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Around 5 (Born in 1991), I used to sneak into my brother's room and play the first Turok. I was a hyperactive child and wasnt allowed to play games for fear of replicating them in real life...Guess what, I never did...kinda hard to replicate hunting dinosaurs and the like when you're that young.
Though I don't remember playing it, there is a picture of me dated 8/18/80 where I'm playing a game of Pong with my father. I figure the photo itself was probably taken sometime in late 79 or early 80(my parents were notoriously slow to have film developed, and even then it took quite a while to get film developed back then), that would've made me somewhere around 18 to 24 months old. The first thing I really remember playing was an Atari 2600 that my mother won in a raffle back in 1982. She gave it to me as a gift on Easter of that year and I fondly remember playing the horrid port of Pac-Man for hours on end.
1993 I was 4, NES on Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt Cartridge and Kirby's Adventure. Today I can still beat the original Kirby's Adventure and the gameboy advanced remake in 1:09:59 (hr:min:sec) getting all the secret buttons. For the life of me I've never beaten that mario game......excuse me while I reconect my NES
I played Moon Rover on my old compy back in the late 80's. One of those two-tone jobs that ran on 5" floppies. I don't remember much more than that, I was about 5. We then got an NES a bit later, still late 80's, and played Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, and Track and Field a lot (which we conveniently had on one cartridge... I think the only cartridge we had). I still have that cartridge, and the gun and track pad.
Duck Hunt or Contra, one of those two. Can't remember which one I played first. I remember playing around 4 or so.
The first video games I have clear memories of playing is The Oregon Trail and King's Quest (The original, I believe it's called Quest For The Crown) on the PC with my mother. The first video game I ever played unassisted was Kirby Superstar on the SNES at my neighbor's house. And a few years later I got my first console, the Sega Saturn, for my birthday. The rest is history.
I didn't get my first Nintendo until my 7th birthday, which apparently my mom has regretted ever since. 
Ha. 21st Century Space Kids of the Future. ALL of ya.
Born in '69. First game that caught my eye, and hooked me into gaming?
Midway's Gun Fight.
Here's the KLOV page: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8039
And here's its fancy-schmancy backdrop update, "Boot Hill." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKDmN06s4io
Born in '69. First game that caught my eye, and hooked me into gaming?
Midway's Gun Fight.
Here's the KLOV page: http://www.klov.com/game_detail.php?game_id=8039
And here's its fancy-schmancy backdrop update, "Boot Hill." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKDmN06s4io
The first computer games I played were on a friend's Amiga - I was introduced to Gunship 2000 which took about half an hour to load off a tape drive. Around that same time my friends got a Nintendo and we played the hell out of Super Mario, and I got a Sega Master System. I guess I would have been 7 or 8.
Then after my Sega died and I didn't see my friends very often, it was playing Stealth Fighter F117-A on my uncle's PC. he also had Gunship 2000 and thanks to the upgrades in technology the game loaded from the hard drive in only a minute or so! Later he picked up a disc that came with Duke Nukem, as well as a fantastic SHMUP called Major Stryker.
My gaming was restricted to PC only from about age 13-18, but there were a lot of great games (mainly RTS and FPS titles). When I was in 12th grade my friends and I had a free double period on Thursday afternoons and went to a local net cafe to play Counter-strike.
At age 19 I bought a PS2, and I've been a console gamer since. A few PC titles got my attention (Sims 2, Galactic Civilizations) but I went from PS2 -> XBox -> 360 -> Wii and most recently PS3. My PC really couldn't handled gaming these days and honestly, I think I prefer to play on consoles. I play more this way than I ever did on PC.
Then after my Sega died and I didn't see my friends very often, it was playing Stealth Fighter F117-A on my uncle's PC. he also had Gunship 2000 and thanks to the upgrades in technology the game loaded from the hard drive in only a minute or so! Later he picked up a disc that came with Duke Nukem, as well as a fantastic SHMUP called Major Stryker.
My gaming was restricted to PC only from about age 13-18, but there were a lot of great games (mainly RTS and FPS titles). When I was in 12th grade my friends and I had a free double period on Thursday afternoons and went to a local net cafe to play Counter-strike.
At age 19 I bought a PS2, and I've been a console gamer since. A few PC titles got my attention (Sims 2, Galactic Civilizations) but I went from PS2 -> XBox -> 360 -> Wii and most recently PS3. My PC really couldn't handled gaming these days and honestly, I think I prefer to play on consoles. I play more this way than I ever did on PC.
I still have that!Mr. Moose said:I was born in 1991
This is the first game I have memories of playing.
I grew up without a console, so my NES hours were mostly at someone else's house. When I was 13 or 14, I acquired a Gameboy with exactly two games: Tetris, and Kirby Pinball Land. This library eventually grew to a whopping three when I got the GB version of Space Invaders for Christmas.
But I didn't really start gaming until I got my first PC, right before I turned 15. Then I was quickly hooked on MegaRace, King's Quest VI, and most of all, Strike Commander.
But I didn't really start gaming until I got my first PC, right before I turned 15. Then I was quickly hooked on MegaRace, King's Quest VI, and most of all, Strike Commander.