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Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: The Omen on April 12, 2003, 06:36:37 AM: I am just curious to hear the circumstances in which you first decided that video games were for you. I know my first game was Combat for the Atari 2600. My dad bought me the Atari 2600 and I soon was addicted to games. From that day in 1980 , forward, i have played virtuallly non stop. I took a brief break in 1998, but I don't remember why. Anyway I've owned the Atari 2600,Colecovision,NES,Turbografix-16,Gameboy,SNES,N64,PS2, and the Gamecube. My favorite is the SNES. It had some of the greatest games ever.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Chasefox on April 12, 2003, 07:04:20 AM: My first experience was the NES. I've had every major nintendo console ever since, except for the original gameboy and virtual boy. I agree that the SNES was the best. I truly enjoyed Zelda: A LttP, Super Mariocart, and Starfox. Those were some of the best ever.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: YamiYugi on April 12, 2003, 08:39:12 AM: i was like 3..n my dad had ATARI....don't remmeber the gamez...lol
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: swimguy228 on April 12, 2003, 05:19:28 PM: My first gaming experience was with a game where you had to make Kool-aid by getting the water and sugar, all while staying away from ghost's. I think it was on the Colecovision, but I'm not sure. My mom then gave me her old atari, and the game Food Fighters was the addiction of my childhood until my parents purchased an NES, and I moved on to SMB3.
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Post by: rpglover on April 12, 2003, 05:56:28 PM: yeah mine was the nes- back then all i would play was castlevania (the original) and mario brothers (all 3)
i did own kid icarus, metroid, and of course contra
i still have it all but i dont know how many games i have now- i have been collecting for a while
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Post by: enigma487 on April 12, 2003, 05:59:52 PM: Ha! Commodore 128. i need not say anymore. those of you who know what it is, know. those who don't, won't.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Grey Ninja on April 12, 2003, 11:01:00 PM: I was 7 years old. The kid next door got a NES for Christmas and I lived at his house for a long time. I wasn't that good at video games at first, so I mostly played Duck Hunt, but when I got a NES of my own, I finally finished Super Mario Bros.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: PIAC on April 13, 2003, 01:29:48 AM: amiga 500 \o/ and i still have it AND it still works perfectly, i love it better than any PC i have ever had
first nintendo console was the snes, and since selling my perchases have gone n64, gbc, gba, gamecube, gba sp, snes \o/
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: GoldShadow1 on April 13, 2003, 11:15:18 AM: Commodore 64. I can't say I can remember my very first game, but I remember Wizards (Wizardry? can't remember - a fun platformer with keys and treasure), Pole Position, Frogger, Bard's Tale III, Adventure Construction Set... ah, fun. I think I was 5 or 6.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Uncle Rich AiAi on April 14, 2003, 04:57:13 AM: hard for me to remember which game, but it was definitely computer games since my dad is a programmer and we've always had multiple computers in the house. i think the first game i played was Dig Dug. or it might have been multiple games on the old MicroBee (anyone remember that brand?) with green and black color screen.

these were the days...
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Post by: ThePerm on April 14, 2003, 08:48:40 AM: I pwayed mawio bwos at my fweinds house..and i just wemember him hitting the powder boxes and getting mushwooms and fwowas...then we got both a commadore 64 and a nes the same christmas.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Infernal Monkey on April 14, 2003, 06:34:33 PM: My first gaming experience was either Missile Command or Asteroids on the Atari 2600. I was like, three. It was my parents. The loud noises scared the crap out of me.

Bout two years later, we got new neighbours, I became best friends with their three kids. Anyway, they had a magical huge box called a Master System Powerbase. I became badly addicted to the likes of WonderBoy, Trans Bot, Teddy Boy...
For my Birthday later that year, I got a NES. It came with Zelda, Dr. Mario, Shadowgate and a cleaning kit bundled in (How's that for value)

It had... Begun......

From there, I've owned various units, such as the SNES, Master System, Mega Drive, Game Boy, Lynx, Mega CD, N64, Saturn... Blah Blah Blah. But being a poor kid, I had to end up selling stuff to get the 'latest' machine.

I've sold so many great games over the years

.. And now, I collect games and units, trying to currently re-build my Master System collection. My room is a damn mess of cartridges, dusty units, instruction manuals, game related junk....

There, my life story.

That was a nice time filler.
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Post by: Mario on April 14, 2003, 08:14:00 PM: Well actually my first exposure to gaming was with the Sega Mega Drive and Sonic 2. It was the only game i had for like 2 years but i didnt need any other games, i loved sonic 2 so much, then i got Sonic 1, 3 and Sonic and Knuckles. I was a sonic fanboy until i got my hands on a Gameboy The first time i got REALLY addicted to a game was only about 4 years ago with Pokemon Yellow, i played my friends gameboy all the time until finally at christmas i got my own Gameboy and Pokemon Blue. Then i saw a commercial for Pokemon Stadium on tv, and i was drooling at the mouth, i just sat there amazed for like an hour. The next day i got a N64 with Pokemon Stadium and thanks to Pokemon making me become a Nintendo fan, i have been able to enjoy the likes of Ocarina of Time, Goldeneye and Super Mario 64. If it wasn't for Pokemon i wouldnt be a gamer, and i probably would only have a PSX2 and Grand theft auto.

Theres my life story too.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: BoMbErMaN123 on April 15, 2003, 07:27:20 PM: My first gaming experience was when my dad bought me an NES and Excitebike. I always used to run straight to my room and play and always beat my dad(but i think he was going easy). I just wished I still had my NES.....
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Post by: Ridley on April 15, 2003, 07:34:10 PM: Nes and Mario 3. I played it constantly.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: BlkPaladin on April 15, 2003, 08:54:58 PM: Atari 2600 and Combat. It was a Magomery Wards special.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Gamer1982 on April 16, 2003, 01:08:29 AM: Vectrex baby...I can still remember being at my grandmas and my cousin handing me a big shopping bag filled with a vectrex and games. He was upgrading to a NES. There were the power outages and heat waves in NYC that summer, and I remember lying there, just waiting for the power to come back so I could get a game of scrambler or bezerk in on the vectrex. Even my mom played that thing with us...ahhh the memories. ::sheds a tear::: Still have the old thing, with about 6 or 7 games. Works perfectly!

I also remember Thanksgiving 1989 where the same cousin strutted in with a game boy and mario land. I bugged my mom the whole night that I needed one for christmas. When christmas arrived, I opened every present. A gameboy, but no Mario Land. I was crushed. Turns out "santa" forgot about some of the toys. My mom ran outside and threw them on the front porch, then said "look, santa must have dropped them on the way in!" Awww yeah, Mario Land was the sweetest game ever back then. Now you're playing with portable power!
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Post by: Rogue on April 16, 2003, 02:13:41 AM: My first gaming / computer system was the Commodore 16+...Great little machine. =)

My first console was the MegaDrive 2. I had a friend with a NES living down the road for a long time before that, though. Mario 3 was like, the best game ever for me at that time.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Chris1228 on April 16, 2003, 09:18:35 AM: My first experience was Commodore 64 and the Atari 2600:

Favorite games:

Commodore: Games series (Summer Games, World Games), 4th and Inches, ACE
Atari: Circus Atari, Combat, Space Invaders.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: yrrab436 on April 20, 2003, 09:37:15 AM: For me it was some train game on my brother's Commodore 64. I remember seeing Super Mario Bros. on Nintendo and being blown away by the color graphics.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Hostile Creation on April 20, 2003, 11:03:20 AM: We were visiting my mom's friends in Ohio, and they had an NES. I was about three at the time, and got one shortly afterward. Have played video games ever since.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: XBR on April 21, 2003, 07:49:25 AM: I remember when my cousin gave me his NES and like 10 games. He moved on to Game Gear (the idiot) Wow i spent all my younger days playin Metroid and SMB 1 and 2 the best though was Milon's Secret Castle from Hudson. Weird game indeed Ah now im going to go listen to Madness and sip on some Tab. Wow tab is totally rad (And thats my nostalogic 80's Moment.)
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Praxius on April 24, 2003, 07:45:53 AM: Let's see here, My very first Experince with Games was with the Atari (Witht he Panel Siding)

The other consoles and games that I have since played are as follows and I Quote:

Atari
Coleco Vision
Intellivision
Vic 20
Comadore 64/128
Nentendo
Sega
Super Nentendo
Gameboy
Sega Genisis
Sega Game Gear
Sega CD
Virtualboy
Turbo Grapix 16
Neo Geo
N64 (When I tried it, it was called the Ultra 64)
Playstation
PC (all the glory of the Mouse and Keyboard and FPS games)
Playstation 2
XBox
and Finally, the Gamecube.

I think the first game I played on the Atari was either Snoopy and the Red Barron, or Grimlins.
For Nintendo I played Zelda and Faxanadu. The first game I played on the Super Nintendo was Street Fighter 2 (And got my ass kicked I must say, but am now unstoppable) Gameboy.... Tetris..... N64..... Crusin USA....... the Sega...... Can't remember...... Genisis....... Sonic2......... Gamecube....... last weekend...... Mario Sunshine, and I now have Bloody Roar: Primal Fury, and my next game will be Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance.

yes, I have been at it and with it from the start...... I would be surprised if there was someone else here that has heard of the Intellivision
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: The Omen on April 24, 2003, 09:50:34 AM: Yea, i forgot about intellivision...that Bruce Lee game i used to play,,,,i never owned it though
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: PIAC on April 24, 2003, 03:45:15 PM: heard of it, never played one or seen one
no-one else here had an amiga 500 or above? they are the best!! THE BEST!!
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Uglydot on April 24, 2003, 08:11:59 PM: I lived in California from ages 2 to 6, one of my friends there had an atari 2600, we played every day. I have played games ever since.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Mistress on April 26, 2003, 04:32:20 AM: The first game I played was Space Invaders on an old Amstrad that my parents bought for me at the age of 5. After that I played some kids text adventure type games on that and then, at the age of about 7/8, something like that, I had a NES. I was pretty much hooked then, particularly by Mario. Then I had an Amiga and the real addiction set in, with games like SuperFrog. Since then I have never been without a game of some description - usually several in fact. For the past 5 years or so I have mainly been a PC gamer, and my favourite games of all time have been on the PC - Dungeon Keeper, Bard's Tale, Alpha Centauri, Quake, Fallout, The Longest Journey. Dungeon Keeper was a game I played after a short period of non gaming - it bought me back to full on gaming and kept me there, so I guess I have that game to thank/blame for me being where I am today - still addicted to gaming and addicted to posting on forums about it.
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Post by: Locke Cole on April 26, 2003, 04:47:21 AM: My first exposure to games was when I was very young. My dad bought a regular Nintendo and Donkey Kong for it. I was really young I think about 4 or 5 and didn't know how to read the instruction manuals, but I kept on trying to play over and over till i got it. I think I made it past the first level of Donkey Kong after a LONG TIME, I'm talking like a week or two. I was so happy when i finally got it. Then when my dad got me Super Mario Brothers I was obsessed with NES. The only thing I would do was wake up, then play, sleep. I guess that's how i got to the way I am today. When I'm really into a game I don't do anything else but play it till i beat it. My only problems with games nowadays is that their too easy for me. I need a challenge, something that will get me stuck for a while, not some stupid button mashing part cough*STARFOXADVENTURES*cough I need something that requires major skill. Well anyways sorry for the rant but me talking about gaming brought me back to memories and such.

One more thing, sadly enough I never got to experience the Atari or Intellivision.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Dirk Temporo on April 26, 2003, 05:56:06 PM: On my sixth (maybe seventh) birthday, I recieved an SNES. I still have it. And I still haven't beaten Super Mario World. And I won't die until I do.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: PIAC on April 27, 2003, 02:55:46 AM: games are probably easy for you cause you play them so much i mean you do anything for a long time and you develope a knack for it it becomes second nature (or in extreme cases first )
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Locke Cole on April 27, 2003, 02:12:38 PM: Quote
Originally posted by: Dirk Temporo
On my sixth (maybe seventh) birthday, I recieved an SNES. I still have it. And I still haven't beaten Super Mario World. And I won't die until I do.

Wow, the games that hard for you? Tell me what part your stuck on and maybe I can help.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Praxius on April 28, 2003, 09:33:36 AM: I guess my connection previously was bad, and my post was not sent, so here we go again:

You have not really beaten Super Mario World until you beaten it to the point where you have 96* (96 with a Star) at the Startup screen, which means that you beaten every stage in the game all ways that are possible.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: KnowsNothing on April 28, 2003, 10:05:37 AM: wow. you guys are old. i think mine was like a sega genesis or gameboy or something. i don't know half those systems. (heard of them, know nothing more) i didn't know old guys went on video game forums. guess i live up to my name. hey, can anybody fill me in on a little info about some of theese systems? since you're old and all.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: The Omen on April 28, 2003, 07:01:08 PM: Not old....wise
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: PIAC on April 28, 2003, 11:32:39 PM: not wise.. nerds

im only 18.. but ive grown up around gaming i cant remmeber a point in my life where there wasn't some form of electronic gaming available, mum and dad had an atari but before i could think it was sold, then we had the amiga 500, which i grew up on playing top down shootemups namely swiv the hybris and blood money (and others i forget the names of) from there we had a mighty 486 that i managed to completly screw up dont quite know how i did it, but it sort of imploded on its self in a software sence, but it rose from the ashes i caused, i got a snes soon after that (conincidence?) which was fine and dandy, shortly after that dad got a p1 233 and i got a 64 then dad got a 700 a bit later. i think i got a gbc around that time, cant quite remmeber. then came my gba shortly after it was released, then came my gamecube (as a christmas present... in october (again to get me off the pc )) and then an SP on release day.. a week after that i got a snes again

and so ends the saga of my buying stuff more to come rest assured
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: The Omen on April 29, 2003, 04:53:30 AM: Quote
not wise.. nerds

I'm not a 'nerd', I actually have a life. ...Ahhhhh...youth is wasted on the young..
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Praxius on April 29, 2003, 06:04:08 AM: Yeah, I am not Old either... infact, I just turned 23 this past 16th of April.

However I know of other people in other Forums who are 43 and older that play games as well. Games are not really restricted to any paticular Age, but meh.

My memory of most of those systems is hazy, but I remember one game for the Coleco Vision, which was called "Dukes of Hazard" (The show) and it came with a Foot paddle, Steering wheel, and you used the Joystick that slided into a psection of the steering wheel as the stick shift and you drove around town and eventually Boss Hog would start chasng you and you had to lose him by jumping your car over a bridge under construction....... and me being 7 or so and not even understanding the sciences behind driving, I never made it and always landed in the water and such.

The Coleco Vision was actually made before the Nintendo and the Sega Master System and yet, had some decent graphics for it's time.
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Post by: KnowsNothing on April 29, 2003, 10:19:03 AM: to me, you're old.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: The Omen on April 29, 2003, 11:30:45 AM: Praxius....I still have Dukes of hazard for my coleco. Its a great game. My steering wheel is a little beat, but I still fire it up from time to time.
Title: What was your first exposure to gaming?
Post by: Big_Pimp on May 01, 2003, 07:53:46 PM: My first gaming exposure was when my parents bought me my first system: the NES of course!! It came with 2 controlers and 2 games: Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, and Robocop.

Games
SMB1,2,3
Robocop
Donkey Kong
Days of Thunder
Snoopy Olympics (I think thats what it was called)
2 TMNT games (forgot the names)
Marble Madness
Metroid
Balloon Fight
Exitebike
and some other ones I cant remember

Damn I miss my NES...have to go out and buy a new one one of these days...