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10 years old i remember playing neopets and runescape classic. PKING and remaking new characters was so fun
played gunbound, maple story and started my counter strike around the age of 13
I remember playing other teams at RUSH when it was so popular back in the days now it's gone
I was a very competitive player in team games. Played DotA tournaments like the one in DNA grand opening and got 2nd place and various others online. Even SC2 Tournaments but there are too many pros
now playing CS competitively and it is dying. Waiting for DotA 2 and be pro again LOL
It effectively ran my life from 2nd-3rd year university. Failed a couple of courses.
I decided it was time to quit. At least 10 times. Each time I uninstalled Dota, I ended up reinstalling it a couple days later saying to myself "I'll only play for a bit". It was like going through withdrawal.
Then the day I ACTUALLY quit, that following term was my best ever. Pulled out 2 A's in my classes. I havn't looked back since
God damn I was an addict
not going to lie, out of every game I have played (heck even World of warcraft.. I had 6k GS when it was maxed around there) DotA was THE MOST addicting game EVER! Counter strike and maple story at it's prime did not give the addiction. Playing DotA ALL NIGHT and pulling an all nighter is considered normal back in the days.
edit: I see revscene mostly consists of casual gamers. Anyone played anything competitively?
10 years old i remember playing neopets and runescape classic. PKING and remaking new characters was so fun
played gunbound, maple story and started my counter strike around the age of 13
I remember playing other teams at RUSH when it was so popular back in the days now it's gone
I was a very competitive player in team games. Played DotA tournaments like the one in DNA grand opening and got 2nd place and various others online. Even SC2 Tournaments but there are too many pros
now playing CS competitively and it is dying. Waiting for DotA 2 and be pro again LOL
played all the games you did as well.. RS Classic pking was hard.. 3 hit KO from pures.
probably first or very close to would be the Atari 2600 that we had as well as an even older Atari computer of some sort, then came Apple 2 i belive as well as the 4.5" floppy on the older model macs
Then we had a Sega Master system, i remember space harrier gave me nightmares and other games like Shinobi and others
then came SNES, this is when my dad sort of got into gaming playing a few titles here and there such as Link to the past, etc. Mario was everyones first game for SNES most likely, and then kind of grew up with SNES with titles like mario kart, Illusions of Gaia, mario RPG, Earthbound, Shadowrun, and countless others, nothin like going to the video store and picking up the square box the cart came in lol
Then we started to get more and more computers
we probably had 4-5 computers which ran varrying degree's of games like floppies, Leisure suit larry, Skifree on the older models, etc.
N64 next, to this day still the best christmas present ive ever got, it may not be the most expensive or fanciest, but my parents built it up so much towards christmas that they could not afford it and we'll buy one later on, then to my suprise i unwrap a brand new N64 on christmas morning
waited and waited for Ocarina of time, i remember i was hooked to getting it ASAP even when i saw the very first development shots in gaming magazines etc.
Funny enough when "gaming" computers were picking up speed shortly before half-life came out we had bought a decent rig with a voodoo graphics card it was basically a mid-range rig id say, shortly after getting it our house was broken into and the computer stolen and we ended up getting basically another half the value of the original computer to add towards the new one, so we went and built an awsome rig and got a bunch of brand new games including Half-life to test it
started playing alot of half-life and eventually a friend of mine in highschool told me about this new mod called counter-strike, I can honestly say i played when the game was basically months old into launch and played it for numerous years after
CS_docks and the M4 with a scope were the shit
Never got a PS1 but played gran turismo with friends here and there
Bought a PS2 for Vice City, it ended up being worth it, played a bunch of different games, enjoyed Suikoden 3 alot
Then got into MMORPG's with Everquest, Best gaming experience of my life and although ive played WoW fairly extensively and the WoW world is beyond impressive, i still laugh at the people who think WoW is the shit compared to what Everquest was pre-luclin expansion
If anyone is interested in seeing what made EQ so great, a guy on another forum was discussing EQ and he played during the game time period i did, i copied what he had to say about EQ VS WoW here, i think it's the best i've heard it summed up:
Spoiler!
Originally Posted by wavesport001
Don't get me wrong, you're right about WoW - it's the best MMO in it's generation and nothing has come close to topping
it - but it's using a formula that was basically created by EQ (which was the first graphical MUD). It is influential in
a sense that it influences people to play it - I'll agree with you there, but it's not necessarily influential or
innovative as far as video games go. You see, every now and then there are games that come along and tread new ground,
break the mold, and start an entire genre. EQ was one of those games. Everquest was an experiment started by Verant studios
under 989 studios - an offshoot of sony. It was a little known and underfunded project. Noone expected EQ to be nearly
as successful as it was. EQ wasn't the first MMO, Ultima Online gets that claim to fame, but it was the first to basically
take MUD's (text based online rpg's that people used to play in the 90's over the internet and telnet) and give them 3d
graphics. Everything you see in WOW - the text interface, party system, loot system, the idea of rare loot (not really
implemented in UO), massive dungeon raids, etc, was all borrowed from EQ. I'm not saying EQ invented it all, because it
took a ton from MUD's, but EQ was the first game to take it mainstream and make it profitable. Once other companies saw
the success of EQ they began cranking out their own MMO's: Asheron's Call, Dark Ages of Camelot, Shadowbane and eventually
WOW. WOW basically took the torch from EQ, as the original developers had left sony and the game started to lose it's
veteran players. So, while I agree WOW is an awesome game (I've played it a ton myself) it is not as innovative as EQ
because it hasn't really broken any new ground. Even instanced dungeons, as you mentioned, were implemented in EQ in the
Lost Dungeons of Norrath expansion before WOW's release.
If you were playing EQ between the years 1999-2002, consider yourself extremely lucky. Imagine thousands of people thrown
into a completely unfamiliar world together and forced to try to cooperate and work together. Remember, there had never
been a game like this before. If you had never played MUD's (and once EQ started gaining popularity most of the new players
hadn't) then it was an entirely new gaming experience. Imagine being among the first people to play a FPS. Only you're not
playing it by yourself - you're playing it with thousands of other people that you talk to every day and become friends
with. You all experience this new phenomenon together and try to figure it out. Everquest, up until the Shadows of Luclin
expansion (the one after Velious) was an amazing, semi religious experience for it's players. All the rules, customs,
etiquette and other things that people take for granted in MMO's these days were just being thought up, developed and
considered. Everquest was amazing not for how refined a game it was, but for how unrefined and savage it could be. If you
died, it wasn't uncommon for you to run 30 mins in pitch blackness to recover your corpse. Often you would ask your friend
to grab all your items and money off your body for you and hold it for you! There was no in game map either. You had to
find your way using landmarks or the awkward coordinates system. If you wanted to go from one island to another, you took
a 30 min (real time) boat ride. Hard to imagine in today's MMO's. There was a sense of community and real roleplaying that
ceases to exist in todays arcade style games. People would regularly gather in public places and drink and talk just for
the hell of it, for hours on end. To sell items you would sit in a tunnel for hours a day spamming the same for sale
message to the whole zone. People would "camp" a certain rare spawn for up to 24 hours straight in order to get an item
they needed to continue a quest, only to have their kill stolen by a mage who was sitting next to them invisible the
entire time! It's hard to explain, but I miss those days, and so do most people who played back then. Sadly, we can't go
back to those innocent times.
So from there on basically bought every new system outside of original Xbox, currently has PS3, 360, Wii, most gaming i've done in the last 2 years has been PC and playing Bad Company 2 on the 360
over my lifetime we've probably had like 15-18 computers, By far the best computer i've ever owned is my Vaio VGN-FE630
My favorite games with Everquest being No.1
Fallout Series, 3/New Vegas
Zelda Links Awakening
Battlefield 2142
Earthbound
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We had an original Pong game. Ordered it from the Sears catalogue (dad was a Sears store manager). Don't remember the year, but sometime in the 70's.
Me too, though I found it at a garage sale at a neighbour's house.
For consoles, my list is pretty small (compared to some of yours, at least)
Atari 2600
NES (though, sadly, I only got it a year or two ago)
N64
Gamecube
Xbox 360
I used to play Goldeneye and Mario Kart 64 for hours with friends. The 360 has maybe 15 hours of use on it, even though I bought it when it first came out. The Gamecube has even less... maybe 3 hours of use? lol
As for PC's, I used to geek out on a couple of text-based RPG's (Star Trek was one, I think, and the other was some detective game) back when my parents bought our first computer. Then once we started upgrading, I began wasting hours on games a few games. The most memorable ones were
Simcity
Total Annihilation (still one of my favourite games)
Aces of the Pacific
Star Wars: Dark Forces
Star Wars: X-Wing (and vs. Tie Fighter)
Counterstrike
Apart from those, I haven't done much in the way of gaming. After Counterstrike 1.4 grew stale, I've pretty much steered clear of games. I'll still pick up one of my Rock Band/Guitar Hero guitars with a friend and "jam" while drinking, or maybe head over to a friend's to play MW:2 or Battlefield on their PS3, but that's pretty much it now.
grade school - neopets, pokemon, diablo 1 and 2, starcraft. the sims
high school - ragnarok online, gunbound, CS, warcraft 3, dota
university - dota, starcraft 2
in the middle of those - ff 1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 13; kingdom hearts 1, 2, bbs, 358/2 days; all the metal gear since mgs; other random ps 1, 2, 3 games. I'm happy I never got sucked into all those COD, Halo stuff
now - still in university but don't play any games anymore except iphone games occasionally. Looking forward to diablo 3 and dota 2.
i personally started playing PC games when I was probably 5-6...it was that good old Mixed Up Mother Goose nursery game.
First 3D game was The Need for Speed SE when I was 8. I had strict Asian parents that deprived me from video games so I guess I'm sort of making up for it now haha. I remember i wanted Gameboy Colour so badly. I was fed up and few years later finally saved up to buy a PS2..but didn't want to blow all my savings on a gaming console (my money concious habits started early).
at the end of grade school I got into online gaming with starcraft for a few months..sucked ass but moved onto Counter-Strike 1.3. I probably put a good 1000-2000 hours on that during my high school years. I got into Battlfield 2 and was hooked on that for maybe a year and half. Easily another solid 500+ hours on that. Again, retarded parenting. I was not allowed to play on weekdays...so on weekend evenings I end up staying up.
When I started university, I finally bought myself a PS3 (my 1st gaming console)...which is why I'm glad there's HD remastered games coming back on blu-ray nowadays. All the while I come back and play the occasional popular FPS titles like CoD4/MW2 & L4D/L4d2 on PC..till maybe a year ago when my comp started having some troubles. I've been pretty busy the past two years and probably game a few hours a week...but at the same time I still buy games regularly so my backlog just gets bigger. I've recently gotten into RPG games, amazing stuff but they are just so massive in nature that I will probably never finish them with my busy schedule. The current game that I still play on a regular basis would be Gran Turismo 5. You just can't get bored with a good sim setup trying all 200 premium cars and learning and perfecting various racing techniques is quite rewarding.
Looking to come back to PC gaming real soon with so many great PC titles returning.
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and started my counter strike around the age of 13 
and various others online. Even SC2 Tournaments but there are too many pros 
Me too, though I found it at a garage sale at a neighbour's house.
