Did gaming really start on the PC?

RustPuppet said:
Dudes, the last few pages have absolutely nothing to do with the topic. Let's discuss the content of the article, not the way it was written or whatever bias you think it may have.

Kthnx.
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damnit rusty! you made me think I had the 2nd last word :(
 
So aside from all the Trolls and Idiots debating in this thread, although the article does highlight the origins of gaming, isn't the more important question that needs to be asked this :
Where did gaming start for each of us ?

Surely none of us started playing games on a set console because we heard that some guys at a University somewhere were doing amazing things with 3 Tons of Hardware and Monotone Graphics?
We started gaming on whichever console we started on because it was accessile to us, or because our parents opted for that system at the time etc?
I think if this question is asked the majority of us would have started on a console and not a PC.

Now, any reactions to this post, be they overly dramatic statments of me victimizing anyone specific, sensitive declarations of fanboism or plain nonsensical trolling, is subject to the following disclaimer:

Xero Takes no Responsibility of you are:
Overly sensitive or have attended sensitivity camp recently,
Argumentative simply for the sake of being argumantative,
Biased <- read as stupid enough to believe that one platform or another is better than any other simply because you own it

PS: I also reserve the right to call anyone an idiot for posting anything further that even remotely resembles the tren do of this thread to date
 
Gaming from an individual pov... PC's (384 to be exact :p) came into my life first followed by the great invention of Nintendo consoles :D
 
/is neither a troll nor an idiot...

And began gaming on ... hm... the humble Atari. And moved onto the NES, then the SNES, then the N64... with doses of PC gaming in between. Then took a hiatus, bought a PC, picked up gaming again gradually about 2 years ago. If anything the biggest influence would have been the arcade cabinets though. Do i hear a heck ye from all the arcade fanboys?
 
Played mostly on PC through out my early years, unless visiting a friends. Bought a Xbox in the UK after hating the PS2 :p Followed up with a Xbox 360 upon it launch in SA. Slowly built up a pc capable of playing modern games, especially RTS, RPG and FPS's.
 
wiki says:

1947: Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device
A device called the Cathode-Ray Tube Amusement Device was patented in the United States by Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Estle Ray Mann.[1] The patent was filed on January 25, 1947, and issued on December 14, 1948. It described using eight vacuum tubes to simulate a missile firing at a target and contains knobs to adjust the curve and speed of the missile. Because computer graphics could not be drawn electronically at the time, small targets were drawn on a simple overlay and placed on the screen.
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For what it's worth I started playing on a ZX Spectrum +2 computer, Space Invaders being the first video game I ever played. Since then I've played games on whatever platform had the a game worth playing. Even though I primarily play on PC now, I still enjoy playing games wherever I may find them.
 
Mine was a SNES, and yes I actually got into gaming late and had to make up by buying all the older platforms during the onset of my frantic gaming period
15 - 17
 
I started out on PC in 1986. In fact, I was a hardline PC gamer until 2001 or 2002, when I bought a PS2. Never played it much, though, since I was a student at the time, and games were stupidly expensive. So mostly Bust-A-Move 2, and I was still a hardline PC gamer in between. I only really hit the console scene when I got an Xbox about three years back.
 
thinking back the first game i played was digger and sopwith on our x86086 :p

massive 40mb hdd in that thing :)

then it went to consoles and such afterwards.

today, i play wherever i find a good game, so split between the pc and ps3 right now, as the dead box 360 is in for repairs, should know tomorrow some time wether the operation was a success.
 
i das started with apple II :), then moved over to an xt and that was pc from there on till i got my xbox 360 bout 1 year back now. nowadays i play both pc/console, would like to have ps3 also :D
 
Necuno said:
i das started with apple II :), then moved over to an xt and that was pc from there on till i got my xbox 360 bout 1 year back now. nowadays i play both pc/console, would like to have ps3 also :D
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doesn't stop you acting like a console fanboy tho...
 
I had the privilege of playing pong on one of the antediluvian pong machine back in the early 1980s.

It was MAGIC - though my very first gaming experience preceded that and involved the arcade cabinets near the escalators
in the old Vincent Park shopping centre. I don't recall what the name of the game downstairs was, the there was an Asteroids
machine on the upper level.

Once we had moved to Queenstown, I watched people playing Jump Bug, Donkey Kong, Missile Command, Dig-dug, Scramble, Time Pilot, some game with a boxing kangaroo-type character and another that used an imitation bazooka with a light on one end as a peripheral. Astro Blaster too! :-)
 
Azimuth said:
I started out on PC in 1986. In fact, I was a hardline PC gamer until 2001 or 2002, when I bought a PS2. Never played it much, though, since I was a student at the time, and games were stupidly expensive. So mostly Bust-A-Move 2, and I was still a hardline PC gamer in between. I only really hit the console scene when I got an Xbox about three years back.
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I think that's about the same time I played my first ever game, on a PC, 'Frogger'. :rolleyes:

After that it was my golden china nintendo box in +- 1990 and in '93 an 8086 with a 17MB hard drive and CGA screen supplying me without hours of pleasure in the form of Accolade's Grand Prix, Prince of Persia, California games, LHX, Police/Space/Kings Quest, etc. We were too poor to see the 386 revolution of Win 3.1. I went from parking my hard drive in PCTools to Win95 on my 486 DX4-100 with a massive 16MB ram in '96.

The first console game I ever bought was Double Dragon and the very first PC game I ever bought, as per your avatar, was Day of the Tentacle. I fondly remember my neighbour asking to borrow it one day and referred to it as "Revenge of the Testicle".

My oldest original game is this one. An unopened original copy of Pacmanâ„¢ for the Atari 5200. (Yes that's IRC in the background, shoosh)
 
Hey, I still run XP on my my desktop PC and my netbook. :< I had enough cash for one licence, and I used it for my laptop. Moving over to Win7 for gaming isn't a priority for me at all.
 
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