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chesnutcase
5 posts
Joined June 2012
chesnutcase
1 - From a friend, but probably in the most screwed up manner possible.

4 years ago, my friend brought his laptop to school. When I met up with him, I saw him watching a video.
At first I was laughing really hard, going "LOL why are you staring so intensely at a video of Ronald Mcdonald repeatedly falling backwards on a bench?!?!!"
Then I realised "Wait wtf, this ain't a video, there are exploding circles all over the screen?!?!"

And so I got introduced to this circle clicking paradise. No regrets. To be honest one thing that really hooked me into the game were not the songs, but how in the hardest difficulties (of that time, like mcroll and redalice's bad apple) the old, gigantic 300 fireworks would pretty much cover the entire screen when watching the pros' replays, and for some reason that really enchanted the 13-year-old me. I decided to start playing so that one day I could pull off the "300-fireworks all over the screen" thing on hard maps by myself.

And for that same reason, even after 4 years of playing I still have visible 300's with extremely visually obstructive firework effects.

TL;DR: saw my friend playing mcroll on osu.
Pawsu
osu! Alumni
5,213 posts
Joined February 2013
Pawsu
Saw a video on Facebook, and I thought it looked so cool. I was drawn to it.
And now, I'm here. :'D
RePhantom
16 posts
Joined March 2015
RePhantom
I watched WWW`s Videos :w:
Shurelia
Global Moderator
2,813 posts
Joined December 2013
Shurelia
Got this game from randomly dropped USB Drive.
Kyrari
789 posts
Joined June 2013
Kyrari
Was actively playing LoL and it was a time where I started watching streams more than playing, then when I was watching Dyrus' stream one day I noticed he often plays another game while waiting for matches since it takes so long.

Basically I asked around after that and finally came upon osu! and I ended up playing more osu! than LoL after that
NaTha
594 posts
Joined January 2013
NaTha
I was in skype with a friend and he clicked hardcore on his Keyboard and i asked him what he's doing and he showed me osu
Weavoid
25 posts
Joined July 2015
Weavoid
If I remember correctly, I literally just... found it, I guess. I go onto a lot of different websites about gaming/anime, and when I find some show or game I haven't heard of that gets my interest, I'll Google search it. I guess some page mentioned the word osu, I highlighted it and searched Google. :lol:

That's how I find most new games and anime, to be honest!
Nyquill
osu! Alumni
1,781 posts
Joined February 2011
Topic Starter
Nyquill

Shurelia wrote:

Got this game from randomly dropped USB Drive.
If you aren't kidding this is pretty impressive :D
Myles
46 posts
Joined September 2015
Myles
One of my friends had osu link to their steam account and I was curious as hell because I had never heard of the game lol. So then I played it when he told me what it was and then that was when the addiction started :D
Makoto_
1 post
Joined June 2014
Makoto_
Well, this is like, my first time ever commenting since I started to play the game, feels weird. Whatever.
The very first time I heard/saw the game was because some friend linked me to some Twitch channel (I don't really remember) And I like, saw the game, watched it some seconds before closing the tab, that was like 2 years ago or more, before school started that year.
Then, when I really paid attention at this game was at school, me and some classmates were slacking, they already knew about osu!, and they also said one of the computers had the game so I was like "'kay, let's give it a try" and I started to fail a few times before tilting. The same day I downloaded the game and started to play it as some desperate choice.
Edit: I'd like to know why it has Japan Time. Please someone tell me :L
Silverdesu
50 posts
Joined February 2012
Silverdesu

MakotoKikuchi wrote:

I'd like to know why it has Japan Time. Please someone tell me :L
ppy = lives in Japan

Welp, might as well contribute: I don't really quite remember about how I found this game, only that I really sucked at it but was ridiculously hooked on it. I also remember this being one of the first accounts I ever created with the alias "SilverStarlight," so I find myself constantly drawn back into the game. I think I found it after a couple of google searches on "rhythm games" and I really liked this game, until at some point when I was almost non-stop playing Minecraft, another game I discovered roughly around that time. Now, I'm back and I'm ready to click circles (and not to blow my own whistle, but I'm a whistle blower; I think I'm decent at it now)

Edit: Even back then I knew who Cookiezi was and I kinda revered him, embarrassing as it is to admit
CSLM
1,105 posts
Joined May 2013
CSLM
before of meet osu! i was obsesed with the graphic novels of higurashi no naku koro ni, and there was a song which i really like it: Ayane - Angelic Bright. Searching some videos of the song i find a replay of that map in youtube and then i start to find out more about it. Some weeks after that i start osu in may of 2013 in my sister's laptop 'cause the update of that time doesn't work in my PC, and i had to leave it. Then i try it again in my PC in july, and with the update of July did it work. Since then i'm here, mapping for the community :D
piruchan
753 posts
Joined October 2013
piruchan
I was looking through a friend's desktop shortcut when I found a mania style rhythm game with auto generated map. He said there's one more similar game but with maps that fit the song better, and he showed me osu!.
Electovoid
46 posts
Joined June 2015
Electovoid
I actually first stumbled across osu when a cosplayer on instagram @/geheichou posted a video of him playing osu!stream - I thought it seemed like a cool game(I've always loved rhythm games^~^) checked out the android app store and found that the non-official android version didnt work on my phone - thought it was a shame and left it like that

Fast forward a few months and i go to a con with a small group of friends - on the train ride home they were talking about some rhythm clicking game and how they should play later- i ask if it happened to be osu! And found that it was on the computer and not just mobile :D
- Later got the game and played a bit with them using my graphics tablet as i didnt have a mouse xD
- now i am addicted, and have well passed the times were i could still play with them - It just isnt fair for me to now xD Im pretty lucky to start out with a graphics tablet my whole journey :)
[ Jg ]
42 posts
Joined June 2012
[ Jg ]
Saw my brother playing, now i'm here.

/s Still a skrub tho. D:
StixStix
8 posts
Joined March 2014
StixStix
I picked Other because, i was and still a huge fan of rhythm games, so i searched google for any multiplayer rhythm and boom came OSU!
OnosakiHito
osu!taiko Paragon
6,850 posts
Joined March 2010
OnosakiHito
Wanted to play Taiko in online modus.
Kurai
osu! Alumni
7,734 posts
Joined March 2009
Kurai
My brother and I were big fans of the original iNiS games, he found the game one day back in 2008 and that's how I started playing osu!.
BlackMidKnight
182 posts
Joined March 2010
BlackMidKnight
This: :)
Deterioration
66 posts
Joined September 2013
Deterioration
osu tatakae ouendan
Fukita
Fukita
all because of a streamer called IKANNIXI




he's god
Seijiro
osu! Alumni
3,438 posts
Joined April 2013
Seijiro
I just fall under the general "friend introduced me to the game. he quits 2 days after and I'm still here after almost 3 years. Lol" xD
Mint
1,611 posts
Joined February 2013
Mint
I used to play StepMania a lot, but a lot of songs I liked didn't have any fun KB simfiles online. When I tried to look for them I ended up here and became hooked on standard mode owo.
-kevincela-
Elite Mapper
2,855 posts
Joined February 2010
-kevincela-
Found a video regarding osu! by Card N'FoRcE during the first months of 2010 while searching for ouendan videos :p
bibilicu
3,578 posts
Joined October 2013
bibilicu
Just saw some videos on youtube about it.Actually,I know about osu! since around 2010 but I joined 3 years later
Rurree
1,291 posts
Joined June 2014
Rurree
Was hooked on DJ Max Technika back then. Then I got bored and asked in MyAnimeList for a free game online, then most suggested Osu!
Professor Gila
644 posts
Joined December 2014
Professor Gila
i saw my sister played this
gh500
23 posts
Joined October 2010
gh500
I was looking for the OSU (Oklahoma State University) when I stumbled across this game. :roll:
Duzx
7 posts
Joined November 2012
Duzx
I was a long time rhythm game fan and actively searched online to find a game to play.
ruarifinn
14 posts
Joined February 2014
ruarifinn
I don't exactly remember how I got introduced to osu! but from what I remember, I was watching Dyrus's Stream (LoL Streamer) and he started playing on stream and the game looked very interesting as I loved music and anime, so I downloaded and 2 years later I don't regret anything :D
Harbyter
Beatmap Nominator
1,380 posts
Joined October 2011
Harbyter
friend ~
rotodomo
4 posts
Joined October 2015
rotodomo
Got here through social media. I was scouring the internet for coding blogs and stumbled across peppy's dev blog where he talked about this thing called osu!...

...and the rest is history...
wendyes
25 posts
Joined May 2015
wendyes
i actually first found out about this with the video of Cookiezi's old final play. I thought it was legit and started watching more videos of this game and getting into the drama and such lol. Didn't actually make an accout and play until recently though.
ouranhshc
2,338 posts
Joined July 2009
ouranhshc



this is what got me into osu!
Garven
osu! Alumni
5,857 posts
Joined January 2010
Garven
I had played the DS games when they first came out after I found about about rhythm tengoku and started searching for music games on handhelds. After playing through those, I didn't really look for any alternatives until I saw a thread on 4chan talking about good music games "besides osu" so I came to check it out. Apparently it's been 6 years since then.
E_Sweezy
2 posts
Joined December 2015
E_Sweezy
this ridiculous video got me initially interested after watching some memes of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPVIgshtOag
Hisoka Yuuji
20 posts
Joined October 2013
Hisoka Yuuji
A friend showed it to me,mania mode then,I re-started it now mostly because all other free-2-play games are getting boring and repetitive.
This is gold! You play your favourite music. Thank you peppy for creating this!!
;)
Doqtor Kirby
33 posts
Joined September 2014
Doqtor Kirby
There's an osu! community in our high school gaming club.

I was watching the school's best player play.
Novalogic
222 posts
Joined October 2009
Novalogic
Fun fact - my kid sister showed it to me, and she herself stopped playing very soon after. I'm sticking around almost 7 years already ;x
AGRX
540 posts
Joined May 2013
AGRX
damn BoxBox playing osu
Mirt
55 posts
Joined January 2014
Mirt
I was on twitch and went to Osu! wondering what it was. I then proceeded to click on a stream titled "Don't watch me, I'm bad" and that's pretty much what made me download Osu. I had another friend who downloaded it at the same time and we played Pika Girl for two days straight. Unfortunately he quit though >.>
G-Osu
44 posts
Joined July 2015
G-Osu
I was scrolling the app store's music games, Until I saw osu!stream. I searched osu!, I signed up for osu! after.
guitartsword
19 posts
Joined August 2013
guitartsword
a friend: PwnBlck
He discovered osu, well he is a nintendo fan, he likes rythm games (Like rythm heaven). And since osu is inspired from a nintendo rythm game, well, you must know what happened.
Don't know how he discovered nintendo osu, since it was released only in japan... Of course... He is a nintendo fan :lol:
neko cookies
31 posts
Joined August 2015
neko cookies
my brother introduced me to it, after he was introduced to it by something he read about improving at league of legends. it seems a lot of people come here for getting better at other games?
mulraf
1,067 posts
Joined January 2012
mulraf
mmm... i voted for "I stumbled upon a YouTube video of the game." but that doesn't describe it perfectly.
i'm an amv editor and a fellow amv editor uploaded a video someday where she showed playing one or two songs and made a game with 7 others from the comments (including me even though i didn't even download the game at that point). at the beginning i was really shocked how anyone could even play normal maps oO so i trained enough to pass easy maps before i went into the multiplayer match and that's basically what got me into it in the end.
Scarlet Evans
345 posts
Joined August 2014
Scarlet Evans
I stumbled upon a YouTube video of the game.

Months ago, when Last.FM wasn't terribly broken and I was still using it, I loved to check pages of Japanese artists, which music I was listening. On last.FM, there was often a link to youtube video on the song page, so you could listen to it. There was also a nice feature to find "similar artists", from which I was making a good use.

However, you know how it is with Japanese music randomly uploaded on youtube and copyrights - it often disappears. Thus, some people found a solution - linking youtube videos with osu! gameplay replays of the songs, if they were missing.

At first I was mostly ignoring them, as I was only listening to music and hitsound were annoying. Nevertheless, while listening to anime music, both at last.FM and directly on youtube page, I was encountering osu! replays quite often. I checked some of them and started to wonder "what game it is?"

I quickly got interested by them. I don't remember what song it was, but after one of these videos the dam get broken and I told myself: "Enough! I am checking this game, I must to try it!"
Runiel
255 posts
Joined January 2016
Runiel
My Bud introduced it to me, so i decided to try it, best decision of my life
MostDakka
79 posts
Joined March 2013
MostDakka
I actually read about it in a video game magazine and it was added on cd so i gave it a try and osu sucked me in.
Meah
733 posts
Joined November 2014
Meah
I stumbled upon a YouTube video of the game
_HiguchiKaede
280 posts
Joined May 2014
_HiguchiKaede
Saw my friend playing on school computer, then I tried to play it at home. Few weeks later he stopped playing but I'm still here today ><
Can't imagine if I wasn't encounter this game ;w;
urbanhero
2 posts
Joined June 2015
urbanhero
I watched my sibling and his friend play this game and it looked fun so I snooped around until I found the name of this game.
Bara-
11,980 posts
Joined April 2013
Bara-
I saw 'Best Osu! Players of 2012!'
I downloaded it, and I'm still playing ^_^
Xeiiryuu
69 posts
Joined February 2015
Xeiiryuu
I stumbled upon a YouTube video of the game,

While searching for a new released anime opening song. that time there is no full version nor a Tv size yet on YouTube for that song, Only a Osu! Video. After i watched it, I decided to start the game because it seems fun and interesting.
-londy
8 posts
Joined July 2013
-londy
A friend told me about the game 2 and a half years ago, but I only started playing last July because I was bored as sh*t. Turns out its a lot more fun then I expected :)
Nyquill
osu! Alumni
1,781 posts
Joined February 2011
Topic Starter
Nyquill
I accidentally set the poll for 1 day too long :p

Thanks to everyone who contributed. A new poll will be coming at the beginning of February, so look forward to it!
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