It was Christmas Day, 1982. Renee and Renato were top of the charts. The UK had just been victorious in the Falklands. We were recording Star Wars off the TV with our new top-loading VCR (the remote control was on a wire). I'd received a BBC Micro for Christmas, and loaded up Hunchback, by Superior Software (still, apparently, in business, and trading off fellow rose-tinted glasses wearers).

My first PC game was 'Centurion: Defender of Rome', which I got for 7.99 at a local department store. The first time I paid full price for a PC game was for X-Wing, after reading its preview in the first issue of PC Zone.

I'm old, by the way.

I remember my first experience with a video game being around the tender age of 3 or 4, when I played Pong on someone's (fairly old, by then) Magnavox Odyssey on a black-and-white TV. I was hooked from the beginning.

My first game console was an Intellivision.

figment of mind:
I started playing video games when i was around 6. My uncle said that it helps with hand-eye coordination so my mom bought me a consle and i started playing. I can't remember the game though but i think the consle was a sega saturn. I started playing the playstation afterwards and that started my gaming addiction.

Serious!? I think games have ruined my hand eye co-ordination now. my hands are co-ordinated but only to a 22" monitor :P

Well, being older, there weren't many games out when I was young. I do remember my dad getting a Commodore 64 and an Atari 5200. The first games would be Pole Position, Breakout, Qbert, and Frogger.

Think I was 10 when we got the mega drive. But I'm not entirely sure.

My first real gaming experience was with super mario 64. I got it for my birthday. I like to think of that as a large turning point in my life. :)

DOOM baby and quake and this game called monsterbash.

Started at around 3 on an Atari 800XL, moved onto a Genesis, then the N64. It was only then I found my true love in the form of Age of Empires and Jedi Knight, and I haven't left my beloved PC since!

8. Gameboy Color. Mario bros.
though, I did sort of play SSB64 when i was 6/7 when i was at my cusions

My dad used to sit me on he's lap and play game's, apparently I was bashing the key board as soon as I could see it and the screen.(I was born in 84) We had a few IBM pc's with games like space wars, paratrooper, bouncing babys etc. I got to play through space quest and police quest, populus, all the greats as they came out. Game's have been part of my life for as long as I can remember, part of my social life to, there was a small group of us that had PC's early on. Many a happy hour was spent crowded round a monitor with friends, and I'm glad games were part of my childhood.

Pong..

i'm not that old but when i was really little my parents had an old pong console they would plug into the TV.

Wow, I'm in the majority for once. If only my views on abortion etc were the same...nah, I'm the person in the right, it's everyone else who's crazy. Tee-hee.

The day I became a hardcore gamer is when I couldn't put down Starcraft.

Started at about 7-8 years old with the Atari 2600; 1984 to be precise.

20 years ago when I was five. I had the 2600 with all of the classics, but my favorite and first PC game was called World Games. It had events like bull riding, caber toss, cliff diving, and a couple other events that I can't quite remember. The first "Mature" game that I played was a year or so later and that game was Police Quest :)

I started on DOOM when I was around 4 years old...and I ended up raiding our Commodore 64 + ZX Spectrum games cabinet too for quite a while during that time so I'm told.

My father was relatively new to the whole gaming thing at the same time, so I guess I just jumped onto the bandwaggon and I've been gaming ever since.

Of course playing violent games at such a young age hasn't affected me at all.

*coughs*

*twitches*

*murmurs something about brains*