Real talk,how many decades are you gaming?
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This industry has changed so much a lot of has to be experienced close to release to really get the full flavor of the experience.
Online multiplayer is on pretty much every system but doing it on dialup or our college Ethernet was mind blowing to me in 1996. I also felt similar to that playing it on DC for the first time in 1999.
My first exposure to video games was in the mid 70's when the likes of Pong and Space War were state-of-the-art, and I've never lost interest. By the late 70's I was not just playing games on an Apple ][+, I was teaching myself assembly and learning how games were made. I was well and truly hooked. So I'm well into my fifth gaming decade, with more than 45 years of gaming bliss and memories behind me.
Been gaming since Pong in the 1970s, so in my 6th decade now. 55 years old and still love it. Imagine I will be gaming until I can no longer physically do it. What can I say? Some guys fish or hunt or own boats. I game. As I told my wife, it's a hell of a lot cheaper.
I think thats why I like it here. I don't feel out of place. It seems like we're mostly a bunch of old gamers, hanging on for dear life to this outmoded BBS named ERA ;)
When I was four in 1990 my sister had a random boyfriend named Scott and he gave me his NES and Super Mario Bros 3. And that's when it all started for me. So 90s, 00s, 10s, and now 20s. I often wonder where Scott is and if he has any idea how much that one gift impacted my life haha. I dare say Scott is cooler than the guy she ended up marrying.
Ahh DC PSO. Literally a milestone in my love for the medium. Thank you, SegaNet.
Edit: I also first joined the OG non-neo gaf on the DC browser lol
I was very young. 79 maybe for arcade games
first machine I had at the house was a c64, loved it
first machine I had at the house was a c64, loved it
Got an NES in '89 for xmas after playing one my older cousin brought over. Been gaming ever since.
shit was wild in the 90s and 00s watching how fast the tech progressed. Mind blowing new graphics every couple years to damn near photo realistic stuff we see now where you have nit pick minute details. Ahh shit. Im grandpa simpson'n it. Im getting old. Not atari old thoughā¦ lol.
shit was wild in the 90s and 00s watching how fast the tech progressed. Mind blowing new graphics every couple years to damn near photo realistic stuff we see now where you have nit pick minute details. Ahh shit. Im grandpa simpson'n it. Im getting old. Not atari old thoughā¦ lol.
Technically played my first video game on our home Pong system at the age of three, and I actually remember flashes of it. A few years later in the early '80s I'd play the various coin-ops intermittently either at the local arcade, theater or gas station a few times a month, but it wasn't until I was staying with my aunt over the summer that the bug kind of hit me.
She ended up buying an Atari and like sixty games at a yard sale, and I spent many hours a day playing it. By the time I actually got my own Atari at age twelve, I quickly grew bored with it after a few months, and then saved up my money for a year to get an NES in '87. Been actively playing games since.
She ended up buying an Atari and like sixty games at a yard sale, and I spent many hours a day playing it. By the time I actually got my own Atari at age twelve, I quickly grew bored with it after a few months, and then saved up my money for a year to get an NES in '87. Been actively playing games since.
Galaga was considered fairly new
Michael Jackson was the hottest thing on the Planet at the time
No one knew who the Simpsons were
About that long.
Michael Jackson was the hottest thing on the Planet at the time
No one knew who the Simpsons were
About that long.
Early 80's. Been gaming since I was about 10 or so. Currently 41 years young.
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Sorry folks, typing while tired. Late 80's to be exact. First game I played was was on the Atari 2600. Pit Fall to be exact. The Atari was my dad's. Received a NES a for my 9th birthday with both Zelda and Metroid.
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Sorry folks, typing while tired. Late 80's to be exact. First game I played was was on the Atari 2600. Pit Fall to be exact. The Atari was my dad's. Received a NES a for my 9th birthday with both Zelda and Metroid.
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I'm 40, but I started really playing videogames when I was 8 or something, so 3 decades and a few years. We already had Game & Watch and an Odyssey 2, but I was never really into those so I don't count those years.
That math doesn't track. If you're 1 year older than me and you started gaming at 10, you started gaming in the early 90's.
Around 25 years since the mid-90s. Maybe even the early 90s as a toddler. My first gaming memory is Super Mario World but I know it was well after its original release. I was born shortly after it.
We got a commodore c64 at the very end of 1989, but the first game I played on it was Paperboy from 1986.
So I think that means I've got 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's and 20's covered.
Saying I've been playing games spanning 5 decades seems like an exaggeration but I guess it's technically correct.
(Not sure why Frinkiac links can't be embedded any more, weird)
So I think that means I've got 80's, 90's, 00's, 10's and 20's covered.
Saying I've been playing games spanning 5 decades seems like an exaggeration but I guess it's technically correct.
(Not sure why Frinkiac links can't be embedded any more, weird)
I picked "Holy shit, you are old" option.
4 decades ago. First brush with any form of video games was with Pong on Magnavox Odyssey. At an ice-cream and confectionery store with the owner making home-made ice-cream have the game running on a tube TV. We can have a go at it while waiting for our orders served. Good combo, with the line for playing the game feeding into the line for ice-cream and sweets, with strict instruction to clean our hands before even touching the paddles.
The behemoth in my avatar is my last custom gaming PC I built. The fire for gaming, lit under me have never stopped burning since that fateful day 4 decades ago.
4 decades ago. First brush with any form of video games was with Pong on Magnavox Odyssey. At an ice-cream and confectionery store with the owner making home-made ice-cream have the game running on a tube TV. We can have a go at it while waiting for our orders served. Good combo, with the line for playing the game feeding into the line for ice-cream and sweets, with strict instruction to clean our hands before even touching the paddles.
The behemoth in my avatar is my last custom gaming PC I built. The fire for gaming, lit under me have never stopped burning since that fateful day 4 decades ago.
