What made you start gaming?

So ive thought this question over for a long time, i really want to know what provokes people or has provoked you to start gaming; was it being raised with games? Or was it one thing in general that brought you to discovering their existence :P theres a ton of reasons, even if your a casual gamer who plays for stress relief :lol: Why do YOU game and what got you interested?

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no lie, it was contra, that was the first game i got hooked on, haven't looked back since, and been doing this for 20 years:o

anyways i mostly Play FPS so i guess for stress relief

I was raised around video games. :P I think the 1st game I played was Super Mario Bros. for the NES. o.O :D

Well, it started off with those really simple games for the Macintosh, I believe. Then came along Soulblazer, Link to the past and Secret of Mana, among others. You see, my mother played alot of games... Yeah.

I got my first sega genesis when i was like 3, and it came with some pack that would let me play lots of games, zombies ate my neighbors i played the most. They need to make an app for that game

does anyone remember that sides croller game where your on rollerblades and you fight people? what was it called?

Super Mario World, the thing that got me extremely into games was when my sister's bestfriend brought over Halo 2, I went crazy.

playing donkey kong on the N64 at my preschool. My parents never bought me an N64 thou :cry:

My dad played D&D and Sorcerer's Kingdom on Sega Genesis all the time which got me into playing game like the Lion King, Mickey Mouse (can't remember the name), Strider, and Jurassic Park. Fun games and fun times, I was 5 years old.

GoldenEye for the N64 got me hooked. Been gaming ever since.

The Hudson River, two years ago... We had klassified intelligence that a newtype of Metal Gear was scheduled for transport. The whole thing stank... ...butour noses have been out in the cold too long.This is the introductory narrative to the 2nd installment in one of the greatest game franchises ever made:Metal Gear Solid. A damn good story, some damn good characters, and some damn good gameplay mechanics are the reasons whyMetal Gear Solid 2sparked my interest in gaming. Prior to playing MGS:2, I only played games occasionally; I was far from crazy about them. In fact, the only games I had for my PS2 before I bought MGS:2 were the five games that came with it (I bought a PS2bundle). Those games sucked so badly that I actually decided to trade them in at the local game shop for a used title...which turned out to be MGS:2 (lulz?). I was browsing through the selection the shop had; most of the games there failed to catch my eye. However, when I came across MGS:2, I remembered the advertisements I had seen for it a year earlier and decided to get it. The trailers for the game looked like they could have easily been made by a major Holly Wood studio; they wee so cinematic.

Oddly enough, when I got back home and popped it into my PS2 I was initially very underwhelmed. The fixed camera angles, the manual switch between third and first person perspective when shooting, Snake's vulnerability when detected by the enemy and the non-fatal rounds in the M9 Beretta you start off with, all created this odd and unexpected experience. I thought I was going to be playing a game of instant gratification where I fought enemies out in the open. However, this game was the complete opposite; I guess I should have read the small print over the game's title on the cover:TacticalEspionageAction. However, after I got the hang of the mechanics and gameplay, I came to love it. To this day, I can play the Tanker Chapter over and over again. Completing this chapter in as little time as possible, with as little detections as possible is a really fun challenge. I love taking out an enemy sentry from a distance with a single well placed shot from the M9 and sneaking up behind them to hold them up for their dog-tags.Freeze!

The main aspects of MGS:2 which changed the way I viewed games were the characters and the voice acting. David Hater did a really good job of creating a voice which made Snake come across as tough, but not in an overly mancho sort of way; it's gruffy, but low. It's got to bethecoolest voice I've ever heard. The voice acting for the other characters such as Olga Gurlukovich, Liquid Ocelot, Otacon and Solidus Snake (among others) was also very good. Regarding Olga, I love the authentic Russian accent she has. The subtle attention to detail such as assuring that the characters have the appropriate accents, all help to create a damn good illusion: A fictional story set in a realistic world in the 21st Century. What I found really interesting about Snake was that he was a "Son" (clone) of Big Boss. When I found out that he was a clone, it changed the way I thought of him. It made me wonder how he thought of himself; what he thought of the fact that he was created for the sole purpose of fighting. I also just found it to be plane strange; I mean think about it: He's a clone! He was created in a test tube! Here I thought that my avatar was an ordinary guy and he happens to be a clone of some other guy who's said to have died eons ago. I don't know how other people reacted to this revelation, but it was quite shocking to me. Aside from this, I also like Snake because he's a badass dude. Plain and simple. Here you have this one guy who's willing and able to infiltrate heavily guarded perimeters on his own with the burden of procuring weapons for his defenseon site. If that's not badass, I don't know what is.

One thing I really hated about this game (note my use of the past tense:hated) was Raiden. I bet you saw this coming. However, I wouldn't say that I hated Raiden himself; he wasn'tthatbad. I simply hated the fact that he wasn't Snake. After completing the Tanker Chapter, I expected to continue the game with Snake, but instead I get Raiden. Like I said, I've got nothing against Raiden, but he's not nearly as cool as Snake (Who is?). Nothing peculiar or cool about the sound of his voice, nothing out of the ordinary about his origin (he's not a clone) and worst of all, he had no field experience at that point. All I could say to myself when I realized that I'd be playing with him instead of Snake wasDAMN!

I was raised playing video games. My parents saw it as a way to keep my sister and I entertained, and it just stuck with me over the years. Back in the SNES and Sega console days.

When I was around 3 or 4 my older sister would let me play her PS1, with such classic games as Croc, Abe's Odyssee and Resident Evil. Not long after, Santa got me a gameboy for Christmas and from then I was hooked on Donkey Kong and Pokemon.

Sega Saturn and Genesis got me good

mostly Sonic and side scrolling beat em ups until i got into Counter Strike, Red Alert and Starcraft. After Starcraft I started really appreciating games as a hobby

My parents bought me a SNES when I was 5. It was the worst mistake they ever made as parents.cd_rom

I was raised around video games. :P I think the 1st game I played was Super Mario Bros. for the NES. o.O :D

astrozombie37

The Hudson River, two years ago... We had klassified intelligence that a newtype of Metal Gear was scheduled for transport. The whole thing stank... ...butour noses have been out in the cold too long.This is the introductory narrative to the 2nd installment in one of the greatest game franchises ever made:Metal Gear Solid. A damn good story, some damn good characters, and some damn good gameplay mechanics are the reasons whyMetal Gear Solid 2sparked my interest in gaming. Prior to playing MGS:2, I only played games occasionally; I was far from crazy about them. In fact, the only games I had for my PS2 before I bought MGS:2 were the five games that came with it (I bought a PS2bundle). Those games sucked so badly that I actually decided to trade them in at the local game shop for a used title...which turned out to be MGS:2 (lulz?). I was browsing through the selection the shop had; most of the games there failed to catch my eye. However, when I came across MGS:2, I remembered the advertisements I had seen for it a year earlier and decided to get it. The trailers for the game looked like they could have easily been made by a major Holly Wood studio; they wee so cinematic.

Oddly enough, when I got back home and popped it into my PS2 I was initially very underwhelmed. The fixed camera angles, the manual switch between third and first person perspective when shooting, Snake's vulnerability when detected by the enemy and the non-fatal rounds in the M9 Beretta you start off with, all created this odd and unexpected experience. I thought I was going to be playing a game of instant gratification where I fought enemies out in the open. However, this game was the complete opposite; I guess I should have read the small print over the game's title on the cover:TacticalEspionageAction. However, after I got the hang of the mechanics and gameplay, I came to love it. To this day, I can play the Tanker Chapter over and over again. Completing this chapter in as little time as possible, with as little detections as possible is a really fun challenge. I love taking out an enemy sentry from a distance with a single well placed shot from the M9 and sneaking up behind them to hold them up for their dog-tags.Freeze!

The main aspects of MGS:2 which changed the way I viewed games were the characters and the voice acting. David Hater did a really good job of creating a voice which made Snake come across as tough, but not in an overly mancho sort of way; it's gruffy, but low. It's got to bethecoolest voice I've ever heard. The voice acting for the other characters such as Olga Gurlukovich, Liquid Ocelot, Otacon and Solidus Snake (among others) was also very good. Regarding Olga, I love the authentic Russian accent she has. The subtle attention to detail such as assuring that the characters have the appropriate accents, all help to create a damn good illusion: A fictional story set in a realistic world in the 21st Century. What I found really interesting about Snake was that he was a "Son" (clone) of Big Boss. When I found out that he was a clone, it changed the way I thought of him. It made me wonder how he thought of himself; what he thought of the fact that he was created for the sole purpose of fighting. I also just found it to be plane strange; I mean think about it: He's a clone! He was created in a test tube! Here I thought that my avatar was an ordinary guy and he happens to be a clone of some other guy who's said to have died eons ago. I don't know how other people reacted to this revelation, but it was quite shocking to me. Aside from this, I also like Snake because he's a badass dude. Plain and simple. Here you have this one guy who's willing and able to infiltrate heavily guarded perimeters on his own with the burden of procuring weapons for his defenseon site. If that's not badass, I don't know what is.

One thing I really hated about this game (note my use of the past tense:hated) was Raiden. I bet you saw this coming. However, I wouldn't say that I hated Raiden himself; he wasn'tthatbad. I simply hated the fact that he wasn't Snake. After completing the Tanker Chapter, I expected to continue the game with Snake, but instead I get Raiden. Like I said, I've got nothing against Raiden, but he's not nearly as cool as Snake (Who is?). Nothing peculiar or cool about the sound of his voice, nothing out of the ordinary about his origin (he's not a clone) and worst of all, he had no field experience at that point. All I could say to myself when I realized that I'd be playing with him instead of Snake wasDAMN!

BluRayHiDef

i caught on to gaming VERY young. I was in preschool when my family got an Atari 2600. I loved playing that with my brothers (especially Combat). and we also had an old Apple II (black and green screen) and I played games on that all the time too. I guess I really got hooked when one of my friends got a Sega Genesis (like 1991 or so) , so the next year or so I got a Genesis for christmas (with Sonic 1 of course) and the rest is history....

I started gaming on my bros Atari 2600. At that time it was purely out of boredom. I wasnt playing for fun, but would just play when there was nothing better to do. It wasnt until I started going to arcades and playing the NES that I really became a gamer. It was on from there. Games just seemed to get better and better for years to come. Then things started to seem stale at one point. Not sure if it was the games or just me, but I had my fill. Then luckily MGS3 and Ninja Gaiden came along and brought me back into the fold.

The Hudson River, two years ago... We had klassified intelligence that a newtype of Metal Gear was scheduled for transport. The whole thing stank... ...butour noses have been out in the cold too long.This is the introductory narrative to the 2nd installment in one of the greatest game franchises ever made:Metal Gear Solid. A damn good story, some damn good characters, and some damn good gameplay mechanics are the reasons whyMetal Gear Solid 2sparked my interest in gaming. Prior to playing MGS:2, I only played games occasionally; I was far from crazy about them. In fact, the only games I had for my PS2 before I bought MGS:2 were the five games that came with it (I bought a PS2bundle). Those games sucked so badly that I actually decided to trade them in at the local game shop for a used title...which turned out to be MGS:2 (lulz?). I was browsing through the selection the shop had; most of the games there failed to catch my eye. However, when I came across MGS:2, I remembered the advertisements I had seen for it a year earlier and decided to get it. The trailers for the game looked like they could have easily been made by a major Holly Wood studio; they wee so cinematic.

Oddly enough, when I got back home and popped it into my PS2 I was initially very underwhelmed. The fixed camera angles, the manual switch between third and first person perspective when shooting, Snake's vulnerability when detected by the enemy and the non-fatal rounds in the M9 Beretta you start off with, all created this odd and unexpected experience. I thought I was going to be playing a game of instant gratification where I fought enemies out in the open. However, this game was the complete opposite; I guess I should have read the small print over the game's title on the cover:TacticalEspionageAction. However, after I got the hang of the mechanics and gameplay, I came to love it. To this day, I can play the Tanker Chapter over and over again. Completing this chapter in as little time as possible, with as little detections as possible is a really fun challenge. I love taking out an enemy sentry from a distance with a single well placed shot from the M9 and sneaking up behind them to hold them up for their dog-tags.Freeze!

The main aspects of MGS:2 which changed the way I viewed games were the characters and the voice acting. David Hater did a really good job of creating a voice which made Snake come across as tough, but not in an overly mancho sort of way; it's gruffy, but low. It's got to bethecoolest voice I've ever heard. The voice acting for the other characters such as Olga Gurlukovich, Liquid Ocelot, Otacon and Solidus Snake (among others) was also very good. Regarding Olga, I love the authentic Russian accent she has. The subtle attention to detail such as assuring that the characters have the appropriate accents, all help to create a damn good illusion: A fictional story set in a realistic world in the 21st Century. What I found really interesting about Snake was that he was a "Son" (clone) of Big Boss. When I found out that he was a clone, it changed the way I thought of him. It made me wonder how he thought of himself; what he thought of the fact that he was created for the sole purpose of fighting. I also just found it to be plane strange; I mean think about it: He's a clone! He was created in a test tube! Here I thought that my avatar was an ordinary guy and he happens to be a clone of some other guy who's said to have died eons ago. I don't know how other people reacted to this revelation, but it was quite shocking to me. Aside from this, I also like Snake because he's a badass dude. Plain and simple. Here you have this one guy who's willing and able to infiltrate heavily guarded perimeters on his own with the burden of procuring weapons for his defenseon site. If that's not badass, I don't know what is.

One thing I really hated about this game (note my use of the past tense:hated) was Raiden. I bet you saw this coming. However, I wouldn't say that I hated Raiden himself; he wasn'tthatbad. I simply hated the fact that he wasn't Snake. After completing the Tanker Chapter, I expected to continue the game with Snake, but instead I get Raiden. Like I said, I've got nothing against Raiden, but he's not nearly as cool as Snake (Who is?). Nothing peculiar or cool about the sound of his voice, nothing out of the ordinary about his origin (he's not a clone) and worst of all, he had no field experience at that point. All I could say to myself when I realized that I'd be playing with him instead of Snake wasDAMN!

BluRayHiDef

Great post, one of my all time favorite games. Even when I play it now it still seems ahead of its time.

Super Mario Bros.

[QUOTE="BluRayHiDef"]

The Hudson River, two years ago... We had klassified intelligence that a newtype of Metal Gear was scheduled for transport. The whole thing stank... ...butour noses have been out in the cold too long.This is the introductory narrative to the 2nd installment in one of the greatest game franchises ever made:Metal Gear Solid. A damn good story, some damn good characters, and some damn good gameplay mechanics are the reasons whyMetal Gear Solid 2sparked my interest in gaming. Prior to playing MGS:2, I only played games occasionally; I was far from crazy about them. In fact, the only games I had for my PS2 before I bought MGS:2 were the five games that came with it (I bought a PS2bundle). Those games sucked so badly that I actually decided to trade them in at the local game shop for a used title...which turned out to be MGS:2 (lulz?). I was browsing through the selection the shop had; most of the games there failed to catch my eye. However, when I came across MGS:2, I remembered the advertisements I had seen for it a year earlier and decided to get it. The trailers for the game looked like they could have easily been made by a major Holly Wood studio; they wee so cinematic.

Oddly enough, when I got back home and popped it into my PS2 I was initially very underwhelmed. The fixed camera angles, the manual switch between third and first person perspective when shooting, Snake's vulnerability when detected by the enemy and the non-fatal rounds in the M9 Beretta you start off with, all created this odd and unexpected experience. I thought I was going to be playing a game of instant gratification where I fought enemies out in the open. However, this game was the complete opposite; I guess I should have read the small print over the game's title on the cover:TacticalEspionageAction. However, after I got the hang of the mechanics and gameplay, I came to love it. To this day, I can play the Tanker Chapter over and over again. Completing this chapter in as little time as possible, with as little detections as possible is a really fun challenge. I love taking out an enemy sentry from a distance with a single well placed shot from the M9 and sneaking up behind them to hold them up for their dog-tags.Freeze!

The main aspects of MGS:2 which changed the way I viewed games were the characters and the voice acting. David Hater did a really good job of creating a voice which made Snake come across as tough, but not in an overly mancho sort of way; it's gruffy, but low. It's got to bethecoolest voice I've ever heard. The voice acting for the other characters such as Olga Gurlukovich, Liquid Ocelot, Otacon and Solidus Snake (among others) was also very good. Regarding Olga, I love the authentic Russian accent she has. The subtle attention to detail such as assuring that the characters have the appropriate accents, all help to create a damn good illusion: A fictional story set in a realistic world in the 21st Century. What I found really interesting about Snake was that he was a "Son" (clone) of Big Boss. When I found out that he was a clone, it changed the way I thought of him. It made me wonder how he thought of himself; what he thought of the fact that he was created for the sole purpose of fighting. I also just found it to be plane strange; I mean think about it: He's a clone! He was created in a test tube! Here I thought that my avatar was an ordinary guy and he happens to be a clone of some other guy who's said to have died eons ago. I don't know how other people reacted to this revelation, but it was quite shocking to me. Aside from this, I also like Snake because he's a badass dude. Plain and simple. Here you have this one guy who's willing and able to infiltrate heavily guarded perimeters on his own with the burden of procuring weapons for his defenseon site. If that's not badass, I don't know what is.

One thing I really hated about this game (note my use of the past tense:hated) was Raiden. I bet you saw this coming. However, I wouldn't say that I hated Raiden himself; he wasn'tthatbad. I simply hated the fact that he wasn't Snake. After completing the Tanker Chapter, I expected to continue the game with Snake, but instead I get Raiden. Like I said, I've got nothing against Raiden, but he's not nearly as cool as Snake (Who is?). Nothing peculiar or cool about the sound of his voice, nothing out of the ordinary about his origin (he's not a clone) and worst of all, he had no field experience at that point. All I could say to myself when I realized that I'd be playing with him instead of Snake wasDAMN!

sandbox3d

Great post, one of my all time favorite games. Even when I play it now it still seems ahead of its time.

To be honest, that post is a copy of one of my blogs. Not many people have read it, so I decided to post it here.

The Hudson River, two years ago... We had klassified intelligence that a newtype of Metal Gear was scheduled for transport. The whole thing stank... ...butour noses have been out in the cold too long.This is the introductory narrative to the 2nd installment in one of the greatest game franchises ever made:Metal Gear Solid. A damn good story, some damn good characters, and some damn good gameplay mechanics are the reasons whyMetal Gear Solid 2sparked my interest in gaming. Prior to playing MGS:2, I only played games occasionally; I was far from crazy about them. In fact, the only games I had for my PS2 before I bought MGS:2 were the five games that came with it (I bought a PS2bundle). Those games sucked so badly that I actually decided to trade them in at the local game shop for a used title...which turned out to be MGS:2 (lulz?). I was browsing through the selection the shop had; most of the games there failed to catch my eye. However, when I came across MGS:2, I remembered the advertisements I had seen for it a year earlier and decided to get it. The trailers for the game looked like they could have easily been made by a major Holly Wood studio; they wee so cinematic.

Oddly enough, when I got back home and popped it into my PS2 I was initially very underwhelmed. The fixed camera angles, the manual switch between third and first person perspective when shooting, Snake's vulnerability when detected by the enemy and the non-fatal rounds in the M9 Beretta you start off with, all created this odd and unexpected experience. I thought I was going to be playing a game of instant gratification where I fought enemies out in the open. However, this game was the complete opposite; I guess I should have read the small print over the game's title on the cover:TacticalEspionageAction. However, after I got the hang of the mechanics and gameplay, I came to love it. To this day, I can play the Tanker Chapter over and over again. Completing this chapter in as little time as possible, with as little detections as possible is a really fun challenge. I love taking out an enemy sentry from a distance with a single well placed shot from the M9 and sneaking up behind them to hold them up for their dog-tags.Freeze!

The main aspects of MGS:2 which changed the way I viewed games were the characters and the voice acting. David Hater did a really good job of creating a voice which made Snake come across as tough, but not in an overly mancho sort of way; it's gruffy, but low. It's got to bethecoolest voice I've ever heard. The voice acting for the other characters such as Olga Gurlukovich, Liquid Ocelot, Otacon and Solidus Snake (among others) was also very good. Regarding Olga, I love the authentic Russian accent she has. The subtle attention to detail such as assuring that the characters have the appropriate accents, all help to create a damn good illusion: A fictional story set in a realistic world in the 21st Century. What I found really interesting about Snake was that he was a "Son" (clone) of Big Boss. When I found out that he was a clone, it changed the way I thought of him. It made me wonder how he thought of himself; what he thought of the fact that he was created for the sole purpose of fighting. I also just found it to be plane strange; I mean think about it: He's a clone! He was created in a test tube! Here I thought that my avatar was an ordinary guy and he happens to be a clone of some other guy who's said to have died eons ago. I don't know how other people reacted to this revelation, but it was quite shocking to me. Aside from this, I also like Snake because he's a badass dude. Plain and simple. Here you have this one guy who's willing and able to infiltrate heavily guarded perimeters on his own with the burden of procuring weapons for his defenseon site. If that's not badass, I don't know what is.

One thing I really hated about this game (note my use of the past tense:hated) was Raiden. I bet you saw this coming. However, I wouldn't say that I hated Raiden himself; he wasn'tthatbad. I simply hated the fact that he wasn't Snake. After completing the Tanker Chapter, I expected to continue the game with Snake, but instead I get Raiden. Like I said, I've got nothing against Raiden, but he's not nearly as cool as Snake (Who is?). Nothing peculiar or cool about the sound of his voice, nothing out of the ordinary about his origin (he's not a clone) and worst of all, he had no field experience at that point. All I could say to myself when I realized that I'd be playing with him instead of Snake wasDAMN!

When I was in preschool one of the kids had a Game Boy and and I thought it was cool. I asked my mom to buy me one and eventually I got a Game Boy with Super Mario Land 2: Six Golden Coins and Tetris. Love for gaming started then :) Soon after that I got a Sega Genesis and SNES.

GoldenAxe. As part of a campaign to promote computer science there were some classes in my hometown and my godmother worked there. My father took me there after the classes was over and there i discovered GoldenAxe... and i didn't want go go home...ever...

So that's how i got hooked up :D.

Got an n64 for Christmas when video games weren't all so massive.

I was awful at it, but I just played the first level of goldeneye over and over and over and over :P

The Nintendo 64 got me into gaming but Age of Empires really sucked me into gaming.

The Hudson River, two years ago... We had klassified intelligence that a newtype of Metal Gear was scheduled for transport. The whole thing stank... ...butour noses have been out in the cold too long.This is the introductory narrative to the 2nd installment in one of the greatest game franchises ever made:Metal Gear Solid. A damn good story, some damn good characters, and some damn good gameplay mechanics are the reasons whyMetal Gear Solid 2sparked my interest in gaming. Prior to playing MGS:2, I only played games occasionally; I was far from crazy about them. In fact, the only games I had for my PS2 before I bought MGS:2 were the five games that came with it (I bought a PS2bundle). Those games sucked so badly that I actually decided to trade them in at the local game shop for a used title...which turned out to be MGS:2 (lulz?). I was browsing through the selection the shop had; most of the games there failed to catch my eye. However, when I came across MGS:2, I remembered the advertisements I had seen for it a year earlier and decided to get it. The trailers for the game looked like they could have easily been made by a major Holly Wood studio; they wee so cinematic.

Oddly enough, when I got back home and popped it into my PS2 I was initially very underwhelmed. The fixed camera angles, the manual switch between third and first person perspective when shooting, Snake's vulnerability when detected by the enemy and the non-fatal rounds in the M9 Beretta you start off with, all created this odd and unexpected experience. I thought I was going to be playing a game of instant gratification where I fought enemies out in the open. However, this game was the complete opposite; I guess I should have read the small print over the game's title on the cover:TacticalEspionageAction. However, after I got the hang of the mechanics and gameplay, I came to love it. To this day, I can play the Tanker Chapter over and over again. Completing this chapter in as little time as possible, with as little detections as possible is a really fun challenge. I love taking out an enemy sentry from a distance with a single well placed shot from the M9 and sneaking up behind them to hold them up for their dog-tags.Freeze!

The main aspects of MGS:2 which changed the way I viewed games were the characters and the voice acting. David Hater did a really good job of creating a voice which made Snake come across as tough, but not in an overly mancho sort of way; it's gruffy, but low. It's got to bethecoolest voice I've ever heard. The voice acting for the other characters such as Olga Gurlukovich, Liquid Ocelot, Otacon and Solidus Snake (among others) was also very good. Regarding Olga, I love the authentic Russian accent she has. The subtle attention to detail such as assuring that the characters have the appropriate accents, all help to create a damn good illusion: A fictional story set in a realistic world in the 21st Century. What I found really interesting about Snake was that he was a "Son" (clone) of Big Boss. When I found out that he was a clone, it changed the way I thought of him. It made me wonder how he thought of himself; what he thought of the fact that he was created for the sole purpose of fighting. I also just found it to be plane strange; I mean think about it: He's a clone! He was created in a test tube! Here I thought that my avatar was an ordinary guy and he happens to be a clone of some other guy who's said to have died eons ago. I don't know how other people reacted to this revelation, but it was quite shocking to me. Aside from this, I also like Snake because he's a badass dude. Plain and simple. Here you have this one guy who's willing and able to infiltrate heavily guarded perimeters on his own with the burden of procuring weapons for his defenseon site. If that's not badass, I don't know what is.

One thing I really hated about this game (note my use of the past tense:hated) was Raiden. I bet you saw this coming. However, I wouldn't say that I hated Raiden himself; he wasn'tthatbad. I simply hated the fact that he wasn't Snake. After completing the Tanker Chapter, I expected to continue the game with Snake, but instead I get Raiden. Like I said, I've got nothing against Raiden, but he's not nearly as cool as Snake (Who is?). Nothing peculiar or cool about the sound of his voice, nothing out of the ordinary about his origin (he's not a clone) and worst of all, he had no field experience at that point. All I could say to myself when I realized that I'd be playing with him instead of Snake wasDAMN!

BluRayHiDef

I agree, but with less words.

I actually got started on Centipede and Donkey Kong before Super Mario Bros., but it wasn't until I got my NES that I truly became a gamer. I played the S#$T out of that game. I broke the metaphorical bones in half and sucked out the marrow. I remember learning my first cheats, easter eggs and hidden areas on that game. Remeber the infinite 1-up trick with the turtle on the stairs? Or knowing exactly how to always get the max points on the flag jump or how to warp or negative world?

Ahh... the nostalgia is starting to flow like nasal drippings!

Battlefield 2. Got me interested in a new GPU and RAM. Plague started from there.... So very happy it happened.

I was raised around video games. :P I think the 1st game I played was Super Mario Bros. for the NES. o.O :D

astrozombie37

Got an n64 for Christmas when video games weren't all so massive.

I was awful at it, but I just played the first level of goldeneye over and over and over and over :P

Overlord93

It was my Dad who got me into gaming when I was about two. He'd let me play on his Amiga and I loved it. Since then I always had an interest in games... I started young :P

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Got an n64 for Christmas when video games weren't all so massive.

I was awful at it, but I just played the first level of goldeneye over and over and over and over :P

JasonDarksavior

[QUOTE="JasonDarksavior"][QUOTE="Overlord93"]

Got an n64 for Christmas when video games weren't all so massive.

I was awful at it, but I just played the first level of goldeneye over and over and over and over :P

Overlord93

I don't know. Since 3 years old I started playing some old PC Games. It's trapped in my system, I guess.

My parents bought me an SNES. I don't think I even asked for it, it was just there one day and I played Super Mario World for hours

Playing NES and SNES back when I was probably just 4 or 5 years old. Also watched my oldest brother play NES/SNES games back in the day as well.

I believe the first game I ever touched was some Sonic game on my friends Sega console when I was 4 or 5 or so. Another friend of mine had a SNES. Oh, good times when we turned off the sound and gamed in silence because his parents didn't want us to play games all day. My first console was a Nintendo 64, which I got for my 7th birthday. It still works, I might plug it in and try playing it someday :)

Hmm.. My parents baught me a SNES and Sega Master System. Good times ensued...

Well I first playd Super Mario Bros3 on the SNES bu I wasn't a 'gamer'.

What really got me into gaming was a few simultanious events of 1998 Pokemon being Released on the Gameboy as well as Spyro, Crash and Orcarina of Time at the same time really launched me into it.

Well I first playd Super Mario Bros3 on the SNES bu I wasn't a 'gamer'.

What really got me into gaming was a few simultanious events of 1998 Pokemon being Released on the Gameboy as well as Spyro, Crash and Orcarina of Time at the same time really launched me into it.

MattDistillery

Apart from the occasional coin-op games and Super Mario Bros. I really started gaming with Pokemon Blue when I was 7 years old, on a blue Gameboy pocket if I remember correctly...