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.