What gaming era did you become a gamer?

1982 on the Atari 2600. I remember playing tooth protectors. I also had pong at the same time, but nobody wanted to play it anymore by time I could play.

@PSP107: back then yeah she was about 45-50, surprised you were able to guess that

NES

90's master system then Mega drive.

not that anyone cares but: from the very start of home gaming

Since the Atari days, or really the arcades back then. I didn't own a console in the early 80's, my parents never bought me one so I relied on friends and neighbors to play games on Atari and Colecovision, then the original Nintendo. TurboGrafx16 (yeah, not my proudest purchase, lol) is where my personally owned systems history begins.

PC: MS-DOS 5-6 Inch Floppy Disc games.

Console: NES

Arcades: Self Explanatory

So late 80’s/Early 90’s.

Did you hate everything prior to owning your first Sony console as well?

Atari 2600. Used to play my uncle's when I went to my Grandparents house. Got my own for Xmas in 81 or 82. That is the first time I can remember staying up until midnight. Played Missile Command, Yars Revenge and Super Breakout all night. One of my all time favorite memories.

First gaming experience was in the early 90's playing Duck Hunt & Mario on my brother's NES. Soon after I got a Sega Genesis and started playing games like Batman Forever, Vectorman, Streets of Rage, Sonic, and Street Fighter II. Upgraded to a 32x and played Predator and Cosmic Carnage. Also played tf out of Wario World on my Virtual boy. Was never really a big gamer until the PS1 days and Final Fantasy VII tho

I started with my uncle's old Atari 2600 in 1990. But probably I got really hooked until Christmas '92 with a SNES.

80s for me.

@SolidGame_basic: I occasionally played Atari or Commodore 64 at a friend's house but I really got started in the mid to late 80s with the original NES.

Started on Amiga 2000 in the late 80s. Grandma bought us a NES with SMB/Duck Hunt/Track n Field and the accessories in '88. Defender of the Crown on Amiga 2000 was years ahead of what consoles were doing. Still the type of game I enjoy playing today.

The first game system that I ever played on was the Sega Genesis. My second console I believe was the N64 followed by the PS1 shortly after.

Late 90's when parents bought me a PS1. That era brought wonderful memories. I have no recollection of how or why I became a gamer.

NES but was given an atari 2600 with a lot of games for it so played that while having a NES first game was Mario 1 and Duck Hunt bundle remember being sick from school and playing mario 1 all day

Wii

Since a little game called Combat for the Atari 2600 came out. Basically red vs blue pixels.

started in the 90's with the NES and GBA

One thing I liked with the arcade experience back in the early days was it got me out of the house. I wasn't one to stay home even when I had my own apartment.

The 90s and PS1 is my first real experiences with a console. Had the NES first but absolutely hated it.

Early 90s, SNES.

@jeezers: "and my grandma had a nes with a bunch of games. "

No I meant she's about 45-50 now right?

And you're 20-25?

I played my first video game in 1981. I use to beg my mom for quarters to play arcade games.

Since the NES came out. Gaming has never dominated my life but I’m a huge fan.

NES?

Late 1980's.

Although I vaguely remember my parents having an Atari or something similar, so maybe that.

Bowling and Pong? Duuuuuuuuuuuuuude....nice.

While I played on my dad's Comm 64 it wasn't until the NES that I really became a gamer. I was 7 years old and would play Mario, Snoopy, Ducktales and various others at the local Boys and Girls club. I was 10 years old when I finally got one of my own with Mario/Duckhunt and Ninja Turtles 2.

Good memories.

SNES

What about N64! Nobody had N64?!???!!??!!

What the deuce?!

...So, I had a Nintendo 64. It was already there when I was born.

I started on the NES in the eighties. I wasn't so into the games I had at home but when my friend got Mega Man 2 it was over.

@PSP107: I'm 26 but when I was 6 I'd play nes at my grandma's who was about 45-50 back then. Now she's in her 60s

Late 70s on very early 'consoles' then 8bit computers.

Duuuude, you brought a smile to my face this morning, chuckling... Nice. :D

Surprised to see many saying Sega Master System. I assume most of the people saying SMS are from PAL regions?

The first home console I had was a commodore 64 and I was a game addict since then pretty much.

Late 80s, primarily on DOS and Apple

C64 is technically a home computer, not a console... But then again, the C64 was originally designed as a computer-console hybrid.

my dad had an atari 2600 and we had some early 80s computers which we had some games on but really for me it was the NES

my best friend got one early on when they first came out and it blew me away. begged my parents for like 2 years before we finally got ours :)

@boycie: No.

I loved NES/SNES/N64/GameCube.

I HATE the Wii/WiiU/Switch.

Nintendo has been dead to me since the Wii came out. They make pure trash the last 15 years and I don’t see that changing. They lost me as a fan because they don’t make games I like anymore.

They are too busy porting N64 games with GameCube graphics in HD then adding a gimmick and passing it off as some “new innovative” game....when in reality the gimmick ruins the game.

Super Mario Galazy, Zelda BOTW and Smash are terrible games. The fanboy reviewers who overpraise Nintendo also sicken me.

I have nothing in common with those fanboys. I don’t live in nostalia, drink Starbucks and watch cartoons.

I hate Nintendo because I can objectively say they make bad games.

Late 70s with arcades and early 80s with Intellivision and computer games

I think you mean subjectively.

@jeezers: "45-50 back then. Now she's in her 60s"

So most likely that NES was probably her son/daughter's as I highly doubt a 45-50 old woman would be interested in a NES during the 80's.

Unless she was a gamer during the 70's and carried over when NES came out in 85ish?

Played the top classic snes games at a cousins house and was hooked. My first console was a gameboy color/ n64 combo. It was the best Christmas ever.

Back in the mid-90's. Star Wars Dark Forces, Star Fox 64 got me hooked.

I was aware of gaming during the N64 era as a kid. I remember being really young and trying to turn on my brother's Sega Genesis because I saw him play it. Though I couldn't turn it on so meh. A couple of years later my older brother got a PS2 and he gave my siblings and I the N64. That was my first true gaming experience, and it was in the 2000s.

GEN 2-3-4

80's with a 7800 and then shortly after a NES.