How long have you been playing video games?

[TheAmazingTGIF]

Debut of N64.

 

[SextusMaximus]

My big sister introduced me to Pokemon when I was about 3/4 years old. I had one kick-arse Charizard!

 

[William Dickbringer]

let's see I think 3 or 4 when we had an SNES I loved super mario world then N64 came out I was hooked on Super Mario 64

 

[Kiriona]

Since first grade. Don't recall how old I was. But I was an instant addict. Now I am proud to call myself a female hardcore gamer. Although I REALLY need to go buy some new games...

Does anyone have about $1000 they can lend to me?

 

[Da_Schwartz]

As far as i can remeber, idk 25 years or so. I've had my hands on just about every console or floppy disk pc ever made at one time or another. Prob started at like 4 or 5 years old. idk something like that.

 

[Generator]

I started playing at the age of 5 in late 1998, so it's been almost 12 years.

 

[CowboyfromHell666]

I was 5 when I started playing videogames. I had a gameboy color and a sega dreamcast to start. I still have that damn dreamcast too haha.

 

[carpathic]

About 20 years.

 

[Henrik Persson]

I think it's about 22 years now. I played video games before that, but it was too rare to count, really.

 

[tzimize]

been playing since the amiga/amstrad days. I remember games on tapes.
My first pc was a 486DX2 66mhz. I played doom on it...happy days.
My first console was a Sega Master system.

Been here ever since and will play untill I go blind, dead or worse.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I couldn't say, it's been a long time. Ever since I was about 4 or 5.

 

[Leviathan_]

13 years I think, First game was Crash Bandicoot on the PS1

 

[Above]

i think i was born with a controller in my hand

 

[Tetrapus]

I've had my Ex-Box 360 for about a week now, and I'm playing this Halo game that somebody told me was pretty good. I always die when I'm on Ex-Box Alive though.

lmao Awesome. Well at age one-three (1991-93), we had a NES and I'd mess around with it, but obviously couldn't comprehend that so I don't know if you can call that gaming. But I guess the serious gaming started at the age of four when Warcraft: Orcs and Humans came out. Now that was a kickass game. And I've been gaming ever since, although I began to stray from my PC gaming origins around the time when Playstation came out, and then the xbox took me by the face and made me realise that I'm a console gamer at heart.

 

[ImSkeletor]

Since I was 4.

 

[Necator15]

First game: Killer Instinct for the SNES, got it when I was...5? 6? I can't really remember. Been hooked since.

 

[Shepard's Shadow]

About 10 years or so. First console was a GameBoy Color. First game was Pokemon Blue.

 

[Mr. Gency]

I've been playing video games for longer than I can remember.

I think I was born with a controller in my hand.

And I followed your lead.

 

[thepopeofatheism]

God, I have been playing video games for as long as I can remember. I can't say for certain, but I think my first game was Super Mario Bros. back in... 1989? Maybe? I played that and Duck Hunt, obviously. My parents' friends had a Sega Master System, so I rocked that, too. I also played old-ass DOS games on my dad's Tandy to start with and moved on to Windows 3.1(1) games. My parents bought a Genesis and I moved on to Sonic and my computer got a little bit of an upgrade so I moved on to Doom. My Aunt and neighbour had a SNES. My computer upgraded again and I had Duke Nukem 3D and TIE Fighter. I got a Playstation, my neighbour got a N64 and my buddy got a Dreamcast. Then I got a PS2 and my buddy got an XBOX. So and so forth to where I now have a PS3, 360, DS and PSP and have played pretty much every major console and handheld iteration and PC games at several different technology levels.

Say what you want, but I grew up playing PC, console, and handheld games side-by-side. I don't care about gaming platform politics.
I just want to play games and have fun and have been for over 21 of my 25 years.