• Lettuce eat lettuce
    10•2 years ago

    I once stumbled into my parent’s computer room as a little 6 year old and saw my older brother playing Sim City 2000. That moment literally changed my life.

    Before that, I had seen my parents on the computer, but they were always just emailing or faxing stuff. I thought computers were boring machines for adults to do paperwork on.

    The day I saw my brother playing Sim City on the computer was the day I realized it could do something awesome.

    That was well over 20 years ago, and I’ve been a PC gamer ever since.

  • @xNekoyaki@lemmy.world
    3•2 years ago

    Pokémon Gold, when I was 8, got it for Christmas. Technically my first game was Battleship, which I opened first, but I probably spent thousands of hours playing Pokémon Gold. :) I’ve played almost every Pokémon game since, up until Scarlet/Violet, which I haven’t gotten yet, but maybe I will eventually.

  • @AverageCakeSlice@sh.itjust.works
    2•2 years ago

    When I was four or so I my family went to have lunch at another family friends house. Their sons were a bit older than me at the time, and they let me play some games on their new PlayStation console. I can’t remember exactly what order we played them in, but the first game I ever played was either Ape Escape or Crash Bandicoot: Warped. Both games are excellent and hold a special place in my heart to this day.

  • @golden_zealot@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    Dark Souls.

    I remember the first game I played was Super Mario World on the SNES at my cousins place.

    That game enthralled me because I was not good at it, but each time I played through after losing all my lives, I had the chance to get a LITTLE further, to DISCOVER something which I had EARNED.

    Most games I played after that on Playstation 1 and 2 or Xbox had a lot more hand holding. There was not such a sense of achievement, though I learned to appreciate stories in games much more then.

    Then I played Dark Souls 1. My BF at the time told me about it, and good god did I struggle with it. But like SMW, I found such a large sense of achievement as I inched further into the game. The non-standard story telling in the game was also really interesting, learning about this ancient lore from items and weapons and armor that I would find in the most desolate and obscure places of this dying world.

    The combination of what I loved from high difficulty early games on the SNES in conjunction with what I loved from the story of games on later consoles were both present in Dark Souls, and to this day it holds a very special place for me.

    Since, I think while Dark Souls 1 and 3, and Elden Ring have some of my favorite gameplay, Bloodborne has my favorite story of all time.

    In Fromsofts games the world building is incredible and the difficulty is treacherous, so the journey is worthwhile.

  • @Bagel5941@aussie.zone
    3•2 years ago

    First game was Safari Race on a Sega SC-3000. After that mainly played PC games when they were a thing and had a 1st gen Gameboy.

    I gave up on games and tried to adult through my 20s… but after a bad breakup I bought an Xbox-360 and Skyrim and it’s been a hobby ever since.

  • @MartinXYZ@lemmy.ml
    1•2 years ago

    Elder scrolls V: Skyrim. I got into gaming at a pretty high age(31yo) even though I had played a bit when I was younger, but I wouldn’t consider myself a gamer before Skyrim.