I was visiting my (10 year older) cousin and he showed me the original Prince of Persia running on his then brand new PC. I have seen other, simpler, games before, but the realistic animation and movement of the Prince blew my mind, as I never expected something like this could be possible to see on screen.

It all started back in college; I was the first dorm resident to have a Pong Game hooked up to a B/W TV. We used to have a big crowd gather and cheer the players on! Blip-Blip, Blip-Blip, Blip-Blip, Such fun. At least we thought it was back then!

My dad of blessed memory bought a famicom when we were kids, and I used to be the backseat gamer whenever he played Super Mario Bros. I still fondly remember how we beat the last level together as he played while I gave some ideas on how to move forward (the level was a loop until you chose the right pipe to enter into). Sometimes I would catch him late at night playing the latest game he bought and he was nice enough to let me either watch him play, or let me have a go. My dad's taste for games was both varied and impeccable: Mappy Land, Contra, Ghouls and Goblins, Castelvania, you name a beloved retro game for the famicom in the 80's and chances are he's played it. It goes without saying that he passed on his love of gaming to me. So here I am now many years later still in love with the same hobby that my dad was so passionate about, now passing the torch to the next generation of gamers in my family.

I don't remember correctly，I think that was 10 years old.
The first game I played is Mine, which aroused my curiosity.
Then My father brought back some pirated CDs, which includes AoE II. That is the first time I found games are joyful.

A long long time ago in a bygone era or physical disks and PC magazines, it all started in 2000-2001 with a demo disk for Hitman 2:Silent Assassin.

My dad was playing some games and seeing that I also showed interest he started buying such magazines for a little kid to enjoy .

Game was amazing and it looked incredible, we took turns trying to complete the very first mission and after several long hours finally managed to do it. It was an incredible experience.

For the time it was one of the best looking games on the market and it still holds visually today due to the stylized graphics .It sparked a desire to look into the gaming world and want to recreate that experience of playing and achieving my objectives in a game for the first time .

20 years ago, when I was maybe 8 years old, we were visiting grandmother with my mom and sisters. Since it was christmas time, a lot of cousins were visiting too. One of my cousin, which lived with grandma at the time, got playstation for christmas, and we were all passing controller to one another after every life we lost in Crash Bandicoot game. That's when my love for gaming reawakened. Funilly enough, till this day my very favourite gaming genre is platformers, and I still have soft spot for Crash games.

Really appreciate such an awesome opportunity, dudes. While I'd heard about video games when I was a little kid, I'd never actually gotten the chance to experience them until my folks got my brother and I a Nintendo 64, with a copy of Donkey Kong 64 included. While this helped me to enjoy gaming as a passing hobby, along with other titles such as Smash Bros., Rayman 2, Mario 64 and Banjo Kazooie, it hadn't really become a major passion for me until I'd played Paper Mario. Until that point, I had no idea that games could be so genuinely immersive, like a storybook that you can actually experience yourself. While I eventually refined this feeling as the beginning of my love for RPGs, it ultimately lead to me wanting to develop games with deep immersive narratives and mechanics. And now I'm finishing up my master's for animation, hoping to take my skills over to a major game development studio, or even an indie developer. Regardless, I feel that I owe all of my skills and passion for video games to the Paper Mario franchise and hope with every step of my life to find more RPG's that can prove to be just as rich and rewarding to play, if not eventually develop fome of my own. Again, thanks very much for granting the chance to share my history with everyone, and I hope for as good of a chance as all others on the platform.

Videogames as I knew was driving a car around a city, jumping on platforms or shooting at things.
One day it happened that I saw a friend playing Hitman Blood Money and I realized that I could plan and execute a murder in almost every way as I wanted.

That was my introduction in videogames.


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It all started '84.
My dad brought me to the office, as my mom was a teacher and that day she had a long day.
At my school was holiday.
My dad was a high level manager in an important telecomunicaton company but he was always very caring and was not happy to leave me with anyone else than him.
But, as I remember, there were some really important meetings going around for some reasons I don't know so he told me:
"Today you will be with John, not me. John will show you around and, if you need anything ask him. But be mindful as he needs to work" and he left.

John walk me around the office and introduced me to some people working for my dad. Everyone was nice.
While walking trough these huge corridords (a kid's memory makes everything bigger...) we walked across a room with double doors, with a golden plaque: "Mainframe. Authorised access only."

Strange noises waer coming out of it and I stopped for a few seconds thikning about the word: mainframe.
What could ever that mean. So I asked:
"John, what is in this room? What is a mainframe?"

John, without saying a word, pulled out a badge, like in the SCI-FI movies of the time, and opened the door.
While opening the door he said: "I'll show you the coolest thing ever!"

We walked in and all I remember was multiple corridors of metal racks of strange noises and machinery. People fiddling with piece of papers and green terminals.
All lloked so disorienting but, at the same time, absolutely mesmerising.

I did not play any game that day but I clearly remember my passion for computers was born that day. A passion that developed in videogames and so much more. Something that defined so much of my life that I cannot even explain.

Thanks for reading.

'Planet Arrakis, known as Dune. Home to the spice, Melange'

With these words, the grandfather of all modern day RTS greeted me. As a young child I was amazed at my buildings and units scurried across the screen harvesting spice and waging war against my enemies.

Trikes and quads raced across the sand and rock harnessing enemies and battling each other. Soldiers rolled out as cannon fodder. Tanks rolled towards the enemy bases firing shells and raining missiles. Powerful special units like the long range Sonic tank, overwhelming Devastator or mind-altering Deviator came came into play later in the game changing the way each faction played.

And it was not a gentle environment either. Sand, blew across my buildings damaging them unless they were built on concrete slabs and sandworms jealously guarded their precious spice ready to swallow my roaming harvesters. As tanks exploded, rockets detonated and soldiers died, the land took on the scars of battle.

To this day, I still revisit Dune II on occasion, admiring the wonderful pixel art and sounds. Even today the gameplay still holds up. it's innovations like mouse control, minimap and user interface are still basically the same even today for modern RTS and even MOBAs which are it's grandchildren.

The planet Dune is unforgiving and unforgettable!

As for Herzog Zwei? Never heard of it :-)

My love of gaming was inspired by my father, who I watched playing in our living room as a child. "What do they call the Nintendo Wii in France, daddy?" I asked him. "Why son, it's called the Nintendo Yes!" he replied. I told him I wished real-life was more like videogames. So he locked me in my room and told me if I want access to the rest of the house I have to pay for the DLC.

I had a couple of false starts in computer gaming. The first arcade video game I played was Space Invaders, but I didn't get hooked on similar games on my Atari 2600, my TRS-80 or, later, my dad's Osborne. I enjoyed early tactical games like Star Trek and management games like Hammurabi, but they were fun for a short time and then forgotten. I loved tabletop AD&D, so I naturally gravitated toward games like Pyramid 2000 (a Crowthers & Woods Colossal Cave ripoff by Radio Shack), the real Colossal Cave, Zork, and Dungeons of Daggorath (almost a clone of Akalabeth). Still no addiction. Then, after many okay games, I came across Bard's Tale and there I found a hook that got me. I was obsessed with finishing the series. The final nail in my coffin came via Dune II, Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, and Duke Nukem 3D. After that, I was a full on game junkie. Now, I appreciate the games for their gameplay, their art, their music, and their stories, but as a software developer for decades, I also appreciate them for their technique. I have no interest in becoming a game developer -- I have my own niche -- but I still endeavor to study the techniques and algorithms just for my personal education and it gives me a better appreciation of the games I play to know how difficult a certain part may have been or how clean the design must be to implement a certain feature. It also makes be very critical of badly written games because I know how it could and should have been done. But don't think this makes me a technology snob. One of my all time favorite games is Machinarium and, technologically, it's just a dinky Flash Player game. But what a charmer it is!

My love for games started when, working with my father, i enter in a house where they were playing with a computer a game that absolutely blow me away, and it was Prince of Persia.
Of course i then bought a Commodore 128 (wich i still have) and played a lot of games.
But my first pc games that started all were Eye of the Beholder 2, Ultima Underworld 1, and Quest for Glory 1 back in the 90´s.
That´s why i love gog so much!

My Atari 2600. H.E.R.O. Warlords. Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron. Barnstorming. River Raid. Riddle of the Sphinx. My cousins and I would pool our money together to buy new games to share and just spend hours playing it.

My love of gaming started in the arcade when I was young and attending a friend's 8th birthday party. The first game I played was the classic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles beat 'em up and all the boys at the party lined up to participate in 4-player combat. The system was simple: you lose all your lives, next in line takes your place. We must have spent $20 worth of arcade tokens but we kept chipping away until we beat the end boss Shredder and saw the credits roll. Pure satisfaction from a group effort. That one arcade run was all we could talk about at school for a week.