I technically started with the SNES, but my family had an old Atari 2600 around that we played before Nintendo came to the scene.
Poll: So how did you get into gaming?
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I started out in the arcades, because there were no home consoles, except the Atari 2600 and its copy-cats. My neighbours had one and I used to play spyhunter for hours on end. It was better with the wheel in the arcade though.
I've never owned a console, but the Commodore 64 was pretty close to one, only it had a word processor as well, and you could make your own (crappy and simple) games. My brother got a Mega Drive when they were brand spanking new. I played Alex Kidd on it (of course) and Road Rash and the Buck Rodgers RPG, but for me I always came back to the computer.
Edit: I guess we are called Generation X (What's the name of my DJ?) I was born in 1975 and for my childhood gaming was Monopoly and Mousetrap.
I've never owned a console, but the Commodore 64 was pretty close to one, only it had a word processor as well, and you could make your own (crappy and simple) games. My brother got a Mega Drive when they were brand spanking new. I played Alex Kidd on it (of course) and Road Rash and the Buck Rodgers RPG, but for me I always came back to the computer.
Edit: I guess we are called Generation X (What's the name of my DJ?) I was born in 1975 and for my childhood gaming was Monopoly and Mousetrap.
I got into gaming when I was two years old. My cousin was pestered into taking me to an arcade and I played the original Donkey kong. Of course I suck at it (I was freakin two) but it was a life-changing experience for me. I was born a gamer and I will forever appreciate games until the day I die. Despite my generation I grew up with a NES. It was a gift from my Aunt when I used to live in New York. While everyone my age was playing playstation, I started with NES and went up from there.
Soo... yeah, the first answer.
Soo... yeah, the first answer.
It all started with a Winnie the Pooh interactive learning game on my mom's computer. Then I played Disney action games on a Playstation in my Grandparent's room (they live in the same house). Then my dad introduced me to actual PC strategy gaming in the form of Combat Mission, a WWII strategy game that was WAY over my age, and yet I managed to beat at least one mission.
I became a PC gamer ever since.
I became a PC gamer ever since.
My first actual video game (That wasn't Galaga) was Halo 2. And then the 360 came out a year later, and I felt like an idiot.
My parents bought my sister an NES when we were little. She never played it, but I did. I didn't really play it all that much, I think we had a total of 5 games. Super Mario Bros. 3 and Mega Man 6 were enough for me. Then my friend got a Sega Genesis, then I got a PS1 and it just kind of snowballed.
Started with Duck Hunt. Now I'm that annoying camper that sniped you twenty times in MW2. I've come so far since those early days...
Started on a cheap 95 with some edutainment games and got my first nintendo 64 for christmas one year. Been a gamer ever since.
Several years ago a friend of mine gave me Age Of Empires. I have been a PC gamer ever since then and never regretted it... Well, maybe a little... Ok, alot...
