When and on What did you start gaming?

JimFord047 · July 24

IN 1974 the first thing I Started on was a Console that you connected to the Television, it played PONG, Black and white, and all you could do was bounce the Dot from one side to another.

1980 onto a Sinclair ZX80 computer , Still very basic mostly basic Platform Jump games, and for the most part you had to write the code yourself to play the game

onto the ZX81 a year later, next was the Sinclair Spectrum in 1982, once more it was still writing your own software, but this time you could use Colour!!!!!!

then 1985 The Atari 512, you could now buy the games easier on floppy , and there were coloured Graphics!

1986 Started with PC's both Apple and DOS

Stayed that way from then until Now

Current Gaming / Working computers

Apple MacBook Pro

AMD 7950X CPU, MSI MEG X670E Motherboard, 64GB Corsair Dominator Memory, 4 * 2TB M.2 NVME's Gen 4/5 , Asus TUF Gaming OC 7900 XTX, 4 * Seagate 8TB enterprise Hard Drives (Microsoft Storage Spaces RAID 5), Corsair QX 120 Fans, Full EKWB Velocity2 Water blocks, 2 * 360mm Radiators, Lian Li O11D XL Case, Lian Li O11 Distro-Plate. Operating systems Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows 11 Beta, Windows Server 2012 r2 / 2019, SCO UNIX, Linux - Corsair K95 Keyboards Cherry Blue & Cherry Speed Silver Keys, Corsair K100 Optical Keyboard, Corsair Dark Core Pro / Corsair Dark Core Pro SE mice, Corsair Void RGB Elite Wireless Headset Onto a 30" 4k ACER High Refresh Monitor and a 43" LG Monitor (For Blind People lol)

Total Overkill for ESO, but it still Stutters / Crashes has loading Problems on Both, Just like everyone else

Its also used for Software Development (Visual Studio 7 GIT Bash) / Network Diagnostics & Design

50 Years of Gaming, and I am still not good at it lmao

JimFord047 · July 24

In case you wonder what it looks like

Soft Tubing as the Storage & CPU Change Quite often, don't Need to drain the system to do it, just move and change

JimFord047 · July 24

Older Picture , Corsair Vengeance Memory , and Clear Fluid which is now Mystic Fog just for the hell of it

fizl101 · July 24

Started on a pong machine around 1977, moved up through various cassette based machines to floppy machines, to pc and console. Stuck with Playstation and PC since Playstation was released, with various Nintendo devices interspersed to get my Zelda fix. Play ESO 99% on Playstation, and very occasionally on my PC

DoofusMax · July 24

"Trash 80", which didn't yet have the "Model I" designation: it was just "TRS-80" with a whopping 4K of RAM, a Z80 processor, and used a cassette player for software (kids these days complain about loading times... sheesh!).

kargen27 · July 24

long long ago.

carthalis · July 24

Started with a Pong machine my grandparents gave me in the early 80's and snowballed from there and not stopped since moving through Atari, ZX Spectrum, Sega and Nintendo to settling on PC and my Xbox.

SkaraMinoc · July 24

Atari mid 80's

Tandor · July 24

Spectrum in 1983 for text adventures, then Commodore 64 then Amiga for Infocom adventures, and Atari ST. I'd moved on from adventures to CRPGs like Might and Magic, Bard's Tale, and Wizardry etc. Then came the big change to PC and especially in 1997 when I got an internet connection and started playing text MUDs before moving on to MMORPGs starting with Everquest in 1998 (beta). I've upgraded the PCs as needed but both my 1 year old and 13 years old machines (the latter as built but with a 6 years old graphics card) continue to run ESO flawlessly, albeit on different settings and with different loading times etc.

Ragnork · July 24

I can barely remember what I had for breakfast let alone what I was doing in the last century....
I do know that I played way too much Elite prior to owning a pc and then X Before The Frontier when I had a pc.

(grøt med blåbær og bringebær)

Eldartar · July 24

1985 on a Toshiba HX10 MSX 64k,

1989 Amiga A500 Batman pack

1990 Built my first Computer, a 486DX

Jump forward 34 years and now aged 64 to my present comp, a 5800x3d, B550 Tomahawk and EVGA GTX 1080ti FTW3 (GPU still great)

What a Life

vsrs_au · July 24

Commodore 64 in the '80s, running games on a tape drive.

Nharimlur_Finor · July 24

kargen27 wrote: »

long long ago.

1977.

I had the Battlestar Gallactica version.

Nharimlur_Finor · July 24

After wasting a small fortune on 'Dragonslair' at the 'Village Grand Prix' in western Sydney, i bought an Atari 2600 with:
Missile Command
Space Invaders
Q-Bert

Computer Games by Mi-Sex (em-eye 6 with NZ accent)

https://open.spotify.com/track/42IvmlgD6meT9OGVW2Vlqi

I could be wrong, but I think they were early adopters of the Fairlight CMS

XSTRONG · July 24

Playstation 1 was my first console, born 1990.

Dont remember which year i got it but maybe 97-98

Ye_Olde_Crowe · July 24

Pong, 70s

Flameweaver1951 · July 24

1976, Fortran text game called "Colossal Cave", though it's been updated in Jan 2023, as point and click cave exploration game.

DragonRacer · July 24

1990, was 5 years old and watching my Dad play on his old Atari 2600. We started playing together and I have been on some flavor of console ever since.

SeaGtGruff · July 24

My Dad got the family an Atari Pong machine, but either it burned an image into the TV screen of he heard that that could happen, so it had to go.

A few years after that we got an Atari 2600, which I monopolized.

Then I got a Commodore VIC-20, followed a year or two later by an Atari 800XL and Atari 130XE.

Sometime after, a friend sold me his Amiga 1000 because he decided to get an iBM-compatible machine.

And somewhere in there I also got a Nintendo NES.

Eventually I bought a Windows PC and have stuck with Windows ever since.

I do have an Apple MacBook Air, as well as an iPad, but my Windows computers have always been my main gaming machines since retiring my Amiga 1000 some 29 years ago.

I've never had any of the modern gaming consoles. I once tried using a game controller that I bought for my PC, and I couldn't adapt myself to it.

wilykcat · July 24

Back in 2005(was in kindergarten), I first played World of Warcraft on Windows xp.

JimFord047 · July 24

Ragnork wrote: »

I can barely remember what I had for breakfast let alone what I was doing in the last century....
I do know that I played way too much Elite prior to owning a pc and then X Before The Frontier when I had a pc.

(grøt med blåbær og bringebær)

Love the Breakfast!! Been a long time since I had that , back to the 80's also lol

xylena_lazarow · July 24

1987 on a Commodore 64 with some bootleg 5.25" floppy disk games my dad gave me

Blood_again · July 24

1988, Battle City on my friend's NES.

Six years later I bought the ZX Spectrum+ with my pocket money and started making games rather than playing ones.

For the last 20 years I have spent more time programming than playing. But playing is still fun too.

Grizzbeorn · July 24

Pong circa 1975
Pencil & Paper 1st Edition AD&D 1977
Atari 2600 Christmas 1977
Atari 5200 1982
C64 1983

N3CR01 · July 24

JimFord047 wrote: »

IN 1974 the first thing I Started on was a Console that you connected to the Television, it played PONG, Black and white, and all you could do was bounce the Dot from one side to another.

I still have one of those... Binatone I think it's called.

Continued on with a Commodore 64 (also still have it) then moved onto consoles started with the Sega Master System (Alex Kidd built in FTW) then the Sega Megadrive.

I'd say over the years, I've owned probably 75% of the games consoles that exist.

Also, have had a few gaming PC's and laptops also.

TaSheen · July 24

Xerox 286 PC in 1985, DOS 3.1. Upgraded to a 486 in 1987, DOS 3.3 - add hdd to that later, and then the following year started building my own machines from the ground up. Eventually migrated to Windows 3.0 (yes, buggier than ANY anthill).

No use for consoles, and by the time I got into pcs I really wasn't going to mess with separate appliances. About the only thing that's likely to change in the future is moving to linux of some flavor in a few years when Win10 EOLs, and when 0patch stops providing updates for Win10 by sub.

Never played games in malls, bars, etc. Too busy working and being a single mom....

Grizzbeorn · July 24

Oh! I completely forgot I had one of these, too.

1981 Galaxian 2 hand-held. This one was also a Christmas gift, and I actually opened it and played it BEFORE Christmas without my parents finding out.
I wish I still had it.

(I still have my two Atari consoles; 2600 and 5200. I think we sold the Pong console in a garage sale at some point.
I gave my C64 to a friend who also had one. His brother changed his grades at college with it one semester [circa 1988]; got caught though.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnKz6kwqkvw&t=7s&ab_channel=hirudov2d

VouxeTheMinotaur · July 24

first ever gaming device was a handheld, the gameboy advance around maybe 6-7 years of age. i remember having this slate blue one, had this case for it and everything for the device and cartridges. First game i've ever played was Crash Bandicoot: The Huge Adventure. Was glued to that game for awhile, took it everywhere with me, even on family vacations.

I remember my friends dog broke it overnight, lil demon chewed on it til it was scrap. Friends dad felt bad after speaking with my parents about it, and offered to pay for a new gaming device of my choice. That's when i got my first console: the playstation 1, along with another crash bandicoot game, and i believe spyro as well.

From there on, i've only stuck with playstation. 1 to 2, 2 to 3, and so on to now the 5 slim : )

i've also had a nintendo DS, but liked the gameboy better. can't tell you how many times i lost that damn stylus pen lol

old_scopie1945 · July 24

Sega Saturn in about '95 soon followed by the the original PlayStation due to the lack of games on the Saturn.

AzuraFan · July 24

While we did have Pong when I was a kid, I started seriously gaming in arcades. The first home computer I gamed on was my father's Commodore Amiga. My first console was the original 8-bit Nintendo.

I bought my first DOS gaming PC to play Ultima Underworld, which wasn't available for consoles. I stuck with both PCs and consoles for a while, but I eventually stopped gaming on consoles because I wanted to be able to use mods. Also, many of the heavy-duty RPGs weren't available on consoles at the time. Occasionally I've thought of buying a console again, but I haven't done so yet.

I've never had a handheld, and I don't game on my phone. I like big displays, and if I'm not home, I'm not gaming. I'm busy doing something else. When waiting in line or whatever, I'd rather read.

Elsonso · July 24

kargen27 wrote: »

long long ago.

I still have a working one.

I don't recall the first thing I played games on, but the first that I owned myself from my own money was a TRS-80.