Your Gaming Life

[Destructor]

Please post about your background and history of your gaming life. There's no need to list every title you've played, just mention the games that have made the most impact throughout your gaming life and how.

Here's my story...

I first really started playing games when my Uncle gave me his old Commodore 64, complete with a ton of software. Some memorable titles I played on the machine was a puzzle game called Soloman's Key, a Rambo style arcade game called Ikari Warriors, Ghostbusters, Outrun, Airbourne Ranger and the old 2D Wolfenstein game.

After a while my Dad bought a 286 16 MHz Commodore IBM compatible PC. The first game we played on that was Civilization, which I spent a lot of time on. But coming up was the big daddy, Wolfenstein 3-D, and boy did I play that a lot. I can't really remember how I felt the first time I played it as I was quite young at the time but it definitely grabbed my interest.

Another classic game I played was Police Quest 3, and by that time I was obsessed with police and detectives. That adventure game really sucked me in emotionally and I really felt like I was in the shoes of Sonny Bonds, the main character. Continuing on the adventure thread, I got into the Lucasarts classics namely Indiana Jones and Last Crusade and Monkey Island, both hugely entertaining.

As time passed on we eventually upgraded to a whopping Pentium 90 MHz. And guess what the first game I immediately loaded up on that was? Well, your close. Not Doom, but Doom II. That was a big daddy for me as I never played the original Doom before. Deeply engrossing and challenging it was. Next after the antics of Lode Runner and The Indcredible Machine, games which came with the computer, the next big thing was Command & Conquer, the only RTS I played since Dune II. And did that game take a lot of my time. I even made missions for it. But nothing beats the time I spent making levels for probably the biggest daddy of them all...DUKE NUKEM 3D!

Duke3D was amazing the first time I saw it and it completely blew me away. The interaction, the realism, the ambience, the humour; it all built up to make one incredible experience. 'Nuff said.

Going back to the RTS genre, Red Alert sucked me in, especially with the Soviet briefing cutscenes. I played through that game's single player campaigns three times each I think! Warcraft II was also very entertaining. Unfortunately, C&C: Tiberian Sun, the game I anticipated most for it's release, eventually came to be a letdown, and it is the last RTS game I have ever bought.

Back to FPSs, Shadow Warrior was insanely fun, and I think I even enjoyed it more than Duke3D. I played the game all the way through on 'Who wants some Wang?' difficultly and was intensely satisfied when I clocked it. Unfortuantely, I was prepping myself to build levels for it but never did really.

After that period, my gaming life became quite dull, until one little title brightened it up: Half-Life. That game was amazing - I couldn't stop playing it. It really got me back into gaming again after my low as things, like the helicopters and stuff, in FPSs were really revolutionary for me back then.

Eventually came an equal measure trio of Unreal Tournament, The Longest Jounrey and Deus Ex. All good quality titles. Then came up Grand Theft Auto III, very impressive on first impressions (like The Sims). And then with the second turn of the Valve came Half-Life 2, which despite it's long loading times, put me in gaming bliss.

Well, now I'm playing Heavy Metal FAKK2 (quite good) and am planning on soon upgrading my computer to play FEAR (which I already have), The Longest Journey sequel, and Prey. And, of course, I am awaiting Duke Nukem Forever.

Others titles I missed but are worth mentioning are some more Lucasarts classics including X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Sam & Max, and Day of the Tentacle. Also Max Payne, Crystal Caves, and Time Commando probably deserve a mention. Well, that's about it.

What's your story? :)

[Hudson]

Uh.. I got an Apple II. After that I just kept upgrading and playing new stuff.

"Elevator" rocked.

[Damien_Azreal]

I game... there for I am.


Plus, I'm to lazy to really post it right now.

[Phayzon]

I game... there for I am.


Plus, I'm to lazy to really post it right now.

Same here. :)

[Telee]

I game... there for I am.


Plus, I'm to lazy to really post it right now.

Same here. :)

Me three.

[FrozeN91]

I painted a bit with paint and I was hooked! lol :cool:

[Destroyer]

here are some important milestones

June 1st 1996 I got my first video game. I got a sega genesis, with Sonic & knuckles, and 6 pack.
December 15 1996 I got my super nintendo with killer instincts
june 10 1997 I got my nintendo 64 with super mario 64
december 5 1997 I got goldeneye
may 25 1998 I got my first computer compaq preseario 4910 came with moto racer.
sept 7 1998 I got my fav game C&C
january 28 2002 I ordered parts to build my 2ndPC built the PC on feb 13 2002

theres alot more but im not gonna list them all.
just listed the important ones.

[GodBlitZor]

1996- Duke3D
1997- Shadow Warrior
2006- Still Duke3D and Shadow Warrior. :cool:

[Sang]

Started off with Starhawks (first game I ever played, it was a collection of other games) followed by Doom. After that I mainly played those sidescoller games based on comics from the Benelux - think Tintin, Asterix & Obelix, Lucky Luke,...

And after that, Duke Nukem 3D obviously. Loved it. I didn't play any of the major titles after Duke, like Unreal or Half-Life simply because my computer sucked too much. So I spent most of my time then with shareware games bundled on CD's, like Ravage or the Hugo series.

In 2002 I got a new PC (which is outdated now) and the first game I played on that was Duke Nukem - Manhattan Project. After that I played many of the titles I missed out on in the late nineties. I played Half-Life for the first time in 2004, Unreal in 2005.

Let's see what the future brings.... Can't wait for a new PC anyway.

[Phait]

Agh. I was gonna write, but to do that would require some serious digging which I don't have time for. You freaks! :tinyted:

[Tang Lung]

First game I played was Sonic 2 on the Gamegear, and some game on the Gameboy (got them both at the same time one christmas). This was the start of my gaming addiction.

Then I got a Master System, and Alex the Kidd which was insanely hard. I got Dragon The Bruce Lee story aswell, which was awesome (I hadn't started my Martial Art addiction at this point).

Then came another Christmas where i got the MegaDrive with a few games. By this point my addiction became a raging hold on my life. Sonic, Cyborg Justice, Shinobi, and a bizarre game called Flicky fuelled the fire, all classics. And then there was Flashback. Sonic will always be a favorite, but I think Flashback was the first game I ever played that really impacted me and stayed with me as a work of gaming art.

Then came the PC, and Worms1. From then on it was basically gaming finery. I don't know the year, but it involved the discovery of C&C, Diablo, Duke 3D, Death Rally, Dungeon Keeper, Dark Forces (the era of the D?).

From then on it was just basic gaming. I can't say I feel the same way as I did when I was younger, games are just games. Im definatly less interested year by year in newer games coming out, I don't think I can ever top the early playstation era. Final Fantasy 7 was probably the game that affected me the most. It was a communal thing. Strange because I hated it at first.

So anyway, probably 1996 -1999 was the best year in gaming in my experience. Nothing will ever top that, and no games could ever match the ones I played back then. This was my courageous story.

[Geir]

games in order

agile warrior
one of the win95 games, where you get to play a sort of odd bumpercart game
fury 3 demo
decent
duke nukem 3d
pokemon yellow
red
I remember buying the hl platnum pack

the list goes on and on...

[The Baskinator]

I have an older brother, and I basically became the little brother he always wanted. http://forums.3drealms.com/vb/images/icons/goofy.gif From the time I could grip things, I was holding a controller. I haven't stopped gaming since.

Like Damien said, I game therefore I am.

[ZuljinRaynor]

My dad introduced me to Wolfenstein 3D when I was 5... :cool:

[Damien_Azreal]

I will say this... first game I ever played was Pong. ;)

[Llama Gibbz]

Arcades where the shiznit when i was young.
Asteroids,star wars and battle zone were my favorite.
I really digged vector graphic based games.:love:

[Phayzon]

one of the win95 games, where you get to play a sort of odd bumpercart

Hover :love:

[Telee]

Okay, I'm gonna type a short little bit now:

My first game system was Nintendo 64. The first serious game I ever played was Super Mario 64. Me and my brother were obsessed with it until we noticed Duke Nukem 64 at Best Buy. We bought it and that was our first FPS. We played coop for hours, we loved the game so much that we went around the levels shooting stuff such as bottles, hamburgers etc. :D We continued playing N64 games such as Diddy Kong Racing, Banjo-Kazooie etc. Paper Mario was my first RPG, and I was obsessed with it. The first games I played were "Let's Explore The Farm!", "Blues Clues", and others for PC. After I got a Nintendo 64 though, that was when I started playing the good games ;)

Later on a bought Duke Nukem 3D (I though DN64 was the first lol) and I became obsessed with that, when me and my brother discovered user levels we were addicted :D

[MAT]

My first gaming system was an Amstrad which was green. It had a color monitor. Supported colors were white, black and green (yes). I played some stupid games like Commando on this system. I don't remember the other games. I never liked my Amstrad because it's cassette reader was broken. I used its tape to rewind my music cassettes.

My second gaming platform was a SNES. I remember myself playing some Mario games and some Tank games on it. Also Flintstones and Adam's Family. Also some shoot-em ups which were really good. I also hunted some ducks using the pistol.

1997 december was when I got my first Pentium I 200 MHz and 32 MB RAM PC. Cool thing was having a S3 4 MB video card which sucked. S3 closed its doors afterwards.

Civilization 2 and Fifa 98 were my first games although I never played Civ 2 because it was not fun for an 11 years old guy who didn't speak english. Fifa 98 rocked along with World Cup 98.

Need For Speed 2 was the best racing game in 97-98.

I never liked Quake 1. I didn't appreciate Quake 2 until I got my Diamond Monster Voodoo 2 3DFx card. Damn, people killed eachother to get one of these cards. 3DFx also closed its doors afterwards.

Worst thing was that Voodoo 3's had shipped at the same time I got my Voodoo 2. Nevertheless, I liked my Voodoo 2 card and kissed it before going to sleep.

The next big gaming incident happened when I was introduced to almighty Half-Life demo. I played it like 25 times and amazed at the fact that the soldiers were able to throw grenades at you.

Half-Life was the first game I really adored and it made me a FPS fan.

[Steve]

Most relevant games to me over the years:
Arcade games when I was a kid. Dad snuck me out of the house to play space invaders as my mother hated video games.
1989 - Tennis
1991 - Sonic 1
1992 - FlashBack
1993 - Doom
1994 - Doom 2
1996 - Duke Nukem 3D
1997 - Shadow Warrior
2000 - Deus Ex
2000 - 2006 ??? - just playing old games now. New ones don't really catch my eye these days.

[ZuljinRaynor]

Hover :love:
I owned at that game.:cool: :D :p

[alexgk]

I started my gaming life playing NES (Punch-Out and Mario 1) when I was just like 4. Time passed and my first console was N64. I loved those times, I didn't care about good graphics, all I wanted was fun. I don't quite remember when I started with PC gaming, but I'm sure it wasn't too long ago. I'm a Nintendo fan, but I like games from other platforms as well. Actually, now I've got a Xbox360, and my bro will buy Wii. I have many things to say about my gaming life (good and bad), but it'd take a lot of space, maybe later.

[Mountain Man]

In brief, I started playing video games when they could only be found in arcades and cost a quarter to play. I'm not sure if I ever saw a Pong cabinet, but I definitely remember playing some of the early classics like Asteroids, Battlezone, and Tempest.

Then came the Atari revolution. My family never owned a console, so I kind of missed out on this era of gaming. I think my favorite console from back then was the Intellivision, probably because my church owned a bunch of them and it was the one I played the most. And for those of you who think the three way console war of Sony, Microsoft, and Nintendo is new, I remember the three way war between Atari, Intellivision, and Colecovision!

In the early 80's, my brother bought a Commodore 64 (and I later bought the 128 for myself), and most of our games came from the code listings in the back pages of COMPUTE!'s Gazette magazine, at least early on. Some of my favorite commercial titles included 1-on-1: Julius Irving vs. Larry Bird, Bop'n Wrestle, Hardball!, Airborne Ranger, and Bruce Lee.

My Commodore 128 served me well throughout college, after which I bought my first PC in 1993, a monster of a rig with a blisteringly fast Pentium 100, 16 MB RAM, and a hard drive with a whopping 1.2 GB of storage space! I believe the first game I bought for it was Microsoft Flight Simulator 5.1. But the first PC game that really impressed me was Full Throttle which came bundled with a Sound Blaster card I had bought as my first component upgrade. Before Full Throttle, the last adventure game I had played was the Lucas Arts classic Maniac Mansion for the Commodore 64, and Full Throttle blew me away! I was mesmerized by the full-screen animation, voice acting, and music. I was stunned at just how far gaming had advanced from just a few years previously.

However, the one game that shifted my passion for PC gaming into high-gear was Blizzard's Diablo. On a whim, I picked up a demo disc at Wal-Mart for 99 cents which happened to contain the Diablo pre-release demo. I must have played through the two-level dungeon at least a dozen times, and when I later saw Diablo sitting on the shelf at Sam's Club, I bought it without hesitation. And the rest, as they say, is history.

[Xerxes]

First thing I played games on was a P2.
-I played Duke Nukem 3D for a while and had around 300 user maps...
-Heroes of Might and Magic 2. Don't think I liked it very much(played multiplayer with my dad and brother though) but it made me find out about Might and Magic 6, which I liked(one of the top 4 games that I played).. And the two sequels after it(both on the top 4).

Then there was a P3.
-I think I played Raptor then.. Couldn't get past level 6 on Rookie because I was using air-ground missiles on air targets(I though that since they were air-ground missiles, they could hit air or ground targets, and didn't realise what it meant for a while). Still play it(starting at Rookie and moving up to hard without phase shields).
-Deus Ex. Didn't know what I was doing... I played through the training, and saw a bot in the game. In the training, the bot attacks you. So I attacked the bot(which was a friendly bot). Then I died. I tried this a couple times and cheated through the first couple of levels because I thought the game was too hard. I got better at it after a while... It's the last game on the top 4(and the reason it's 4 is that which ones I like more than others changes so I can't place any below any other ones)..
-System Shock 2.
-Thief. Got bad towards the end though.
-Baldur's Gate. My dad saw a demo disk on sale for $2 and told me that he'd bought a game for that much(we had an internet connection too).. Played it, but was very bad at games so I never got past the Nashakrel mines. Bought the full version eventually...

..And I have a P4 now.
-Trackmania. Best multiplayer game that I know of... Has Starforce, though, and I prefer singleplayer(it's an exception though). It's a racing game... You clip through the other cars(which I like) and have to get the best time possible. It has a track editor that's easy to use and lets you make pretty good tracks, though, so you'll never see the same map twice when you use the multiplayer(well, you will, but not often). I think there's a crack for Starforce so I might give it another shot sometime...
-Starcraft.

[Phayzon]

I owned at that game.:cool: :D :p

So did I. :) Wonder if it will run on XP? I should find my Win95 CD and find out...

[Babe]

The game which has really become a part and parcel of my life is Quake III Arena. Played the game over 16000 ( yes sixteen thousand) hours now and still play it.

My gaming life started with playing the demo of Soldier of Fortune I. Then I got the demo of Quake III Arena. And Quake III changed my life and attitude towards computers for ever. I got hooked into computer games.

Games that I consider as gaming milestones in my life are :

- Turok 2 Seeds of Evil ( played in 1999)
- Quake III Arena ( Ofcourse still play it from 1999)
- Unreal Gold ( played it in 2000)
- Return To Castle Wolfenstein ( played it in 2001)
- Clive Barker's Undying ( played in 2002 I think)
- Painkiller ( Played it in 2004)
- FarCry ( Played it in 2005)

I have played heaps of more games including some other good games such as Half Life 1 and Half Life 2 and Prey, but such games never had that extra factor that will make me feel that these are the gaming milestones in my life.

[Phayzon]

By far the biggest milestone game for me is Jazz Jackrabbit 2. Without it, Id probably still be poking around in unmodded single player games.

[NetNessie]

Nintendo's advertisements for the SNES got me hooked when I was quite young.

[John]

I started on an Atari 2600, had a box filled with like 25 different gamees, and it was fun. Then I was given a used NES for christmas with afew games such as Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt and afew others.

I wasn't really a huge gamer until I played Street Fighter II in the arcades. At the age of 5-6, I was addicted to this game and was told I could play it at home on a SNES, which I later got simply for SF II. Then I got a Sega and became addicted to Sonic, Shinobi and Streets of Rage 2.

After that I found the wonderful joy of PC gaming with Duke Nukem 3D in 96. :) Been an avid PC gamer ever since, with very few console games that crave my addictions. (Only game to really get me sitting down infront of the TV for numerous hours was Legends of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. That game is godly.)

[Dr.Dude]

The beginning of my gaming life was in the old Apogee sidescrollers, not surprisingly enough --- Duke Nukem 1 and 2, Commander Keen, Crystal Caves, Secret Agent... the list went on, and I couldn't get enough of 'em. Pretty soon afterward I got into all the Sierra "Quest" games, from Quest for Glory to Spacequest, eventually also drifting to non-Sierra adventure games like Simon the Sorcerer.

Never really got into Wolfenstein, so for the most part I just kind of avoided the whole FPS scene... until I found out that the old Duke games were being resurrected in that format. And it only took a few minutes for Duke Nukem 3D to completely blow me away in a way no other game had before or ever has since. After that I got completely into FPS games, from both of the Doom games to Shadow Warrior, Quake 2, Blood, etc... and eventually games like Half-Life and its many descendants.

This calmed down slowly until I just kind of lost interest in games, though I still read about them and played the occasional one... which had a brief resurrection in 2004(?) when Doom 3, HL2 and Painkiller, all three of 'em terrific games and sequels to classics, brought me back into the scene.

Though that's kind of died out since... haven't really been in the game scene for a while now, I guess mainly because the time's so short now that I don't have enough time to really get into any game without severe schedule rearranging... and also because nothing that's come out in the last year has really caught my attention. ;) But hopefully that'll change soon. :o

[Nessus]

I started on games like Pong, Spacewars, and Nightdriver, back in the days when color meant having a plastic overlay on the screen. There was also a simple game where all you did was kill a shark and it died real bloody like. By the time Asteroids hit the scene me and my friends were full tilt into it. One of my freinds father was a vendor and he had Pheonix, Asteriods Deluxe, Popeye, Scrambler and Space Invaders Pinball in his house. Back in the days of the Atari 2600 being the pinnacle of home gaming that was a pretty big deal.

[Zero]

Commadore 64 first game was BlueMax :) awesome game!
NES - I wasen't too intrested beleaive it or not, there were a few games I had for it.
Gameboy - Cool enjoyed it alot.
SNES - My golden era of games, Between the the Final Fantasy series, Secret of Mana, Chrono Trigger, Cybanater, Bubsy, Killer Instinct, Donkey Kong Country, Secret of the Stars and The Three Vikings.
PC - way too many games to list.
Nintendo 64 - Crusin USA, Blast Corps, Golden Eye, Perfect Dark and MarioKart
Playstation - FF7,8,9,Tatitcs, Chrono Cross, Star Ocean: The second story, Tales of Destany I & II ,Legend of Dragoon and Street Fighter II collectors edition.
Gameboy Color - Pokemon Yellow and Crystal,
Playstation 2 - Final Fantasy X and X2, Star Ocean 3, Metal Gear Solid 2, Grans Tursmo 2, The Bouncer, XenoSaga I and II, Marvel vs Capcom 2, Timesplitters 2, MegaMan X Collection.
Gameboy Advanced - Pokemon Ruby
PSP - Twisted Metal, Tony Hawk
GP2X - Too many to list
DS Lite - Mario Kart, Tetris and Castle Vaninna.


This kinda depresses me now :( I feel I have wasted alot of my childhood on games.

[Rider]

With me gaming started with the MSX of my uncle, a few games of that Tanks game, and him showing a diversity of top-down shooters was enough to catch my interrest.

Shortly after he bought a PC and on it where Descent and Command & Conquer. That's sort of where it began really :)

Endless hours I've spent trying to beat Descent, and playing multiplayer matches of Command & Conquer... after that we got our own computer, not as powerful as his, where I learned to love the Apogee classics (Duke, OMF, Keen, Dangerous Dave etc.) and some golden oldies (Dune series, Wolfenstein 3D, STUNTS, Test Drive 3 and so on) and from there it's just been going forward, always lagging behind the Current standard a year....

Until today :D

[Scream]

-got a Pong console for Christmas around 1978 - gaming was put in my veins and I'd never look back :D

-over the course of the next 10-15 years I'd plug literally thousands of dollars into coin ops playing Sprint, Asteroids, Pac Man, Ms Pac Man, Frontline (awesome game that nobody remembers), Galaga, Popeye, Robotron, Super Sprint, and zillions of others

-I can remember the weekend that the first Dragon's Lair machine went live at "The Wizard" arcade downtown - there were lineups out the door to get in - my buddy and I went to behold the wonder of the cutting edge laser-disc goodness, and were in awe

-had a buddy who had a Tandy computer (Radio Shack forever!!) and we used to play various text adventures on it for hours, trying to unravel the story bit by bit

Go West
"You cannot go in that direction"
Go South
"You cannot go in that direction"

-had another buddy with a Bally system (yes, Bally actually put out it's own console) and we used to play this gunslinger game which was basically moving a little stick guy around in a 2D maze and trying to shoot the other guy before he shot you - earliest form of DEATHMATCH :D

-got an Atari 2600 in the early 80s - Asteroids, Phoenix, Yar's Revenge, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Summer Games, Pitfall I and II, etc etc. - wore out several controllers over the next few years - traded the cartridges with several friends at school who had the same system

-in the arcades I remember Double Dragon the most from this time period - way too cool grabbing the guy by the ears and repeatedly kneeing him in the head :D

-had another friend with a couple of different "PCs" including a Commodore 64 - we used to play a bootlegged copy of the original Leisure Suit Larry on it - we also played the original Mario Bros for hours on end (no, not stupid Super Mario Bros., the original arcade game non-sidescroller where you just flipped over turtles and stuff and kicked them off, avoided fireballs etc. - we played Mario Bros. DEATHMATCH (flip over a turtle to bait the other guy to go kick it off, and then quickly flip it back over just as he got to it so it would bite his ass :D - the "physics" in that game if I can call it that were amazing for the time period - all kinds of weird things could happen when two games objects tried to occupy the same space at the same time)

-bought an NES (with my own money for the first time) in the late 80s - my favourite games from this system were RBI Baseball (played that with buddies for hours on end), Techmo Bowl (one runner and one blocker, and it was fun as hell), Genghis Khan (a pre-cursor to "Romance of the Three Kingdoms"), Ultima, Dragon Warrior, and the ORIGINAL Final Fantasy. Good system.

-played a few games when in university in the late 80s/early 90s, the most memorable of which was Splatterhouse, a side-scroller in which you basically played a Jason from Friday the 13th clone, hacking and slashing your way through a mansion with tons of baddies

-bought my first PC in 1996 - a Pentium class machine - fell in love with first person shooters, Duke3D being my first - I was pretty much exclusively a PC gamer for several years, doing various upgrades including adding a 4MB Voodoo card (Monster) and then an 8MB Voodoo II, and playing pretty much every shooter that came down the pipe

-for something more "laid back" I liked the interactive movies popular at the time, like the Tex Murphy adventures, Ripper, Phantasmagoria, etc.

-the last major upgrade I did for gaming was around 2000-2001 in which I bought a state of the art system complete with a 64MB GF2 with DDR (the card alone was close to $600 Cdn at the time) - I can remember thinking at the time "this will do me for when Duke Nukem Forever comes out" :doh:

-was a huge Unreal fan, and then UT (I play UT2K4 quite a bit now, and yes, my 64MB GF2 does the job with all the graphical settings set low)

-bought an Xbox on launch day, along with Halo of course, and loved it (once I got used to the incredibly frustrating controls - going from WASD to that was tough) - bought a PS2 close to a year later for GTA3 - bought a Gamecube a few months later for Eternal Darkness

-just bought a 360 earlier this year, and have enjoyed Call of Duty 2 on it, along with a few others - anxiously awaiting Gears of War

-that's about all I can remember, but I am sure I've "wasted" several years of my life either playing, or talking about games.

[Kit]

I guess I'm pretty textbook for my age.

NES - Super Mario 3.
SNES - Super Mario Allstars and Busby.
PSX - Resident Evil, MGS and ISS.

PC - Red Alert and Duke Nukem3D.
N64 - Conkers Bad Fur day, Mario64 and Goldeneye.
PS2 - MGS 2.

Then I bought a DC soley for the Shenmue series - money not wasted. ;)

This kinda depresses me now I feel I have wasted alot of my childhood on games.

The thing that bothers me is infinite number of hours I wasted playing bad games.

[Dr. Kill]

I've posted this many, many times before. Here's the summarized version. This is the order in which I got my consoles:

NES
SNES
Genesis
Saturn
Playstation
PC
PS2
XBox
XBox 360

This isn't including ones I got later. This is just the order in which I got the main consoles I've played over the years.

[Damien_Azreal]

I think I can do what Dr. Kill posted....

Atari 2600
NES
Gameboy
SNES
Genesis
Game Gear
Nintendo 64
Win 3.1/Dos 5.0 PC
Playstation
Win 95 PC
Win 98 PC
Playstation 2
WinXP PC
GameCube
Current PC

I'm not going to try and remember key moments/games... way to much work for information that really isn't that interesting. My gaming life is rather dull... buy guy, install game, play game... play game... ;)

[K T Ong]

I remember seeing someone play Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss for the very first time. I was simply amazed how 3D space could be simulated so well. Doom, Shadowcaster and System Shock appeared soon after, and they all excited the **** out of me. I've been in love with PCs and PC games ever since. ;)

[Ivan]

My Pentium200
My Athlon2000+
My Dell Inspiron 6400 Laptop

:o

[Kevin Wolff]

Although I played stuff like Lego Island when it was new in 1996, I note my real start in gaming as Quake when I was introduced to it in 1997. I only had a Pentium 166 at the time, but that was plenty. Still my favorite "real" video game, if you will. After a while of that, I went backwards into the id and Apogee catalog, and eventually got Quake 2/3.

I never bought many new games because I never had enough computer for it; when I got GTA for PC, when it was new, I could barely play it on a P3/500. I kept that until Simpsons Hit & Run, which was simply unplayable. I bought my current PC to play that properly, but got frustrated by it, as I could never get very far. This started cumulating my dislike for most gaming, as it seemed too hard. I never got far into any single game. Perhaps I wasn't dedicated enough, or perhaps I simply sucked at video games, as I was once told here eons ago.

The last major game I bought was UT2004, well after it was out. I played that for a while, and while it was fun, I would get bored of it. I've since retired from most serious gaming; I'm now a Mac user and my newest PC is over 2 years old. I like playing Quake 1 still, along with Tetris and a few others. Noting my computers and that I'm a new college student, I have no plans to start back up any time soon.

[thefly]

I have an older brother, and I basically became the little brother he always wanted.

I have an older sister, and I basically became the little sist....wait, no. She just really liked to play computer games and nintendo (atari before that.) I think playing video games with my sister growing up was the best time I've had in my gaming life.

[Joe Siegler]

Please post about your background and history of your gaming life. There's no need to list every title you've played, just mention the games that have made the most impact throughout your gaming life and how.

Good thread idea; I don't have time to write that long of a story, though. :)

[December Man]

I played Contra with my friend on his console and I was hooked. Then I bought some lousy piece of sh!t of a console, but I was still spending my whole time in front of the TV. In 1996 I got my first PC(486, 8MB RAM, later upgraded to 16MB) and that lasted until...2002...then I upgraded it to...P133(for free of course) and that lasted until...2004, but I bought a $2000 comp, so back then it owned serious ass. Now I'm stuck with my comp unchanged since then.

[Malgon]

Very hard to remember all the details but needless to say games that lasted in my mind were the earliest ones I had played.

In some sort of order of what has stuck in my mind the most from the earliest days:
Super Mario Bros.
Kung Fu
Doom 2
Monkey Island
Loom
Full Throttle
Duke Nukem 3D

I've had a few PC's over the years and each one has opened the door to a new range of games. I wish I could explain more of my gaming life but I think the above list will do. ;)