Seriously now, how did you got into gaming?

Do you guys remember how you got into gaming? How old were you? What was the first platform you played on or owned?

Yesterday I was trying to fresh up my memory and I realized that it's been 19 years ago... (in a distant 1994) on my birthday I've been given a Nintendo SNES. Crazy days

Years and years ago my brother got a PlayStation for his birthday. Some time went by, like maybe a couple of years, and he had lost interest in gaming so I began using it more and more until the PlayStation gradually just became mine. I was somewhere between the ages of 6 and 8 when that happened. Both my brother and I had an NES as well before PlayStation but neither of us really used it a lot. I do have great memories of it but I was so young. It didn't make me a "gamer" at that age lol.

Atari and Pong.

Then Super Mario on NES.

Then it came SNES

Then Sega Genesis/Mega Drive

and so on...

Went to an arcade in '81 or '82. Played Defender. Was dying to keep sticking quarters in it until I could get to the next level.

Can't really remember my age, but I got started with the N64.

Wow...let me take back.....back in da dayz. LOL :P

Well can say it started for me back in about '85 or so between going to arcades playin Pac-Man and stuff, then one of my cousin's got an Atari and we played stuff like E,T. and Custard's Last Stand (omg.....how I never realized how tacky lewd that game was, lol, I think my cousins did--they were boys after all). Then I remember a few years later when my mom & dad used to go over his best friends house, his kids (which were a bit older than me) got the NES and we played Duck Hunt & Super Mario Bros.

Geez, I was so hooked, begged by mom & dad to get me one! I never for get my 7/8 birthday THEY DID! One of my dearest memories was me, my mom (which never gamed), and dad playing Duck Hunt together. :)

Nobody can take that away from me....25+ yrs later that's why I'm the gamer I am.

My uncle gave me a Sega Master System when I was around 3, eventually had access to an NES. The rest is history.

when i was 3 (1999) i always watch my step-brother play Playstation then i play it.

then i got a Playstation, then PS2 then a little bit of gameboy, then PSP, then PS3, then PS vita

mine is a weird story because when i started playing and when i got into games are 2 different times.

i started gaming after my older cousin bought a famicom (nes in the u.s.) and i saw him playing battle city, excite bike, mario etc....

when i seriously started gaming is senior year of high school and a game called tony hawk pro skater. i played the crap out of the demo and i skipped school to play that game.

My brother had a 2600. I was 3 when I was allowed to play with it. I was fascinated watching my brother play BurgerTime, Q-Bert, Space Invaders, Centipede and Breakout. I remember some legendary Track & Field battles with my friends too. We went through quite a few joysticks, [spoiler] [/spoiler]

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3 decades later, I still play those games.

my father gave me his NES when I was really small, don't exactly remember the details except for the fact that I had Super Mario Bros., Duck Hunt, and a fun Popeye game.

The arcades were on the way home from school? :lol:

For Christmas when I was 5 or 6 a family friend bought us a PS2 with Crash Bandicoot: The Wrath of Cortex and that was the end of our potential :P

I don't know, I've just always been into it. In the beginning, I used to play "games" like Math Rabbit and Reader Rabbit on those big old floppy disks, as well as play on my dad's intellivision and my cousins' NES. Then when I got my Genesis, I became even more hooked.

I must have been somewhere between 4 and 6. When I was little, I played arcade games in a local pizza parlor (my dad used to pull up one of the benches from a table to the arcade machine so I could reach it). My parents got me my NES when I was about 6. I stopped console gaming for a few years in 2002, and did some PC gaming. Then I got back into consoles in 2007 when I had cancer and I asked my parents to buy me a used PS2. Ever since then, I've had a Wii, a 360, and most recently a Wii U, and gaming is one of my 2 major hobbies. I'll be 30 in March.

I was about 6 or 7 and my dad came home with a ZX Spectrum 48k and a cassette player. Played games like Wild West Hero and Fighter Pilot before progressing to things like the mighty Dizzy.

I then got a Megadrive and PC (old 486 with a 66MHz processor) in the early 90s before PlayStation and N64 a few years later.

Been gaming for about 26 years now which is a little scary when I think of the face I'm only 33 and still love it and get excited about a new release on almost everything I own.

my grandmother bought me a nes but i was too young to even remember, but my earliest memories of gaming was arcade cabenets and an old Mortal Kombat handheld, the first consoles i do remember owning was the Sega Genisis and Gameboy...

The arcades were on the way home from school? :lol:

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Oh dude this is also so typical, I remember back in the days with my friends, we were secretly skiping school and going to the arcades and after when school was finished we were simply going back home like nothing ever happened. I remember once my mother caught me at the arcades cause she received a phone call from the teachers. DAAAAAAAAmnn.....

It's really nice reading all these posts from people recalling their memories. To be honest I was not expecting so many old school gamers here, '80s? W00t...
Thought most would be after playstation era. Very nice... keep the posts comming.

I started gaming when I was 4 or 5 I believe on the PS1. I remember having the fat model and playing MGS, Gran Turismo, Mortal Kombat 4. Street Fighter alpha something something and a ton of other games. After that I simply became a gamer.

Long ago when I was oh about 7 I think, my Parents bought me and my brother the NES game console for Christmas, witch came with Super Mario Broes / Duck Hunt . After that day I was and always will be a gammer.

I suppose it was on the Atari when I was 4 or 5 (around 22 years ago for me). But we unfortunately never owned any early Nintendo or Sega console, so it wasn't until the N64 (my actual first console) that I started to really get into a large amount of gaming.

Played a few of my cousins games when I was 3 years old. When I was 4, my dad bought me and my sister a playstation 1 with spyro the dragon and some rugrats games. And my love for gaming took off from there.

I think it was playing The Secret of Monkey Island on an Atari ST when I was around 6, maybe 7, as well as hanging out at a friends house playing various games on her Amiga like Sleepwalker and Street Fighter 2.

My first console was a Playstation which I received for Christmas in 1997 (aged 9).

It all began with my aunts Amiga 500, followed by my uncles 3.86 PC and his game library on it and then, when I was around 8 - 10, my first own console, the SNES with The Legend of Zelda - A Link to The Past

I played Mario Kart 64 at a friend's house back in 1997 and later I got my own N64. I was hooked ever since.

Back in the days(around 76) I had a Pong Machine and I got an Intellivision back in 1981, but I wasnt much of a so called gamer. I spent most of my time outside hanging with my friends. So I mostly played arcade games like Defender and Star Castle which was in the candy store.

It wasnt until 1992 when I saw Street Fighter 2 on the Snes sparked my interest into playing games on the regular. I did dabble a little in the NES with SMB in the late 80's, but like I said I wasnt what some one would consider a gamer.

My dad got me into gaming from as early as I can remember. I think I started on Kings Quest games/Monkey Island and Heroes of Might and Magic which I had an unhealthy obsession with.

I've been gaming pretty much since I could hold a controller. Well, not quite, but pretty close. I'm 35, born in '77, and started to game in the mid-eighties with my earliest memories consisting of the Collecovision, Atari 2600 and ST, and a few others.

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Cousins and family friends had NES',Amigas,and others.

For my sixth bday in 1993,a family friend bought be something called the Super Nintendo.

Bam,nearly two decades relationship with Nintendo.

Lol.

My parents had a ps1(now mine) and I played it as soon as I could hold the controller and sit in front of the TV. Got a game boy color when I was 3 or 4.

My father and brother played Super Mario Bros on the NES and I joined in. I was three at the time.

An adult friend of my parents let me borrow his NES, and I played Contra and lots of SMB/Duck Hunt. I finally had to give it back after about a month.

I begged and begged for a system since all my friends had one, and finally....Santa brought one to me Christmas morning(still the best xmas ever). Later I got FF1, and it pretty much snowballed from there.

As far as I can remember, I played at my 3 some chil pc games. When I was 4 I received a ps1 with crash bandicoot. Got hooked and played bit later fps games on ps1 and pc.

Commodore 64..............great times!!!