[Ben]

I went along a natural line of progress I guess and I think I transitioned slowly but well, I didn't start PC Gaming for quite a while but I enjoyed my time as a COMPLETE Nintendo fanboy.

Started with:
- Pokemon
- Banjo Kazooie - Banjo Tooie
- Smash Brothers Tournaments
- Super Smash Bros Melee Tournaments
- PC - Diablo 2
- PC - Runescape
- PC - Silkroad Online
- PC - World of Warcraft
- PC - CS 1.6
- PC - League of Legends
- PC - Starcraft 2.

Took me a while to find my way but I finally did and I am happy, also happy Diablo 3 is finally out as that is where I started playing my PC and taking it as seriously as I did Super Smash Brothers Melee. At the moment now just D3, Starcraft and League of Legends with some World of Warcraft mixed into the solution whenever I have time due to having the Annual Pass for free diablo.

[Hijung]

Warning: LONG

Well, my first real 'venture' into video games was Kingdom Hearts.. This is going to be a long post because... well, video games have really impacted who I am as a person and how I think.

Alright, so I began my gaming career in 1999-2000 with a Ps1, I was 4-5 at the time. I can't recall what my first ever game was, but I remember Hercules and Technu were one of the first. I would wake up at around 5-6 each morning to play Hercules, hear that nostalgic ps1 opening sound, and just play.

2001 came around, and I was introduced to Kingdom Hearts and Harry Potter, the first being a titular and important part of my gaming career. I have spent around 200+Hours playing Kingdom Hearts, and I imagine I'll probably spend another 200+ when I have the chance, haha.

So, predominately I'm playing Kingdom Hearts and Harry Potter, then I enter my first foray into RTS's, and PC games in general, with Warcraft III. It's 2002 and my father sends down games like Quake, Alice In Wonderland (the lovecraftian version, there's a ps3 sequel to it which I plan on buying soon) and Clive Barkers Undying. All great games, and I was a little bit too young to understand what they were all about, haha.

Around two years passed, so now it's 2004. I've played Kingdom Hearts all the way through, got frustrated and rage-quite LoTr with Legolas as my main character because I couldn't kill that ******* boss (the giant troll dude), lots of rage ensued. For my birthday, I am given Aladdin on the PC, but I only have a laptop to play it with. Around now I also grew my long infatuation with sport and football (tennis, afl largely). With this, I grew that urge to be better than 'Good' at something, I would kick a football and play against my imagination in the backyard, set up targets.. I remember Port Adelaide won the premiership that year, I was pretty happy it wasn't Brisbane (haha).

However, throughout all of this, I couldn't play through many other games besides Kingdom Hearts. Hell, I even cried when the game ended. it was so good. I can't pick up the game now without getting kind of sad that I'm 17 now.

So, let's skip ahead to 2005... Around this time I am introduced into World Of Warcraft through my father (people may know him as Sp4mfilter, if so, hello! I'm his son!) who played Mage and basically said 'Hey son! Try this game out!'. So.... I did. And I played, and played.. I would contest with my older brother to be the first to play it.. I had a Tauren Warrior I named 'Heta' (named after Heater, geddit? geddit?) and my brother Alex played a Gnome Warlock. We would play around an hour each. I never wanted to leave Melbourne, but unfortunately I had to go home. The following years, I would hunger for games like WoW, I would spend many hours looking for that feeling, but was never able to find it.

So, it's early 2007 now, I haven't played WoW like I used to for two years, and I've never gone past lvl 12. I've played GTA III to death, I nearly completed Rachet & Clank, I nearly completed Spongebob Squarepants.. (All of which I got in 2003-2005, but haven't really left a lasting impression on me like WoW has). I wanted that similar feeling for ages. Eventually, after a long night of youtubing', I come across a video entitled 'God Of War Intro Cutscene'. I used to collect Horrible History Magazines back in 2003-2004, but dropped it after issue 23? 24? Couldn't keep up with it. That magazine itself developed my massive interest and excellence in History, but that's another story, haha.

I watched a lot of God Of War videos, but never really played the game. I was back in Melbourne, and my father was in a very bad financial position in Batman Ave, so me and my brother watched 'Black Books' (which I cannot suggest enough) and played Video Games.

Here, I was introduced to Steam, and with that Tf2. This is around a month or two after it's release, and my brother is on the other laptop playing Bioshock (which was new to everyone, Dad was raving how it was 'influential') while I also took my first foray into lan gaming by playing a German copy of Metroid: Prime Hunters with Alex on the DS 1v1. Needless to say, I won, and during this time he was also in High School and I was in... I think year 5? There's a 3 year age gap between us, go figure. haha.

I think that this was also the first time I ever played the Xbox, I cannot recollect completely, but I remember I played a game where your character transforms into a lot of things to complete a puzzle.. whether it be a bear or any animal of any sort.

So, after my short stint with Tf2, it's late 2007, and my father promises to give me WoW for 6 months.
Needless to say, I am pumped. I get to go back to where I was most comfortable, I was always an awkward child, haha. I rolled a Dwarf, then an Undead, Then a Dwarf again... In comes the crime of indecision. I couldn't decide what race/class to role! Every one had *that* feel to it, I would stay up every night just playing everything, experimenting, exploring with every race/class... but I just couldn't decide. I would re-roll and re-roll.. Eventually I settled on a Dwarf named Lingua on NA (If anyone remembers that, Hihi!).. Around now I develop my handle of 'JungleNed' from a farside comic, and it's stuck since then.

So, I get to level 24 and my foray into High School comes around. I have asperges, and I came from a school of 16 into a school of 300+.. Pretty small in comparison to a lot of others out there, but to someone like me it was rather daunting. I was friendless, and around now is when Video Games really emotionally hit me. Sora, Donald and Goofy were my friends, That kid from Bully was me.. I was just terribly lonely in my first year of high school. Haha. I also get interested in a mixture of music, namely Disturbed and Metallica, but my music tastes have changed drastically since then (for instance, I'm currently listening to Joanna Newsom right now, LOL). I don't like talking about year 7 at all, but if anyone out there is depressed or lonely, then I'm more than happy to talk to you guys out there! PM me on Battlenet @Junglened.629 if you want to talk, about anything, I will listen. Thought I may as well say that.

I digress, so I've 'grown' out of World Of Warcraft, and I get back into TF2 through Steam. My steam handle was 'Sp4m' for a time, because it was my Dad's account, but then I changed it to JungleNed. I donated... 700?+ hours playing Tf2, and it went into 2009. I was Year 8, and I grew more 'social' and developed a 'small' circle of friends. Two of which remain my friends, the other one is an absolutely sociopathic git. However, I couldn't stop talking to my friends about this game, and everyone was starting to 'ease' up to me, I became more social around my friends, because of the community/ethics of Tf2. I played Spy, and at first I was a very angry gamer, but I grew more and more to be calm, analyze what I did wrong, and realize that we all make mistakes.

This is also the time I discover my favorite game of all time, Deus Ex.
Now, I have limited money, and it usually takes me two weeks to earn $20, but Christmas came around... I played that game to death and back, even now I can tell you the location of anything and everything. I also got an xbox w/codmw2, which I played with my dickhead ex-friend and a few others acquittances I met at school. I remember I had to join a game through the games they were playing, they got really pissed off that I would join a private game they set up between their online friends, haha. I was such a troll :P.

So, I buy Mass Effect and I nearly complete it before it screws up completely. I go to get it clean, it won't start anymore. I give up, and I'm quite sad. Even still, I'd love to replay through it. I heard the second and third pale in comparison. It was a great game, I really enjoyed it.

So, we're into 2010, my favorite game is Deus Ex but I still hungered for 'that feel'... even though I own Fable TLC and Starwars KOTOR I couldn't really dictate what 'that feel' was. It was special, it was unique, it was something.

I go through 2010 searching, playing TF2 and Deus Ex, and despite the latter's excellence and overall fun, to me, I felt a bit hollow. Something was missing, I couldn't dictate what. I would watch many TF2 frag videos (notably OMFGNinja, check it out, it was amazing to watch) trying to emulate that, but I just couldn't, I didn't have the skill, I didn't have the willpower..

I come across Starcraft BW, per chance because my School issued Macbooks. My friends had abandoned me, and I was -kind- of hanging out with new ones who I thought were my friends, I'd hang out with them, but eventually they grew tired of me, and I moved on. I grew a fancy for a girl, listened to Radiohead, Devin Townsend and Porcupine Tree, but she eventually dated another guy, I found solace in Deus Ex, STALKER: SHOC etc. Unfortunately, my brother installed Windows 7 on my PC and with that my PC totally wrecked. I've used a macbook ever since. The screens even cracked once, but I got that shit repaired.

So, I haven't played Deus Ex or Stalker SHOC since. I was stuck with a Ps2 and a Macbook, that alone gave me the incentive to play SC:BW. I remember I wanted something to emulate that nostalgic feel of Warcrarft III that I felt 8 years previous, but what I found was much, much, more.

I showed my friend at random, I played so damn slowly.. I used the touchpad and would click on the SCV... Oh god! It was criminal :O.

Eventually, I settled on Zerg. The first real time I got into Starcraft was when we flooded, and I had to go to my friends place. I figured there was nothing better to do, so I decided to just play against the Ai as Protoss.. That's when I felt it, that feel, that indescribable feel (I know, that feel, lol). THIS was what I've been looking for, this is what I spent so long waiting for! Finally! I lost that match, but I remember I went for a standard 2 gateway mass zealot 22 minute push and was killed off by mass marine medic firebat in around 2 seconds, lol. Argh! **** it, I give up. Games too hard, no one plays online.. but I want more.

I learned of the existence of Starcraft II via Reddit, when I posted asking why no one plays online.. 'We all play Starcraft II now, just released'.

My father bought it and sent me and Alex down two beta keys. Alex never really gained an interest in it, and dropped it. I loved every minute of it, and would play it constantly for the 7 hours which I got to play it for, lol. Eventually the trial closed, and I had to wait two more months until my father excitedly called me up and said 'Guess what I'm holding in my hands right now?'. This was early last year, and I'd watched a few Day[9] daily videos and I really wanted to get right into Starcraft II..

So, here I am now. from virtually no RTS experience into Gold League at Starcraft II. I keep on talking about how brilliant it is to my friends, but they all play Minecraft, LOL.

I imagine I'll be playing for a long time, I hope to go far, and I'm excited to play against you guys!

gg's.

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	nirvAnA:	nice!
	FSPYRo:	Hahaha, I actually read all of that..
	mGGSouth:	great post!

[Menace]

I started off playing free-to-play games such as Combat Arms and got to the top ladders of the game and played nearly everyday just to keep the spot, until i saw my brother play a boss looking game named SC2.i dropped every game i was playing and focused on Starcraft since it was so fun and even now im nerding it out on Starcraft 2

[Hydroid]

My first gaming experience was with a Famicom (what the NES was released as in Japan and most of Asia) that one of my friend's parents had brought over from travels. I was about 5 years old and got to play some random racing game when I went to visit, and that was it, the first time I ever played a video game in my life. About a year or two after that we got our first home PC and I experienced minesweeper. I completely misunderstood it and thought I was pro for clicking once or twice on the grid and then putting flags on all the blocks. Other games that I really enjoyed at the time included -

Monster Truck Madness

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Falcon 3.0 flight simulator

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And then Age of Empires 1 came out. The game blew my mind and I remember it causing quite a hype throughout my whole family. My parents played it and all my uncles would play it. Eventually 1 of my uncles got a 2nd PC and setup a local network at his house for playing multiplayer. I was just the little kid and was sentenced to perpetual watching, but even back then I could watch RTS for hours and hours. ^^ Gaming was strictly limited for me over these years and so it was never really a massive part of my life back then, but it was something I really enjoyed when I got the chance to.

I also remember revisiting the family friends at whose house I had played the Famicom and one of their older sons let me play GTA 1. I was too young to event notice any innapropriate stuff anyway, the main feature to me was driving cars and then being able to get out and take another car. Naively I told my parents about the game in the car on the way home. Needless to say they weren't too impressed with it. Eventually my uncle got into fps games like the original Rainbow Six and copied his disk for us originally so my dad could practice and not get pwned when we went over to visit, but it wasn't long before I got to play that and became obssessed. I'd dress up in camo and run around with toy guns pretending I was on missions much to my mother's dismay. She really didn't like me playing violent games, but she hoped I'd get bored with it eventually. I didn't and so we can fast forward about 6 or so years of playing any FPS I could get my hands on. During this period the only other games I fell back onto were some of the original Need for Speed games particularly for the splitscreen play with friends. Cramming ourselves next to eachother infront of a tiny 15" CRT monitor and trying to both use 1 keyboard for playing, those were the days.

In 2007 I moved from South Africa to Australia and that was a pretty drastic and chaotic change in my life. With no longer having a PC that could remotely game I bought a PS2, just before the PS3 came out (lol). For about a year I played classic PS2 games, again being drawn to Need for Speed, but my new favourites were the Splinter Cell games. Hitting the later years of high school I really wanted to get into online PC gaming though so I got a summer job and saved up for my first PC of my own. I managed to scrape together a new PC using an old CRT someone gave me, cheap peripherals and $1000 worth of parts. It was great, I could finally play any game on the shelf without having to look at the system requirements even if it was on Low-Medium settings. I went through a series of shooter games such as Farcry 2, a few Call of Duty games, Battlefield as well as the staple Counter Strike. Being new to online FPS, I got seriously demolished for about 2 years and didn't even know how bad I was. I did eventually get into some semi-competitive teams for CoD and Battlefield Bad Company 2 before I found out about proper competitive play with prize money and all. I wanted in on this, but I had no name or any reputation in these circles to join an existing team and I was having trouble finding other committed people to start a team with to get to that level and build our own reputation. Around this time I had been aware of Starcraft 2, I'd watched the HDH invitational on Husky's youtube channel and I'd played a couple of games thanks to a trial pass from a friend. But the game didn't stick with me at first because it seemed overly complex. By now though I was fed up with FPS and wanted to be able to play and train by myself without being let down by unreliable teammates who wouldn't show for matches. So I have Starcraft 2 a second chance and immersed myself in it for 2 months playing 40 hours a week and watching tons of streams and tournaments and began to like it. At that time I still held the foolish thought that I could be a pro gamer and wanted to hit that level in 6 months. I soon learned that it wasn't going to be that easy, but now no matter how hard I try, I can't stop enjoying SC2. And it's the only game I really ever feel like playing for any extended period of time.

Quick Comments

	nirvAnA:	Age of empires omg!!
	FSPYRo:	^ A great game!

[FSPYRo]

Hey! I'm Zypher, a new member on the site.

I started gaming when I was very young, starting with one of those Formula1 Grand Prix games on the PC when I was around the age of 6. I have fond memories of trying to race an F1 at speeds of around 250 using only a joy stick. I slowly progressed to widen my gaming 'vocabulary' moving onto the Nintendo 64 to play games such as DonkeyKong and SuperMario.

By the age of 12 I was stuck right into Star Wars: Battlefront II, 2 years after it's release on the PS2. This is where most of my gaming knowledge regarding the FPS genera came from and is basically where my gaming roots lie, even today. FPS was really the only genera that had a strong point interest in gaming for me at this time. But, as computers started to come to the forefront regarding a their level of competitive play, I migrated from console to PC, but I didn't have any want or need to buy any new games. So I bought pc versions of almost all the games I previously had and set off on a new path, the path of the PC Gamer.

As I matured, my gaming skill also grew with me. Aided by the growth of my brothers gaming collection, I delved into other games such as Age of Empires II & III, and is where I started to really get a feel for RTS games. I decided to stick to a select few games and I aimed to try reach some 'professional' level within these. My choice here saw me reaching #1 in Australia for SWBF2 on the PC around the age of 15 as the most elite player in the country. At this point I played under the alias, SW_elite.

With the reputation I now had, I decided to start entering competitions, most of which were hosted by the *AUS* clan. I went on to win a lot of awards and my recognition as a top notch play spread across to various American servers. Unfortunately SWBF2 was never considered a great game regarding tournaments and other forms of competitive play, and as a result, there were never any major comps or prize pools on offer. Back then I was an *AUS* member, but these days I run my own clan.

[ROCCAT_Savior]

Phwoah. Started with age of empires when I was around 5..played it with my dad very fun times, I can just about remember the first time we set up a lan with some friends who lived close by.

Got a dreamcast when I was 8 or so; Hydro thunder was the best game ever then. My best friend also had a ps1 so we would play crash tag team racing, crash bandicoot, time splitters 1/2, and loads of other games; he also had gta vice city, so we massacred people under bridges in that cause fuckthepolice.

Moving on, I got introduced to runescape when I was 11ish, and that basically took up a lot of my time, all my friends played and we'd do everything together, questing ect.

Then I got an xbox360 for my 14th birthday I think? xboxlive when I was 15? So I started playing halo 3, cod mw2 -> then reach when it came out. I was playing those at a fairly high level competing on gamebattles which is basically a subset tournament site of MLG.

Then September 2011 came along and I started watching Husky, fell madly in love with Starcraft, and got gm 5 months or so after that..

Somewhere around when I was 10 I got my hands on a ps2 aswell, basically just timesplitters and stuff with friends, few racing games, some dodgy tennis game, very fun times.

Side note: I moved to singapore from England when I was 10 and I remember my first summer coming back to England I stayed up with a friend all night just playing nfs1, and we practically completed the game. Was awesome.

Edit: shit how could i forget pokemon....gb colour when I was 7, think i got yellow, not sure, but yea pokemon was massive at my primary school, everyone played it.
I remeber I had gold and my friend had silver and we'd just spend hours trying to find the mystery dudes.

Quick Comments

FSPYRo:

GM in 5 months?? Wow...

[EveMassacrisM]

I played almost every game there was. I had NES, SNES, Gameboy color/advanced/DS, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, PC.

Best games I played include:
PS2: Star Ocean 3, FF10, FF12, Valkyrie Profile 2, Tales series, Persona series, DMC series... (JRPGs were so good back then)
Gameboy: Mainly pokemon
PS3: Assassin's Creed, FF13, ...
PC: Starcraft, Warcraft 3, AoE, Gunbound, Heroes: Of might and Magic,...

[ayuruji]

I was a HARD-CORE DotA player, and I mean very HARD-CORE... won some tournaments back in the day.

[Oshiego]

The first game that I played competitive was CS1.6 and I moved on to CSS, then when BFBC2 came out, I play it and then move on to BF3. BF3 was the main game that I concentrated on to play competitively, since then I improved and I saw HuskyStarCraft casting SC2 games, that made me interested in playing SC2 hence I bought it and start training.

[AssyrianKing]

Started off playing PC, Starcraft, C&C:Red Alert 2, CS, Mortal Kombat and all these other random games when I was really young.

As I got older I was a huge fan of PES, and when I was in grade 6 I bought CS:S and played that ever since. I also used to love MMO's especially Maplestory but retired from that.

In highschool I started playing DOTA

I got SC2 a little bit after its release and have been playing that since
also still playing Counter Strike and now LoL with my friends, I am much better at FPS then I am at strategy >.<

[A3Mercury]

Single player games, I have played my entire life.. Early days of Mario, Zelda, Metroid and so on. The first competitive multiplayer I played was the first Call of Duty release on PC, and its expansion pack "United Offensive".

Since then it was strictly First Person Shooters, until Starcraft 2, which I got this summer. I've always been well above average in the Halo's, having versed pros and stuff, but never good enough to compete -.-

I hope I have a future in SC as the community is way better than any I've found in the past.

Also I plan on going into game design (im a graphic designer) so I'm into games for the long run!!

[FLuX]

Pokemon, Neopets.

Quick Comments

	eCKo`Switch:	neopets was my jam
	Seffy:	Neopets was the shiz!
	Demosthenes:	HA! neo pets!!

[Seffy]

This is gonna be a VERY LONG kind of post, just warning ya. :P

Gaming consoles did exist at my house since I was born (NES, SNES and GameBoy), but since I was a baby-toddler my first three years of my life involved me ..trying to play them but they all broke. OTL

Then when I was 4 dad brought a PS1 home with Gran Turismo and some other jazz. They were really fun despite the fact that I didn't know how to play, and I got really committed to doing good in GT that in the end I actually managed to start beating everyone I played against.
Then Tekken 3 and Tomorrow Never Dies came around. Tomorrow Never dies was probably the first shooter game experience of my life, and I found the game to be really good. Tekken 3 was the same story as GT; I sucked at it at the start, then started to win more often. Especially Tekken Ball; no one could beat me in Tekken Ball.
I've played plenty of PS1 games in between those, but those three were the highlights of my first few years of gaming; I pretty much went with the practice makes perfect route and yes I know there are no Final Fantasy games there isn't there but we'll get on that later.

I was 7 when we got the first computer for the house; dad worked at intel and he got one for free.. FREE. It was pretty high end at the time too if I wasn't mistaken. I wasn't really aware PC games existed until I went to a net cafe near my house and saw people playing CS; I tried and miserably did bad, and also because of how internet was back then I didn't bother getting it for home. So I tried to find alternatives; my brother gave me a disc of Starcraft, and my God did that game blow my mind. I just loved it to bits, and when I found out he just borrowed it I was pretty disappointed, so I got dad to buy me the game. I got Brood War at that time as well, and I never really played online, but I played single player a lot (mind you, dial-up internet was the only thing that prevented me from going online). Starcraft was one of the very few PC games that I installed and played the hell out of on every computer I have gotten since I played it. I got Warcraft 3 as well, and that was really good for me too, but I never got into it as much as Starcraft. Then the Sims also came in the picture and I also had a really fun experience with that; oh the fun times toying with the sim LOL.

Okay so 2002 comes in, and I was 9 years old at this stage and I moved to Adelaide from Manila. I had no PC; again, for the first year but I did have my PS1 so I just played PS1 games like a nut; mainly GT, Tekken 3, Crash Team Racing and Tony Hawk's ProSkater 3. CTR I was decent at, and in ProSkater 3 I didn't even know how to play the damn thing but someone taught me and in the end I was doing the 900 all over the place (he was a really good player and good teacher, so glad about that lol). When I got the PC I still played pretty much exactly the same games. I got a GameBoy pocket around 10ish, and played Pokemon Red and Blue on it; made me fall in love with Pokemon and I wish I never got rid of any of these (I gave them away to a friend who just arrived in Adelaide in 04). But at the end of 03 I got a GBASP and Pokemon Sapphire, and Metroid Fusion with it. OH MAN. Between 03 and 07, there was not a day where you won't see me with my GBASP and not playing a game on it. Metroid Fusion was probably my absolute favourite, the story-line was good, the gameplay was just about perfect and it was fun messing around at times. I proceeded to get Zero Mission later on and Pokemon Ruby which I also played like there's no tomorrow.. I think I clocked over 200 hours on Ruby.. then the effing battery broke so I lost it; but lucky I transferred my Pokemon over to Leaf Green beforehand. I had Pokemon Silver as well in between; and I clocked over 200 hours there as well, played with friends after-school often and those were tones of fun linking the cables ahaha.

The PS2 was another highlight of my life; Only played Ratchet and Clank 2 until I rented FF-X. Next day I bought the game lol. FF-X was the first Final Fantasy game I played and I fell in love with it.. the game changed pretty much how I look at things; I never thought a game can change people until this came out. Personally my all time favourite game, hands down.
I've played a lot since then, FF12, Dirge of Cerberus FF7, Kingdom Hearts (1 and 2), GT4, Underground 2 and San Andreas were the ones I played most. San Andreas is just absolutely hilarious and fun to play, and the storyline is amazing. ..Honestly can't find a fault to the game asides from the glitches.

Around 09 is when my friend invited me in to play DotA. I was REALLY bad at the start; made everyone rage lol. But with practice, comes perfect. I eventually got pretty decent at it; but I was best with carries. When games go well, I do very well but when it doesn't then I don't; I was pretty inconsistent in DotA. But when I do well it's mainly with Phantom Assassin and Anti-Mage (obvious reasons). I've played COD4 at net cafe but my comp at the time had an Intel GPU and well that sucked.. LOL.
So for Christmas I got a new laptop; which had a decent graphics card. I did play COD4 but only with friends during LANs, I don't play outside of that. I got a PS3 at the same time and bought MW2 on it without hesitation; it was a rage fest.. but I got decent at it. I got FF13 during year 12 and played it a lot; bad idea. Made me fail Term 1 and never touched it again until last year. GTAIV and Uncharted 2 were among the other games I played; good experience!

Then Starcraft II came out during year 12; I went... nearly freaking everywhere to find a copy for 70 dollars LOL. Managed to price-match (WIN). Played the story mode first of course, then I started to go online.. I was really bad actually; I only won because of turtling, was bronze league and whatnot. Had to stop for a while cos of exams and I never really got back to it until some time later last year. In between that I was playing Black Ops on PS3 and tons of games here and there on PC (mainly DotA and LoL). MW3 came out but I never got it until February this year when I got my computer finished up. I was only gonna play casually with friends but they got me into playing on Cybergamer and I did pretty bad there, but there were some good things. I just quit because of how corrupted the whole admin stuff is.. This is COD-wise I don't know about other games.

Right now I don't really play much; was playing LoL recently but that's just a game on the side to play for me now.. I've just decided to stick to Starcraft II as my main game because of uni; and now that I've finished I got three months to practice to get as good as I can!

If anyone starts to say "Y U NO PLAY FF7 YET" and whatnot along those lines; I have and am trying to get those games some time in the future (I have to get a PS1 again first) and play them till the end. I know I can just emulator/download it all, but I feel like that'd ruin the experience of playing with a controller and changing discs.

Sorry about the very long post, but it's hard for me to not write an essay when posting. T___T

[ToRDarKnoob]

4-5 started off playing gba and snes emulators on my old family pc
6-7 got a gameboy pocket with pokmeon blue and played some broodwar campaign and wc2.
8-9 played pokmemon crater online got a gameboy advanced sp with pokmeon emerald
10-11 got a ds lite and played pokemon and mario games, got an xbox 360 played halo3, played wc3
12-13 got a macbook from school and played CoD 4 and wc3 customs sc2 released
14-15 build a gaming pc played sc2 week after launch, played d3 and Dota 2 started playing some LoL.

[iM MaFia]

2 time Australian magic the gathering champion, 1 time runner up.

[Zakattack]

man my first gaming experience was a mega drive awesome sonic, streets of rage, golden axe etc. then came final fantasy 7 ps1 witch i fell in love with and my love for gaming has stemmed from there.

I have not long converted to pc/RTS gaming and i will never look back

also i have a BSc in computer game development so gaming has had a massive influence on my life

nice thread guys

Zak

[Another]

when i was little played monster truck madness AOE1 needforspeed2 hot persuit and eventually BW, then wc3 then dota then wc3 and then sc2

[OSL0rd]

I started off at the age of 5 playing Tactical ops (FPS shooter) on my old laptop that always shocks me on the right wrist (till the point where i had to tape up the entire section of the laptop. Was stuck playing games on the PC, the same game for many years till was about 10

At 10 years of age I started to play MMORPGs such as Maplestory (which i rage quit after playing it for a mere 2 weeks as the EXP bar boost meant you had to kill more stuff to level) and Cabal where it occupied me for the rest of my 10 year old life.

Then at 11 I got my original Xbox and started playing all sorts of games. Most prominently Serious Sam, Halo 1 and 2, Conker. This kept me on till the Xbox 360 was released.

When the Xbox 360 was out, I got it and bought Halo 3 and Forza motorsport 2. Played those for a long long time till I got COD mw2 then black ops, then halo ODST, then MW3 (which i gave it away after a month). Soon around the time where I got around to watching Starcraft 2 from Husky and all that, I wanted to play it so bad and be good at it.

Now here I am, still gaming alot on the Xbox with Halo 4 and playing SC2 with my team! Its been a blast and i'll never forget the good times and the classic games i used to play

[TtSYF.tRoy]

First game i ever played was Pokemon Red on the GameBoy Colour when i was about 3 clocked it when i was 4
Then my older brother got a N64 so i started playing Mario 64, Donkey Kong Racing, Mario Cart

After that we got a PS2 and i played games like harry Potter Quid itch, AFL 2004-2006, Rachet and Clank, Jak and Daxter, Capcom arcade game, Crash Bandicoot.

Then we got a Xbox and by this time i was 9-10, i played games like Halo, Fable, Starwars KOTOR, StarWars Jedi Academy, James bond series, NFS series, Splinter Cell Series. This is when i first started playing online.

Then i got a Xbox 360 and i have like 60 games and play heaps.

Throughout this whole time i have owned a PC but never really played PC games except for Sims, Sim City, WC3, World Of Warcraft, Diablo, LoL, Fiesta.

With competitive i only got into competitive about a year ago but played Cod and Halo on xbox i was alright in Halo Reach finishing third in a season but other then that i haven't had many achievements. Oh and i Killed the best GOW3 player in Australia to win the map during a Group stage. That was massive/

[teamSSC]

Started playing Z some robot game when i was just in primary school. soon i was into pokemon red yellow blue whatever color you name it!

My brother introduced me to World of warcraft and boy was i hooked onto it. grinding and questing for hours on. I liked games like Red Alert 3, Command and Conquer, Call of Duty, and when i played Starcraft II for the first time, wow MINDBLOWN. haha, ever since then been honing my sc2 skills!

With the introduction of HoTS, i was kinda sad that the sc2 community in Singapore was decreasing, so with that in mind, started organizing tournaments among friends, but now i'm taking it one step higher by organizing tourneys in public. Esports FTW!