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What game turned you into a gamer?
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Emotional Vampire
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ramee001 said:
What the fuck? "Gamer" is not some kind of acquired disease you facedick
CarnivalBizarre
Augur
Defender of the crown. Only game I had for my Atari ST for 3 months, played it all the time. Then I learned how to copy discs and played basically everything that came my way.
Fyz
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Prince of Persia
King's Quest 3
And Police Quest 1. I've yet to remember how I finished PQ1 without knowing english and how to play poker. (Actualy I played these games using a dictionary, and by writing notes.)
Still, funniest thing was finishing LSL without really knowing what went on.
King's Quest 3
And Police Quest 1. I've yet to remember how I finished PQ1 without knowing english and how to play poker. (Actualy I played these games using a dictionary, and by writing notes.)
Still, funniest thing was finishing LSL without really knowing what went on.
Elhoim
Iron Tower Studio
I've been playing games since I was a little kid, on the commodore 64, Atari, etc. But what got me as a full time gamer was the PC when I was 12, playing Doom and Dune 2 all day long.
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Star Wars TIE Fighter CD
I started with the very best and haven't played anything that matches it since. Before TIE Fighter I had been playing games on the Sega Mega Drive and ye olde BBC and Acorn computers. TIE Fighter was the first PC game. After that, I was on to more gems like Age of Empires and Jedi Knight.
I started with the very best and haven't played anything that matches it since. Before TIE Fighter I had been playing games on the Sega Mega Drive and ye olde BBC and Acorn computers. TIE Fighter was the first PC game. After that, I was on to more gems like Age of Empires and Jedi Knight.
RaXz
Unwanted
Satellite Attack on the Videopack, and Boulderdash on the MSX
Chateaubryan
Cipher
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Head Over Heels.
1987, when Isometric 3D was the new shit.
Everytime you entered a new room, the first notes of "Greensleeves" welcomed you happily. And then you got raped by the traps.
1987, when Isometric 3D was the new shit.
Everytime you entered a new room, the first notes of "Greensleeves" welcomed you happily. And then you got raped by the traps.
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Dig, dig, dig. Fill, fill, fill.
Ahhhhh, is there anything else a game could possibly require?
deshields538
Scholar
Sonic 1 on the Mega Drive was the first video game I played.
My first PC games were Command and Conquer 1 and Civilization 2. Bought them as a double pack thing.
My first PC games were Command and Conquer 1 and Civilization 2. Bought them as a double pack thing.
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Well, I won't answer the silly plant question, but I'll join in with what it seems other people are doing.
My first console game would have been Aladdin on the Mega Drive. I still remember that Christmas.
I played games at school on the old BBCs and Acorns but they weren't anything proper... they were mostly educational stuff. I suppose at home the first actual game I played was Command and Conquer. Not long after that I was playing Jedi Knight as well. But the best game I played at that age was TIE Fighter (Collector's CD).... no doubt.
My first console game would have been Aladdin on the Mega Drive. I still remember that Christmas.
I played games at school on the old BBCs and Acorns but they weren't anything proper... they were mostly educational stuff. I suppose at home the first actual game I played was Command and Conquer. Not long after that I was playing Jedi Knight as well. But the best game I played at that age was TIE Fighter (Collector's CD).... no doubt.
Multidirectional
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I don't think I'm even able to remember which game was my first exactly, I do know that first game I spent lots of time on was the very first Contra for NES. Later I played the shit out of those NES Chip & Dale games. We were playing it with a friend and constantly picking each other up and throwing into things, ability to do that in game seemed so unbelievably awesome and funny back then. Also, Turtles 2 and 3, spent lots and lots of time on those.
So, it's NES that got me addicted to games since childhood, and I wasn't cured ever since.
First PC game I played a lot would probably be Duke Nukem 3D, I didn't even have a PC back then and spent massive amounts of time at friend's who did. Giving money to a babe so she would shake her titties was teh awesomeness for us, we would stand in one place hearing Duke's "shake it baby" for several minutes.. Ah, good times.
So, it's NES that got me addicted to games since childhood, and I wasn't cured ever since.
First PC game I played a lot would probably be Duke Nukem 3D, I didn't even have a PC back then and spent massive amounts of time at friend's who did. Giving money to a babe so she would shake her titties was teh awesomeness for us, we would stand in one place hearing Duke's "shake it baby" for several minutes.. Ah, good times.
Azrael the cat
Arcane
Wizardry 1. Ultima 2 came close, but Wizardry 1 really was it. I was shit at the old platformers, and a 5 year old nerd that deliberately got up after my folks went to bed so I could read the intro to programming manuals that came with our Apple IIe - not that I remember any of that siht. I'd then be plainy Wizardry at least 2 hours a day, every day, and for a while I'd be playing it another 4 hours at night, until my folks were told by my teachers that I was falling asleep in class. They monitored me to see what was going on, and caught me sneaking down to the computer room when I thought they were asleep. Fuckers. I'd even got into the habit of setting my alarm for 1am by that stage.
You can imagine how difficult that game was as a kid, but also how utterly amazing the idea of it was. The idea of playing a repetative donkey kong clone, with one or 2 screens of jumping puzzles repeated, or this incredibly large (for the time) 3D dungeon with traps, mapping paper, party building..just amazing. Ultima 2 was actually more mindblowing, with its open world and implementation of time-travel, but it didn't have the great party and combat mechanics of Wiz 1, and as a 6 year old I was always thrown by the sudden change in gameplay from early-game survival to late-game puzzle-solving and exploration. Basically you had to scrap to survive until you got a boat - then you'd sail around blasting everything and grinding levels and stats before getting uber enough to get a plane and a rocket, and explore space, etc. Never did figure out how to defeat Minax, but I'm sure if I did it now I'd be disappinted by how simple it all seems today.
Part of what I loved about Wiz 1-3 was the way they balanced a complex stat-driven set of rules with the player only seeing the outcome of their actions. Even discovering what stats and builds were necessary to unlock the hybrid classes (samurai, ranger, bishop) and uber-classes (lord and ninja - neither hybrids nor ubers could be selected at start, but needed certain advanced stats and builds to make them avaialble as a class-change option) was a lot of fun. I never discovered the precise means of unlocking ninja (I WAS 5-7 when I played it) or Lord, though I occasionally got them by accident, until the later Wiz games many years later. I suspect it was actually easier to unlock lords and ninjas in later games, and that they were nerfed slightly (they were nerfed massively in Wiz8 when you could just start as them - before then ninjas could tank as well as do uber damage, and lords could tank whilst having genuinely powerful cleric abilities).
Similarly, you wouldn't know the exact class modifiers. You'd get the description that samurais are really effective fighters, but you wouldn't know exactly what that meant (from trial and error it meant they got lots of attacks and were as good on offence as fighters, but without the defensive / armour/hp tanking ability).
Man i loved those games. But I can recognise that it's just nostalgia now - I couldn't go back, or if I could I couldn't justify it to someone who hadn't grown up on those games (unlike, say, the great late 90s rpgs).
You can imagine how difficult that game was as a kid, but also how utterly amazing the idea of it was. The idea of playing a repetative donkey kong clone, with one or 2 screens of jumping puzzles repeated, or this incredibly large (for the time) 3D dungeon with traps, mapping paper, party building..just amazing. Ultima 2 was actually more mindblowing, with its open world and implementation of time-travel, but it didn't have the great party and combat mechanics of Wiz 1, and as a 6 year old I was always thrown by the sudden change in gameplay from early-game survival to late-game puzzle-solving and exploration. Basically you had to scrap to survive until you got a boat - then you'd sail around blasting everything and grinding levels and stats before getting uber enough to get a plane and a rocket, and explore space, etc. Never did figure out how to defeat Minax, but I'm sure if I did it now I'd be disappinted by how simple it all seems today.
Part of what I loved about Wiz 1-3 was the way they balanced a complex stat-driven set of rules with the player only seeing the outcome of their actions. Even discovering what stats and builds were necessary to unlock the hybrid classes (samurai, ranger, bishop) and uber-classes (lord and ninja - neither hybrids nor ubers could be selected at start, but needed certain advanced stats and builds to make them avaialble as a class-change option) was a lot of fun. I never discovered the precise means of unlocking ninja (I WAS 5-7 when I played it) or Lord, though I occasionally got them by accident, until the later Wiz games many years later. I suspect it was actually easier to unlock lords and ninjas in later games, and that they were nerfed slightly (they were nerfed massively in Wiz8 when you could just start as them - before then ninjas could tank as well as do uber damage, and lords could tank whilst having genuinely powerful cleric abilities).
Similarly, you wouldn't know the exact class modifiers. You'd get the description that samurais are really effective fighters, but you wouldn't know exactly what that meant (from trial and error it meant they got lots of attacks and were as good on offence as fighters, but without the defensive / armour/hp tanking ability).
Man i loved those games. But I can recognise that it's just nostalgia now - I couldn't go back, or if I could I couldn't justify it to someone who hadn't grown up on those games (unlike, say, the great late 90s rpgs).
Clockwork Knight
Arcane
We also used to do that. We were playing normally until one of us messes up and throws the other over a hole. Cue successive retaliations until one gets game over.Similarly, arguing over who needs the pizza more
Black belt on a master system. It was an americanization of one jap game called Hokuto no ken.
I had a cousin with an Atari 2600, but I never really liked those games.
After playing black belt, I got a master system of my own and played phantasy star, Ultima 4, golvellius, Ys, Miracle warrior, which was my introduction to RPG. In fact, it was the first time a saw these letters together. Before that, games for me would be sports and action platforms.
But I had a IBM 286 with a monochrome CGA monitor in which I palyed test drive and bushido, my first PC games, that made me forget about consoles. But it was a CGA version of Monkey Island and Indy last crusade that made me a strict PC gamer.
Old times. At that time, my dream would be a VGA or SVGA monitor in order to play the upcoming fate of atlantis and monkey island 2.
I had a cousin with an Atari 2600, but I never really liked those games.
After playing black belt, I got a master system of my own and played phantasy star, Ultima 4, golvellius, Ys, Miracle warrior, which was my introduction to RPG. In fact, it was the first time a saw these letters together. Before that, games for me would be sports and action platforms.
But I had a IBM 286 with a monochrome CGA monitor in which I palyed test drive and bushido, my first PC games, that made me forget about consoles. But it was a CGA version of Monkey Island and Indy last crusade that made me a strict PC gamer.
Old times. At that time, my dream would be a VGA or SVGA monitor in order to play the upcoming fate of atlantis and monkey island 2.
MetalCraze
Arcane
Back in '90
Elhoim
Iron Tower Studio
Doom and Dune 2 made me a full time gamer.
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