How did you become a Gamer?

[Wake_Island]

What got you into gaming?

 

This is my story for PC gaming!

I loved playing on my PS3 but it was slow and I was getting older and I wanted to try something new,

I had a windows vista that had a graphics card (I think) anyways the PSU broke and my parents never wanted to fix it so I was stuck with another windows vista that crashed overheated and could not play games!

I was playing WOT and 7 fps in fields and no ground it was time for a upgrade!

I had no money so I started saving I saved up 210$ and my mother said if I get all A+ for school she would put 500$ towards my new PC!

Well I ran around YouTube asking people "wail diz grapics card max out bf3" At that time my grammar was bad and I was computer ellrited I soon caught on learning what a CPU MoBo and so one, I found the computer I wanted I dished out my money just to have tons of problems turns out my graphics card broke and I screwed around like 6 months before I finial returned it to get fixed! Near the end of summer I was a full gamer except for one problem I was using my TV as a monitor and it bloated everything it was just bad! I got a new display and I was all ready for gaming! I have had a bunch of fun and the only time I touch my ps3 is when I am watching Netflix on my ps3.

This was what happened for a long time

 

Here’s me now

 

I get 80 fps maxed out Lighting, Flora density off, Shadows and Post processing off  I get graphic issues if I have them on.

 

Current setup

Gigabyte Radeon 6870 OC edition

FX-4100

GA-78LMT MOBO

600 W PSU

Thermicate V3 Case

Wireless Keyboard and Mouse

[Thearl]

Combat, Warlords, Breakthrough, Defender, and Space invaders on the Atari 2600 moved me to the Colecovision with Pitfall, Zaxxon, Frogger, Donkey Kong, and Joust And a Commodore 64 with Wasteland and The Bards Tale.  Upgraded to the Commodore Amiga and got a 1200 Baud Modem -  M.U.D.D.s on B.B.S.s -  that is all it took.

[Quaffer]

I had a friend in college who had his own computer.  I think it was a Sol 20 with a seven inch crt black and white display.  We used to play Startrek, which we would load on to the computer from a cassette deck.  The graphics were all ascii based on a nine by nine grid.  You could move your space ship and fire phasers and photon torpedos at Klingons and Romulans but if you went into an area where a photon torpedo had blown up, a three by three grid of hashmarks, I seem to recall you died.

 

That would have been in 1975 or so.  That's how I got my start.

[Super_Dreadnought]

Wake_Island, on 19 February 2013 - 05:23 PM, said:

What got you into gaming?

My parents bought me a Super Nintendo.

I turned it on.

I started playing video games.

The end.

[trojankv]

I played all the newest consoles growing up but online gaming started for me when a friend gave me a disk of the original Diablo.  Then he gave me a SC:Brood Wars disk.  Then a little later he started chatting up Everquest to me.  In my mind I told myself "I'll never pay $15 month to play a game.  They've got to be kidding, all these other games don't have a subscription to play online."  Then my friend had me come over to his house and showed me Everquest.  We were killing spiders outside of Halas on his level 1 barbarian rogue.  That was all it took.  I bought EQ on the way home.  Probably a lot similar to how a crack dealer works.  They lure you in with a few free samples then the next thing you know you're hooked.

[EndlessSoul]

I became a gamer the night my mom brought home PONG, followed by Atari 2600, and Intellevision.

 

Endless "Old school" Soul

[snoopy_jr]

Im sad to report that N64 got me into gaming, but PC gaming was due to WoW... Spent too much of my life on that game before I finally quit.  Now its only Wargamming Games.  WoT, WoP and soon to be WoWs.  NavyField was what got me into these kinds of games.

[Wunderwaffen1945]

Slow down wake.........btw, i do this just for fun at my free time and that time is going to be even shorter with time

[Thearl]

Quaffer, on 19 February 2013 - 06:22 PM, said:

I had a friend in college who had his own computer.  I think it was a Sol 20 with a seven inch crt black and white display.  We used to play Startrek, which we would load on to the computer from a cassette deck.  The graphics were all ascii based on a nine by nine grid.  You could move your space ship and fire phasers and photon torpedos at Klingons and Romulans but if you went into an area where a photon torpedo had blown up, a three by three grid of hashmarks, I seem to recall you died.

That would have been in 1975 or so.  That's how I got my start.

I totally remember that game!  We had a version of it on the Apple II in advanced placement class, and yeah, any hash grid contact was bad for you.  We also had an ascii hunting game on diskette for it.  I don't recall the name, but it was go through the maze, avoid pits, and when you though you were in the grid beside the beastie, you fired a --> at the grid and if the beast was there, you won.

[Daltron]

Lionel 3D TrainTown Deluxe, followed by multitudes of world war two games that were available in the late 90's (I was five in '99).

 

I still have the original disc to TrainTown... I love that game.

[Quaffer]

Thearl, on 19 February 2013 - 08:10 PM, said:

I totally remember that game!  We had a version of it on the Apple II in advanced placement class, and yeah, any hash grid contact was bad for you.  We also had an ascii hunting game on diskette for it.  I don't recall the name, but it was go through the maze, avoid pits, and when you though you were in the grid beside the beastie, you fired a --> at the grid and if the beast was there, you won.

The game you are thinking of was called "Hunt the Wumpus".  I had a version for my HP41C calculator that was laid out like the vertices of a dodecahedron. Every tunnel led to a room with two other tunnels and if the beast wasn't where you fired your arrow he got you.

Shades of Zork!

[Wake_Island]

You guys are so old lol.

[cmcpaulinc]

i, the young one got a gameboy and pokemon blue.

 

the end

[EndlessSoul]

Wake_Island, on 19 February 2013 - 10:14 PM, said:

You guys are so old lol.

We're not old, we're just...experienced.  :Smile_glasses:

Endless "Very experienced" Soul

[Windhover118]

I blame my brother. When I was a kid my older brother had a first generation xbox that he would let me play from time to time. We also had an old gamecube but I wasnt allowed to us it very much. I eventually got my own playstation 2 and started playing games like Medal of Honor. Then going into high school I gained access to a computer and my freinds intoduced me to online gaming mainly playing arcade games but I also got involved in a MMO called ogame. It was just a text based game but it led to me playing games like Deepolis, Battlestar Galactica Online, Dark Orbit and eventually Star Trek online.

[Quaffer]

Wake_Island, on 19 February 2013 - 10:14 PM, said:

You guys are so old lol.

EndlessSoul, on 19 February 2013 - 10:58 PM, said:

We're not old, we're just...experienced.  :Smile_glasses:

Endless "Very experienced" Soul

It is not that we are so old.  It is that you are so young.  I own music that is older than you are, and possibly alcohol.  Come to that I have children that are older than you.  But don't worry.  There is a cure for that.  It's called time.

:Smile_bajan2:

[LightningStriker911]

When i was 8, my friends got a PSP. She, (Girl gamer, crazy, i know but anyhow) showed me all her games and how to play it. I told my parents to buy me a PSP for Christmas. After couple of months, that christmas night, i got a new PSP (WOHOO!) and i played for the whole night. My first game i ever played was GTA and Call of Duty 3. After playing that night, i got addicted and i became a Gamer. (Yay!)

[EvolGrinZ]

My gaming "career" started as soon as I could operate the controllers from thin Pong game that you used to hook up to the TV.

Later we upgraded to a ZX-Spectrum, we also had 3 books with gamecode in them that we would type over to expand our games on it.

Then we got an Atari PC for a while. And then we got a 286 and upgraded to newer computers everytime.

 

My online gaming started when I found out about MUD's, (Multi User Dungeons/Domains). My parents didn't like the phonebills that I gave them though.

And then internet was born, I was still playing MUD's until I found Runescape. Played that for a while and turned to World of Warcraft.

After WoW I played so many MMO's it would be impossible to name them here. A lot of them were beta tests too. But the game that hooked me for the longest time is EVE-Online.

And currently I stopped playing WoT, just tired of the crying and complaining about everything and everyone. I am playing Perfect World International now instead, found a nice faction with friendly players who are as crazy as I am.

I will probably be playing that game till I get an invite for WoWs Alpha.

[Galdor302]

As a kid I had an Atari 2600 back in the early 80's, but I would never have considered myself a gamer, I preferred playing outside. It wasn't until my wife was pregnant back in 97' and she was to sick to leave the bedroom that I figured it would be a great way to spend my time as she slept(in between runs to the store for watermelons, her big pregnancy craving). With my new PC at the time I really got into my first couple games: Warcraft II & Dungeon Keeper.

After that it was Neverwinter Nights, World of Warcraft, and even some Eve Online, but as anyone with kids knows, it's hard to put time into  those games when you have other priorities in life.

World of Tanks/Warplanes/Warships fit my lifestyle a lot more as those games don't require a huge time sink to have fun so I have a feeling this is where I will spend the rest of my gaming time.

[igorfc]

For me everything started out of my first video-game, a Polistation, that was a bad made copy of the playstation 1, but

it hook me up so bad that a necessity was born, the necessity to game, so I beg for my mom and dad for a Nintendo

64 that was the greatest think of the world back in late 90's early 2000's along with the playstation 1, but it was

expensive in Brazil back then(maybe in the whole world, IDK), so I was told by my parents to wait till' xmas, so I did

that, and one fateful day, when I walked up my room in the morning, there it was, a brand-new grey transparent special

limited edition N64, I almost cryed! then after playing my [edited]-off for some few years, I decided it was time to move on, I

already had an almost decent pc back then, I think it was an windows 98.

 

Well, then I was introduced to a MMORPG,THE MMORPG, Ragnarok Online, it was like a fever in Brazil, everyone played it, then like my friend trojankv said, the companies work like crack dealers, once we were addicted after a long free time, we should pay to keep playing, so I said "[edited] this crap! I'am not paying a thing!" so I used the little english knowledge I had back then to find a free pirate server, then I found a korean server that was like an international community, people from all over the world, since it was one of the first free servers and a lot of people didn't wanted to pay as me, we got there.

 

I kept playing Ragnarok for a lot of years and other games too as the computer technology advanced, mostly FPS, RTS, SIMs and on and on, eventually I stop playing Ragnarok two or three years ago, and kept playing just WoT and other games(none of then online) then two months ago, there was a eletrical discharge and since my no-break was broke, it toasted my motherboard and my video-card, so I bought a new motherboard and still saving money for my video-card and a new no-break, keeping my PC off till' I get the no-break, I'am using a PC that is not mine, working all day long, and going to college by night, so I'am not much of a gamer right now...

 

PS: Text wall...

[Thearl]

Shades of Zork!!  Awesome.  you just brought back a hundred hours of shillelagh memories.

 

King's Quest!

 

I found and downloaded the apple II version of The Bard's Tale: Tales of the Unkwown last night.  Death and Drek, I hate 7 Hobgoblins.

[International_Barfighter]

Let's see.  For me it goes back to Pitfall and Frogger on the Atari 2600 and

on the Apple IIc we had.  I also got in very early on the BBS/MUD world, I recall 300 baud connections for Trade Wars, and then a few years later this thing called 'InterNet' came along, like an expanded version of the FidoNet I was used to.  I played Medievia almost excessively, one of the first true Massively Multiplayer games.  I also still remember the thrill when I would finally get my config.sys and autoexec.bat set up correctly to be able to play everything, and the rush when we finally got that SVGA card so that I could play SimCity 2000 (!)

 

Edit:  Let's not forget Nethack, and the old Apple II game version of The Hobbit.

[mr3awsome]

I got a PS2 and LEGO Star Wars. Then i got a memory card for it.

Stuff happened

I played a free to play game that was sub par

I play WoT with average 10fps

I wait for this.

[sgtpepper500]

I started out by playing the N64 with an older friend, then I got a gamecube with Super Smash Brothers Melee, and then a ps3 with Warhawk. I have since moved on to be pc elitest with such games as Teamfortress 2,  BF3, and WOT. Once I move on to college this year I hope to still be able to play WOWS when it comes.

[SG_ONeill]

So, how I started gaming goes something like this:

 

Dynamite Joe (Windows 95/98)

 

Then to Gameboy:

-- Pokemon Blue, Silver, Ruby (GBC, GBA)

 

Then back to PC:

-- SWAT 3 & 4, Halo 1 & 2, Silent Hunter 3 & 4, Company of Heroes, World in Conflict, NavyField, Rainbow Six: Vegas, World of Tanks, and finally Star Trek Online.

 

So yeah, not a stranger to gaming at all.  :Smile-_tongue: