First video gaming experience?

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How old were you when you started playing video games? I think I was around 5 to 6. I played a few of the games at Mr Ghatti's Pizza after soccer matches on the weekends. Also, my family had an Atari and about 10 games. Crazy fun stuff back then.

I couldn't decide how I wanted to do this question. I could have done what year, or what system ... something like that. But it seems to me that age works the best, regardless of system.

Also, did you have a game back then that really consumed all your time? Something that you just couldn't put down? I played a lot of River Raider - my whole family did. My parents would put my sisters and I to bed and then stay up another couple hours playing that game. Later we had Tetris and Dr Mario sessions that lasted countless hours.
 
I had an Intellivision when I was in sixth grade. It sucked. All my friends had Atari but my dad bought Intellivision.

Years later my little brother got Nintendo and I got hooked on Super Mario. Then I didn't play any video games until just a few years ago.
 
I was six and I think it was on an atari, First game I have a clear memory of is C64 and it was Boulder Dash or Spyhunter.

Sweeeet memories. I was totally absorbed of that excperience.:D
 
Anyone seen/tried this product? just plug it into your tele and you got classics like Asteroids, adventure, pong, breakout, gravitar, circus atari, 10 games total.. I'm thinking of getting one.
 
My dad rented a NES with a couple games when I was 5 years old, from our cousin's suggestion. The games were Super Mario Bros. and Rad Racer. I remember that SMB was the one I liked more, and that the very first hole at level 1-1 proved to be very problematic for me. Good times were had by all.
 
I remember playing Pong when I was 4 or 5 yearsold back in the 70s with some cousins. Learn to program BASIC on a Apple ][ when I was 10 in the 4th grade. Parents bought a Commodore 64 when I was 11. My brother Eric taught me how to build a PC Clone. I think it was an IBM XT Clone made by Ever Perfect Systems. I think I was either 13 or 14 at the time. Ahh those were the days.

Kristof
 
Ahh... the joys of videogames. I can clearly remember the day I got my first computer (Windows 3.1) and my first game. It was Screamer 2, some arcade-ish driving game. Then I got Road Rash. :)

Commander Keen has to be one of the best games I've played. I think you could still get the game somewhere... just find around. Can't really remember my age that time though... should be like, 5-6? Yeap.

First taste of console gaming : PS1.
First game played : Road & Track : The Need for Speed.

:)

Current console : PS2.
First game : GT3.
 
Wow, a couple of you go way back. That's cool stuff.

I've played all the consoles you've listed here. But has anyone played Colecovision (sp?)? Man that was weird. It was so far ahead of its time. And the few games I saw were incredible. Unfortunately it wasn't very durable. Lots of the parts were broken and many of the games didn't work. The one I remember, though, was a Mikey Mouse game. Mikey was more animated than anything I saw in Nintendo - it was incredible. But for some reason we didn't play it much. Perhaps it crapped out partway through the game.
 
I played duck hunt when I was 2. Then I beat Donkey kong country when I was 6 years old. DKC and mario kart got me into video games...well duck hunt to..but I don't remember that.
 
The earliest video gaming experience I remember is from the very early 1980s when my father returned from the United States with a game console called "Grandstand". It was console that plugged into the TV and had games called "Tennis", "Soccer", "Squash", etc. and each one consisted of players (green lines) on a black screen trying to hit a ball (green square) around the TV set. It was awesome at the time.

A couple of years later, maybe 1984, myself and my brother got a Sinclair Spectrum for Christmas, complete with external tape drive. Oh, the fun we had playing Home Runner, Manic Miner, Pssst! and Bugaboo the Flea.


KM.
 
I remember sitting in front of my cousin's nintendo for hours upon hours on end every time we went to visit them back when I was 4 or 5. I always played either a monster truck game, or duck hunt.
 
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mars attacks was a great game!! :D
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Originally posted by LoudMusic
Wow, a couple of you go way back. That's cool stuff.

I've played all the consoles you've listed here. But has anyone played Colecovision (sp?)? Man that was weird. It was so far ahead of its time. And the few games I saw were incredible. Unfortunately it wasn't very durable. Lots of the parts were broken and many of the games didn't work.
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I had one of those - I had the Atari adapter for it, too.

The controllers were crap - I had an old 9 pin Suncom joystick (which also worked on my Amiga), so you'd use the keypad on the stockcontroller, and quickly change it while the game was loading.

My first video-game experience - jeez, I can remember an old Pong machine at the Cowes Hotel at Phillip Island. but hardly ever played it. I can definitely remember playing Asteroids when I was 9 or 10, and Space Invaders before that...
 
my first gaming experience when i was 4 or 5 and i got some hideous atari console for my birthday..i think it was the one with built in controller IN the console itself? not sure though.. but they had this boxing game for it, 2 stick figures, a black and blue one.. was the best thing around at the time..heh good days..
 
I remember playing "Mappy" for hours on end on a Japanese NES I had. It also had 150 other games which I can't remember now.
 
My first video game experience would have to be the commodore 64 arr those were the days and then there was the amiga and now the pc. :( good ol' memories :p
 
I believe I was first exposed to video games at the age of 3....or maybe 3.5 years old....and it was my old ass atari system.....asteroids, pacman, so old, I dont' even reember the rest..

then came the time when i was 5 and I had an NES.....those were good times!

then came SNES, N64, PS2, NGC in that order
 

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