How long have you been a gamer?

pavelbure · Post by **pavelbure** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 10:29 am

i would say 21 years. i was 5 and my dad bought us a atari 5200. galaxian, centipede, missle command, super breakout, super pacman, countermeasure. all very good games.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:37 pm

Not that long my Mum was all anti, it wasnt till the day my little bro actually got some cash and brought a Playstation I started playing. And now I have:
6NES's
A SNES
2Playstations
2SMS's
A Megadrive2
A Mega CD
4Megadrive 1's
A Dreamcast
A Saturn
And an Xbox
To make up for all those missed yearsof good ol 8/16bit gaming

Lunchbox · Post by **Lunchbox** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 12:48 pm

After my dad bought my PlayStation he never wanted me to buy a videogame system ever again. That was the last dollar he ever spent on videogames for me ever, i was in grade 8 at the time. he always keeps saying "You have enough games! They're all the same anyways!" He yelled at me when i bought my DC, and he keeps saying I wasted my money on my Xbox. hell, he STILL doesn't know I have an N64 since I hide it when i'm not playing it

And don't get me started on my PC Games! "THERE'S ONLY 40 GIGS FREE! DELETE THAT CRAP!"

but whatever, i haven't taken him seriously when it comes to electronics since he proudly said "Computers are obsolete!!!"

Post by **Roofus** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 1:00 pm

Lunchbox wrote:After my dad bought my PlayStation he never wanted me to buy a videogame system ever again. That was the last dollar he ever spent on videogames for me ever, i was in grade 8 at the time. he always keeps saying "You have enough games! They're all the same anyways!" He yelled at me when i bought my DC, and he keeps saying I wasted my money on my Xbox. hell, he STILL doesn't know I have an N64 since I hide it when i'm not playing it And don't get me started on my PC Games! "THERE'S ONLY 40 GIGS FREE! DELETE THAT CRAP!"

but whatever, i haven't taken him seriously when it comes to electronics since he proudly said "Computers are obsolete!!!"

I've been playing games since I was about 8. I was really into the NES, even more into the SNES, then I played a Playstation and kind of lost interest in gaming. (Yes, Sony killed my interest in games!) I didn't play a single video game between 1997 and 2001, when I got my Dreamcast. Even on that, I mostly just plyu Shenmue, Soul Calibur and NesterDC. The two systems I still play most often (which is still not much) are my NES and SNES. Seems I've come full circle.

impetus · Post by **impetus** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 2:02 pm

I'm 22 and started with NES back in the day. I've always loved games but I think I became a "gamer" when I got my Dreamcast and GBA a couple years ago.

Right now, PS2, Dreamcast, and NES get the most play.

area · Post by **area** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 2:03 pm

12 years - Mum won me a SMS II when I was four. That was all I had for a fair while until I got a GBC. I only really got a 'proper' console that I was old enough to appreciate when I won my Dreamcast (and then my PS2, and then got my XBox for free

) three years ago.

Hawq · Post by **Hawq** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 2:08 pm

Over 20 years for me also, first comp was a Vic 20 /me gets looked down on by all the swanky gits that had c16's & 128's first, later dived into consoles with a master system with the maze game built in

Vlad Tepes · Post by **Vlad Tepes** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 2:13 pm

I was around 3ish, and it was some system my parents had before I was born. I don't know what the system was called, but it had pong, and a shooting game. I'm 24, so...I've been playing for about 21 years. But the first game I ever seriously got into was Kung Fu Master at a local arcade when I was 5. Dad game me $1 a week to play it

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 2:17 pm

Computers aren't obsolete it takes a minumum of 3 and a half weeks for them to become obsolete nowadays

butters · Post by **butters** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 2:37 pm

My whole life. My grandparents had an Atari 2600 before I was born. I remember playing PacMan on that

I got an NES around 4, a Genesis not too long after it came out, then 32x, N64 (that got stolen -_-), first PC, Dreamcast, N64 again (so I could play Zelda OoT), current PC. I'll be getting a Gamecube sometime in the not too distant future for the sole purpose of Zelda.

daisyboy13 · Post by **daisyboy13** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 2:56 pm

Gamer since five or so, played old nintendo games all day long, but I sucked then.

Sultan of Saturn · Post by **Sultan of Saturn** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 4:59 pm

I've been gaming for almost 20 years. My first system(s) were received for Christmas when I was 5 or 6 for Christmas. They were an Atari 2600 and a Colecovision. I had a butt-load of games, because I think my parents got both systems when the game industry was taking a nose-dive (probably shortly after the ET debacle). My favorite games on the Colecovision were Donkey Kong, Choplifter, and a Big Bird game (it had its own controller), and on the 2600 it was Jungle Hunt and Joust. Definitely good times!

DJ Samba D · Post by **DJ Samba D** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 5:24 pm

Since I was 2... that was when I got a Atari 2600... while my brother had a Commodore C16 - then I got a C64 and so it went from there... I'm 19 now so I've been gaming for about 17 years

God it feels like only yesterday that I was playing Ghostbusters on the Atari... god that was dire, lol

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:43 pm

I can't remember a time I didn't love to play video games.

btm4k · Post by **btm4k** » Mon Sep 22, 2003 11:45 pm

I've been a gamer for a few weeks now.

Captain Skyhawk · Post by **Captain Skyhawk** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 2:54 pm

The nicest thing to see that the older people in here who started with an real old computer and still are gamers today. I myself started playing with a Videopac (better known as the Oddesy) when I was 6 or something. A friend of mine had it and we had great times playing with it. Only thinking about that brings me back to the 80's. I still have to burn and play Odd-DC to get the ultimate nostaliga kick.

When I was about 13 I bought my first gamecomputer, an Atari 2600 Junior (was cheaper than the NES that time

). Since than I am a gamer. That's about 10 years ago.

-Azathoth- · Post by **-Azathoth-** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 3:03 pm

Exact year? About 1984, when I first started playing Pacman on my Atari.

mikelomax · Post by **mikelomax** » Tue Sep 23, 2003 3:07 pm

erm, can't remember really. if the commodore +4 counts then my parents got one just after it was new (i think) then it was a commodore 64. if not then it was a mega-drive/genesis when i was about 9 or 10.

i'm 21 now so you work it out

scottymac · Post by **scottymac** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 9:31 am

I begged my parents for one of those home pong machines back when I was 9 or 10, so I guess that puts me as a gamer for over 22 years.

I think 22 years puts me as the longest gamer so far.

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ccb_v2 · Post by **ccb_v2** » Sat Sep 27, 2003 9:36 am

oooh lets see... was addicked when I was 4 or 5 with my ex-uncle's c64... so about 20 years.