Poll: How old were you when you started gaming?

[Deleric]

I popped in TMNT 2 for the NES when I was a wee 6 year old...

 

[MMMATT]

Got a SNES for my fifth birthday, along with the Super Mario World All-Star pack. Moved onto Pokemon for the Gameboy Color about two years later, then Spyro on the PSX and the rest is history.

 

[Hed_Kansa]

Age 4

I still remember when my Dad came home with the brand new Mega Drive, I got so excited I pissed myself.....

 

[General Vagueness]

A little before my seventh birthday I got up at night to go to the bathroom. I'm about halfway there when I think "Wait a minute, was there something over there?" I look and my dad is playing StarTropics on my new NES that I didn't know about. Needless to say that present was spoiled for me and I didn't care it was spoiled, and I found out being a geek that stays up late is in my blood (heh, it's currently 1:27 AM).

 

[ShawnRiles]

I started at 3, the only game I remember playing at that time was Street Fighter 2 Turbo.

HELL YEAH SNES.

 

[TMAN10112]

Since the moment I could hold a controller (somewhere around 3-4 years old).

 

[AroLombardi]

I've been gaming for as long as I can remember. N64 FTW!

 

[mongolloid]

as soon as i was able to stand up for more than 30 minutes, which is at around 4-5, because i always used to go to the arcade down the street to play MarvelvsCapcom 1 with the big kids AND WIN

 

[Jamash]

3, in 1983 on a ZX Spectrum 48k.

 

[Nazulu]

I think I was 5 when I first played Super Mario Brothers.

 

[BoxCutter]

I was five when I first played my step dads NES. Good times

 

[Flying-Emu]

Had a SNES and Super Mario Kart at age three, folks.

I've been playing video games for over 13 years... that's scary.

 

[Snotnarok]

Five years old when I got my Sega Genesis, all hail blast processing.

 

[Grand_Poohbah]

I faintly remember a game I used to play. I thought it was double dragon, but watching videos of double dragon confirms it was something different. I think it was for the master system.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

Around 6. My friend got a colecovision for his birthday and we played that before my family got a NES that Christams.

 

[Summerstorm]

I was eight when i got my Gameboy. I had a game before (You know the cheap handheld ones with one game?) But the Gameboy started my downward spiral *g*.

Hm, and i think it was three years later when my mom bought a computer for work... Yeah... that was the last nail in my coffin *g*

 

[Shock and Awe]

I started with my Gameboy when I got it at about 7 I beleive, but I only got serious about iw when I was 12.

 

[duchaked]

SNES that belonged to my cousins...
then I got an N64, but I think in the end I still just wanted to play Super Mario Bros

 

[leviathanmisha]

I was 3 and I owned a Sega Genesis, which still works to this day.

 

[HotShooter]

I think I have been gaming since I started retaining memories, which was around 2 years old. Good old PS1 helped raise me into the violent person I am today.