What gotcha into playing video games?

[Nekomata]

My mom and dad used to play a lot of Tekken, Tomb Raider, and NES. When I was about 3 years old, I would watch them play. By the time I was 4, I was really good at Tekken and played Super mario bros 3 and other stuff like that. I used to get really upset when Lara died in Tomb Raider, but I would call her jump across instead of Lara Croft. :>

 

[rass]

When my parents got me a ds lite when I was really young, like 7. I was obsessed with it until the hinge snapped, so I got a 3ds instead. But my ds lite mostly inspired me to play video games.

 

[radical6]

I use video games to cope. I started off with nintendo and animal crossing, which still helps me cope today with my depression and anxiety. My best friend slowly got me into playing video games, and I continued because I found out it helped me feel a lot better.

I enjoy writing myself, so I love immersive RPGs. I love exploring the worlds people have created. It makes me forget how bad everything is sometimes.

I also enjoy strategy games, my grandfather used to play them a lot.

 

[That Zephyr Guy]

Nothing sort of got me "into them", I've always played video games as long as I could remember.

I can't even place my earliest memory of gaming, but I do have fond memories of playing DOS games on a computer after my dad set them up for me. I'd have no idea what I was doing but I still found it fun.



Apparently though, when I was around 3 or 4 my dad set me up on a game of DOOM and the rest is history from what he says.

 

[Bowie]

I've played video games for as long as I can remember, actually.

 

[HopeForHyrule]

Well, one of (see also: earliest) my childhood memories was playing this toy mini arcade machine of the original Donkey Kong...this bad boy:



That evolved into playing my mom's Atari 2600, mainly Q-Bert, Frogger, and some game called Space Jockey.

Got a NES for Christmas when I was...oh, I dunno...six or seven, maybe?

I'm pretty sure I'll still be playing video games when I'm ninety...if I live that long, lol.

 

[skarmoury]

At first I was really amazed with my first console, which was Gameboy Color (it was my uncle's, actually, but he lent it to me and eventually gave it). And honestly, I then played video games to impress others, because my childhood was a time of "eww, do girls even play video games" so I was bent on proving them wrong. The friends of my parents all had male children, so whenever the adults would hang out, I'd end up playing with the boys (there was also a girls' group, but at that point I wasn't interested in dolls anymore). So video games kinda stuck to me at that point, and I've learned not to play it to impress others, but to play it for fun! ^^

 

[Crash]

for whatever reason i think i just always loved them. my first console was a playstation, and i remember playing some ancient NHL game with my dad at like three years old on it. me and my little brother grew up playing every zelda & mario game we could get our hands on, and i still love both to this day. i've always been a lover of fantasy things and other worlds/universes, magic, that kinda thing, so video games were always something i gravitated to.​

 

[Lady Avalyna]

When I was 7-8 years old, My brother had an NES, and my twin sister and I would sneak into his room and play Sonic religiously while he was at HS. I would say it started with that. Then I got obsessively into gaming when the Gameboy color came out (had the Pokemon Yellow edition GB and game!) and played lots of gameboy games, then moved onto PS and Xbox and it just went from there.

 

[Kittyinpink87]

When my parents brought home a playstation.

 

[Halloqueen]

I got into playing video games by watching my older brother play stuff on his Sega Genesis. I decided I liked it and wanted to play too so we shared it. My first game was the Sega Genesis port of the first Mortal Kombat.

I really enjoyed growing up with a Genesis, but now that I'm older I kinda wish we were more into the Super Nintendo. Fortunately, my brother had good taste and one of the only SNES games we own is EarthBound. Really glad he picked that up.

 

[Flaraca]

For me it was when I was growing up. We had a sega genesis and an nes. The Genesis was like, the best thing since sliced bread as we had the original two sonic games for it. I was never really any good at them until later on in life but they planted the seed for me to grow into the gamer I am today. Another great game we had for PC as well was known as "Hodj and Podj" which I imagine a lot of people have never heard of. Basically it was a 2p game that my sister and I were crazy obsessed over. It was also really simple as all it was was moving around the board, competing against the other player.

 

[Cinn_mon]

My brother who's like 10 years older than me played a lot and he was super nice and let me and my other two sisters who are younger than him play on all his stuff he bought (minus his computer games of course) but I saw him play a lot of Zelda and stuff like that (thats the only thing my parents would let him play downstairs because it wasn't violent ) but then i picked up his gameboy color with some pokemon games and some final fantasy on gameboy advanced and sonic adventures and zelda on the gamecube (and also FF:CC) and just kept going from there but all my games were his at one point so shout out to him

 

[Romaki]

I don't know, I've played games ever since I can remember. I think when I was 6 I just got the old Gameboy from my older sister.
And she always had a PlayStation in her room.

 

[Hippofalcon]

Jeez. I started by playing the sims 2. I don't even remember how I got into those but I did. It was what my life was. That was around the time I was 8. That's how I started.

 

[Kaitrock]

Tony Hawk Pro Skater 3 or Pokemon tbh. I used to be obsessed with skateboards so I would always play THPS and continued playing his series until like Project 8

 

[maounkhan]

I started from PS3 and went to Xbox 360 to Wii to DSi to Wii U to 3DS and soon to 2DS!
I have all of them. Well only PS3, Xbox 360 but I'm getting 2DS. I don't know how I started. But it was when I was young.

 

[Shimmer]

My friend in grade 1 had a Nintendo 64 and we played Pokemon Stadiums 1&2 on it. As well, my cousin had a Gameboy Advance SP and I was SUPER jealous so it was because of him that I ended up getting one. In fact, it was because of him that I got into Harvest Moon and Animal Crossing.

 

[Kairi-Kitten]

Growing up I watched my older brother play his Dreamcast and Sega Genesis, of course he let me play and that was also how I was introduced to Sonic which I played like crazy love that old system :') But yeah I guess it evolved from there and I kept wanting to keep up with newer consoles haha. I am now mostly a PC gamer (I also loved this game where you go through the amazon jungle and have to watch out for disease/catch animals xD It was like Oregon Trail but more difficult to me :'P ) Anyways glad I got into gaming it is my biggest hobby^^