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

Started gaming on the PC, an IBM machine to be exact.

SNES.

Been playing Consoles since the NES. Never played any games before that. Own every Console since the NES and have been a Console gamer the entire time. I did however pick up PC gaming along the way. Play PC games to a far far lesser degree. But I did pick them up a little.

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Started on a friend's SNES, then got an N64 of my own, then a Game Boy Color, then a PS2, then I got some great PC games (which in combination with the amazing PS2 library just wrecked my life), then I got a PS3, then my PC was on its last dregs of life and couldn't play Crysis on any settings so I quit, then some 360 gaming for a bit, now I'm getting back into PC gaming alongside PS3 gaming in preparation for BF3 and Diablo 3 as well as Uncharted 3 and inFamous 2.

Started as PC gamer in early 1990's.

Today, still enjoy small, specific PC oriented games (Starcraft, Counter-Strike, etc) and rent pretty much everything on my PS3. Three-four games I keep for online, sports but that's about it.

Long gone are the days of School, College and extra times. Family, work, friends take priority, Still, 1-2 hours once in a while to enjoy my hobby is always available. ;)

N64, and then got a NES at a yard sale. I think this was shortly after the N64 launched.

PC --> console --> back to PC permanently

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Of course. I had a few of them. Like Double Dragon and Pitfigter and a few others. So lame yet fun because it was a game you could take with you!!!

and I also had

I started with PC.

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Of course. I had a few of them. Like Double Dragon and Pitfigter and a few others. So lame yet fun because it was a game you could take with you!!!

SNES until 93' when we got our computer with X-Wing and Doom..I remember doom required 7 or so floppy's! :D

as a TRUE gamer should, with a console.

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Hell yes! Coolyfett & his brother got the Bo Jackson one for Xmas 88 or 89!!! We had to share it too. It had two screens on it for Baseball and Football.

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Of course. I had a few of them. Like Double Dragon and Pitfigter and a few others. So lame yet fun because it was a game you could take with you!!!

and I also had

Everyone had these before the Gameboy...its crazy how we went from Tiger games to the 3DS & NGP....WOwzers

I started as a Dirty Console Gamer. First System was My Sweet NES

PC, a person my dad worked with, with was a big sports gamer, so he used to give me the older sports games. Thats what got me into gaming.

Handheld. I was like 6 or something and got Pokemon Red and F1 Racing I think. Was a pretty awesome Christmas.

Got a hand-me down PC from my uncleback in the day with Windows 3.1. I could play stuff like Wolf 3D and Doom II on it. Then that same uncle got me an N64 which really got me into gaming with Super Mario 64. That same uncle got me a Gameboy Color when I was 10 I think with Pokemon Yellow. He also gave me a hand-me down PC with Windows 98 on it after my original PC was dead. I played Diablo II, Giants, Age of Empires II and a few other games on it.

From there I took over the game buying business saving up allowancemoney as a kid. I bought an Xbox in 2001, anda GameCube in 2002. I abandoned PC and handheld gaming from that day forward, buying a 360 in 2006. My family chipped in together in 2006 and bought me a surprise Wii. In 2010 I finally returned to PC gaming after a near 10 year break from it. Of course my uncle had PC games and so I was still exposed to Doom 3, Half-Life 2, F.E.A.R.,No One Lives Forever, Deus Ex, Syberiaand various other games that he played. But in 2010 I got back into it and purchased Crysis: Maximum Edition as my first PC game.

It's hard for me to say how I started because I was always a mixed kid and now I'm still mixed. :P I've got a soft spot for the games that made me as a kid, but the new stuff is really enticing.

PC master race 4 life!

Handheld. Gameboy Advance with Pokemon Ruby 8)

PC, then hardcore console gamer, now back to mostly PC again.

Had a NES, then I bought a PC.

I had a Spectrum 48k.

The Arcade of course, then I went to console gaming with the NES, PSone and PS2 finally I'm here at PC Gaming.

Not on your list but never the less.... Arcade games in stores, doughnut shops and obviously Arcades... then came Pong at home. :shock: :P

I started gaming around 2002 when my mom bought me a Gameboy Advance over summer because my sister left for summer camp and I had nothing to do because I was under the age limit for that camp. It came with a Gameboy Color game, don't ask me why, but it was Pokemon Crystal and now I am in love with Pokemon! :D Anyways, I also got this hot wheels game that was really lame. Well, about 4 months later, I got Super Mario Bros. 3 for it and I was in love with my Gameboy! Then we got a PS2 that Christmas with Jak and Daxter, Ratchet and Clank and Gran Turismo 3, three amazing games! These are what helped me love gaming! :P

I started off with my NES, and combined that years later with Genesis and SNES gaming.

My PC gaming initially was just limited to what was available on school computers (ie. educational games). Eventually I got Monkey Island, though, and by the mid-90s was into Wing Commander, WarCraft, Command & Conquer, etc.

My first experiences with games came from the odyessy 2000 and the atari. My first PC game was Axis and Allies on a big ol floppy disk

My fam had a commandor 64, Atari 2600 and Apple 2 but I was too young to get into them. My first real gaming came on NES

Handheld. I remember getting my originalGameboy back in the day and playing Tetris and Super Mario Land all day long.

PC, my dad ane me would play panzer general 2.