At what age did you start gaming?

[Daughter of Evil]

I started playing at the age of 5. My first game that I played was Mario which was also my favorite at the time.

 

[mithcd]

I started around age 7. When Legend Of Zelda was the most popular. 

 

[CWells]

I started gaming at about 7. And I wish I could up the age to 10 instead. Don't start early.

 

[Povincci]

Hmm, as far as I can remember, I was around 3 or 4 when I started playing with my SNES. Super Mario World was just so good~

 

[Chaneque]

Around 6 or 7, because I think that's the age one of my cousins is and I gave him my extra copy of Pokémon Platinum last year. It would be nice if he learned to use the save button instead of starting from the beginning every time. His sister games too, but... mostly girly games. Unlike me. 

 

[EvilEagles]

Somewhere around 4-5 I think. Got my NES as a new year present and stuck with it til 12.

 

[PixelLuchi]

Dunno. I never owned a console until I got a PS2 back in 2004, but regards to playing games seriously, probably around 12 or 13 ( I was 13 when I played my first RPG... yeaaaah ).

 

[Seacliff]

As long as I can remember I played Mario Bros. on the Atari.

 

[voymasa]

As long as I can remember I played Mario Bros. on the Atari.

Thank God! Finally someone whose played real "classics".

 

[Fatalfugus]

Pretty much from the start of my memories I was playing the original NES at ol' Grandma's house. Can't say exactly how old I was... very young.

 

[Redeye]

I've been playing ever since I was born.

I think I remember, the first game I played was Contra for the NES, well, that's what my dad told me. 'Twas about 1 or 2 years old at the time.

 

[Milkdud]

4ish with Doom, but I don't remember much of that. 5 when I started playing Command and Conquer and Ultima VII with my dad.

 

[Emzie]

I think i was 5, when brick games were popular and cheap.

 

[Hoofster]

Hmm, somewhere around 4 or 5.  I'd played NES, SNES and Sega but I think what really got me hooked was the Game Boy.  I also love Super Metroid, favorite game of all time.

 

[Tripticket]

I'm probably a bit younger than most of you. When I was 4 or 5 I got a GameBoy Color with Kirby. Played a bunch of GameBoy cartridges, as well as the SNES whenever I visited family friends with one. My first proper computer game must have been one of the old RPGs followed by DOOM. That's back in the day when you still got games by trading with people you knew. Good old times.

 

[Xoltox]

I started at the age of 3 (basically that involved the DESTRUCTION OF MY elder bros consoles and controllers...)

at 4 i started to show interest...

but...

at the age of 5 i became serious about em... 

Edit -

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I GOT MY 200th POST!!!!!

 

[Daijou]

I'd say I was six or seven when I first laid hands on a Sega Genesis. I put so many hours into Sonic / Sonic 2. Then when they released the third iteration with Knuckles in it, plus the option to put in one of the earlier games for the option to play as Knuckles.. best thing ever! Other memorable games I played on it were Boogerman, Awesome Opposum, Earthworm Jim, Aladdin (I think this was the first game I ever beat), and some motorbike racing game where I had to manually write down a code to 'save' progress.

 

[Scythuz]

Started at 6, my obsession developed quickly over time.  Covering between 6 and 10 years old... I started out with pc (mainly demos of stuff like jedi knight, descent, outlaws, sonic cd, earthworm jim 3d), sega megadrive (sonic games, flicky, castle of illusion) and gameboy (mario land series, pokemon).

Things really got going when I got my ps2 and played psone games like crash bandicoot, spyro and final fantasy.  

 

[Elements]

When I was 6 or 7.

Megaman X and Mortal kombat where the first games I played.

 

[Xoltox]

Those were golden memories... man those were THE times...