Which year,platform,games you started gaming with?

@kvally: Yeah that's how it was back then. You pretty much went to friends houses to play the systems you didn't have. I never had the 5200 or the Colecovision. I did get Turbo graphix 16 before I went to college was hooked on the game military madness for a while.

I feel sorry for these kids that missed the arcade era.

Commodore 64, late 80s.

I played my first game as a kid on an unknown to me device that had me stick a football field grid onto a TV screen... We're talking 1980 maybe 81. Soon thereafter I started gaming on the Atari 2600 where I had around 40 cartridges... Many given to me by the older kids who "grew out of them" (quitters!)

My fondest memories are playing Yars revenge, jungle hunt, sequest, combat, Pac-Man and pitfall. Great times indeed.

@blue_hazy_basic: poor hazy... Hes been dealing with the BBC since the Carter administration... :/

1982 with both the Atari 2600 and Intellivision.

I was also given a pong machine the same year, but it isn't really a console considering pong was all it could play.

Started on a Sega Master System, playing games like Alex Kidd and Wonder Boy. Can't remember the year... probably early 90s.

It was an awesome era, it was not only the games but also the atmosphere.

Either the Colecovision, 2600, or Apple II.....which ever came first.

Most of the arcades i went to were dark, seedy and sometimes a bit dangerous.

1998 on PC -- some shitty games that I can't remmeber, first game I can remember was Quake 3 the first week when it came it, was '99 I think?

1981, Atari 2600

SeaQuest, Jungle Hunt, Pitfall. Then in '83 I got Mario Bros for it.

1987 on the C64. Fun fact: I did not know about Nintendo until 1997, completely missed the NES and SNES. No internet, different times. So I never played the original Mario games or Zelda games until like ten years ago.

I also missed arcades because they weren't a big deal around where I lived.

Despite missing out on most of the best things gaming had to offer in my youth, I absolutely loved games.

1993 - Sega Genesis

Sonic the Hedgehog and X-Men

1981 on some crazy 5 in 1 pong machine, very young can just remember it

But started gaming proper in 1983 with the Commodore 64.

Always owned computers my whole life and still do, played them during the week,and for my console fix i used to rent them on weekends from the video store

Can't pinpoint the exact year, maybe 1995-6, first game was 'putt-putt goes to the moon' which apparently came out in 1993 but I'm pretty sure I didn't play it then.

I got into gaming more seriously around 2000 with Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 2 and Command & Conquer: Red Alert

1994 with the Snes.

I´m not sure what exact year it was,around 86/87 on the Spectrum,though the first game I remember playing was Ultima IV on the Apple II.

Sweet! Unfortunately haven't played mine since the 90's :(

I think I started in 1991 with the NES. The earliest games I remember are Super Mario Bros. 3 and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2.

around 88 or 89 during the NES area, I was about 4 or 5 years old

Super mario, Super Mario 3, Duck Hunt and Mega Man 2/3/4 were my games at the time

probably around 1990. NES, then SNES when it came out.

NES

1989 SMB/DuckHunt

Born in 72. Atari 2600 combat and asteroids.

This is a tricky one because I'd been exposed to some games that my cousins owned before I ever really had my own game system.

But technically, my first game system was NES and I would have gotten that in 1989 (that was my first year of primary/elementary school).

The first game I had was Super Mario Bros. (which of course had Duck Hunt included on the cart). And what can I say? It was a brilliant first experience as a console owner.

I can confidently credit the NES and Super Mario Bros. for directing me towards moving into software development/product management as a career path. :-)

Yup, joined gamespot ( gamefaqs ) after just getting into gaming :)

my brother had a Atari 5200 from my memory, I only recall playing Star Wars on it

but I'd say that the classic NES is where I really got my start, with games like Super Mario Bros, Duck Hunt, Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Excitebike, Commandos, Contra, Rygar, Castlevania, Ghost & Goblins, Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, Kid Icarus, Bionic Commando, Wrecking Crew, Duck Tales, Goonies II, those I remember having, though I also rented a ton of games I wouldn't know where to begin

my godsisters/godparents I use to spend a lot of time on too had Super Mario 2 & 3, Ice Hockey, and Track & Field, which I played a lot at their place

NES

Ice Climber, Duck Hunt, Super Mario Bros, Gunsmoke

An Atari in the very early 80s. E.T. Was my first game, it's a wonder I'm a gamer considering what I popped my cherry on.

1984 PCJr. King's Quest 1 and Jumpman, plus an assortment of random Basic games.

-Byshop

Started gaming in the mid 80s, but got my first console in 88/89 not exactly sure. It was a Sega master System, and played such classics as Aztec Adventure, Teddy Boy, Ghost House, Black Belt among many others. I still to this day think gaming at it's best was when you could play games on Sega consoles, to me Sega made the best games ever.

ha ha remember the 48k spectrum

yes thats the one, I was 14 at the time and my parents bought me one for xmas good times mate.

First gaming memory I have is of Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt on a 13" screen. Had to have been around '91. First system I ever owned was the Game Gear. Played the mess out of Aren: Maze of Death, Space Harrier, Sonic, and Smash TV. I had other games but those really stick out in my memory. I still frequently romp through the SNES version of Smash till this day lol

So many good gaming memories. Bad thing is though when I was about 13 I traded in all of my Game Gear stuff at a local game store for a Ps1 import DBZ game. What an idiot lol

The Odyssey but that was nearly 10 years old in 1981? so perhaps not.

Mid 70s for me.

NES. Late 80's/early 90's. All the NES classics.

@SecretPolice: my parents already had it before I was born it wasnt new, but im sure it wasnt the oddessy it was some obscure european clone of a pong machine....id love to remember its name,

@naz99:

Ahh cool, The Odyssey was our first VG console, my oldest sister gave it to the family as a Christmas gift when it came out. When Atari launched the 2600 I was there to buy it with my own money....

The rest is history. lol

1995 -5 years of age.

Mega Drive II, quickly onto Saturn, then PS1.

Sometime in the 90s maybe mid and it was the Sega master system. Then I got the Sega mega drive/genesis, SNES, N64 and then the rest was history.

Early 2000s playing the N64.

First game I actually touched was Wolfenstein 3D with my dad in the early 90's

First game I really played was Mario Kart 64. Got a N64 for Christmas I believe and played it with my dad and sister.

It was a NES, early ninties, don't remember the year. I was really young. No more than six, probably.

Super Mario Bros. 3.

The first console I ever owned was a N64 that was bundled with Star Wars: Episode 1 Racer. The first game I ever bought personally was Pokemon Blue. I also bought a GameBoy Pocket to go with it.

My first gaming system ever was the Gamecube, and the game I enjoyed the most on it was Mario Kart, I really did have a lot of fun on it.

1986 - Commodore 64

My first game was some kind of alphabet maze game. I obviously don't remember the title as it was 30 years ago. I was 5.

Somewhere around 1991/92 when I was 3, playing Sonic the Hedgehog on the Sega MegaDrive.

'87 with an old Atari 2600. I was 5 and played Battle, I think it was. Blue and Red tanks barely more sophisticated than pong.

Intelligent Television in 1981.

First games were Las Vegas Poker & Blackjack and Armor Battle.

Late 70's pong and then Atari 2600