How did you get introduced into game making?

[Shade the Mystic]

Hmm...I initially got interested when I was 10 or so, living out in the middle of no where for the first time. Mind you, back then 'game-making' largely consisted of me sitting on the couch with a stack of lined paper making up mock-instruction manuals for Nintendo games I had thought up to avoid boredom, mostly Street Fighter clones or Final Fight knock-offs. I didn't really get into it until a few years ago when my brother brought home a disc with RM2K translated by some guy named Don Miguel( I know, bad me, but we didn't have the internet then, so I didn't know any better). I puttered with that for a few months, then he brings home RM2K3 (still no internet by this time.), which I whiled away two years of my life on.