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Xzbeat on 07 February 2007

What first got you into videogames? For me it was probably Mortal Kombat / Super Mario Kart on the SNES - going round to my mates on a saturday afternoon. Then he got a PS with Tekken / Ridge Racer and I was hooked!



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superchunk on 07 February 2007

Atari. Started with a few basics like tank and pac man and others. What really did me in was the NES. Going to my aunt/unlce's and watching them play SMB. Then it was allover.



staticneuron on 07 February 2007

Well I have played video games before but super mario was the start of the relationship. Games like ,Ninja gaiden, batman, TMNT and codename viper made it permanent.



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BenKenobi88 on 07 February 2007

My dad gave me an Atari in preschool...boy does he regret turning me into a gamer now haha. Games like Tank, River Raid, Frogger, Pitfall, PacMan. I was playing before I could read hehe.



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shams on 07 February 2007

I can just remember playing Pong, at the very start. But it was the NES that hooked me - and the magic that was SMB, Metroid, Kid Icarus & Castlevania. Somewhere in-between I got exposed to PCs (playing Yaught Race on the Microbee 32k at school), then I decided that I needed to try and make some games, as they looked like fun. Now 21yrs later... :)



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rendo on 07 February 2007

staticneuron said: Well I have played video games before but super mario was the start of the relationship. Games like ,Ninja gaiden, batman, TMNT and codename viper made it permanent.
TMNT EH? B A B A UP DOWN B A LEFT RIGHT B A START Ring any bells? :P



vanguardian1 on 07 February 2007

I remember Atari, but it was the Commodore 64 that hooked me on gaming. :D



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stof on 07 February 2007

My parents didn't want me to get a home console till I was older, so I grew up on the gameboy, and didn't get a NES till everyone had Genesis/snes and were selling their Nes's at garage sales. But oh my gameboy days.



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DreamsCast on 07 February 2007

vanguardian1 said: I remember Atari, but it was the Commodore 64 that hooked me on gaming. :D
I must admit I used to own a Commodore 64. Can't really remember what games I played on it though - BombJack ring any bells?



kn on 07 February 2007

DreamsCast said: vanguardian1 said: I remember Atari, but it was the Commodore 64 that hooked me on gaming. :D I must admit I used to own a Commodore 64. Can't really remember what games I played on it though - BombJack ring any bells?
Atari 2600 was my first. That got me started -- pitfall, space invaders, etc., but the commodore 64 was really the first machine that had the power to play good games (and put the atari controllers to use). First game? Summer Games made by Epyx. I played for many, many hours with friends... Amiga followed that which had some incredible games.



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