How long have you been a PC Gamer?

From 2002 i got hooked my brother built his first gaming PC i think its CPU was 400mhz back then lol. I used it more playing the original call of duty and Soilder of Fortune 2. Until 2004-2005 i got hyped for Battlefiled 2 and built my gaming rig for the first time i still remember buying my AGP Ati 9600XT for it, good times 15 years for me.

NEVER

been PC gaming since I was a little kid(2003ish). Built my first PC when I was 14.

Never owned a console, probably never will.

I remember playing PC games on my neighbor's PC he had Windows '95.

I preferred consoles I still do but I also used to game on PC since then we didn't get our first computer until 1998.

But I took breaks between years, I think between 2002 and 2010 I didn't play any PC games. I took a break from PC gaming again from 2014/2015 through just last month.

I've been playing consoles since 1988 or 1989.

Since Windows 3.1 and DOS in '91 on my dad's PCs. I've grown around computers.

My dad is a huge nerd when it comes to PCs. He's been building and buying PCs since the late 70s and 80s so it's only natural that I started early.

My dad got me a mac in '92 and then he got a PC for me around '94 just before Windows 95 came out.

I've been playing on my parents' consoles since I could walk ('86) and I didn't get my own first console till the Master System till in '89.

Started in 1990 with Gorillas ans Nibbles. Later Wolfenstein 3D, Commander Keen, Duke Nukem (not 3D) and Doom II.

I've been playing consoles since 1989.

2015

I suppose technically since '86, as my first video games were played on a commodore sx64. Classics like q-bert, zaxxon, bubble bobble, etc.

However once I got a game boy in 91 or maybe 92, i was pretty much a console gamer until I played diablo at a buddy's house in 98. At first the keyboard/mouse control seemed cumbersome, but once I got used to it I was hooked.

That being said, I've always owned at least one console from every generation starting with the snes, but the number of games I buy on console has drastically dwindled. Hell my ps4 pro has a whopping 3 games, and might increase to 5 tops some day.

Computers were big in the UK in the 1980's. Spectrum, C64, Acorn, Amiga etc...

I guess about 25 years. Don't know exactly. Well if C64 counts, then more like 30 years.

I've been on a 3 year break........ Last PC I built had a de-lidded 3770k at 5Ghz and SLI GTX970's with custom BIOS.... SSD raid-0 and every thing water cooled with £600 worth of water cooling gear.

Got sick of basically playing console ports or games held back by consoles so sold it..... and I also got back in to an old hobby so the PC took more of a back seat role also.

I do have the occasional moments where I do miss it and think about building another...... but then I remember that it's not very often I play my PS4 so building a PC would be a waste.

That and there's no games on PC that are worth building a new machine for.

Since the late 80s

I had played some videogames before, but what really made me become interested in gaming was the RTS and FPS that I played on PC.

Back then these genres were only possible on a PC, I'm talking 1997-1998.

Since early to mid 90's. I got into gaming through adventure games on the PC. Gabriel Knight, Kings Quest, Monkey Island, the LucasArts games, I loved all that shit. You didn't have to build a PC back then to get the best out of anything and in fact if you wanted a superior gaming experience you bought a console or an Amiga 500 (PC's were infamously shit at games hard to believe now I know).

So I've gone through pretty much every stage of PC gaming and never tired of it all through the years. I miss the great exclusives we used to get all the time particularly RPG's though the resurgence of games like Divinity and Pillars are a great trip through memory lane to a time when PC was RPG King.

I also went through the MMO treadmill, Ultima Online, Everquest, Anarchy Online, Wow etc and absolutely loved it but they take up so much fucking time!

Not very long. For about three years I gamed on a mid-performance build mostly playing classic PC games like Deus Ex, adventure games and puzzle games. Only earlier this year did I decide to build a more high-end machine to make it my go-to platform for multiplatform releases. :)

Same except I owned a Playstation1/2, Gamecube, and Wii. Also built my first PC around age 14.

I think it was 2000... It was a pre-built but I still played Quake II and Halflife.

First GPU was a MX440 that was given to me that I used all the way till I got my own money and built my self my first PC in 2006 with a 7600GT and Athlon 64 X2 4400+... And I finally got to play BF2 and CSS on highest settings.

This generation is the first generation that I have been almost exclusively a PC gamer, I think that says a lot... Not many exclusives worth play from Sony or Microsoft this generation.

Over 20 years now. Started with a 386 with SimCity 2000 and Doom II. I know wasn't supposed to be able to play the latter, but it came with the computer.

Since around 2000 when I was 7 years old. That makes it 17 years.

Since I was 7 (1997)

I wish I still had my original PC, just so I could see what the specs were like lol

Since 1999. Wouldn't have it any other way.

If it's strictly PC as in IBM-compatibles? Since the late 80's. If talking about the Commodore C-128 and Amiga? A number of years before that.

I didn't go PC-only until 1995 when I discontinued use of my Amiga A1200.

And yes, it was a pain to maintain universal (aka MS-DOS) compatibility when using an alternative platform only.

My first PC was a Tandy 1000SX with 640k RAM and 2x 360k 5.25" floppy drives. I remember buying an ISA-slot 10MB RLL hard drive for $500. Graphics was 4-color CGA plus 16-color Tandy graphics. It had 3-channel (non-stereo) audio and an 8088 CPU.

The one thing unique with Tandy computers was the OS and Deskmate GUI being on the BIOS. However, later MS-DOS versions had to be installed and run from disk storage.

I dropped PC since like 2000-2001.

1990 I think

My first PC was a ZX81. I built my first IBM compatible PC in 1990 or maybe it was 91.

Since 1986 if we are being non specific with the OS.

Been dabbling with PC gaming since the late 80s, but it didn't become my main gaming system until like 4 or 5 years ago. Always preferred console gaming for the most part and just dipped into PC for specific types of games here and there. But everything flipped around this gen, now consoles are the sideshow.

Played a bit here and there but played for a fair amount between 1998 and 2004. I don’t game on the PC these days though as I prefer consoles right now.

summer 2015

Have been on and off PC gaming since the 1990s, the last time I was interesting in PC gaming was three years ago with Civilization IV. Has been a long-time console gamer and like PC gaming, on and off through the years since the early 1980s.

I was a console gamer my whole life(started in 84 or 85 with Atari 2600). In 2012 I went back to college to get my masters in school leadership and bought a cheap laptop for school work.

I was a huge fan of the xbox live indie game scene and its death roughly corresponded with the time that I got my laptop, one day I was googling indie games to find another outlet for them and I stumbled onto steam. My first steam game was Mutant Mudds deluxe which I bought in December of 2012(which was during the steam christmas sale that year), at that point I discovered the enormous wealth of games that exist on PC and the unbelievable sales that existed on the platform and a few months later I put together a much higher end PC and have been gaming almost exclusively on PC ever since.

Since 1995. I got really hooked in the early 2000s.

I play few PC games but mostly Space Sims in the late 90's but I started PC gaming since the arrival of Crysis and so with that, I been PC gaming for 10 years since Crysis is also 10 years old.

Edit: My first console was SNES back in 1993.

Got my first PC in 96-97.. First game I ever got on it was NHL 98 back in late 97.

Then I got Half-Life and that game hooked my life, I remember the 40ish MB demo took me 2 days to download on my 28.8k connection.

Around 2000-02 I became hardcore into Counter-Strike, Q3 Arena, Day of Defeat and other half-life mods (action half life ftw)

Then around 2002 I got hardcore into BF 1942 which transitioned to BF Vietnam and 2.

at this time I had my Xbox but did not do any online gaming until Halo 2 in 2004, got a 360 in 2005 and played the shit out of gears for a few years, but after 2007 I got hooked by the MMO titan World of Warcraft, and I abandoned consoles till about 2012 again.

20 years since 1997. It was a Pentium 2 MMX 266Mghz, 32MB of RAM, and 3.2GB of HD and 4MB of Video, a total beast back then

My first PC games were Doom2, War Craft 2, Master of Orion 2, Warhammer Dark Omen and Fallout 2

Had a PC since 1992. Reppin that 486.

Mostly had alot of the arcadey stuff from Epic and Apogee. But really enjoyed the sim and theme games.

Started on 98 when my dad bought our first PC. I got Rainbow Six followed by Need For Speed III: Hot Pursuit and FIFA 98 RTWC.

Since 1990 when i bought a PC for my studies...with the first Soundblaster, color VGA and...Wing Commander and Ultima VI !!!

Have been since late 90s/early 00s. before PC i used to play games on sega genesis. after than id say good bye to consoles and never looked back.

Since the 286 era I've always had a pc.

Since the 80's. I used to play both PC and console a lot when I was a kid and then I started to gravitate more towards PC in the 90's. I have always owned the consoles for exclusives, but PC gaming is the greatest.

2008 - 2011...got in on the Crysis craze to see if it was the revolution PC fans made it out to be, needless to say It wasn't long before I was back 100% console gaming.

Played a few highly recommended PC exclusives but for me the quality just wasn't a match for what I experienced on consoles.

There was the Commodore 64 in the 80s. Apart from that, I grew up on consoles, and got back into PC gaming a bit in 2004 (I was 32). I got a new PC in 2007 and had a lot of technical issues with those two gaming PCs. My latest PC from 2012 has been more stable (apart from the first few months), but I've always had a preference for consoles.

What the hell are the problems all the time ? :)

Since 2005

Since 93 and it started with freaking solitaire though the game that got me hooked was Jazz Jackrabbit . Really got hooked into gaming in 96 when i had my first PC a pentium MMX 200Mhz which i added a Voodoo 2 a year later

For the ones from 2004 and 2007, mostly some games crashing a lot.

For the one I got in 2012, there was a period early on when it wouldn't start up. It would beep four times and then seem to keep attempting to start up. I sent it back and they fixed it. After that, games kept crashing on that one too. I replaced the PSU with a very high quality one, which someone had suggested after trying to fix the problem, and the problem stopped, so I guess that was it. Not long after that, I connected my PC to the TV, since it was in the same room where I was living at the time, and got the Blue Screen of Death, so I didn't try that again. Besides, my surround speakers don't have an HDMI input that this PC needs. I did try an adapter but it didn't work.

Now I have the PC in the second room of the unit I bought two years ago, and the consoles set up in the lounge room with the surround speakers.

I had both pretty much my entire life.

Grow up with atari, nintendo consoles and eventually bought a playstation.

I also had from windows 3.11 area which huge floppy discs pretty much a up to date pc.

I eventually moved into PC gaming more and more after the nintendo 64, the draught was just to much, and the playstation 1 visuals was just vomit i couldn't stand it.

Loved old school tomb raider puzzles, myst and puzzle games in general that where difficult.

I did keep up with handheld gaming tho, moved from the gameboy all the way to 3DS, i did drop however after nintendo 64 / playstation 2 console gaming pretty much entirely.

24 years for me.

From around 1988, which by the way also was the same year that I got a NES. Been gaming ever since. I still have a sneaking suspicion that my farther gave me that NES that Christmas because I hogged the PC far too much :o