When Did you start Gaming?

[Kyorisu]

I've been reading quite a few people posts and thought I'd ask when all you guys started playing games. It would give me a better Idea of what you've played.

I guess I started playing games around 1995.

[Letters]

Right after 1990 (I think it was '91) when the Super Nintendo came out...

[Cutey_Kaite]

Wow, talk about nostalgia...

i started in like 1994, playing good ol side scrollers, though i cant recall any of them, one of them had you being toothpaste, and you had to fight the evil gingivitis!

good ol times

[Jackal hit]

started in the 80's with the good ol' NES :D

oh damn, nevermind... i started playing games before that... on the good ol' commodore 64... and i remember there being a commodore version of that plaque and gingivitis game... can't remember the name... have to see if i can find the cartridge or something...

[moz4rt]

I started really getting into games when I played the demo for Half-life. I've been an addict ever since that day.

[Mr.Reak]

Around 1992 or something, we had that thing on the tapes and big ass flopies. I remember there was a game, where you had two schools, girls and boys, and you went to different classes and such, but you could flip off people and punch them too. A lot of fun.

[Pressure]

I started somewhere between 1991 and 1992. Giant ass floppies and slow ass computers.

[CyberSh33p]

Right after 1990 (I think it was '91) when the Super Nintendo came out...
I said '95, but that was before I realized computers aren't the only gaming system :P so I guess it would be after '90 since I played SNES a helluvalot

come to think of it, I think I played ocomputer before 95 also. some f-14 or f-15 or maybe f-16 flight simulator which had like 4 colors total and sucked etc.

and a crazy topdown fighter ship type thing.. was it called traffic? I dunno.

and of course, terminal velocity. that game rocked.

[Asus]

in the 80s

[Shuzer]

Right after 1990 (I think it was '91) when the Super Nintendo came out...

Same here :)

[qckbeam]

Wolfenstein 3d :)

[Cutey_Kaite]

damn, i thought this was only for computers...

well i started actully in like 1993,
playing that wicked ass duck game with the light gun
ahh how i hated that freaking dog XD

[Jackal hit]

TOOTH INVADERS!!! I PLAYED THIS WHEN I WAS LITTLE!
and STAR RANGER! THAT WAS ONE OF MY FAVS!

hmm what else can i find *here* (http://www.lemon64.com/)

international soccer
linking logic
gridrunner

damn ... the "newest" of these games is linking logic from 1984 lol

[crabcakes66]

80s


TROGDOOOOOOOORRRR!!!(10 char limit)

[hasan]

well I started video games since about 1993 with good old MSX (don't know if you've even heard of it :P) but I didn't start playing PC games untill I got a PC :| towards the end of 2001.

so I voted after 2000

[Murray]

I started playing when I was six years old (1991) when my grand parents bought a Nintendo 8-bit. I played Super Mario Bros a helluvalot. :D

Before that there were my cousins who had borrowed a Nintendo from a store once, but I had no idea of what they were doing because I had never seen a videogame before that.

[Dr. Freeman]

i started gaming around 1989.. i remember the good ol NES days and then shortly after got my first PC..lol

i remember '89 well because the Calgary Flames won the Stanley Cup that year and i was in awe seeing all those skilled players :cheese:
i voted for "After 1990" :)

[disruptioN_]

My parents bought me an old school NES when I was...really young. (Don't exactly remember the age.)

[Maxi]

I started gaming in 96, cause that's when I got my first PC, I started out with Jedi Knight, played that on the net with a 28.8k modem, I was actually very good at it. Ahh teh memories...

[RoyaleWithCheese]

It started with Videopac, pick-axe pete was 1 of my favorites
or did I start with Philips P200t donkey Kong? Anyway, early 80's
after that: sinclair zx spectrum, c64 and msx, commodore amiga and after that,

PC!!!

[ComradeBadger]

I started in '98. With Half Life. It is precious to me :)

[leadfish]

1994 at the age of 9 or 10 with Captain Comic on my Dad's 286...monochrome goodness and all! I also had my first (S)NES experiences that year as well.

[Frank]

When I got The Secret of Monkey Island for MAC back in either 1992 or 1993 (can't remember) I was hooked! Then I started buying Lemmings, LeChuck's Revenge etc.

[Gunner]

1988, I was only six years old but I had been watching my older brother play all the time. It's his fault I play games all day now lol :E

Started with the C64 then upgraded to the C128. My first pc was a 486SX 25mhz 4Mb lol!

[burnzie]

ive been gaming for aslong as i can remember, since about 1990, i was 4.

[Idolon]

in the 80s
around ~89
my uncle got me interested
brought me all sorts of games
It was good times :)

[Chris_D]

I started in the late 1980's with the ZX Spectrum, some sort of Amstrad system, the Atari and Sega Master System.

[h00dlum]

1989 when i got my first Gameboy..

[Stormy]

I think one of, if not the first game i played was the origanal Sonic on the megadrive :) pure class

[Axyon]

After 1990 sometime, playing StarFox on my SNES and Wolf 3d on the PC. Classic times.

[burnzie]

monkey island, karatika, wolf 3D, prince of persia plus all the old apogee games (duke 1 + 2, halloween harry, biomenice, monster bash, cosmo's cosmic adventure, comander keen etc...) are all very nostalgic to me

im building an old dos box so i can play them all again

[Dedalus]

started when i was a toddler in the mid-eighties on my cousin's amstrad. first game i really remember having an affect on me was Sensible Soccer. went through dos games in the 90s. never really got into consoles, even when i was a kid they seemed childish/simplistic to me. all my cousins fault :P

yeah burnzie i've been trying to do that recently but i can't seem to find any cheap parts. most of the equipment has been discontinued so people charge half the earth for it :/

[BirdMan]

I was 2 years old when i went through King Quest (the first Rosella one), with my father in 1989. I was able to move the character and write things on the keyboard. My dad told me what to write.

Nobody believes me when i tell em that story... but it's true.

[Kyorisu]

The first game I played was probably Dune 2 the best stategy game of all time.

[CptStern]

pong and years later space invaders

[slicktick]

I started playing in the 90's only because that is when I became interested, I have played so many games from the 80's and such, I had the ataris and nes systems, so I would have to say I started gaming with the 80's era but it was actually like just about 90 when I actually started.

[cadaver]

early 1980`s on a nintendo Game & Watch

[Shippi]

Hmm, well the first game I remember playing is Doom, then Dark Forces. I was in Yr 3/4 when I was playing these, so that was... 1996 - 97? My brother got me addicted to games when I was younger than that though. I used to watch him play all the time, but I could never get the hang of them

[torso boy]

80s.....(or baybe very early 90s...but i think it was 80s)
The original Donkey Kong (arcade cabinet) was my first game.

[scribblehead]

Wolfenstein 3d :)

I second that

[Dr. Freeman]

I was 2 years old when i went through King Quest (the first Rosella one), with my father in 1989. I was able to move the character and write things on the keyboard. My dad told me what to write.

Nobody believes me when i tell em that story... but it's true.

hehe i remember that game :D

a tad off topic: omg ur avatar!!! :thumbs:
being an NHL hockey fan.. that symbol brings back memories.. :dork:
ViVa La Nordiques!! :E

[Stigmata]

Whoops, I chose "After 2000," because that's when my family got our computer, and when I started playing games over-zealously. But I forgot the first time I played Goldeneye. It must have been sometime around '96... Good times :cheers:

[Shakermaker]

I started gaming when I was about five years old. My dad bought this pre-Atari pong machine somewhere around '78, '79. After that I played on my Apple IIc, games like Zaxxon, Twerps, Ali Baba, and of course castle Wolfenstein. Also played a lot on Commodore 64. Impossible Mission I liked a lot, red Baron. After that I went to university and didn't own a pc for a while, but I played a bit of Doom, Lucas Arts adventures like Indiana Jones and the circle thingy, Realms, Pirates. When I got a decent PC again I missed the first FPS-wave completely (no HL, Deus eX, Quake, etc). I mostly played this rts called Earth2150 (...). Then I got MoH:AA and got really addicted to gaming again. Right now I play a lot of BF:V.

[CrazyHarij]

1990-1991, when I was 3-4, I guess since one of my earliest memories are playing games on an AMIGA.. We had an AMIGA in the house and my two older brothers were totally caught up in the amigascene and stuff, I got to play on it, fun games and stuff, my brother helped me paint in it, they made demos with their demogroup Cascade Sweden, they even made a game themselves, it was really professional and cool , sort of like Project X or R-Type.. So many fantastic memories, I guess that's why i have a special place in my heart for the AMIGA and everything that has to do with it.

[Bio]

I started gaming in 1995.

[Frank]

Oh wait no! We got our first Macintosh LC in 1990 or early 1991! I played Crystal Quest, I liked!

[Tinneth]

I started gaming when I was 3 when my dad got me a Sega Megadrive and Sonic the Hedgehog was the first game I ever completed at the age of 3. I also had an atari and a SNES. Also had an amiga which introduced me to games like Monkey Island, Cannon Fodder, Prince of Persia and The Lost Vikings.

[JohnnyBeverage]

Go way back way way back, i started playing the original pong. It was ok but i soon forgot about video games. Then i played a game my friends were talking about it sounded interesting, it was called Space Invaders. Needless to say since then i've played just about everything. I've had a Atari 2600, Atari 5200, Colecovision, Intellivision, Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Sega Genesis and Play Station in my time. Now its strictly Computer games for me.

[Sprafa]

Super Nintendo for me. PC, a few years later with DOOM II.


Then Mega Drive, Sega Saturn.....

[Paintballer]

I started when I was like two on the Atari 2600. Can't really remember it too well, except for the fact that I couldn't get the hang of that damn drag-racing game because I didn't know how to shift, I would always blow the engine :p Then it was on to the NES, C64, then genesis, playstation, n64, dreamcast, and XBox.

PC gaming started with the C64, then we got a 100mhz P1, then a 400mhz K6-2, and then I have just been upgrading my comps ever since, always using something from the last one :p

[lePobz]

Spectrum +2 128k in 86' although had a PONG box way before that. Upgraded to 486 SX25 in '93 and even hada 14.4k modem and net access! although back then the internet consisted of a few frameless pages with one or two search engines :(

[Brian Damage]

Amiga 500 around 1987. Gaming since I was three years old...

[Loke]

I started to play games when me and my family was in the USA during 1994, we got the Super Nintendo there. :)

Remember when I was playing Super Mario World for the first time, good old times. :)

[ferd]

I've been reading quite a few people posts and thought I'd ask when all you guys started playing games. It would give me a better Idea of what you've played.

I guess I started playing games around 1995.

before 1995 :D

[Sedako]

My parents got me a NES in 1987 when I was almost three. I don't know why they got it for me when I was that young, but I was still able to play basic games like mario. I had so many games for the NES, and because I was almost literally brought up playing games, I know just about everything from mostly any game for Sega to SNES. It's fun when you meet someone who also knows about the older games.

[Sui]

when i was 7. the megadrive was my bible :D

[Bio]

I got a playstation when i was 5 years old, i think we had a computer where i played wolfenstein 3d.