And how often do you play your arcade machine beemer? 
Wait…
Don’t answer that
haha, no two guesses what was my first gaming experience. Then when the Playstation came out with DOOM had to have that and link em up with a mate and play doom all night after work fridays 
Yet to have a look at The dark ages.
wolfensteingoodies.com/archives/olddoom/sounds/dssawful.wav
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Oh hell yeah, Wolfenstein 3D, Duke Nukem and Doom back on an old 386 desktop computer back in the day day
Also one very similar to Wolfenstein that was focused around a research facility with doctor’s/scientists, I forget what it was called 
Edit: Blake stone: Aliens of gold
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Doom really was a turning point , for the video game industry.
The Last of the “small scale productions”.
The game was designed, written and coded, by a handful of blokes, in their garage, over a few months…
Now, video games are big as hollywood productions, with hundreds of people involved…
Takes years, and costs millions , to make them.
Look at the RE remakes.
RE2 remake, 2019… has sold about 17 million copies worldwide…at $100 a hit… thats $1.7 billion dollars…!!! For a game that cost maybe $20 million to make…!!
Resident evil is capcoms most lucrative franchise …
So to self profres my nerdery… my PC gaming goes back a bit further… back to captain comic, dangerous Dave, Duke Nukem, lemmings and commander keen era. Civilization was the first game that really kept me up late getting in trouble from my parents lol.
but Wolfenstein 3d was a game changer… then DOOM was a real turning point.
Followed was a lot of great games like Blake Stone, Duke 3d, and once quake came we had the joys of the LAN party to follow!
Quake 1 and 2, Half life, command and conquer, age of empires, and many a bottles of piss every weekend, unless we were camping at the dam or a mates farm. Wasn’t a lot else to do where I grew up!
Also goldeneye on the n64 was a absolute banger.
Counter strike in its early half life mod forms was about the end for that then I finished school and moved away from gaming for many years until I had kids and needed a quiet activity once we got them to bed and before we went to bed.
As much as I enjoy gaming it was never a lifestyle, more a quite bit of relaxing, or a social beer with a game and mates online that I couldn’t actually see due to everyone had kids and commitments that kept us apart.
The wife and I tried a VR thing recently… considering getting into it but the price for the amount of time we actually play games… it is pretty steep!
She gets more game time than me as I already have an expensive time consuming gel blaster hobby!
Haha I remember that! And Pac-Man, space invaders and asteroids on the same sit on either side of the table machines!
On fairness though they had been out a little while before I seen them!
Sounds like you have her next birthday pressie picked…!!
Cheaper than buying and running a .50 cal…!!
( at least you can tell her that…!!)
Hate to think how many hours my friends and I spent playing multiplayer GoldenEye.
Original Warcraft on PC was another classic midnight burner
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I have horrid memories of sleeping on my sister’s couch in the late 90s being kept awake half the night with my nephew playing Banjo Kazooie…
That fucking bird’s squawk!!
Ha dad used to set up pong with a console on the TV!
Had a light gun too for shooting a dot moving on the screen.
That would be my first gaming experience.
I followed all of what Rok said above a bit. Got a bit more serious in BF2 days playing in a clan having weekly competitions.
Not so much these days just have a look now and then at new stuff for a bit of R&R when the outdoors are unfavourable.
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Burk Burk Burk Burk…Yo-whee…!!
PSTD, much.?.?
The final boss battle is quite hard…!!
The incredible machine was another cool game back in the day that made you use your brain, absolute classic
I remember that!! Lunchtime TIM sessions at Boeing.
Great game for developing mechanical aptitude.
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When I was kept in detention in year 7, the teacher would make me stay in the classroom “at my desk” doing math problems, I hacked the computer and sat there playing the incredible machine all lunch break.
I’m not hacker by a long shot, but when his password was his first name 
Not the best password, Frank
Is it just me, or do we need to Start a “Gaming” thread?
Apart from that old 1970’s ATARI Pong/Tennis TV Console, Space Invaders and 1942, I have absolutely NO IDEA what the rest of this conversation is about!
We are derailing Rok’s thread somewhat 
Yeah, that’s why I mentioned it, a bit of housekeeping!
Commodore 64 was probably my first gaming experience on the old big flat four and 1/4" floppy disc drives and tape deck
Games like batman, ghostbusters, Michael Jackson moonwalk
Pretty sure the old boys still got it in the shed somewhere up north, no idea if it still works tho
Sorry Rok
emulators…
resurrect all the old games…
laying around for free, in internet land…