And I don’t mean what was the very first thing you ever played, I mean what was the first game you played that after you played that game, you knew you loved video games and you would be a gamer for the rest of your life.
It’s funny but sometimes your first is not really that good, for me, for example I first played on Atari 2600 and I was playing joust, that bird game, and it was a pretty cool game but I was so small, I really wasn’t hooked. I could careless if I got to play it again tomorrow.
It didn’t really move me and I wasn’t that into it. But the day I actually became a gamer was one Christmas I asked my mom if we could get a Nintendo Entertainment System.
And she looked at me like are you crazy, you know how much those things cost. It’s really expensive. I was so sad, I couldn’t even think for the next few days.
Then when Christmas came I looked under the tree and every box there was so small there was no way in hell we got one. By we I mean me and my two brothers. One of the gifts was clearly clothes because it was all soft and moved back and forth when I picked it up. I was as sad as any kid who just found out Christmas wasn’t actually as special as I had thought.
I mean what was the point in being good all year, just so Santa wouldn’t keep his promise on Christmas.
So that night when my mom called us to unwrap our gifts (gifts we had already knew what they were because we peaked by sticking little holes in the wrapping) I was as sad as you can be on Christmas without looking like a really disappointed little spoiled kid. I tried to save face and kissed my mom and thanked her for the presents, even though I was thinking wow, I can’t believe this right now, Santa did me dirty. What did I ever do to him.
(of course I didn’t understand money and how you had to actually work for it, there was no tree in our backyard, even though my mom would talk about it all the time, when she looked at the prices of things, she would say, “you seem to think there's a tree in the back yard that prints money)
And just then as I was going up the stairs because I told my mom I just want to go back to bed if that’s ok, she laughed because I looked so sad, and she said, “ok, that’s fine, but don’t you want to open this last gift before you go” - I said, “what last gift, we opened everything?”
My mom was the best, she already knew we would peaked so she hide this one at the top of the closet, and all I can tell you is if you ever have kids make sure you do this one.
She said, yeah Santa forgot to put names on this one but he said it’s ok because it’s for all of you. I looked at the box and it matched the dimensions of the one we saw at the store, and at that moment, I couldn’t even take it anymore if it wasn’t a Nintendo I was going to die right there in the living room from pure disappointment. So I let my brother take it from my mom, I was just in too much shock to move. But then excitement just took over me and I ran to the package and started ripping the wrapping with my brother.
Oh my god, my first Super Nintendo. I was too excited for words, it’s the moment I became a real gamer. We played Mario for hours, day after day after school, that was it for me, I was hooked.I became a true gamer, and every day after that day was amazing, I fell in-love with gaming and just couldn’t wait to play more games on my Nintendo. Over the years I went from a Nintendo Entertainment System to a SNES, to a Nintendo 64.
But what about you when did you become a gamer, and what game was it? Do you even remember?
-I love this video, makes me think back to when I was a kid (yes I was once that excited too) ..LoL-
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
The charity event will be streamed live from Gamescom in August.
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
I"m so old, I couldn't tell you. It was before console gaming when all we had were arcades at the malls.
It was probably Asteriods or Centipede that probably hooked me.
My first console was an Atari 2600, so it was probably Air-Sea Battle.
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And you know what? I was the happiest kid in the world because I could game at home!! Without being limited to how many quarters I could get.
I didn't care about graphics or resolution or anything other than I could play a video game at any time I wanted for as long as I wanted. Those were the days... LOL
Console: Atari 2600 Adventure. Asteroids was great and I loved it, but Adventure was the game that brought me back again and again. It fired my imagination.
Arcade: Speed Rumbler because it revealed that there was more to games than just shooting or driving. Here was a game that allowed you to get out of your vehicle, shoot enemies and enter another vehicle and continue on the journey.
RPG: Ultima IV for the Commodore 64. Just being able to traverse that wonderful world, the music, entering a town was a rewarding experience, traveling, learning, fighting, awesome.
1991 super Nintendo just came out I was 5 my mom took back my bat man cave that my grandma got me for a super nes I was so mad back in the day plus my mom did not know how to hook it up so it sat there a week but I still remember my first day gaming like it was yesterday . My baby seater hooked the whole think up and showed me the love of my gaming life back then zelda on the nes she even gave me her old nintendo when she hooked my super up showed me how to play mario we stayed up all night with tons of soda and candy been hooked every since.
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There never was a game or even system I played that made me realise I'd be a gamer for the rest of my life really, as I always had them around the house since i was a toddler, and it was just normal in our household, so I didn't give it much thought, even though it influenced all sorts of things from my taste in music, art, and so on. I guess that's a privileged upbringing from a gaming perspective even though I never had consoles until the PS1 - had a whole host of home computers about instead, which gives you a bit of creative freedom too.
My first computer that was mine and not the family's was an Amiga. Still love that machine. Turrican 2 is one of my all time favourite games.
Back in the early 80's, Arcade games were my first. Although, I played very little. It was just to hang out with friends at the mall. Then my father got the Commodore 64 some time later and I officially became a gamer.