Is it June already? That time of year when...screw it. I hate doing intros. Suffice to say, you guys came up with some great stuff for the "if you love it, change it" theme. It was a prompt that required creativity and the ability to critique, and many of you rose to the challenge admirably.
This month's theme, the start of the affair, is a lot easier: it's just about you. Which videogame(s) got you into gaming in the first place? Which videogames got you addicted, or taught you something new, or told you the medium was capable of something you'd never thought possible?
If you're here, I assume you have some sort of love affair with videogames. The nature of that affair may change from person to person, but this month's theme asks where those affairs started. If you write something clever, or something that promotes intelligent discussion, your cblog will be promoted to the front page for all to see.
Hit the jump for a further clarification of the guidelines.
As always, title your cblog "The start of the affair: bahbahbah".
My main worry with this title is that we all played the same few games which made us fall in love with videogames: I know I personally was roped into the world thanks to the Mario Bros/Duck Hunt combo cartridge, and I'm admittedly afraid that roughly half of the community has, as well. With that in mind, you don't have to talk about the first videogame you played, or the game that made you start playing other videogames -- you can talk about all manner of things, so long as they start some sort of obsession with the medium.
You could, for instance, talk about the game that made you realize videogames could be art. Or the game that taught you they can be a competitive sport, or an incredible storytelling medium, or just a fantastic, addictive way to waste a few hours.
The main conceit of this theme is that games can mean many, many different things to many different people, and can start addictions or love affairs with the medium for numerous reasons. Pick one that's special to you, and then talk about why that game or games had such an impact on you, and what that impact was.
Any questions? Hit the comments.
Contest:
1:52 PM on 06.02.2008
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It can't be helped that a majority of the gamers on the site are from the SNES days when those incredible RPG's and gamer were being released.
This should be a great month article-wise.
Crap, that was indeed my first game (cartidge) but as you said it's not just about the first game, it's about what games mean to us too.
This is true, probably part of the reason I feel so at home here :).
This month should be fun. I might actually do one on Way of the Samurai this month . . . though I tell myself that every month . . .
Good times.
I feel like I'm a wierd case. I went through years of the older handhelds, like the original Game Boy and Game Gear. I completly missed the NES,SNES and Genesis, and my first console was an N64(totally buying into the fanatical Nintendo love I had seen for the previous consoles.
Time to write!
@Tubatic - Way of the Samurai!! Excellent choice sir! *salutes*
The game that made me think games could be so much more was this bizarre game I got right after getting a NES I was 10 at the time and this game box had a kick ass dragon on the cover and was called Dragon Warrior I. Knowing nothing else about the game I bought it with my paper route money. I think a few hours into the game and getting a grip on this whole new genera I realized all the possibilities it offered. Ever since Square and Enix have had me by the balls.
Apart from that, Mario Bros definitely got me into console gaming, but I didn't become a believer until playing Secret of Mana, I was more of a PC-Gamer before that (Ultima, Wing Commander, Strike Commander - the great storybased games by Origin basically).
First experience of rapturous delight: Disney’s Aladdin, Sega Genesis
man I'm gonna have to restrain myself from writing an absolute wall of text :p