How old are you and when did you start playing video-games.

[RaphaelsRedemption]

I'm 23, and I started playong computer games a year ago.

I'm a late bloomer, ok?

In that time, I've gone from a casual gamer to a hooked games enthusiast who has even studied games design at TAFE. I love games. I need to make up for all those missed years...

That's actually quite interesting in itself.

Why did you suddenly, at the age of 22, decide you wanted to play games? Was it because you had a go on someone else's and realised it was great? Was it just that you got a notion one day and it stuck?

I've never come across a 'new' gamer like you before - all the gamers I know have been, like myself, gaming mentalists for almost their entire lives.

To be honest, it began as a desire to understand and share something that was very important to my boyfriend. I didn't want him to have to chooose between his favourite pastime and spending time with me, so I asked him to show me some games we could play together.

It didn't start well. He tried to get me to play Battlefield 2. In my honest opinion, 1st person shooters aren't that great to start with, because the viewpoint is hard to get used to and the controls aren't really very intuitive. However, things took a turn for the better when I told him my half memories of watching my brothers play Age of Empires. We got the game installed on our computers, and I was hooked.

From there grew my enjoyment of games. Since then, I've explored almost every genre of games, and can say I can see the entertainment in most of them. I also have a great appreciation of multiplayer as well as singleplayer - because I started playing with my boyfriend, I know just how much fun a supportive co-player can be.

So yeah. It started so I wasn't in direct competition for my boyfriend's attention, and just became so much more...

 

[CroutonsOfDeath]

I'm 19. I've been playing games for all my life, apparently. I don't really remember this far but my mum said she introduced me to her NES at age 3. I do remember S00pah Mario Bros. 3 being there when I do remember getting into gaming though, so I guess I won't doubt her.

Truthfully I never became a "hard core" gamer until around 2004 when Half-Life 2 came out and my gf Chie was going ape about the game finally coming out and she decided to catch me up on Half-Life and whatnot. Before that games like Quake, Doom, Command & Conquer, and Worms were mostly just what me parents & I played at home occasionally with friends when I got my homework finished early or I genuinely had nothing better to do.

 

[metamorphisis]

I'm 19 and i've been playing games since before i can remember so i suppose anout 5 or 6 playing doom on my dad's computer

 

[barash]

32, started gaming on a C64 when I was 5 or 6. Proper old skool ^_^

 

[Gnmish]

30! and Proudly been a PC gamer since my first XT ~6 y.o. (green monochrome was so cool!)

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

I'm 17, started gaming when I was about 4 or 5.

 

[superstringz]

17. I don't know how long i've been playing, because my memory does not stretch back that far. Seriously, SimCity was my game since before I was literate, or even in school. I do remember the strange looks I got when I quoted "Brownouts detected, check power map." to my babysitter.

 

[Summerstorm]

I am 28... And the thing that made me a gamer was, i think, when i got my Gameboy. Hm... 1990 i think (about 8 years old i was).

And since then i slaughtered, puzzled, commanded and rocked my way over 5 PC's, one Schneider CPC, a C64, a N64, my Gameboy, a Game Gear, a Sega Master System II.

And i won't stop the next few decades, i think. Maybe i might even get me a console again sometimes... Next X-Box maybe (is it a 720 then *g*?)

EDIT: Hm... But of course i did have contact to games before. Cheap Handhelds and the Nintendo of a friend. But i wasn't HARDCORE back then *g*

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

I'm 17 and my first game was Xenon 2 on my dad's Atari ST. I think I was about 4. The first game that was 'mine' was a Game Boy Colour with Pokémon Blue when I was about 5.

 

[DeathsHead419]

I'm 21, and I started gaming in either 94 or 93, whenever the DOS fair my family got our first Demo Disk at. 101 OnLy tHe BeSt GaMeS, C:\TECH_CD

Or, was it that game with the two cannons pointing at eachother on my Uncle's Mac? Hmm, hard to tell now. Though I would point to my exposure to Civ II at my other Uncle's house as the true start of my time gaming.

 

[chromewarriorXIII]

I'm 17 and I've been playing since I was about 3. Started off with Sonic the Hedgehog 1 & 2 on the Genesis.

 

[Jesus Phish]

23 here and started playing games when I was between 4 or 6 (it's hard to remember). I know I remember the christmas morning when our parents gave us a commador 64. I dont remember for some reason when we got a NES though...

 

[pearcinator]

19, started when I was 6

 

[Boneasse]

I'm 22, and a half! And I started playing video-games at the age of 5, when my mom brought home my first console: A Sega Mastersystem II.

 

[Okuu_Fusion]

21... First game was Super Mario World at age 4 or 5...

May have played the NES, but don't really remember...

 

[Wutaiflea]

I'm 25, and I've been playing video games since I was about 4.

 

[Lust]

I'm 18. I started gaming when I was 3.

Megaman X ruled my life back in the day.

 

[judas prick]

im 23 and thanks to having an older brother with a spectrum i was about 4ish

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

1st person shooters aren't that great to start with, because the viewpoint is hard to get used to and the controls aren't really very intuitive.

This is a new thing. N64 FPSs like GoldenEye and Perfect Dark with their single-analogue controls are incredibly easy to pick up.