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What game started it for you?

  • marque_pierre
  • September 9, 2005 at 9:01 AM
  • marque_pierre
    • September 9, 2005 at 9:01 AM
    • #1

    That moment, when you became a gamer; when you "got it" for the first time. What game was it for you?

    For me it was the Gauntlet arcade maching from Atari.

    [Blocked Image: http://home.hiwaay.net/~sandersj/gauntlet.jpg]

    That's when I fell in love, and I have never looked back.

  • Evert
    • September 9, 2005 at 9:09 AM
    • #2

    Golden eye.

    I was late.

    Edit: I lied! Alex Kid on the master system~~

  • Nazul
    • September 9, 2005 at 9:30 AM
    • #3

    half-life , cs 1.1

  • Hourences
    • September 9, 2005 at 9:32 AM
    • #4

    Tetris and Mario

    Later on Unreal 1 started it for me on pc and more serious

  • PhilipK
    • September 9, 2005 at 9:40 AM
    • #5

    Dunno really. Must have been playing amiga at a friends house...

    Or my Sega Master... Or some Nes games

    Just played about everything I could get over.

    Like Street Fighter, Tukan, Mario, Lotus, Stunt Driver (or what the hell it was called again?), Alex the Kid , Asterix, Bomber Raid, South & North (perhaps it was North & South)...

    But still best experience must be with HL1.

  • skdr
    • September 9, 2005 at 10:09 AM
    • #6

    Amiga definately, I remember all the good games like Giana Sisters, Paperboy and that James Pond game!

  • Kosmo
    • September 9, 2005 at 10:12 AM
    • #7

    Well, it must have been Super Mario for the nes, and the real kick to gaming came from Star Wars for nes and the lust for development came from playing endless hours of Warcraft2 and Settlers2.

    Tho we had Commadore 64 when I was a kid, but it just didn't launch my gaming enthusiasm.

  • PhilipK
    • September 9, 2005 at 10:16 AM
    • #8

    omg paper boy.. yeah hell i played that quite a lot

    really hard game

  • rockdude86
    • September 9, 2005 at 10:19 AM
    • #9

    started for me with commander keen

    also got interested in editing and level design at that point when my uncle introduced me to some sort of editor for keen..

  • JynxDaddy
    • September 9, 2005 at 10:38 AM
    • #10

    I've played games since I can remember

    First game was something like Paperboy, Commander Keen or Kosmos something adventure

  • GrayFox
    • September 9, 2005 at 10:49 AM
    • #11

    It was a penguin game on my friend's Amiga or C64. I can't remember the name of the game or which system it was for because I was so young I didn't even know there were different systems.

    And when I was six years old I got my own NES with Mario for Christmas.

  • Zacker
    • September 9, 2005 at 10:55 AM
    • #12

    I really don't remember which games that started it for me. We got our first computer when I was 5 and I was hooked on gaming from the beginning. I can't really remember much of what I did when I was 5-6 years old and therefore not the games either:/

    Some of the oldest games I can remember playing is Simfarm, Simcity and Wolfenstein 3d.

  • insta
    • September 9, 2005 at 11:10 AM
    • #13

    Duke Nukem 3d, I'm pretty sure. It's also what got me started with level design.

  • Phatsniper
    • September 9, 2005 at 11:28 AM
    • #14

    Prince of Persia, Battlechess, and Alleycat (same game peri is talking about). Damn alleycat rocked, it was like a vertical frogger in the alley then you can go through open windows and play the minigames.

    Battlechess was cool also, characters fighting when you take a piece etc. And I don't need to talk about PoP

    I first started making levels (if you can call it that) for Super Lode Runner on the gameboy sometime in the early 90's, Half-Life is what got me really into it though.

  • Evert
    • September 9, 2005 at 11:56 AM
    • #15

    Alleycat was the first game I ever played!

    ~~Not the game that really got me into stuff, but damn I liked it.

  • PhilipK
    • September 9, 2005 at 12:16 PM
    • #16
    Quote from Pericolos0

    some game called "cats' i think. It was tandy colored and you had to capture mice in some alley. If you touched the ground a dog came and completely mauled you.after that it was secret agent mission, jill of the jungle, crystal caves etc etc etc.

    Duke Nukem 3d is what got me into level design when i was 11.

    EDIT: how the hell could i forget the first duke nukem games :0!! I played those more than any other game ever i think

    hah the first duke nukem games pwned

    I liked the gun u could fire to the ground and it made you fly.

  • DelaZ
    • September 9, 2005 at 12:18 PM
    • #17

    Mario 1

  • InsaneSingingBlender
    • September 9, 2005 at 12:37 PM
    • #18

    super mario world and donkey kong and sonic. though half-life really got me started for the pc.

  • Jezpuh
    • September 9, 2005 at 12:42 PM
    • #19

    Wolf 3d, but in 97 ;D

  • FrieChamp
    • September 9, 2005 at 1:00 PM
    • #20

    Yea, playing Super Mario for the NES is the first game I remember playing as well, it just went on from there I guess. That funny soccer game for the NES and a lot of other games. Commander Keen, "Kniffel" and that game with the gorillas throwing bananas at each other in this city level were the first PC games I guess. "Fußball Bundesliga Manager" (soccer manager sim), "Sim City 2000" ahh the memories...

    Tons of SNES and N64 games, lots of PC games, Half-Life got me hooked up on PC multiplayer as well as editing.

    Although I played around with Stunt, Warcraft and C&C map editors before

    Sorry got carried away, err, Super Mario, yea definately.

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