Video Games: Where did it start for you?

[SkullCap]

Another quickie. Today we're not talking about your favorite game, favorite character, etc. Instead we shall be discussing how we first encountered video games.

Who do we owe for showing us the light to the fascinating world of video games?

Thread: How did you start playing video games?

For example,

The year was 1994, I was 4 years old when my older siblings playing Super Mario Bros., Duckhunt, and Super Mario Bros. 3 on the NES. I would watch them play these games for hours. It was almost as if having them read me a fantasy story. I started playing the NES occasionally, but I still kept my distance. Tetris became the first game I owned myself which introduced me to Gameboy. This was followed by the amazing Pokemon Blue version which sealed the deal on my affection for Gameboy. Yet video game consoles still was just in the 'friend zone' it wasn't until the N64 introduced me to the Legend of Zelda: The Ocarina of Time. The rest is history.

That's my spiel, let's hear yours.

 

[SkullCap]

That was the day innocence died.

The same day fun began. Cheers.

 

[cptn ricardo]

At the age of 5 my brother got a mega drive 2 for christmas, where i first played Sonic the Hedgehog. After many sundays of playing that, I got onto a friends SNES and played Super Metroid, which to me was the epitomy of awesome. Then I got a Game Boy Colour one christmas which was my first console, with Links Awakening DX. That was the beggining of my long love of video games.

 

[Joachim Aachen]

How did I start playing video games? Hell if I remember from the beginning. It probably started with me being around two years old and mashing the buttons on the old Tekken arcade games. Then it upgraded to me being four and playing Tekken 2 & 3 on the original Play Station. I actually beat my uncle at it my first go around.

My first game that I owned, though, not just played, was Pokemon Crystal for the Gameboy Color. I still have it too- along with the gameboy.

 

[Jamiemitsu]

Sonic the Hedgehog at about the age of 3. Wired how I don't give a crap about him now. Or maybe not.

 

[Cornwallpwns]

my first game that i liked and played properly was ffx
lokking back nothing has quite topped that first game,hey who says your first always sucks :S

 

[Master Kuja]

I owe my introduction to video games to the good ol' PC, specifically Command & Conquer, the original one which I played at the age of about 4 or 5, that got me into the world of RTS gaming, though I suppose what got me gaming a bit more was a brilliant old platformer called Jazz Jack Rabbit, playing that for god knows how long caught my interest in gaming.

Then I got my N64, it all bloody began from there, sessions of Goldeneye and Ocarina of Time just sealed the deal for me.

Now here I am with a beautiful gaming rig and a long term dedication to the hobby.

 

[Daveman]

sega megadrive when I was 6, I had like three games, one was football and I played it once, the other I dont think I ever played and then the other was sonic. that's what started it for me, and I couldn't even get past the second level (the one with the lava). then I got an N64 and games became actually FUN.

 

[Njaard]

Back in the year of '99, when my parents bought me a Nintendo 64 with Pokèmon Snap.

 

[dragontiers]

The earliest I remember gaming was a handful of games on an old apple computer. Specifically I remember Family Feud (the AI sucked, as it just guessed random words from the answer bank) and Family Double Dare (it was great till you got to The Wall. Maybe I was just too young, but there was no way over that thing). My earliest console was the NES, about a year after it's release. I got the one that came with the Mario/Duckhunt cartridge & gun, not the one that just came with Super Mario Bros.

 

[dududf]

June 8th 1999

I was 5 years old, and I just discovered Computers.

By 2000, I was A gamer. 9 years ago, I lost my innocence, and I never turned back.

 

[keybird]

Battletanx 2 with my dad for the N64.

Oh such fond memories

 

[Nevyrmoore]

Commodore 64, back when I was around 2 - 4 years old. Started off with Exterminator and some weird pirate treasure hunt game based around a randomly generated maze.

 

[thisguyfromthere]

My older brother gave me Command and Conquer: Red Alert. I'm pretty sure I could read by then, but I hadn't a clue what strategy was. I always lost, but I still had enough fun to keep coming back. Even at that age, I knew enough to call bullshit on the nuclear weapons in the game.

 

[EMFCRACKSHOT]

Back in 96 when my uncle got me my snes. I used to sit and play it with my dad for hours. I played quite a bit, but i didnt start spending serious hours a day until i got my ps1 with time crisis. Again, a gift from my uncle.
Then my uncle got me an xbox and i discovered the magic of KOTOR and HALO. I played for weeks on end and just kind of never stopped

 

[Lord Thodin]

I was a baby(between ages 1-2) in my moms lap when she played Mario. I played Tick for the Sega Gensis as my first game solo though. That was around age 4

 

[Krantos]

I got a NES for my 5th (or 6th) birthday. I even have a picture. I've been addicted ever since.

 

[SimuLord]

1982. My mom was settling the bill at a Chinese restaurant and gave five-year-old me a couple of quarters and told me to go play Pac-Man. At 11 I got an NES for Christmas...and there went my school grades.

 

[Acromatopsy]

I distinctly remember the first-ever game I played was Pong on dad's old Atari.
The day I really crossed the Rubicon was later though. I went to visit a friend after school when I was an innocent knee-high first or second grader.
That particular friend introduced me to the Day of the Tentacle...