When and or how did you become a gamer

[Asheris]

I was 4 when my dad bought Amiga Commodore, over 24 years ago. I threw all my dolls in the corner that day...and we never stopped playing and we don't plan to till the day we die

[Karkais]

I've heard that Gamer as an Identity is dead, according to some games journalists.

 

Thats because almost everyone applicable is a gamer?

[Celise]

I wasn't into video games too much as a kid, I did have my Star Wars action figures!

 

It wasnt till high school that i met people who had a computer that interested me and later on got into consoles too.

the funny thing we played D&D ( pen n paper) mostly then the computers

 

My first RPG on the computer was the Ultima series, then Baulders Gate 1 and 2 and KOTOR and Never Winter Nights

 

at the time i got a new laptop to play NWN 2 but was upset that the game wasnt working 100%

 

a co workers told me about SWG and said nyah i dont play to play. Well he bought me SWG and 2 months game time!

played MANY MMO's since then

 

Grrr its all his fault im here lol

 

i started on a tv casette recorder playing an old 2d scroller a little army man attempting to make it past hundreds of bad guys and tanks with a big chunky keyboard just pressing space jumping past them and shooting a few when possible, avoiding their fire as well. after that it was the pc in the early 90's as a 5 or 6 year old kid, playing kiloblaster and cosmo's cosmic adventure, jill of the jungle and zone 66.

 

after all that moved to another place, a few years later i got a hold of a sega mega drive 16 bit, playing cartridge games, mostly super monaco gp and super monaco gp 2. Then got another pc, at that time was playing corridor 7, major stryker, transport tycoon, lemmings and simcity along with wolf 3d, must of been aroun 8-10 years old, not long after that my first online experience was startrek armada demo, had some fun with that and on occasion f1 2000 and homeworld.

 

moved again and again and finally settled by around 14 years old. built 2 pcs and at that point it was f1 challenge 99-02, return to castle wolfenstein enemy territory and age of empires series going upto conquerors at the time. had some limited chances to play against my brother in lan games, blood, age of empires, quake 2 campaign coop. these lasted a good number of years.

 

those were fun days, long since past.

Edited July 6, 2015 by Celise

[octoberfalls]

Back in the 70s with pong Atari 2600 and odyssey 2

[Protocol_PC]

I wont say Mario was, even though technically it was the first game I played, but the first time I ever immersed myself in a game was Metal Gear on DOS, oh boy those were times... Then when Solid hit the PSone, GG.

[Amadahy]

One of the plus sides about having young Uncles was the fact they gamed. So, when I a wee little girl they taught me how to play the original Donkey Kong, on their Atari. After that it was pretty much over.

 

I really became a gamer the moment I turned on my original Nintendo, and pressed play on the Legend of Zelda. It was epic.

Edited July 6, 2015 by Amadahy

[huggaa]

I became a Gamer back in the early 70's when I received my first home Pong Game for Christmas!:

 

On a side Note according to my wife that's probably when I stopped growing up also

Edited July 6, 2015 by huggaa

[Kulyok]

I think I became a gamer when I loaded Diablo 2 on my first Pentium-compatible computer. Sure, I played Dendy and Yamaha when I was a kid, but it wasn't the same.

[Cedia]

In 1995 my then boyfriend taught me how to build computers. Then I discovered Echo. Then I discovered The Realm.

[ekwalizer]

I had a Nintendo, PlayStation, etc growing up, but I didn't become a "gamer" until Baldur's Gate.

[DeltaaXx]

Thats because almost everyone applicable is a gamer?

 

We call those casuals

[Mounds]

Awesome stories!!

 

I also have. 4 kids and have them well on the way in gamingdom

 

in my house we HAD a Wii but now PS3 and PS4, 2 desktops the better one plays Swotor. and around 3 laptops oh and an iPad 2

i often tell them to go out and have fun but hey I brought them into gaming lol

[DeltaaXx]

Awesome stories!!

 

I also have. 4 kids and have them well on the way in gamingdom

 

in my house we HAD a Wii but now PS3 and PS4, 2 desktops the better one plays Swotor. and around 3 laptops oh and an iPad 2

i often tell them to go out and have fun but hey I brought them into gaming lol

 

Why go outside when you can travel to different planets as a Bounty Hunter or a Sith?

[CloudCastle]

More single-player games, but there was this company called Simutronics by then that had a game called Gemstone III. I actually paid good money to sit there and watch text scroll on a screen. My character was named Noblesage Goldenhoof, a sorcerer or warlock. Think it was called a warlock. At least it was multi-player. The platform beneath it at the time was something called TADS (text adventure development system). Decades later, Simutronics licensed the Hero engine to Bioware for SWTOR.

 

I played Gemstone as well. I think I had a sylvan bard...didn't make it very far though, because then I discovered Simutronic's other game, Dragonrealms...and I played that for 7 years. All those Simu games are STILL going, by the way, and they STILL send me e-mails trying to get me to come back.

[Karkais]

We call those casuals

 

No, you misunderstand. What I meant was that now is more socially acceptable to play videogames than it was back in my youth.

Edited July 6, 2015 by Karkais

[Derfburger]

I became a Gamer back in the early 70's when I received my first home Pong Game for Christmas!:

 

On a side Note according to my wife that's probably when I stopped growing up also

 

Lol sounds like my wife. "You're a forty something year old who still games? Are you ever going to grow up?" My reply is a simple "nope". Now I have a 10 year old daughter and we love to game together.

[TheSeventhJedi]

When I was five, I went over to a friend's house. He had just gotten something called a "Nintendo." I had never heard of it before. I didn't even know video games existed at that point. He had a game where you could jump on guys to kill them, and if you found a flower, you could throw FIRE!

 

I dashed home, hurt that my mom had hidden the existence of such a thing from me.

 

I eventually got one, and it's been an on again/off again relationship since then.

[GhostShaman]

When I was 4 years old (1984) I got an Atari 2600 for a b-day present. I was hooked since then. We even had a intellivision shortly after LOL. When sega and nintendo was released, I was the coolest kid in my neighborhood

[Baldak]

First off, being a "Gamer" is more than just video games.

 

I started gaming with statistical sports reproduction games back in the 60's with my Dad, then onto Dungeons & Dragons in the mid 70's. I dabbled in other table RPG's along with playing D&D on a regular basis up until I played Baldur's Gate 1 & 2, Neverwinter Nights 1 & 2, KOTOR 1 & 2, Mass Effect 1 2 & 3, Oblivion, Skyrim, Dragon Age 1 & 2, and now SWTOR. I have DA Inquisition, but haven't played it yet.