How did you get into gaming?

[SamuraiKenji]

Super Smash Brothers :|

 

[Saturos]

went over to my cousin's and they had the NES set up with Duck Hunt chucked in.

Doesn't sound much different from my story. :>

 

[Asus]

Dad always had a PC with some games which is how my interest in gaming was started. You might say I have been a gamer since I was like 4. Played PC and NES/SNES/N64 games with my brother and friends growing up. I had played single player Wolf3d/decent/doom/quake quite often but I didn't play multiplayer besides a random dialup or LAN game with a friend. It wasn't until I went to college that I really got into this gaming scene.

 

[Bad^Hat]

Well, first I started playing games, and then I kept playing games, and then I didn't stop.

That's pretty much it.

Edit - More specifically, probably either my nextdoor neighbour who had an Amiga, or a friend down the road who had a Master System. Also our cousins gave us their Atari with a buttload of games (some of which worked!).

 

[Krynn72]

I only got into the gaming scene at the end of the SNES era. It was only casual until the N64 came out, then I went from a kid who only played games when he was bored, to a gamer who played games as a major source of entertainment. I turned into a PC gamer during my middle school years when my dad bought a $2000 Compaq PC and I could play Decent 3, Delta Force, and then Ultima Online. I'd say UO was what made me a hardcore PC gamer.

 

[Nibwoddle]

Dad played HL1, Super Smash Bros and Mario Kart did it for me.

 

[chimpmunk]

I got the NES as a kid.

 

[Darkside55]

When I was 2, my mother put a zapper in my hand and told me to shoot all the ducks.

 

[ktimekiller]

When I was 3 or 4, my dad played some DOS games, and I THINK my first game he introduced me to was warcraft 2, im not certain if that was the very first, but quickly, i became a gaming fanatic.

I remember I would sit on my dads lap while he played warcraft 2, T_T good times... good times.....

 

[ray_MAN]

My dad gave me all the kiddie games like Putt-Putt and Fatty Bear from Humongous Entertainment, then I was slowly let onto real games.

 

[Hellrider]

Doom\C&C\hundreds of other games.

 

[morgs]

All my older brothers played computer games so it was pretty much just instinctual for me.

 

[TwwIX]

My dad got me into arcades, way back in the late 80's. I've been addicted ever since.