How young were you when you started gaming?
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My first gaming experience came from my parents' MSX. I was introduced to this when I was 3 or 4. I don't remember exactly (duh). Haven't stopped since then.
I had no idea there was a war on. I was 4 and nearly wetting myself playing Hero's Quest. "House of brown sit down sit down" and OMG there is a scary witch /hideunderbedwombat_of_war said:*glares* an atari st owner. you should of had a real gaming platform like an amiga ! do you remember the war between those two?Abomination said:
im with you on the rest though playstation 1 and 2 and never touched nitendo. too full of platformers for my liking
earliest for me would be playing on my cousins atari 2600 and the oldest one i actually owned was an amstrad cpc 464 with tape drive and a monitor that displayed things in shades of green. those were the days
I upgraded that computer to a beasty IBM 286, and a 486 not a year after.
I never had the greenscale monitors though, I was too rich for that.
Since I was about 6, possibly younger. The first real game I remember playing was Jak & Daxter: The Precursor Legacy on the first PS2 I had ever owned. I loved it, and I still do. Although, I have had to replace the PS2 twice since then, due to internal parts breaking, I still have a functional PS2 and I am still getting more and more games for it.
5 year old. Surprisingly, I haven't killed anyone yet and I seem to be a very peace loving person.
I didn't actually play that many games when I first got into gaming. I mainly watched my older brother play them, I remember we used to get up early in the morning and I'd watch him play rayman 2...oh those were the days...
OT, I was about 5/6 when I first started to properly play.
OT, I was about 5/6 when I first started to properly play.
when i was five years old my parents bought me a PS1, so i've been gaming since. Don't regret a thing.
Dad let me play his Nintendo when I was as young as 2 apparently. I have memories of playing around with Duck Hunt and Super Mario Brothers when I was four or five as well. I had my own Super Nintendo when I was about 5 or 6 though and I really wish I could have kept that thing. Oh well: I have another one now because work, money and, independently-owned-video game retailer so all is right with the world (or rather it will be once I replace the save-batteries in some of my carts)
My older brother had an NES and an assortment of games.
My parents once tasked him with looking after his youngest sibling, a baby.
Something happened upstairs and by the time he came back down he was greeted to the image of a wee tyke failing at Super Mario Brothers. That baby was me.
I don't remember this and my earliest memories of playing a game were when I was two years old.
By that time it was usually an assortment of Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt/Double Dragon. So from this, the earliest age I can estimate would be younger than two.
That might explain why my hand-eye coordination is pretty good.
Maybe.
My parents once tasked him with looking after his youngest sibling, a baby.
Something happened upstairs and by the time he came back down he was greeted to the image of a wee tyke failing at Super Mario Brothers. That baby was me.
I don't remember this and my earliest memories of playing a game were when I was two years old.
By that time it was usually an assortment of Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt/Double Dragon. So from this, the earliest age I can estimate would be younger than two.
That might explain why my hand-eye coordination is pretty good.
Maybe.
Unsure, we couldn't really afford game consoles when I was younger so it makes me sad knowing I missed out on Pokemon and Mario and the SNES and N64s etc.
We eventually got given a second hand PS1 off my mum's friend cos her spoilt shit of a kid threw a tantrum when he got it and I usedto play Rayman, Crash Bandicoot, Tekken, Tomb Raider etc.
I used to visit my neighbors and my aunties, I'd beg and beg because they had better TV, a PC (which I didn't get until I was about 14) and a load of consoles. I'd play little bits of Mario, can't remember the game but he was in some castle and the room was filling up with water and I'd play Alex the Kid and Super Mario bros with my cousin after she insisted we play Barbies first ;_;
I found out I had another half brother and when he came to stay he'd bring his Gameboy but he was mean and nasty and wouldn't let me play it very often but I'd play Pokemon until I got bored and wasn't allowed to save it ;(
I must have been about 4 or 5? I've always loved playing games but I didn't get srs face until I was about 15.
We eventually got given a second hand PS1 off my mum's friend cos her spoilt shit of a kid threw a tantrum when he got it and I usedto play Rayman, Crash Bandicoot, Tekken, Tomb Raider etc.
I used to visit my neighbors and my aunties, I'd beg and beg because they had better TV, a PC (which I didn't get until I was about 14) and a load of consoles. I'd play little bits of Mario, can't remember the game but he was in some castle and the room was filling up with water and I'd play Alex the Kid and Super Mario bros with my cousin after she insisted we play Barbies first ;_;
I found out I had another half brother and when he came to stay he'd bring his Gameboy but he was mean and nasty and wouldn't let me play it very often but I'd play Pokemon until I got bored and wasn't allowed to save it ;(
I must have been about 4 or 5? I've always loved playing games but I didn't get srs face until I was about 15.
I was about 14-16 when I started to play video games.
No consoles then, actually there was no home PC's either so it was off to the arcade for a game of Space Invaders or Galaxians.
A couple of years later, one of the mates got a ZX80 not an 81 and showed it off to all of us.
After seeing this mighty machine in action, the consensus was that home computing would never take off ( and that shows how wrong a group of people can be).
Roll on a few years after this and then it started, the ZX81,the 64 and the Dragon and the lot of us were hooked.
In at the start and still going.
Prior to 78 I did play the occasional game of Pong/ breakout but video games just were not as exciting.
No consoles then, actually there was no home PC's either so it was off to the arcade for a game of Space Invaders or Galaxians.
A couple of years later, one of the mates got a ZX80 not an 81 and showed it off to all of us.
After seeing this mighty machine in action, the consensus was that home computing would never take off ( and that shows how wrong a group of people can be).
Roll on a few years after this and then it started, the ZX81,the 64 and the Dragon and the lot of us were hooked.
In at the start and still going.
Prior to 78 I did play the occasional game of Pong/ breakout but video games just were not as exciting.
Playing pac-man on my uncles atari (2600? I think?) was my first memory gaming when I was 2 or 3, but my first system was a super nintendo when i was 4, my first game being bubsy.
Looking back on it now... what a silly silly game
Looking back on it now... what a silly silly game