When Did You Become a Gamer?

[Eldriken]

I became a gamer the first time I ever played Super Mario Bros. when it was first released. I've been a major gamer ever since.

What about the rest of you?

 

[AZ MotherBrain]

With this:

 

[Eldriken]

With this:

Oh, how I miss that game. My friends hated playing me because I was far better than them and used Noob Saibot to boot.

But I knew nothing of broken characters, mechanics, etc. So, I didn't pick him due to that. I just liked him.

 

[BlastX21]

The Spyro series on PS1.

I got more hardcore into it once the Gamecube came out. I was madly addicted to Super Mario Sunshine.

 

[Killphil]

When I was 4 years old and my older brother put a sega genesis controller in my hand and instructed me to hold start and press up,up. It did scorpion's fatality in MK1, and he instantly became my favorite character.

 

[MK_Salivial]

 

[SHAOLIN]

When my mom pop me out,supposedly I had SNES controller in my hand

 

[Rickyraws]

Ah the early days of gaming. I remember pretending to have a cold so that I could stay home to play Pokemon Gold on my coveted Gameboy color. Didn't think it would work, as I'm a horrible liar. But my Totodile wasn't going to level itself up. I waited...and waited....and waited....and then I overheard my mom calling the school to say I wouldn't be going in that day. I was so happy I actually conspicuously threw my blanket off and started to jump up and down on the bed screaming 'yes! yes'!


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....I was also 23 at the time...

 

[Rampage254]

When I played Super Mario World.

 

[Peckapowa]

don't remember my indoctrination on snes and early consoles (mario 64 is my favorite to this day) but my dad and brother and i used to play quake on our 2 pcs when i was little online. Beastmode since that day.

 

[EnergyKD]

My dad brought home this one day

 

[IMakeItL00kC00L]

NASCAR racing games on the PS2 come at me bros

 

[RoboCop]

This. I picked it out before I could read, just because it was a gold case. Every time text would pop up, I'd have to call my mom to come in and read it to me. Been hooked ever since!

 

[Mikemetroid]

I honestly have been a gamer as long as I can remember.

 

[SZSR]

Playing

with my older brother.

 

[Fred Marvel]

in the mid 90s when i discovered the wonders of running to the right of the screen

 

[Insuperable]

Spoiler

Since birth

 

[SkaGoogle]

Well I was born in 1997 so for me my first console was the nintendo 64 and my first game was starfox 64 and Cruis'n USA, I was the kid(still am one) with the cool parents who actually enjoyed sitting on the couch and playing games with me. Lol I remember my mom saying I couldn't buy any starwars games cuz they were to violent. haha she was a nutcase at the time. but yeah growing up in the late 90s got me into wrestling(like any other kid in my generation) and I used to worship the rock and Stone cold Steve austin, I knew every wrestler for every show all the moves and had all the gear. Then when John Cena came around I used to worship him this was before his pg era.

I had all the wrestling games and those were what I primarily played. That's what got me into fighting games, when I was in elementary school I remember going over to a friends house and him having Mortal Kombat, This was the first time I had ever played it and I instantly fell in love with raiden, So when mk9 came around I picked it up and ended up loving it and then got injustice. Although MK wasn't my first game I still had a love for fighting games in general and even if I had never played it, I would have been drawn to the mortal kombat series regardless.

 

[FOREVER EL1TE]

My mom said I played games since I was two. And beating teenagers at the age of 5 in DBZ. Those are the earliest games I can remember

 

[Sage Leviathan]

My first video game was either MK1 or Spawn: The Eternal. I was quite the brutish infant it seems. Either that, or my mother was a developmental psychologist trying to raise a serial killer

 

[Zoidberg747]

Super Mario 64 was the first game to really get me into it all.

 

[Yoaks]

This was my first ever game and this Big guy...

Was the first character I picked and I never stopped playing him!

I'll will never play a Street Fighter game until he comes back! Capcom PLZ!!!

 

[IMakeItL00kC00L]

Well I was born in 1997 so for me my first console was the nintendo 64 and my first game was starfox 64 and Cruis'n USA, I was the kid(still am one) with the cool parents who actually enjoyed sitting on the couch and playing games with me. Lol I remember my mom saying I couldn't buy any starwars games cuz they were to violent. haha she was a nutcase at the time. but yeah growing up in the late 90s got me into wrestling(like any other kid in my generation) and I used to worship the rock and Stone cold Steve austin, I knew every wrestler for every show all the moves and had all the gear. Then when John Cena came around I used to worship him this was before his pg era.

I had all the wrestling games and those were what I primarily played. That's what got me into fighting games, when I was in elementary school I remember going over to a friends house and him having Mortal Kombat, This was the first time I had ever played it and I instantly fell in love with raiden, So when mk9 came around I picked it up and ended up loving it and then got injustice. Although MK wasn't my first game I still had a love for fighting games in general and even if I had never played it, I would have been drawn to the mortal kombat series regardless.

Raiden fan, sinestro player (I assume) AND born in the late 90s. Are we like long lost brothers or something?!

 

[BartenderJeeves]

 

[GamerBlake90]

Been a gamer since birth. First title that started my dive into the world of gaming was Sonic the Hedgehog for the Sega Genesis, released in June 1991.