How did u get introduced 2 video games and online? [Archive] - PMS

Mr Ac1d

04-08-2008, 07:13 PM

I havent seen a thread on this and I think it would be a good way 2 understand how other ppl got introduced into the gaming world. For me personally when I was like 5 my grandma bought me a super nintendo and i played games like NFL gameday and super mario lol good times. And the game i started online with was madden 05 on ps2 . The whole online expereince got me pretty addicted and I must say ive played way way more after that then i ever did without online

Lanseril Storm

04-08-2008, 07:32 PM

Well I was playing atari and Nintendo and such but the game that introduced me to online play was Tribes Aerial Assault for the ps2 and in my opinion is still the best FPS shooter I have ever played. Just all around a good game, No one side had a advantage, the weapons were the same for both teams and it took great amount of teamwork to succeed. You had your base defenders who kept your gens up cause without your gens your turrets could be taken down cause they wouldnt work, the vehichle station was down. You had your missle defenders to take down vehichles and people as they flew in. Your flag runners, your assault plane guys, your base disruptors, just a great game all around.

NmE Seth

04-08-2008, 07:40 PM

Gaming...Super Nintendo, My dad bought us every single super nintendo game...hehe...

As for online, always been gaming online on my comp..I'm only 15, so I guess yeah, forever I guess....wc3 mostly.

PoopSama

04-08-2008, 10:53 PM

i started out playing Pinball at the laundry mat when i was like 4.then my step dad bought a NES played stuff like Mario and Paperboy.i was hooked on all the Nintendo systems them the xbox came up and i fell in love with master chief...
what got me online gaming was cod2...so yeah that about sums it up.

JokeDeity

04-08-2008, 11:49 PM

Oh, my first gaming experiences were with my cousin in our grandparents basement, we racked up so many hours in Super Mario World, which was my first game, and I still love it to this day.

As for online gaming, I'm pretty sure Diablo was the first game I got into for playing online with other people.

H2O Niz3l

04-09-2008, 12:43 AM

I started gaming on the nintendo with the game where you have a gun and you shoot ducks or birds or something, lol good times.

hmmm I think the first game I ever played online was counter-strike or maybe starcraft.

JokeDeity

04-09-2008, 09:31 PM

^Duckhunt, Duckhunt, Duckhunt!

Draco88

04-10-2008, 10:42 AM

Duckhunt was one of my first games also, but the very first was kirby's adventure on the nintendo. I could play that game for hours.

ItsRipley PMS

04-10-2008, 11:13 AM

Well, I have four older brothers who always played fighter games and such when I was a baby. I started playing games like Duck Hunt and Mario and things for the Nintendo -- then moved on to the Super NES and played things like Killer Instinct, Mortal Kombat, etc. From there, it just exploded... Road Rash, Skitchin', NBA games, Madden, ThemePark, Pitfall... you name it, I played it. I had Sega Channel; $15 a month and you get like 30 games or something like that.

When I was 14, a guy I really liked played a ton of Socom and I was playing Counter-Strike with my old all-female clan. I didn't want anything to do with online play for consoles, but he made me get it and I fell in love. Not with him, of course (har, har) but with Socom. Now I'm all over the place; PC, 360, PS3 and the occasional Wii.

Black Capone

04-10-2008, 12:38 PM

Yo momma introduced me. OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :P

lol, we had a Sega Genesis when l was three, and my mother, aunt, and l played Pac-Man on it all day long. Then we got the N64, then a PlayStation, PlayStation 2, and wanted to play online when the Xbox came out, but we never had internet........l've only been gaming online for........two years, l think....

H2O deathr0w

04-10-2008, 03:24 PM

Hmm.. My mom and dad were addicts on the Sega which got me into it.

Mr Ac1d

04-10-2008, 04:41 PM

PMS HateMaker

04-10-2008, 05:39 PM

Duck hunt lol My mom and step-dad bought us (myself and my step-siblings) a Nintendo when they first came out (the original one..I'm so totally old) so I guess the first game I ever owned was Super Mario Brothers...again the first one. But before that I seem to remember playing Frogger on the Atari at my step-grandmother's house.

We then got a Sega-Genesis and some of my best memories of my little brother is when he was 8 and I was 16 we would play Sonic the Hedgehog and Mortal Kombat together, while we sprawled out on the living room floor with the stereo up REALLY loud.

My introduction to online gaming came at about 23 when my boyfriend at the time showed me EverQuest...for those of you who have no idea what that is: its basically what World of Warcraft is based on. I started playing shooters after I got married and moved to Canada and my husband and his buddies were hooked on Socom. Now I'm much better at shooters than he is *smirks*.

PMS Poison Feen

04-11-2008, 11:09 AM

I started couple of years ago...like my sophmore year of college...my boyfriend at the time started me on xbox...and playing Ghost Recon with his Clan...then i switched to the Xbox 360 and just played family games...then i got into FF 11 i think it was...then i meet the PMS girls and decided to try Gears of War...and that is were i am now...i am still a noob at it...hehe...peace yall see ya in cyber/gaming world

H2O Hamlet

04-11-2008, 12:40 PM

When I was 2 years old, I kid you not, my parents bought me a Sega Genesis and I played Sonic 24/7. I actually beat the game and by the time I was 4 I was plugging my game consoles into the TV myself. That is kind of ridiculus, being so young, but my parents always remind me of when I'd go to family houses and the older kids never let me play because I was so young. After I complained to mommy and daddy (I was 2-3 at the time so I'm allowed) they let me play... And I basically owned them.

Sonic owns you ok? So now that I am 17 turning 18, I've roughly played for 15-16 years. Started out on console, and staying on console. I have played PC, but never played FPS on PC. FPS is only for Console for me.

PMS Tiny Zombie

04-14-2008, 04:29 AM

My Dad had an Atari, and I started out on Pong and Frogger. From there, I moved to the NES, playing Mario, Battle Toads, and other various titles. For Christmas when I was six or seven I got an SNES, and was playing all of the Mario titles on it. When I turned 12, I got a Playstation, and my very first game for it was Final Fantasy VII, therefore I fell in love with the RPG genre. We upgraded to a PS2 when they came out, and I continued my love of RPGs. Then, my brother bought an XBOX and we started playing Halo. I wasn't very good, so at first it didn't appeal to me. A few years later, I got a gamecube, continued with RPGs, especially Legend of Zelda titles and such. Then, I joined the Army about a year ago, and from there, I started playing Halo 3. I've been in love with H3 ever since, and it doesn't help that my boyfriend is an avid H3 player himself. :mvboogie:

meow

04-14-2008, 10:31 AM

I started gaming with my NES. First game I got was Super Mario Bros. I got into online gaming through Tribes Aerial Assault on the PS2.

HvK DEMON

04-14-2008, 10:43 AM

first game ever played was rancid city for the SN and i got really into online gaming around 12 when my cousen was playing halo 2 online and was just like omg i have to get into this and i did.

NmE Seth

04-14-2008, 11:32 AM

Lol My parents bought our Super Nintendo, they bought it so THEY could play it, but that quickly changed...

The Original Zelda.....Goood freaking times, many hours wasted of my child-hood.

ZigZag

04-14-2008, 11:32 AM

Through my son, who was perhaps 7 at the time. He played Halo and some other games on the PC back then. I got my own PC over 3 years ago and gave Halo a whirl--had a blast, but had issues using the keyboard and mouse. Finally got an original Xbox, and the rest is history! :cool:

SilentWolf

04-14-2008, 12:08 PM

My dad bought a kick ass comp in 98 and before that i was playing the snes but the game i really got addicted to was combat flight sim 98 with a sidewinder joystick ohh the joys, then i bought a gamecube,ps2 and xbox in quick succession after i realised pc gaming is to expensive till i get a proper job.

PMS ClubSammich

04-14-2008, 02:50 PM

I love your question, what a great way to see how it all began for all of us!

I started when my mom brought home Pong, and it was all over from there!:mvreallyhappy:
Through the years I have loved all types of video games, Diablo on the PC, Final Fantasy VII on Playstation, Mortal Kombat on Sega.

My husband introduced me to the Xbox. I had been a loyal Playstationista, but I am a changed woman now! Through this introduction, I have found a deep love for CoD4, and FPS games in general.

My husband is a gamer too, and we can mark our histories, both personal and as a couple, by the games we were glued to at the time. :mvgiggle:

Thanks again for the question :mvwave:

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Lanseril Storm

04-14-2008, 05:17 PM

H2O Psycho

04-14-2008, 07:32 PM

Well im only 12 so i grew up with newer stuff. When I was littler I played the Dreamcast a lot.I started with the game soulcalibur. I didnt kno wat to do except mash the buttons.I still be some of my dads friends tho lol. Great times!!!!!

Sh00t2K1LL

04-14-2008, 08:11 PM

Tetris was the first game i played. I started loving games and couldn't put them down after that.

Spartann109

04-14-2008, 08:55 PM

I was introduced to vids really young (1 or 2 years old) through my brothers. They got a Super Nintendo and let me play with them. When I got a bit older like 4 I started watching my brothers play games like some of the first FF's and I think that Zelda (N64) was my craze. I really can't remember too much about when I started playing some of the N64 games it must have been around the time when I was 4-6 or 7.

I think the time that I really started gaming a lot is when turned 8. My brother set me up on Halo on the campaign level Assault on the Control Room. Me and my best friend Jeremy have been play Halo since that day.

Oh ya and before Halo I play a ton of Black and White and Starcraft.

Megasoft Office 2001

04-19-2008, 04:03 AM

I was given a 386 computer and some games, like Castle of the Winds, Descent, and Duke Nukem, on floppy diskettes. Later on, I bought an NES with the original Final Fantasy and dungeon maps/monster charts from a garage sale for $20.

PMS Rascal

04-19-2008, 10:39 AM

O_o; my mom... she would play Tetris on the NES and say,"BET YOU CAN'T BEAT MY SCORE!!!" so I took up the challenge.. and I still can't beat her! >__<!!!!

As for online... it would be.. *hangs head* RO. o-o; The characters looked so cute.. that I just had to play!

Nirvana PMS

04-19-2008, 01:39 PM

Well...I was afraid to confess, but thanks to Club Sammich's honesty:mvreallyhappy: here goes: I, too, started out playing "Pong" at about 10. The next game "system" I owned was an Atari..Space Invader/ Centepede princess all the way:mvsmile: You know it's really bad when you go to Vegas for the first time in your life (summer before last) and you find yourself on the strip at the gaming place in front of a Centipede game!

Anyway, then I grew up and had 4 sons...who required Sega Genesis, NES, Super Nintendo, Dreamcast, N64, and XBOX. It was really when the boys started having Halo LANS that I got interested in gaming again (I'm going to totally disregard all the lost hours of my life playing Super Mario Brothers and Dr. Mario:mvgiggle:), and then sure enough...I was the oldest gamer in line jumping up and down at a little before midnite to buy Halo2 and get my first XBOX Live account...and the rest is PMS history:mvpmsh2o:

IRonCanucK

04-19-2008, 01:50 PM

NES - had it as a kid and always loved it, and when the pay checks started to come in from work at an older age i started to get my own gadgets and then came across the 360 and was hooked , haha :D

H2O Sonik

04-19-2008, 02:01 PM

my first videogame was probably stuff on the snes.. and this crappy underwater game on pc.
i started playing console online when xbox live just started.
and for pc... who knows i was playing online pc before cable

Famous

04-19-2008, 02:31 PM

the NES its how it started

H2O Mujestu

04-21-2008, 01:21 PM

I have to say I was grounded from outside the house. I was over my grandma's this was the time I didn't pay much attention to the nes.... I popped in Mario/Duck Hunt and a gold light appeared and thats how I was hooked...

For my online I went through alot of hell trying to try it out. For one thing I had Dial up which the connection was very bad. My first game was Phantasy Star Online I could not hook up to the server for almost 2 years. When I finally got on and hooked they closed the server down. So the first official game I started was Diablo 2.... The game was fun but got cliche.... So I tryied other games such as Knights Online, Ragnarock, Conflict, and then I met FFXI... Well that passes the question now... I now have dsl which give me problems time to time but it passes through :-)

MrPulsar

04-21-2008, 01:39 PM

Same as most people, Duck Hunt/Mario. FTW

First Online game was Red Alert 2, my biggest online Game was either Tribes 2 or Splinter Cell 2/3 Online Versus mode, along with PSO for several years.

Twisted

04-22-2008, 04:35 PM

I got a Super Nintendo for Christmas when I was 8 and my first games were Aladdin, Donkey Kong, and Super Mario Brothers. And Tetris. I think I have beaten Aladdin about zillion times,lol. I was introduced to online play on the xbox in Halo2. I played a rumble pit match and from there I have been playing like crazy. Game On!!!

TheGirlN3xtDoor

04-22-2008, 04:41 PM

:mvboogie:i started by playing halo PC!!!-love of my life.... my dad brought it home and hated it soooo i took it ive been an addict ever since Foooo that weeenn baby

PuertoRican

04-22-2008, 09:22 PM

My mom bought me the NES, back in 1988 or so.
She bought me 30+ games for it, and considering they were $50 for each game, that was a lot for the time. Her favorite was Casino Kid.

My mother then bought a PC, we started out with AOL when it first came out.
I remember wanting to get Windows 95 when it came out, but we were still rocking the Windows version b4 that.

We now had Windows 98, and in 1998, my mom brought home 2 PC games for me, Tomb Raider Gold and Starcraft.

I played Tomb Raider first cuz of the box cover, obvious reasons for a 15 year old.
I then found out it sucked bad after the second level, and I quit it.
I then popped in Starcraft, and 10 years later I am still playing it, and it also happens to revolve around my job.

STR8 B1TCHN

04-24-2008, 01:16 PM

My dad had a Super Nintendo (love mario) and my sister and I played the heck outta that when we were yonge. I had a N64 as well I played 007 and Didy Kong racing. I forgot about video games in my teens and didn't even know what an xbox was until I meet my boyfriend of going on 4 years now. We started playing Halo 1 together and I've been madly in love with him and the mater chief since then. He doesn't know it yet but there's going to be a mater chief at our wedding.

H2O Mujestu

04-25-2008, 08:17 AM

Master cheif?? It be fun to have a lil prank on the wedding when u get to the part "Does anyone object" have him come out and say I do!....... Wham Master chief appears.... But then of course he say it was a joke and continue with the wedding...

TheFirstStrike

04-25-2008, 09:57 AM

Started with NES for the console. C&C Red Alert was the PC game that got me into online gaming. So without that console and that game who knows where I would be now. :P

iFiRsT LaDy

05-02-2008, 12:49 PM

My gaming started with the original arcade pacman! Yeaya!! Then continued with Nintendo NES, Super Nintendo, Sega, N64, PS, PS2, Xbox, and now XBox 360! I honestly didnt really get involved in online play until i got the 360 and started playing Perfect Dark and then moved on to other games.

CrazyLSU

05-02-2008, 01:02 PM

I started with the NES that my great aunt and uncle bought me when i was like 4. I think my first game was like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. After that it started getting expensive. SNES, Sega Saturn, PS, N64, PS2, Xbox, Xbox 360, and PS3. O and I did do PC gaming for awhile in there. Besides playing PC online I think my first console online game was Halo 2. O I forgot... I did have a Dreamcast. What a great buy that ended up being.