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Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113781
08/27/05 09:07 AM
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Go for it Dashia!

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Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113782
08/27/05 09:11 AM
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Oh, I'm in for it now! My husband just pulled out one of his thousands of past PC Gamers magazines and is reading to me the top 50 best games of all times, stressing Baldur's Gate and Half-Life. The can of worms is officially open!

Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113783
08/27/05 10:11 AM
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Sondi & Dashia to the both of you!

I'm sure your gonna love it here!

Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113784
08/27/05 11:27 AM
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I confess - it was Myst that started this addiction. My brother and I worked through the entire game in about two months on our lunch hour. It helped to have two heads working on the puzzle. The rest as they say is history. And Gameboomers is one of my favorite sites on the web.

Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113785
08/29/05 05:00 PM
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I only started early this summer. I've been under a lot of stress and the lack of good TV made me look for an avenue of relief. I started with Nancy Drew and have moved on to other stuff. I admit I use walkthroughs a lot but am getting better about doing some stuff on my own. I love the challenge, solving the puzzles and, yes, thank goodness for second (3rd, 4th, 5th,etc) chances. woozy


Life's a puzzle; one piece at a time.
Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113786
08/29/05 06:44 PM
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Hello annette and welcome to GameBoomers! welcome

Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113787
08/30/05 08:46 AM
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I never played a computer game until after I retired from nursing. My teenage son gave me Stupid Invaders and it was fun. Then he gave me Myst. After that I played every adventure game I could get my hands on. After a year or so I decided to try some different things. I did American McGee's Alice, The Undying and Divine
Divinity and found I loved these too. Now I have a full case of Baags and am loving it. happydance wave


Polly
Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113788
08/30/05 10:23 AM
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It was Myst!
And it was on my 1st computer:) One of my sons, then in high school wanted to build a computer out of spare parts - he, his brothers and my husband were always building and upgrading theirs so there were parts around. He wanted to see if he could put a system together for under $100 dollars and I was the only one in the family without a computer. So, I got a working computer, for $97 and spare parts, then needed something to do with it. lol I went through everybodys programs and found Myst (a birthday gift that the kid had never liked so never played through it lol
All the games since Myst have been such fun. The really good ones have been like books.

Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113789
08/30/05 10:47 AM
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My parents gave my first computer about 8 years ago, for school work. But, as long as I did my homework first, I could use it to play or whatever I wanted. I bought Indiana Jones and Fate of Atlantis, then got Myst free as a gift with my printer about the same time.
Played both, didn't understand a thing (English isn't my first language). Walkthroughs and a thick dictionary was needed to finish. But, the language became easier for each game I played and I finished high school with 5+ in english. I always say, that the games helped me pass laugh
Good excuse, maybe, but I don't care, I know I wouldn't have passed otherwise.

Caroline.


I haven't lost it, I just can't find it....
Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113790
08/30/05 11:50 AM
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Quote:
Originally posted by C'ris:
Soon I was part of the upgrade cycle since I needed a better monitor
And as new games come out, you'll find yourself upgrading and upgrading, C'ris--after all, not being able to play a game because your computer is too old is a major downer!!!

BTW, I see this is a "cake" day for you... birthday


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Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113791
08/30/05 11:58 AM
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Thanks Jenny!
That was awhile ago - the high school son who built my 1st computer was 15 then and he just turned 27!
(I am getting old. lol )
I've since upgraded to a new computer and that has been upgraded too. My husband suddenly realized the other day that mine has got more bells and whistles than his. rotfl

Re: How did you get started in gaming? #113792
08/31/05 01:03 AM
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I personally think it's the gaming that has caused me to up grade computers, more than the need for space and graphics, for all the things I do with them. I bought the computer so I could put about 60 plus years of personal pictures on disks, so that the children and grandchildren, and greats would have and idea, who all those people were. My daughter bought me Riddle of Sphinx, when I came back from Egypt in Oct.2001. As some of it is very much like the things I saw there I was hooked. So I'm still looking for great graphics and stories.
Thinking of buying a gaming only computer, that's scary.
Charllotte

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