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

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.

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.

Pong

at 5 years.Smurfs on Atari

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

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.

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.

Atari 2600. Space Invaders was my first game.

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.

Pong and then Atari 2600

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

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.

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!

Commodore Vic-20.

The game was Gorf.

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