The Weekend Debate: How did you get into video games?

Easy sonic got me into gaming use to play that for hours still do thanks to Psn for getting those games on ps3

In 2005 i got a ps2 on my birthday by my parents. I wanted one because every single one of my friends had one. Then i got star wars battlefront 2 and i couldn´t stop playing. That game was the reason i got into gaming back then, and it is still one of my favorite games. War of the monsters was also a game that i was playing alot. If only theese games got a sequel or a hd version on the store. Hint… Hint…

Love to join, already have the game so I may have to skip this one. = (

I’m old enough to have started with the arcades of the late 70s/early 80s. Space Invaders was huge fun but when Galaxian appeared – wow. If I hear the Galaxian sounds now, it brings back the smell of candy floss & bubble gum.

My first home system was a Pong-type game. It was 2 player but score was kept manually by moving a ball bearing along a rack on the unit.

Eventually I received an Atari 2600 & the arcade had arrived in my home. That’s when the video game addiction began. Whenever I could get access the one TV at home, I was gaming.

Many years later & I’m still here. Bring on the next generation.

As I recall it was when I was about 5 years old, I was in a cafe with my nan and running around the place because I was bored, so she put 10p in the Space Invaders cabinet that was in the corner, stood me on a chair and left me to it. The rest is history

@pfe_drucifer, Yep, Galaxian’s was and still is awesome!

My first experience of videogames was at my grandmother’s house. She had a NES and a couple games, like Mario and Bubble Bobble. To this day those are still the only kind of games she can play.

Pretty sure it was bought for the family but she played it the most and would rope everyone into helping her.

My older brother had a ZX speccy and a huge library of games but the one i played most was ATIC ATAC, I was hooked on gaming ever since.

My taste in gaming has changed quite a bit over the years I play a lot of RPG’s i just love a good old grindfest, theres nothing quite like it, Oblivion and Ni No Kuni Are my absolute favourites

I got my first playstation in 1997 from my uncle from Germany. Tomb Raider was one of my first games. When i completed it i wanted to be an archeologist, raiding tombs with dual pistols lol. Its 2013 now and while im not a “tomb raider” i still love the series. Cant wait to buy the reboot on tuesday, 16 years after the first one

It was the back end of the 70′s at a French holiday camp I entered the indoor amusement centre with a handful of one Franc coins to play on the pinball machines. After playing the first 3 machines I decided to give the noisy menace in the corner, a Space Invaders machine, a go at the encouragement of my older brother.

I have never seen the summer sun since.

GrowIng up i foundthe joys of gaming through the Space Invader machine at the local swimming pool, from then I was hooked. Trying all the new games as the came and spending weekends at the Arcade at the Beach. After that it was time to save up my papermoney to buy my 1st home console the Atari, from there my collection grew through the SNES and then the PS1/PS2/PS3 and ultimately the PS4. this is not an Eggbox house !!!!

1985 was 5 yo and my dad bought me an atari 2600.since then i fell in love with vg.

Well, I got into gaming when someone allowed me to play to his/her (I was too young to remember) SEGA console. Sonic the Hedgehog was the one who brought me into gaming. However, it wasn’t that hwat made me the gamer I’m today. A good friend of my mother gave me for Christmas a brand new PlayStation with Disney’s Tarzan bundle. That game was the first serious challange I took. After that, I got another great present, a brand new GameBoy Color. It was then, when it all started. I got Pokémon, Crash bandicoot, MediEvil, played a lot of Tekken… And shortly after that PlayStation 2 was born — a console I seriously wanted. I even bought the games *before* owning the console But yeah, Sonic the Hedgehog, Pokémon and Crash Bandicoot for me

I remember being about 9 years old waking up on a Christmas morning and my mum had brought me a nes with Mario 3 and Zelda i couldn’t believe how lucky i was i remember seeing games console on tv but this was the first time i had ever owned on myself.

Mario was awesome i loved the challenging platforming aspects of the game and making it to the giant world blew my tiny mind.

Zelda on the other hand was a bit of a tougher nut to crack but once i had grown a little and had a bit more patience i enjoyed adventuring around Hyrule.

Back in 2003, when I was 3, My brother had a ps1. I have no clue how he got he. Probably as a present. We only ever had 3 games for it. The first of these was monsters inc scare island. It actually wasn’t a bad game. The other two were digimon world 3 (I think) and some anime brick breaking game.
Funny story. We never had a memory card. Never. So we would just have to spend all day playing just to get anywhere. My brother ended up beating Monsters inc anyway. But we never really ended up getting anywhere in digimon.
We really should have got a memory card. Then we got a ps2 with a memory card and jak and daxter. That was awesome.

I was just a kid, back in 1991, when my dad got me a Game Boy while on a trip to Canada. I remember playing Tetris and a Super Mario game, I can’t remember which one was exactly. I remember that at some point (back then no checkpoints existed and you had to beat the game in one go, so repeating each and every level became a routine), I started paying attention at the backgrounds of each level in the game. In the final stages of the game (for the record, I never managed to beat the final level!), there was one depicting ancient Egypt (deserts, pyramids, oasis, camels, whatever), and started thinking that I should visit someday Egypt. I finally did it 5 years ago. Paid a visit to the ancient Pyramids of my childhood’s memories!

It was around 14 years ago and my Aunt and her children gave me a SNES which had belonged to them. I was young and didn’t realise how legendary the console was. All I knew was Super Mario Brothers 3 with beautiful colours and no save files. It was enjoyable because me and my brother took it in turns to play and get as far as we could in the game. It took ages to burn through, every new world and level was something new, entertaining, and full of joy. My brother helped me set it up, and he always got lots of new games for it. SMB 3 was the game that I loved to pieces and gave me some of the best memories ever. It wasn’t even split-screen play, just me and my brother enjoying the game in the ultimate goal to reach the end.

Happy memories. From there on, it was the Dreamcast, Sega Saturn (RIP Sega, I miss you), Gameboy, Gameboy advance, PS1, PS2, PS3, PSP, Vita. The reason I went in to gaming was because it was fun that both me and my older brother were interested. Me and my friends would talk, play, bring our controllers around. We enjoyed what the genres have to offer. There you go

My parents had a black and white TV game which got me started but my love of gaming really started in the arcades with classics like table top Space Invaders and Pacman.
It then moved back into the home with the purchase of an Atari 2600 and I became enthralled with both Defender and Pitfall.
After the release of the ZX Spectrum, and the veritable explosion of home gaming, my love for gaming just grew and grew thanks to games like Chuckie Egg, the Dizzy games, text adventures like Smuggler’s Cove and, as has been mentioned above by Witcher70, Attic Atac (which was one of the first Spectrum games I owned).
35 Years later and my love for gaming has not diminished at all.

First game I have ever played was Mario Party on my lovely Nintendo 64, but the truth is, that my first real game experience was a piece of cake called Road Rash. I was playing it with my oldest friend on his computer and it was epic! I was probably too small to play that game, but I loved it and I am sure that I would enjoy it now too. Great graphic, awesome fighting system and those motorcycles… fantastic. Hard game but I would never forget about it.

My Dad works in computer security. Growing up had a lot of computers in the house. Got into gaming because he got Duke Nukem 3D in 1996. I was 6 years old and it was the first game I ever played. Really good times with LAN parties and all. Really fun even though I thought that the game was scary as hell especially those octobrain things. Ever since then I have been gaming on the PC and eventually got into the console thing.

My dad worked coding games for the commodore and the Sinclair spectrum and used to bring his work home with him a lot. I got to see loads of unfinished, buggy and scrapped ideas. Then eventually I started to gain a collection of games that had been finished and it snowballed on from there. A few years later we had hundreds of cassettes of the most random games and a lot were unreleased shareware type stuff that they used to share around at work.
My mates and I tried coding things on the speccy following guides and the best we could produce where music games or pong/ space invaders clones.

When we saw the kinds of games that where coming on the NES and master system we were blown away by it all knowing just how difficult it was. I think we all appreciated the games we bought more than some of our other friends who just saw them as a bit of fun.

For me it was watching the star wars arcade back in the day,the sit down cabinet was surrounded but I was young and small enough to get to the front and watch and was mesmerized as the x-wings went into the trench of the death star and watch it blow up….the graphics were just lines but it was amazing, the sound was spot on. My first gaming experience was another cabinet at my local video store, the game was Donkey Kong jnr, I must have put most of my money in that!
My first home experience was pong on my friends Atari – that was a game! I have had a few consoles and computers through the ages, from my dragon32 which had 32k of memory (ahhh the good times playing the Cuthbert games), I had a nes, megadrive,PlayStation, dreamcast,Xbox,DS,PSP,ps Vita and now PS3. I wouldn’t say I am a great game player but I do love ‘em.

I started my gaming journey at age 5, more or less, with the original PlayStation back in 1995. My parents bought to me and my older brothers.

My favorite games were Parappa the Rapper (kick, punch, is all in the mind…), Disney’s Hercules, I still boot it on my PS3, Tomba trying to beat those pesky evil pigs was really exciting and Final Fantasy VII. I couldn’t understand a single word of English back in the day and I was always spamming the O button in every battle until I died in the first Scorpion-like boss.

Long live Playstation!

This will show my age, REPTON on BBC, it took what seemed like hours to get going as you had to play it on tape. This was quikly replaced by REPTON 2 which came on floopy disk. Proper gaiming kicked in with the Amiga 500 and hours of Kick off 2 and Speedball

When i was kid early to mid 90′s my granddad bought me a Sega master system

how i first got into video games is a story all about luck and a generous friend. to keep it short we were kids and my friend had brought his gameboy round along with a really simple 16-bit (or 8-bit) racing game then i asked him if i could try and after half an hour he said i could keep it and the gameboy because he had the colour version =D (best day ever). as for what was the first title to catch my imagintion (and alot of my interest) i can say my first game on my second gaming device digimon world for the ps1. it was a game with a lot of depth that if i still had the disk i would even go back and play because of the fun of raising a creature you have to depend on to progress and trying to re-build a whole city by bringing the amnesiac residents back after their mysterious loss of memory by finding them in this huge open world. long story short remembering stuff further than 10 years back is fun

The amazing graphical leap from pong (well, its clones actually) to the 2600 got me in gaming.
The rest is (literally) history.

GameCube. Sonic Adventure 2. Yeaya. Most fun ever.

I just remember playing a tank game were you could hide in trees vs my grandmother. It must of been mid 80′s and that was me hooked.

I started playing video games at a mere 18 months old, according to parents at least. The first game I can remember playing is River Raid for the Commodore 64. Back then, as those old enough to have played on the magnificent C64 know, you had to write in some code to get your games to run (and pray to the tape machine god that your cassette will work after its 15 minute load…).

As a very young child I obviously couldn’t be expected to know how to type out the code as I couldn’t read at that age… or so my parents thought. As a young toddler (2 years old or so) they found me with the C64 and game loaded playing away, even though neither had helped me to set it up. They asked me to do it again and to their surprise I could type in the code needed to boot the game. I liked playing those games so much that I had paid close attention to my parents and how they did it so I could do it myself.

Thanks to my early gaming days I knew all the letters of the alphabet, could read and type and write my name before I even started pre-school. I even welcomed my younger brother when he was born with a message written on the C64. Who said gaming couldn’t teach you anything?

I got into gaming in the 90′s. My first ever console was a sega mega drive. The game was a very quirky game called pugsy. Me and my dad played that game for ages. I can remember being woke up in the middle of the night because he had finished the game and wanted me to see the ending.

The first game I played as a kid was gauntlet on the BBC master. 4 players huddled around a blocky keyboard trying to kill all the monsters. This was a brilliant solo and multiplayer game and even though i was too young to drink, it had all the ingredients and gameplay of our current day online games. Fantastic times…. who would have guessed it would have led to modern gaming of today??

The next game I remembered was battle tanks on the vektrex…. which my mum refused to buy me. A kid at school had one and I was sooo jealous.

In the 80`s I was blown away by sonic on the megadrive. This then led to the modern consoles.

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My first gaming experiance was also introduced to me by a friend, well sort of…. The first game I ever played was Final Fantasy VII after my parents bought me a ps1 for my birthday. The console came with this game I had never heard of, to be honest I was a bit dissapointed with their choice, man if I would of known the journey I would begin when I put the first disc into that little grey box haha. After failing a bunch of times to kill the scorpion boss at the start (I kept attacking him while his tail was up ) I gave up, until my best mate told me how good this game is….. And then Aerith died and I died inside a bit too haha Thanks for reading Ragnarok looks awsome maybe a competitor of FF7?

Atari’s Pong. Back in 1975. Yes, I am an old dog !!!!!!!!

It began in the late 90′s. My father had the chance to borrow a Playstation from work in the weekends. The first game I really remember playing is Crash Bandicoot 3. Then at my 5th birthday I got a Playstation and that is the start.

The game that introduced me was ratchet and clank… I was just 8 years old when i first played it in my ps2. But i must say i felt the magic, i felt the fun and thats why today i still play my ratchet and clank 3 in my ps2. I will not forget that long sessions playing with my bro and how we laught. So until today no game has felt so fun and great as RATCHET AND CLANK.

Wow, this will REALLY make me look old… I actually started gaming when my parents bought me a PONG game system. It had two ‘controllers’ with only a rotating knob on it, to control the paddle. It had five or six game modes: single player against a CPU opponent, two-player, and some double-paddle variants.
I really played that system to death (yes, it’s really REALLY broken), but the gauntlet was set.
After that, I was lost. I chose my friends based on the computertype they had (C64, Amiga mostly), while I myself had a measly Philips P2000 system. But ever since I was old enough to visit the gamehalls, I was really REALLY lost. Pacman, Defender and all the other coin-ops, I spent all my pocket money on them. And when I ran out of money, I watched others play.

Yes, I was that obnoxious boy that was always blocking the screen

I don’t remember what age I was when I played my first game but I do know it was around the time I was a toddler. The only thing I do remember playing was Super Mario in the Super Nintendo. It was really the only game I had played or least remember playing.

After some time when I got older I moved onto the Sega Mega Drive and became a bit more addicted to games. Golden Axe and Street of Rage became the best most addictive games I had. Aswell as Taz Mania, Jurassic Park 2 and The Power Rangers. I don’t remember exactly what was my first game for this but I think it was Golden Axe and Street of Rage

When I got my PlayStation one, that’s when my hardcore gaming really came out

My dad got a SEGA mega drive for myself and my 2 older brothers. Thanks to Streets of Rage, to this day I am still unable to leave a trash can alone without expecting a giant turkey or gold bars in its ruins!

This will give my age away! I started my life-long love affair with video games when I was around 4 years old and my dad brought home a Phillips Videopac G7000, more commonly known as a Magnavox Odyssey 2.

The graphics looked like teletext lol but I loved every minute of it. Playing Quest for the Rings and Conquest of the World – some of the best nights in when I was a kid was spent sat with my brothers arguing over whose go it was next.

From there it was Amstrad CPC, then Amiga 500, Sega Saturn (don’t judge it was worth it for Panzer Dragoon Saga alone) N64, Dreamcast, PS2, PC and now PS3.

Gaming has been a huge presence in my life from the giant teletext pixels of the Videopac to the phenomenal realism of PS3. It’s amazing how things have changed in such a short amount of time… *cough* very short amount of time.

My first gaming experience was when i started kindergarten at the age of 4 .The minute i understood how to use the controller and play the game,playstation changed my life forever.The reason i got the ps2,which by the way was my first game console,was because when my dad heard about how popular the console was my parents finally bought it!!!The game that i first started playing was sly cooper,I just loved how sly would make such lame jokes in the face of danger!Even crash bandicoot was a fun game i loved playing.

When I was four, me and my older brothers got a NES with Duck Hunt and Super Mario Bros. And as they say, the rest is history.

Although I have to point out that gaming was mostly for fun. A few years ago we only had a gamecube and Mario games were the only games I played (never got around to Resident Evil 4, Killer 7, Eternal Darkness).

When we got a PS3 (with GTA and Fallout 3), I hesitated to play Fallout because it was unknown territory and I normally didn’t play that kind of games. And I still wasn’t excited when I got out the cave and didn’t know where to go. But I went anyway (mostly because we had only two games, so I didn’t have a choice but to give it a shot). Two months later I finished it with almost 100 hours in. Well, that was when I really got into gaming and over the years I played over hundreds of different games and you could say I got a second start as a gamer.

First game that we got was Rayman. playing it on a small CRT on the kitchen table, and my father saying “but heres the best part, you can turn off the tv, and the game will still be there when you get back!”
Hmm, but way back in the day playing without memorycards helped, you HAD to be willing to spend hours if not days on a game, writing down stupidly long codes , and there was simply nothing like it, the sheer creativity and control (all in blocky pixelated blehness >_>) and the (ok this is through memory vision, but Croc, Crash Bandcoot, Spyro 2 and A Bugs Life seemed to go on for days) amaze me from an early age.
also my uncle had an Atari and lived in England, so when he came back to Scotland he would put on Alex Kidd (brutally hard for a child, pretty sure there were very few continues which if you lost them all you went way back to the start. And super cheap “boss fights” with rock paper scissors, which I believe were 100%) so it let us spend time with him and experience something new.

Hello Fred
I hope youve had a great week and looking forward to the weekend anyway back to topic. My gaming experiances started when I was 3 in a year known as 2000, I was watching the tv one evening when sudenly a Sony Computer Entertainment ad came on tv with PSone my eyes were drawn to the tv like it was something I fell in love with Then I saw games, Crash bandicoot, Tomb Raider etc. I jumped round and looked at my parents and said “I want that” they responded by youll have to see what you get
It came true that christmas I got a PSone I was so happy and so excited I got Harry potter 1 as a game with the console, but ill never forget that day as I fell in love with somthing which no other console could beat and to this day it still remains the same.:) Enjoy a fun packed weekend of gaming PlayStation Blog Thanks Fred

Showing my age now but I first got into video games when a local arcade got space invaders in 1980 then all the other cabinets followed. Centipede ,missile command ,and then Atari released their home console and all my arcade favourites became available at home. Then the ZX spectrum and Commodore 64 followed by the snes and mega drive era closely followed the saga Saturn and shortly afterwards the playstation I remember being blown away by Destruction Derby and how good it looked on the demo pod at game the next week when my wages arrived i went straight out and bought the console and game and I’ve not looked back since.

Well back in the day during school holidays both my parents worked so I had to basically go to work with them and hang around most of the day. This generally meant reading comics and playing arcade machines (which fortunately had one located at both places of work). Space Invaders at one, Asteroids at the other so ended up playing both of those constantly. Sadly this never led to Billy Mitchell style fame and hair but did lead to getting an Atari 2600 and the combat game. Tanks/Planes multiple game types all on one cart which was look voodoo at the time, never looked back since then.

For me it was when i first got a ps2 back in the day which came bundeled with jak 2: renegade. It was this game with its exciting gameplay, amazing story with charm and wit and its colourful cast of characters that made me realise the wonders of gaming. And I think the studio that created this game Naughty Dog seems to be targeted, coincidentally, at my age group starting off with Crash aimed at a younger audience then moving to younger teen games with Jak which I got when I was 11. Then to older teen games like Uncharted and now just after my 19th birthday they will release a distincly adult game with the last of us. Sony and the team at Naughty Dog spawned not only a great hobby but, as someone studying animation, a hopeful career in game development and a passion for gaming.
Something that i am trying to pay with my loyal service as a Sony fan

It started very naturally for me and my brother (’86 and ’87). Our parents (our mother mostly) were very modern and openminded compared to some of the other parents back then, and games were a lot more child-friendly too. In any case, we got a Nintendo as soon as we knew of its existence – there was no internet back then.. The game that stands out most from that time is Super Mario Bros. 3. I just loved how much the graphics and the general feel of the game had improved since the first one. And how they began to fill a whole ‘world’ around it, which resulted in the side scroller, as opposed to the arcade game it once was. I remember Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles (which came out in 1990, so I must have been 4) as one of the first games we owned on it, and even my father liked playing it once in a while. He whines about games sometimes but secretly he loves games like Tetris and Mariokart too. It was also the first, and only, console we ever sold. To get the Super Nintendo, which was even better. My passion for gaming grew stronger with each console. I even remember having a little scrapbook full of pictures of the PS1 and its early games, I wanted one so bad.

A torrid childhood, with my mother in a pretty bad relationship led to me finding solace from other outlets.

At the time we had an Atari and a Spectrum ZX laying around, so I hooked them up, and let the good times roll.

Very soon after, I got my mother into playing games with me such as Daley Thompson’s Decathalon and other suitable multi-player games. We grew closer as mother and son, she finally moved on and dumped the lowlife, and as a sorry to me, bought me a Ps1 – new from launch week, and I’ve never looked back!
Going through school, juggling a social life, school marks, and my PlayStation was the most fun I’d ever had!
And then PS2. And then PS3. And then PS Vita. And then…

A close mate thats regrets it like crazy loll