What age did you start playing video games?

daemonios · November 2015

5-9

Circa 1986 - ZX Spectrum 128k +2
Circa 1990 - Commodore Amiga 500+
Circa 1994 - 486 DX-33 PC

Been playing on PC ever since, with very short forays into console land.

When I started games took 10 minutes to load, you didn't have save games, graphics were blurry. Since then, so much has changed! Nowadays ESO takes 10 minutes to load, you can't save progress in Maelstrom Arena, you need to turn graphics to low to squeeze some more fps... Oh, wait

(just kidding. for the most part)

ZakuBeta · November 2015

5-9

My first video game was pong, or was it asteroids, I can't remember....been a while.

dday3six · November 2015

0-4

Brick on PC.

PhaeroX · November 2015

14-17

Wrote my own games on ZX Spectrum and Commodore 128.

ankhor8 · November 2015

5-9

Nintendo mario brothers slash duck hunt.

Dekkameron · November 2015

0-4

er.. about 3-4 we had one of those Binatone pong games.

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Conquers · November 2015

5-9

Dekkameron wrote: »

er.. about 3-4 we had one of those Binatone pong games.

Is it just me or does that look like a major fire hazard Lol

deadlock007 · November 2015

0-4

I can remember playing video games for as long as I have memories, lol. I know I played many Atari games, but the game that sticks out to me as the first one I REALLY got into was Dragon Warrior on Nintendo.

Jura23 · November 2015

5-9

I think I started on WIndows 95, so I was probably about 7yo.

kendellking_chaosb14_ESO · November 2015

5-9

The Elder Scrolls Arena was my first game at six I have been an Argonian Archer for 16 years.

dsalter · November 2015

0-4

NateAssassin wrote: »

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.

i was playing most of the sonic games and toe jam and earl at this age, GTA was at the age of 5-6

Grunim · November 2015

10-13

SirAndy wrote: »

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.

Yep, same for me. First one was Pong and that came out in the mid '70s or so.

Daveheart · November 2015

0-4

I started with Donkey Kong on the ColecoVision console. However, I've probably got more solid memories from The Legend of Zelda on my Nintendo.

Uriel_Nocturne · November 2015

5-9

Five years young.

Atari 2600, FTW!!

CJohnson81 · November 2015

0-4

RSram wrote: »

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!

[snip]! Three in a row!

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SHADOW2KK · November 2015

5-9

Cannot remember what game I first started on, but I do know it was on the Amstrad 6128, tape games to begin with then the awe inspiring floppy disc drive of the Amiga 500, and then went through varying incarnations of the Amiga, with some consoles inbetween.

Then finally PC.

Fun times

Targir · November 2015

5-9

I started in summer 1986. Nintendo. My first game was F1 Car race > Super Mario Bros > Ducks Hunt.

hrothbern · November 2015

18-21

Back in 1974, I was 19, when I played Star Trek, shooting Klingons to outher space, on Unix on the university.

Played Dungeons & Dragons as well, but as a kind of board game

Potenza · November 2015

28-35

They didn't come out till then.

Targir · November 2015

5-9

Yeah, Dragons & Warriors was a my first role playing game. Then Final Fantasy.

DannyLV702 · November 2015

10-13

Technically I started at the 5-9 mark, but didn't own my own ps1 until the age of 10 during Christmas.

DenMoria · November 2015

10-13

With Pong in 1976 (or maybe '77, but I think '76) on a tiny little B&W TV in our living room.

Nestor · November 2015

5-9

I started back in the days that Pong was new and exciting. I think I might have been older than 9, maybe 10.

Tholian1 · November 2015

5-9

DUTCH_REAPER wrote: »

Leisure suit Larry on my dads Commodore 64

I remember that game. Master of Magic was my favorite C64 game.

NadiusMaximus · November 2015

One of the first Atari 2600s in town.
Paxman, donkey Kong, original Mario, pole position, and of course E. T. !!!! I still have it.

JD2013 · November 2015

5-9

My Nan had a Commodore 64 bought when I was about 4. Had no idea what I was doing. When I was 5, I got a NES with Mario Bros/Duck Hunt. I had most consoles from that generation and up, played Elder Scrolls Arena when that came. I can't really remember not having video games ever.

ThisOnePosts · November 2015

0-4

hah, I was featured in Nintendo Power for being the only person to complete Super Mario Bros. 2 (at the time) who had submitted proof. I was just a lil kid, I also had received another mention for having the best total score for those who completed it. They sent me a bunch of cool stuff.

Now, I played video games before that but wow was that one fun and a very unique Super Mario Bros game. Unlike the majority of Mario-related games, the final boss wasn't Bowser but instead "Wart".

UrQuan · November 2015

5-9

ViciousWayz wrote: »

hah, I was featured in Nintendo Power for being the only person to complete Super Mario Bros. 2 (at the time) who had submitted proof. I was just a lil kid, I also had received another mention for having the best total score for those who completed it.

Please tell me you did it while using one of these:

starlizard70ub17_ESO · November 2015

22-27

In 1978 at 17 years old. The games where space invaders, asteroids, and death race on stand up consoles. For computers it was 1985 on Commedor 64 and the games where SimCity, Sid Mier's Pirates and Ultima (the first one). So it's been a little more them 35 years.

And for what my opinion is worth, the good old days of gaming weren't the golden age, we're in the golden age now.

kalimar44 · November 2015

PONG then atari