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What Was Your First Gaming Experience?

Posted by Zonk on from the oh-christmas-mario dept.

Stephen Totilo, at the MTV Multiplayer blog, recently put up a piece that asked a number of notable games industry folks all about their first time gaming. Several had some unique answers, with Peter Molyneux (Black and White, Fable) probably taking the cake: "It would have to be the original Pong. I can clearly remember seeing it in a shop window on Guildford High Street and being utterly transfixed - I had never wanted anything so much - in fact I stole money from my grandmother's purse to buy it. I got it home, took it apart, and never got it to work again - but from that moment on I was hooked on all things to do with computer games." What was your first experience with gaming? d20s on a kitchen table? A Nintendo Entertainment System under the Christmas tree?

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  1. My first game by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I started playing with my wang about 30 seconds after being born. I haven't stopped since, and to this day, it remains the most entertaining thing to play with.

  2. Made me blind by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    ..made me blind.

  3. Steve Jobs, quit jobbing us... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Get to the part about Leopard 10.5.2 already. I'm sick of the memory leaks and crippled Airport in 10.5.0 and 10.5.1.

  4. I like you, Stuart. by spun · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What about gay aliens? Do you know that people in large metropolitan cities, like Des Moines, Iowa, are building landing strips for gay aliens?
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