Why you love videogames and what they mean to you?

It's Valentine's day so I wanted to do a love related thread, but then I remembered:
"Damn, I'm single too", so I decided to make a love related thread but about videogames (also because I wanted to make one since a long time).

So it's a simple yet hard to awnser question: What made you love videogames and what they mean to you?

I started to love videogaming since I was 5 and my dad bought a SNES to my brother, he used to tell him "let your sister play too", so he reluctantly let me play with him (or at least watch him play), but the games that made me love videogames was "Super Mario RPG" and "Donkey Kong 2".

And about what they mean to me: to me, videogames are like a time machine, they take me to a simpler and happier time, also they make me remember my brother, not only my hero, but my role model for life.

So, what's your story?

Well, to me videogames means that all the 12-14 year old noobs to sing me sweet melodies with their cries of hate when I just wanna troll. Either that or just a form of time waster since I had nothing to do that day, or waiting for Mass Effect 3.

Hmm...really hard but I'll try:

I started to love videogames when I was 3 years old and the game that made me say: "This is the most perfect thing I ever played" was "Super Mario World".

And for me, videogames are my whole concept of healty fun (I mean, playing videogames is not different from watching T.V. or watch a movie), and a great way transport oneself to a different universe and become something you could not ever become IRL (like a warrior who will save the world). Also it feels great to come back from work where everything sucks and everything goes wrong and go to a world where pressing "A" is fucking pressing "A"! it's simply perfect.

(I give you rock points for your signature, are you a Rush fan?)

I started gaming when I was pretty much a month old, my first game was the original Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega Genesis, and to this day I still love the series, despite how much of a reputation it has gotten over the years..*looks at Sonic 06*

Other than that, I play fighters and RPG's. First fighting game that got me hooked was Marvel Super Heroes vs Street Fighter and Final Fantasy VII was my first RPG.

lol.. this brings back memories.. I remember how I suck at video game when I first started out.. when Im like... 5... my 1st games was Donkey Kong Island I think...

I can't really remember when I became a gamer. All I do remember is that I would watch my brother play games, I would play with him, I died all the time, but I kind of got really into games in my teens.

For me, it's a form of escape. Like Garcia said, it's takes one to a simpler place. I mean, remember when we were kids, and we would often pretend or dream of becoming something great, like a pirate, austronaut, or even the most outrages things? Well, as we grow up, we realize that that stuff ain't ever gonna happen, and learn the truth of our dull world. The games then kind of bring us back. I mean, I can become a soldier, or a kight or some shit, and have a damn blast. It's not only an escape, but it also presurves whatever child-like innosence we have left.

I remember practically nothing about the start of my development as a gamer, but what I do remember is that Pokemon was the shit; bitches don't know 'bout my red version.

To me, video games are all about being able to do what I would normally never be able to do; escapism, essentially. In addition to that, games can be a grand mixture of other forms of art, like visual, literary, and performing. It's like games can be the big mob boss in command of his artistic subordinates, telling them to take as much time from people as possible. I also see video games as the best way to live vicariously (as opposed to literature and film), and the best kind of experiences in games have an impact that is either emotional or intellectual; games like Deus Ex, BioShock, Red Dead Redemption (which has the best ending I've ever seen in a game), and the Mass Effect series, to name a few.

Hmm video game is my life lol? As i believe when i am three i am already exposed to gaming. Damn my first game is Top Gear on SNES which is just pure great racing game during the era.

Even thought this is kinda lol, i believe gaming, anime and manga is what grow my interest in history, religion, geography, physiology, literacy, some biology even politics. So if somebody told me that gaming only makes u more stupid, I will said NO as I learn new culture, new knowledge that I probably won’t care at all if I never been exposed to the game.
So I can said that game means a lot for me as it shapes the me now and I don’t regret it at all after all gaming is also one of the alternative place where I can release all my stress and the only place where I can imagine myself being one of char in the game which is mostly impossible in the real world.

Lovely, nice awnser!

(in respounse to the last: no, but I listened to it since I was little, my brother and my father likes Rush and me got kinde sucked up to that, it's listenable but not something I would put on my ipod)