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The Game that made you a Gamer?
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Steiner_Zi
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I don't understand this gaming elitism. I have never played myself a Pokemon game (I have watched others playing) but from what I know even if Bratz: The Game made somebody a gamer, then so be it. Tens of millions Pokemon games have been sold, 99% of them on handheld devices where most children first come to contact with gaming. What's so strange that such a popular game on Game Boy made somebody a gamer? So it's cool to become a gamer with a FF or a Mario or a 2000BC game but it's not cool to become a gamer with Pokemon because... why? It's not hardcore enough? >_>solid2snake said:
macksplack
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Wow have to digg way back in my memories, let's see it think it was Hang-on or pong or tetris. yeah i think it was pong.
Segata Sanshiro
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Galaga. Or Galaxian. Whichever one was first.
maniac-kun
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i had a genesis when i was a kid with the sonic games and many more stuff i guess you can call me a gamer at the day i was at a friends place and we played castlevania IV and donkey kong country.. i was addicted to these games and bought a snes some month later with both games so from that day on i was a real gamer :lol
(i had a gameboy, nes and atari 2600 before that)
(i had a gameboy, nes and atari 2600 before that)
Hard to tell exactly.
First i used to play a bit of games, then had gameboy with pokemon blue, and super mario bros, but didnt play them A LOT.
The game that really made me gamer, and more interested in games was actually SSBM. Or well, more exactly it made me interested in Nintendo and ive started going around the internet and somehow, SSBM was actually game that made me gamer.
I bet this was more of game with all chars/items from games they knew, mainly from childhood. For me, ive heard about Zelda or Metroid before playing SSBM, but never was interested too much in them. When I was gaining trophies and such, ive started getting more and more interested in gaming etc (mind you, it was in 2k4, so before nintendo started being more non-gaming... bah, it was when everyone expected quick demise of the company, NINTENDO IS DOOMED! 2 screens? Lolz! DS will fail SO epicly!)
First i used to play a bit of games, then had gameboy with pokemon blue, and super mario bros, but didnt play them A LOT.
The game that really made me gamer, and more interested in games was actually SSBM. Or well, more exactly it made me interested in Nintendo and ive started going around the internet and somehow, SSBM was actually game that made me gamer.
I bet this was more of game with all chars/items from games they knew, mainly from childhood. For me, ive heard about Zelda or Metroid before playing SSBM, but never was interested too much in them. When I was gaining trophies and such, ive started getting more and more interested in gaming etc (mind you, it was in 2k4, so before nintendo started being more non-gaming... bah, it was when everyone expected quick demise of the company, NINTENDO IS DOOMED! 2 screens? Lolz! DS will fail SO epicly!)
Herpes Reasons
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gaf plays games?
funkmastergeneral
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Legend of Zelda for the NES for me. My mom had it but couldn't get past the first dungeon so she gave up on it and my five year old self had my first experience with games. I had to have some older kids help me with it, but I beat the game by the time I was six, I was very proud of myself.
Segata Sanshiro
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You don't, I suppose?viakado said:
The-Switcher
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funkmastergeneral
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The-Switcher said:
oh god I wanted this game so bad when I was little, I only ever got to play it when I visited my cousins in Rhode Island (well actually watch my older brother and cousin play it). When I finally got it in Super Mario All-Stars for Easter it was AWESOME
The first game I ever played was Sonic 2 which was packed in with my Genesis. I was very casual until I played Final Fantasy 7 which got me very into jrpgs. I really only played that genre though - the game that got me into gaming in general and made me want to follow the industry was Half Life 2. Before that, I was pretty ignorant of most of gaming in general.
user friendly
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Loved the music.
Zedsdeadbaby
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Duck Hunt on the NES, with that huge rocket launcher peripheral. BLOOP BLOOP BLOOP, goddamn I felt like I was the king of all existence then. I was only about 4 then. Using normal controllers actually felt like an abnormality compared to the lightgun, how times have changed 
Plinko
Wildcard berths that can't beat teams without a winning record should have homefield advantage
Galaxian on the 2600 was the first game I remember playing a ton of, but the two games that made me realize how good gaming could be were Montezuma's Revenge on C64 and Raiders of the Lost Ark on Atari 2600.
Cheesemeister
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zoukka said:Now that's eazy.
Still the king.
No Means Nomad
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Jet Force Gemini's Vela took me out of boyhood and thrust me loins first into what it meant to be a man.
Valkendorm
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SMB is the first game I have ever played, but what game made me a gamer is...
solid2snake
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Crushed said:
fixed.
drakesfortune
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King's Quest without a doubt. I could barely read and couldn't spell very well, but this game sure made those skills progress. Beating this game as a kid with no internet and no help was a huge triumph.
Roxas said:
Ditto. My brother was a gamer, and I'd occasionally join him on MK, or play his Amiga for a bit.. But it all changed when my life got consumed by FF7. Its one of the first games I played through to the end, played every night of the week, and even remember when I finally saw them end credits (it was 3am on a school night)
KittenMaster
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clarkamondos
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A little game called Castlevania: Symphony of The Night made me become that hardcore gamer that I today am. Castlevania is not only that game that made me what I am; it´s also the best game ever.
Looking back at the first part of the game when Alucard is running through Draculas halway and the wind is making the windows blow open is an epic moment. And that very moment also made me explore the game even more and eventually leading me to Alchemy Laboratory, Marble Gallery, Clock Tower, Long Library and many other beautiful places. The atmosphere is so amazing, the graphics gorgeous (in my oppinion the best 2D ever), the control of Alucard is smooth and there is flawless. All this and the outstanding soundtrack from Michiru Yamane makes it the best game ever and the one game that made me call myself att serious Gamer.
Buy the PSN/XBLA/PSP-version of this instant classic game if you haven´t played it yet.
Looking back at the first part of the game when Alucard is running through Draculas halway and the wind is making the windows blow open is an epic moment. And that very moment also made me explore the game even more and eventually leading me to Alchemy Laboratory, Marble Gallery, Clock Tower, Long Library and many other beautiful places. The atmosphere is so amazing, the graphics gorgeous (in my oppinion the best 2D ever), the control of Alucard is smooth and there is flawless. All this and the outstanding soundtrack from Michiru Yamane makes it the best game ever and the one game that made me call myself att serious Gamer.
Buy the PSN/XBLA/PSP-version of this instant classic game if you haven´t played it yet.
A Human Becoming
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Oddly enough, it's probably NHL '99.
Sure I had systems before that Playstation, but the Playstation was the first system I owned more then one game for.
NHL '99 was my first Playstation game too, so I have to give it to that. Loved that game back in the day.
Sure I had systems before that Playstation, but the Playstation was the first system I owned more then one game for.
NHL '99 was my first Playstation game too, so I have to give it to that. Loved that game back in the day.funkmastergeneral
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oh man, Eric Lindros. He would've been one of the great centers if he could've stayed healthy.
Monocle
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Well, the first game I tried was
Initially I liked it very much. It was fun and charming but, as I was soon to discover, much too hard for me. I frustrate easily, so I returned my SNES (mea maxima culpa) and bought a Genesis instead.
Turns out that wasn't the worst decision I could have made, because I discovered
and fell in love with the whole series (and out of love when it went 3D, for reasons that probably don't need to be stated).
Not long afterward I found the ridiculously good
and learned that gaming can be even more fun with two players. Gunstar Heroes remains one of my favorite games of all time.
Those were good times, but my journey to the dark side really began with
which I obsessed over for about a year. Oh, how I loved that game.
At that point games were a very dear pastime to me, but I still didn't quite qualify as more than a casual gamer. Then I played a demo of
and was completely blown away.
As it happened,
was close to being released. That was all the excuse I needed to purchase a PS, which, to my delight, wasn't necessary because I was gifted one. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the moment I placed my Tekken 3 disk in the tray was the turning point. I played Tekken 3 all alone for untold hours daily for many, many months. My fascination for its combat system, which I decided to learn in and out, was more than enough to compensate for the lack of human competition. (My friends were either uninterested or just plain terrible players, you see.) In this way I became acquainted with addiction of the electronic persuasion. I had become a truly dedicated gamer.
Special mention goes to
which taught me not to hate FPS games, and
which made a serious FPS fan (miracle of miracles).
Initially I liked it very much. It was fun and charming but, as I was soon to discover, much too hard for me. I frustrate easily, so I returned my SNES (mea maxima culpa) and bought a Genesis instead.
Turns out that wasn't the worst decision I could have made, because I discovered
and fell in love with the whole series (and out of love when it went 3D, for reasons that probably don't need to be stated).
Not long afterward I found the ridiculously good
and learned that gaming can be even more fun with two players. Gunstar Heroes remains one of my favorite games of all time.
Those were good times, but my journey to the dark side really began with
which I obsessed over for about a year. Oh, how I loved that game.
At that point games were a very dear pastime to me, but I still didn't quite qualify as more than a casual gamer. Then I played a demo of
and was completely blown away.
As it happened,
was close to being released. That was all the excuse I needed to purchase a PS, which, to my delight, wasn't necessary because I was gifted one. I can say without a shadow of a doubt that the moment I placed my Tekken 3 disk in the tray was the turning point. I played Tekken 3 all alone for untold hours daily for many, many months. My fascination for its combat system, which I decided to learn in and out, was more than enough to compensate for the lack of human competition. (My friends were either uninterested or just plain terrible players, you see.) In this way I became acquainted with addiction of the electronic persuasion. I had become a truly dedicated gamer.
Special mention goes to
which taught me not to hate FPS games, and
which made a serious FPS fan (miracle of miracles).
