Your Gaming history ?

[Snake]

The SNES...super mario bros..donkey kong..digdug...been a gamer ever since!!

[Harsahil]

it must be around 1990, my elder brother first introduced me to world of gaming. the first game that i played was some space game in which u have to shoot aliens with ur space ship on Atari which my brother's friend had got from Germany. i was so completely absorbed in playing that game. then my brother introduced me to 8 bit gaming when he used to bring the console for a night and used to play Mario and Contra all night. i was just a spectator at that time and watched them with gr8 interest. slowly i also began playing games and found them too amusing a habit to let go. whenever my brother had to bring the console for a night, that would be the greatest night for me. the passion for gaming increased and i started going with Aman to our favorite arcade shop to play games. Double Dragon was our first fav co-op. we also played a lot of Contra and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles together. then came the era of SNES and i was really amazed at its graphic prowess. the first fav games on that were Street Fighter and Ninja Warriors: i don't know how many times had i ended that game on arcade shop. after that i bought a 8-bit console myself and became a hardcore gamer. after 8-bit, i bought the Sega genesis(16-bit) and then SNES... and then came the mega day when i bought PlayStation in 1997 when i was in class 9. that was the greatest moment of my life. the first game that i can remember as my fav on PS1 was RE2.. then i got myself a PS2 from US in 2004 during my graduation. had a gr8 collection of games on it. i still remember the day when my exams got postponed and i came back home for a week to end RE4.lol. playing games just before final yr MBBS exams was not a good idea and i cleared those exams with gr8 difficulty.. but RE4 was worth it...and in 2007 i mostly played online alongwith aman on his Xbox 360 and loved it. and now i only play PSP when i get time cos i m too busy preparing for my exam.... soon i hope to buy both an Xbox 360 and a PS3 once i get settled. long live the gaming world.... i m really impressed by its progress

[Bulovski]

i started with digger, zaxxon, donkey kong, bricks (how many hours on bricks). then got hooked onto adventure games when a friend gave quest for glory (i was amazed at the text parser). and finally a friend gifted me the prince of persia disks (class 6 or 7). that was it - no looking back. used to play on a friend's sega for mario and karateka.

but mostly pc gaming (myst, thief, q3, doom, tons of adventure games) till i got a NDS last feb. and one month later i got a ps2 gifted. and now have an x360 . oh i also had an ipaq where i tried playing some pda games and there are some very nice ones. (i remember something called Fade).

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[Singh]

My first gaming console was one of those old NES ones...and my first game was, unsurprisingly, the original Contra waaay back in the early 1990s. I used to play a lot of stuff then - Pacman, Tetris, etc, etc. After that, I switched to the Super Nintendo, got addicted to Contra 3, FF: Mystic Quest, Super Mario Bros, TMNT, Zelda: Link to the past. Those are the only games I can really remember since so long (my memory is sh*t). After that I got a Sega Gamegear; on which I played several games, including Sonic.

 

My dad was a computer vender, so we got PCs really cheap. I remember playing a lot of games on the PC, stuff like Dave, Prince of Persia, commander Keen, biohazard - stuff like that. This was aroudn the mid to late 1990s, the golden year of the retro games. The very first 3D game I played around this time was the original Quake. The first and the only. Without a mouse too - I still use the traditional QW + UDLR layout, except the movement keys is replaced by the mouse as opposed to the WASD layout most people today, you young whippersnappers!

 

After quake, I pretty much got started on the 3D FPS route, playing stuff like Quake: Armageddon, Duke Nukem 3D, Doom 1 & 2, then going to Quake 2. At around the time of Quake 2, I started branching out to the RTS side as. I first played C&C: Red Alert, Tiberium Sun, Tiberium Dawn, followed by Age of Empires and Age of Empires 2. Then came Crusader: No Regret, Need for Speed (the original one) GTA2, Mechwarrior 2 (which I finished in two weeks), Traffic Department 2192, Conflict: Freespace, Forged Alliance, Independence War 1, Dagger's Rage, Maabus, Star wars monopoly (used to play this with my family a lot) and a few more games, including the most addictive game I've played to date - Who Shot Johnny Rock. My neighbour and good friend used to also come by our house and play Return Fire with me. Let me tell you this - RF1 is THE most fun and silly game to play with a friend on one computer.

 

This was all 2000 and before, and I was just around 14-15 at that time - but still cant remember too much of that time, sadly. All I know was that I had loads of games to play.

 

Of course, after that played Half Life (actually started out with HL: Day one before getting the full game later on) and got addicted to the series, playing through HL: Opposing Force and then Blue shift in a single day. God were those the days

 

Some time before that that my SNES had died and we had to throw it away. Most of my console gaming after that was thus on an old, pirated PSX which we used to play a lot of games ranging from Resident Evil 1 and 2 to Vigilante 8, Star wars fighting games and finally Need for Speed 2 & 3.

 

Then came the more modern times. 2003, when I went to S'pore for me army. I built a proper PC there and played more games. Red Alert 2, C&C: Renegade, Many countless HL modes (including They Hunger and what else), Freespace 2, Starcraft, Warcraft III, DoTA. In 2005 I finally got my fourth console: an original Xbox. On the Xbox I played only 3-4 games. Halo 1, Halo 2, Burnout 3: Takedown and one more game I cant quite remember right now.

 

Then came 2006 and I was back home to India. This was largely a slow year, but I got to play Dawn of War, Company of Heroes, Neverwinter Nights 2, Need for Speed 4 and a few other not so noteworthy titles. Then came 2007, and we all know how that went so probably dont need to say mucha bout it.