Hello Legion Gamers!

This past weekend @Saka shared a thread about a GOG giveaway and an interesting concept of the We Love Games Sale. And that gave me an idea for this thread.

As February the month of Love draws to an end, I thought that it would be interesting to talk about one more kind of love that most of us share and can relate to: love for games.

I think many gamers may have the game that made them like gaming, that set them on the path to exploring the digital world and making friends online (and, eventually, making their way here 😉).

For some, it may have been the first game they ever played, for others, it could be a different one, but maybe most gamers can name that "first crush game".

Personally, I first started playing games on a PC that my aunt had back in the early 90s. She was working as a programmer at the time and had that sort of hardware back when it was not widespread and available as it is now. There I played such games as The Lost Vikings or the classic Prince of Persia, among others. Quite old games by modern standards.

But I only visited my aunt occasionally, so gaming was something me and my brother could do for a couple of hours when we came to visit, and it was some time yet before we got a PC at home. Then, the first game that I ever played was Sea Legends, a very old one by now:


That became the favorite game of my brother and he occasionally plays it even now. But it did not manage to work its magic on me. I only became very interested in gaming in 1997 when I got my hands on The Curse of Monkey Island:


Some may have noticed that about me, but I do respond better to the comedy element in entertainment. And this was one of the gems of the golden age of Lucas Arts games and set me on a journey to Grim Fandango, Full Throttle, and then Little Big Adventure, and many others. And a couple of decades later, here I am.

On a side note, I did not know English all that well when I was playing The Curse of Monkey Island, so the game had an "unofficial translation" which was even voiced, but it was horrible to the point of being meme-worthy. And that was a strong stimulus for me to learn English so I could play the games in their original language and never again suffer such linguistic frivolities.

And that is the story of my first "game crush".
What about you, got any games to reminisce about?
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