Poll: Average age of TheEscapist forumgoers...

[songnar]

First console - Colecovision.

*Edit - I am 20.

 

[Jharry5]

I'm 18. My first console was the Sega Megadrive when I was about 5 or 6; my first game was Sonic the Hedgehog.
I moved onto the Playstation quite quickly after that.

 

[mshcherbatskaya]

Yet another 39. The first computer/game in my family was owned was my grandmother who got us kids a Tandy TRS-80 to play with when we came to visit. We used it mostly to play a Pac-Man knockoff and a little DnD-type dungeon crawler The first console in our own house was an NES, purchased for my brother who never played it much, leaving my sister and I to play Donkey Kong whenever we liked. I didn't own a computer of my own until 1996. Windows 95, it was a used 486, and it cost me $1200, if I recall correctly.

 

[xitel]

18, first computer was an Apple II. In my Granddad's basement.

 

[Mr.Pandah]

18, First system was an NES (Thanks to my older brothers having them) quickly followed by an SNES. I solely remember playing Hook for hours on end, beating the game under 2 hours. So simple, so colorful, so fun.

 

[PersianLlama]

15, first console was SNES.

 

[kapzer]

18, with my first system being the Atari 2600, then the SNES, then a 200mhz Pentium MMX PC...those were the good old days.

 

[Spartan Bannana]

I'm 13, my first Game System was a PS2

 

[TMAN10112]

16, the first console I ever played was sega.

 

[TJ rock 101]

im 15, my first thing was the GameBoy color

 

[Matthicus]

I'm 18 and my first system was a Sega Genesis.

 

[thiosk]

hey im 27 too, but my first console was the NES *(metroid ftfw)*

oh, hrm, unless you count the apple 2e. I am really looking for the name of this strange geometric game i used to play on that.,.. geometric shapes, moving between strange purple and green geometric rooms, collecting keys... somthing about mother goose...

 

[Fruhstuck]

19, NES and a Game Gear

 

[Blind0bserver]

18 (19 as of the 19th of this month). First console I ever owned was a SNES. If we're counting computers, first time I ever played a game was either Lemmings or Wolfenstein 3D on a MCDOS computer at age 2.

And thus a gaming Goliath is born...

 

[gamebrain89]

19, nearly 20, first system was a sega megadrive. Ahh, the good old days of playing afterburner.

 

[white_salad]

16(17 in a month) and my first console was SNES. First game was a Mario RPG (forgot what it was called)

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

I'm 20... First console ever played was an NES, my grandfather's, first one i had was a Genesis...

 

[SuperUberBob]

23 nintendo

 

[odatnarat]

im 23 haha and my first console was a nes.. hahaha the first console game decides the age? is that the point of this thread? haha

 

[Chattermouth]

I'm 24.
Chalk up another Commodore 64. I was very happy with that.

However, my next purchase was a Compaq. Woe is me.