What got ya into Computers?

[Diso]

What got me was really the games. The first game I played on here was actually bubble bobble and it brought me into the computer world. I had to work DOS when I was like 5-ish or something like that. But I learned pretty well. It was kinda annoying doing commands like dir/w and s: a lot...Oh wait you guys dont know the cool s command.

 

Oh well..How bout you guys

[Wizard]

Best friend got one in the early stages of PC hood. We played Doom 1 and 2. We beat the game when we were 6. I still have nightmares

[Weirdy]

emulation and free musik

[Gryph]

My Dad is an engineer so we had a computer for as long as I remember so that's how I got my start. I got into PC games with the old Apogee side scrollers like Commander Keen, Secret Agent, and Duke Nukem 1. I got all my games from one of my parent's friend's son who was considerably older than I was. So whenever he came over he'd bring the latest games and whenever I went I brought floppies (5 1/4" bitches!) to copy them. Then as time went by I got more and more games and I became a PC gaming nut. I was never much of a console gamer because of that. I'd rather play Wolfenstein 3D than anything on the NES. Luckily my Dad needed the powerful computers to do his work so I got a bonus there and was able to play the latest stuff.

 

So yeah...I've always used computers.

[Daeval]

If you count them as "computers," then what got me into them was my dad's Commodore 64. As soon as I was old enough to remember ",8,1" I was using it more than I probably should have. I got games mostly from his friends (on 5 1/4", of course) who'd bring them over for me (and him). After that, he sort of fell out of the whole computer thing and I got a NES, and it was a dark time indeed. Ok, maybe not. My NES rocked!

 

As soon as I was old enough to be trusted with it, I resurrected my dad's C64, and it wasn't too long after that that my grandpa got a 486 (which was some hot $--- at the time) and I was introduced to DOS. For some reason, my friend (who had no computer) knew a couple of commands and I took it from there. My first PC games were probably Lemmings, Sim City, and Wolf 3D. Not long after, Doom and X-Wing locked me in for good.

[Chaotica]

It was the games for me too. I was long into electronic gaming type stuff, and I went all drooling at my friends' Atari, C64, NES, Sega Master System and so on. And at the arcades.

 

I had to wait awhile, but finally my parents got me an Amiga 500 when I was 10 or so. Oh the memories! Oh the games! I didn't do too much production wise with it, but I started mucking up with graphics and stuff when I moved on to a PC a few years later. Still like the games too!

[Cominus]

Command & Conquer and porn.

Edited July 25, 2004 by Cominus

[Xeon]

im still using my first and only PC that i bought back at the end of 98, and thats what got me into it: tweaking, games, musics, hooplas, etc. i have little familiarity with DOS from a long time though (about grade 6) but any PC terminologies irks me badly back then (like a vampire touching a shade of sunlight )

[random guy]

When I was really young my dad used to work for the now-defunct hardware company Wang. Because of that we had a computer (well...a wang at least) for as long back as I can remember. I used to play with it for hours - I don't even remember if there are any games on it, it had a 2 colour, green and black screen, and yet I used to play with it for hours on end. A little after that I got my very own Amiga 500, and from there I got into amiga basic, and of course playing games. I think we would have had a dos computer in between then, because I was very familiar with DOS commands before windows 3.1 came out.

[Skythe]

Those wicked mice, man.

[BoomBa_GoosE]

it wasnt really games or anythin. my brother bough an old pacard bell for skool, and it had all those kiddy stuff u can use and i guess from there, i jus got into it, and eventually got my own comp..