I have a memory of cutting down a young tree in a park with the saw blade on my Swiss Army knife. Stupid and heartless in retrospect. My stepdad told me not to let the park ranger see the big tuft of tree-head that I was dragging around....

I know everyone here hates links, but I'm risking the ire. I first published this at New Gamer Nation, and they were kind enough to let me put it wherever I want to. I'm looking for as much feedback as possible for this piece, as it's quit...

<3As�most of us grow up, we are easily influenced by our loved ones, family, friends, etc. When it came video games, it came from my wonderful mom! My brother and I were raised in bowling alleys because my parents bowled. Yet the fun p...

I can barely remember a time when I didn't play videogames. What I can recall is the day my brother and I got our first console, the Super Nintendo. It was Hanukkah, in the old townhouse I lived in until the age of 9, and I couldn't have be...

When I sat down to blog about when I started loving videogames, I had to stop, because that is literally the most impossible question to answer for a gamer.� Sure, maybe you can pinpoint a moment in your life when you felt an initial spar...

There are few games that truly shine the light in the capabilities of videogames and how powerful of a medium it is. It�s no surprise to say Portal 2 is one of those games, where I saw the brilliance carved in every inch of the universe but...

Brace yourself. Do you see that? Just staring into your soul... Yes, the man who graced the cover of innumerable pulp romance novels and helped convince the world that imitation butter simply couldn't be believed helped bring me into ga...

Video games have played an important role in my life. �So much so, that today, as a thirty something-year-old guy, it is engrained as one of my favorite past times. Video games, to me, is a hobby in much of the same way as reading, exercise...

My first gaming experience was at a neighbor's house playing Joust on his Atari. I hated it. I hated having to hit the button over and over to fly, I hated that I didn't feel like I could control much of anything, and I hated that the cha...

I grew up in the 1980's, meaning that I grew up when the Nintendo Entertainment System was huge. Even if you didn't own an NES yourself, so many of your friends cousins had one, it was like you did had one. Needless to say, I enjoyed vide...

It is very usual to hear most people started out playing Zelda, Tetris, or Mario. �I started on the PS2, now most people would think that's not long enough, but I am not only playing the �current games for the Xbox 360, PS3, Wii, and PC. Bu...

I have an older brother who only buys one new game a year. He buys it in November. I'll give you three guesses what game that is, and the first two guesses don't count. Even though my brother fits into the oft-overused "Dudebro" category,...

Like most gamers of today, I started out as a young child at age 4 with a little system called the Atari 2600. It all started when my father gave me his Atari system when I was around 4 years old (26 years ago since I am now 30). Now while ...

It's 7am, an ungodly hour for anyone�to be awake, let alone dressed and ready for school. But here I am, or should I say, my small 8 year old self, eating a bowl of fruit loops and discovering Pokemon for the first time. In that small mom...

I started playing games from a very young age, 3 in fact. My mother had a NES and a master system, so i grew up playing games such as: sonic 1 and 2, sagaia, moon walker, smash tv, mario, zelda and many more. The first game I ever played w...

I grew up playing videogames.  I remember begging my parents incessantly for an Atari when I was six years old.  I was too young to know that there were better systems available, and I had no idea that the machine I wanted was act...

My earliest - though not necessarily my most inspiring - recollection of gaming comes in the form of me waking to my parents paying the NES that was hooked up in my room as a child. It was probably Super Mario Bros., the memory is hazy. It ...

I am terrible at videogames, born in '88 I grew up dying over and over in Nes and Snes as well as Genesis games. I flat out sucked and never improved for years. So I watched my brother play, he was pretty darn good. Christmas '98 I got the ...

I was born on Janurary 8, 1992. �I spent most of my infancy sleeping. �Children with Asperger Syndrome learn to speak at either a very early age, or a very late age. �I spoke my first coherent sentence at the age of five... �Oh wait. �Video...

Imagine walking into a room and seeing a four year old with a Super Nintendo controller in his hand, yet the TV is faced away from you. What game might you imagine that kid to be playing? The most logical guess would likely be a sidescrol...

I suppose it was fairly easy for me to get into video games. For one, I was a little boy, and most importantly: Super Mario. I fell my first few feet down this rabbit hole most of us would call a hobby back in 1994. My dates aren't exact si...

I was five years old and my family was going to a friend of my moms house. As soon as we walked in the first thing I was looking at was the TV of course. I saw Spider-Man on it, it was a weird looking Spider-Man but I recognized him right a...

I've been 21 years old since March 2013 but it feels like I've been playing video games for much longer. The farthest back I can remember is when I was 5 or 6 and I would play Duck Hunt, the original Mario Bros or Mario 3. I preferred playi...

It weirds me out a little bit when I think about just how long I've been gaming. I still like to picture myself as a young guy. I'm 24, I'm only a couple of years out of college, I'm still in that delightful stage where my current life goal...

My first ever game that i played was Pokemon Red on the Gameboy because well it rocked and kept me entertained and stopped my annoying my parents.� Pokemon Red was the game that got me into gaming as it was portable and insanely fun collect...