When Did You Discover You Enjoyed Video Games?

[Seil]

When I was young, I lived in Hagersville, Ontario. It was a farming community that was pretty small. It was a big area, but there was more acres of plants than there was people, and those people were separated by acres and acres of plants. Thankfully, next door there was a boy named Michael Michaelson, and a few acres over there were two brothers, Burns and Waylan. My older brother fell in with a kid named John, and we all fell in with Sam and Jim.

(I changed their names.)

Anyway, all of these guys used to have a video game system - this was about 15 years ago, so these were ranging from Atari to Super Nintendoes, to Sega Genisis', and when we hung out with our friends, we got a kick out of playing with the games. As I grew older, my parents were slightly condescending about games, "We don't really need those." Likely due to my dad's school costs. But I did game a bit on the school computers, stuff like SimAnt, and this great pizza delivery game. I mostly kicked around on the family computer with stuff like Metal Gear Solid and the Legacy of Kain series, and a decent SNES emulator got me into a lot of JRPGs.

After a few years, I earned some money from staining a fence for a lady we knew from church, and got a hold of $70. The first time having so much money, I didn't quite know what to do with it, I bought a GBA SP at a pawn shop. I was so nervous that I was going to get chewed out by my folks for it that I tried to take it back, but the clerk wouldn't let me. I did get a game with it, however - Link To The Past. I loved this game, and was excited for it.

Anyways, now that I'm older, I'm playing pretty much solely with Sony - I have a PSP and a PS3. I would like to pick up a cheap DS somewhere down the line, if my bill collectors let me.

What was your first, and what are you with now?

[Kyanbu The Legend]

When I was six.

Though my first console was a turbografix 16. I always loved my second console the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. Ah good times. Ever since then I've been a Sega Fan boy. though I did buy a PS2, N64, and Gamecube. I have a Dreamcast, but I never did get a chance to buy a Saturn. May buy one some day when I get a chance. I loved sega so you can bet that I was torn when I heard Sega dropped out of the console wars in 2001.

To this day I still believe that Sega will throw their hat back into the ring. Till then, I'll hang out with Sony and Nintendo (screw you MS!). I'm not fond of the X-Box but 360 has really grew on me (mostly because it reminds me of the Dreamcast). I may buy one some day.

[DFM]

I don't enjoy video games they're awful.

[Krylo]

Originally Posted by DFM

I don't enjoy video games they're awful.

This.

I just hate myself so much that I keep 'playing' them.

[Aerozord]

when I was six we got our hands on a NES. At the time we had little access to games. Mario 1 & 3, RBI baseball, Duck Hunt, that was about it. Still we loved them. Me and my brother blowing hours on them while my mom would later nostalgically remember how in the original Duck Hunt you could shoot the dog, and we'd envy that. Still we were casual, even Mario Bros 3 can only be replayed so much.

Then we got a sega and SNES, which in itself was more of the same. But we discovered something, you could RENT video games now for like, 3 bucks. Now we didn't have alot of money, and games were short, so about once a week we'd get a game or two and that would be our entertainment for the weekend. For an eight year old with a free weekend that was more then enough time to beat most of them. We played so many games we started running out of things we hadn't already beaten. Thats when me and my brother got our gamer status and got every console since then.

Oh the days when finding good games was dumb luck. It was like going to the dog track. You have no idea what you are placing your bets on, you just pick one that looks good and hope for the best

[Odjn]

Originally Posted by DFM

I don't enjoy video games they're awful.

This lie is so colossal I don't even know what to describe it with. If we took the lienium this is constructed of and put it in one room a black hole would form and kill us all. This lie is so huge the only comparable thing I have that makes sense is my tremendous e-peen.

[Julford Hajime]

My dad has always been a huge nerd at heart, though he has lost interest/won't admit he still loves nerdy things since I was little.

Anyway, as for when I fell in love with video games; I was three, and didn't have the motor skills to handle a controller. To remedy this, my dad used the VCR to record himself playing Super Mario Bros. for about an hour, then played the video as I played the game.

And no, I didn't honestly beleive that story when they told me it happened. Then they pulled out the goddamn video of them recording me "playing" on the NES.

[Green Spanner]

Probably when I was 4 or 5, watching my brother play 'Jack and the Beanstalk' and 'Biggles'. Can't remember what platform they were on though. Probably the Commodore 64.

Not that I was any good by the time I got a go.

[Premmy]

My Great Grandpa bought me a Sega Genesis and a Gameboy(Brick) around six or so, Sega had Sonic, and A Lame tennis game, Gameboy had Tetris, Megaman, and Donkey Kong (The one with the Big-ass key puzzle levels)

[Satan's Onion]

Used to watch/join in with my cousins, who played on their old NES (I distinctly remember Megaman 3 and Snake Man's level) and whatever system it was had that Lawnmower Man video game, on an old black-and-white TV. (It might be the same system--hell if I remember now.) A bit later, I was happily playing away on the SNES at the house of some friend of the family, and my parents, in their infinite wonderfulness, decided on the strength of that to get me an SNES too. It came with, I think, Super Mario All-Stars, Mario Paint, and Super Mario World. And now I play Disgaea DS for hours on end, because that SNES is what got me hooked on vidjamagames good and proper. (I got into jRPGs after one of those very same cousins got me a used copy of Chrono Trigger from a supermarket that was liquidating their video rental section. Neither of us had any idea at the time what he'd just given to me.)