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

Well, I bought this laser-thingy from Tron and that’s how I got into videogames.

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Can someone get me out of here, please?

I got into gaming becuz of my dad, he bought me a ps1 while i didn’t know anything about playstation or sony, so is started playing some games and a couple hours later he came home with like 200+ games!
i couldnt believe it, but my fav was rollcage stage.

Good question! It was back then when i got my first PSX console. I was so happy about finally having a gaming console i could play on. I was playing the PSX for hours because of how fun it was controlling an interesting character that plays throught levels. You get the ability to command you character! And for me it was the best part.

My first game was Crash bandicoot It was so fun to play it!

I got into gaming when dinosaurs still walked the earth, aka 1983. My dad got a Spectrum 48K and some games. The first games I ever played must have been Manic Miner – a classic cave platformer, and JetPac – a jetpack flying shooter. Both were mind-boggingly difficult but also fun and addictive games to play.

I kept on playing ever since, in time changing platforms to Mac (the first b&w one), NES, Amiga 500, PC and finally to Playstation 1, 2 and 3. And I’ll keep on playing until they can finally put me in the ground and write GAME OVER on my gravestone.

Long long time again I remember 1st console I had was a commador 64 with a box full of tapes/games. Mom and dad set it up we waited for game to load (all them multi coloured stripey lines down screen/load times) after several minutes it was ready to play I remember dying straight away and then it started all over again them damn loadin screens. Were so lucky now we aint gotta wait so long for them to load. Second machine was searching sega mega drive with cd. My uncle brought back from America. Wow I thought desert strike that games was amazing!! Then he gave me a gameboy all of my my 1st console I owned out right.all I remember was a game on it to do with a space man shooting dragons if u no plz let .e no that game was epic the ever since ive been playing games. My daughter is 3 now and all she’ll remember will be a ps4. Wow how lucky is she no loadin time wow!!!

My friends got ps1′s and I didn’t- only had access to an old sega with sonic the hedgehog my dad had bought when i was like 1. Came home one day and he’d randomly bought a ps1 (which was for me to ‘use sometimes’-it ended up pretty much mine) as for 1st game well RAYMAN whichever way I go Rayman always appears I remember being stuck for weeks on end trying to get past that one section near the end or find all the cages no years even. I wasn’t able to get a PS2 but my best friend did he also got Rayman:Revloution- went round his house almost everyday during the summer and played that game :p we played it so much it glitched us part where we were stuck to the startof the next level haha. My 1st gameboy half a year after the ps1 i got also came with mario kart and rayman gba (same as ps1 game i still spent hundereds of hours on them both) oh and I must not forget 007:tomorrow never dies- got it for my 9th birthday, 3rd game on the ps1 loved that too along with spiderman but RAYMAN is what really got me gaming-probably why I had to get origins day one on my vita, and platinumed it straight away I hope Legends comes to vita

It all started when my older sister gave me her old Game & Watch handhelds (Donkey Kong 2, Turtle Bridge and Snoopy Tennis), and I played them for hours on end as a little kid. That was followed by me buying a cheap ‘99 games in 1’ handheld (an unbranded ripoff I think, that had 99 variations of games like Tetris & Brick Breaker in black and white).

Then when i was 10 i visited my Cousin overseas, who owned a Playstation and let me try Wipeout 2097. I was absolutely enthralled (although terrible at it).

When I was 11 and had enough money in savings, I went out and bought myself a Playstation. While I loved the early games I played (mainly platformers like Crash), the real turning point came the next year when I happened to rent Final Fantasy VII (without really knowing what to expect). I then rushed out to buy my own copy, and became obsessed (even happening to “get sick” for a few weeks off school so I could play it more…).

Never looked back and been gaming since (having played my way through 2 PS1′s, a fat & slim PS2, a fat PS3 and my current slim PS3 and Vita). The fact that i am such an obsessive gamer surprises a lot of people in real life since i am female.

Back in the early 80′s I got a Commodore 64 for Xmas. Sure the loading times were long and the graphics were crap but back then I was blown away. Spent many a day wasting hours on games like Yie Ar Kung Fu, Wizball, and The Last Ninja. And get this, there were no trophies or achievements, we just played for fun!!!

Those were the days…….

My first gaming memory is a Galaxy Invaders 1000 handheld. It fascinated me in the short time I had it before accidentally spilling a drink over it. A year or so later my brother bought a Commodore C16 and that kickstarted my gaming addiction. Xargon Wars, Tycoon Tex, Sword of Destiny and Climb-It all stick in my mind as I was transfixed with these amazing (at the time) games. After that my dad bought my brother and I a Spectrum 48k and it escalated from there. Robocop, Carrier Command, Midnight Resistance and many others stole my childhood and have shown little remorse for ever doing so. From there I moved on through many different systems which I still have in my loft and they all still work apart from the tape deck for my Spectrum 128k. I keep thinking I really should sell them to someone who will make more use than I do but then I remember all the good times I had and can’t bear to part with them.

I got PS2 when i was 6 years old. First i didn’t have any PS2 games, but i used to play Crash Bash and Lion King: Simba’s mighty adventure. I still have the Lion King game and ironically that was the first game that i played on my PS3 (I didn’t have any PS3 games at first..)

My first PS2 game was SSX Tricky and goddam I still love that game!

I really feel old by posting this. But here goes! Pong. This was an incredible experience! To control a moving block on the tv. It was some kind of magic there and then.

First game to really capture my imagination has to be duck Hunter on the 16 bits NES. I actually dreamt I was a redneck hunter after playing that game. How imbarressing isnt that?

When I was finally old enough to hold a gamepad, Sega Mega Drive was already available; a magical piece of equipment it seemed at that time (So many colours! So much speed! Quasi-3d!).

My dad used to borrow it from a friend of his and bring it home for a couple days a week. Playing Sonic the Hedgehog became a family tradition, my dad would always beat Marble Zone for me and I would take care of the rest of the game. Since I would only have access to the console every now and again, it felt very special.

A few years later my dad finally bought me my own console and I could finally play it whenever I wanted. It felt amazing.

The Sega Mega Drive collection for PS3 was a must-buy for me when it got released. So many memories.

I first got into video games when my brother bought a Vic 20. We would sit for hours typing games in from the back of magazines, play them then have to switch it off at bedtime. Next night – type it all in again. We didn’t have a tape drive to save the game. I don’t remember the games but I know I was hooked.
Next the commodore 64. Who can forget Impossible Mission “Destroy him my robots” and the classic “Stay a while. Stay Foreveerr!!!”
Then PC games started for me who can forget the classic Prince of Persia and Snake. Monochrome screens but great games.
Then Nintendos I’ve had them all from the SNES. Mario ruled the kingdom and Donkey Kong was a great hero.
PC games came back to the forefront. The Sims would depress me Lara Croft became my role model.
PS2 then burst onto the scene Ratchet and Clank and Jak and Daxter set me out on new adventures.
Now it’s PS3 and Uncharted captured my imagination. Tomb Raider is back and the Last of Us is going to be next on my list.
So how did I get into gaming? It’s a long story that spans over 30 years so I guess that I really did Stay a While. Stay Foreverrr!

The year was 1997 and my exposure to gaming was minor, duck hunt at a friends house and chips challenge in the windows entertainment pack… but my friend got a PlayStation with a little game called final fantasy VII. He invited me round to check it out, we watched his brother play but repeatedly got killed at the Guard Scorpion. Eventually we realised the translation was misleading us and we won. Then the whole game opened up, new characters, more magic, more bosses. So for the following Christmas I asked Santa very nicely for a PlayStation and final fantasy VII. He also brought me a copy of cool boarders 2 which went down a treat ! Over the next few years my library expanded to include FFVIII, metal gear solid, crash bandicoot, spyro, soulblade and many more… I’ve never looked back… To this day FFVII is one of my favourite games of all time, having played it through entirely more than 5 times…. If my tale is worthy feel free to name me but I don’t have a vita so give the code to someone else .

A long, long time ago, I was playing on the BBC Micro my dad had in his study as a tyke. Games like Bone Cruncher, and endearingly obvious (in retrospect) rip-offs of big name games: Snapper (Pac-Man), Planetoids (Defender) and so on. This led to heated playground arguments as I maintained the games I played weren’t rip-offs, but the genesis of these better known titles.

In short, I invented being a hipster in the 1980s.

Mostly, however, my lifelong love of games waw cemented by the Mega Drive at the turn on the nineties, and games like Sonic and Phantasy Star 2. They were awesome. Wish we had more classic Phantasy Star on PSN.

Sly Cooper was the one that got me into videogames. I went to my friends birthday party and played Sly 2 and immediately fell in love with it. Bought myself a PS2 and Sly 2 a few Weeks later. After that I started playing GOW and Jak. When Sly 4 was announced I was sad cause I don’t have a PS3 but then the Vita came and now I’m waiting to relive my childhood with the arrival of the Raccoon.

A Little addon to my post 161. The NES is of course 8-bit not 16-bit. Mye bad… .

one day in the 80′s I visited my younger cousin who had a NES. He was one of those kids who had all the best new toys first. We spent the afternoon playing track and field 2 and trying various house hold objects to improve our button pressing speed. I remember rocking a roll of Sellotape back and forth over the two buttons to try to run faster. We also played streets of rage, imagine a 6&8 year old playing a violent game like that these days, but there must of been no age rating on games back then as they didn’t appear very realistic with 80′s graphics! I was hooked and begged for my own NES which I finally got on my birthday with Mario and of course track and field 2

A few years later I discovered through my friends brother the Mega drive, it was always the boys that had the consoles, while all my friends did play on their brothers consoles it was dolls they actually got as presents. I always hated dolls I soon acquired my second console with the first two Sonic games which sat next to my NES and which both built up a great selection of games. This was the sign of things to come for me!

My brother got me into playing games, he had The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past on SNES and after I tried it first time I was hooked on that game after that I have played every title on Zelda series. We bought our ps1 in 1997 with Final Fantasy VII and that was another game which got me hooked and same thing happened with FF series like Zelda series. Team Buddies were also very good. Now my four brothers is all playing videogames, we got almost every1 Nintendo and Sony consoles in our home, PsVita being latest and I’m going to buy Ps4 at launch.

Like many others, it was the ZX80/81 and Atari that stole my childhood along with Star Wars, but it was ‘Adventure’ by Bug-Byte software (for the ZX81) that probably helped shape my gaming preferences of today.

It was the first text adventure I ever played, and even though the text parser was obviously extremely rudimentary back in 1982, it had me mesmerised. Naturally, I moved on to graphical/text adventures such as ‘The Hobbit’ on the Speccy (the image of that round green door will stay with me forever), and Level 9 classics such as ‘Red Moon’ and ‘Emerald Isle’. Then ‘Adventure International’ came along with some Scott Adams classics – ‘The Sorcerer of Claymorgue Castle’, ‘Hulk’ and ‘Spiderman’ all upping the ante with incredibly atmospheric graphics and locations.

A few bright sparks also wrote ‘The Quill’ and ‘Graphic Adventure Creator’ which allowed lovers of the genre, like myself, to even write their own adventures with little programming knowledge. Planning all your locations, possible exits and item locations on scrap bits of paper….aaah the memories!

It’s a shame Graphical Text adventures then seemed to die a death with the advancement of technology. I think the last ones I played were ‘The Pawn’ and ‘Jinxter’, both which had beautifully drawn environments, on my Atari ST Mega 4.

‘Gaming Consoles’ materialised – and the rest, as they say, is history.

I remember playing mortal kombat,street fighter and Tetris in a small arcade in the back of a video shop when I was about sixteen but I didnt really get into gaMing until one day when I was 19 or 20 and my girlfriends brother borrowed his friends ps1 so that he could play ff7.I sat down to watch him for a little bit and got engrossed in the whole game just as a viewer that I HAD to play it for myself.so I got a ps1 and rented a copy of ff7 for a week andbl played it non stop.except,the week I rented it for turned into 3 weeks,and I STILL couldn’t make myself bring the game back to the shop.I ended up buying it and played it exclusively for about 18 months.ever since I have been hooked on PlayStation and rpgs.so I guess I should say thank you Sony …..my girlfriend on the other hand won’t thank you any time soon

Merlin: a games machine that looked like a giant red mobile phone. It was the early 80s, I was 11 and this was brilliant. It could play noughts and crosses, a Simon-like music game, blackjack, and a couple of other games. While it was my first games console, but I’m not sure it counts as a ‘video’ game, so…

My best mate’s parents were starting a holiday cottage business in Northumberland, and decided to buy a Commodore VIC-20 Color Computer. I’m not sure they fully understood what it could do, but realised that personal computers were a good idea. I was fascinated.

I bought a copy of a new magazine called Computer & Video Games and pored over every detail, including the games listings. The cover eventually fell off, as it was so well-thumbed, and in 1983 I got my own VIC-20, a 16k RAM pack, an Atari-style joystick, and a copy of Audiogenic’s Amok – a remarkably advanced version of Berserk for the time. Heaven.

We’re going back to the early ’90s here, but I’ll do my best! Being about four years old at the time, it’s hard to recall all the facts, but there was one fateful day when my dad came home (possibly for my birthday) with a Sega Master System, featuring the original Sonic the Hedgehog title built-in (I still love this concept; how about Uncharted 4 built-in with all PS4s eh, Sony? Hint-hint). It was my first encounter with video games, but according to my dad I spent 14 consecutive hours just on Sonic. Funnily enough, I repurchased it from the PS Store recently, and I’m terrible at it. My younger self would be disappointed.

It all snowballed from there! I went from Sonic to other Master System titles like Altered Beast and Golvellius, the latter of which is a Zelda-esque adventure title that neither my dad nor I were ever able to finish! In fairness, I was five years old and he wasn’t much of a gamer, but we tried! After that, I also acquired a SNES (Super Mario World!) before my dad got me a PS1 for my seventh birthday. I’ve been hooked on Sony consoles ever since, but I’ll never forget those vague memories of spending days chasing chaos emeralds and using passwords instead of save files!

In 1999 I got my PS1 and Spyro the Dragon: Year of the Dragon. As a result I got Spyro 2 and Crash,1 and 3, then I got Rayman 1 and Rayman 2. I was not dissappointed, I became a huge gamer as a result of all this. Now here I am owning the PS1 to the PS3 with the PS4 soon to be added to my collection, I also have a PSP and a Vita which I love dearly.

Well, when I was small and open-minded (and, as we all know, the trouble with having an open mind is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it) friends presented me with a wisdom which quite literally might have changed my life.
One of them was snooping around through his parent’s loads of doodaloo goods to discover an “original” gameboy sitting beneath the pile. Pretty soon we got into playing Tetris and Donkey Kong.
Setting child’s imagination on fire is one of the most dangerous things u could do. Every evening we were the participants of a great tournament followed by the fantastic prize. Well, maybe not, but then again prize doesn’t have to be big to seem fantastic, perspective is everything, and children’s perspective is usually very fascinating.
I think that experience is pretty much what has made me the gamer I am today. For better or for worse.

The funny thing is my father got me into gaming by giving me an ATARI, it’s funny because he later always complained that I was way too old to game. When I was a college student he used to say: look at the student playing video games. But now that I have a serious job, I’m still playing!

I remember playing Firefox, a plastic tabletop game that tried very hard to be space invaders without being space invaders! But it all really started with my trusty C64. Being able to (at least try) to program games as well as play them got me hooked. Since then I think I’ve ownedà almost every console going at one point or another with possible exceptions of a 3DO and a Jaguar. I’ve certainly owned every Playstationat one point or another. As far a as games go, I have fond memories of wizball on my C64, virus fighter on my mega drive and Secret of Mana for my Snes. But my fondest memory probably goes to the first time I loaded up final fantasy 7 on my ps. I remember being astounded that this was playing on something under my tv rather than on some sort of supercomputer.

Back to 90′s when I got my first NES console with “Duck Hunt” (1984).
That was amazing game with pistols. Then I didn’t think that this graphic is ugly. It was for me just brilliant and the game itself. I hid behind the chair and shoot the ducks as if I was a true hunter. Those were great times.

I remember playing an arcade machine with several Nintendo games when I was little and being completely fascinated with Super Mario Bros. I was so excited about this game that I tried to persuade my parent to buy me a NES as soon as I arrived at home. It was a tough task, because my parents were very stubborn, but finally they gave up and I achieved my goal after a lot of effort.
I even remember spending much time gazing at the box and user manual art fantasizing about the game world.

I think the first game ever was frogger, and i’m still wondering if i imagined part of the game. I kept thinking that if you got to the top sometimes a crocodile ate you. Maybe i imagined that o_O. I for some reason thought the game was called leap frog and got very confused in school when people asked me to play leap frog and told me to jump over them.

Aside from that I have vague memories of playing double dragon and shinobi on a friend’s amiga. Those games really struck a chord with me and I had a huge passion for ninja games. I still do PS2 shinobi and the streets of rage series are still some of my favourite games right up their with yakuza as well. I guess it was the beginning of me loving sega.

I first saw video games on my friend’s house, and needless to say, I was very impressed. I was pretty alone in my childhood with none of my school friends living nearby and no child near my house of same age as mine, being single child only added to that sense of loneliness. But thanks to video games, that changed.I started playing video games with classics like Super Mario Bros. (a game which I remembered in my childhood not as Mario, but a game where at the end of a level you will go to a castle!), Contra (co-op with my best friend was a BLAST), and other gems like Snow Bros. and some other Japanese games. And obviously Megaman 3 (I still fondly remember the day I defeated Snake Man).
It would not be wrong to say that video games played a very major part in what I am today.

Real old skool gamers will understand the relevance of ‘HHH’.

It was Christmas 1987 when I was 8, and I unwrapped my presents to find a Spectrum 48k and a box of around 100 games. Needless to say, I spent the rest of Christmas day discovering the joys of gaming, and pretty much all my life after that! I still remember the joy of finding a game that looked fun, loading it into the cassette player, waiting for 5 minutes just staring at the loading lines and listening to the loading whine with anticipation. On that Spectrum, the games that really captivated me where the early Codemasters titles Dizzy. I played the first Dizzy to death, and when the second came out the following year that was completed also. I eventually bought and completed all 9 Dizzy games that were released (not counting the silly spin offs). That’s one video game character I would love to get a reboot – and I’m surprised it hasn’t happened given the games popularity in late 80′s/early 90′s. I envision a hybrid RPG/platformer…. come on Codemasters

I owe my status as a gamer to my older brother. He looked after me a lot when I was young and my parents had to work all the time. He bought me a SNES, Mega Drive, and Master System out of his own money, and each week would treat me to a new game if I behaved well. The earliest game I remember playing was Taz-Mania, and that provided me with so much fun during my childhood!
A couple of years later, he came home from work one day with a PlayStation! Most of the games were a bit beyond me at the time though, being only 7 or 8. However, Spyro was an ultimate favourite of mine (and I’m loving playing the trilogy on the vita currently). I remember also, each day I would come home from school, and wait for my brother to get home from work, and then demand he play Resident Evil while hiding half-behind his chair. It’s from my brother I developed my traits as a gamer, and now I even have 2 Resident Evil platinum trophies! – No more hiding for me

I was eight and my cousin showed me the newest game out for the Spectrum – Manic Miner. I was captivated … thirty years on I’m still gaming

It all started on my sister’s 5-year birthday… I was only 3 back then.

My dad had bought my sister the original PlayStation, which she had wished for. We plugged in the PS, and by “we”, I mean my dad, and I can still remember seeing the PS logo and sound popping up on screen as we were about to play Monsters Inc. for the first time. Oh the nostalgia…

After a while, my sister grew tired of playing, so she handed the controller to me, and I ended up pretty much playing the entire game while my sister was watching me play it. And before I knew, I was hooked on gaming.

The fun thing is though, I guess, in a way, my sister was the one who got me into playing video games, but about 4 months ago, she briefly watched me play Assassin’s Creed II, and she really liked the feel of the game. So then eventually she wanted to play it for herself, and now she’s completed every game in the franchise (excluding the first one and the spin-offs). And that got her hooked on gaming for herself, so now she’s playing all sorts of games, like Prince Of Persia, DmC and Deus Ex. And it’s only been 4 months!

So I guess, in a way, my sister got me into gaming, and I got her into gaming. Heh, funny how things work out…

Well it’s refreshing to find so many of us ‘oldies’ still into video games. My first console was a Grandstand from the very early 80′s, bat and ball with a huge 4 colour resolution. 30 plus years later and I’m still into them having collected almost every major console in that time.

My parents were really strict about me playing any video games. My friends all had Gameboys and Super Nintendo systems and I was not allowed to own one. Years later the original Playstation was released and I managed to convince my parents to rent one for a week from a video shop. We rented 2 games Crash Bandicoot and Final Fantasy VII. These games started me into gaming. We didn’t have memory cards so we only played up until it was time to turn it off.
One memory was in Final Fantasy VII I could play up until the first boss of the game and died every time. The main reason was that I didn’t know what the word counterattack meant and I kept dying until I gave up.
Crash Bandicoot was not much different. I played up and passed the first boss but lost all my lives and since I had no Memory Card I had to start again. It was a painful experience to hand back the Playstation on the end of the week.

A few years later I actually won a Playstation with Formula 1 98. The first game I bought was the wondrous and legendary Rugrats: Search for Reptar. Fortunately, Spyro soon followed.
I eventually got Final Fantasy VII again this time I knew what counterattack meant.
The one that meant the most to we was Final Fantasy VIII. It was the first game I completed. The story was amazing and helped me get into gaming more.

started back in the late 80s with a C64.. a couple of games I remeber are summer / winter games -> playing that together with my little brother are gre memories and they brought a lot of joysticks to the end… I also remember kaiser, a round based stradegy game, that i simply loved and played hours, als well as maniac mansion… nowadays nobody probably would try to solve a game like that, being tuck for hours… but back then we did…

last but not least there were magazines that had basic assembly codes to type, normaly a couple of pages and compiled it was a mostly simple game.. we spend hours on that, just to see the result then… as I started playing with 11, its now 24 years of gaming and a lot of memories, but thats who it started…

I first got into gaming when i moved in with my fiance, He was always playing his PS3 and 1 day i asked if i could quickly have a try. This ‘quick try’ turned into a 2 hour session of ‘Dragon Age Origins’I immediately fell in love with the game and i became a huge fan of ‘Decision making’ games, like Mass effect and The Walking Dead. It has now been almost 2 years since that day and im proud to say, that i have recently completed my 3rd playthrough of the Mass Effect Trilogy,Defeated the ‘Ur Dragon’ from Dragons Dogma and i am somehow managing to scrape my way through Dark souls =D Gaming has become a huge part of my life, and i spend so much of my free time on the PS3 that my fiance rarely gets a chance anymore, although, he still insists that he is a better gamer than me,but my motto is, ‘You dont have to be a guy to be a gamer’ =P

My dad was in software sales in the mid 80s and so we always had a PC around; therefore my first experience was DOS games. I loved arcadey games like Willy the Worm, Moon Patrol and Cat, but the one that really captured the imagination and brought the family together around the PC monitor was Sierra’s “King’s Quest”. Spectacular game, which I’ll never forget.

Oh, I remember it as if it were yesterday. The year was 2000, I was four years old (and extremely smart for my age). I was with my mam and dad. My dad had the controller, and I’d sit watching him play that dinosaur of a PlayStation. He had just gotten the first game we’d ever had on the console, “James Bond: Tomorrow Never Dies”.

After a few hours of watching him, he was stuck on a mission. The objective was to use bombs to destroy four jeeps hidden around an enemy base. After he found the jeeps and planted the bombs, I told him to use the phone in his inventory. He wouldn’t listen, trying to shoot the bombs, search for a detonator, walking, waiting, clearing out the base.

After 20 minutes had passed, all the while me telling him to use the phone all the while, he finally gives in to my idea and uses it. A small cutscene played, the bombs blew up, and I felt victorious. I remember so much from that game. The levels the music, the skii chase. Later victories would soon follow, like the way we beat Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone for the PS1 (without the rest of the families knowledge). The Gringotts minecart levels still haunt me to this day. From thereon, Spyro, Rayman, more Harry Potters, EyeToy, ect.

@Fred,
When will the results be announced? Get excited here

Refreshing every few minutes, so excited about this (I wanted this game ever since it was it was announced ) and even tough I kinda know I am not one of the lucky winers, there is still some hope

My first game was on NES.When I was two years old my father gave it to me.That is a very important memories for me.

I remember my parents told me that I was about 5 or 6 years old when I got my first ever console and it was SNES and to be honest I did not knew the name of the console until I was 14 and I am 17 years old now.

Mario on SNES was actually my first game that I played. Of course I would say that whoever played Mario in their childhood must have fall in love with that game easily. But not only Mario but also Contra was the game that I played and loved. I played these 2 games with my cousin and my friends almost everyday. These are the 2 games that I easily remember and can never forget because they were, and still are brilliant games.

After this I got PS1 as a gift from someone but got soon replaced by PS2. I would say that my interest in video games greatly increased because of the PS2 and its brilliant games like Jak and Daxter and Kingdom Hearts.

Nowadays I’m still gaming and even earning trophies on PSN. I now have got PS3 and also PS Vita and I love how the gaming has increasingly become one of the biggest part of my life.

Long Live Gaming!

even tho its over I guess I’ll give my two cents. Difficult one tbh I remember when I was around 8 I’d go up my friends house and amongst the real wrestling and Pokemon Cards (I WAS 8) it was all about…SMASH TV!!. Man that game was so god damn addictive I wish my life was all about “BIG MONEY, BIG PRIZES” but anyway I remember we never finished it (I know we were 8 but man we sucked). That was the first game a remember playing, I didn’t really start gaming proper till I was in my early teens on ps2 snake eater was the game that just was so Ingrossing climbing that ladder with the snake eater theme playing I will NEVER forget it! And after that I was unhealthy hooked on video games like propped unhealthy, didn’t go out, didn’t really make friends (heck I got 2 friends on psn…oh boy) one day it’s to a come back and bite me in the ass and who knows Mabey gaming would have been the best and worst thing to ever be introduced I to my life.

Wow! Thank you Fred it’s good to come home to this after a tiring night shift. I have a problem though. I haven’t logged in to the forums before, so when I logged in I didn’t have any private messages. I’ve looked onto my profile and it says I registered today half an hour ago.

My memory card can’t handle this game onslaught with the Plus stuff, I don’t know what do delete. I should just use my other 8 gig card but that would ruin my theme. Time for a 32 gig I guess…