What got you into it??
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The death of the Amiga
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Manic miner, the music was catchy
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Counterstrike, been playing it 7 years, not really addicted anymore now though, too much work and study.
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Dad was always into games and stuff, remember being a young kid (2-3 maybe, is a VERY hazy memory!) and sitting on my dads lap watching him play the Original Doom lol!
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The death of the Amiga
Dad still has his in the loft, trying to convince him to get it down!
Sorry for multiple-post, tired =/
To me it was.
Guns were terrible and inaccurate (could have been I was terrible (it was my first online game) but I was pretty pro at BF1942 single player so I doubt it's that
), vehicles were ok, not to mention getting sniped in the face by a guy sat in his base the moment you spawn.
All in all just rubbed me up the wrong way.
CSS was fantastic in comparison (inherently flawed yes and had major holes ignored for many years, but still far better than BF2 for me (simple game design, balanced guns/gameplay, well designed (on the whole) maps)).
Playing BC2 now (when not grinding TQ) and waiting for a new CSS type game (finally got fed up of waiting for them to fix CSS, then the Beta came along and ****ed it some more, so I left it once and for all) to come along and reignite my passion and get our clan back together.
Guns were terrible and inaccurate (could have been I was terrible (it was my first online game) but I was pretty pro at BF1942 single player so I doubt it's that
), vehicles were ok, not to mention getting sniped in the face by a guy sat in his base the moment you spawn.All in all just rubbed me up the wrong way.
CSS was fantastic in comparison (inherently flawed yes and had major holes ignored for many years, but still far better than BF2 for me (simple game design, balanced guns/gameplay, well designed (on the whole) maps)).
Playing BC2 now (when not grinding TQ) and waiting for a new CSS type game (finally got fed up of waiting for them to fix CSS, then the Beta came along and ****ed it some more, so I left it once and for all) to come along and reignite my passion and get our clan back together.
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was always interested in gaming ever since i was a kid. remember playing hand held consoles first ( the gameboy line ) then moving onot actual consoles ( ps1 ps2 ) then eventually started playing PC games when i started secondary school
Exactly same! even tho i did start on a C4 and amstrad 1200! awesome computers!
But quake was where i started online! used to spend hours on that game after school!
Age of Empires 2 for me, when I was about 14. Spent hundreds of hours on it over many months until I was quite burnt-out , then I moved on to the likes of Half-Life, Fallout 1 & 2, StarCraft, Planescape: Torment, Thief 1 & 2, Deus Ex, so on and so forth.... 
Been loving it ever since
, then I moved on to the likes of Half-Life, Fallout 1 & 2, StarCraft, Planescape: Torment, Thief 1 & 2, Deus Ex, so on and so forth.... Been loving it ever since
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Before Doom, Ultima, Rogue, or even Zork, there was Adventure...
I started in IT as a Mainframe Operator in 1980. Amongst the many 'computers' I worked on back then was a DEC PDP-11. A game called "Adventure" (also known as Colossal Cave Adventure) came with it. Well while I was bored on nights I used to play the game. A year later and we got a few of the original IBM PCs to mess around with and the rest, as they say, is history...
* For any old geeks here. In the mid 80s I was at a seminar given by Don Woods, the co-writer of Adventure. I managed to dig out the original map that came with the game and got it signed by him. Sadly it was lost years a go
I remember 'Adventure'!
Was it on the Atari 2600 console back in the very early 80's? Anyway, it was this time that I started gaming, period. This was the first game that really got me hooked. Must have been interesting when hearing him talk about the creation of it.
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Half Life was the first PC game I played. That got me to put down the ps1 controller and get into pc games.
I never have played Quake online (as in Quake 1) - looks like you need some sort of knowledge of ports and such, which I don't have but I can recall three of us, myself and two mates, hudled around the monitor taking it in turns to play a level. Atmospheric!