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[Aggie CMD]

Based on games I remember playing, I was around 6 or 7.

From personal experience, you don't really play video games when you are younger than 6. You may watch them or mash some buttons but kids at that age don't have enough dexterity or logic skills to play.

And at 2 or 3 you are still struggling to pull up your underwear let alone pull off some Street Fighter combos.

 

[MaximusPrimus]

I started messing around with my dad's Commodore 64 as a toddler (see my avatar). Been playing games ever since.

We share the same beginnings friend.

 

[BasilZero]

4 years old.

First game system was a SNES.

Though I did play a NES that my cousins had.

 

[kswiston]

Maybe 7? 1989 or 1990 with the Commodore 64. I got my first console (NES) in 1991. My parents didnt have a ton of cash when I was growing up so I got my systems late.

 

[butman]

7 years old. 1988. Atari 800XE

 

[DJ_Lae]

4, via a Mac Plus. Crystal Quest and Dark Castle, mostly.

My daughter was the same age when she started too, although she benefits from me having a shit-ton of games at her disposal.

 

[Rhaknar]

I moved here when I was 6 and im pretty sure I had some sort of gaming sytem from the get go so...6? maybe 7 I dunno

 

[hetchi]

I don't really remember but maybe 3-5 years of age. Definitely before kindergarten on NES.

 

[TheBeast]

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.

Pretty sure that was the same for me too, must have been around 1980. I got mine for Christmas, and my parents had me do a find and seek clue trail around the house that ended up under the TV with a 2600 and controller waiting for me .

I might have had a couple of game & watch single screens around 79, but I was only 4 and can't remember too well. I definitely had dual screen game & watches later, but the 2600 was my first solid memory of gaming.

 

[Raptomex]

My parents got me tge Super Nintendo when I was 2. So then.

 

[petethepanda]

My dad and I started playing through Lucasarts adventure games when I was... maybe 4 or 5? (90/91)

 

[schaft0620]

I don't know what the hell my dad was thinking but I couldn't have been any older than 3 when my parents got me an NES. It's my oldest memory.

 

[noomi]

Oh man, probably some point in the late 80's. I must have been around 4 years old....

My dad bought a us Nintendo and the only games I had was the super mario bros/duckhunt combo. After a while I started renting games from a pharmacy (yep... they used to do that).

So I would venture to say around 89-ish? I was very young at the time.

 

[groshkar]

Dropping quarters into Space Invaders cabinets at age 5.

 

[PooBone]

Probably 1, year old? (born in 85) As soon as I could pick up a joystick I remember playing Atari, and I remember the day my family got an NES and the first day after my babysitter got an NES with Super Mario Bros. I had already had my fill of it and was telling all the other kids about this awesome game called Contra.

 

[mcz117chief]

At the age of 2 I played Space Hulk, Prince of Persia and then later LOOM and Dune 2 (born in 1990).

 

[Pif]

About 11.

Didn't care much for videogames at all until I wanted to drive some cars in Gran Turismo.

 

[JSevere]

came out the womb with a Game Boy

 

[The 8-Bit Raider]

I would say about 4 in the early 80's. My grandfather owned a bar in Miami that had a Ms. Pacman and a video strip poker arcade cabinet. He used to give me quarters to play both.

 

[ore300]

Saw a friend's brother's Atari earlier, but didn't start playing until NES and Mario when I was 5.

 

[Hellshingu]

My earliest gaming memories were playing Super Mario Bros. on NES when I was around 4/5.

Other moments that really stuck out to me as getting into games pretty regularly was sonic the hedgehog 2 and doom. I had to sneak into my uncle's room to play doom as the stepmother was having none of that.

 

[shandy706]

Based on games I remember playing, I was around 6 or 7.

From personal experience, you don't really play video games when you are younger than 6. You may watch them or mash some buttons but kids at that age don't have enough dexterity or logic skills to play.

And at 2 or 3 you are still struggling to pull up your underwear let alone pull off some Street Fighter combos.

My 3 year old (daughter) has beaten every world but the last in Mario 3D World and she can navigate Tropical Freeze just fine too. I think you underestimate a child's ability. She also builds and moves fine in Minecraft.

My 8 year old daughter can play nearly anything you throw at her. She loves fighting games and has started getting into Rocket League now.

 

[baddvision]

i was 5 it was on the nes, at 6 got my first console a 2600 from a yard sale

 

[Troubled Bat]

3 years old with the SNES.

 

[wyvern_bloodfist]

around 6 months; I'm highly intelligent. My first game was Q-Bert; i still love that game

 

[Kouriozan]

My parents have a photo of me playing Super Mario Bros on NES at 2 or 3 years old.

 

[Tempy]

Ultra Pong Doubles decades ago.

Rented a gazillion Atari 2600 games.

Rented a gazillion NES games.

PC gaming on an old XT.

 

[OnkelC]

8 years old, got an Atari VCS for Christmas 1979.

 

[Breaker]

I think around 3 or 4 years, one of my first gaming memories is playing super mario world which my older brother got for christmas.

 

[Kamek]

NES at 2 my grandpa bought for me. He passed away this year, but if it weren't for him I wouldn't have such love for Nintendo. Thanks for everything.

 

[whiterabbit]

I think I was 5 or 6 when I got a Sega Genesis and a Turbo Express, but I'm not really sure.

 

[Burning Justice]

Around 2 or 3, I think. I played mostly computer games back then, didn't get a console until I was 8.

 

[inm8num2]

5 or 6. Probably got exposure at age 4. I remember watching my brothers play NES and eventually getting a chance myself. Also played some games on the PC with them.

 

[SneakyStephan]

I think I was 3 or 4? Playing after burner on sega 8 bit , in 1987 or 1988, that's my first memory of playing a game

Later I got a sega 16 bit for my birthday and played sonic the hedgehog and some other games on it.

I really wasn't very interested in games as a child ,until I played battletoads in coop at my neighbours' house, the coop interaction was very appealing to me.

I think if I never played that I would have never given much of a shit about videogames.

 

[The Lamonster]

~1990 so I was 6.

 

[spekkeh]

Neogaf, really the nexus of game nerds ha.

It's pretty much my earliest memory, I'm guessing around three years old like many others here. 1985. My parents bought a C64 for my brothers and me because they thought computers were going to be big and it was best to get us accustomed to it as soon as possible. Smart folks my parents.

 

[RoslindaleOne]

I've seen a picture of me when I was 2 playing Atari 2600, but I didn't remember it. I do remember when I was 4 playing it with my father and sisters.

 

[Shadowheart]

I saw the Atari 2600 commercials on TV and I didn't understand what was going on. Some kids held a stick and they were laughing, then weird clips will show, then the kids again then the name "2600 from A Ta Ri".
Years later, my father was using a weird machined called the MSX. He bought some games for it and showed me how to work it. I was less than 9 years old.

You could imagine how my mind blew up when I went to buy an MSX cartridge (had played the Atari since then) and the guy at the store basically said "fuck the MSX, get a load of this!" and he showed me a NES...

 

[Ricky_R]

5 with the NES.

 

[Portugeezer]

About 2 - 3 years old, I remember playing Super Mario World.

 

[spookyfish]

I remember my family getting the Sears version of Pong, probably when I was 6 or 7. For Christmas when I was 8 we got the Atari 2600. And it was all over then.

 

[Shmuppers]

First exposed to games at 8, didn't really get into it until I turned 14.

 

[cebri.one]

4-6 NES or GB. Cant remember.

 

[Blak_Status]

NES at Christmas 1985. I was 4.

 

[BadWolf]

Around 5 I think.

 

[iMAGINATION]

5 ish I got a ps2 for my kindergarten graduation.

 

[Ryde3]

I was about 4-5, with a SNES. I'm 25.

 

[JeffG]

My dad got a pong like machine when I was ~10. My first full on computer was an Atari 400 with a tape drive. I was around 16.

 

[BlondeTuna]

Five years old. Nintendo. Super Mario Bros. Since I'm still gaming 27 years later, it had a huge impact on my life.

 

[muteki]

4 when my older sister moved out and I got her 2600.