So guys, what is it that introduced you to the world of gaming?

[DeadlyTitan]

This is just a curious question but i'd like to hear out what pulled you people into playing games and made you a gamer you are today. What was that first system you have ever experienced that you have played games on?

 

For me it was Nintendo Entertainment System (NES).

 

When I was a little kid one of my cousins visited me for summer vacation, hes a lot older than me and he bought with him his shiny new gaming system. he have a glee on his face when he was setting it up and i had no idea back then why was he so happy and gleeful, but then he turned it on and then i saw it. It was amazing, it totally blew my mind, i was flabbergasted, i have never seen anything like that before and it was my first time. He was nice enough to let me play most of the time, he was very mature and understanding for his age. We played Mario Bros, Contra, Donkey kong, Duck hunt, Ice Climber, Excitebike, Bomberman. Those were my very first games. 

 

After he left i asked my father if we can have one, but back then we weren't really financially stable and those things were really expensive and i also didnt liked to bother him much when i already know we were struggling.  But he did gave me small pocket change every now and then which i used to save up and go rent the machine for a day or 2 from the nearby rental stores. 

 

5 Years later when we were finally financially stable enough, my father presented me with something i have never asked or dreamed of owning. My very own NES system. It was the best birthday ever and also the best present ever cause of how it made me feel. 

 

Things went by really fast after that, I introduced my other cousins who were younger than me to the world of gaming when they visited for summer. We used to play all night during summer. Those were the starting of my days as a gamer. We still play together, well not as often but once a year we host a big lan party and have a blast for old times sake. 

 

Well that is how i became a gamer i am today. All thanks to that one NES system my elder cousin introduced me to back when i am small. Thinking about it all again brings back those memories, the times we just spent playing together, just a bunch of kids, me and my cousins taking turns playing the game. Whoever looses have to handover the controller so everyone tried their best not to loose. Although my female cousins were not really interested in games but since majority of us were male they just decided to tag along and support us. Good old days eh?  Yep good old days 

 

Sorry for the wall of text but i just got carried away by my memories. 

 

 

 

[WkdPaul]

Short answer from me : NES and SMS (not talking about Short Message Service).

[captain_to_fire]

A classmate's Gameboy color 

[Anghammarad]

An Atari 800 XL with a Datasette drive... well and before that arcade machines due to my dad working at an arcade company as technician... even had a IK+ Arcade machine at home for my birthday once... 

[Jurrunio]

PSP

 

This page is indirectly revealing people's age isnt it?

[Triventular]

a Nintendo DS Lite haha I wanted a PSP since everone in my class had one but my aunt instead gave me a dslite.. I like it haha I still have it back from around 2008 but it doesn't work now haha the hinge broke which was a common thing to break with a clamshell design.

 

what got me to pc gaming was an old laptop, a compaq nc6400, back then things were simpler haha you can run anything on it but on 800x600 and 2gb of ram was overkill back then haha i remember playing hl and hl2 on that laptop.. that laptop is still working and its still being used by my dad just for his emails and our printing computer haha

[Guest]

Star Wars Episode 1: Racer. 

 

I still play it today . . . . . such a good game!

[ShoByte]

NES 2 years after its release. Those were the days.

[WereCatf]

For me it was the ages old Nintendo Game & Watch - games of which we had at least Green House, Donkey Kong Jr., Donkey Kong II and Mario's Cement Factory -- might have had more, but after all these years I can't remember that well anymore. Ya'll got spoiled with your fancy NESes and proper console, I tell you!

[mr moose]

Tempest console, atari 2600 and Commodore 64.

[TSM_RX7]

Playstation 2 & Xbox 360 Slim

[Lurick]

Gameboy Color in Elementary school

Runescape in Middle School

PS2 in High School

PC gaming after High School and throughout college

[kelvinhall05]

Minecraft on my mom's iPhone 4s > Minecraft on my friend's Optiplex > Minecraft on a laptop I got for Christmas > TF2 on a friend's computer > TF2 (and Steam) on my computer > me finding a ton of games > now.

[Sir Asvald]

I started to play games with my PS1. Then after while I moved to PC gaming. 

[Theguywhobea]

N64 and Gameboy Color. I can remember trying to play Pokemon Blue, but I hadn't learned to read yet, so I didn't know you could save, or what anyone was asking me to do.

[DimasRMDO]

PS2.... My first game was Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life.

Just typing this makes me want to cry.... Good memories, I was like around 5 years old.

[Cole5]

My moms sega!

But what really got me hooked was Red Alert 2 on the PS1!

[TopHatProductions115]

I was first introduced to PC gaming on an HP Compaq from 1990s/early2000s. Windows XP, where one wrong move could be your last  Then, after getting annoyed dealing with computers from that time frame, I stopped for a while - and almost ended up switching over to console. My father's PS2 was the first thing that I ever learned about decent gaming. Then, years later, I was introduced to Minecraft - before the existence of console ports  That's when I was into PC gaming again (2011). It's been that way ever since  

[dcgreen2k]

A Gameboy Color and Pokemon Red was pretty much all I played when I was 4 or 5 years old. Then, when I was 10, I got my very first PC! It had a Core 2 Duo e6700 and an Nvidia GeForce 7300 LE that could barely run Minecraft without overheating and artifacting. 4 years later, I found out that the heatsink wasn't even touching the die of the GPU and the thermal paste had completely dried up...

[NinJake]

NES at my uncle's house. Sega Genesis at my babysitter's house and my first personal gaming item was my game boy pocket. No backlight, just a contrast control, still have it somewhere....

[KaoFinniric]

My First pc experience was the Apple 2C, I beilieve it was the first color monitor for PC's at the time,  i remember my pops learning to program  on that beast, it had a hole 126 i wanna way bites of memory.  goodtimes.   My favorite game i played on it was called Legacy of the Ancients the game came with 10 floppy disks lol 

 

[KaoFinniric]

literally every 15 to 20 minutes you had to flip the disc. you took most of your game time loading the game rather then play the game.  it's amazing how far tech has come since those times.

 

[MindlessMind]

I started on the NES, but what really got me into computer games was the original Rainbow Six. A buddy of mine at the time showed it to me, and then it was clan matches instead of basketball!

[Majinhoju]

I think my first experience gaming was on the Atari 2600.  Though I think the NES is what really kicked it off for me.

[Blasteque]

First experience was arcades (they used to be sooooo cool!).

 

First system was Atari 2600.

 

First pc was Apple 2gs.