How long have you been gaming?

[jelbos]

good old windows 3.11 / ms dos.

 

[T-hug]

About 22 years, give or take a few!
First system:

Good times

 

[HazeyTheLazy]

LET'S SEE... Okay, I was there for the end of the NES console and the beggining of the SNES console soo about 13 years man!
-Good Question!

-Ohhh and That good Ol' Microsoft DOS games like Doom, Redneckrampage!

 

[Foie]

I first picked up a NES controller when I was five, so about 12 years.

I remember the gold 'ol days of Super Mario 3...

 

[striderx]

I played Computer Space at the Pyramid Mall in Fulton, NY back in the very early '70's. Just like this baby.

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/1433...ube_.php?page=4

Later my dad and I built our own computer and I played BASIC games I transcribed out of BYTE magazine and stored on a cassette tape! An Ohio Scientific Superboard II with a whopping 8kB (yes, kiddies you read that right KILO-bytes of RAM).

Then we got one of the first home video game consoles that played... TENNIS! and HOCKEY! (okay, hockey... it way just tennis with an extra paddle and a goal you had to target). I had more fun finding a way to arrange the controls so the 'puck' would ricochet indefinitely than I did playing the game.

Then came the Atari 5200... sweet. (Still have it and the games!)

Finally, I succumbed to PC gaming and only when my son got old enough did I buy a PS2 and then later the Nintendo line.

Yippeee... what fun! What a money hole!

Oh, and I walked to school in the winter through 6 feet of snow. Uphill... both ways.

striderx

 

[PuyoDead]

Chalk me up as one of the old folks. I'll be turning 28 in 3 days, and I've been playing games since I was at least 6 years old. Ahh, the good ol' days of the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64. I've owned damn near every game system since then, and I'll continue to play games for the rest of my life.

 

[anark-e]

I'm 26 years old and my sister started me playing Atari 2600 when I was about three (she's thirteen years older than me).

So... Yeah, about 23 years now.

 

[imyourxpan]

i was playing since the atari, i was like 2-3 when i started. i moved to the NES soon after the atari.

 

[enigmaindex]

Been gaming for about 10-11 years and im 16. First console i played was a Sega Mega Drive (still have it and its working) and the first game i played was Fire shark or something, it was a plane game then soon after i got into the snes =].

 

[jalaneme]

who voted for 41 years? thats a long time! i've been gaming for 18 years i am now 24.

 

[dakeyras]

I bought a nes when I was six, my first games were duckhunt and super mario bros. Oh, classics.

 

[Prime]

6 years to be exact.

The first console i ever played was a Playstation 1.

 

[superrob]

14 years started 11 years ago as a little kid on 3

 

[Psyfira]

Started when i was 4 if i remember correct. The atari. so tats 19 yrs for me

OFT. And a scary similarity

Don't think the poll results will be much use though, the results are gonna be warped by people's ages.

 

[Joey Ravn]

About 16 years, and I'm 19 years old now

I started with my old, old PC: Blues Brothers, Crystal Caves, Doom and Monkey Island... those were the days.

 

[onispawn]

20 years. started back on my C64 at age 3.

 

[Jaxtaylor]

Oh my god, this place makes me feel older and older!

I'm 30 in a few months, and I started playing when I was 2 - I know that sounds young, but we moved into a pub and had a Pacman / Headon cocktail cabinet with as many free credits as I wanted! Every couple of months we'd have a new one delivered, so I was fortunate to have a cabinet with the latest arcade games for most of my childhood!

 

[sirAnger]

My first system was a Genesis when I was 9, and I used to play NES at my friend's house all the time starting around 7. That was about 17 years ago.

 

[Doomsday Forte]

Started with the Sega Master System and Atari 2600, first system I owned was the original Gameboy in 89...so maybe around 20 years? Been a loooooong while all right!

 

[Talaria]

Started with that game on windows with that game where the cat was trying to catch the mouse which was your pointer don't know what it was called. Been a PC gamer since i was 6, only went handheld the year before the DS was released when i purchased a GBA which was later sold making way for my DS phat which i still use and won't replace til it dies (2 years on 25th of December next month). Only been gaming 'bout 10-11 years