how old were you when you started playing video games??

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#1 Xeros606
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i started at 5 with pokemon games. i never really got into gaming until i was 12 when i got an xbox. i know a guy that started playing when he was 1. >_>
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#2 summer_star17x
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when i was about 4 or 5. the original NES.
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#3 Thiago26792
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3, with the SNES.
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#4 kitty  Moderator
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I started when i was about 5 or 6, with my first game being Sonic on the Sega Genesis.
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#5 ebbderelict
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I don't know for sure. I was about 5 (give or take a year). It was on the Intellivision.
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#6 WSGRandomPerson
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Around 5, i started playing GEN.
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#7 GSU28
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I was around five years old when I first started playing Alex the Kid on the Sega Genesis.

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#8 zoradude
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18 months old, SMB3 was my first game. No lie.
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#9 bdhoff
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I was 6 or 7 with the Atari 2600. I got my own when I was 9.
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#10 twopic58
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4 or sumthing. System called the Pegasus in Poland.
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#11 CJL182
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18 months old, SMB3 was my first game. No lie.zoradude

Damn, and I thought I started young at 2 years old with my Game Boy and Genesis lol. You're the only person I've ever seen that started playing at a younger age than me lol.

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#12 GabuEx
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Five years old. Way back in 1990, my parents first got me a NES with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt, and I was hooked ever since.
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#13 cjgangsta
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I think 4.
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#14 Ballroompirate
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9 or 10
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#15 foxhound_fox
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4 in 1990 on the NES with Duck Hunt and 6 in 1992 on a DOS PC with Gorillas and Nibbles.
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#16 MarcusAntonius
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Goodness, this is going so far back now that I think on it. I remember playing Pac-Man on my Atari 2600. Damn, five. :shock:
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#17 dayaccus007
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I think I was 8 when I start playing games on some Nintendo or Atari(don't know for sure, long time from then)
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#18 yowvapa2
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I was about seven when I started playing video games. The first video game console I played was the Atari VCS (now known as the 2600) in 1982.

It is nice to see old-time gamers mentioning the Atari 2600 and the Intellivision as the 1980s was the decade I fondly remember in terms of video games.

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#19 --Quadkillz--
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i think at like.. hmm.. 5 ? I was playing doom 2 pretty quickly, it scared me to hell. The playstation version especially.. it's more gritty / scarier music.. unlike pc's Midi files. Even babies crying in the background, that game still gives me the chills.
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#20 chazer127
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I think I was 2, My dad played the original sonic game and I watched him play it, He then let me have a go...After-that I would not let him play on it again, And he says I was the reason he doesn't play games anymore
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#21 00Raziel00
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About 3 or something.
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#22 Ash2X
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I have been around 7 I think.I started playing at my friends with the C64,NES,Amiga 500 and stuff like that and my parents had been against it.I got my first own console with 11,the week the SNES came out :D Well that started it.Fpllowed by Genesis/Mega Drive,Mega CD/Sega CD,Saturn,PS1,DC,XBox,PS2 and XBox360...now I´m 26 and playing since 19 years...oh man,I´m getting old...

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#23 Bonus-Stage
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Age 6, I got a Nintendo 64 with Ocarina of Time.
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#24 danny_dm_moore
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about 7 i think, ghost busters on the zx spectrum! lol
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#25 DivineSword  Moderator
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Wow this thread brings back so much memory for me, but I remember playing The Legend of Zelda when I was only 3 years old. I had a great time even though I didn't have a clue what I was doing at the time.
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#26 deactivated-5967f36c08c33
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I started gaming when I was five years old,with the Game Boy.
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#27 StewieZim101
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At 6 years old with either the original Game Boy model or the Sega Genesis (my dad gave them to me) but I REALLY didn't start gaming until about 7 when I got a Ps2 for XMAS.

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#28 leilamayhem
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4 I think. Atari, moved on to NES shortly afterwards
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#29 scottyskater77
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4 or 5

Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt on NES

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#30 shogunjj
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4 on the nes/snes

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#31 ufopuller
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My folks say be4 I could walk

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#32 -starman-
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i think i was about 5 or 6 years old when my dad brought home an old IBM computer from a garage sale. it had about 30 games with it, all on Floppy Disc. I remember playing Jumpman on it... and it also had King's Quest games (i think that's what they were called, the ones made by Sierra.)

I'll always remember the day I found the two Leisure Suit Larry Games in there...