Why are you a gamer?

[deathfisaro]

I don't know, NES was great, it sucked me right into gaming world.
And after 15 years I'm still a gamer.

 

[ZAFDeltaForce]

Gaming is fun and kills a lot of time. Its in my opinion one of the better hobbies out there in the world

 

[Renegade_R]

Lets me kill things without going to jail.

 

[.TakaM]

it's like my passion, and I'd like to have a career in game design

 

[TLSpartan]

Nothing else to do. If I had a girlfriend I would rarely touch a DS

 

[legendofphil]

Compared to some of the n00blings around here I am somewhat of an OG, gaming for 20 years, and I started on an Atari 2600 and have played some of the classics. I decided when I was about 10 that I wanted to be a games designer now I am at Uni studying games design.

I wouldn't say any of those apply to me, I am a gamer because I like games.

 

[rhyguy]

Nothing else to do. If I had a girlfriend I would rarely touch a DS

eww, you touch your ds

i play cause i like playing?
i started with a gbc

 

[roguefan99]

Because I've been a gamer all my life, I dont know anything else. Ahh the good old days of the Apple II, and having to know Basic!

 

[Dingler]

I began when i was five, and i just can't seem to stop :x It really is an obsession

 

[Jdbye]

Well, it's fun and addicting, and I've been playing games all my life, so...

 

[Upperleft]

the best hobby evaaa !!
yea! gamerz well rule the world
HALLELUUUUUUUUUUUJAAAAAAAAAAH XD

 

[Urza]

care to explain?

Recently I've just started seeing it as a huge waste of time.

 

[Costello]

These days I don't consider myself a gamer at all. Most days I don't play a single minute, I just don't have time!
If I had to select any other option my choice would be "Great way to fill up the time!"

 

[silverspoon]

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[Hadrian]

I dunno what was the first console/computer I played but since I played it I have been addicted. Playing the brilliant H.E.R.O. on either C64 or Atari 2600 is probably my earliest gaming experience, perhaps that made me a gamer.

I've been an Commodore fanboy all the way until the GBC came out then I became a critical Nintendo fanboy, I love them but they piss me off at times as I know they can do a lot better.

 

[El-ahrairah]

Because I was a kid of the 80s, when gaming started getting good. I wasn't there for Pong or Pac-Man but I was there for S.T.U.N. Racer, Star Wars, Bubble Bobble, Marble Madness and the like.

Console gaming was just an extension of arcades. Literally, because many games that came to the Atari 2600 were just poor ports of arcade games. Even (Super) Mario Bros. was an arcade port. I remember playing it on an old cocktail table type game cabinet.

 

[lagman]

I tried the 2600 once, it was awesome enough to keep me playing for the rest of my life

 

[_mrshl_]

I voted "I was forced! (how?)"

.
So, well, I wasn't really. But how should I describe the fact I was nearly kinda born with it, with these voting choices?!?
I was born in '88 and my parents had a few Amigas, PCs and a C64 (but one day it died

), so that my brother (only 19 months older) and I grew up with playing video games. So well, as a young kid I could have said something like I was some kinda forced to - I didn't have no choice

.
And then some christmas me and my bro got our SNES

 

[titoboy666]

Best Hobby Ever!!!

I began games with my Coleco, and I soon discovered I was pretty good at video games, the first game I really liked was Q-Bert, then frogger, Gorf, and countless others until "POW" 20something years later I'm still playing games but I'm now addicted to GBA and DS and... C64... god I loved my C64, still have 2 working units at home and plays it once in a while on emulators (FrodoDS and the one on PPC).

 

[RayorDragonFall]

I play games because they let me live other peoples lives and see things the way the do. Simplified: I like being able to switch to the guy that kills all the zombies, or live in a world where people have special powers, or have the mission to save the world...