Poll: So how did you get into gaming?

[procyonlotor]

My first PC was a 486, and the first GPU I owned was 3dfx Voodoo card.

I was browsing through Norton Commander and it was almost outrageous that there were games coming out that needed to be on two floppy disks.

 

[jowo96]

Hard to say for sure, I think I really started getting into games after Half-life 2, though I did spend a good amount of time playing Tekken, Fighting Force and Crash Bandicoot before that.
I played the Atari occasionally but I wouldn't say that got me into gaming.

 

[minarri]

My parents got Nintendo consoles for my brother, from the NES when I was probably 3 through the N64. Added to that my dad used to play PC games. In short I had a pretty strong foundation for gaming which I've just continued to build upon now that I'm an adult.

 

[Flapjack Ninja]

My dad came back from working in Germany with this thing called a Mega Drive... thought I'd give it a go. And here I am today! We only had Sonic and Ecco, but a few weeks/months later we had all the classics like Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Shinobi, Kid Chameleon, etc etc.

 

[Eclectic Dreck]

The first video game I played has been lost to time. It was either a game called Alley Cat, Bouncing Babies or Castle though I know not which specifically.

The first game that I played on a console was Golf for the NES. The first one I played and enjoyed was Super Mario Brothers. The game that made me into a gamer was probably Captain Skyhawk for the NES, which I got for Christmas 1990.

 

[PatrickXD]

Born in 95, played N64 since I was 3 (ocarina oftime was my first game) and have been dedicated to them since, they are mt number 1 source of entertainment and I don't expect that to ever change.

 

[imperialreign]

Avid PC gamer - first PC I played on was a Commodore64, which I replaced with a "real" PC running an Intel 186 CPU rated at only 10mHz a few years later. All I can say is that its been interesting being able to watch both hardware and games develop over the last 20+ years.

 

[RhombusHatesYou]

Here's the first computer I ever gamed on

TRS-80. 1977 vintage.

'NES to now'... Pfffft.

 

[smeghead25]

I had a Sega but didn't play all that much.

Then I had an eye infection of some sort, went to hospital, got antibiotics, went into the child's ward and cam face to face with HER-CU-LES! And then I played a lot of Sega. And then my birthday rolled around and I got a PlayStation!!! XD