• When and how did you first get into PC gaming?
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Well I played a bit of Empire Earth and Quake III when I was heaps young on occasion, still spent more time on PS2 and Xbox though. Got into PC more around late 2008 with the Valve Complete Pack but recently I've moved back to the 360 and I'm about to get a PS4.
Back in the early 2000's, I was introduced to games such as Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Team Fortress Classic, Starcraft, and Diablo by watching my father. The first PC game I played was Diablo, with my mother and father, and we all used Diablo Trainers and hacked ourselves some of the greatest weapons in the game. Good childhood memories...
My dad always let me play HL and CoD(1) when I was around 5 or 4. Now I am a giant valve fan c:(and a pc gamer)
Downloading freedoom. And maybe playing Wild tangent games like FATE, Final drive nitro, and a few others. I truly got into the hardcore stuff when my brother introduced me to Half life 2.
I mostly played consoles, with occasionally playing some pc games like America: No Peace Beyond the Line, Empire Earth 2, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Tomb Raider, and some military simulation games. One day I bought Empire Earth 3 and our home computer could not run it so I bought a gaming computer. Our neighbor owns a computer repair shop and he built me a computer. I got into steam a little after that, August 2, 2008, and have been pretty much a PC gamer since.
Dark Forces on PC back in 1999 or so.
earliest I can remember was probably this game I played around year 2000 [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c6/LegolandPC.jpg[/img] otherwise I started playing gameboy in 1997 and ps1 in 1999 or something
Ahhhh back in the year of 2000 with a brilliant game called "Soldier of Fortune" so fun.
it all started circa 2002, when we got a pc, my dad was playing a little gta 3 later i started to play it (we had bunch of games back then, yes, i think it was warez, because fuck logic, they didn't put legit games back then) then after GTA 3, Serious Sam and Stronghold came to my gaming
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When I was younger. My dad would let me watch him play Quake and a bunch of other games.
Well my dad had this computer that run windows 3.1. He decided to buy few games to it for us to try, like some racing games, shuttle simulator and of course Doom. I got hooked on doom. Not much later my parents bought PS1 too. i think it was somewhere... like 1997 or something. Can't remember precise year.
My Dad really loved Myst when it came out, I still have his notebook full of every single solution for the game, he beat it without the book and it was the best thing ever. He stopped playing games for a while and I played some Combat Arms with him. I might make an account and buy the orange box for it...
The year was 199...4 I think. It was way early. I don't personally remember it but Mom clearly remembers me pulling up on a table because I couldn't stand on my own yet and trying to play something on windows 3.1 SkiFree, Jill's Adventure, Chip's Challenge, Descent, and a game I made called move-every-icon-into-one-folder. The last in that list was 90% of the time fatal to the machine because 3.1 didn't give a shit if you deleted the Windows directory.
Introduced to HL1999 edition by my uncle, it was kind of scary for me. Still have the 1999 and got myself platnium edition on steam Will take a pic of it later when I get home
Playing lan games of stuff like quake with my dad when I was about 4
I got started PC gaming way back with SimAnt.
We got a Gateway windows 98 computer back in the day, when I was just in primary school, and my brother being the military enthusiast he was, got a copy of Red Alert 1 and Tom Clancy's Rainbows Six: Rogue Spear, I loved playing those games. Really got me into the stuff I'm into now.
Age of Empires Gold Edition,Warcraft 3 and GTA:SA.
Can't remember exactly when, but I remember playing Doom, Wolfenstein 3D and Descent way back when I was a kid (around '98 or so). Moved on to kiddy platformers after that, unfortunately. I moved back to more mature games around '04, starting with Freelancer, then Halo: CE. Got to know about Half-Life a short while later, life's been great ever since. Good god I just realised I've been gaming for longer than some people on this forum have been around.
Year 2000. Watched my best friend play Starcraft, Diablo 2, and Counterstrike. Ended up getting my own computer with a 333mhz CPU and 2GB hardrive. Now 13 years later, I STILL CAN'T STOP BUYING COMPUTER PARTS!! HELP!!
I didn't play, but drew in mspaint in Windows 3.1 when I was in kindergarden at age 3 in 1994.... Since then I've been at my friends houses and played different games like Red Alert, 1nsane, and Hard Truck. I got my first computer when I was about 10 or so, and for my confirmation-money I bought another computer which I built myself and since then I've just built my computers myself.
Found an old copy of Half-Life 2 GOTY edition that surprisingly still worked back in 2010. Thought I would play through the games and then go back to my consoles shortly afterwards but I'm still yet to go back after three years. Had a few encounters with PC games before that most notably being Startopia about ten years ago and Runescape from 06-10 but it wasn't serious.
one time i get into home, my dad said me that he got surprise for me. i went to my room and there was this SHINY red Dell m1730, and crysis's game menu, i sit and clicked on newgame.
A friend gave this pirate CD in 1999, inside that was a game called "Half Life" too bad it only had some deathmatch maps. Still decided it was fun to explore the lonely corridors and frag each other. Found the original cd some time later and was blown away by the campaign.
I used to play with my Granddad's Windows 3.1 PC and the various games on that when I was like 2-3 years old. Played PC games ever since.
like years ago, Freeman's Mind (episode 12 or so). Episodes of that video kept showing up on my youtube homepage, and when i had nothing else to do, I decided to watch that. I got caught up in the whole youtube series, which got me interested in Half-Life. Half-Life 2 was the first game out of the series I actually played, as I recognized the name when I stumbled across The Orange Box for the X360 in a gamestop store. That led me to discovering TF2, and with it being fun as hell, it eventually ended up with me discovering the PC version, alongside steam. I had never even considered the PC to be a gaming platform before all of this, so thanks goes to Ross Scott, I suppose.
My dad told me stop playing pokemon and to come play Quake LAN with him.
When I was a kid we had a shitty Win 95 computer with Myst and Half-Life: Opposing Force installed. I would just play the crap out of those until we got a PlayStation. I always preferred using a mouse though so when I was about 12 I got my own computer.
Me and my brother[I] "helped"[/I] my Dad play Myst. Of course I was too young back then to get any of it, but watching and giving pointless observations was a blast! I still remember it very fondly. It was a great way to bond with my pops. I also played a lot of SkiFree and [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petz]Dogz[/url]. After that it was games like Age of Empires, Morrowind, MechWarrior, The Sims those are the games that really defined my childhood. It didn't really start doing consoles until late to the game. Though I gotta mention Halo for the xbox 1, if the others got me into video games, that was probably the game that really got me [I]hooked[/I] on video games. My dad also took us out to buy games one day and he got us [url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battlezone_II:_Combat_Commander]Battlezone II: Combat Commander[/url]. That one of was the earliest [I]real [/I]games I can remember really playing on my own. And man what a great start to my gaming career! Still play it from time to time, and when you have a bunch of people to play with, its impeccable LAN party material. Such an awesome game! We also got PC Gamer a lot, so we had demo disks galore. Of the games I remember were Monkey Island, Black and White, SimCity Jurassic Park: Trespasser, and some game where you drove a black car with chainguns on the front and got chased by a helicopter :v: One of the one's that's stuck with me the longest was the Startopia demo. I played and immediately begged my parents for it. Still love playing it to this day, an amazing game.
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