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.

around 6 playing spyro and quake is the earliest i remember

I think I was about 4 years old when I picked up my first game.

Well, when I was in second grade (around 8) I got a GameCube for Christmas. I played Madden 2002 and Pikmin and lots of other games that I don't remember. I also played the Sims in 3-4th grade. But my first REAL game was Call of Duty in 4th grade.

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time at around 6 or 7. Mind you it took me forever to find the Kokori Sword and I stopped entirely right when I entered Jabu-Jabu.

When similar threads like this one appeared...

I remember playing Sonic the Hedgehog for the Saturn (or was it Genesis? I don't recall) when I was four. I also played Stonekeep as part of my first game repertoire. Man, that was awesome.

7 Years old playing Duke Fucking Nukem, and Doom. My oh my did i start off well :D Fuck Mario and Sonic i started hardcore =)

Came to the party very late. Asides from playing Sonic on the MegaDrive I only really got the the bug taking breaks from MUSIC2000 on the PS1. Got addicted to Medal of Honour, Spider Man and Tony Hawks. Progressed onto the PS2 from there and now own a Wii, Ps2, PS3, Xbox and PC and am hoping to get a 360 and a DS (again) in the new year.

First system was Sega gen, Sonic was my first game. ;) the good old days when we still worried about them damn commies.

When I was 6 i played diablo II and i still have it

linchowlewy:
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 was about 5 or 7 when i started gaming a little... It was mostly innocent puzzle games, old Heroes of Might and Magic (like 1 or 2, 3rd wasn't out yet) and lots of Doom/Doom2 and Duke Nukem =D

And then i got into RPGs and strategies when i was a bit older then 7 and became a more serious gamer by the time i was like 10 or 11. By which i mean i began gaming a lot almost every day.

And yeah I've been a PC/windows (well and DOS i guess haha) gamer all my life, pretty much.

well i started playing games when i was probaly 5 (sega duck hunt) but i proclaimed myself as a true gamer when i was 9

Well my first could be classified as educational, but I loved it because it was just such a good game. It was Mathpower 3 or something along those lines. You could make your own band in the end and everything. SICK!

I think I was 3. It was a game from 1995, and I was born '92.

Not sure which came first, but I remember Theme Park on the PC and Super Marioland 1 & 2 on the Gameboy (Pocket, not the original... later the GBC) being among my first games... this would be way back in the mists of prehistory (otherwise known as not much more than 10 years ago)

GBP came out in '96, so I was at least 5 for that one... I think that was a Christmas present when I was 5 or 6. Theme Park arrived in '94, but I wouldn't have been playing it that early, so I'm going to guess age of about 5 for either of the above.

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.

The Amazing Orgazmo:

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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