How long have you been playing videogames???

Hello you PC freaks, I´m 33 years old, and i´m playing since I was 10, so I´m 23 years on the road. I´ve started using a ancient tele-game, then my folks bought an atari 2600. My first computer was a TK3000, and I had to load games using a cassete tape. My first PC was a 18 MHz turbo, with a 20 Mb HD, using 5" floppy disks.

And you? 

Hiya all,

Im 18 years old, and im playing for 10 years, my first game was... hmm i dont rember :P But i think WarCraft I and first computer was 486 cpu, 8mb ram and 800mb HDD. Beautiful past...^^ 

Pac Man, Ping Pong, Space Invaders they were what you might call Video Games, so yes they i played until the hand held games came out and then Atari/Console and then PC games. So yeah for 28yrs ive been associated wifff games.

So my question is what is a Video Game? 

So my question is what is a Video Game? wurn

i'm 28, i'll be 29 in november (not anywhere close yet...). i've been playing all my life it seems. with my older cousins on their atari system back in the very early 80's (1981 iirc), then to my own coleco, and later onto playing games on commodore, to IBM clones, the 8-bit NES, and so forth.

first console was the coleco vision, played me some pong, great sports titles, haunted house, and so forth. 

my first 'rig' had two 5"1/4 drives, no hard drive, 32 mb RAM, MS-DOS 3 and i used to play a lot of zaxxon, lode runner type games.

I do not think that I'm going to stop playing anytime soon, but it IS an expensive hobby that I could do without financially. 

Apple IIc was my first comp

My first game was Conan a sidescrolling game 

[QUOTE="wurn"]So my question is what is a Video Game? Shut_Me_Up

38, maybe 40 years?

Pong when new, A pre-Atari console from Sears when I was about 8, maybe 10 years old.

 Heck, I WROTE my first game in 1977 on a TRS-80...

I'm 38 and pretty much since the start. My first ever was an oddessy this was before everything else. And i've had them all atari, coleco, nintendo, vic20, c64, amiga, ect.. I actually had 2500 games on commodore 64 hehehe.

oops just checked. First ever was 1972 and i was just 4yrs old hehehe. This is my first ever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_2

Here's a complet list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console

Since 7 y.o., and now I'm 22. My first PC was a ZX Spectrum-based computer of soviet manufacturing named "Robik". Then got a 386. Learned English thanks to old LucasFilm/Lucasarts and Sierra quests, btw!!!

I'm 38. The first video game I played was a pong game my cousin had while visiting Germany with my parents when I was 8 years old. (it was not even out in Canada yet I believe, I could be wrong on that though.). From then on I played video games on anything my parents could afford to buy me and later I could afford to buy myself. So I guess technically, on and off, I've been playing video games for about 30 years. :)

Actually, before that, i had the hand held "merlin" and "split second" games. Merlin did not have a "screen" so to speak but split second did. So maybe it's 31 years. :D Anyone remember those handheld games?! Careful, you're about to show your age if you admit you do! :P

Actually I have been playing video games since before the 2600. I was thinking about starting a thread for old people like me and their favorite arcade games.  Mine were Asteroids, Defender, Dig Dug and Journey Escape!!  I remember as a kid going with friends to the arcade with $10 in quarters (which was like $40 in today's money!!) and playing games for HOURS!!

Obviously, I pleayed arcame games in the late 70's. When the VIC20 was launched I bought it as my first computer. From there on the C64 quickly followed. I skipped the Amiga and went directly to PC a few years after it was launched.

wow i've started to play when i was 7 - now i'm 16

first played on megason, then newer megason, after that i moved to PS1, and finally which i'll stick till i'll die: PC

I've been playing games since 1990 when my dad brought home this odd little game called SimCity. A coworker of his said that his son had been enjoying it and suggested that I might, too.

As it turned out, my dad ended up enjoying the game as much as I did.

Obviously, I pleayed arcame games in the late 70's. When the VIC20 was launched I bought it as my first computer. From there on the C64 quickly followed. I skipped the Amiga and went directly to PC a few years after it was launched.

belboz

My first computer was an Apple IIe.  I used Apple's up until around 1989 when I got my first PC which was a 386.  I never touched an Apple again and never will.

Im 24 now and I started playing on my NES and Texas Instruments TI-99/4A (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI99/4A) when I was 7 (I still have it with a fair amount of games). I made the trasition to PC when I was 8. My first PC was a 386SX, clocked at 33Mhz, 1 Mb of RAM and an 80 Mb HD (I didnt have a sound card at the time... LOL). Since then, I have always played on a PC. I only played on consoles when going to my friends house...

I'm 38 and pretty much since the start. My first ever was an oddessy this was before everything else. And i've had them all atari, coleco, nintendo, vic20, c64, amiga, ect.. I actually had 2500 games on commodore 64 hehehe.

oops just checked. First ever was 1972 and i was just 4yrs old hehehe. This is my first ever http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odyssey_2

 

Here's a complet list http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game_console

 

Sleepyz

Hey I had an Oddessy too! Got it for christmas when I was a kid. There was a keyboard on it I remember.

Only 9 years, in 1st grade I was 6 years old and now I'm on 10 grade, I'm 15 years old.

My first console was the SNES my uncle give me the SNES for my excellent grades!!! now thanks to him I'm **** up:D

Only 9 years, in 1st grade I was 6 years old and now I'm on 10 grade, I'm 15 years old.

My first console was the SNES my uncle give me the SNES for my excellent grades!!! now thanks to him I'm **** up:D

ganondorf_002

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Only 9 years, in 1st grade I was 6 years old and now I'm on 10 grade, I'm 15 years old.

My first console was the SNES my uncle give me the SNES for my excellent grades!!! now thanks to him I'm **** up:D

PredatorRules

To all you old school guys like me, regardless of what kind of computer you had do you remember the felling you got when you got your first modem?!?!  I got a 1200 Baud Hayes Modem for my Apple IIe and remember getting on my first BBS.  Wow it was just like a feeling or total awe!!  Like I was connected to the whole world in a brand new way!! 

Funny because as I type this now on a message board used by people from all over the world I don't get that feeling at all anymore.  You know because everything is connected these days.  I wonder if little kids today still get a similar feeling or if because they were born into a world were everyone and everything is already connected that it just doesn't mean anything anymore...

Probably not if you are not old enough to remember what "ATDT" means ;)

I'm 29 turn 30 in june. I was playing Atari before I was even in Kindergarten I believe. So yeah its been a long time and I'm not gonna stop :)Doom_Baboon

That is the first console I remember playing plus the ColecoVision and Intellivision.  Next, I moved on to SNES and SEGA mastersystem, played some apple IIe games at the same time as snes, then I got a a 286(or 386, I forget) and civilization I/colonization/wing commander/x-wing and have been a PC gamer ever since.

My biggest regret is that my parents never sprung for an amiga, I was totally envious of my friends with amigas back in the day

To all you old school guys like me, regardless of what kind of computer you had do you remember the felling you got when you got your first modem?!?! I got a 1200 Baud Hayes Modem for my Apple IIe and remember getting on my first BBS. Wow it was just like a feeling or total awe!! Like I was connected to the whole world in a brand new way!!

Funny because as I type this now on a message board used by people from all over the world I don't get that feeling at all anymore. You know because everything is connected these days. I wonder if little kids today still get a similar feeling or if because they were born into a world were everyone and everything is already connected that it just doesn't mean anything anymore...

Probably not if you are not old enough to remember what "ATDT" means ;)

basersx

Dear lord, now i´m feeling my age!!! I remember my first mobile, a motorola PT 900, wights 100 pounds and had 50 minutes of battery autonomy. But speaking about games, BBS´s were a dream on my country (Brasil), and I can´t tell you my emotion of being connected for the first time!! Good times playing duke nukem, maniac mansion and doom on a lan party.

Been playing games for 27 years i am now scared of the sun light. Extra points to who ever can name my avatar and click my sig for some retro gamin