My name is Flick and i'm a Game'a'holic

FlickJax · June 25, 2014, 03:15:57 AM

It all start when I was given a VIC 20 for my Christmas present when i was 13 and it has never stopped..... I can't help but buy games, especially in the damn sales. I have over 160 games on steam alone which i have played about half, on Gamersgate i have probably played less than a 5th of the games i own, Gog over half and even Matrixgames I have not played all I own.

I need help!!!

Grim.Reaper · June 25, 2014, 04:48:23 AM

Quote from: FlickJax on June 25, 2014, 03:15:57 AM
It all start when I was given a VIC 20 for my Christmas present when i was 13 and it has never stopped..... I can't help but buy games, especially in the damn sales. I have over 160 games on steam alone which i have played about half, on Gamersgate i have probably played less than a 5th of the games i own, Gog over half and even Matrixgames I have not played all I own.

I need help!!!

The Vic 20 was my first starting point in computers as well:). Who knew where it would lead....

bbmike · June 25, 2014, 05:34:06 AM

Me too! I spent many hours on it. 3k of RAM! I remember typing in what I thought at the time were long programs to run very simple games.

Shelldrake · June 25, 2014, 05:46:22 AM

I started gaming with a Commodore 64 and tape drive (I hated that thing!). As I recall I had an unplayed library of games even then.

FlickJax · June 25, 2014, 05:51:26 AM

game loading times on 64 were immense, and then you would get a syntax error at the end arrrggghh

Gusington · June 25, 2014, 06:58:02 AM

I also started on Commodore machnes. I miss the smell of my local game store back then.

JH is our very own game purchase addiction specialist. Talk to him for 5 minutes or view his Steam profile and you will feel better.

TacticalWargames · June 25, 2014, 07:03:04 AM

BBC B 32k for me when I was 12. It was my dads:) I then saved my paper round money a couple of years later and bought an Amstrad 464CPC with green screen monitor:) Haven't been without a computer of some sort since.

Greybriar · June 25, 2014, 09:12:46 AM

I started on an IBM clone, an 8088, in 1989. I played mostly Shareware titles until I splurged and bought SSI's Pool of Radiance. It was then that I was hooked and the dam burst--I began buying games from SSG, MicroProse, and many other companies that were in their heyday back then and a large number of others that have since come into being.

Now it seems I mostly buy PC games (I have 262 titles in my GOG account alone!) but I don't have the time or inclination to play all of them.

Gusington · June 25, 2014, 10:17:26 AM

262!! Mein gott.

Sir Slash · June 25, 2014, 10:22:24 AM

I lost my virginity with the Mattel Intellivision in the early 80's--- gaming virginity that is. Then the Commodore 128 and the Amiga. And I'm still gonna get around to finishing those games one day. I guess if we lived in North Korea, there would be no new games until EVERYONE finished old one first. After Hurricane Charlie in 2004, we had no power for 2 weeks. I just sat in front of my blank computer screen and pretended like I was playing Combat Mission Total War in the Forgotten Realms except in this game I would win... sometimes. I don't consider it an addiction. I consider it a denial of an addiction.

Gusington · June 25, 2014, 10:31:29 AM

It's like you're in my head...are you?

MikeGER · June 25, 2014, 10:35:55 AM

Quote from: Shelldrake on June 25, 2014, 05:46:22 AM
I started gaming with a Commodore 64 ...

+1
...and a diskdrive 1541

that was the time were a 'pirate' O:-) needed to show up physically at a friend's place who run some spooky nibble copy program 45 minutes a disk or so with lots of diskswaps IIRC
also the 1541 got very hot so that disks formated then were not readable, so that guy (today we would call him a C64-super-nerd) operated it without its housing...

also i remember to have paid 114 DM for 10 empty floppy disks from 'Scotch' or so ...and found that a bargain ::)

is there a C64 emulator and some down the memory lane games for Android ?

fabius · June 25, 2014, 10:46:44 AM

Quote from: Shelldrake on June 25, 2014, 05:46:22 AM
I started gaming with a Commodore 64 and tape drive (I hated that thing!). As I recall I had an unplayed library of games even then.

Nato Commander for the 64 was awesome.

MikeGER · June 25, 2014, 10:50:19 AM

Kampfgruppe ! by SSI ...my first real computer enhanced wargame. and i never left the hobby since 8)

Ian C · June 25, 2014, 11:38:02 AM

Atari ST.

F-117 Stealth Fighter, North & South, Tank Platoon.

Then it was an Amiga and Universal Military Simulator II...

And the rest, as they say, is misery.