Do you remember the first time you started gaming?

I sure do. It was back in 1993, I was three years old and soon to be four. I remember the first time I got my hands on a keyboard and played Doom baby. Boy, I was the coolest kid on the block. While you were playing the ultra kiddy Super Mario World, I was shooting aliens.

Continue to play your little kiddy games that involve you to think, solve puzzles and other elements. Me? I'll play a real man's game. The kind that puts a gun in my hand and puts an alien (or sometimes a human) in front of me and I just spray and pray.

Who else started off as a hardcore gamer?

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This is a sarcastic post to all newcomers.

Damn, nobody was hardcore when they first started?

Casuals..

I started on Super Mario bros 3. I've been gaming longer than you, which means you're a casual and I'm hardcore.

I would have started at 1, but I was born in 1985. :P

It was 1991, I was 5, my dad bought an NES.

Good times playing Mario and Tetris.

Started with Mario, but wasn't crazy about the plummer.

Then started getting into gaming with Sonic the Hedgehog.

I was 7 and my brother bought Total Annihilation and I played the hell out of it until he brought home Half-Life.

I didn't play a Mario or Zelda game until I got my DS *shame*

Super Mario All Stars Bundle ... FTW!

Or windows 95 PC ... I cant remember which came first ... think it was the SNES.

So, it's okay for you guys to have started off playing Super Mario Bros and other games which would be labeled kiddy now, but when it comes to Wii owners they are not allowed to?

Now, for the people who have targeted Wii owners and bashed them for being casual and playing kiddy games, please elaborate.

I didn't want to post this so early. But it seems nobody has caught the sarcasm so I had no choice.

So, it's okay for you guys to have started off playing Super Mario Bros and other games which would be labeled kiddy now, but when it comes to Wii owners they are not allowed to?

Now, for the people who have targeted Wii owners and bashed them for being casual and playing kiddy games, please elaborate.

I didn't want to post this so early. But it seems nobody has caught the sarcasm so I had no choice.

TerraRyzing

Lol, I figured you were being sarcastic. I love Nintendo. Always have.

So, it's okay for you guys to have started off playing Super Mario Bros and other games which would be labeled kiddy now, but when it comes to Wii owners they are not allowed to?

Now, for the people who have targeted Wii owners and bashed them for being casual and playing kiddy games, please elaborate.

I didn't want to post this so early. But it seems nobody has caught the sarcasm so I had no choice.

TerraRyzing

Well theoretically most people who played Super Mario would of been young.

But we dont all fall under your generilization ... I own a PC/360/Wii and own Super Mario Galaxy ... heck I ven enjoyed Wario Ware ... takes "Proper Gaming Enthusiasts" to admit things like this.

Does anyone remember playing Commander Keen? Man those games were awesome.

After those of course I moved onto Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, and loved those.

So, it's okay for you guys to have started off playing Super Mario Bros and other games which would be labeled kiddy now, but when it comes to Wii owners they are not allowed to?

Now, for the people who have targeted Wii owners and bashed them for being casual and playing kiddy games, please elaborate.

I didn't want to post this so early. But it seems nobody has caught the sarcasm so I had no choice.

TerraRyzing

Too be honest, I am practically ashamed of the fact that I did not play a Mario or Zelda game until a month ago. Both New Super Mario Brothers and Phantom Hourglass are amazing games, but, then again, so were the games I grew up on (Half-Life, Total Annihilation, Warcraft 3, Deus Ex, and maybe a bit of Wing Commander before anything else...).

So, it's okay for you guys to have started off playing Super Mario Bros and other games which would be labeled kiddy now, but when it comes to Wii owners they are not allowed to?

TerraRyzing

kiddy is such a retarded term... they are stylised graphics.

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So, it's okay for you guys to have started off playing Super Mario Bros and other games which would be labeled kiddy now, but when it comes to Wii owners they are not allowed to?

Now, for the people who have targeted Wii owners and bashed them for being casual and playing kiddy games, please elaborate.

I didn't want to post this so early. But it seems nobody has caught the sarcasm so I had no choice.

Meu2k7

Well theoretically most people who played Super Mario would of been young.

But we dont all fall under your generilization ... I own a PC/360/Wii and own Super Mario Galaxy ... heck I ven enjoyed Wario Ware ... takes "Proper Gaming Enthusiasts" to admit things like this.

Yeah I know, but I just read a thread that inspired me to post this. People act as if they started off as hardcore, whatever defines a hardcore gamer. I figured it was because someone played shooting games, if a game doesn't involve shooting it's "kiddy" in the gaming community. I've heard it over XBL, PSN, saw it on other forums and even here on System Wars.

My first thought would've been to target graphics but I realize it's not as big as shooting games. If Super Mario Galaxy had Ratchet and Clank level graphics, it still would've been called kiddy, thats why I went with shooters for my sarcastic post.

my first game: super star wars episode V

i loved everything about that game, and its probably the reason im such a star wars fan today

my bro and his friends were playing it, and i just sat there bored out of my mind (i forget how old i was, though i imagine it was very young). as soon as they all left i decided to see what was so great about this super nintendo thing.

wow! it was amazing. probably the best day of my young life

i cant remember anything else about my life from when i was that young. thats the only memory i still fondly remember like it was yesterday

Intellivision was the first system i ever played

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So, it's okay for you guys to have started off playing Super Mario Bros and other games which would be labeled kiddy now, but when it comes to Wii owners they are not allowed to?

Now, for the people who have targeted Wii owners and bashed them for being casual and playing kiddy games, please elaborate.

I didn't want to post this so early. But it seems nobody has caught the sarcasm so I had no choice.

thepwninator

Too be honest, I am practically ashamed of the fact that I did not play a Mario or Zelda game until a month ago. Both New Super Mario Brothers and Phantom Hourglass are amazing games, but, then again, so were the games I grew up on (Half-Life, Total Annihilation, Warcraft 3, Deus Ex, and maybe a bit of Wing Commander before anything else...).

Phantom Hourglass had to be my favorite game in 2007, truly amazing. I usually don't play handheld games, but I was drawn to PH.

You really did miss out on a lot of other great Zelda games though. Zelda and Zelda II are probably my favorite games, I just could never beat them cause I was too young. Anyone else have that problem? I didn't really understand what I was doing until later in life, still never beat them though because I moved onto other games. I'm hoping they release them on the VC if they haven't already.

I sure do. It was back in 1993, I was three years old and soon to be four. I remember the first time I got my hands on a keyboard and played Doom baby. Boy, I was the coolest kid on the block. While you were playing the ultra kiddy Super Mario World, I was shooting aliens.

Continue to play your little kiddy games that involve you to think, solve puzzles and other elements. Me? I'll play a real man's game. The kind that puts a gun in my hand and puts an alien (or sometimes a human) in front of me and I just spray and pray.

Who else started off as a hardcore gamer?

TerraRyzing

CHILD!

I was 4 when I first picked up the controller to my sister's colecovision. I played smurfs and loved it. See, back then there were no snobish hardcore gamers on all fours at thier own sacs because we played everything we could get our hands on.

I remember playing two games that got me hooked on gaming.

The first was Dune II, which got me hooked on PC games.

The second was Lufia, a JRPG for the SNES, which hooked me on console games.

Only the former hook actually lasted. I ended up becoming a hardcore RTS player until college.

I started on Super Mario bros 3. I've been gaming longer than you, which means you're a casual and I'm hardcore.

I would have started at 1, but I was born in 1985. :P

DragonfireXZ95

oh yeah.... I started with Pacman, so I'm more hardcore than you..... ...

... ... lol....... nah nha nah nah

:|

Does anyone remember playing Commander Keen? Man those games were awesome.

After those of course I moved onto Doom and Wolfenstein 3D, and loved those.

DragonfireXZ95

Super Mario wow that felt really great I was really immeresed with the game.

Battle City was also great multiplayer game really fun at that time...

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I started on Super Mario bros 3. I've been gaming longer than you, which means you're a casual and I'm hardcore.

I would have started at 1, but I was born in 1985. :P

FamiBox

oh yeah.... I started with Pacman, so I'm more hardcore than you..... ...

... ... lol....... nah nha nah nah

:|

I am more Hardcore than you I started playing Tennis for Two at the age of 30....

/jk

First game was Spy Hunter on the Commodore C64, back in good old 1984. Games came on tape in those days. I was only 6, ahh happy times. :)

Damn, nobody was hardcore when they first started?

Casuals..

TerraRyzing

Ignoring the sarcasm, I started at age 8-9 with Pokemon Blue on GBC. Consoles, N64 with Mario 64 in 1998.

Wow it will be 10 years of console gaming this year on my birthday!

Then Warcraft 2 came along and everything else was quickly forgotten. Funnily enough my first console was the N64, I got it when I was around 14 with Zelda, Mario Kart and Goldeneye. I will still never forget that awesome feeling of playing through Zelda the first time.

I'm still a PC gamer at heart, though, but I still miss the old days with DOS and the 486 where graphics and performance didn't matter (probably because I was too young to care).

My older brother started me off with Daggerfall and Wolfenstein 3D.

Am I hardcore now?

I started with the commodore 64, which played little crappy games. I could even do some programming, and I was like 5 or 6 or something. Then my parents got us a NES and just WOW.

Back then it was all backwards. PC was the weakling system and the console was the hardware powerhouse

My older brother started me off with Daggerfall and Wolfenstein 3D.

Am I hardcore now?

t3hTwinky

Daggerfall? Psshh, that means you started after 1996. Ye're a lightweight, laddie.