The age you started gaming

[Midgar Mist]

This much I know. I was 10 and it was 1994. Ayen was 5 and it was........1994........

How old were you guys when you picked up your very first system and said to yourself: Let's Game!

[Fynn]

I was either 4 or 5. Can't remember if my game boy pocket or Amiga came first

[Vasher]

About 3. Intellivision's "Astro Smash" and "Frogger", Pong arcade, Space Thunderbird table top. Crack kills.

[Pike]

Can't remember. It was far too long ago. 2 1/2? 3? It would've been around 1987 though. It was a computer called the Commodore 64 and I have no idea what my first game was - I was playing games before I can remember - but it probably would've been something like Pac-Man or Donkey Kong.

There was never really a moment where I decisively started gaming, games have just always been a part of my life.

[FFNut]

Can't remember exactly but I remember my Oma giving us a NES for Christmas. (Ya I'm that old) and I've been hooked ever since!

[Rez09]

I was 5, and started with a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis. :)

[Laddy]

I was 4 and it was a PC

[escobert]

4 or 5. My dad had a NES with Tecmo Bowl, Ikari Warriors, Simon's Quest, TLoZ, Platoon and a karate game.

[Del Murder]

Probably 6-7 and on NES.

[theundeadhero]

The very first time I played a game was at the age of three or four with either the old pong system or Frogger on atari. I started gaming at five when my dad brought home an NES.

[Midgar Mist]

Wow.....you sure know how to make a gal feel old for being 10 when she started :whoa:

[Fynn]

It's quite the opposite, really. You're the "younger" gamer :p

[theundeadhero]

No quotations needed here, you are just a little younger than me :p

[Psychotic]

I think 6, the beauty that was the Amiga 1200.

[Vermachtnis]

I was four. It was the Nes and I played Mega Man 4 and R.C. Pro AM.

[Bubba]

I was probably about 5 and it was a Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128K!

Funnily enough, MissH just bought me one for Christmas and it's in really good condition. I used to spend hours playing Chuckie Egg, Horace Goes Skiing, Airwolf, Matchday II, Dizzy, Frogger, Daley Thompson's Decathlon, Jet Set Willy... the list was endless!

[Zeldy]

Quite young as I was my older brothers player 2. First console I played was the mega drive and black and white Gameboy pocket. So I'd say around 6 :)

[Midgar Mist]

It's quite the opposite, really. You're the "younger" gamer :p

Good point. I'm so young.....so.....adorably inexperienced.

I think I shall be not much more than an RPG specialist. a few action adventure games but...thats it.

[Pumpkin]

I was about 4

[Rocket Edge]

Was 6 or 7. Super Mario Brothers 3 on the NES. Couldn't get pass the first jump for 3 hours.

[Rostum]

Around 4 or 5 on the NES.

[Quindiana Jones]

I can't remember how old I was, other than early secondary school, but we had someone renting a room in our house, and he let me borrow his PS1. It had a helicopter game (Apache Assault? Something like that) and chess on it, and I played it tonnes. When he moved away, he let me keep it, saying I'd get more use out of it than he.

I can't remember what happened between then and buying FFIX. But that's the next stage of my gaming life. My friend and I were in Insane Games on the Avenue, and I liked the look of this game. My friend told me Final Fantasy games are crap, but I bought it anyway. Platinum, no booklet. Ended up accidentally stealing the booklet a few years later, and I still have that very same copy. :]

[Ayen]

I was either three or four. I gave conflicting reports because my memory is a bit fuzzy. The first thing I remember is being four, having a dream about my family, and then getting out of the bed I had in the living room at the time and looking out the window. Yet, I also remember playing the second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle games with my brother, but I was still sleeping in a crib at the time. Because it was a two bedroom duplex and I didn't have anywhere else to sleep until we had money for a futon. So either or.

Anyway, it was the NES. My brother had Super Mario Brothers/Duck Hunt, Karate Champ, JAWS, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Uncanny X-Men, the first two Ninja Turtles games, one of the three Ninja Gaiden games, Paper Boy, and Super Mario Brothers 2, and I loved them. He had the first two Zelda games as well, but wouldn't let me play them. The jerk.

[Zanmato]

I think I was 10 when I've played Super Mario Bros. on Pegasus (a clone of Famicom).
That was a wonderful time! :dance:

[maybee]

About 2- 3 years old if you count slamming the keys on my Uncle's Atari and watching my older siblings play.

[DMKA]

Age 3 or 4, on the Atari 2600.