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What Was Your First Gaming Experience?
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?
It was in the back of the van. It was painful and awkward, and I'd rather not talk about it.
I was probably the first kid to ever play a game on a computer. My father worked for IBM, and I played hangman. In those days there were no monitors, so every time you chose a letter it would print up the picture all over again.
I think you read that headline wrong.
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My first computer was a slide rule, you insensitive clod! Not many games you can play on a slide rule.
I was a beta tester for dirt. They never did get all the bugs out.
mcgrew's razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by greedy self-interest
Yeah, well, when I was about 8 my parents bought me an actual crossbow
at a stall in Italy. The bolt had an iron tip that would embed about 1/2 inch
into solid oak. Everyone was a bit upset when I fired it at my older brother
causing an 8 inch bleeding scar where it grazed across his back. In my book
its getting towards a nanny state when you're not supposed to buy lethal medieval weaponry
for 4th graders but I guess people have their own standards.
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What you say is true. The sword cuts both ways though. They were in sitting in their own poop when we were in the arcades playing great games like Tron and Joust, and we'll be sitting in our own poop when they are playing the new Nintendo Holodeck.
Actually, we may have gotten the short end of the stick here.
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