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

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

WipEout, but Worms really got me into it.

Richard Groovy Pants:

Eggo:
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.

The Amazing Orgazmo:

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 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.

Maybe around 4, Tekken 3 (Japanese version mind you, so I had it a long while before America), and Final Fantasy 7 were my favorite games at the time.
And then came Mortal Kombat 4...
I almost forgot I had an oldschool Nintendo! But still, I was playing the PS a while before the Nintendo.

Starcraft at age 9 mother fuckers. and I was good.

Seven years old. Doom.

Good times.

I was seven when I first played Pong. That was 31 years ago.

I started on my parent's old NES when I was like 3. I started with Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and Super Spike Volleyball.

I was 4, started out on some shooting/driving game on the 3DO, that's right who's awesome?

Must have been around 1973 or 1974 on an arcade Pong machine.

Err... the first console I had was the Sega Megadrive but we only had one TV so I couldn't play it much. I played PC games too.

Forgt my age though, it was at the end of its life span so that 1995/96 making me 5. Yeah, that's about when Tomb Raider came out which was my first PC game. First Megadrive one was Comix Zone. Lost the thing when we moved so I don't know where it could be.

God, either some of you people are lying or you have terrible parents.

I started about 4-5 with a SEGA Genesis

Phoenix Arrow:
God, either some of you people are lying or you have terrible parents.

Terrible parents. i'm not 100% certain on my age but i do have memories of that game from that age.

Star tropics and Super mario bros. on my dad's NES. Guess I was about 4 or 5 years, which will make it, oooh, 12-13 years ago

7, my brother had an N64 for a looooong ass time, but I didn't know how to get the TV to get to video mode. Of course my neighbor across the street got one for Christmas that year and I was hooked immediately, soon enough I was gaming every day, and the two of us worked incredibly hard to make it through the original Paper Mario.

i'm pleased with the results of the poll. glad to see i'm not the only person sucked in so early.

The first game I played was Enduro for the Atari 2600. I think I was 5 years old.

When did I first 'game', thats kinda complicated to answer...

See, if I wanted to get technical, I would say, I didn't truelly start 'gaming' until around 1998 or so. I played games, but I didn't almost exclusively play em, they weren't my 'main' form of entertainment.
(games I played, involved FF series, Cool Borders, Mario, GTA, Siphon Filter, Twisted Metal.(GOD I loved that demo! Electricuted soooo many people :P))

However, the very, very, very first Game I remember playing, was something on either the Atari, Comadore 64, or something on the vic 20.
IT was escentially a 'demolition derby', with some kind of joy stick/controller.

Its kinda funny, cause one of the games I loved playing growing up, was the Twisted Metal Series! I remember playing Twisted Metal with my cousin for damn near 16 hours from like 10am to 3 am, beating the game so many times on every difficulty, going on death matches, you name it...
To put it simply, we beat the fuck out of that game. ;)

However, I would also say that the very very first game that I remember outside of nintendo was firstly,
1) on the Pc Warcraft, my brother got a laptop from the library and was playing this game warcraft, and I don't remember if it was 1 or 2... But I didn't know wtf I was doing and was just having a blast listening to everything the orcs said. :P
2) Legacy of Kain: Blood Omen on the PSX. My brother & his friend brought home a PS1, and this was one of the games I got... A few months/years later we finally got a PSX, and that was one of the games I had to get, as well as...
Twisted Metal
Riven: Sequal to myst. (I'm still pissed at that, my mother saved the game at the VERY END of the game, where you had to solve a 'puzzle' that the only way to beat it was to 'listen' to a tune, and where she saved, was at a spot where you couldn't go back to, and if you got it wrong, you died or something. The problem is, everytime you load the game, the tune changed!!) ugggh I musta put like 80 hours into that game...)
Cool Borders: You'd think after renting the game about 90 times and spending approximately 3x what it cost to buy it, your parents would have you know.. bought it for you... Oddly enough, this was mine, and my cousins favorite game at the time. (different cousin) THe funny thing is, we both got it for 'xmas' and on x-mas day he came over and said 'hey you won't believe what I got', and I showed em my copy... Needless say, it took out the 'dude, I got something you don't got!' factor. ;)

scruff77:

Richard Groovy Pants:

Eggo:
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.

Or he could be from australia, when it took them nearly a decade to get any games. ;)

I was four years of age. I'm harmlessly sitting in the living room, watching someone play a Mario world game. He dies, and leaves for a drink. I slowly walk up to the controller... BAM! I'm now a gamer.

My first gaming experience was with Super Mario Bros. on the NES when it was new and shiny ... so ... pretty young. XD

6 or 7, PS1 games, Crash Bandicoot, C&C and the like, I'd played games before but I think those were the first games I owned, maybe apart from some tetris on my family's old Mac

I started when I was 7, on my cousin's Atari.....oh good times

Moved on from there with purely consoles at first, then branched out into the PC-gaming scene as well, with Monkey Island 1.

I got a SNES for christmas when I was 7 and thats when I first started to play games, although I didn't become interested in gaming as a hobby untill i was about 12-13 years old.

I put five into the poll, then realized that it must have been before that, because I had my N64 by the time I was in primary school and was renowned for being an obsessive.

A fair point Sinister Death. In which case I apologise to Mr Groovy Pants.

Out of interest, when did Sonic finally make it to Australia?

Interesting thread. Seems the average age of this forum is surprisingly young.

Got an NES back in '87.

My first gaming experience was when I was around 6 or 7, on a gaming machine owned by my older brother. It was one with the games built in, and included tennis, soccer and some others I can't remember. I got properly into gaming at around the age of 8, when my parents bought an Atari 2600. Good times.

I must have been what three or four when I remember playing a Thomas the tank engine game. Awesome right? To this day that is still the best game I have ever played.

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.

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.