What Was Your First Gaming Experience? 718
Stephen Totilo, at the MTV Multiplayer blog, recently put up a piece that asked a number of notable games industry folks all about their first time gaming. Several had some unique answers, with Peter Molyneux (Black and White, Fable) probably taking the cake: "It would have to be the original Pong. I can clearly remember seeing it in a shop window on Guildford High Street and being utterly transfixed - I had never wanted anything so much - in fact I stole money from my grandmother's purse to buy it. I got it home, took it apart, and never got it to work again - but from that moment on I was hooked on all things to do with computer games." What was your first experience with gaming? d20s on a kitchen table? A Nintendo Entertainment System under the Christmas tree?
I was 14 (Score:5, Funny)
Pong (Score:3, Funny)
Still waiting . . . (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I was 14 (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I was 14 (Score:5, Funny)
Two firsts at once! (Score:4, Funny)
I got laid for the first time while waiting for the fucking tape drive to load the game. Less Joyful, more Silent.
Re:Board Stiff (Score:5, Funny)
Not only that, but it was a multiplayer game (2nd player, generally an adult, was required to complete the first level).
Gaming experience, not gay men experience (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I was 14 (Score:5, Funny)
WHAT??? (Score:5, Funny)
I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did get all the bugs out.
Re:Almost 30 years ago... (Score:5, Funny)
at a stall in Italy. The bolt had an iron tip that would embed about 1/2 inch
into solid oak. Everyone was a bit upset when I fired it at my older brother
causing an 8 inch bleeding scar where it grazed across his back. In my book
its getting towards a nanny state when you're not supposed to buy lethal medieval weaponry
for 4th graders but I guess people have their own standards.
Peek-a-boo with my parents (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I was 14 (Score:1, Funny)
Re:I feel sorry for a lot of you (Score:5, Funny)
Actually, we may have gotten the short end of the stick here.
Re:I was 14 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:IIgs (Score:5, Funny)
Not my first experience (Score:2, Funny)
But the comment about driving your Mom crazy with the sound reminded me of a much later memory...playing Kung Fu on the NES (remember the noise it made when you kicked? "FOO FOO FOO FOO FOO!" and you kicked CONSTANTLY) when suddenly my door is literaly kicked in by Dad while shouting at the top of his lungs "Turn that shit OFF!!!".
Looking back on it now, it was probably as much caused by Makers Mark as it was by Kung Fu...
Re:Vic-20 (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Two firsts at once! (Score:4, Funny)
Re:I like you, Stuart. (Score:2, Funny)
You're not like the other people, here, in the trailer park...
Re:I feel sorry for a lot of you (Score:3, Funny)