Poll: How old were you when you started gaming?

[sky14kemea]

i dunno, what year did the Sega Megadrive come out? XD my first game was the good old Sonic games

 

[Haydyn]

I was about 2 when I first had that old Nintendo Entertainment System. Great times...

 

[Nexus424]

Started off wit that NES kid. I was around 3 or 4. The rest is history

 

[Lordmarkus]

I think I was somewhere 6-7 when i started playing but that was most point-and-click games. Then at 9 years I developed and started playing sports and racing and that trend hold on until late 14. After that, killing games only - an Peggle.

 

[tcolberg]

At the age of 4 (1989), I got my first computer, the Tandy 1000HX . It had (IIRC) MSDOS 3.xx, 1 3.5'' floppy drive, no hard disk, 640k of RAM, and EGA graphics. I played a lot of King's Quest, Carmen Sandiego, Reader Rabbit, Midnight Rescue, and Quest for Glory.

I think I got the NES around the same time, but I can't remember exactly when I got it.

Prior to the Tandy, I had the Texas Instruments Computer Fun, as seen here : http://datamath.org/Speech/ComputerFun.htm .

 

[comet5002]

We got the N64 a couple months after it came out in 1996, so I was about 5 years old. =] It's the first console I started playing even though we had a SNES already. The first game I remember playing on it was Mario Kart 64. Great game.

 

[IxionIndustries]

I was 3, I think, and I was playing Metal Fatigue..
I got my ass kicked a lot, but at least I knew how to play.

 

[War Penguin]

Wow, a lot of people played video games at very young ages. I got my first GBA at age 10.

 

[joe the janitor]

The first game I played was command and conquer. I was three years old! I had know idea what the hell was going on but I loved it.

 

[Energylegzz]

I was Six I Tried N64 over at my cousins house and was instantly into gaming him teaching me how to play Super mario 64 is one of my fondest memories.And I got a Gameboy color with Pokemon Yellow version on my Birthday that year the rest is history.

 

[Jimmyjames]

4 years old with the good ol' Atari VCS.

 

[Jimmyjames]

My Pa got a commodore clone and we played all the big-assed clasics like Conan:Hall of Volta, and Zaxxon! Thing had an enormous floppy drive, disks looked like big, black, square plates. Also, a drive that wrote to audio casettes. No mouse, no colors, excepting gold.

Haha, you just described afternoons at my friend Matt's house. Conan was AWESOME!

 

[skcseth]

I want to say 11 but it was the year when the original Playstation came out so... '98? I think I was 8.

 

[Wanderer1911]

I was 7 when my parents got me a game boy... *sigh* god I miss that brick

 

[DigitalJedl]

Ah, the memories. I was but a little sperm cell when I first played the Gameboy Color.

 

[Skwesheh]

picked up my first NES controller when I was 3 I think... still love NES games ^-^

 

[Spawny0908]

Oh god I've been gaming since the NES. And I still have that! Both my sister and I gamed back then but she grew out of it. But I can't it's just too fucking fun. I mean how can you stop with such good games coming out? Batman: Arkham Asylum, Bioshock 2, Assassins Creed 2, Mass Effect 2. I seriously see myself gaming for LIFE!!!

Make games, not war!

 

[Ozkilla]

got a SNES for christmas when i was 5. First game was Mario of course