I started playing on computers when I was 3 years old, in that period my dad made me dive into the world of video games and we started with The Alley Cat, Digger, Test Drive 1, Prince Of Percia (1989 version, the first of its name), Doom 1, Wolfenstein... the graphics weren't as beautiful as todays games but in the 80s it was amazing. And from that, I never stopped playing, even my 8 years old daughter is a gamer... we all follow the same path in the family

One of my fondest childhood memories has to be of playing the original Sonic the Hedgehog on my Sega during the summers at my family cottage. I didn't really like it there being more of a city kid, but playing video games to spend the time was brilliant. I was able to be immersed by pretty much any game and it was super rewarding to actually beat a game even though my parents didn't actually understand my sudden glee.

Yet it was just a hobby among others for me until a friend of mine in elementary school loaned me a certain Playstation game. We had loaned each other games often so at first I didn't pay too much attention to what it was. At home I took the game out of my back back and immediately I realised something was off. The cover was unusually thick and on closer inspection it turned out this game had three discs! My young mind was totally blown, how can a game not fit into one disc? That game went on to be my all time favorite game - Final Fantasy VII. My English skills improved dramatically as I feverishly translated dialogue. I experienced something wonderful and somehow inexplicable, something I still find myself chasing as I roam the multiverse of RPGs. I learned to appreciate video games as a form of art - a medium unlike any other with it's capability to immerse one.

Perhaps there will come another game, that just swoops me for multiple saves clocking +99h. Perhaps there will not. But I am determined to find that next big experience despite having much too little time as adult responsibilities deny the sort of thorough search I would want to make.

When I was at young age, we couldn't afford any gaming gear (living in Poland in the 90's). I could only buy one gaming magazine per month back then.

So I had to imagine, how it's look like to play on console/PC - to the level...I made my own...paper replica of PSX1. And I was "playing games on it" (of course in my head).
Then, I've started designing games in paper notebooks (I do remember my imaganation was stretched much more than it is today) and my love to gamedev began :) Later on, we could afford a 286/386 (I can't remember now) - because my older brother was going to University and I do remember sleepless nights spent on Doom and Tomb Raider :)
That was also the time when my lifelong love for Final Fantasy series began!

I was interested in games/gamedev/technologies for the majority of my life, but never had the guts to follow that dream - during university years I got my first job in software industry and I've started easy-cozy "corporate life" - which gave my more depression than personal fulfillment.
Nowadays, I am software developer by day (Java business applications field), but during the nights, when kids are sleeping I am crafting my very first title (maybe even will come to GoG in future, who knows?), to fullfil my dreams from the youth - that passion never died in me and it will live forever I hope :D

AGADO Studio on Twitter BTW :)

I never got to play as a child so as a free student I got blown away when I saw a full fledged 3D game. (My only gaming experience prior to that was watching people play Civ in 2000) Every new type of game was an amazing novel experience that I will never forget. The most notable was playing the Witcher 2 and having to figure out how to beat the tentacle boss and cheesing Letho with bombs (playing on the highest difficulty).
In my memories old graphics look better than the best new graphics because my imagination ran wild back then.

I started playing GameBoy. Super Mario Land 1/2/3 is what got me started. But i wanted to explore everything slowly, uncover all hidden stages and secret content. Then, Mega Drive and Genesis. Games like Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Super Contra, MK3 were rocking me, used to play those with friends. At the same time, i got my SNES, with Yoshi's Island and Darius Twin, which i won in a contest of a shop and obtained it as a gift (Darius twin, not the console, not Yoshi)!

Family PC came in and learning that Golden Axe was a thing in it too, made me forget all the others and stick with it. Especially since at that very time, emulation was born. Say no more, i thought! And poof! Just like that, PC became my console of choice, being superior and all (no other console can play all other consoles' role)! MAME hooked me up nicely for years, until its devs were forced to break compatibility with roms, at each and every new "update" come. I was fortunate to come across old DOS games, like Cybermage, quite late into the 3D era, so i discovered i was always a retro person really, while at it. Before i knew it, i was stuck for life.

Exploring every genre, prefering RPGs and Strategies, a little bit Adventures, the occasional shooter that i rarely love... I was one of the lucky few to live through the golden age of PC gaming! Even that by itself, explains everything and somebody doesn't need to say anything more. Yes, it's true; "they don't make them like they used to". Some rare, lucky exceptions, are good retro-pixel games and the occasional high-quality indie title, the best ones coming to mind being Shovel Knight, Hollow Knight, The Messenger, Dead Cells, Blasphemous and others.

I developed a special soft spot for games like Castlevania, cult horror like Call of Cthulhu, the Suffering and Vampire the Masquerade. Playing with friends from school and kids from the neighborhood. When they dragged me to net cafes for Counterstrike, i used to discover gems like Nosferatu the wrath of malacchi, clive barker's undying, vampire redemption, the I of the dragon; i grew bored with lan parties quick and instead, started launching random games and trying them. That is why, when i found gog, i initially fell in love with it, as it had been during the good old days.

That's all, folks!

It all started one dark and stormy night, after Chrtistmas and I got hooked on Commador 64, I started playing Frogger, BC Quest for tires, Grog revernge, and then next thing I know I onto Raid On Bungling Bay and Raid Over Moscow and Beach head 1 and 2. Then came the real power a 386 machine with hard drive and a whole 64 MB of RAM of page memory. Dune firt came and then followed by RTS (real Time Startegy) Command and Conquer, had to load the computer with the correct disk order. Now aday i play the reto games more then anything else, still looking for that copy of Archon for Windows to come out, I know you hear me GOG, I'm typing on your web site I hope you hear me.

I started playing at the age of eight. My friends and I went to a computer club and played CS 1.6, Quake. When my older brother bought a computer, I immersed myself even more in the world of games and played Half-Life, Call of Duty, Dragon Age: Origin and more. My love for the RPG genre began with Dragon Age: Origin. Of course, I play different genres, but RPG remains my favorite. After a while I bought a laptop and continued to play various games. My favorites were: Mirror's Edge, Battlefield 3, The Witcher and TES: Skyrim. Now I continue to play, but the time will come and I will release my game!

My love for computer gaming began a few decades ago. I used to hang out with a friend of mine who happened to have a PC and he was running a game called X-Wing. I was instantly hooked. As a Star Wars fan I couldn't believe the detail in the graphics, the awesome control and decision making options for your craft. What can I say about the music: phenomenal. John Williams soundtrack that reacted to what I was doing in game, just superb. I immediately started making plans to buy my first PC. Sadly that goal would take a little bit of time to accomplish but it was well worth it. In the meantime I still went over to that friend's place and enjoyed many a good game, expanding my understanding of the greatness and versatility of PC gaming. No one can stop me now.

It began watching my brother play abe's oddysee on the ps1 and ever since then i've been hooked

My gaming began with my uncle's Atari 2600 and a Pac-Man cartridge, ironic because it's one of the worst if not the worst version of the game but it led to convincing my parents to get my own console and the rest is history.

For me it al started way back on the SNES and its ragingly hard Aladdin game. Man did i hate that game as a kid, luckly it dident deter me from gaming, and after that SNES many more systems followed.

Wasteland on my old C64 back in the late 80s... awe yeah (please insert disk 6)

My love for gaming started circa 1980 when I first saw Pac-Man at the age of six. Even then, I knew I wanted to not only play but create computer games. One game I made was a finalist in a 1984 contest sponsored by Apple Computers, in which I won $500. That paid most of the cost for the first computer I owned, which I still have, an Apple IIc.

It started way back in 2004. My fondest memories always came back to my PS1 and the Crash Bandicoot franchise as a whole, the Resident Evil trilogy too (I shouldn't have to play that at the time), Sillent Hill, The Spyro demo that came in the Crash 3 disc, Gran Turismo, Medal of Honor, Tekken 3 and some shovelware licensed games, probably low budget.

We also had some arcades placed in a local shop near my home so I always used to call my friends to play some KOF or Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter or some racing games, all of them from Sega.

The first computer games I played were in the late 70's on the TRS80 Radio Shack computer. A friend and I typed the code in ourselves for games like NIM and Othello (Reversi) from books full of BASIC code for short games you could buy back in the day. I have been hooked ever since.

I have always been exclusively a PC gamer, even in the days before I could afford a color monitor. I played numerous games that were written using color in shades of amber run through a Hercules graphics card in my x286 computer. The day I got a VGA monitor and supporting video card was a red (and green and blue) letter day, let me tell you.

Discovering old games all over again on GOG has been and continues to be a walk down Nostalgia lane. Things I'd played that I never thought I'd play again keep showing up in the GOG inventory. Sometimes I can't wait to play them again, and sometimes wondering how I thought others were ever worth my time, but it has all been great fun seeing so many old titles I'd forgotten about on GOG's webpages.

Having been present at the dawn of the digital age, I cant help but feel that I've been alive in a period of renaissance on planet earth. My most direct experience with that progression has been as a witness to the evolution of videogaming over 40+ years.