Hi I'm Daniel from Sweden and this is my life in games.

Hardware.
I started playing when I was 4-6 years old. It was on my grandfathers tabletop arcadegames (small cabinets). I was sold from the start. I had many friends that was playing on there fathers gamedevises, and I played on Atari, C64, Amiga 500 and countless Game & Watches before our family got a NES. Me and my brothers was later happy to get a SNES and playing SEGA at friends houses.

My first own machine was a PlayStation and at 15 I got my first PC. When i started working the consoles was rolling in.

To date I own or have own;
PS, PS2, PS3 and PSP
XBOX and XBOX360
NES, SNES, Gamecube and 3+ GameBoys
PC's and a Mac.

Games that have made my life better (selection.)
Monkey Island I, II and III
Discworld I, II and Noir
Quest for Glory
Punch Out
Doom, Quake and UT
Warcraft and Starcraft
NHL 96 (Forsberg)
Thief II
Edit: Silent Hill 1-4
Edit: Resident Evil 0-4
Edit: Project Zero (Fatal Frame US) 1-2
Final Fantasy VI (US III), 7-9
Edit: Alone in the Dark
Edit: Metal Gear Solid (PS)
Edit: Shin Megami Tensei series
GrandTheftAuto III
Gran Turismo 3
Guitar Hero 1-3
Morrowind and Oblivion
Edit: Fallout 3

At the moment I'm playing
Oblivion (moded), Morrowind, Civ 4 and The Witcher.

In the future I see
Skyrim and Thief IV. Edit: Stalker and Baldur's Gate

That's me.

This is my first thread. I hope you like it.

Now, what about you?

I grew up before videogames. The first Apple computer was released around the time I was a college freshman, 1976. I played Space Invaders on an arcade machine in college, though I wasn't one of the hardcoe arcade gamers. The first PC games I played included the text adventure "Amnesia", and "Starflight". When I was in the Air Force I used to borrow a PC at a recreation center to play M.U.L.E.

The first machine I bought was an Amiga 500, and I bought a chip to upgrade the memory to a whole MB. (Seems laughable now.) I enjoyed the Amiga 500 a lot, especially the game "Lords of the Rising Sun", reminiscent of Shogun TW.

In the 1990s and married, I bought my first PC and found it was bundled with the excellent game "Civilization II". "Half-Life" was among the first CD-ROM games I bought. I loved "Baldur's Gate II" and "Throne of Bhaal", discovered "Planescape:Torment" on sale, and enjoyed "Icewind Dale" 1 and 2 among other games. But it was "Arcanum" and especially "Morrowind" that showed me what was possible in gaming. VTM:Bloodlines was also very memorable.

Dragon Age:Origins became a favorite more recently, though for some reason DA:Awakening didn't live up to it and I still haven't finished it. I've been playing "Guild Wars" since last summer. Looking forward to eventually buying DA 2, Modern Warfare 1 and 2, Fallout 3, and other games.

I've seen an amazing evolution over the years, from primitive stick-figure graphics to today's cinematic approach.

Syronj

Great story, and i can't belive I forgot FO3. Have we been spoild with Good games lately?

Thanks. I'm having a dry spell currently with new games since I usually wait for the price to drop. I was going to buy Dragon Age 2 as a preorder, but had to cancel for financial reasons. It does seem though that there are a lot of interesting games coming out, or that have been released in recent years. I'm looking forward to Guild Wars 2 especially, for its persistent-world aspect -- supposedly events in the game won't reset automatically the way they do in most MMOs. I'll buy Skyrim although there was a time when I would have been more enthusiastic about a new Elder Scrolls game. I also need to retry "The Witcher". "Stalker:Shadow of Chernobyl" had amazing atmosphere, so I need to buy "Call of Pripyat" sometime.

In Order of Appearance: Nintendo , Sega Genesis, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, N64, PC, Playstation 2, PC, Xbox 360

I have played many games throughout my youth and young advlt life. Gaming is the one thing that i feel keeps me connected to my inner child. It is always about work and school now. So I love when I have the chance to play a video game for 5-6 hours at a time. As for my future with gaming, I am not sure. I badly want to be a part of the industry, and even make my own game one day. I used to play pen and paper games a lot. We came up with so many great stories, that is also when I knew that this is what I wanted to do. I may never get to fulfill my dream of game development but I will be damned if I don't try.

Here is my list of monumental games:
Baulder's Gate, The Elder Scrolls series, Shadow of the Colossus, Fallout Series, KoTOR, Mass Effect 1 & 2, Star Wars: Battlefront, Dragon Age: Origins, Battlefield, Pokemon Red through Gold and Silver, Mortal Kombat, Max Payne, Fatal Frame Series, Zelda series, Goldeneye, Mario 64, Turok, Half Life 1 & 2, Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto, F.E.A.R, I could really go on and on about all the video games that have influenced my taste in gaming. There are a lot of great unique gems out there.

Born in '94 so my first system was the NES which my parents already owned. I got my N64 in '98 and then various handhelds. My first one was a Game Boy that the lady that cut my moms hair gave to me and then i got the gameboy color. Then, I got my Sega genesis model 3, gamecube, xbox, ds, wii, Xbox 360 x3, Atari 7800, and then my pong machine.

So yeah, i go from retro to new to retro :thumbsup: . I mainly played shooters until i discovered morrowind on the xbox and while the shooter genre has gotten stale for me, i picked up the STALKER games and they renewed my interest.

I still play pokemon, mario, zelda, metroid, Mortal Kombat, and other titles all the time.

Gaming for me isnt about blowing off steam or to get my mind off of life. Gaming has been a part of me since i was born and it will be a part of me until i die.

Syronj

I have Stalker: call of prypiat on my comp, but I'm glad to say I don't have time for it right now. It looks like a great game and i want to be 100% focused when i play it.

I'm glad I have less time to play games, than there being less games than time.

I started gaming on my older brothers snes with games like super mario world (2nd best mario ever), one of the street fighter 2 incarnations, and an actually fun side-scrolling home alone game to which I have never been able to find the particular version. Sadly no Link to the Past for quite some time (gba). Being 19 now, I probably would have been about 3 or 4 when I started. I got my first system in 1998 with the N64, accompanied by both Super Mario 64 (yay) and Nascar 98 (boo) . . . my dad was a cowboy wannabe. For the next 3 years I would play everything from Banjo Kazooie to Goldeneye, Conker's Bad Fur Day to the Zelda series. Zelda was definitely my favorite games on the system. I personally feel that nothing really beats the n64 saga, MM was my personal favorite. In 2001I received my first introduction into videogame realism, the xbox. It was there waiting for me Christmas morning with 3 games, Arctic Thunder, Munch's Oddysee . . . and Halo. 2 of which I destroyed multiple times by the time christmas break was up and it was time to go back to school, the other, Munch's Oddysee, took a bit longer to beat. A couple years later a game would release that would not only be my first introduction into what a real rpg was, it would be the first game I can honestly state that I would eventually poor 1,000 + hours into. That game . . . was Morrowind. Got a ps2 but never played anything mind blowing, though Dark Cloud 2 is worth a mention as well as Deux Ex: The conspiracy. Got my 360 on 06 and is probably my most played console to date. While the game experiences don't quite hit me like they did back in the day with some of my older machines, games like Bioshock, The Orange Box, and New Vegas make me happy that gaming is where it's at. Also got a new computer in 06 which was cool because while it wasn't quite built for gaming, it finally allowed for me to play games like Planescape:Torment, Baldur's Gate 2 and a couple others. My old computer was running windows 95 . . . my father was a technophobe. Well that's pretty much it for the past to the present. Also own a wii, but it's mostly a Zelda player/ dust collector and my handhelds hold little time in comparison to my consoles and computer. What does the future hold? Possibly the switch to pc gaming. Looking into building a respectable gaming pc in the somewhat near future, expect a "what the hell am I doing, PLEASE HELP ME!", thread some time in the future.

I gamed a lot up until September 2010, then ran out of time.

I only gamed on a low-end PC until a couple of years ago when I got my 360, that's when I really got hooked on games and I now own a much better PC, a PS2 and a PS3, although I haven't played the PS3 yet since my friend decided to give it to me but without a controller (long story).

Some of the old PC games I have fond memories of: Midtown Madness 2, Roller Coaster Tycoon 2, Rally Championship, Flight Simulator 2002.

My first 360 game was Just Cause, soon after I got Mirror's Edge and I now have about 30 360 games (maybe more or less, I haven't counted them)

My favourite games are probably Red Dead Redemption, GTA IV, Mirror's Edge, Fallout 3 and BioShock.

And that's about it really :shrug:

He11fx

I'm sad the nintendolove died for me a couple years ago. It's no doubt a big part of my life, but i can't see what it was i loved so much. (SMB and Zelda). Also, Dark Cloud 2 was great.

Sasholon

I also see games as more than a pasttime.

Grrtt

Shadow otC was good, but don't you think ICO was better? I thought some magic was lost

I never got around to playing ICO unfortunately, I will keep that in mind when i go by gamestop next time and see if they have any used copies, i have been meaning to play some ps2 titles again mainly Fatal Frame 2 and Baulders Gate 2.

(Note some of this story is kinda mixed up has I cant remember what happened first in most cases)

I started playing around 4ish
The first game I played was either Sonic The Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis (I think) or Super Mario Bros on the NES both systems where my Grandfathers. Granted these we pretty old when I played them. The first system that was actually bought for me was a N64 that my dad got from a pawn shop when we moved from Baltimore MD to a small town in southern West Virgina. My dad got it for me and my older bro since we lived in the middle of nowhere now we didnt have very much to do. The N64 came with Starwars Podracer, Super Smash Bros, and a few others. Later we moved back to Baltimore and my parents let a friend move in with his son. Well the friend of my parents named Brian had a PS1. So Id sit and watch him play Metal Gear Solid that soon became my favorite game and still is my favorite series of games. I got my own PS1 later played alot of spyro. I still perfered my N64 with Donkey Kong 64, Super Mario 64, Pokemon Stadium 1&2, Pokemon Snap. I also remember saving up my money to buy a special Hey You Pikachu! N64. I also had the gameboy with Pokemon Yellow, Blue, Gold, Crystal. Later on I got a Dreamcast (Amazing console) on it I played Jet Grind Radio, Fur Fighters, Spawn In The Demons Hand (Favorite game for it) and I can go on ranting on later consoles but I wont.

Consoles Ive owned
Playstation 1 2 &3
N64
Dreamcast
Gameboy and GBA
Xbox and 360
Wii
Gamecube

I was born in 1994 and first got a SNES in 1998 or 1999, then a PS1, then a Gameboy Advance, then a PS2, then an Xbox, and then a PS3. For the entire time I've been playing video games, I've also been playing less demanding games on whatever PC we've had in my house. Among the most memorable games I've played are the following:

• Oblivion (my favorite game; I went on to play the other Elder Scrolls games in the core series and I love them, as well, but Oblivion has a special place in my memory the others cannot fill)
  
• Fallout 3 (my second favorite game; It's the only first-person game with guns I've ever played to this date and yet I can't enjoy other games that incorporate both of those things. Go figure. )
  
• Dragon Quest VIII
  
• Final Fantasy XII
  
• Civilization series (I've played II-IV.)
  
• Baldur's Gate II (my first RPG)
  
• Pokemon games (I stopped playing them around 2006, but I greatly enjoyed them and I am hoping to get a Nintendo DS just to play some of the newer ones. I don't care about my age, they're fun games.)
  
• KotOR (It's a shame a third one isn't foreseeable in the near future.)
  
• Kingdom Hearts II (again, waiting for that third one)

I see a long future of gaming ahead of me, considering my age, and I'm quite excited about the rapid advancement of video game technology. Future games I'm especially looking forward to are Skyrim and Demon's Souls (I hope to buy it, soon.).

My entire gaming history is year after year after year of gagging on rage as people keep saying "theif" and "rouge".

Seti

I've been reading this forum for a month or so, and I have to say I admire your work defending Oblivion from haters. At the time i started, that looked like a full time job.

Nice having you in my thread.

Atari 2600 first, it was my dad's and it appeared from cupboard when I was like, five or something, lol, then a NES, my dad cut his thumb at work and got a compo pay out and came home with a Commodore 64 for me, with like a five game package including Platoon, and Great Escape. I remember it well, and it was Epic. lol My NES went to my little brother. From then I got computers, Amiga, Atari ST, then first desktop PC, then another PC, and another PC, meanwhile my brother was going from NES, (got a Gameboy each somewhere between here) SNES, (got an Atari Lynx each [if the Gameboy didn't do so well I would love to have seen handhelds evolve from the Lynx instead of cheap-ass monochrome tat] somewhere here) to PS, N64, we shared a room so we pretty much shared everything.

When we argued the only consoles we shared were the ones we'd bought together or got as joint presents, Atari Jaguar, NeoGeo, Panasonic 3DO, Phillips CDi (fart noise). Shared a Playstation, I bought a Dreamcast, my brother bought a PS2. Dreamcast died a death, I got an XBOX. Moved out, gave my XBOX away, didn't own a console for a few years til the 360 was released. Just had PCs. When I got the 360 it was the first time I got rid of and went without a PC. Bought a PC again after playing Fallout 3 on 360, and after getting more and more frustrated with the [censored] controls of 360 shooters. Got a PC and 360 now.

My brother's got his own house, lives with his girlfriend and son, and has since purchased all the things he wanted when we'd been younger (Mech Warrior controller and stuff), and has re-bought all the consoles we'd gotten rid of through the years. He owns pretty much everything from Nintendo Game and Watch stuff to all current consoles, although his girlfriend wants him to get rid, he's keeping hold of 'em all and said he's gonna be raising his son on retro consoles and systems, and he's gonna bring him up through the generations of consoles. lol

Like, a year on the 2600 and the like, the next on the NES and Master System and the like, and on and on, up and up... right on up to modern systems as he gets older. lol He's gonna raise my nephew with a full appreciation for the evolution of video games. lmao He hates that our nine-year-old foster brother is playing 360 and Wii games without batting an eyelid as to how far the technology's come. lol Ha ha. He gets genuiney mad with my dear ol' mom for expanding my foster brother's library of games when he doesn't complete half of those he already owns. I think it's like a regressive jealousy or something, or a guarded Nerd Rage or something, not sure. My brother is a card.

I'm currently looking forward to Skyrim, Trapped Dead (one day to go woo), and RAGE (long way to go )... currently re-playing Dead Rising 2 (PC), between plays of Fallout: New Vegas (third play-through), and WAR, which for whatever reason I can't stop playing. Games in recent years I've enjoyed have been Wolfenstein, BioShock, Fallout 3, Tomb Raider: Underworld (gimme a break I;ve grown up with Lara), Assassin's Creed, Gears 1 - 2 only when co-op'ing with my brother, Dragon Age: Origins and Awakenings. Always going back to games like AvP2, Icewind Dale, Medieval, Rome, and Medi 2 Total War, uhm... played literally hundreds of games over the past few years. I wish I'd kept GTA style stats of play-time and number of games played in my lifetime. Hmm, maybe I should suggest that to my brother for my nephew? lol

I had my older brothers NES as a wee chap. I played a few games on it but never got as good as NES enthusiasts are. That's the only console I've ever owned. Though I do enjoy fighting games (Soul Calibur, MK: Trilogy) when I get the chance.

On the family computer we had Loom, which was awesome. I really have my mom to thank for becoming a PC gamer. She would get these monthly CDs with random programs and computer game demos on them. I'd play a lot of demos on them and got a scattered interest in games.

One of those demos was Mysteries of the Sith. LIFE FOREVER CHANGED. I immediately became addicted to Dark Forces, Dark Forces II: Jedi Knight, and Mysteries of the Sith. I loved Star Wars already and this was gold. I spent countless hours going through all these games and got really into the tension the worlds had. Had a joystick for a while and played Tie Fighter vs. X-Wing.

The glorious day came when my mom ordered a semi-custom PC that came with Soldier of Fortune. FPS took on a whole new meaning while simultaneously numbing me to violence and gore. After that I blasted through Half Life, Opposing Force, and Blueshift. Counter Strike became a middle school staple. LAN parties galore. Never really got into RTSs that much, felt like too much of a grind to work as fast as possible, not real "strategy."

Of course HL2 was a blast, I'm now a Valve junkie and play everything they put out.

Morrowind was revolutionary for me as well. I can run any where and do whatever I want in this crazy world? THERE. Since then I've played through Oblivion, FO3, and FO:NV. Bethesda's game, at their core, are what RPGs should be in my mind.

Other Great Times: Early Star Wars Galaxies, Guild Wars, Bioshock, Mass Effect 2, Amnesia: Dark Descent, Grim Fandango, Jedi Academy, Jedi Outcast

Onione, chalupa and anyone i missed so far, good read.

Maybe I should add Halflife to my list of great games... nah, nothing will ever beat the sound of the grenadelauncher in Quake 1.

NES, SNES, Genesis, PS1, PS2, 360, PC (Vista), Apple 7500

Uh...
Metal Gear series
Fallout series
Silent Hill series
Earthworm Jim
Final Fantasy before XIII
Resident Evil ~4
Revolution X
Street Fighter 2
Tekken 2
Alone in the Dark 2 (One-Eyed Jack's Revenge)
Parasite Eve
Diablo series
MDK

others, waaaaaay too many to list.