How did you start as a gamer? PC? Handheld? Console?

Even though I am a big PC gamer, I actually didn't get started with PC gaming in particular.

I started playing video games in 1998, and got started with a Game Boy Color and a copy of Pokemon Red. For the next two years, I played nothing but handheld games, and since I didn't have access to the Internet or gaming magazines back then, I relied heavily on recommendations from my grade school friends.

I begged my parents for a Playstation 2 (when it was released), but they refused, claiming that I should be satisfied with my Game Boy Color.

But, after seeing how my friends started using word processors to finish their homework, I asked my parents for a computer. They bought me one. It was a Compaq, if I remember correctly, and it ran on a Pentium III processor with Windows 98 pre-loaded onto it. Immediately, I started asking for recommendations from my grade school friends, and most of them recommended Doom, Half-Life, Age of Empries, Command and Conquer, etc.

I still played handheld games (and still do today), but... the scale of PC games made me declare the PC to be my primary platform.

PC/Console gaming. It was pretty awesome.

The NES is my answer.

PC games.

Our family computer in 88' had a 20 meg harddrive and prodigy internet, it was awesome.

I didn't get a nes until about 90'.

Atari2600 and TI99a

Started with an nes and my moms old work pc which had tons of games. One of my favorites.:D

Amiga 500+ in the very early 90s, i can still remember the box it came in with Captain Planet and Lemmings on it.

PC- commodore 64 then I went console with atari , NES etc.

The NES is my answer.

mitu123

NES and Super Mario.

Started with PC gaming when i was 3 years old

First on PC. Went for consoles later, then PC again, then consoles, and now it's a mix of both.

So yeah, got started on PC :P

TC the lack of Arcade in your poll makes me unable to comply.

NES - Genesis - PC - PS1 - PS2/Xbox - PS3/360

There ya go.

Ahhhh, so much time spent between my brother and dad trying to beat each others high levels,fond memories :).

I'm guessing it was pinball at the movies. Then onto the arari NES commodore 64 all that jazz. I really loved the arcade in state college PA. Also there was a Aliens arcade game down the hill from my house at a Sheetz.

I dont remember:P It was either the Nes or Pitfall the Mayan adventure for the pc, man that game was the s***.

What would the Commodore 64 count as? Had much more features than a console and worked more like a PC, though I wouldn't call it a PC.tomarlyn

A Commodore 64 is a PC.

The NES is my answer.

mitu123

I started with the NES, started gaming as a hobby with the pc, then i got tired of the pc, got a CONSOLE again with this generation,

Good old Atari 2600.

Started with the NES and the Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt catridge.

Like alot of pc gamers solitaire on windows 3.1 :P

Probably everything on the list plus arcades all more or less at once. My family had every Nintendo console clear back to the NES and my dad has nearly always owned a gaming PC. I had a gameboy in the early 90's as well, followed by a gameboy color. We lived pretty close to an arcade so we'd often go there as well. The very, very first though would probably have to be the NES.

It's like life. You start off with cheap stuff (console) and eventually make money and go with more luxurious items (highend PC).

You should've put 'arcade' as an option, because I bet a lot of people got their start that way, too.

I voted consoles, but my first ever game was on a PC which I played for about 5 to 10 minutes. I didn't really start as a gamer until the age of about 5 when I received a Sega Master System for Christmas.

o man got to show age here lol i started gaming in bout 1986 on the commodore 64 then onto the gameboy etc etc etc etc

I started with the gameboy color