How did you lose your gaming virginity?

[Snowpact]

The original Prince of Persia on a very, VERY old computer. Impossible to complete as a toddler, but those were the days.

 

[crudus]

When I was 3 or so. Sonic. O yeah, we go way back. Back when Sonic didn't explode in 3D (I actually never had a real problem with 3D Sonic but there were huge flaws).

 

[Spinwhiz]

Pitfall. Oh how I loved that game!

 

[edthehyena]

I lost mine on the Oregon Trail. Those were hard times, and most of my family died of various diseases.

 

[300lb. Samoan]

Playing Atari 2600 in my grandma's basement when I was four. Freeway and Space Invaders!

Then the 'rents bought me an NES when I was 5 and I was hooked on Mario.

But I knew I'd be a gamer the rest of my damned days when I played Wolfenstein 3D and Doom at my uncle's house during a Christmas party when I was 8.

 

[TheDoctor455]

It was either Super Mario Bros. or Rampage, both on the NES, the only Nintendo console that I've played on. I was about 4.

 

[ddon]

i was 6. i went to a friends house and they had a ps1. i can still remember my very first game was spyro the dragon.

 

[Starke]

My gaming virginity? Fallout 2.

The first game I played? I'm not sure, I think it was a racing game on the Apple IIe. I was 3.

 

[Daimes2000]

The very first time i saw a video game was when my uncle showed me a gold digger game on an Atari in nineteen-eighty-something. It took several minutes to load from a datasette, and wasn't more than a few pixels on a black screen which represented the gems you could dig for (unless you hit on a grave and a ghost came to hunt you down). I was too young to understand the game enough to play it myself though. The first game i played myself was Tetris on a friend's gameboy a few years later.

 

[One Seven One]

mario for the gameboy

 

[SkullCap]

This saucy Russian minx named Tetris on the Gameboy.

 

[Naheal]

Final Fantasy. No, not Origins, VII, X, or whatever. Final fucking Fantasy for the NES.

 

[VladmirL]

My very first game at 5 years old: Wolfenstein 3-D on my old Macintosh.
Nothing like starting a gamer with killing Nazis and Hitler.

 

[quantum mechanic]

The first video games I watched my dad play were Half-Life and Riven, but the first game I ever played was a hideous educational thing called "Blasternauts" or something like that (I still get the theme song stuck in my head sometimes, and it makes me want to die). The first actually entertaining game I played was, I believe, Age of Empires I.

 

[EeveeElectro]

I lost it to a fat Italian plumber when I was about 3 or 4 years old.

Spoiler: Suddenly...

Hello, Mario. Please have a seat over there.

I lol'd!

In analleywa- oh, gaming.
A little french thing called Rayman when I was 3.

 

[OmegaXIII]

Final Fantasy. No, not Origins, VII, X, or whatever. Final fucking Fantasy for the NES.

Wide eyed gaze. "Wooooow"

 

[DrDeath3191]

I lost it to a fat Italian plumber when I was about 3 or 4 years old.

Spoiler: Suddenly...

Hello, Mario. Please have a seat over there.

I lol'd!

In analleywa- oh, gaming.
A little french thing called Rayman when I was 3.

Finally, someone laughs at one of my jokes! =D

 

[dwoo21]

Doom, somehow the pixelated screen enthralled me. I always used to jump at the chance to play when my brothers got bored even if I was terrible.

 

[thom_cat_]

Well I played Age of Empires 1,
but I first got seriously into gaming with CSS and Hl2.

 

[Jharry5]

The very first game I played was Sonic the Hedgehog. I was 4(ish).
I wasn't hooked until I got Tekken 2 for the PS1 when I was 8.