Poll: When Did you start gaming?

[toxic_waster]

when i was 4 on a snes. i was started gaming while the snes was in its later years and the N64 was nearly out on the market. oh ive been gaming ever since, going from snes to the game boy colour to the n64 to the playstation 1 and 2. good times. i think my first fps pc game was the first system shock.

some of the best games over that long time was: ape escape, sypro, medal of honour, banjo kazooie, prince of persia, XIII, GTA, system shock, fallout 1 and 2.

arhhh, trip down memory lane. but then graphics, physics, storylines have all changed for the better since then so who cares. ill just be going back to fallout 3 and farcry 2 now.

 

[linchowlewy]

I bealieve the correct term is "Escapians" or "Escaporians."

EDIT: You found the original "DOOM" to be scary? One word: PUSSY McVagina!!! Doom 3 was scary!!!

I was 3. and that's two words

 

[xitel]

I started playing when I was 4, playing Nethack, since my Dad was on the dev team, and Quake.

 

[birdbrain18]

when I was 5 I started gaming. I didn't have any gaming systems though so I had to pay my friends snes. I got a gba a year later and NEVER put it down

 

[JDLY]

Somewhere between 3 and 5.

My system was the PS1 or the original GameBoy.
The earliest game was a Mario on the GameBoy.
Played Need for Speed and Tony Hawk for a while, then into Splinter Cell then into FPS's

 

[Kragey]

I've been watching people play games for as long as I can remember, and I used to fiddle with certain parts of them, but I didn't actually finish a game until I was about 10 years old. I was in the fourth grade, and my parents got my twin brother and I an N64 and Ocarina of Time for our birthday.

Prior to that, I did play other games--Duke Nukem, stuff on the Atari, Sega Genesis' Sonic games--but like I said, I never finished a game until OoT came out.

 

[Signa]

I was 3 when my dad showed me how to use the commodore 64. I played any game I could load up. Mostly it was just this donald duck game and another that was this mix of simple games. My dad had over a 100 5.25" disks that some friends of his copied for him. I dont think we ever played them all.


One time, years later, I found a game called "Stroker."

yeah.... Good thing I had no idea what it was REALLY about.

 

[Maet]

Born in '89, gamin' since '93. My childhood is in my SNES.

 

[songnar]

Ah, yes, I remember being around 4 or 5 years old and playing Blackthorne on the SNES. Good times.

 

[implodingMan]

I was 7, and the first game was Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past.

 

[Vlane]

The first game I played was Donkey Kong Country on the SNES. I was 5 years old.

 

[Ranooth]

Started playing Sonic The Hedgehog when i was 3. Good times

 

[swampboy32904]

I think I was around 4 when I started. I will always Remember Sonic and Streetfighter on the old Sega.

 

[D_987]

I started at 6 (10 years ago), Good old Heart of Darkness =)

 

[Sewblon]

I started gaming in 1996 when I played Super Mario World.

 

[Zorg Machine]

when i was 3 i played warcraft 2 having watched my sibling play it for weeks

 

[dekkarax]

WipEout, but Worms really got me into it.

 

[scruff77]

That's not really something you can "do the maths on."

I mean, you could have played it on the Genesis 10 years after it came out.

...When it came out.

I think your maths must be a bit off. I bought the original Sonic on the Megadrive in '91 on it's release, which would make you the grand old age of zero.

 

[BBLIZZARD]

So when did all you escapists start gaming and what was your first game. (baby educational games dont count for this i mean real gaming)

I barely remember i started my gamin on computer when i was about 3 (kinda sad actually). My first game was the original Doom (in retrospect i had very bad parents) I was able to complete the entire game but never the last level because i found it way to scary.

I bealieve the correct term is "Escapians" or "Escaporians."

EDIT: You found the original "DOOM" to be scary? One word: PUSSY McVagina!!! Doom 3 was scary!!!

He was three years old. I hope for god sakes you're kidding.
Anyway, my first game I played was super mario world, 8 years after it came out.