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First introduction for me where those little flash games & CD based kid games, started with thoseback in about 2005-2007.

Looking back some of them are surprisingly decent, might be nostalgia speaking :P

Started on an my mom & grandmothers Windows XP laptops, got my own laptop in 2008ish with Windows ME.

From there I basically kept mainly using PC to game, but during the sixth & part of the seventh generation of consoles I did mostly use those.

 

Oh yea and the infamous TL;DR:

Flash & CD Games for kids.

Not learning games ftr, although I "played" those :D

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Arcade  game called rampage when I was in first Grade and super Mario bros from some friends hous

I was in a special ed class that rewarded  you with super Nintendo or ps1 play time if you behaved well

 

My first actual console was the n64 with a game called jet force Gemini  not appropriate for a 12 old

 

I didn't get into pc gaming until college my first pc I games on was a crappy computer from 1998 (this was in 2010) played arcanum, disciples 2and Warcraft3

 

 

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The original PlayStation and my Game Boy Advance. I played my PlayStation constantly to the point where I destroyed my first one, and my uncle had to give me his old one. 

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Age of Empires 1 loaned from the local library. Back when games were like 80$ (CAD) a pop, in 1998-ish dollars.

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I started on PC when I was 5 or 6 playing a earlier game similar to war thunder. 

I started on console around that time with my friends having PS2s. SW B2 and thrill vill off the rails were the main games I played.

About 6 years ago I got my first PC all to my self and that started me playing more.

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Gameboy Color and PS1. Still have both and they still work as far as I'm aware.

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Either the GameBoy (original) my dad purchased in the mid or beginning of the 90's, or the PC in the living room and some Power Rangers game on it.

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Oh I don't know space war arcade game? Checkers game I wrote for the TRS80 Model 1? DM's helper I wrote for the Apple 2? Rogue on Unix System III? Space War on VMS? All of the above?

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To put it short, the wii. The long answer is my grandads NES which inspired my parents to get a wii, which i played on nonstop till i got my laptop at aged 6

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Mine is slightly odder, maybe due to my age. I started with Driver and Destruction Derby on the PS1!

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I have vague toddler memories of my Dad's Genesis with Madden and Sonic on it.  However, how I really got into games and what left the imprint for me was the N64 which came with Starfox 64 and my dad also got Goldeneye 007.  Damn my old man had good tastes...

 

 

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Sega MegaDrive

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Might and Magic VI: The Mandate of Heaven

 

It’s still an incredibly fun game to this day. It’s an old RPG sandbox game with enormous dungeons and hordes of monsters. You control a party of 4 adventurers. You can use amazing spells that conjure meteor showers, teleport you or even allow you to fly. 

 

 

 

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First eveer would be a Nintendo DS and a PS2 but I really got into it with an XBox360, crap now you know how old I am...

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Suppose my first console was the gameboy color.

I remember also seeing games like ut99 and half life multiplayer and being fascinated, but I was always more into electronics in general than games and it was really more about the online aspect of them.

 

First computer was the IBM thinkpad 380xd. That's more important for my start with gaming than anything else I think.

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Honestly? Probably my dad since he always had some sort of flight sim installed. Afterwards, I would say it was older cousins and relatives that got me hooked. 

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I started playing games on the SNES my family had, then I played games on a Wii once we got one, bu I wasn't really into gaming and would rather play outside. Around 2011 we got a ps3 and Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood was the first game we got for it. That really pulled me into gaming. I grew out of gaming a few years ago though and barely will play any games any more. There are just so many other things that take my attention and are more interesting to me.

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