What game do you credit for turning you into a "Gamer"?


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My true turning point would have to be Ultima III for the Atari home computer. I'd love to know how many times I played through the entire game. Alternate Reality series (The City, The Dungeon) also sucked away more hours than I think I've invest in all the current gen games I've played combined.

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It's also the first game I beat entirely on my own. I beat the first one with a lot of help, but this is the first one I ever beat on my own.. and to this day I still love the QFG series.. to death.

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I guess if it was a specific one it would have to be either SMB1, Paperboy or Kung Fu - although on the whole it was the NES system that turned me to gaming. My Grandma purchased a NES with a bunch of games (I think it was like 6 or 7) off a family friend - at the time all I remember is not really knowing what one is, I just got told that I have one and thinking "okay?". Granted, I was all of like 5, maybe 6 then, and didn't pay any attention to video games as a whole. But yeah, nearly two decades later, I'm still addicted (Y) :D

Let the good times continue!

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Somewhere around Need For Speed 2 (PSX), GTA 2, Tomb Raider 1 and Mario Kart 64.

Oh and we should not forget to add Pok?mon BLUE to the list (because red is lame, as we all know ;) )

Glassed Silver:mac

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For console gaming, it was Tomb Raider on the PS1. For PC gaming, it was MechWarrior 2: 31st Century Combat.

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Pok?mon Red, and Link: The Faces of Evil. Hey, I didn't know it was rubbish. Nor did I ever finish it, or have any idea what was going on. But it was something to do xD

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Microsoft Basic, (Qbasic), does this count?

your my hero>LOL

I had this box.. yes it waz a box.. it had 8 Switches on it.. ether on (up) or off (down) and we would program it by ether turing the leds on or of.. 8bit design.. ever tryed playing Tic-tac-tow ..grate fun back in the days>LOL

anywazs..

Pong/Qbasic/Mario/Zelda/Wolfinstine 3d(started the FPS habbit)/Doom (followed)

DukemNukem/Jill of the Jungle/Chuck yagurs Air Combat (best Flight sime even to this date)

Eye of The beholder/Indy 500/tankwars/Chips Challange/Ski Free/Police Quest 1/2/3 (love thoses old type txt graphics advs..)

Atira and Colecovision wer ethe start of the war>LOL

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I began gaming as a young child (ages 3-4 back in 1988-1989), NES and Super Mario Bro's were likely where it started and misclaneous Atari games and PacMan/PacWomen in the arcade at this old pizza place called Pinocchio's. I moved on to the Genesis and Sonic 1-3 + Sonic and Knuckles with all the lock-on technology, Mortal Kombat 2 and 3, Clay Fighter, Street Fight, also occasionally played the SNES and Super Mario World, F-Zero, Super Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, then by the time the Genesis was being phased out, I had the Sega Channel through TCI cable which gave you access to 50+ or so Genesis games for download direct to the Genesis and a fresh selection every two weeks. Had the Sega Saturn for a brief period of time and Sega NetLink for NiGHTS Into Dreams, Daytona and Virtual Street Fighter, and then the Nintendo 64 (probably my all-time-favorite system) for games like Super Mario 64, Mischief Makers, Snowboard Kids 1/2, 1080 Snowboarding, Beattle Racing Adventure, Bomberman World/etc, Geomon Great Adventure, Goldeneye, Banjo Kazooie and Diddy Kong Racing, Blast Corps, Star Fox 64, and just so many other awesome games - last console I owned and played was the Dreamcast, but I used it more to get online than anything else. Games that I liked the most were Sonic Adventure, Phantasy Star Online (literally put at least 500 hours into my characters before my D/C burnt out while fighting the dragon, last thing I ever saw was the warp screen trying to go back up to Pioneer 2), Quake 3 Arena, Chuchu Rocket, Seaman, Jet Grind Radio, Crazy Taxi, and maybe a few others. Got into PC gaming in 1999 when I played Half-Life multiplayer, gamed a bunch throughout my teens playing online first person shooters Unreal Tournament (favorite mode: CTF-Face map, low-g with insta-gib enabled :p and also Assault "Big Ass Maps" like AS-Bluff and AS-Grandcanyon, etc) and Tactical Ops, until I finally stopped playing seriously in like 2004-2005. Still looking to get back into gaming a bit.

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So people got me thinking as they said Pong, and it was indeed the first game I played (and owned so to speak as we had the Pong Home Console), and played frequently. But at the time my father himself was 18 when I was born, so when he purchased the pong console it was for him, not me. :laugh: So I played it as a 2 year old kid, and although I was just absolutely amazed that there were objects on my TV screen that I was able to control, no matter how primitive they were, I still did not really grasp the fact that what I was doing was at the time, completely ground breaking. I was so young most anything amazed me. So it was not until the Atari, and the fact that I was a bit older, that I was able to kinda sorta fully imagine and realize what potential video games had in store for me. So that is why I personally said Pitfall earlier in this thread. It was THE game that made me realize games were more than just that.

So if we want to be technical about things, it was also Pong for me as it was without a doubt the first game I ever played. Just 34 and a half years ago. :wacko::o :rofl:

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