Elder Legend
Banned
So what's everyone gaming story and how you all started on this hobby?
If my memory serves me right my first foray into gaming was something called Nintendo but in my country we called it Dendi. I am from Russia and back then no one spoke a lick of English or knew how to even read English.
Either way I remember playing Mario and Charlie Circus. Me and my sister would rage at Charlie circus. Fast forward to getting a PC I became obsessed with tech and one day I played a game called DOOM on MS DOS and Redneck Rampage and Heretic. Me and my dad would fight and argue over who plays when and what. I forgot that Nintendo even existed and never knew what is a console or a PC was, To me they were just toys that played games.
One day my father brought me a copy a game called Half Life from the russian/Moscow PC market out in the streets. I installed it and got to the part when the experiment failed and then was introduced to the headcrab zombies and hesdcrabs themselves. Ever since then, I was terrified as a child and had nightmares as a kid and refused to play the game and hated it. The same thing happened with Resident Evil, hearing a zombie groan and watching a corpse come alive from a floor made me scream. Oh and don't get me started on the dogs jumping out of the the windows. I hated Resident Evil.
In the year 2000 I moved to USA and in 2001 the Xbox commercials started to roll out on TV and I saw ads for Halo and Oddworld Muncie Oddysey. I asked my parents to buy it for me. I ended getting a PS2 with State of Emergency and FF 10 because the cover looked cool. FF 10 was my first FF game that made me fall in love with FF series and JRPGs.
I skipped ps1, 64, dream cast, genesis and so on) I was strictly a PC gamer that was addicted to FPS and RTS titles such as AoE and WC3 and SC before diving into ps2 and Xbox.
Then I started getting into all the original Xbox titles such as DoA 3 and all the fighting games. My most anticipated and biggest hyped game as a kid was Fable for the Xbox and Gears of War. As a PS2 kid I got into DMC, onimusha, GTA. it was not until GameCube that I gave resident evil another shot when I got older. Now horror games are some of my favorite franchises. As a matter of fact RE7 was my #1 horror game from last gen, and it looks like RE8 might do the same.
I eventually played half life and was amazed at how good the game and story was but it was thanks to me playing CSS on my PC back in 2003-2004 days that me me play HL1 again and give it an honest shot.
I can continue on , but that will take forever so the TLDR is that I love ALL gaming and own all the current gen systems and I would never ever in my life want to pick a different hobby as I know also work in the game industry and love my job.
What were your favorite memories as a kid? When did you realize that this was IT and you knew what you wanted to enjoy for the rest of your life? What games changed your perspectives? And have there been any games that you once hated but tried again and loved it?
If my memory serves me right my first foray into gaming was something called Nintendo but in my country we called it Dendi. I am from Russia and back then no one spoke a lick of English or knew how to even read English.
Either way I remember playing Mario and Charlie Circus. Me and my sister would rage at Charlie circus. Fast forward to getting a PC I became obsessed with tech and one day I played a game called DOOM on MS DOS and Redneck Rampage and Heretic. Me and my dad would fight and argue over who plays when and what. I forgot that Nintendo even existed and never knew what is a console or a PC was, To me they were just toys that played games.
One day my father brought me a copy a game called Half Life from the russian/Moscow PC market out in the streets. I installed it and got to the part when the experiment failed and then was introduced to the headcrab zombies and hesdcrabs themselves. Ever since then, I was terrified as a child and had nightmares as a kid and refused to play the game and hated it. The same thing happened with Resident Evil, hearing a zombie groan and watching a corpse come alive from a floor made me scream. Oh and don't get me started on the dogs jumping out of the the windows. I hated Resident Evil.
In the year 2000 I moved to USA and in 2001 the Xbox commercials started to roll out on TV and I saw ads for Halo and Oddworld Muncie Oddysey. I asked my parents to buy it for me. I ended getting a PS2 with State of Emergency and FF 10 because the cover looked cool. FF 10 was my first FF game that made me fall in love with FF series and JRPGs.
I skipped ps1, 64, dream cast, genesis and so on) I was strictly a PC gamer that was addicted to FPS and RTS titles such as AoE and WC3 and SC before diving into ps2 and Xbox.
Then I started getting into all the original Xbox titles such as DoA 3 and all the fighting games. My most anticipated and biggest hyped game as a kid was Fable for the Xbox and Gears of War. As a PS2 kid I got into DMC, onimusha, GTA. it was not until GameCube that I gave resident evil another shot when I got older. Now horror games are some of my favorite franchises. As a matter of fact RE7 was my #1 horror game from last gen, and it looks like RE8 might do the same.
I eventually played half life and was amazed at how good the game and story was but it was thanks to me playing CSS on my PC back in 2003-2004 days that me me play HL1 again and give it an honest shot.
I can continue on , but that will take forever so the TLDR is that I love ALL gaming and own all the current gen systems and I would never ever in my life want to pick a different hobby as I know also work in the game industry and love my job.
What were your favorite memories as a kid? When did you realize that this was IT and you knew what you wanted to enjoy for the rest of your life? What games changed your perspectives? And have there been any games that you once hated but tried again and loved it?
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