I want to start a video, one that details the personal gaming history of people. Not the big name people in the industry, just every day joes like me and you! I want to detail your beginning moments, your moments of glory, and the hard times when this medium was there for you.

I would like to compile it all into a video, (with permission, and if you're willing). I would like to get individual videos of your stories.

^ Totally just an idea. Not the sole purpose of this thread.
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So, tell me your stories!

I would write out my history if it wasn't almost 1AM

Started late with a PS1 in 2000, and played mostly rally driver games and not much else. This developed further when I got a PS2 for Christmas, and virtually 70% of my games library was just racing games. I only had 1 FPS and that was Finest Hour.

Soon after moving here I made friends with someone and they showed me GTA 4 on the xbox. Since then, I've developed my taste in gaming from Racing to GTA, and the general FPS's. Only in 2009 did I get xbox live, and then on I couldn't really go back to singleplayer games (though RPG's like Fallou and Skyrim are exceptions).

Now I solely play on my laptop with Gmod and Half Life because A: I moved out of my house and couldn't bring my console with me and B: My laptop is a POS for games so I can't play with much variety past anything made after 2005.

I first played Asteroids on the Playstation 1, followed by nothing but Rampage and Spyro. In 2003, we bought a PS2 and I got Star Wars: Battlefront and Bounty Hunter for it along with some Spider-man games. My dad got a bunch of other war games too. Lego Star Wars I and II were my crack until I bought a PS3 2008. Got LittleBigPlanet, The Force Unleashed, and Spider-man 3 as a combo pack. LBP was one of the funnest games I played, and it was my first online experience with some friends from middle-school.

Eventually I broke away from platformers and beat 'em ups when I decided to play a game my dad bought for himself, Bad Company. I learned the controls pretty quickly and discovered there was an online mode, so I played around with that and actually did pretty well. Almost every game I was one of the top 3 players. Get rekt bitches. Bought Red Dead Redemption, as I love western shit. It's still one of my favorite games to date. Then my PS3 broke in early 2011.

With no game system, except my 2006 shitty laptop... I was destined to a boring summer. That is until my friend gave me one of the only games my computer could run, Halo: Combat Evolved. Halo was one of those games that I never looked at before because I didn't own the console. I actually thought it was a game like Final Fantasy due to the name (never even bothered looking at the game cover :/). Halo CE was amazing to me and I became completely immersed in the story. I played the game for 4 months until I got enough money to buy a 360. Shortly after I purchased all the Halo games and fell in love with the custom game community.. as it was very reminiscent of the LBP community.

3 years of Xbox later and I bought a PS4 for some exclusives, that of which were unfortunately delayed to be released this year. I'll be buying an Xbox One in the next few weeks for MCC.

I have been a gamer since I was born. My dad was a hardcore gamer and my mom used to be editor for a gaming magazine in Australia. My mom has told me about her having contractions while playing sonic the hedgehog, since then both of my parents have stopped gaming but they have been a huge influence on my life with gaming. I was born in 199- and for as long I can remember I have been playing games, first gaming console I remember playing is the N64 with all the classics with my favorite being diddy kong racing or whatever the game with the big elephant on the magic carpet was.

The first few years of life I was solely a Nintendo gamer using the GBC and the N64, it would stay this way until 2001 or 2002 on Christmas Day when I opened up one of my presents. It was an Xbox original game, and from that exact moment I could guess what the big present for all the kids was (4 kids in the family). We set up our new Xbox and my dad sat down to show us kids one final game before he quit cold turkey.

What came on the screen was the start of what set my course of life to this day, a blueish light started moving across the screen, and then the words came up "HALO". My dad sat down and decided to show us the first level. I still remember seeing chief getting out of his cryotube for the first time and thinking that it was originally a girl I was playing as because I could hear this girl talking with no girls around.

After that my path was set, I was still a big time Nintendo player and I got my own first Pokemon game, Sapphire. I also played a lot of gamecube with my brothers and sometimes sister. We would play SSBM, Mario Party 4, and many more. By myself I would play games like the Simpsons hit and run, and Halo. Fast forward to around 2005/6.

I was playing Halo 2 with my older brother and my dad came home with the new Xbox 360, I don't remember too much of what I first played on it besides Guitar Hero and Viva Piñata (I still play it today because gardening is 1337). Fast forward to 2007.

September 24th, 2007. My brother was talking about missing school so he could go to the store and get Halo 3, I was so excited, it was like Christmas time had come early. The next day I got ready for school and went off, when I got home I went to the game room and saw my brother on the Xbox playing Sierra 117. For the rest of the day all we did was sit down and play games. I still did not have online gaming figured out or anything so I would just play with my brothers on my offline account that I still have on my Xbox. Then going to 2008 we were about to move to 'Merica and I found out my older brother and sister could not come, I was sad but I put up with it. We got to Boulder, Colorado and first thing I did when we got off the plane was open up my DS and continued playing drawn to life (which I still really think is an awesome game that people need to play). We got set up but I found out that Halo 3 was inside a case that was being shipped over. I started school and was really nervous but I found some friends who were talking about Halo, we all went to my house and played Halo 2 together (I would always win). These people are the friends that have stuck with me to this day, and though they have all moved on to much different gaming than me (PC master race) I still make sure that they are welcomed to the more popular group i hang around with in high school. Eventually I got Halo 3, started real online gaming, started going to local tourneys and got praised at them for being so good even though I was still pretty young. A few years later I got my first serious relationship and I started gravitating away from games, and it stayed that way for about 2-3 years until I was done with relationships for a while and Halo 4 just came out, I wasn't a huge fan but it was ok, I got back onto Bungie forums after joining just as reach was coming out, at this point I think the big update was out and though it was ok I missed the old flood forum. I have continued to be a Nintendo and Xbox player and I probably will be for a long time, I can't wait for MCC and i am going to have all my friends over on launch day to play those old LAN games again.

Edit: just saw how long I was writing for and that wall of china; I would edit it but I'm lazy.

Got a PS2 in '06 and played the shit out of Star Wars battlefront. In about '08, got an Xbox (Original as it came from my uncle) and Halo 2. Played the campaign, loved it. Got a 360 that year with Halo 3 and Wars (Bundle) and then joined the Reach hype train. Note that all of this was while I didn't have Internet. Jut after I got a 360, I got Fallout 3 and loved it, later getting Vegas after its release.

July 2011, got Xbox Live, got Battlefield 3 (I already had BC2) and that got me a fan of Battlefield. However, I was in a clan on Halo (I regret this naow) so never really got to play many other games. Mainly stuck on Halo until about mid 2013, when I got te mass effect trilogy, GOTY Fallout 3 and Vegas and Skyrim Legendary.

April this year, got Titanfall and added that to the series' I enjoy. Got Destiny in September, leading to the first time I have ever been disappointed by a game I bought. (Which is sad because I was cynical of it anyway, and it was still lower than I expected)

Won't be getting an X1 or MCC until March.

In all, I would be on PC now if it wasn't for Halo. Fallout, TES, Planetside, Starcraft and a bunch of other games look cool or better than they already are on PC. But muh halo.

Also point out the I don't like Halo multiplayer. Just the lore/ story and forge.

It started when I was in pre-school. Back in the early 90's my dad and I played PC games together. He did the moment and I used the mouse. Some of the games we played were Blood and that Chex Quest game. One day at school my teacher asked me what pitchforks were used for and I said killing zombies because of Blood. That was either in pre-school or kindergarten.

Sometime in the late 90's my grandma got me a PS1. I played Tony Hawk, Spyro, some demotion derby game and mostly demos on that. I don't have much memories of it since I was young at the time and I didn't have that many games for it. I know at my uncles my Step cousin and I played some twisted metal game a lot on that.

Some years after the PlayStation I traded that in for an Xbox. That's when I really got into gaming. I played GTA, Halo, Max Payne, Star Wars and other fun titles. Halo is the only reason why I stayed with Xbox. Also the first game I got for that is the first Max Payne which I still have.

Then around 2005 the 360 came out and I got that. The first game I got for it was CoD 2. I traded in my Xbox for that game. That was when the game was still new. I finally got Live back in 2009 so the 360 was my first time playing online with people. The first game I played online was Halo 3 at my uncles. Then for the first game on my account that was Medal of Honor Air born.When the 360 still had the RRoD problem I ended up going through three 360's because of that. For online the two games I had the most fun in is Halo 3 because of the custom games and Black OPS because I played that with real friends. In Halo 3 I joined a clan back in 2009 called I.C.E. which has been dead for years. For Black OPS my freind started a clan called PHAG which stands for Pretty Hardcore Awesome Gamers. That clan consisted of friends and people that know each other in real life.

Then now 8th gen is out and I have all 3 of those systems. I pre-ordered the Xbone a few months before it came out. I January I got sick of waiting to find a PS4 in stores so I bought one on Amazon for $530. and I got the Wii U for my sister as an early Christmas present a few weeks ago. I also have a laptop which is able to play games.
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For moments I remember I was playing Skyrim for the firs time one day. I was a low level and I shot a mammoth in the ass with an arrow. The thing turned around and started running at me so I sprinted towards a guard tower. I ran past a guard and in real life I screamed "There's a pissed off mammoth running after me!" After lots of arrows I did kill the thing.

Then for KoTOR the firs time I played the game was just great. I had no idea what I was doing which made it fun. For my first play through I went through the whole game by myself because I had no idea how to select party members to go with me. I remember on the Jedi planet I was running around thinking I was some badass with my two lightsabres. Then all of a sudden I encountered that Mandalorian leader. I thought I could simply kill him, but nope. When we locked blades I had a WTF moment because my sabers didn't slice thorough his swords. After so many play through's finally found out the swords are made a speaicl way to prevent that.

For Black OPS I remember going over to a friends house and we played it online together. I took my 360 with me and we sat next to each other playing with other friends. He used his TV, I used a spare and the person upstairs used his.

Also because of Halo 3 I ended up meeting someone in real life. Before we played custom games online together and sometime latter his account got hacked so he got a new one. I didn't know that, but at some point after that I still had an account of his on my list. I was talking to him one day and I brought up a person I used to play with. That person was him. So him and I with other real life friends played GTA 4 and Black OPS a lot together. We ended up getting close and we found out he lived around 3 hours from us. So one day we picked him up and he stayed with us for around a week. That was around 4 years ago.

Love for paleontology => Love for Jurassic Park

Love for Sci Fi <= Love for Jurassic Park => Purchase of Dino Crisis

Purchase of Dino Crisis => Love for Dinosaur games

Love for Dinosaur games => Purchase of  DC2, Turok 1/2 and every Jurassic Park game ever [Man I have to reinstall Operation Genesis]

Purchase of Turok 1/2 => Love for FPS

Love for FPS => Love for Halo

And yeah then the hierarchy just breaks down into randomly picking out cool looking games.

[At some point I played Deus Ex and I realized that the RPG genre was almost completely worthless as no other game would give me the same feeling again.]

Me n my bros starting gaming with destiny. Destiny is best game and I'm so glad there is 10 year pan. If you don't like destiny go back to cod you n00b. Destiny is massive mmo and my mom says I play to much Destiny but I say shut up dumb bitch I am raid. So yeah destiny is best game cuz I can play it for 10 years and buy the dlc for growing world

Started with an NES in the mid 90's.
Then Played Pokemon and Playstation in the late 90's.
Had a PS2 for about a year, sold it to get an Xbox and Halo.
Got an Xbox 360
Got an Xbox One.

Started off when I was a kid with a Game Boy Color and Pokemon Crystal. Played some NES/SNES/PS1/PS2 here and there at friends' places. Got an N64 and played Ocarina of Time/007 The World is Not Enough/Goldeneye/Pokemon Stadium 1&2. Got a Gamecube and played a shitload of Super Smash Bros. Melee, 007 Nightfire, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, Super Mario Sunshine, Pokemon Coliseum 1&2.

I had a Game Boy Advance & OG Nintendo DS and played a LOOOOTTTTT of Pokemon Gen 2/3. Played Gen 4, hated the campaign, and decided to ditch the franchise from then on. I played a lot of Animal Crossing: Wild World on my DS. Got an Xbox 360 in 08 and played Madden games for a few years, and offline H3 co-op with my brother. I got LIVE in 2009 and started playing nothing but H3 online, got my Team Slayer 50 in 2010. I started playing Minecraft when it was still in Alpha in 2009. I played a lot of Fallout 3 and New Vegas from 2010-2012, and a lot of Oblivion and Skyrim. I played H3/ODST/Reach a lot through 2012, with a little bit of Minecraft and Ocarina of Time thrown in there. After I graduated High School in 2012 I played a little bit of H4, quit that in early 2013, and started playing League of Legends. I started playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup in 2013, and sometime in Fall 2013 I started playing Charles Barkely Shut Up and Jam Gaiden. I got WoW in Fall 2013. Today, I play League of Legends, Street Fighter IV, Killer Instinct, Destiny (not very much, but I'm trying to get my money's worth before quitting.) World of Warcraft, Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup, and Pokemon Gen 2.

Windows 95, PC Master Race, is where my story starts. In the early 2000's when I was like two or something I would play video games with my Grandpa on his gaming PC. (Yes he used to be a gamer, he stopped right when Halo CE came out) This glorious PC had 8 MB of RAM Windows 95, Road Rash and various other racing games installed. I would sit on his lap use this Thrustmaster FFB Wheel he had and play Need for Speed Hot Pursuit and of course Road Rash. At these early stages of life, developing motor skills while having video games present, I kind of gained a 6th sense when it comes to video games.

 A few years later my dad had bought an Xbox with Halo CE. I don't quite remember the days of the first Halo being played by me, but they were there. Sometime in 2005-2006 I moved and met some kids a lot older than me. I was just a kindergartner, clearly inferior in everyway, but some how got along. This led to me playing Halo 2 all the time with them. I wasn't very good but I still had fun. In 2006 my dad had now bought a Xbox 360 on the day of launch. I played lots of Tony Hawk and of course Need for Speed but no Halo was out for the Xbox 360.

Halo 3 gets announced. Every one's minds explode, lots of hype. The release date nears and all my friends get excited, including my dad, but none of us had money. I was very poor at the time (still am but not as bad, I manage to get video games/new consoles cuz) so yeah, no Halo 3 for me. 2007, this was the year of not having Halo 3 and my Xbox 360 red ringing. So now, no Halo 3, no Xbox 360 everything is pretty meh.

We still had the warranty on the Xbox so we sent it in waiting for the fix. During the waiting time the Gamecube was very cheap, like $30. So I got one of those and some games. I had the sonic game collection, Legend of Zelda Wind Waker, Paper Mario, Mario Kart, etc. I had a blast with those then one day my baby sister decides to put jello in the floppy disc opening thing and yeah. Its surprising the thing still worked after I got most of it out and still works till this day. Guess things were made better back then.

I moved yet again never seeing my friends again and the Xbox 360 was fixed. My dad's friend had CoD 4   and gave it to us. It was quite fun, im not gonna lie, CoD 4 was really fun. One day with my "fixed" xbox 360 I remember taking it to my grandpas house and dropping it. The xbox was broken again, I helped my dad do the penny fix on the xbox 360 and it work for about 2 weeks and finally came the death of ol betsy.
It was now maybe early to mid 2008. I went to visit  my uncles in Eugene, (i used to live in portland at the time) one of my uncles, Mike, had Halo 3, I've been wanting  it for ages. He said he didn't play it much and gave it to me. That day I played through the campaign and finished it about 3 days later. I was then exposed to multiplayer and damn was that a blast. I played mutiplayer an unheathly amount every day. I met friends online, one I remember the most was CheezyDonut. We made a map in forge on foundry call KFC, it may have also been called A&W. Everyone we played with loved it. Infection was one of my favorites online with those crazy fun maps. Good times.

2010 Halo Reach came out and I was super pumped to see what forge had in store. I built crazy maps with the new tools and had fun. Multiplayer was fun but not on to par with Halo 3. The armor system was miles better. I don't have a whole lot of memories about Halo Reach since it was kind of boring.

2011 Halo 4 gets announced. I was reading something online about how Halo was no more, and to be honest, I cried, it really saddend me, my favorite game franchise was dead. Then E3 came.... Oh man was I ecstatic. Right after the announcement the hype was insane! I would constantly search for news and leaks up until release. I preordered Halo 4 but it was supposed to come late. So right after I got out of school on the release date I headed straight to the game store and bought Halo 4. I beat the campaign that day in about 7 hours, lame. I still had tons of fun though, but it was missing that bungie spark.

                                                          FIN .

Double post by accident. Damn app.

Update: You guys are amazing!!! I will do a video on each of these (if you want)

But I can really focus on ones that are more elaborate. I need those juicy details.

Is mine good enough?