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bonzobanana on 31 March 2014
funkateer2 said:

"The game that really started my addiction for gaming was Elite on the BBC."</quote>

Wow, that brings back memories. I remember having sleep-overs at a friends house who had a C64 with Elite. We played it in turns (every turn a hyperspace jump) and that went on 'till the sun went up. It was just pure magic.

Quite a slow version on the C64 though as it only had a 1mhz processor.  Still very good though but not as playable as some of the faster versions like on the BBC or BBC tube.

New version of Elite soon, Elite Dangerous, so looking forward to it;



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adriane23 on 31 March 2014

Super Mario Brothers, Duck Hunt, and Metroid. These were the games that started it all for me.

 

EDIT: And I can't forget about these guys.



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DerpSandwich on 31 March 2014
ganoncrotch said:
DerpSandwich said:
My first system was a Sega Genesis, and my first game was Sonic 2. The game itself didn't exactly turn me into a gamer, but that was at least the start of it. Wanting the system was just sort of a natural thing, I'm not even sure what drove me to it.


Was because Genesis does, what nintenDont!


It's funny you should say that, because one or two years later I sold my Genesis and got an SNES, haha.  (Though I obviously should have just kept the Genesis and had both!)



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nicktwilight on 31 March 2014

Many more than I expected started their gaming with Sega's offerings.It must have been tough to see them abandon the hardware race.I'm a Nintendo gamer and I was shocked back then even if it was somewhat expected given the poor sales of both Saturn and Dreamcast.



lt_dan_27 on 31 March 2014

I've always played games, but COD4 is the first one I played ton.



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game_on on 31 March 2014

Phoenix, arcade version.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_(video_game)

First game I ever played, never stopped.



LiquorandGunFun on 31 March 2014

One day I came home from school and my dad bought an Atari 7800 = Food fight and Pole Position were the first 2 games I ever played, a few years later I played the first WWF game on the NES and it was so fun being Hulk Hogan and fighting Andre the Giant. I absolutley had to get one for TMNT video game, I saved for over a year of birthday and xmas money to buy my first NES.

Some images of around 30 something years ago of some BADASS gfx!

Poleposition

food fight



 

Angelv577 on 31 March 2014

for me, it was the first mario bros on NES, was very addicted and from that moment, never look back



Ganoncrotch on 31 March 2014
DerpSandwich said:
ganoncrotch said:
DerpSandwich said:
My first system was a Sega Genesis, and my first game was Sonic 2. The game itself didn't exactly turn me into a gamer, but that was at least the start of it. Wanting the system was just sort of a natural thing, I'm not even sure what drove me to it.


Was because Genesis does, what nintenDont!


It's funny you should say that, because one or two years later I sold my Genesis and got an SNES, haha.  (Though I obviously should have just kept the Genesis and had both!)

I had the megadrive for all of that generation right to the very end we got a loan of our cousins SNES, got my hands on a link to the past.... then Secret of Mana, Evermore, Illusions of Time. The SNES destroyed the megadrive with its library of RPGs, the music of Mana is still in my itunes most played lists.

Always hated mario tho when it was between Megadrive Sonic and SNES Mario. loved the hell outta yoshis Island but that technically wasn't a mario game >.> right? 3d sure changed those views right around lol.



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marley on 31 March 2014
LiquorandGunFun said:

One day I came home from school and my dad bought an Atari 7800 = Food fight and Pole Position were the first 2 games I ever played, a few years later I played the first WWF game on the NES and it was so fun being Hulk Hogan and fighting Andre the Giant. I absolutley had to get one for TMNT video game, I saved for over a year of birthday and xmas money to buy my first NES.

Some images of around 30 something years ago of some BADASS gfx!

Poleposition

food fight


Ha!  Thanks for reminding me of Food Fight :)  My cousins and I played that game for countless hours as kids. 

Although I grew up on hundreds of Atari games, it wasn't until SMB that I really became a gamer.