How i became a gamer/computer nerd. (zelda topic)

[Auroraominae]

It all started with me when i was about 9. I'm born in a family of tech-retards (great people though)!. My dad thought it was quite an accomplishment to get the TV working, and my mom still asks me to "program" the microwave for her when she wants to cook something (I bought the microwave, she always said "Why bother, if i want to boil i'll use water and if i want to grill i'll use the oven). My dad still doesn't know how to turn on a computer (His PC, which i installed for him, is gathering dust in his room).

Anyway, a friend of the family, a guy i'll call Sven, once came over with his friend who i'll call Sasha. They were talking about gaming - i asked them what they were talking about, and they told me about N64 - a gaming computer. They figured it'd be a good idea to bring the N64 with them next time, and they brought mario cart. We played a bit, and frankly, i sucked at it. I figured "gaming is crap, who cares". I left, he said "Give it a chance".

Well, i asked something amongst the lines of "Well, i don't like this, what's the best game you have than?"
He: Well, that'd be zelda. After bitching about it for a long time like a spoiled little brat, he loaned me he N64 and zelda, with the looming warning of "I'll throw you off my balcony if you erase my save games".

The moment he brought the game, i was having the greatest fun (On his savegame), jumping between buildings in Kakariko village with the hookshot and throwing bombs at people. I started to explore the place, slash through enemies, i had a blast of a time, didn't stop before i went to bed. I played the song of storms after figuring the ocarina out, and making a thunderstorm scared me to death, afraid that "I fucked his game up".

As luck (Well, a grim way to say it), he was addicted to pot and got a new girlfriend, so he wasn't really playing a lot - In fact, he let me borrow his N64 for over a year. During this time, i finished OOT, but not only that, it sparked my interest for gaming like a god-fucking-damn inferno. I always sticked to RPGs/adventures as my favorite though. Not just that, i got a PC from my dad (With a comment of "Before, when we wanted to have fun we went outside... ahh well, new generation *sigh*"). I got interested in programming (Especially security, networking, destructive coding and botnet infrastructures). I wanted to make my own game once, and i'm even halfway through - it's a zelda ironically, being made by me and a few friends with a ripped Minish cap engine emulation system. I taught myself Java, Perl, C++, Python, even LOLCODE (look it up), and a few others, including PhP.

Right now, i'm a hardcore gamer + computer nerd. I just want to thank zelda for opening a world up to me - without it, i'd be some mediocre fuck going to shitty parties and get STDs instead of having fun D&Ding with friends and stuff, grow up to be some 30-year old banker and finally kill myself at 35 because nobody loves me.

[NinJa]

Thats amazing. My parents are tech-slow too, my mom doesn't know how to turn it on, and my dad likes to randomly click things. I'm glad you became someone who isn't into all that stuff like you said, and glad you came into our world. Glad Zelda opened you up to so many things, let it bring you to a good future.

[alexkenny]

Paragraph 5 really reminds myself of me. I got into gaming through OOT, too. Although I don't come from a family of au-tech-tics, if you get what I mean. (Autistic when it comes to computers-no offense.) My dad is a computer god, and now I am a computer god too.
 He taught me almost everything he knew about Windows and I figured out MAc and Ubuntu Linux all by myself.
Cool story!

[darkscar888]

My dad works for the college with computers IT school , computer security, data servers ect.

He taught me much of what I know. I know alot about windows ( the suckiest OS in the world).
I have a Mac and have learned a lot about the OS in the few months I've had it. Im am most familiar with linux operating systems such as Ubuntu, Mandriva, Red Hat, Kubuntu, and debian.

So yah im a big computer nerd.

[Art1st4786]

My parents bought a Nintendo Entertainment System for my older brother and I when I was three (he was five).  When I was little, I always wanted to do what my brother did, and I looked up to him a lot.  So I guess you could thank my brother for keeping me with video games since the age of three.  My love for video games has only grown as I've gotten older.

I fell in love with the Legend of Zelda series when I was about thirteen.  To be honest, I didn't even know Zelda really existed until Super Smash Bros. came out (Fox was my favorite character at the time).  I started playing as Link, and I was like, "Hey, he's really cool!  Oh, hey!  He has a game for the N64!  I'll rent it!"  As soon as I put the console into the system and started playing it, I was hooked.  Within a year, I got every single Zelda game that existed (except the CD-i ones, but those don't count).

When I got into college, I decided that I wanted to be a video game designer.  I guess you could say Nintendo and the Zelda series inspired me to do this.  They inspired me to become a drawing major.  They inspired me to write more and create my own characters, stories, and worlds.  I want to create stories and characters that people will love, cherish, and remember for many, many years.  And it's all thanks to Nintendo and The Legend of Zelda.

Video games have also helped me find the friends that I have now, and it's a very common thing that I share with my boyfriend, whom I love dearly.  He's as big of a gamer as I am, and that helped us come together.

As far as other technology goes, my brother's a computer whiz (used to be a mechanical engineering major before switching over to international studies), and my father's a computer scientist.  I'm also completely hooked to my laptop, especially Photoshop.  Photoshop is my best friend.

[luffdroppes]

video games ruined my life

[cheesylink]

I started playing games after watching my dad completing loz:oot (thats why i'm here today)

So yh my dad got me into it and now its a part of my lifestyle