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How old were you when you started gaming.

4-5 i guess (22 now).
I don't exactly remember if i first got a N64 or a GBC, but they must have been close.

Never stopped since and i think i never will. I'm so grateful for having developed this hobby.
 
Technically been playing since I was like 2, since my brothers had consoles before me, but I almost stopped completely shortly after the Wii came out. The time I really got into being an "enthusiast" was when I discovered Jontron in 2012.
 
I dunno, I was probably like 3-4 at the time but my first memories of playing any video game was with Barnstorming or Berzerk!
We got an NES maybe between 86-88 and I pretty much spent most my time playing that or something on the IBM computer we had (I have no idea when we got that, though... before 90.)
 
Somewhere around age 2, simply messing around with the NES that my mom owned.

I think I wasn't allowed to touch it, but seeing the characters on screen made me want to mess around with it. By age 3 I was playing Mario, Zelda, and Mega Man games, and knew at least how to control, and even progress through them, though I wouldn't be beating games for a little longer.

By 4, my mom upgraded to the SNES that had been out for years already.

Age 7, I got a PSone as the first console that belong to me.
 
My brother was big into videogames before I was born so they were around me since I was born. My first memories are of some Atari games but I started getting into it myself with NES. I think I was like 4.
 
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I was 5 and I descended the stairs on Christmas morning to see this running on the television. It's been on like Donkey Kong ever since.
 
Around 6 years old, early 90s, starting elementary school. Doom, wolfenstein, so much forbidden fun things. What a time to be alive. Funny how I started on the most complicated shit (DOS) without any problems... And now I hear people complain about the simplest stuff
 
Pac-Man in an arcade, but I was quite small. I wouldn't be surprised if it was actually in 1980. I was born three days before the 2600's listed street date on wikipedia, so I would've been three then.
 
I have pictures of me playing a NES when i was 5 so i am going to go with 5.

I don't know how people can recall things from when they were like 3,4,5 i have 0 memories from that age but that was also 26+ years ago.
 
Probably around 6 or 7 when I actually took notice I think. And around 8 when my Dad bought me and my brother a NES.

33 now.
 
I was 7. Got my first Master System Super Compact in the later part of 1993. Before that, I would check out arcades. My first memory of actually playing something was Street Fighter II in an arcade in a bar halfway between home and school.

This just pisses me off nowadays, that I play bad as shit despite all the time dedicated to games.
 
Trago said:
You're as old as the console market lol.
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Indeed. I as well.

It really gives you perspective when people label any modern game "complete shit".

Lookup some screenshots for Superman - Atari 2600 (1976). Now try to imagine being heavy into gaming back then and being completely blown away by the graphics. The game was MULTI-SCREEN. Unheard of at the time.

Now fast forward to the present and imagine reading forums where popular games like Fallout 4 are being dressed down. Having a 40+ year history of watching first-hand the industry grow and evolve from primitive roots...How can you do anything but laugh and shake your head?
 
I think I started at age 3, but my earliest clear gaming memory is having my aunt and my cousin watch me play Mario Bros before we had to return the Atari 2600 we borrowed, which would put me at age 4-5.
 
I can't really say tbh. I had 3 older brothers that were gaming on an NES before me. I remember games like Zelda, Tecmo Bowl, and Double Dragon being relatively "new" back then.

What "new" means is probably that they were purchased used at Babbage's. Late 80s. I can't imagine any of my brothers having the $$$ to buy a new game back then with their allowance.

I remember my brother (7 years older than me) left the NES on with Zelda in the cartridge all day and night, finally I got fed up with waiting for him that I yanked the cartridge out without turning off the system (I didn't exactly know what I was doing) so that I could play something. He cried for a while that night. I'm sure he punched me, but I don't remember that.
 
Technically, I was probably 3 or 4 (1994-1995) when I first started playing games with my parent's NES. However, I didn't really get into it until I got an N64 when I was 7 or 8.
 
My first memory was playing Defender with my dad on the Atari 2600, I was about 4. Played Combat with my brother a little bit too but I didn't really enjoy video games until my parents got an Amiga.

Then when we got an NES with SMB, Ninja Gaiden and Mega Man 2; I was hooked.
 
I really can't remember.

No older than 5 then, since they say you get a memory wipe around that age lol
 
Was 4 going on 5 when I got the Super Nintendo for Christmas in 1991, I remember I didn't even know what it was, and was more excited for the Micro Machines Super Van City that I also received that morning. I know I had the Game Boy before that point, but the SNES was the first time I remember understanding what the concept of "video game" was.

I still have that Super Nintendo to this day.
 
If we're counting the Magic School Bus CD-ROMS I played over and over again on Windows 95, then 4 years old.
Actually.. That's around the age I was playing Duck Hunt and stuff on NES.

But that's all kind of fuzzy for me, memory-wise. I got my N64 when I was about 6 or 7 years old, and that's the stuff I really remember. My very first game for N64 was Starfox 64.
 
First contact was space invaders, when I was about 7 year old.

Then a couple years later, at home when an uncle brought a Sinclair ZX80
 
I started in the late 70's in the arcades, a Mattel handheld basketball game and a Coleco Head-to-Head Football handheld. My first console was an Atari 2600 in 1981, that came with Combat as the pack-in game and I also got Pitfall that same day as well. I've been hooked ever since.
 
I remember playing as far back as 3 years old. ZX Spectrum and Sega Master System mostly. My older brother got a SNES near release so I was about 5 or 6 for that.
 
Hmm. We definitely had the NES by the time I was in second grade, which would have been in 89. But we had an Apple II GS before that, and I played games there, so probably age 5 or 6.
 
Late 80s when my dad brought home an old 8088 from work home after the company went under. So probably 6 or 7. Didn't get really invested into games though until the mid 90s.
 
My first memory is being 5 or 6 and playing Mechwarrior 2 on an old IBM Aptiva PC with my dad. I'd sit on his lap and he would help me guide the joystick.
 
My parents bought me a 2600 for Xmas when I was about five.

Nice to see a few other people in this thread who are old enough to vote.
 
One day, when I was about 6, my dad brought back home a weird and terribly mysterious black attach case.
He said this was about to revolutionize the world.

He rapidly lost interest though, but I guess I never did.

In the suitcase was an OEM Pong (and Tennis, and Shooting Gallery!) System (probably a Magnavox Odyssey 1st gen knockoff, I remember switches to activate the different modes/ games), with two paddles and a plastic gun, which we hooked up to a small black and white tv.

It was 1978...

Nowadays my oldest kid (just 7) shows me the stuff he is making with Minecraft on his Tablet...
 
89 or 90 at 4 or 5. NES, Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt

N64 was the first console that I remember thinking about before it came out. NES, Genesis, SNES, Saturn, PlayStation might as well have just always been out.

I think PS3 and Wii were the first consoles that I got that weren't a gift or bought with money that was a gift. In other words bought with money from a job in which I was the one doing the working.

I still have every single console that I have ever owned.

First experience with the arcade was at an amusement park possibly 93 or 94. I remember playing X-Men and TMNT and thinking that they were so much better than the ones that I had on Genesis and NES.

My first memory of a computer game is a game called Outnumbered. I think it was part of some kind of super solvers series. You had a zapper and you could zap stuff and solve math problems I think. Shortly after that was Day of the Tentacle.
 
the earliest my memories go back are to when i was 3 in 87 playing stuff on nes, 2600, 2700, intellevision and the master system earlier then that is a blur but ive been around games my whole life my dad was a big time geek
 
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