What age did you start playing video games?

Conquers

To continue with the immense amount of polls going around the past 24 hours, what age did you start playing your first video game? and then what game was your first? or about the first?

UrQuan

5-9

I started with a simple maze game my dad wrote for the Commodore 64.

Conquers

5-9

around age 5 i started, my older sisters and i played Super Mario World on Snes, as well as me playing all the M rated games of Mortal Kombat, Goldeneye, etc soon after. oh, and pokemon red/blue/yellow. lots and lots of pokemon

NateAssassin

0-4

I started playing GTA1 and the original NFS game at age 3, I am sure most people started gaming before the 90's here though.

Alucardo

10-13

Think I was about 13. Started playing MUDs, and enjoyed them so much started writing them myself. Pretty much how I got into programming. Wouldn't be in the career I am now if not for video games

Danikat

0-4

Technically I was 2, but I'm not sure the first year or so counts because I wasn't really aware that there was any connection between my button mashing and what was happening on the screen.

Either way the first game I remember was Hungry Horace on my parents ZX Spectrum. Those squishy rubber buttons, and gradually coming to the realisation that I could control what happened on the TV (and how amazing this seemed) is one of my earliest clear memories. That and how frustrating it was waiting for the cassette tape to load while praying it didn't crash and have to be restarted, which it usually did.

In spite of that I've been playing computer games in one form or another ever since. I'm 30 now, married to another gamer and fully intending to keep going as long as I can.

CJohnson81

0-4

Atari 5200 when I mostly watched my dad. Then got the Sega Master System in '86. My brother and I played the heck out of Alex Kidd in Shinobi World when that came out.

Oberon45

5-9

Pong

nine9six

0-4

Atari from my "cool uncle". All downhill from there.

vladimilianoub17_ESO1

5-9

at 5 years.Smurfs on Atari

Edit: Oh and Combat.Combat was so *** fun.

SirAndy

Conquers wrote: »

To continue with the immense amount of polls going around the past 24 hours, what age did you start playing your first video game? and then what game was your first? or about the first?

Does pong count? Most of my early years were free of video games because they didn't exist yet.

Luigi_Vampa

5-9

I don't really have clear memories of what I did when I was that young, but what I remember is starting out on Mario Bros.

Gidorick

0-4

First game I remember playing is Advanced Dungeons and Dragons on the Intellivision.

CJohnson81

0-4

vladimilianoub17_ESO1 wrote: »

at 5 years.Smurfs on Atari

Edit: Oh and Combat.Combat was so ******* fun.

My brother and I played Combat at my grandma's house. We loved the planes the most.

Asherons_Call

0-4

I started playing on the Intellivision at around age 4 with a game called utopia. It was a precursor to games like populus on NES and eventually the sim city games.

My real jumping off point on gaming was with the release of the NES at age 6. I've never looked back

Tholian1

5-9

Atari 2600. Space Invaders was my first game.

DUTCH_REAPER

5-9

Leisure suit Larry on my dads Commodore 64

FelixTheCatt

10-13

I wanna say I'm in the 10-13 range when the first atari. was released. We coildnt afford such things but I had friends that had one. Remember the colecovision as well jamming on Ad&d. 1st system i got was the nes with mario and duck hunt.

BabeestorGor

28-35

Didn't start playing them until families and jobs started getting in the way of regular rpg sessions with friends.
First was Civilisation.

kyrowski

5-9

Pong and then Atari 2600

wazzz56

CJohnson81 wrote: »

vladimilianoub17_ESO1 wrote: »

at 5 years.Smurfs on Atari

Edit: Oh and Combat.Combat was so ******* fun.

My brother and I played Combat at my grandma's house. We loved the planes the most.

Combat was my SH$&%!!!!!! loved me some Joust too..who can resist riding a Ostrich and battling it out?

Elder_III

5-9

Oregon Trail and Mathblaster on my Grandpa's Macintosh II he kept for bookwork.

Ffastyl

0-4

I think it was Pokemon Red...
I think.

The memory is from when I was about 2 years old. ...Extremely hazy and lacking details, but the Game Boy (not even color!) sticks out.

vamp_emily

28-35

TESO

A friend asked me to play the game with her, I said no at first, but some how she talked me into buying it.

Now I am a gamer!

I have a love and hate relationship with this game. I enjoy the crafting and now like killing people. But I don't like the changes they make. I learned to play a specific way and now i am having a hard time adjusting to the changes.

Tryxus

5-9

8 years old

It all started with my dad coming home with a Sega Master System 2 and the 8 bit version of Sonic the Hedgehog...

RSram

10-13

If the OP is referring to computer games them I was 12 when I played my first computer game. The year was 1969; I remember the year vividly because that was the summer when the astronauts landed on the moon. There were no consumer computer systems or video games back then. The only computer games that I played were the ones that I written in FORTRAN on the IBM 1130 during a summer school course for computer science students. I wrote games like was Tic-Tac-Toe, and Mastermind. You had to type the program code on punch cards.

Although these were computer games, they weren’t video games, so I guess the first commercial video game I played was Pong in 1972 and at the arcade.

Time sure goes by fast, but I still playing video games and having fun. Just started Fallout 4 and having a blast!

PBpsy

5-9

First game I ever finished was Dune (Cryo) in 94-95 followed soon by Warcraft. My father had a 386 something.

danno8

5-9

Commodore Vic-20.

The game was Gorf.

PrinceBoru

5-9

1979.

688Imaster_ESO

0-4

I was about 2. My first game was Tetris on the Game Boy

Xendyn

10-13

I would have been 11 or 12 when Pong came out, so there you go.