It’s always fun to know when someone started playing what and why =)
For me, I don’t remember the details or the proper order of the games I’ve played, but I do at least remember which games it was. Before 2000 everything is quite unclear, I think I was playing stuff before 2000. My family had a average/bad computer at that time (I wish I remembered the system specs). The only thin I remember about that computer is that I called it Lillys, which meant small lol, and that it had a 20GB hdd, which I remember was much for that old machine. I’m a 97% PC guy and 3% Gameboy (the first one) guy, so no consoles in this little story =P
Before 2000:
Anyway, I remember how I ones sneaked upon my brothers when they were playing Doom, they didn’t allow me to watch because it was too gory ^^. My brother introduced me to Jazz Jackrabbit, I think that’s the first game I ever played and liked/understood it. Not long after my two brothers started to play Age of Empires, i think they tried the demo and then copied someones CD. I remember that my brother said that copying a game was hard. I hardly had any chance learning AOE before AOE2 came into the house, that was the next main attraction.
2000-2004:
I remember how I started my brother’s computer and tried launching Roller Coaster Tycoon, it looked so fun but I wasn’t allowed to play it somehow. Maybe this memory was from even before AOE, I don’t know. Two times I visited my older brother after he had moved out. The first time he showed me Civilization III, I liked it and started playing it as soon as I came home. Another time, 2 years later, he showed me The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, and that game totally catched my interest. Started playing it as a madman. This was when I acquired a better computer at my dad’s place, I think it had a 64 MB graphic card. Oh before my mom and dad divorced, my brother finally let my play doom, and I liked it a lot (I probably only remember the ones I liked xD). That’s probably the base of my FPS interest.
2004-2008:
Halo, Half-Life and GTA: Vice City and San Andreas was 3 popular titles, among the ones already discovered. A while I had 2 computers next to each other. I invited a friend and we played AOE2 and Half-Life. Half-Life led to my connection to Steam 2006. I bought Counter-Strike: Anthology and played some over steam, but never really fell for it. Had my account banned because I used a cheat. Ever since I wont use that kind of cheats ever! There’s more games that I’m ignoring or can’t remember.
2008 to present:
I still had that old computer from 2003 so I decided to buy and build one my own, it cost 650 bucks. The main goal was that it had to run Oblivion on highest smoothly, and it did =). This was when I really started gaming, everything worked so I just went to the internet and started downloading ^^. Today I got around 400 GB downloaded, pirated games on a separate HDD, it shrinks though thanks to my habit of purchasing cheap games on Steam. I created my second steam account October 2008, and now I got a collection of 107 titles there from Doom to Civilization III, Oblivion to GTA. Too bad Age of Empires and Halo isn’t there =P
What’s your story? Doesn’t have to be only PC, just game related!
Discussion Topic: Your Gaming History
