I started gaming when I was 4 years old. By the time I started school I was a pro at the first 20 or so levels of Lemmings on my Dad's Acorn computer.After focusing on playing lemmings for almost a year I picked up Zool. A game which (even to this day) I never completed and probably never will. Then came starfighter 3000. This game was the first 3d Game i ever played and I fucking loved it! The feeling of freedom in its "massive environments" was overwhelming. I could blow up anything i wanted with my laser cannon. I could fly out into space and destroy an enemy mothership. I could take on enemy fighters at their own runway. I could (and did) play for hours on end without getting bored.After a while I got my first console. The 16-BIT Sega Mega-Drive. The chunky game cartridges which stored hours and hours of gameplay were a new addiction. I played Sonic the Hedgehog solidly through the christmas holidays. Every weekend I would rent a new game from the video store in town.Several years later I got a Playstation, and again was in awe at the graphics. I played Tomb Raider for a few weeks before I discovered Abe's Odysee which I played non-stop until I was done. Bang! Perfect timing. 1 week later Abe's Exodus was released and I slipped through another few months, gamepad in hand. Final Fantasy 7 was released and although I never purchased a copy of it myself I managed to play it from the beginning at least 10 times. I wasted several years on FF7 which is another game that I am yet to complete. Metal Gear Solid was another classic but lacked the replay value of most of my other games.Eventually I got my own PC and Half-Life was released shortly after that. My dad had owned a PC for several years already but despite spending hours on Duke Nukem 3D and Transport Tycoon trying to make more money than a friend who lived down the street, i rarely used it. Quake came and went and I played it through and finished the lot on my dads PC.

Half-Life was the turning point. I played it and finished it 5 times and then moved to LAN gaming. Me, MNutz, my dad and my friend played Half-Life, Team fortress and sometimes Co-op played through Quake. I watched MNuTz make a few maps in Hammer and played against him on his EPIC circle map over the LAN for months on end. Then i read an article in PCGamer on developing simple maps including a brief section on scripting.

I got a PS2 and then lost my faith in consoles.

Mapping became my main hobby until I started college and finally got a net connection at home. I found TWHL on day one and since then I have worked on HL1 maps and mods like it's a religion.

I got a DS and once again lost my faith in consoles.

Now, I sit here in my own house, 2 weeks away from my 21st Birthday. I have been gaming for nearly 17 years.

Do I think I've wasted my life so far?

HELL NO!!!

The very first game (if you can even call it a game) i remember well playing, was "Mario teaches typing" for the computer. So by the time i hit 3rd grade, i could type better than my teachers, and better than most of my fellow classmates.

By the time the SNES came out, my family got an NES and my favorite game hands down, was R.C. ProAMi would play it for HOURS. Win races, upgrade your vehicles.. see pixelated women carrying a mass of pixels similar in shape to a trophy
And of course there was Mario/Duck hunt. Track and field. Blaster Master (love that game to death)
The first game i ever beat was the First Zelda. Followed shortly by the second.

Then my uncle bought us a Genesis. Played sonic spin-ball for hours on end as well. Could never beat it until like 4 months ago. Sonic one, never beat. Sonic 2, beat. Sonic 3, owned, Sonic and knuckles, owned me.
My brother and i had a HUGE rivalry on Super-Baseball 2020Shortly after that, i got the 32x expansion to the genesis, and i played this REALLY superbly made space fighting game with my cuz greg. Single player had an autopiloted ship, while you shot at enemies and stuff. And multiplayer was free roam. Where either player can steer the ship while the other shot. Like... Double dash meets rouge squadron.

speaking of which, i JUSt googled the name of that game and its called shadow squadronSo after i figured out how to get my 32x to fit into my NOMAD (the portable sega genesis that ate batteries like candy)i would take that EVERYWHERE and my parents then realized the wonder of rechargable batteries.

so consoles came and went.

the 64 consisted mainly of hexen, waverace, goldeneye, and starfox.
THEN i played the demo of Unreal tournament and i was HOOKED
played for hours, just the demo and then my dad bought the GOTY half life. and again was hooked.

so it wasnt until sophomore year of highschool when me and my buddies started planning out a counterstrike map to make of the highschool.

i was elected mapper and developer.. so i got hammer.. found some tutorials here, and i found the search bar handy until i couldnt find what i needed, and started an account and here i am on twhl learning from the best

counterstrike lead to hldm, and my sp maps fail so hard i have about 14 non released.. i should toss some up here for shits and giggles.

so thats my story.

My story is very short and simple... I guess.

I can't say I really played any video games until the Nintendo 64 was released, where I played Super Mario 64. Of course there was my favorite game at that time which were the Banjo-Kazooie games on the Nintendo 64 (right?).

Of course I got a PS2 and got into sports games (MADDEN and Tony Hawk and NCAA and such). Soon my friend showed me The Sims and I got hooked on that, got the computer version, got the sequel and so forth. But through that time period, I got bored often and played other games such as Starcraft and Warcraft 3. My friends once again showed me Counter-Strike... so I bought Day of Defeat... (don't ask me about the logic there). Soon I bought the Valve Complete Pack just for the hell of it, found Half-Life, found modding, found here, and never really got heavy into mapping/modding.

As I said, it was short, very strange, and pretty sad...

I started playing with a handheld Nintendo unit.

It only has one game. It's a game where Pop-Eye has to catch cans of spinach while avoiding being hit by Brutus.

That was 1981.

The first PC game I played was a typing game, if you can consider that a game.

The year was 1985.

The first "real" game I played was Wolfenstein 3D. It was just the demo, but I still had a lot of fun. That was the beginning of my FPS love affair.

Then it was Doom and Doom II. I got into Deus Ex and Unreal II, and the Jedi Knights series. I never finished NOLF2 (and I am still trying today).

Of course, Half-Life and Half-Life 2. But I didn't play HL1 until 2006.

hmm, my gaming history ey?
One of the first games I ever played would be Sonic the Hedgehog for Sega Master System. The original Sonic. I never owned a NES, SNES, MegaDrive, N64,Playstation. Just the SMS.

Until, I think I was in grade four, I got myself a Gameboy Colour (all my friends had GB pockets and were jealous) and POKEMON BLUE. Not long after that i got POKEMON GOLD. yay. I still have the badge/pin thing that came with it.Anyway.
not long after that i was introduced to METAL SLUG. you know, the arcade game.thankfully the machine was at a holiday place so i had money most of the year.

next up was DOOM on one of my dads friends computers. not long later, he showed me QUAKE 3. i forget if i had a computer then or not. either way, i got my first computer in 2003, iirc. 2.66 P4 CPU, 512 RAM, GeForce 4 MX 440. One of the first games to grace it was Return to Castle Wolfenstein. I don't have it installed so google for a screen if you want.

I quickly made friends with a bloke who game me the matrix reloaded three days before it actually came out. we played ricochet at a LAN at his place.
If you've never played ricochet at a LAN, you're missing out.
I'm too lazy to provide a screen of ricochet.

that cracked WON install of Half-life laid dormant on my pc for quite a long time. I still had no internet.
I played Half-Life. I didn't think much of it. I got stuck at "On a Rail", not realizing you could shoot the arrows to change tracks.

about a year later, with a fuller appreciation of gaming in general, i played through half life again (on a legal copy, platinum edition), this time actually realizing how awesome it was. i still got stuck at On a Rail, but was dicking around and actually shot a track arrow by accident.

to this date, i never beat the nihilanth.

anyway. around the release of half-life 2, i was using dialup from the kitchen phone line. then my parents decided to get me broadband for my birthday. how nice. by then, i had registered at TWHL, but had never posted. I taught myself to map while i was internet-less, and introduced one of my mates to it also.

when i got internet on my main computer, i immediately went and bought retail HL2 and registered it on steam, as well as my copy of HL platinum.
when the SDK came out, i started posting here. i started a mod in 2004, for Half-life, which was transferred to HL2, which isnt dead, but has no content whatsoever. (well, not completely true, but whatever).

i forget the rest. its funny how i remember what i did ages ago but not recently. oh well. sorry for making you read this rambling story. or, if you're anything like me, you didnt. enjoy.

EDIT: oh, in there somewhere is a short lived xbox, which belonged to my dad but i traded it in and kept the cash, also my GB colour died and was upgraded to GBA (original version), then DS, now i have DS lite. last december i got a Wii.

dang, i got mine at birth.

no but seriously, i've played the Wii at my friends house, I thought it was pretty cool, but not much of the game selection. i plan on getting an x06 and continuing my gaming history from there.

Started with SNES on Mario: All Stars. Made my way to computer after the release of Half-Life. Played some TFC afterwards, got hooked on online gaming. The rest is history.

Penguboy, i'm still on a "2003" computer. 2.66GHz P4, 512MB, and a GeForce4 MX 440.

mat_dxlevel 70

lol owned. i should add that in march or so i updated to 4600+, 2GB RAM, 8800GTS.

I think my first gaming experience was playing solitare on my dad's work computer (windows NT?). I played Nintendo 64 with my friends later - SSB, Goldeneye, Mario Kart 64, and Zelda were awesome games. IN 2002, I got a gamecube because the xbox was really expensive ($329? holy shit!), and the PS2 only had some weird anime games.

I only got this computer in the fall of 2003. Half-Life came to me in a bastardized EA box in winter 2006.

Penguinboy, shame on your for failing to beat Half-Life.

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I often go back to some of these landmark games in my history simply because their so awesome =]

The Basic list:
Playstation 1

> Gameboy (for which i wil spare you pix)

> Computer

> Playstation 2/GBA

> Computer

I've always been more a PC gamer than anything else.

My first experience of a PC game was when i was 2. I have no memory of this of course, but there is a home video of me sitting on my dad's lap "playing" elite on my dad's old BBC Computer. Talk about a game to start out on, eh? (if you haven't played elite.. play it. now.)

The first game i remember playing was the original formula 1 game. I can't remember which PC it was on, but i would guess a Windows 3.1.
Naturally with a name like that, i can't find a picture, but it was beautiful in all its pretend 3D glory.

After that i got a SNES. Wow, how i loved that console.
Starting out on a Donkey Kong game (couldn't tell you which), i quickly found love for this great console. Mario, paperboy, beavis & butthead, super mariokart, super metroid, and of course Micro Machines 2. I have so many memories of playing Micro Machines 2 with my dad. Superb game.
When i grew a little older i got Street Fighter 2 Turbo, and that really got me set on violence

While i was still very much in love with my SNES, i got a Sega Megadrive(Genesis, for you americans) from the family next door, who's oldest son had gone to uni and didn't take it with him. It was kind of an extended loan. Mortal Kombat II was my highlight on that console, but there were also other favourites like Sonic, Streets of Rage and the ever popular Road Rash series.

So i would play nothing but those 2 consoles for a very long time.. Until the Playstation 1 became more "affordable" and i finally got my hands on one. Wow. What amazing games. Of course, i learn now that they're all Nintendo titles, but heey
Highlights on the Ps1 for me:
WWF Smackdown. I used to love wrestling (don't hate me. every kid here did) and the games even more. They were great fun.
Metal Gear Solid 1, my favourite game ever released for any Playstation, this game had it all. Killer graphics, amazing story & atmosphere, great voice acting, and immensely fun and difficult gameplay. The sequels were shockingly bad and killed my faith in Konami.
Later bought for the PC.
Tony Hawks Pro Skater 2 was my addiction for a very long time. Create tracks, play on tracks, create tracks, play on tracks. It took a good 5 months to get bored of that

During all the console time, i'd like to point out that i still loved PCs more than anything.
During the SNES era, i was playing Worms 1 with my Dad (Boggy B vs The Dingbats) which was absolutely superb fun. I've bought every Worms game since, up until the shite 3D versions.
During the Megadrive era, i would be playing, and being terrified of, DOOM, a game which my parents eventually decided to stop letting me play. I was 9 or so.
Unfortunately i missed out on the Wolfenstein 3D, Descent and Quake moments due to this, and have only quite recently gone back and played them all.
To replace DOOM, i got heavily into a demo of a game off of one of my dad's PC mags called Anno 1602 and from there birthed my love for the RTS genre. Moving swiftly on to Age of Empires, i quickly realised that this was a type of game i very much enjoyed, perhaps largely due to the map editors. Remember that.

SO

The year is 2001. I am 10 years old. I'm going to my Uncles house in Worthing, England for a week long break. He shows me this PC game he's been playing. It looks phenominal. I've never seen something look quite as fun or as pretty. Running at 800 x 600 software mode, i was watching Half-Life for the first time in my life. It was my first experience of WASD, my first experience of MouseLook. It was my first experience of true brilliance. Needless to say, while my family went out to see the wonders of England, (lol) I stayed in my uncle's house playing Half-Life. For the whole week. I was hooked. My birthday that year i wanted but one thing, and all too soon i had the Half-Life: Generation pack.
In 2003, my uncle's birthday was rapidly approaching, and i wanted something special to get him. A Half-Life map seemed appropriate to a boy with no money, so that is exactly what i did. Lol at me expecting an editor similar to the Age Of Empires map editors i had grown to love. Oh dear. What's this 3rd dimension shit? And that's how it started.

Soon after i got my sister's old N64, and discovered The Ocarina of Time and of course Goldeneye 64. The only FPS game worth playing on a console.

But really nothing would ever be as good as Half-Life was for me.
Half-Life 2 was immense fun, and so beautiful, and i think it continued the Half-Life name really well, but it would never affect me quite as much as HL1 did.
Over in the RTS genre, Dawn Of War occupied my time for a long while, until it was replaced by Company of Heroes.

Back in the Half-Life days, i should note that the Generation pack included Counter-Strike, but it wasn't until Steam that i even realised wtf it was all about.
My first online play experience was with the game Star Trek Voyager: Elite Force, which i must say was EPIC. The sequel was absolute bollocks, though :P.

I've played a lot of games, so I'll just show of my favourites through time.

I guess I started when I was like 4 with sonic on my brothers console.
It was matter of fact the first 16 bit Sega console which still works :>

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Moved on to computers.

I started playing age of empires which at the time had awesome graphics. I didn't really get the game tho, I was a bit too young.
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So I moved on to Warcraft 2

This is when my level design career started because I wanted to make my own warcraft maps, I found layout and gameplay very important which later lead to HL1 mapping.
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Then I discovered FPS when I was around 8 years old.
Quake 2.
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And quake 2 obviously lead to Half-life 1, by then I was like 10 years old
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After playing HL1, I wanted to see if there was anything else which was HL1 related since I thought that it was such a great game.
I found the Generations pack when I was eleven, and then I started mapping.
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I guess I didn't play anything interesting until HL2 came out.
Nothing more to say here.
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I had played BF1 before, but I didn't find it very much fun, but then I saw BF2, which I bought and started playing as soon as it was released.
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And then came the amazing FEAR out, which to me was the ultimate FPS, and which I still play from time to time even though I've finnished it on expert several times.
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I got interessted in Generals ZH again a few years after I had played it the first time.
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CoH and C&C 3 which I bought at the start of this years, both truely awesome games.
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And then, Quake 4 which I just finnished 2 weeks ago.
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I might have missed a few games tho.

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http://images.pcclub.nl/catalog/images/Command%20&%20Conquer%203%20Tiberium%20Wars.jpg Kane Edition

Dear lord, this thread is killing my internet connection.

Are pictures really necessary? They should at least be limited to something very small.

Games i've played and love:
Wolfenstein/Spear of Destiny,
Doom (1, 2 and 3),
Mario Bros/Smash Bros/Melee,
Banjo Kazooie (1 and 2),
Goldeneye/Perfect Dark,
Quake/Quake II/Quake II (not IV),
Max Payne (1 and 2),
Splinter Cell series (even the sloppy recent one),
Unreal Anthology,
Serious Sam (1 and 2),
Half-Life/Half-Life 2 + Episodes,
Bioshock.

Games i'm playing now or looking forward to:
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars,
The Orange Box,
Halo 3 (Yes, you read that correctly, and no, I don't like the first one),
Call of Duty 4, maybe.

Older games I never got into, but am trying to now:
All the old C&C games,
Metal Gear Solid,
Paper Mario (<3),
System Shock II.

My favourite classics, some of which I still play

Settlers (only the first one)
Captive
The Secret of Monkey Island
Arnhem
Vulcan
Space Crusade
Stargoose
Virus
Eye of the Beholder Series
Little Big Adventure
Exile
Flashback
Metal Gear Solid
Pirates 2
Saboteur
System Shock 1 & 2
Syndicate
Doom 1 & 2
Quake 1 & 2
Rise of the Triad
Warcraft I & II
Blackthorne
Bioforge
Darksun
Gods
Joan of Arc
Lands of Lore : The Throne of Chaos
Lords of the Realm
Escape from Colditz
Defender of the Crown
Shadow President
Head over Heels
Baldurs Gate Series
Neverwinter Nights 1
Fallout
Jet Set Willy
KGB
Hacker 1 & 2
Dungeon Keeper 1
Dragon's Breath
Red Alert 2 : Yuri's Revenge
Simcity
Wizball
Lemmings
GTA Series (1-2)
Heroes of Might and Magic 3 and 4

Newer games I like a lot but haven't played too recently

Splinter Cell Series
Evil Genius
Hitman Series
GTA Series (3 onwards)
Heroes of Might and Magic 5
Neverwinter Nights 2
Manhunt
Black and White 1 & 2

What I've played very recently, or am playing now

Bioshock
Soldiers : Heroes of World War 2
Zombie Master

Ooh, I gotta' add The Monkey Island games and Sam & Max Hit the Road to my last list. ScummVM ftw.

Damnit, I forgot about Beneath A Steel Sky.

If I could only find a picture of my first game...

My sister used to own one of those AMSTRAD machines.

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That was probably the first exposure to games I ever had. Its games, like Pac Man, Roland on the Ropes, etc came as tape cassettes which fit awkwardly into the chunky-buttoned keyboard.

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It came with a big manual which contained different codes I used to spend hours trying to type in to see what they'd do only to find that they made the green-coloured screen to flash brightly for a few seconds.

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(Above) Hunter S. Thompson?

It was not so long afterwards that my first experience of a games console took place. An old Nintendo Entertainment System belonging to my cousin. It came with the original 'Duck Hunter' gun. We used to shoot those damned ducks and space ships time after time (well, until it got boring). And when playing the original Mario Brothers game, we'd plug in the Game Genie for our own surreal entertainment. Sometimes I'd alter a few of the codes making strange glitches happen, like beanstalks growing out of every pipe etc. I also played games like Megaman, which I was familiar with when I had a Game Boy. (Yes, 'Tetris'). Then came the SNES, pretty much killed that. Nintendo 64 - blahdy blah.#

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I used to own a Sega Saturn (lol). I loved to play the classic "Doom" games as well as "Alien Trilogy" and "Duke Nukem 3D". I loved "Wipeout", and occasionally played "Sega Rally Championship." My cousin's Playstation had pretty much the same sort of games - along with "Pandemonium", "Destruction Derby" and others. I used to love the "Die Hard Trilogy" - complete with the "screaming plants" cheat...

Some of my favourite Playstation games were: Armoured Core, Metal Gear Solid, and the Resident Evil series. The rest of my gaming experience is pretty obvious really, ever since I owned a PC. Need I say more?

AMSTRAD machines

The AMSTRAD CPC464. I used to have one myself. Roland on the Ropes! I remember that now!



Lotsa good games for that thing.

Hehe, you remember? It was a pretty difficult game, especially with the chunky old retro joystick.

Hey, did you have "Curse of Sherwood"?Now that, I spent a lot of my Junior time trying to get through this game...

are all these ridiculously large images nescessary?
instead of posting a massive box art picture, a title of a game would suffice. cease and decist.

Oh stop your whining, woman!

Splinter Cell series (even the sloppy recent one),

Everyone always say that. But there are 2 versions. I've never played the x06/pc version, but I have the PS2 version which is more similar in such as to the older ones. And I thought it was quite fun. So I'm thinking a lot more people went for the PC or the xbox 360 rather than the old consoles and such...

Curse of Sherwood

Don't think so. But my memory that far back is far from brilliant.

The CPC was where I first played Hacker and Hacker 2

Now those are some interesting games ......

Heh, is there an EPIC thread award on TWHL?

I started this! Its mine!

But yeah...stop killing it with giant images people.

Arcan wins the most pointless images award, followed closely by muzz. I'm disappointed.

muzz's was the worst, 38 images, wtf.
i've replaced all the massive images with links, except for the first post. from now on, limit the size to around the size of tetsuo's images, and no more than four images. and include text, even if it's just a list like strider and playbus.

I never had a 2600, but a friend of mine did, so I played on one a few times.

Wooden consoles FTW!

I don't remember the names of any of the games I played though.

I started gaming on my mom's 386. I was like ten years old. The most notable games were F1GP - which was the best racing simulator back then, imo - and Retaliator - an awesome, and fucking hard flying simulator. I never managed to land the plane in that game, I even tried it like a year ago, just for the lulz.Then, I got a NES, which actually wasn't called NES, it's name was Terminator, that was an european remake of the original NES, and looked more like a sega genesis, and the cartridges had the shape of that system aswell. From those games, the one, that I liked the most, was Tennage Mutant Ninja Turtles IV: Tournament Fighters. Damn, we played that so friggin much with our friends...those afternoons were great.In the meen time, I was playing on Pentium IIs at school. I remember playing a hellotta Network Q Rac Rally, and Scorcher. The grapics of Scorcher just blew my mind back then...there was even a machine with a 3D Accelerator in it (I don't remember what kind of card it was) and with that - it looked just incredible. Slowly, I was getting back to PC gaming.I finally got a machine in 2000: Intel Celeron 433, 64 MB RAM, 5 GB HDD and an S3 Trio 3D. I started to play with Quake (I still love it) Quake II, and Unreal Tournament. I remember sitting for at least a month every day in front of UT. Then got into HL:OPFOR, and didn't really care about HL. A year later I got a Riva TNT2 32MB, which allowed me to finally play Quake 3. After like 2 months of playing it, I found out, that there's a level editor for it - Q3Radiant. I started to make maps for Q3, and after a year of mapping, got bored with it. At the end of 2002, I downloaded my first hammer, and began to map first for CS, and later - after discovering it's l33tness - for HL.

Here's the list of my fav games:

Deus Ex
Unreal Tournament
Quake 1,2,3 (4 sux ass)
Doom 3
Battle Arena Toshinden 1
Half-Life 1&2
TMNT IV: TF
Retaliator
F1GP
Air-Sky
Street I, II
Rally Championship 2000
GT Legends
Mafia
Outcast
Duke Nukem 3D
GTA: San Andreas
Max Payne 1&2

Anyone remember Streets Of Rage?

other favourites like Sonic, Streets of Rage and the ever popular Road Rash series.

good of you to read other people's posts.

sorry, it slipped right through the net

I remember Streets of Rage. I played all of them. I can't remeber which one it was but one had a cheat which let you play as a kangeroo. That was fun!

The first game I ever played was when I was 5. It was Donkey Kong on the old Nintendo 64. Later on we got street fighter and a couple of years later we got a computer. I didn't use it much then but I really enjoyed playing Unreal and Worms 2 with my dad and sister. Since then I have played the following games on PC (I still have most of these, whether they will ever work again I don't know):

Deus Ex
Hidden and Dangererous
Commandos 1 and 2
ZZT
Quake 1, 2, 3
Sonic
Decent
Hellbender
Half-Life 1, 2, OP4, BS, CS
Doom 1, 2 and 3
Civilistation 1
Need for speed all up to porche
Age of Empires
Sim City 2000
Monkey Island 1, 2, 3
Micro Machines V2
And many more (my memory is shot)

I also had a Game Boy Colour which I passed on to my little brother.
For that I had:
Donkey Kong 2
Mario
Mickey's Adventure
Thunderbirds
Donald Duck - Quack Attack
Asteroids
and some F1 racing game

We then had an XBox:
Halo 1 and 2
Midtown Madness 3
Flying Aces

But we love our PS2 (gonna upgrade soon)
Hitman 2
Micromachines v3
Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter
Splinter Cell and Double Agent
Zoo Puzzle
Medal of Honor (played the entire series)
Call of Duty 2
Worms 3 and 4
Killzone
Need for speed Most wanted black edition and Carbon
and I can't name the other 30 that we have (again, memory is shot)

I began gaming with text-based adventures like Zork, and later moved on to the Star Wars Tie-Fighter and X-Wing flight simulators (I would often get "StackOverflow!" errors from trying to run the Tie-Fighter game on my space-age Windows 95 PC with a 150 MHz processor). I sort of took a break from gaming for a few years, after which point I was hopelessly addicted to Diablo II and its expansion. My game interests started to widen from that point, and I began to play games like Civilization, Need for Speed, Red Alert, and Tribes. In '05, I heard of a neat little game called "Half-Life 2," and was immediately interested. After beating Half-Life 2 several times, I noticed the various custom maps I would download from servers when playing Deathmatch, and decided to Google around to see what I could dig up. I found this dandy little place, and became what I am now.

i just spent a long ass time typing something for this then it said empty post can not not be post or something.

type it in notepad, copy + pasta

That helps a lot now.

i played worms 2 with my dad and sister too =]

small world

I did own Sim City 3000 and I have got Sim City 4000 Deluxe - but the thing is, I rarely play it as it is bloody hard.

I love God Games, anything that enables some sense of creativity. (Which is obviously why I like HL)

Had to post this. I found some footage of starfighter 3000 on the acorn computer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueae6bfPYaM

I haven't heard that intro music since I was 8!

Now i want to play it again.

The games I played and might still be playing:

Alex Kid (old SEGA game that was built into the conole)
Retaliator (I couldn't land the plane either)
Robocod (on the Amiga)
Various games on the Amiga that I can't remember the names on.
Sonic 1 (on the SEGA 16bit)
James Pond (SEGA)
Wolfenstein 3D
Quake 1, 2 and 3, NOT 4.
DOOM 1, 2 and 3
Warcraft 1 and 2
C&C + Red Alert
Some rollercoaster tycoon game...
The Sims 1 and 2
Simcity 2000
Painkiller
Halflife 1 + various mods
Tecken series (on PS1 and 2)
All the GTA games (on console and computer)
Actionbass (Fishingsimulator on PS1)
The Hitman series.
Hunting unlimited 4 *

• You just have to DL that game! (I haven't found anyone you actualy sell that game) It is a game that is so bad that it's actualy one of the most fun games I know. The animal AI is just ridiculous, you die when you get water over your chest or if you tip the horse or the 4 wheeler that you drive. The monolog sounds like it was cut out from gay pr0n, my personal favorite monolog highlights is; "Mmm... bodyshot!", "What a monster!" or "look at the size of that thing!". So seriously, play the game!

And in the custom senarios you can decide the size of the animals! You can kill tiny elephants or hamster sized bears! and make them retarded! It's a pure joy!

the first game i remember playing ws jetpack heres a couple links to pics
http://www.pcgaming.ws/screenshots/jetpack.gif
http://www.abandonia.com/games/222/download/images/games/Jetpack5.png
http://www.caiman.us/freepix/916-1.jpg
http://z.about.com/d/compactiongames/1/0/F/H/jetpack2.gif
i remember it was a great game and i might be mistaken but i dont remember an operating system on that computer or just a poor one
and that was probably about 10 years ago

I collected Legos when I was a kid for the most part...

First Game:
Super Mario World

Games I've played and love:
Half-Life 1
Half-Life 2
Natural Selection (favorite mod)
Lemmings (SNES)
Sim City (SNES)
Simcity 2000 (PC)
Super Mario RPG
Metal Gear Solid (Playstation)
Parasite Eve
Diablo II
Starcraft
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
GTA 1
GTA 1: London
GTA 2
GTA 3
Metroid 3 (Super Metroid)
Metroid Prime
Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Super Smash Brothers
Super Smash Brothers: Melee
Super Mario 64
Goldeneye
Duke Nukem 3D
Roller Coaster Tycoon
Locomotion
Black and White
Black and White 2

can't think of anymore.

Games I'm playing now or looking forward to:
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess

Older games I never got into, but am trying to now:
None

Favorite games I've made content for.
Half-Life 1 (durrr)
Half-Life 2 (for a week)
Starcraft
Diablo II
Unreal Tournament 2004
Simcity 2000 (Urban Renewal Kit)
Duke Nukem 3D (uber fun)
Halo CE (PC)
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
Black and White

I collected Legos when I was a kid for the most part...

Amen to that. I don't think I'd be as enthusiastic about mapping as I am now if it wasn't for them.

Lego ftw! I was a Legofreak.

Oh wow. I feel old reading some of the posts here, heh. I've for the most part been a real RTS nut. Mainly because of the map editors

First game I played was Super Mario Bros on a NES we borrowed off a friend of my dad's. I still remember the night he brought it home and it took us HOURS to tune it into the stupid tv. Such anticipation!

Then I pretty much played it non-stop until they pried the controller out of my little white-knuckled hands about a week later.

Some time later my parents asked me which console I would like for my birthday, and showed me a catalogue. I had nfi about any of them. I glanced over the menacing, black, sleek Sega Megadrive. And then I picked the one with the colourful buttons (SNES. In Australia the SNES had blue, green, yellow and red buttons).

So we went into the shops to get the pack that had the SNES, 2 controllers and Super Mario World. And we also went into the games section to get an additional game. I picked a game with cool looking box art. Which was this weird game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HyperZone

It's the only SNES cartridge I have left. The rest were sold under order of my mother. How sad. (Heh, noone wanted HyperZone. Incidently, I frickin' love the game, and can play it forever without dying. Level 6 is impossible if you are 7 years old).

I got about 13 games all up for my SNES. All of them pretty random.
Mortal Kombat 3, Donkey Kong Country 1 & 3, Stunt Race FX, Killer Instinct, Krusty's Super Fun House, and I don't remember any others. No Zelda, no Metroid. I really missed out!

Then my neighbour got a PC. With WarCraft: Orcs and Humans. I watched him playing, totally immersed. Not long after, the big one: C&C Red Alert. I was TOTALLY blown away. I nagged my mother ridiculously for a PC. And I ended up getting a 486 66MHz 8mb RAM clunk-o-tron. It couldn't run Red Alert. I was pretty horrified. But I played heaps of shareware DOS games on it, including Quake, Tyrian (I spent endless hours on this game. Its amazing, and lets you make your own ships. Like, draw them), Duke Nukem 3D, Baryon, Cyberdogs, Stunt 2 (track editor!), Duke Nukem 1 & 2, Commander Keen, Wolfenstein 3D, DOOM I & II (too scary though), Death Rally.

Then after even more nagging I got a new computer. Just so I could play Red Alert. And eventually I got a Pentium 133MHz 32MB (16 MB of SDRAM and 16MB of EDORAM, wtf??). And Red Alert. This spurred a long run of RTS titles, including WarCraft: Orcs and Humans, Total Annihilation (I still play this game), Dark Reign (way better map editor than Red Alert), and the big daddy of all RTSs: StarCraft. The amount of time I've spent, and still spend playing StarCraft could probably be considered horrific.

Anyway at some point in this mix of RTS mapping I got a PC Magazine that had on its demo disc WorldCraft 1.5, and QOOLE. I was immediately hooked on making levels for Quake I and II. My computer had a hard time compiling and viewing the 3D viewport, though, so I could only work on really small, simple maps (I was probably being bloody aweful with my brushes).

I had that p133 for a long long time. My neighbour always was getting his computer upgraded and playing the latest games. So I'd often go over and check them out. So then Half-Life came out. The first I ever heard of HL was this guy at school telling me stories about what he'd been playing in the Uplink demo. And I was amazed, I didn't even think stuff like marines fighting aliens completely independent of the player was even possible.

But yeah, my neighbour got it pretty quick smart. And as we all know, HL came with WorldCraft 2.0. I think it took me about 0.3 seconds to ask if I could borrow the CD. My computer literally took 20 hours to compile some of my horrible, skyboxed brush-nightmares. So I often snuck over to my neighbours place when he was at work and compiled them on his machine. Evil!

In about 1999 or something my neighbour sold me his old computer, because he was doing a full upgrade. So now I had something like a P3 466MHz 64MB SDRAM TNT2 32MB gfx card. Bam! Now I could play Quake 3. And more importantly, I could make bigger maps. I did mapping for HL and Quake 3 for a long time.

In 2003 I got a new laptop computer in preparation for university. It's a Celeron 2GHz 512MB 32MB onboard gfx. It goes alright. That kept me going for a long time. Lots of WarCraft 3.

And then this year I bought myself a sweet new comp (hooray for having an actual job). So I've finally been able to sink my teeth into Source, Supreme Commander, Quake 4, WarCraft 3 with an actual framerate, Dawn of War (though I don't like it very much), and such.

Oh and I got a Wii. The only games I have for it are the GCN port of Ikaruga, and the Metal Slug Anthology (horrible port, btw. It has loading screens and basically NO useful control customisation. If you can overlook these things, then it's alright. I mean, you get all 7 Metal Slug titles. Which is unarguably tasty.)

I'm pretty sure sometime between now and the end of time some more sumptuous titles will be out for the Wii. Until then I'll stick to headshotting Combine.

So there's the cliff's notes of my gaming history. I thought I'd spare you guys the long version...