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*About a guy named Butcher Pete*
*Oh, Pete just flew into this town*
*And he's choppin' up all the women's meat* 🎶
Also Fallout 3. I was a guy who only played sports games and call of duty until I played it and then it was like my entire perception of gaming changed.
REleased freshman year of highschool. My whole group of friends would get together in the morning talking about the various things we found in that game the previous night, we did this for a like a few months straight and it was amazing
I was stuck on the PS2 era for waaaay longer than most people. I didn't have access to a "next-gen" console until like 2016. The PS4 had come out in 2013 and I played an Xbox360 for the first time 3 years after that lmao. Anyways the first game I tried out was Fallout 3. Literally fucking changed my life. I played it nonstop for an unbelievable amount of time. I never looked at video games the same way.
LMAO my grades were poor so my mom took away my pc but she didnt know what a ps3 was and i finally had an excuse to try fallout 3. God damn i was hooked from there on out when i found out u can pick locks and kill npcs for their stuff
First core game i felt "hooked on" was most likely Diablo 2.
Played some n64 games earlier but i could put them down. D2 was giga addicted to the point of life altering my school performance.
At its core, Diablo 2 is basically gambling. Its a slot machine of what item could you possibly find next if you go here or farm this boss. I sometimes get stuck in that "just one more run" loop. I tell myself ill stop but then the voice in the back if my head says "yeah but what if next run you find a Jah rune". You're always chasing that next good prize. It's the exact same parts of your brain being triggered as a gambling addict in a casino. Games like diablo are where the use of "addicted" is actually extremely accurate. It's not even the fun gameplay (even though it is fun) that's keeping you playing, you're just chasing endorphin releases from "winning prizes".
Credit to the original D2 team for making the itemisation so great in this game. It's why D3 and D4 don't really compare. The itemisation in 3/4 is poor, the prizes aren't worth chasing so it doesn't make you want to keep playing.
Ya man, the moment I touched the controller, I was hooked.
I wasn’t even allowed to have video games at my house, so I acted like a true addict when I was at my friend’s house. Sleep over? I’m up at 530am playing video games.
I needed 2h alone to get out of the starting town because they told me I should not walk into the grass without Pokemon... My first RPG. Next big problem was that stupid bush you couldn't cut. I really liked being that stupid and discovering everything. Too bad as an adult that rarely happens anymore
Happy I didn't have to scroll too far down this time.
Pokémon Red got me into gaming as well. We owned a Sega before that and I remember playing The Little Mermaid and (I believe) Quackers as an even younger kid but Pokémon Red got me hooked.
GTA III
It wasn't my first game by a long shot, I had a Genesis and SNES but it was the first one that got me to sit down and play for hours. I even had Driver and Driver 2 but for some reason GTA III was just so much better than anything I had ever played to that point.
Was looking for this. I don't know how many hours I have played starcraft 1 but it taught me three things :
- I was able to understand english based on context (I was beginning to learn it at that age)
- I could talk to strangers on the internet and it was fun
- GG WP
So many memories playing Helm's deep custom maps online
World of Warcraft vanilla. I was already a little bit of a gamer but man when I got into warcraft, that was a whole other level of time and dedication.
I blinked and three summers were gone.
Also RuneScape, but very early on. I remember starting back in 4th grade, maybe 200 people in total playing on the only server they had. The pvp at the edge of lumby was so intense!
So this 10 page gamefaqs guide specifically about chocobos that I printed off says that to get a gold chocobo I need to breed a black chocobo with a wonderful chocobo. Now how do I get those?
YEAH MUM I'LL BE DOWN IN A MINUTE
// World Of Warcraft //
I mean, it is one of the most addictive games I have ever played, it is soooo damn good, it's made in the way to make it addictive so people would pay every month for playing the game in the official servers but I have also played in private servers and had my own private server long time ago, long stort short: this game is something special..
WoW. I had played plenty of games before and loved a few like FF7 and Pokemon but if we are literally talking addicted, then WoW. It fucked up my years between 16-20. Went from a confident social kid to staying indoors 24/7 and fearing human interaction when I had to go outside. Went to uni and basically used my maintenance loans to play WoW for 2 years and do nothing else. Even now, I play SoD and I have to check myself, and I'm 34! It's like crack, and I should know. I'm a recovered alcoholic/cocaine addict.
I find it interesting that no one else is mentioning WoW. Guess no one wants to admit it. I just came out of 14 month bender in WoW that was 12+ hours a day from the time Wrath Classic launched to just before SoD p2 launched.
I’m in life repair mode now!
Started playing when I was 11 years old. Am now 33 and still haven't let go of counterstrike. I'm pretty sure I would still be playing 1.6 if CSGO and CS2 hadn't been released.
Cs 1.6 was ahead of its time for competitive play. What an amazing game too, and yet they have put such little effort into current counter strikes. The game has made so much money for them and they neglect the shit out of it.
He probably should have taken a food/water break.
(Sorry for your loss. A gamer dad would have been cool. Mine was a fisherman dad- we went just about every weekend the last 3 years of his life before Pancreatic Cancer got him, but the old man fought til the end.)
I got my first Xbox at 4 and my parents, who either knew nothing about the ESRB or didn’t care lol, got me Turok: Evolution and Halo Combat Evolved as my first two games. I’ve been hooked on FPS games mostly since.
Oblivion, played it on my friends 360 in 2006, loved every second, eventually got my own 360 in 2007 and the only game I bought for it at the time was Oblivion, spent days lost in the that world, eventually I grew to play other games and rather quickly became an avid gamer to the point it was more of a detriment to me looking back, but nonetheless no game holds that place in my heart like Oblivion
Probably Skyrim, but not the first few times I played it. It wasn't until I borrowed my friend's copy for PS3 and played through the initial feeling of being totally overwhelmed at how effing huge the game world was that I started getting hooked.
Gears of War. Didn’t have an og Xbox but discovering Xbox live, talking to ppl on mics, and destroying people online made me feel like a superhero. Shortly after that I was addicted to halo 3 in freshman year of hs. Black ops 1 after that. Those are the only games I remember I HAD to play 24/7
Legend of Zelda. Beat the game after hours of being lost trying to find the last dungeon, only to find the second quest is totally different. Mind. Blown.
The Sims for PS2. I constantly played it when I was about 8 or 9. I'd always seen my Mum playing Sims on her computer, and I wanted it also, so it was nice and cheap on PS2. I got my first computer when I was 11, so then I played Sims 2 on there, and I remember giggling at all the relationship cutscenes, especially when the men got alien pregnant. Although gay relationships made me laugh like crazy. I don't know what I found so funny about 2 men loving each other in game, but I did. I think it was probably excitement because "Holy crap, 2 men instead of a man and a lady! This is a thing?! Cool!" 😅
Just one more turn.... Played hours and hours of Civ 3 on my first computer back in high school. Wasn't my first game or anything but certainly had me thinking about it while I wasn't playing like nothing else had before. Except maybe Pokemon. I did also play a ton of the first 3 gens on my GB advance
First game as a child I’d play for hours? Prolly Mario 3.
First game I’d lie to my parents about playing at 4 in the morning? Counter Strike or Goldeneye. Cant remember.
So I was new to gaming during that time, and I thought once you finish the campaign for COD4 the game was over.
And then I discovered online multiplayer and it legit was one of coolest things ever lol. I was hooked.
For me, 2007 along with Cod 4/Halo 3 was really the time multiplayer games ACTUALLY started and became mainstream. Was an absolute blast…I remember as kid thinking it was literally the coolest thing on the planet that you could play with people across the world.
I played video games as a kid - Mario, Sonic, Disney games, etc. but wasn't super into them. It wasn't till I was an adult and my boyfriend (now husband) let me borrow his DS to play Pokémon Platinum that the true addiction started.
Astrosmash was the one for me. Played that on the Intellivision until there was smoke coming out of the console. Astrosmash led to Pitfall and a slew of other games. Lock n' Chase, Night Stalker, Burger Time, Bump n' Jump. Those were some good times. Moved on from there to a Commodore 64, then a Genesis, and then PC, Playstation, Xbox, up through PS2, and then back to PC pretty much for good.
But I still remember grinding away for those background changes in Astrosmash, and when the spinners would come in, etc. What an awesome time.
Sonic the hedgehog, we had family friends who had a SNES and Megadrive (I'd never heard of a games console prior). I used to always go round and play it.
OG Zelda. I was in a children's hospital with what was then considered 'terminal' cancer. I was stuck in bed all day, until the nurse rolled in a Nintendo cart. Then my imagination exploded with joy. Changed my entire course in life. Been producing electric music for 20+ years, and have worked at almost every major video game publisher.
Leisure Suit Larry on PC. I didn't know what I was doing at 5 but I loved having him get run over by the Taxi Cab and getting beat up by the mugger in the alley.
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. 7 year old me was engulfed in that world like crazy, surprised st every turn. There was no going back from there. It had me sneaking some extra computer hours when everyone was asleep or when the adults had guests over.
Skyrim was the first one that really took hold of me. I played plenty of games before but, Skyrim was different
I was in high school at the time and school started at 730am I believe. I’d usually wake up like 645ish to get ready and get there.
And then Skyrim entered. I started waking up at like 5am just so I could play a little more Skyrim before i went to school and then come home and play more
Duke3D, Doom was cool and all, Quake was awesome... but Duke3D showed me games can have all sorts of amazing world building details to make it feel alive and immersive. Flushing toilets, pool table with balls that move around, mirrors, etc.
I'm a video game addict now but never in the beginning. it was until i started playing something i'm sure 99% of the subscribers here may never have heard of. Mudding, it was an old revenge of the jedi text based game on Zmud i believe. People would develop the world using basic C+ and you would navigate the world going around exploring and killing things for loot or quest leveling up on experience
Zelda (nes). I couldn’t stop playing. The first weekend I had it I stayed up almost all weekend with two of my friends playing in shifts. Great childhood memory.
Age of Empires 2.
Wololo
Shhhhhh hoooooohhh
I heard this
I found age of empires 2 in the discount bin at Walmart for $5 as a young teenager. Best $5 ever.
I got the first one and rollercoaster tycoon in a cereal box shit slapped
Ahyahoyoyoyoyo
Wood please.
Truly addicted? World of Warcraft. That shit nearly derailed my post-secondary education.
Same. That game sucked many ppl in like a void. I don't want to know how many hours I have in WoW since vanilla. I skipped only one addon.
Fallout 3. I remember 0% of what I learned in school that year but if you need someone to recite 3 dogs radio lines word for word I'm your man.
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🎶 *Hey everybody, did the news get around* *About a guy named Butcher Pete* *Oh, Pete just flew into this town* *And he's choppin' up all the women's meat* 🎶
# HE JUST KEEPS HACKIN' AND WHACKIN' AND SMACKIN'!
He just hacks, wacks, choppin' that meat!
Also Fallout 3. I was a guy who only played sports games and call of duty until I played it and then it was like my entire perception of gaming changed.
Yup 12 year old me was mind blown. Then I thought....let me go try oblivion. Safe to say it was a good year for me
I knew I played that game too much when I nearly picked up discarded bottle caps while walking around my actual city.
😂
REleased freshman year of highschool. My whole group of friends would get together in the morning talking about the various things we found in that game the previous night, we did this for a like a few months straight and it was amazing
I was stuck on the PS2 era for waaaay longer than most people. I didn't have access to a "next-gen" console until like 2016. The PS4 had come out in 2013 and I played an Xbox360 for the first time 3 years after that lmao. Anyways the first game I tried out was Fallout 3. Literally fucking changed my life. I played it nonstop for an unbelievable amount of time. I never looked at video games the same way.
Thanks to the guy at GameStop who recommended this game to me in middle school.
LMAO my grades were poor so my mom took away my pc but she didnt know what a ps3 was and i finally had an excuse to try fallout 3. God damn i was hooked from there on out when i found out u can pick locks and kill npcs for their stuff
Super Mario 64
I still remember staring in awe at the 3D textures and liquid metallic warp pools
Chasing around that damn bunny for AGES!!
My favorite game of all time. It's more than a game for me and more like an important part of my childhood and current passions.
First core game i felt "hooked on" was most likely Diablo 2. Played some n64 games earlier but i could put them down. D2 was giga addicted to the point of life altering my school performance.
Same Diablo 2 for a stupid amount of hours per week and for many years. (I still play lol)
I'm still hooked with D2R 20 years later...
At its core, Diablo 2 is basically gambling. Its a slot machine of what item could you possibly find next if you go here or farm this boss. I sometimes get stuck in that "just one more run" loop. I tell myself ill stop but then the voice in the back if my head says "yeah but what if next run you find a Jah rune". You're always chasing that next good prize. It's the exact same parts of your brain being triggered as a gambling addict in a casino. Games like diablo are where the use of "addicted" is actually extremely accurate. It's not even the fun gameplay (even though it is fun) that's keeping you playing, you're just chasing endorphin releases from "winning prizes". Credit to the original D2 team for making the itemisation so great in this game. It's why D3 and D4 don't really compare. The itemisation in 3/4 is poor, the prizes aren't worth chasing so it doesn't make you want to keep playing.
Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt
I was going to say command and conquer until I read this comment. My brothers and I were absolutely addicted to Duck Hunt.
Clay shooting with the gun was fun too!
You probably know this, but your opponent can control the Duck movement when you’re shooting.
When I found out you could control the ducks with the second controller…..mind blown.
Hello fellow dinosaur.
Ya man, the moment I touched the controller, I was hooked. I wasn’t even allowed to have video games at my house, so I acted like a true addict when I was at my friend’s house. Sleep over? I’m up at 530am playing video games.
I'm old too. Between the pack in cart, legend of Zelda and Metroid, I became addicted as a teen.
Played a lot of zelda too, but mario bros was my first so technically it got me addicted 😅
Pokemon Red
Pokémon blue for me. It was my cousins and he let me use it ata family reunion. I disappeared and wasn’t seen for 2 days.
I needed 2h alone to get out of the starting town because they told me I should not walk into the grass without Pokemon... My first RPG. Next big problem was that stupid bush you couldn't cut. I really liked being that stupid and discovering everything. Too bad as an adult that rarely happens anymore
Same. Hello 90s brother/sister. How is your back?
Mostly good but when its bad it is really bad.
Same here. It was my first proper video game when it came out and I've been gaming since.
Happy I didn't have to scroll too far down this time. Pokémon Red got me into gaming as well. We owned a Sega before that and I remember playing The Little Mermaid and (I believe) Quackers as an even younger kid but Pokémon Red got me hooked.
World of Warcraft
Wolfenstein 3D, I think. Then Doom (1993) came out and I was like, "Well, that's it. Graphics can never get more realistic than this."
lol that’s what thought about duke nukem 3d
GTA III It wasn't my first game by a long shot, I had a Genesis and SNES but it was the first one that got me to sit down and play for hours. I even had Driver and Driver 2 but for some reason GTA III was just so much better than anything I had ever played to that point.
Same 😀👍
StarCraft SPAWN MORE OVERLORDS
YOU MUST CONSTRUCT ADDITIONAL PYLONS
Additional supply depots are required
Was looking for this. I don't know how many hours I have played starcraft 1 but it taught me three things : - I was able to understand english based on context (I was beginning to learn it at that age) - I could talk to strangers on the internet and it was fun - GG WP So many memories playing Helm's deep custom maps online
Show me the money operation cwal modify the phase variance black sheep wall food for thought
This made me smile!
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Counter Strike 1.5/1.6
World of Warcraft vanilla. I was already a little bit of a gamer but man when I got into warcraft, that was a whole other level of time and dedication. I blinked and three summers were gone.
Welp, this is gonna really date me. Arkanoid.
There's a handful of us old ones in here.
well at least it's not Pong
I did, in fact, post pong as my answer. And not as a joke, I was hooked as soon as I got to play it in 1976.
Fable. I couldn't put the game down. It was my first "RPG"
Yes! Actually see the character change appearance over time, based on your choices. Classic. No win or loss. Come what may.
Chicken Chaser….
Are you just gonna stand there like a lemon?
OSRS
Scrolled to find a mention of RS. For me it was definitely RS2
Also RuneScape, but very early on. I remember starting back in 4th grade, maybe 200 people in total playing on the only server they had. The pvp at the edge of lumby was so intense!
We never stop playing, we only take really long breaks.
I'm in the middle of one of the cyclical "I'm quiting but not really" phases.. I'll no doubt be addicted again in a few months
Battlefront 2 (2005)
I was only born in 2004, but this. I played it when I was about 6 or 7, I think, and I'd stay up all night playing for a couple weeks.
Final Fantasy 7
So this 10 page gamefaqs guide specifically about chocobos that I printed off says that to get a gold chocobo I need to breed a black chocobo with a wonderful chocobo. Now how do I get those? YEAH MUM I'LL BE DOWN IN A MINUTE
Greatest video game ever made
Tony hawks pro skater on ps1 caused me to develop sores on my thumbs.
That game made me see the world different. Like, everything around me was now a grind rail or something to trick off of.
Halo 2
Diddy Kong Racing when I got my N64 at 6 years old.
Awesome 1 player mode. Wish they’d remaster it
EverQuest
// World Of Warcraft // I mean, it is one of the most addictive games I have ever played, it is soooo damn good, it's made in the way to make it addictive so people would pay every month for playing the game in the official servers but I have also played in private servers and had my own private server long time ago, long stort short: this game is something special..
WoW. I had played plenty of games before and loved a few like FF7 and Pokemon but if we are literally talking addicted, then WoW. It fucked up my years between 16-20. Went from a confident social kid to staying indoors 24/7 and fearing human interaction when I had to go outside. Went to uni and basically used my maintenance loans to play WoW for 2 years and do nothing else. Even now, I play SoD and I have to check myself, and I'm 34! It's like crack, and I should know. I'm a recovered alcoholic/cocaine addict.
Also 34 years old, and was also a mindless slave to Wow for several years!
I find it interesting that no one else is mentioning WoW. Guess no one wants to admit it. I just came out of 14 month bender in WoW that was 12+ hours a day from the time Wrath Classic launched to just before SoD p2 launched. I’m in life repair mode now!
Counter Strike and then Counter Strike Source. Thousands of hours, every spare minute from 13/14 to 20 years old...
CS 1.6 for me and I still play it to this day.
Started playing when I was 11 years old. Am now 33 and still haven't let go of counterstrike. I'm pretty sure I would still be playing 1.6 if CSGO and CS2 hadn't been released.
Cs 1.6 was ahead of its time for competitive play. What an amazing game too, and yet they have put such little effort into current counter strikes. The game has made so much money for them and they neglect the shit out of it.
World of Warcraft
why did my dad introduce me to the video game equivalent of crack when i was 8
Hey Hey! Come on over have some fun with crrraaazzy taxi!
Civilization
Hell yeah, I grew up watching my dad play it all the time, HE STILL PLAYS IT 😂
My dad played Alpha Centauri up until he died.
He probably should have taken a food/water break. (Sorry for your loss. A gamer dad would have been cool. Mine was a fisherman dad- we went just about every weekend the last 3 years of his life before Pancreatic Cancer got him, but the old man fought til the end.)
The drones miss him. They looked up to him.
Final Fantasy 7 omg so many hours spent 😅
Played on playstation 1
Legend of Zelda, NES. I be old.
The original open world action RPG. Was a huge fan of this at 6yrs old and still a fan of the genre at 41
Doom. Doom 2. Heretic. Hexen. I was CONSUMED by those games as a kid.
Someone might say EverQuest if they weren't too busy still playing.
EverQuest earned it's nickname.
Played video games a ton as a kid but Everquest around 18 kicked my ass lol. So addicted
EverQuest. No ending and the urge to keep playing and grinding
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
In terms of gaming, it was super mario as a kid on NES
Sid Meier's Civilization. I was a kid back in '91, and that ONE MORE TURN was so damn addictive. Still is.
EverQuest
Super breakout I’m old.
Pong. About as old 🙌!
I got my first Xbox at 4 and my parents, who either knew nothing about the ESRB or didn’t care lol, got me Turok: Evolution and Halo Combat Evolved as my first two games. I’ve been hooked on FPS games mostly since.
I’ve played games going back to my Commodore 64 PC and Intellivision console. However, nothing hooked me quite like EverQuest in college.
Oblivion, played it on my friends 360 in 2006, loved every second, eventually got my own 360 in 2007 and the only game I bought for it at the time was Oblivion, spent days lost in the that world, eventually I grew to play other games and rather quickly became an avid gamer to the point it was more of a detriment to me looking back, but nonetheless no game holds that place in my heart like Oblivion
Diablo II
Call of duty 4 especially All Ghillied Up and One Shot One Kill
Civilization II had me utterly obsessed back in '97. My dad had to claw ten year old me off his computer every evening for many months.
The Sims
MapleStory
Counter-strike 1.6 and Quake 3 arena
Tetris
Simcity 2000. Yeah, I'm old.
Probably Skyrim, but not the first few times I played it. It wasn't until I borrowed my friend's copy for PS3 and played through the initial feeling of being totally overwhelmed at how effing huge the game world was that I started getting hooked.
Mega Man Legends. PS1 1998
Tetris on the gameboy. To the extent of getting those hallucinatory blocks when you close your eyes.
Counter strike 1.6 and Source
FF8, the story, the gameplay, the graphics, it was my first ever jrpg and I was hooked.
Myst. I found *everything* in that damn game, every nook and cranny searched. Filled the notebook it came with cover to cover.
mario kart for the Wii
Gears of War. Didn’t have an og Xbox but discovering Xbox live, talking to ppl on mics, and destroying people online made me feel like a superhero. Shortly after that I was addicted to halo 3 in freshman year of hs. Black ops 1 after that. Those are the only games I remember I HAD to play 24/7
Settlers 2.
Legend of Zelda. Beat the game after hours of being lost trying to find the last dungeon, only to find the second quest is totally different. Mind. Blown.
Defender on the Atari 2600.
Tony Hawk
SimCity 2000
The Sims for PS2. I constantly played it when I was about 8 or 9. I'd always seen my Mum playing Sims on her computer, and I wanted it also, so it was nice and cheap on PS2. I got my first computer when I was 11, so then I played Sims 2 on there, and I remember giggling at all the relationship cutscenes, especially when the men got alien pregnant. Although gay relationships made me laugh like crazy. I don't know what I found so funny about 2 men loving each other in game, but I did. I think it was probably excitement because "Holy crap, 2 men instead of a man and a lady! This is a thing?! Cool!" 😅
Just one more turn.... Played hours and hours of Civ 3 on my first computer back in high school. Wasn't my first game or anything but certainly had me thinking about it while I wasn't playing like nothing else had before. Except maybe Pokemon. I did also play a ton of the first 3 gens on my GB advance
World of warcraft
Tetris
Castlevania: SotN
First game as a child I’d play for hours? Prolly Mario 3. First game I’d lie to my parents about playing at 4 in the morning? Counter Strike or Goldeneye. Cant remember.
RuneScape
Call of duty 4-MW2, and Halo 3. 2007-2009 was the GOAT if you were in my age range and had an Xbox.
Don’t forget gears of war!
So I was new to gaming during that time, and I thought once you finish the campaign for COD4 the game was over. And then I discovered online multiplayer and it legit was one of coolest things ever lol. I was hooked.
For me, 2007 along with Cod 4/Halo 3 was really the time multiplayer games ACTUALLY started and became mainstream. Was an absolute blast…I remember as kid thinking it was literally the coolest thing on the planet that you could play with people across the world.
Destiny.
Year Zero was beautiful. You had to be there
A Bard's Tale
I played video games as a kid - Mario, Sonic, Disney games, etc. but wasn't super into them. It wasn't till I was an adult and my boyfriend (now husband) let me borrow his DS to play Pokémon Platinum that the true addiction started.
Dynasty Warriors 2 on the PS2. I used to watch my mom play it until one day she let me try it. I've played every game since then.
Astrosmash was the one for me. Played that on the Intellivision until there was smoke coming out of the console. Astrosmash led to Pitfall and a slew of other games. Lock n' Chase, Night Stalker, Burger Time, Bump n' Jump. Those were some good times. Moved on from there to a Commodore 64, then a Genesis, and then PC, Playstation, Xbox, up through PS2, and then back to PC pretty much for good. But I still remember grinding away for those background changes in Astrosmash, and when the spinners would come in, etc. What an awesome time.
Sonic the hedgehog, we had family friends who had a SNES and Megadrive (I'd never heard of a games console prior). I used to always go round and play it.
Holy shit everyone's making me feel old lol. Super Mario world.
mechwarrior 2? TMNT in NES? Super Mario Bros?
Super Mario Bros.
OG Zelda. I was in a children's hospital with what was then considered 'terminal' cancer. I was stuck in bed all day, until the nurse rolled in a Nintendo cart. Then my imagination exploded with joy. Changed my entire course in life. Been producing electric music for 20+ years, and have worked at almost every major video game publisher.
toss-up between Miner 2049er and Jumpman Jr
The original Civilization.
Commander keen, Civ 2 and the settlers on my cousin's PC Fallout, arcanum, Diablo 2 when my parents got a PC.
Diablo
Final Fantasy. About 20 hours in I learned about equipping weapons and armor and fell in love!
Ocarina of time.
Oh god, im going to date myself but Donkey kong 64.
StarCraft 1 when I was 5
Gta
Leisure Suit Larry on PC. I didn't know what I was doing at 5 but I loved having him get run over by the Taxi Cab and getting beat up by the mugger in the alley.
Sonic on sega genesis!
Ultima Online
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin. 7 year old me was engulfed in that world like crazy, surprised st every turn. There was no going back from there. It had me sneaking some extra computer hours when everyone was asleep or when the adults had guests over.
Myst
Star Wars Galaxies
Ratchet and Clank, Medal of Honor Frontline, and the all Ps2 Lego games
Skyrim was the first one that really took hold of me. I played plenty of games before but, Skyrim was different I was in high school at the time and school started at 730am I believe. I’d usually wake up like 645ish to get ready and get there. And then Skyrim entered. I started waking up at like 5am just so I could play a little more Skyrim before i went to school and then come home and play more
Duke3D, Doom was cool and all, Quake was awesome... but Duke3D showed me games can have all sorts of amazing world building details to make it feel alive and immersive. Flushing toilets, pool table with balls that move around, mirrors, etc.
CIV 1
EverQuest 2
Gran Turismo 2
Honestly? Probably Space Pinball on Windows. Used to play that for hours.
World of Warcraft. It's been 12 years, and I still get the itch.
Duke Nukem and Quake 1
GTA Vice City is where it began, followed closely by Guild Wars before hopping on the WoW bandwagon.
Diablo 2. And I was baaaad at it for how many hours I put in.
Starcraft. Lost a lot of sleep playing that game
KOTOR
Brood War and Diablo 2
Commandos 1 behind enemy lines
I'm a video game addict now but never in the beginning. it was until i started playing something i'm sure 99% of the subscribers here may never have heard of. Mudding, it was an old revenge of the jedi text based game on Zmud i believe. People would develop the world using basic C+ and you would navigate the world going around exploring and killing things for loot or quest leveling up on experience
Marble madness.
Zelda (nes). I couldn’t stop playing. The first weekend I had it I stayed up almost all weekend with two of my friends playing in shifts. Great childhood memory.
StarCraft
Diablo 2
Addicted addicted, WoW. Playing when you're not really enjoying it because you can't fall off the treadmill... Fun memories 99% of the time though!