy, 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'.
In 1996, my brother got a Super Nintendo. He got it new, although 1996 was the year of the N64, he made the right decision in getting a SNES. The SNES brought many a gaming hour of fun, and allowed me to find out that my all time favourite game would be The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past (which is rumoured to be being re-released by Capcom on the Game Boy Advance). I believe the SNES to be one of the best consoles in history, with games such as Super Mario Kart and Super Mario World. The Game Boy Advance seems to be a good 'replacement' though it doesn't seem to have the same certain spark the SNES gave.
In September the same year, my dad bought a PC. For the first couple of years, I only played games on it, or occasionally did my homework on it. As the years went on, I found the PC just couldn't handle any new games, so had to buy budget games, which I suprisingly found good. Christmas 1997 my brother got an N64, which I still love to play! My brother managed to get over thirty games for it in the end, 90% of them are still good in my opinion.
2000, I got internet access for the first time, and didn't really know what I was doing. I started looking at Nintendo sites made by the fans, and looked at sites about my favourite TV shows of the time. Then my friend, who you know as Dark Mark on these forums, suggested I join the mail-order company Special Reserve where I can buy games for cheaper. I did so, and when I got my first magazine sent to me, I saw the address of a website that caught my eye. www.gameaday.co.uk.
Only those who remember my biased approach against Playstation fans will probably remember me from 2000, but that was because it wasn't til later in the year when I got off-peak service, so was allowed an hour per weekend-day, so as not to raise a high bill. And you know the rest from there (or most of it anyway).
So there we are, that's how I became a member of the boards, and how I started out in gaming. Anyone else wanna share how they got into games and arrived here?
Well it all started in 1988. I was three years old and had my first games console experience with the ZX Spectrum 48k. I wasn't interested in the games at that age. But I did like the TV, and the ZX Spectrum allowed me to control what I saw on TV. My uncle who gave me the ZX Spectrum set it up and programmed a very short Basic program which made random squares of colour appear on the TV screen. This fascinated me at the time and I wanted to know how to do it. It didn't take me long to find out how fun the nearly-monochromatic games were. I played games like Firebird's Mr. Freeze (Firebird being a well known ZX Spectrum developer of the time with their own unique game-loading), and I played them for hours and hours. However, when I say hours, at that age I was restricted to a couple hours per Sunday when nobody watched TV, as at the time there was only one TV in the house.
In 1989, I started playing on my friend's NES. I couldn't really begin to appreciate the lack of loading times for much better quality games, although I didn't see the loading times of the ZX Spectrum as anything more than a well worth-it wait. I loved playing Super Mario Bros on the NES though, and I tried to go over my friend's house as often as I could to play the NES. It was a pleasure to play a game on a joypad, be it the shape and size of a Penguin bar, seeing as I had to put up with the ZX Spectrum's keyboard with it's usual controls being Q, A, O and P for up, down, left and right directions respectively and the space-bar for any other functions. As you can imagine, multiplayer gaming was very difficult.
However, despite my childish nagging for a NES (even though the SNES was near release) my next console was a ZX Spectrum +2 128k. I bought it second hand and managed to get over 170 games with it! So as you can imagine I had so many hours of gaming fun. I had the chance to try out 170 games that I didn't have any idea about which meant I had many a Sunday playing a new game! I played games like I-Ball II, Finders Keepers and even a playable demo of the original Street Fighter!
It wasn't til a couple years later when my brother got the first console our house had ever seen with instant gaming. Well, it wasn't a TV-games console, but a handheld which not many people seem to know about for some reason. I heard it didn't sell too well, and not many games were released for it. Well, if you didn't guess, that was a poor attempt at sarcasm. It was the Game Boy. Over many years of squinting at the dark-green screen my eyes became long-sighted, so I am now supposed to wear glasses. However, despite my slight eye-problem, I enjoyed nearly every moment I had playing on the GameBoy, despite having to ask my brother to play it. To his annoyance, I completed nearly every game before him whilst he watched. I mostly enjoyed the Nintendo games, especially Kirby's Dream Land, Super Mario Land 3: Wario Land and the original Super Mario Land based on the Super Mario Bros game on the NES. However, one of my favourite games was what I consider to be the first Zelda game on the Game Boy, 'Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'.
In 1996, my brother got a Super Nintendo. He got it new, although 1996 was the year of the N64, he made the right decision in getting a SNES. The SNES brought many a gaming hour of fun, and allowed me to find out that my all time favourite game would be The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past (which is rumoured to be being re-released by Capcom on the Game Boy Advance). I believe the SNES to be one of the best consoles in history, with games such as Super Mario Kart and Super Mario World. The Game Boy Advance seems to be a good 'replacement' though it doesn't seem to have the same certain spark the SNES gave.
In September the same year, my dad bought a PC. For the first couple of years, I only played games on it, or occasionally did my homework on it. As the years went on, I found the PC just couldn't handle any new games, so had to buy budget games, which I suprisingly found good. Christmas 1997 my brother got an N64, which I still love to play! My brother managed to get over thirty games for it in the end, 90% of them are still good in my opinion.
2000, I got internet access for the first time, and didn't really know what I was doing. I started looking at Nintendo sites made by the fans, and looked at sites about my favourite TV shows of the time. Then my friend, who you know as Dark Mark on these forums, suggested I join the mail-order company Special Reserve where I can buy games for cheaper. I did so, and when I got my first magazine sent to me, I saw the address of a website that caught my eye. www.gameaday.co.uk.
Only those who remember my biased approach against Playstation fans will probably remember me from 2000, but that was because it wasn't til later in the year when I got off-peak service, so was allowed an hour per weekend-day, so as not to raise a high bill. And you know the rest from there (or most of it anyway).
So there we are, that's how I became a member of the boards, and how I started out in gaming. Anyone else wanna share how they got into games and arrived here?
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Note to others: I will carry on finishing this topic now.
You all know the most obvious reason for my being here. I am a fan of videogames and like to come here to join in discussions with other gamers about different videogaming aspects. But how did it all happen? How did I come to be here?
Well it all started in 1988. I was three years old and had my first games console experience with the ZX Spectrum 48k. I wasn't interested in the games at that age. But I did like the TV, and the ZX Spectrum allowed me to control what I saw on TV. My uncle who gave me the ZX Spectrum set it up and programmed a very short Basic program which made random squares of colour appear on the TV screen. This fascinated me at the time and I wanted to know how to do it. It didn't take me long to find out how fun the nearly-monochromatic games were. I played games like Firebird's Mr. Freeze (Firebird being a well known ZX Spectrum developer of the time with their own unique game-loading), and I played them for hours and hours. However, when I say hours, at that age I was restricted to a couple hours per Sunday when nobody watched TV, as at the time there was only one TV in the house.
In 1989, I started playing on my friend's NES. I couldn't really begin to appreciate the lack of loading times for much better quality games, although I didn't see the loading times of the ZX Spectrum as anything more than a well worth-it wait. I loved playing Super Mario Bros on the NES though, and I tried to go over my friend's house as often as I could to play the NES. It was a pleasure to play a game on a joypad, be it the shape and size of a Penguin bar, seeing as I had to put up with the ZX Spectrum's keyboard with it's usual controls being Q, A, O and P for up, down, left and right directions respectively and the space-bar for any other functions. As you can imagine, multiplayer gaming was very difficult.
However, despite my childish nagging for a NES (even though the SNES was near release) my next console was a ZX Spectrum +2 128k. I bought it second hand and managed to get over 170 games with it!
Well it all started in 1988. I was three years old and had my first games console experience with the ZX Spectrum 48k. I wasn't interested in the games at that age. But I did like the TV, and the ZX Spectrum allowed me to control what I saw on TV. My uncle who gave me the ZX Spectrum set it up and programmed a very short Basic program which made random squares of colour appear on the TV screen. This fascinated me at the time and I wanted to know how to do it. It didn't take me long to find out how fun the nearly-monochromatic games were. I played games like Firebird's Mr. Freeze (Firebird being a well known ZX Spectrum developer of the time with their own unique game-loading), and I played them for hours and hours. However, when I say hours, at that age I was restricted to a couple hours per Sunday when nobody watched TV, as at the time there was only one TV in the house.
In 1989, I started playing on my friend's NES. I couldn't really begin to appreciate the lack of loading times for much better quality games, although I didn't see the loading times of the ZX Spectrum as anything more than a well worth-it wait. I loved playing Super Mario Bros on the NES though, and I tried to go over my friend's house as often as I could to play the NES. It was a pleasure to play a game on a joypad, be it the shape and size of a Penguin bar, seeing as I had to put up with the ZX Spectrum's keyboard with it's usual controls being Q, A, O and P for up, down, left and right directions respectively and the space-bar for any other functions. As you can imagine, multiplayer gaming was very difficult.
However, despite my childish nagging for a NES (even though the SNES was near release) my next console was a ZX Spectrum +2 128k. I bought it second hand and managed to get over 170 games with it!