• When and how did you first get into PC gaming?
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Saw my dad playing this when I was about 3 or 4: [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/e1/G-Nome.jpg[/img] [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PckWvJbK2dw[/media] This game is probably why I love mechs; it's a shame 7th-Level went out of business.
CS 1.6 Ijji F2P games Runescape
I used to be on Xbox 360 all the time and made a lot of great friends. One time back in 2010 I heard them all talking about some game called "garry's mod" where you could apparently do anything. So I bought Gmod and CS:S but my computer was too shitty to handle them (I was computer illiterate back then). So I got a new desktop, eventually a decent GPU (7850). I've managed not to become a dedicated member of the PC Master Race and I go on Xbox every so often. Recently I've been really getting into Counter-Strike: Source. And now I'm here. [QUOTE=salty peanut v2;42234427]my dad taught me how to shoot Somalis when I was 6 and we had 1 vs 1 LAN games all the time [img]http://cdn1.spong.com/pack/d/e/deltaforce81041/_-Delta-Force-BlackHawk-Down-PC-_.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] Is it bad that I first read that as Barak Obama Down?
I think Sims or Call of duty 2 were some of the first games I started out with
Since my parents both worked in IT, they decided that we needed a computer in our home, and since we weren't particularly poor, we got one. I was like 3 years old at the time, but my brother was a few years older, and parents didn't see any problem in giving a 7 year old a computer to play with. Dad's co-workers got some games for us, including Doom, first two Quake games, and a Russian bootleg CD of Half Life, the backside having, as usual, screenshots, though I'm pretty sure none of them were from the actual game. Not like that changed anything, none of us ever really managed to get through the intro, despite it being one of the first games we ever had. I'm also pretty sure we had Shadow Warrior. So yeah, my first experience of PC gaming was playing FPS'es being three years old. I would barely have the nerve to get through the first enemy that could shoot back, but holy shit it was still exciting. Cheats were a godsend. Oh, right, forgot the part where I became a homicidal maniac due to exposure to graphical violence, and have committed dozens of mass murders.
Years ago when I was 10-12. My first PC had a 6800GT, played Far Cry, Then Half-Life then Half-Life 2.
[QUOTE=Trumple;42230990][video=youtube;VcSCd2Oom10]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcSCd2Oom10[/video] My dad showed me this game when I was younger (about 5) It was a free demo on one of those CDs you used to get with magazines I must have played that demo for hours[/QUOTE] Oh god, Viper Racing. I had that game too. Forget where I got it though. I think it came bundled with another game I bought. Loved it to death though.
I played CS, Renegade, Serious Sam and Vice City in 06-08 a lot in a computer place. (non-steam) But the real deal happened when i got Minecraft, CS:S and Gmod (along with a steam account) in '12 Also how come does you guys' dads play games? When i'm home the only thing i see him doing is watching completely stupid movies on his bed
It was easier for me to get my parents to buy me a Computer then a Console
I've been gaming since the age of dos and nes games. But I gotta say my skills have dropped a lot since, I don't think I can beat contra with no cheets anymore heheh.
Bought TF2 at the store for 10 bucks about 4 years ago. Thought it was really fun.
I've been playing computer games as far back as I can remember. Back when I was 6 we had this ancient Windows 95/98 machine that ran The Incredible Machine and Chicken Invaders. When I was about 8-9, I got an CO machine from my uncle with a decent ati card in it. I saw at a friend's house him playing the original call if duty, which I got for myself about a week later. This was the first fps I've ever played. I rarely played online at this point then found Wolfenstein ET and the free F.E.A.R. multiplayer, then I was hooked to online fps.
[QUOTE=Roflman;42230967]My dad got me RollerCoaster Tycoon for our Windows ME computer.[/QUOTE] That game was great. The cereal was almost as good.
Counter-Strike: Condition Zero. That's why I'm fond of that game.
When my Dad got me this motherfucker right here. [IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/9Jr4Pkt.jpg[/IMG_thumb] I don't know what happened to most of it *saddowns* but I still have the CD case. [IMG_thumb]http://i.imgur.com/TRkwUL0.jpg[/IMG_thumb]
[video=youtube;B6i4A_9ic_4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6i4A_9ic_4[/video]
lego fucking racers
My parents got a second-hand Windows 3.1 computer that had the Windows Entertainment Pack installed on it. Chip's Challenge, hell yeah!
Quake 1 when I was 5. When playing pretend outside I would hold a toy gun up to my face to pretend I was in Quake.
I started with the Commodore 64, a game called "Skooldaze" which results to something along the imagery of this: [img]http://www.ysrnry.co.uk/wosfiles/ingame/SkoolDaze.gif[/img] Though it were games like Dungeon Keeper, Settlers and Colonization on DOS which really got me into what generally can be considered the actual "gaming" nowadays. The Incredible Machine: [img]http://www.mobygames.com/images/shots/l/67968-the-incredible-machine-dos-screenshot-building-a-machines.png[/img] Elvira: [img]http://media.pcgamer.com/files/2012/10/elvira1_3.jpg[/img] Warcraft 1/2: [img]http://image.dosgamesarchive.com/screenshots/warcraft1-2.gif[/img] And a lot more which I can't even remember anymore, by name at least, that is.
I think I was around 5, dad was one of the first in our town to own a pc.. Wacky Races (the one with the animals) and some game that was called Jill or some shit.. sorta like tombraider..
I found TF2 in the Games section at Wal-Mart for $20 in 2008
2005. RuneScape happened and it just went from there.
My bro was a hardcore competitive UT99 player. I would watch him play scrims way back in 2000 when I was 9 and enjoy seeing the action on his screen. He didn't want me to play it though because it's too violent and addictive, so he gave me some old DOS games to play instead. Jazz Jackrabbit, Tyrian, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Commander Keen... my bro basically converted me into a PC gamer
We didn't have any consoles and I thought Portal looked cool and so I bought it on computer. Then when I got a console I found out that FPSes sucked ass with analog sticks.
back in 1999, when i was 3 years old, i had for the first time access at a computer, it was my grandparents' one, an old imb. I played the shit out of various simulators and worms, then i abandoned pc gaming until 2009 when a friend of mine introduced me in tf2, that i bought for dirty cheap a couple of months later. I still play it actively.
[QUOTE=MegaErathia;42237164]Warcraft 1/2: [img]http://image.dosgamesarchive.com/screenshots/warcraft1-2.gif[/img][/QUOTE]Looks fun.
My dad had SimCity 2000 and Super Tetris on some old Mac that I used to play. My first non-educational computer game was probably LEGO Island 2. I became the type of kid who watched YouTube videos about older video games and before long I was very interested in Portal despite never playing it. My first Steam game was Portal 2 (a little late to the party, but I would've been one of those dumb little kids if I got anything before then). Soon afterward I got pretty much everything else from Valve and other crap too.
I played games on the PC when I was around 4, 5 or 6 years old but I wasn't a serious PC gamer. I think I got a PS3 in 2007 or 2008 and I played the shit out of that (and I still do). People on the internet were talking about how awesome TF2 is and how awesome other games are, and for years I ignored them until 17 June 2012. That's when I registered on steam, and I got TF2. At first it wasn't that special but something about it was fun. I then remember buying the Garry's Mod + CS:S bundle at the steam summer sale. That's when I started playing more often on the PC and over time, I got more games.
Around as early as 2003, I started playing a few games like Lego Island and Lego Rock Raiders. But didn't truly get into gaming until 2007 when I got my own computer and Star Wars: Empire at War for it a little later.
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