When did you start playing console games?

[Fragmastar]

I started playing at age eight.

[Renzatic Gear]

I got into console gaming back with the NES when I was 12. It might be nostalgia but I don't think I've had as much fun with any system as I had with it. How can you top building a fort around your TV out of chairs and blankets with your friends and playing Goonies 2 all night long?

Ah to be 12 again.

[Tracer1]

I started playing when I was 8 years old, back in the glory days of Phoenix, Outlaw, Moon Patrol and Asteroids... I was in Grade 4 then and renting an Atari console to play those games

Yehey! My first post to our new messageboard

[Tracer1]

<div class=\"smallfont\">I started playing when I was 8 years old, back in the glory days of Phoenix, Outlaw, Moon Patrol and Asteroids... I was in Grade 4 then and renting an Atari console to play those games

Yehey! My first post to our new messageboard</div>

btw... I'm not a girl. My avatar was only my favorite actress.

[Wheat, Bob]

Pac-Man and Combat were the first games I played, which were on Atari. I had to be between the ages of 4 and 6 at that time. I was a master of the one button joystick.

[Suicides-by-Steve]

<div class=\"smallfont\">I started playing at age eight.</div>

22 or so years ago...

[Cuddly Knife]

I've been playing for about nineteen years (~1984). Since I was six.

[Gadfly2317]

I got my first console system in 1979: An Oddysey II. Anyone remember the "classics" Attack of the Timelord, Pick Axe Pete, UFO, KC Munchkin, Alpine Skiing, or Cosmic Conflict? I think every game on this system was a cheap knock of other games (Pick Axe Pete was Donkey Kong, KC Munchkin was Pac Man.) I was nine, and it was fun anyway. It had a keyboard on it, which never got used. I mostly played Othello on this system: buy a kid an expensive electronic gadget and he'll use it play an ancient chinese board game you could have picked up for 10 bucks.

[trebor]

I think I was around 5 or 6 when my parents bought us a "Bally's Home Entertainment System" or whatever - it was "Bally's" something.

It was great at the time - it had the built in calculator and built in games like "Snake" which was the precurser to the "Tron" game where you pilot the motorcyle deal that leaves a trail you are supposed to trap your opponents in. "Space Invaders", "Bottle Shoot", etc. Those were the good old days.

I didn't get my next console until I was roughly 17 - a SNES with a copy of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Which, incidently, is probably the videogame I'm best at out of all the videogames in the world. That or Galaga.

[The Buzz]

<div class=\"smallfont\">I got my first console system in 1979: An Oddysey II. Anyone remember the "classics" Attack of the Timelord, Pick Axe Pete, UFO, KC Munchkin, Alpine Skiing, or Cosmic Conflict? I think every game on this system was a cheap knock of other games (Pick Axe Pete was Donkey Kong, KC Munchkin was Pac Man.) I was nine, and it was fun anyway. It had a keyboard on it, which never got used. I mostly played Othello on this system: buy a kid an expensive electronic gadget and he'll use it play an ancient chinese board game you could have picked up for 10 bucks.</div>


My first console was also an Oddysey II. Small world...I got it in "81" though. I played the hell out of KC and Pick Axe Pete! What I remember most though is the hundreds of hours my brother and I spent playing our combined old school consoles back in the early eighties. Our ATARI 2600, 5200, Colecovision, Intellivision, and Vectrex.

[Oobgarm]

As soon as my parents would let me play their Atari 2600, so I was like 3 or 4.

[Fragmastar]

<div class=\"smallfont\">As soon as my parents would let me play their Atari 2600, so I was like 3 or 4.</div>

Man, talk about an early age!

[Gadfly2317]

<div class=\"smallfont\">I think I was around 5 or 6 when my parents bought us a "Bally's Home Entertainment System" or whatever - it was "Bally's" something.

I didn't get my next console until I was roughly 17 - a SNES with a copy of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo. Which, incidently, is probably the videogame I'm best at out of all the videogames in the world. That or Galaga.</div>


Hmmm. . . .though I've put my fight game skills on a shelf due to aging fingers, I still imagine I could give you a run for your money on SF II Turbo. Even using slow-ass Dhalsim (though I tended to play with Chun Li or Blanca.)

And Galaga--I was the Galaga master once upon a time; loved it as a kid, and then in college it was the only game in the laundromat I used. My clothes would be wrinkling because I just couldn't walk away with all those ships still left.

[Zilla Man]

In 1974 at eight years old. We had a Pong/Light Gun hybrid. Then I moved up to the 2600, Intellivision, 5200, C-64, and Genesis...

[Carter, Dustin]

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Man, talk about an early age!</div>

Yeah. I remember playing games like Combat, Dodge-'Em, and that hideous Pac Man port.

DANK-DANK DANK-DANK DANK DANK-DANK *BOOP!*

[Twelve]

<div class=\"smallfont\">I've been playing for about nineteen years (~1984). Since I was six.</div>


Exactly when I started playing, at that exact age as well. A day after my first kindergarten class, I beheld Pac-Man. And my addiction began!!


12

[E.T.]

<div class=\"smallfont\">I got into console gaming back with the NES when I was 12. It might be nostalgia but I don't think I've had as much fun with any system as I had with it. How can you top building a fort around your TV out of chairs and blankets with your friends and playing Goonies 2 all night long?

Ah to be 12 again.</div>

What a "well rounded" American mutt tradition Renzatic...there is NOTHING like building a fort in the living room & gaming [I still do :D ]