• Lettuce eat lettuce@lemmy.ml
    11·
    1 year 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.

    • StThicket@reddthat.com
      2·
      1 year ago

      I have played this game more than I’d like to admit. It was difficult, but not impossible. Just an awesome game, and quite good for its time

      • codemusings@feddit.deEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Same. I don‘t think 8 year old me got even past the first couple of levels but it sure didn’t stop me from trying.

  • McFarius@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 year ago

    Earliest game I remember playing was descent 2, which most people today have never even heard of.

  • Dingsda@feddit.de
    6·
    1 year ago

    Doom, played with my friends on the office computers via ipx networking.

    Edit: totally forgot about my C64 and the shitload of games I played on it…

  • Thordros [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I honestly couldn’t tell you exactly which game that hooked me for life. My first exposure was when I spent summers with my grandparents on their farm.

    Grandpa and I would ride his trike out to the fields, and we’d… do stuff? To the plants? I don’t really remember the work.

    I do remember that work ended at noon, and we zipped into town on the trike. And we went to the pub. Grandpa would get me a root beer, and we’d split a poutine. Then he’d give me a roll of coins. I can go nuts on the arcade machines, he can have way too many beers, and WE DON’T TELL GRANDMA.

    Anyway, a half century later I’m a recovering alcoholic. Good times!

  • Prethoryn Overmind@lemmy.world
    5·
    1 year ago

    Mario Kart, I was a military brat my dad was kind of a jerk he played to beat me one day I got really good and kept beating him. He quit playing after that. Then he quit with everything else I beat him at.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    Probably doom/Wolfenstein 3D (the original DOS title, obv.)… That started the whole thing, but FF6 and 7 were also huge catalysts for it back in the day. I think FF6 on the SNES was the first game I was addicted to. I couldn’t have been much older than 10 at the time… I can’t say that I really understood the plot, but I enjoyed it a lot.

    FF7 and 8 were both fun too.

    After FF 6, we got LTTP and that’s also huge for me. I’ve fallen away from LOZ, because I don’t want to pay the Nintendo tax…