How old are you and when did you start playing video-games.

[War Penguin]

Well, I was a lot older than everyone else here, when I started playing. I was ten and now I'm seventeen. My parents tried to prevent me from playing videogames, which kind of failed on their part. The lack of videogames made me even more fascinated with them than before.

 

[MrFarquar]

Im 27 and started playing video games when i was 6 or 7, Atari 2600 jr,Commodore 64, Amiga 1000, NES, Master System, Mega Drive, SNES, PS1, PS2, XBOX, XBOX 360.. my gaming history.. =]

 

[Weslebear]

I'm 16, first played games at around age 5 on the old Gameboy =D.

 

[The Journey]

Hi everyone I'm The Journey. I'm 24 and I'm an addict.... wait wrong forum.

In all seriousness and on-topical goodness, I am actually 24 and have been playing games since I was about, what, six or seven I guess.

Earlier if you count cops and robbers and cluedo.

 

[Tinneh]

I'm twenty and I've been playing vidya games since I was two, Sega-motherfucking-Genesis! (a.k.a. Mega Drive, but Genesis sounds cooler IMO)

 

[Tinneh]

Well, I was a lot older than everyone else here, when I started playing. I was ten and now I'm seventeen. My parents tried to prevent me from playing videogames, which kind of failed on their part. The lack of videogames made me even more fascinated with them than before.

Psychology is cool, isn't it?

What was your first system?

 

[alexjones89]

I'm 21 and I think I got my NES and Super Mario Bros when I was 4, didn't really get into gaming untill I was 7 or 8 though.

 

[Jark212]

I'm 19, I've been playing probably sense I was around 7. Started with DOOM I & II and Heretic...

 

[War Penguin]

Well, I was a lot older than everyone else here, when I started playing. I was ten and now I'm seventeen. My parents tried to prevent me from playing videogames, which kind of failed on their part. The lack of videogames made me even more fascinated with them than before.

Psychology is cool, isn't it?

What was your first system?

Indeed.

And my first system was a GBA. I think it was even an SP. Pretty late compared to a lot of people and their fist consoles.

 

[evilartist]

My dad got me an NES for my fourth birthday, although I may have played his Atari 2600 even before then.

 

[darth gditch]

18, and oh God, 5 I think? Video games have been a part of my life since I was old enough to know what they were. XD

 

[Lazarus Long]

I'm 31. The exact age I started is lost in the mists of antiquity, but the first game I remember playing was Scott Adams' "The Count" on the Vic-20.
Crom, I'm old.

 

[Kenko]

22, dont remmeber when i started playin games but my age was single-digited when i started.5 and upwards would be a rough estimate.

 

[Luhrsen]

31 and 5.

 

[George Palmer]

38. Started playing when I was 6-7 years old I believe. Pong was the first, then many many many quarters spent at the arcade. For those of you who don't know, an arcade was this place people used to go to play video games like Asteroids, PacMan, Q-Bert, BurgerTime, Defender etc...

Later on I went through the 2600, CollecoVision, C64, C128, Amiga 500, NES, PS1-3 and Mac computers.

 

[thylasos]

I'm 22, and I started playing at the age of 6 or 7. Mortal Kombat II, round my cousin's house. I still have a great affection for that game.

 

[JBGigas]

I'm 17 and i've been playing since I was 3... or 2... I'm not sure, but I remember that the kindergarder where I was, had this really old PC with Keen1, Formula game and a game we called Timatti (Diamond in english) in it.

Second great gaming related event happened when I was 5 years old, I think it was at my friends birthday party... Anyway, there i got to play Wolfenstein 3D! It was soo awesome, It was also that day when I truly became an hardcore gamer. One year later I got my very first console: Gameboy Color.

 

[C95J]

I am 15, and have been playing games since I was about 4 or 5, when my dad gave me a Nintendo Game Boy COLOUR!!!! and I started playing an old Mario game

 

[SoulChaserJ]

I'm 33, I started at about 5 on my Tandy Color Computer with text adventure games.
I started my daughter at age 2 with Jumpstart games.

 

[Mr. Mxyzptlk]

I'm 18 and started playing at 6 or 7
mario games and tetris mainly
good times