Age = 32. The first game I remember playing was The Hobbit on I believe a Tandy 1000? I must have been around 5 or 6, because I could read. I remember the game seeming astoundingly hard, especially because I knew the story (was on of my bedtime stories as a kid, thanks mom!) but it seemed impossible. Also, I was 5 or 6 so...
BEST early gaming experience for me came soon after, with my introduction to adventure games and Sierra games via Space Quest .. I still have vivid memories of certain parts of that game, even though I was 6 or 7 years old when I played it. Hell, the 6858 part of my username is a reference to that game! The best part was that I played through the whole game with my dad. The best was we got to a point where there was a laser force field blocking the path, and we just could. not. figure it out. We put our heads together and tried everything and it always resulted in poor Roger Wilco being cut into horrible, bloody ribbons. Being an elementary school kid at the time, I was sent to bed at some ungodly hour, probably 8:30 pm, and I tossed and turned in said bed trying to puzzle out a way around this god forsaken laser force field which, in retrospect, had absolutely NO BUSINESS being inside of a cave!
Tossing and turning in bed, I then heard, from downstairs, a sound that sounded like, "WHOOOOP!!!" but to my young ears, only sounded like victory. I FLEW down those stairs, 3 at a time (not an easy feat for the stumpy legs of a 1st grader) and ran to the computer. Dad even reloaded the saved game to show me how it was done. The frustration, the brain pounding and failure after failure, and then, ELATION and SOLUTION! To me, that will always be video games.
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