How old were you when you first started playing racing 'sims'?

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By sims i mean Gran Turismo (ofc), Forza and the few PC one's we have (live 4 speed etc.)

the only sim i have played is the Gran Turismo series. i borrowed gt3 from my revhead cousin when i was about 7 or so. played it to the best of my ability:scared:lol. Then when GT4 came out i got that; i was in the 4th grade.
15 now.

Anyway, 2003 for me
 
I'm also 15 years old right now.

I started playing Gran Turismo (1 of course) when I was 5 years old.
 
I take it GT4's a "sim", so... '05
BUT - NFS: Porsche 2000 was pretty realistic for a Need for Speed, so.. 200.... and...3, I think.

And Blood, this should technically go in the gaming area - but it might not. It's 1.10 in the morning in NZ right now... so don't bother me :lol:.
 
I'm 37, was playing arcade and even more basic car games (Pitstop on Commodore 64) when I was about 10, it was difficult to get computers in a home before 1982.

I stopped at university to be able to concentrate on getting a real life organised. Till last year I got frustrated with work times, bought a PS3 and started GT5p, the first real sim.
I had tried to run "racer" on my PC before, but the graphics card did not support it, but it probably got me to look further.
 
I want to say 2001? I got GT1 as a present on my 7th birthday. I may have played some computer sims before then but they didn't leave a big enough impression for me to even remember what they were. :p When I got Gran Turismo was when I really got into racing sims.
 
1992 Formula One World Grand Prix on PC. I was 20 back then.
 
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I started with GT3 back when I was I think 22 or 23? Hated GT3 at first then I found a site (not this one) that introduced me to GT3 hybrids. Once I got into making GT3 hybrids I was hooked for a long time and learned to really appreciate racing sims. After that I played GT2, then GT4, then got truly hooked on the Forza series. So far the Forza series is the best sim I have played. Especially Forza 3.
 
2007 when I met my girlfriend who had a PS2 and Guitar Hero. I was 46 years old!

So I tried it and lo and behold I could play electric button guitar!:)

Before then I had never played video games or pc games; and only played the 'submarine torpedo game-with periscope' at the game arcade :)

So I bought GT4 to try out on the PS2; then Ferrari Challenge (PS2) and some plane arcade games like Heroes over the Pacific and Secret Weapons over Normandy.

The I bought a PS3 with the big screen HD TV and surround sound and bought GT5 Prologue and Ferrarri Challenge and Baja 1000, Nascar.

Then came the G25; finding GT Planet; getting the Playseat; and finally 'qualifying' for GT Planet registry!

I grew up in Montreal so I enjoyed attending the Canadian Grand Prix as well as a number of race series at Mont Tremblant.

Only now do I get to race; be it only a simulation-cheaper than destroying a car eh :dopey:
 
I first started playing gt3 aged 8 when I got a ps2 back in the christmas of 2004.
I couldn't play gt4 as it wouldn't play on my ps2 for some reason.
 
I was 17 when GT1 came out. Unless you call Super Mario Kart on the SNES a Sim :lol: I used to be quite great at that game....ahhh memories.

Jerome
 
I was 12 when Gran Turismo was released and I didn't really have an understanding of racing lines, braking, oversteer understeer etc. I used to watch my brother play most of the time. I can remember he has a tuned Nissan Silvia and I used it one day while he was at work. I spent the whole day racing the same competition to get the bonus credits so that I could buy the Toyota Supra race car (can't remember the name now).

My only real memory of actually trying to race in the correct way was with TOCA.
 
18.

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The first "realistic" racing game I recall playing was Nigel Mansell's Grand Prix on the Amstrad CPC 464 back in 1988.

I think that qualifies as a sim but, if not, then it would be

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Indianapolis 500: The Simulation was probably the first serious sim I played. Released in 1990 it was probably the first serious sim I could play.

And I've probably played every sim released since on the Amiga/Megadrive/Saturn/Dreamcast/PS/PS2/PS3/PC
 
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The first racing game I played which I would dare to call realistic for the time and the machines available, a Commodore C128D in C64-mode in this case, would be Pitstop II from 1985.



I can't reconstruct exactly, but it must have been between '85 and '87, which means I was between 8 and 10 years old.
 
Hmm.. only game I can think of is GT1 when I first got my Playstation. Probably 4 or 5.
 
My first racing sim game was for the sega genesis, it was Ayrton Senna GP and it blew my mind! i belive i was 6 or 7 at the time but i had never played a game like that and since then i was hooked. After a few years the next best thing was "road and track presents: The need for speed" for the now defunct Panasonic 3DO. That game was an absolute blast, with the crashes and the video intros to each car, i knew then and there that i would be an eternal gear head..
 
i don't consider anything on a console a true sim, so, f1c (pc) would be my first sim. i got that when it was released.
 
The first sim-esque game that I can recall playing was CART World Series for the playstation 1 and i started playing that when I was 6. Played that religiously with my brother until GT came out the next year and the rest is history!
 

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