how old were you gamers when you first started playing games?

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#1 Xbox360Gamer15
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i was 10

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#2 AceTheBat-Hound
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i was 10

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I was three years younger than you when I started playing video games.

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#3 Xbox360Gamer15
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[QUOTE="AceTheBat-Hound"]

[QUOTE="Xbox360Gamer15"]

i was 10

I was three years younger than you when I started playing video games.

cool....my parents are just too annoying so they didnt let me play games till i was 10
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#4 AceTheBat-Hound
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[QUOTE="Xbox360Gamer15"][QUOTE="AceTheBat-Hound"]

[QUOTE="Xbox360Gamer15"]

i was 10

I was three years younger than you when I started playing video games.

cool....my parents are just too annoying so they didnt let me play games till i was 10

Well let me just say that my whole life is pretty much based off of luck. The reason why I played video games at a early age is because I was adopted, and well my foster parents wanted to spoil me seeing as I was the baby of the family.
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#5 k2theswiss
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to young to rememeber count? i'm 20 now and i was playing when the sage was the thing... and playing little nintendo. my first (Own) console was the n64

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#6 AceTheBat-Hound
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to young to rememeber count? i'm 20 now and i was playing when the sage was the thing... and playing little nintendo. my first (Own) console was the n64

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My brother actually did have the very well rare version of the SNESS(NES). You should all know what I am talking about the red one, only available in japan at the time. But like a dummy he sold it for drugs.
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#7 AtheistPreacher
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Too young to remember how old I was. Maybe 5? It was back in the pre-NES days when Atari was the best thing around.

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#8 Kezman118
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I think I was about 5 yrs old, and I'm 19 now. 1st console I had ever played was Super Famicom (SNES in the US) with my sisters Street Fighter II. 1st console that was truly my own was the PS1.

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#9 perfectblackout
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I was *about* 7 or 8. We had a box Nintendo (original nintendo) but I didn't really get it. My brother was so young that he sucked on the end of the duckhunt gun and wrecked it. He must've been 3 or 4 LOL ahh memories. Like someone else in here, the first system I saved up and bought for myself was PlayStation. I bought it so I could play FFVII. The graphics blew my 12 year old mind. It was sweet! ... I look back now and Cloud's graphics hurt my eyes. So blocky and awkward!!
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#10 StarFire571
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4 years old :D

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#11 me_rock
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I was 4. Started on the Genesis with Sonic 2 and Earthworm Jim, still can't beat either, well I can beat EWJ with cheats, but that's not fun :P

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#12 ZzZEVOLUTIONZzZ
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I started playing the second i could pick up a controller thanks to my gamer dad.

Started playing back in 1986 with the nintendo NES

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#13 a55a55inx
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I was 3 or 4... The nintendo was just released, and I played "Mario bros" and "Duck Hunt" as my first games.

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#14 Phoenix534
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2. I played my dad's Dreamcast and Doom on my granddad's computer until I got my own PlayStation when I was about 3.

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#15 craigalan23
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I was around four or five it was just far too long ago to remember exactly.

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#16 curlydezza85
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I made a thread hours ago basically asking the same question, did you copy my thread? lol.

I'll answer anyway. I started gaming at 5. I started with the NES and been gaming ever since :)

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#17 mitu123
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5 years old man.

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#18 themagicbum9720
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3 or 4.
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#19 orb_03_2006
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I was around 9 or 10. SNES, baby!!!
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#20 Paramore289
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I think I was about 5 years old. Played the Snes and then got a PS1 (which I still have) for myself and was never off of it!
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#21 Shoot2kill1989
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I I saved up and bought for myself was PlayStation. I bought it so I could play FFVII. The graphics blew my 12 year old mind.perfectblackout
Playing FFVII is my first real memory of playing video games on the Playstation which would of made me 8 at the time
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#22 amareen18
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5 years old , i had a weird console i called atari till now i can't remember what it was! lol
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#23 shaunchgo
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WOW, I'm currently 31. I've been gaming since the ol' "Tiger handheld" days. Some of you kids wouldn't remember the tiger hand-held games lol.. My first console was the Nintendo or Sega Genesis. whichever was first..
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#24 Budtin
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I was 33 years old when I started. Been playing for about 25 years. :D

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#25 owza48
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I was about 7 or 8 and it was on our old Acorn computer playing fun games like frogger or paperboy.
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#26 Xbox360Gamer15
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2. I played my dad's Dreamcast and Doom on my granddad's computer until I got my own PlayStation when I was about 3.

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yikes thats young
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#27 Phoenix534
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WOW, I'm currently 31. I've been gaming since the ol' "Tiger handheld" days. Some of you kids wouldn't remember the tiger hand-held games lol.. My first console was the Nintendo or Sega Genesis. whichever was first.. shaunchgo

My cousin still has a few of those. I used to love the Robocop one he has.

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#28 Money
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I was 12 years old when I started playing video games. My first console was an Atari VCS 2600 (well it was for the whole family).

I am 40 years now, and I still love video games.

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#29 Xbox360Gamer15
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[QUOTE="Money"]

I was 12 years old when I started playing video games. My first console was an Atari VCS 2600 (well it was for the whole family).

I am 40 years now, and I still love video games.

will you ever grow out of video games??? i probly wont till im 60
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#30 shawn7324
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Started at age 4 or 5, 26 years old now & never will be too old for gaming.

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Started at age 4 or 5, 26 years old now & never will be too old for gaming.

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#32 chex81
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5, in 1986

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#33 Xbox360Gamer15
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5, in 1986

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yikes thats young to play video games
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#34 chex81
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[QUOTE="chex81"]

5, in 1986

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yikes thats young to play video games

LOL, i didn't own any systems...but my friends had an NES. SMB wasnt difficult to play for a 5 yr old.

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#35 Xbox360Gamer15
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[QUOTE="chex81"]

[QUOTE="Xbox360Gamer15"][QUOTE="chex81"]

5, in 1986

yikes thats young to play video games

LOL, i didn't own any systems...but my friends had an NES. SMB wasnt difficult to play for a 5 yr old.

oh....when did you first own a system?
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#36 kipohippo021
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9, i had a surgery coming up and i couldnt move for 2 weeks. So they got me a ps2 and some games.
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#37 uberpunage101
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[QUOTE="AceTheBat-Hound"]

[QUOTE="Xbox360Gamer15"]

i was 10

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I was three years younger than you when I started playing video games.

cool....my parents are just too annoying so they didnt let me play games till i was 10

Yea, my parents were annoying too so I couldn't play until I was 10, but I still was able to play Goldeneye on my friends gamecube.

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#38 Xbox360Gamer15
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[QUOTE="uberpunage101"]

[QUOTE="Xbox360Gamer15"][QUOTE="AceTheBat-Hound"] I was three years younger than you when I started playing video games.

cool....my parents are just too annoying so they didnt let me play games till i was 10

Yea, my parents were annoying too so I couldn't play until I was 10, but I still was able to play Goldeneye on my friends gamecube.

cool....and my annoying parents wouldnt let me get xbox live untill i was 15
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#39 kfjl
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I think I was four when I played my first game but only played games off and on for a while after that, wasn't until about age 12 or so when it really started to sink in for me
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#40 chex81
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[QUOTE="chex81"]

[QUOTE="Xbox360Gamer15"] yikes thats young to play video gamesXbox360Gamer15

LOL, i didn't own any systems...but my friends had an NES. SMB wasnt difficult to play for a 5 yr old.

oh....when did you first own a system?

7 yrs old i believe, which was an NES

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#41 Xbox360Gamer15
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[QUOTE="chex81"]

[QUOTE="Xbox360Gamer15"][QUOTE="chex81"]

LOL, i didn't own any systems...but my friends had an NES. SMB wasnt difficult to play for a 5 yr old.

oh....when did you first own a system?

7 yrs old i believe, which was an NES

cool
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#42 CTR360
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i was 22
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#43 KlepticGrooves
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I started gaming around the time of Quake III and UT99, so I was probably around 7yrs old.

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#44 manocanada
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i stared when i was five maybe younger lol now im 18. my first systems where the Nintendo and Sega Genesis that's when the mario and sonic games where actually good.

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#45 deactivated-59b71619573a1
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I was 7 I think. can't remember my first game. But my parents always let me play as long as I wanted and whatever age rated game I wanted

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#46 anymanrulezz
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Was 4 years old when I started playing Pokemon Blue.

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#47 Xbox360Gamer15
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Was 4 years old when I started playing Pokemon Blue.

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#48 MasterBolt360
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5 years of age.

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#49 BLAS1AN
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I was 10 when i played the worst game in video game history (E.T. atari)

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#50 cprmauldin
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I actually only gamed casually until about 6-7 years ago, at which point I jumped headfirst into the hardcore gaming world and have been addicted ever since.

My situation leaves me with a ton of good retro games that I have played/ want to play. So I'll never get bored with gaming :)