You know, the game that made you a bonafide gamer. The game that got you hooked. For me, it was MGS1 for PS1. Before that, games were just games. MGS showed you can have an awesome story with great voice acting. You actually cared for the characters. You wanted to find out which twist and turn would come next. What about you, SW? What was THAT game?
@charizard1605: I was a really big proponent of removing the censors on the GameSpot forums...but I loathe the things that some people say/how some people phrase things.
Interesting way to look at the entire thing, that's for sure, man.
did you know that when I created this account back in the day, my handle was suppose to be SolidGamer? it was a reference to MGS. but at the time, free account holders couldn't use too many letters in the name due to the _basic tag so GS cut the R off #themoreyouknow
@charizard1605: I was a really big proponent of removing the censors on the GameSpot forums...but I loathe the things that some people say/how some people phrase things.
Eh. I'd rather people say dumb things and be dealt with than not being allowed to say those things at all, personally speaking.
@SolidGame_basic said:
did you know that when I created this account back in the day, my handle was suppose to be SolidGamer? it was a reference to MGS. but at the time, free account holders couldn't use too many letters in the name due to the _basic tag #themoreyouknow
FFX truly got me into gaming. I had always enjoyed video games, but FFX resonated with me both in terms of gameplay and story. Loved it. Still remains my favorite game today.
Super Mario Bros was my first experience with a game. If you wanna be literal that was my first game. But the one that really got me into gaming was Dragon Warrior. Loved that thing. I got the quadrilogy on NES cartridges.
You know, the game that made you a bonafide gamer. The game that got you hooked. For me, it was MGS1 for PS1. Before that, games were just games. MGS showed you can have an awesome story with great voice acting. You actually cared for the characters. You wanted to find out which twist and turn would come next. What about you, SW? What was THAT game?
I get what you mean
It was original Street Fighter 2.
It was the first time i stepped in Arcades as a kiddo and the moment i saw SF2 ...that was it !
Don't know, maybe Shark Attack at the arcades, that or Galaga on a top down box at a diner. I did have a few Nintendo game and watch games as well but I'm 100% sure I was playing games before this, like Pong on an atari.
Its hard for me to make that distinction.Sonic 2? C&C? MK64? BF1942? Halo 2? I was hooked on all these games at different times in my life and for different reasons.
Hard to say. First game I ever played was Super Mario Bros, but first game I ever beat was Super Mario Bros 3. The game is so good and is still one of my favorites.
But I didn't become as big of a gamer as I am until... the PSone was when it started but I hit the large stride in the PS2 era. I'm not sure what game did it.
Super Mario Bros was my first game. I loved it and begged for a NES from that day on.
There were many games that blew me away from that point on. But the majority of the games were made by Sega from that point on. And to this day I am a Sega fanboy. Sega 4 Life!!
anyways, for me it was probably the original zelda. i never played it all the way through but i loved watching my brother play it and that game got me hooked on the nes.
I don't know which game really gave me more of an appreciation for the the medium.
As fo whcih games I started out playing and simply got me into the medium in the first place? There were probably multiple. There was an NES and SNES around the house when I was probably just a few years old, decided to mess around with them, was like "oh this is fun" and have been gaming since then. SO the games that got me into gaming was probably some of the typical stuff, like the first SMB game and Super mario World, Original Zelda and ALttP, along with lesser known stuff like both Star Tropics games.
That's not close to the first time I played a video game. I mean, before that I had a buddy with an NES, and I'd spend hours at his place playing Nintendo games with him. I begged my parents to buy me an NES too, but they were like, "nope". So, I was into games for a while, but my parents wouldn't buy me an NES (or later, a SNES). Instead, my dead grandmother (may her soul rest in peace) got me a freaking Vectrex. A VECTREX, man. And my dad had an Amiga PC and an Atari ST at the time and would occasionally "buy" me some games every once in a while. But a lot of those games were sort of shit. I had the most fun with the Atari 7800 that they gave me. Some of those games were a hell of a lot of fun, like Joust or Food Fight, and I played some of them a lot, but none of that could compare to the wow factor I got when I went to my buddy's house and played Super Mario Bros or Contra.
Finally my parents bought me a Sega Genesis with Sonic 2. And that was the shit. Played the hell out of that, and the available library on the Genesis beat the hell out of anything on Vectrex or 7800. Granted, we still had PCs, but that was before PC became "the master race". Not to say that there weren't good games available, but there was a whole lot of bullshit back then.
Eventually my parents upgraded their PC and I got to play more modern games like Doom and Tomb Raider. And eventually my parents also bought me a Playstation for Christmas along with Final Fantasy VII. But Sonic 2 on Sega Genesis was probably my first experience actually having a kickass gaming experience in my own home, as opposed to just gaming at other people's houses and then playing bullshit once it was time for me to go home.
We used to have BBC Micros at school when I was a nipper and I remember playing this really simplistic fantasy game with witches and maybe dragons and wizards on it. I wish I could remember what that game was.
EDIT: I found that game I was thinking of it was called 'Grannys Garden'.
I played a lot of Atari 2600 and arcade games before that, but it was usually out of boredom and not because I actually enjoyed games. Super Mario Bros and the NES in general turned me into a gamer.
Gee that's a tough one... I remember certain games on PC that I played when I was a kid which were cool, but I think the games that started to really hook me were Sonic & a few other Sega games on the Master System.
You know, the game that made you a bonafide gamer. The game that got you hooked. For me, it was MGS1 for PS1. Before that, games were just games. MGS showed you can have an awesome story with great voice acting. You actually cared for the characters. You wanted to find out which twist and turn would come next. What about you, SW? What was THAT game?
I get what you mean
It was original Street Fighter 2.
It was the first time i stepped in Arcades as a kiddo and the moment i saw SF2 ...that was it !
You know, the game that made you a bonafide gamer. The game that got you hooked. For me, it was MGS1 for PS1. Before that, games were just games. MGS showed you can have an awesome story with great voice acting. You actually cared for the characters. You wanted to find out which twist and turn would come next. What about you, SW? What was THAT game?
I get what you mean
It was original Street Fighter 2.
It was the first time i stepped in Arcades as a kiddo and the moment i saw SF2 ...that was it !
OMG... You and me are just the same.
:) .. It was a shock really ! So many other arcade games around me but i had eyes only for SF2 ... Well not only me considering half of people in there was above that cabinet ..waiting to play ! :) Aaahh that pure era of video gaming was the best ...
@SolidGame_basic: Well the first game i played was Tetris, but the game that hooked me i think was International Super Star Soccer Deluxe for the SNES now also known as Pro Evolution Soccer
You know, the game that made you a bonafide gamer. The game that got you hooked. For me, it was MGS1 for PS1. Before that, games were just games. MGS showed you can have an awesome story with great voice acting. You actually cared for the characters. You wanted to find out which twist and turn would come next. What about you, SW? What was THAT game?
I get what you mean
It was original Street Fighter 2.
It was the first time i stepped in Arcades as a kiddo and the moment i saw SF2 ...that was it !
OMG... You and me are just the same.
:) .. It was a shock really ! So many other arcade games around me but i had eyes only for SF2 ... Well not only me considering half of people in there was above that cabinet ..waiting to play ! :) Aaahh that pure era of video gaming was the best ...
Lol, I went one step ahead. Seeing me play day and night at arcades. Father somehow decided to run his own place full of arcades. After that I used to game for free. Then after few days my father brought few arcades at home (Lol that's true). Me, my brother and my maternal uncles used to play Street Fighter, Snow Bros etc entire day on them. Later we closed that business and I got a console to play Street Fighter 2 and other games. Switched to PC in 2001. Looking forward to Street Fighter 5 :-D
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