How old were you when you started to play video games

I was probably 1 or 2. I remember quite fondly playing Ikari Warriors with my brother when it originally came out.
 
[quote name='hiccupleftovers']A. They are not gamefaq-esque threads in the wrong forum and B. In the description it says gaming in genaral[/quote]

I'd say this is more of a lifestyle/offtopic, but that's besides the point.

I think I was about 5 when I started, it was on Super Mario Bros. with my uncle. I owned my first console when I was 7, I got an NES and Magic Johnson's Fast Break for Christmas. Shitty game, but I couldn't have been happier.
 
No problem...i hate it when non-moderator's want to try and moderate the site cuz it makes them feel good and important............and cuz they are lonely ppl without lives....lol no offense to anyone other then scsg75 lol
 
about 4 or 5 me and my sis got a NES with duckhunt, mario and the lightgun we played that thing all day and night for like 3 months and we did not want a new game we were happy with those 2 now it seems i "need" a new game ever other day.
 
I was 5 when I started playing the Atari 2600 I received for Christmas.

Defender...you must be a lot older... the first computer game was made in 1961.. Title Spacewar.

But the first quater game was Periscope in 1966 from Sega.
 
I won the first video game I ever played. It was a game similar to tempest where I had to dodge and shoot badguys. It was called swim to the ovaries.

Da dum dum tishhhhh

*cricket* *cricket*

Ok, it was a stretch.

Seriously though, I started in the arcades with Pacman and Joust and then moved to home consoles starting with the Atari 2600
 
Whenever my bro got a nintendo, I think I was like 3 or 4......I'm not saying i played the games WELL ...i'm just saying i PLAYED THEM.
 
[quote name='Indiana']I was 5 when I started playing the Atari 2600 I received for Christmas.

Defender...you must be a lot older... the first computer game was made in 1961.. Title Spacewar.

But the first quater game was Periscope in 1966 from Sega.[/quote]

Let's try to be realistic here. A very small number of people even heard of Spacewar until well over a decade after it first written for the DEC PDP-1 at MIT. If you want to be such a nitpicker you can go back to 1952 when Higgenbothan made a precursor to Pong with an oscilloscope display.

For 99% of the world you can only measure the start of gaming with the advent of the first commercial applications of interactive video displays. I can remember playing Pong and variants on a unit so large that a 17" TV rested on top of it. This was probably around 1974 or 1975. My aunt was pretty well to do and her husband was one of those people who needed to display his success by having the latest gadget. He probably spent less than ten minutes playing with the thing. From then on it was there just to be seen by guests in the house.

For most folks, if they're old enough, the beginning was the Atari VCS 2600. Sure, everybody saw the ads for the Magnavox Oddysey but the total number of those manufactured was very small. Others like the Fairchild F Channel or Bally Astrocade verged on non-existent in most parts of the country. It was the Atari that first put video games in so many homes that it was the first brand name to become synonymous with gaming.
 
I played in arcades in the late 80's and got a gameboy when that came out... I played my very first games however on a commodore 64, including DK, Pitfall, etc.

I was around 3 or 4.
 
The earliest I can remember when I was 5, and I would play games such as Marble Madness, Ms. Pac Man and some other games on my grandpa's Commodore 64 computer. That probably goes all the way back to 1986 or so. My first console was an Intellivision I had got from my grandpa (guess he didn't want it anymore) for my 8th birthday, and then later that year for Christmas me and my brother finally got an NES. I've been gaming for a long time, probably for a good 15-16 years or so. God, now that I think about it, I can't believe I've been playing games THIS long.
 
5 or 6, I reckon. My father didn't allow video games in the house, though. So I rocked our 1337 IBM box. I pwned at Reader Rabbit, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego, and then later at King's Quest IV and that surgery game. I didn't own a system until I bought a gameboy at a garage sale when I was like 10 or 11. And I had to call my dad for permission. heh.
 
i was 3 years old when i got my Nintendo w/ Mario and Zelda. I have fond memories of staying up till 12:30 at night w/ my mom playing Zelda and the giant gatherings my fam would have and we'd all play Mario brothers for hours.
 
Great thread! Shows the age variance of the board. I started when I was 2-3 years old on the old atari system. I dont know the name anymore but the race car game (pole position?) and the castle game where you had to find the keys. So many of those games I remember. My grandma owned it and was addicted to space invaders. From that point it was intellivision Tron rocked, and when it came out the NES. The rest is history although I was in the 15-16 year range and really not into gaming when the N64 and playstation really took off. I skiped that generation only to pick up a PS1 when Metal Gear hit as I remembered it so fondly on the NES.
 
Chrismas 1985, I was 8. My parents got me an Atari 7800, plus about 50 games. I hooked that badboy up and havent stopped since.
 
My first system was a Fairchild. 8 tracks ruled in those days. I found it in the attic at my parents with 4 carts recently. It still works but the crazy controllers are messed up. The addiction started.

That superman game on Atari ruled. My all time favorite on the old systems was Tron on Intellivision though.
 
[quote name='Snake2715']Great thread! Shows the age variance of the board. I started when I was 2-3 years old on the old atari system. I dont know the name anymore but the race car game (pole position?) and the castle game where you had to find the keys. [/quote]

The castle game was adventure.. what I easily consider the best of the Atari games. I remember playing that game daily for months (I was probably 5 or 6). Btw, its included in that Atari joystick that has 10 Atari games built in.. I bought it just to be able to play Adventure again. (Also the first game to have Easter Eggs/hidden areas)
 
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Thats what i remember is teh hidden areas near the botom of some of the castles. It showed the name of the programmer or something...

Thanks for the memories.
 
I remember playing Frog Bog (Intelevision) for the first time when I was two. Almost 19 years later, I'm still at it. Well, maybe not Frog Bog, but you get the point.
 
I must have been 10 or 11 yrs old. It was my first "Atari" system, the Sears Video Arcade II. I remember the set came with Space Invaders bundled in and I played the crap out of it. IIRC I had Pac-Man, a bunch of Activision classics like Pitfall, River Raid, Enduro, Freeway, and Laser Blast. Even Indiana Jones and the infamous E.T. I kept the boxes and everything for the longest time. Ahhhh, the memories. Shit, I wish I had kept that system, except, I think the damn controller buttons got fucked up thanks to a cheap design. That, and I eventually got an NES as a gift from my parents, so we just gave it away to a family friend.
 
2. My brother put the NES controller in my hand and I took it from there. I beat Mario 1 on NES when I was 2. I can't even beat that freakin' game today.
 
My First video game was some sort of handheld racing game. I'm on an endless track and I'm supposed to dodge cars, and weave as traffic sped up. I think I was 5 or 6, and I thought it was the greatest thing around. About a year later, I bought a Game Boy. Well, that's in dispute. I remember saving up a lot of money, but my mom says that she spent a majority of the money on it. I can't remember exactly how much I saved up.

Now, before all of this, I honestly can't remember when I played video games first. Anyways, i wasn't until I actually bought my own video games that I played them on a regular basis.
 
I was 4 when I got a Nintendo for Christmas and my family wouldn't even let me play with it for about three days after Christmas.
 
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