How my love for videogames began? Ok... Let's see... it was the summer of 1991. The father of the neighbors kid had just gotten a personal computer and we've never seen anything like it before. This was Bulgaria in 1991 and personal computers were very rare. So all the kids from the block gathered in the room and he showed us Lode Runner and Alien Invaders. The monitor was one of those monochrome greens but everything looked amazing to the eyes to the group of teenagers gathered around since you had to write a command line to start up the game after inserting the 3.5 inch floppy in the drive and you could play videogames and write letters/fax at home. It was an old Pravetz PC if my memory is not playing tricks with me(they don't make Pravetz computers anymore). So ever since that moment i had fascination with computer games and general computer science. Also thanks for making me feel incredibly old GOG...

My perents were gamers.

You may figure out the rest. :)

My love for gaming began as a kid, it was a way for me to make friends inviting people over to play local co-op games.

Oh ma gog, where do i start? It's more about an addiction than love! My obsession for games started every time i turned on my pc and became a knight, a soldier, a pilot, an explorer...

when i fought Dragons,
... when i won Races,
..when i killed Monsters,
......when i am FREE to be everything!

My uncles had a computer with duke nukem 2, 3d and commandos (I was 6 or 7 years old), then another uncle bought a computer and taught me how to play: Mortal Kombat 4, Delta Force Black Hawk Down, Age of Empires 2, GTA Vice City, Opposing Force, etc...

I'm starting to become an ancient being. For me it all started way, way back when crt monitores where monochromatic. My dad was very fond of new tech so he bought one of those computers to help him get his job done faster. He loved cars and had a tech savvy friend who installed the first Test Drive on the pc. I was blown away! I always wanted to go to my dad's work to play games. Later he could afford another pc to keep at home and then Prince of Persia came out and my brain melted (in the good sense) the rest is history. I love you dad, wherever you are.

Ps: Sorry for my grammar, i'm from Argentina.

It all started one afternoon when I was 3 years old, my mom and I went to visit my godfather, when we arrived his daughter was in the living room with the new computer that they had recently bought. His father asked her to show me the new device and everything it could do. She decided to show me Doom (1993) and it was love at first sight, I still clearly remember the moment, how realistic its graphics (for its time), and how fun it was despite my poor coordination with the controls.
When my mother called me to come home I wanted to stay the night so I could continue playing. When I got home I asked him for a computer, but they said 'no'. It was not until two years later that she bought me my first computer and I began a journey that took me to know different worlds, different experiences, that day videovgames became my passion and I hope I can fulfill my dream that one day it will be my profession.

I was fortunate enough to be able to play games like Colossal Cave on the MAPPER terminals connected to the mainframe after hours at my parents workplace. When I was 12, I received a hand-me down of an old 286 IBM PC for my birthday, with Star Control 2 and Civilization (the first one) pre-installed. Civilization was educational, they used to say. I remember going to a local computer store and buying shareware demos on floppy disks for two to three dollars each, never knowing what kind of game I was going to get. The holy grail at the time was DOOM. I bought the sharewere version on four disks for five dollars, knowing full well I couldn't run it at home -- it used the 386 extended mode instruction set -- so I took it around to friends' homes to play. I played Wolftenstein 3D, Catacomb Abyss, and Blake Stone: Aliens of Gold as a consolation, and thrilled to the Epic Megagames classics -- Jill of the Jungle, Jazz Jackrabbit, and Xargon. I remember being so enamored by the storyline of Traffic Department 2192 that it was one of the games I persisted in finishing. It was no surprise that when I got my next computer for school, a Pentium 1 when I turned 18, that the first thing I had to install was DOOM. It was glorious.

It all began on one of the biennial Christmas family pilgrimages to a family friends place. They had a pool and amazing weather, it was beaut there. Then one day, I was about 8, in a dark corner of a workshop under their house I was shown an Apple II (green screen) and they loaded up a game called Aztec. They showed me a few commands to get by on the Apple II and left me alone (maybe because I was at that antagonising age) with Aztec. It blew my mind and played that game to death for the rest of those trips.

Funny enough those mono-chrome game memories still stick. With way more stunning games in my vast libraries than personal spare time allows I play Moria most.

It all began with a single spark. I was a 6-year old child, getting introduced to the gaming world by my uncles. We used to go to a gaming house nearby us. I remember those good-old days with passion and nostalgia, where I was fascinated with the quality of the games offered by the SNES library.

We went there, my uncles have some drinks for them while I was eating chocolate and playing Super Bomberman 5, Goof troop, Battletoads or the amazing Metal Warriors with them. It gradually became part of our routine, and every weekend we went there to have some fun and quality time together.

I convinced dad to buy my a console, and the first one I got was an N64, God only knows how many hours I spent playing with my siblings. Even though my mom was against it, because she believed that it was not healthy or benefitial for me, I proved her that she didn't have to worry about my grades or performance at school, and I did during all these years. Nothing changed, and I was still a hardcore gamer.

Not only I discovered a fascinating and overwhelming new world, but I did dwelve on it. Now I swim on it as if it where my natural environment, and even at my 30's I'm so proud to say that I love gaming and I will never be ashamed to recognize that fact, because it's part of my life. And I'm so glad that I can still share that with my beloved ones.

Now, I want to be grateful with you guys for letting me playing back many of the old gems I used to play at those times. It brings up so much memories, and it means a lot to me and all the other gamers around the world who are also in the same boat as me.

That spark is still there and will be always there up to when I'm gone from this life.

Keep up gaming guys!

It almost certainly would have been playing Top Gun with my dad on our old Commodore64 as a child. I guess the connection to spending time with my dad AND getting to play games on the computer my parents both used for work was just a great feeling to a 4-5 year old I mean, it's not like we were great, and it was often supplemented with wheel of fortune sessions with my mom, but it is where I can best trace it back to.

Of course now I'm in my 30sa trying my damndest to learn to code and 3d model so I can make my own ideas come to life, but it all stems from those vga planes dogfighting and trying to properly land on air craft carriers

I love video game since i was a kid,i start to play Need for speed 2,fifa98 and heroes 3,but my hardware was poor ,so my dad spent a lot on a voodoo graphic card ,and that was astonishing,really open an new world to me.I love video games simply because it is pure ,full of imagination and insparition.for me ,game is part of life.

Like many others, it all started sitting besides my older brother, watching him playing on an old MSX games like Knightmare, The Maze of Galious, King's Valley or Penguin Adventure. I was so young that I have no clue what was he doing or his goals, but I really loved those movements, those colors, the music... I don't know if it was love at first sight but over the years it has become one of the greatest (if not THE greatest) loves of my life.

My older sisters had an Atari 2600, so I always remember gaming. But my brother and I got a Nintendo for xmas in 1985, and it's been a huge part of my life since. GOG is good jazz, thanks for keeping old games playable for the ages...

It began with Prince of Persia around 1994 on my mothers work laptop. I was 12 yrs old and sucked at it. Then I've got my first PC on 1996 and got Duke Nukem 3D, Quake & co. But while I liked shooters somewhat I really fell in love with gaming first with Diablo and then with Fallout, Heroes of Might and Magic 2 and other great releases of the 90s.