Gaming since...

[Alek]

One was the first time you got some gaming platform, which one was it and are you proud to be a gamer?


I'm gaming since 1999, since SEGA Genesis, as my 1st, and PC as my 2nd and only since then <3 Though, I still keep Emulators for SEGA on my PC, as well as some ROMs.

[yerkyerk]

I remember playing the Atari (although my dad had an even older gaming platform which I can hardly remember anything from). First gaming platform I bought myself (though I'm not sure if that should matter) is the Wii though, couple of years back.
I've been gaming my whole life, I guess.

Not sure why I should be proud of being a gamer? It's a hobby - a time consuming activity that can be fun to do (and it can make for a good social activity as well). Not like you're making the world a better place (although the donation page on this website seems to disagree).

[deimos]

I'm a hopeless gamer ever since 8-bit Nintendo, after which i got a PS1 and that was the last of my consoles. My first PC was a 486 with all them Lemmings and whatnot, got sucked into Doom 2 a bit later and... i've had blurred vision ever since.

Proud to be a gamer? Yes. Proud of the time spent playing? I could've at least properly finished school instead of the half-assed degree in IT stuff i have now, but hey i do have a job regardless and a fantastic wifey so i can't say gaming ruined me... ;)

[Renevent]

First computer was a 386 back in 1987 I think, and ever since I have owned a PC and pretty much every console system as well. I have no idea how many games I have played in my lifetime...but I think it's pretty safe to say it numbers in the houndreds :P

[jiaco]

Ordered an Odyssey but it never arrived, lost in the mail.

So my first was the Intelivision, then Colecovision which had to be my favorite as a kid. The Vectrex was a novelty that mainly collected dust after the first month. After that it was mainly computers...AppleII/IIe/gs (Ultima! Infocom! great times) and the Sega Genesis.

It basically went downhill from there with the Macintosh/Apples (except for a great game called Marathon). Never got a windows box till WindowsMe, if you can believe it. Now I will try most anything but pretty much only play TQ and Artmanager, and sometimes MAME with the kids.

We got a Wii now, but the controllers just dont work for me...at least the kids like it.

Need Grim Dawn to get the wife to stop saying "what? your still playing that stupid game?" (yes, she has never played a video game in her life, not even PacMan, I fear)

[Renevent]

Need Grim Dawn to get the wife to stop saying "what? your still playing that stupid game?" (yes, she has never played a video game in her life, not even PacMan, I fear)

Hehe...that sounds so familiar.

[Malpheas]

Hmm.. We had an IBM clone XT 4mhz of BLAZING AWESOMENESS... which I played space invaders on. Played TI15 and Colleco and Amiga for what they were worth in late 80's. Um, Nintendo 8bit, enjoyed that...

But really... gaming started for me as a passion in the 90's: Snes and 486.

[deimos]

Hehe...that sounds so familiar.

Not here, both have our own gaming rigs. Sadly, our taste in games differ. :mad:

[FlawleZ]

Gaming started for me at the turn of the 90's shortly after the release of the NES. I've played and owned basically every system since that point. Although I own the current generation consoles, PS3 & 360, my time is limited on them. I mostly still spend my time playing games on the PC.

[TheRani]

I started playing video games in 1981 when I was 9 years old on a TI-99 4a. Then we got a real computer and I learned how to use DOS when I was 11. From there on, I mostly played computer games until I started college and got a Gameboy to take with me to play at the dorm.

Though I've been a gamer for 28 years, and still enjoy it immensely, it's not much of a pride thing anymore. It's easy for something to go to your head when you're surrounded by people who think it's cool. It's not so easy for it to go to your head when you're a single 37-year-old female gamer, and your peers are mostly soccer moms who think you're weird and pathetic for playing the same games as their teenage sons.

[Malpheas]

I started playing video games in 1981 when I was 9 years old on a TI-99 4a. Then we got a real computer and I learned how to use DOS when I was 11. From there on, I mostly played computer games until I started college and got a Gameboy to take with me to play at the dorm.

Though I've been a gamer for 28 years, and still enjoy it immensely, it's not much of a pride thing anymore. It's easy for something to go to your head when you're surrounded by people who think it's cool. It's not so easy for it to go to your head when you're a single 37-year-old female gamer, and your peers are mostly soccer moms who think you're weird and pathetic for playing the same games as their teenage sons.

LMAO - to each their own, oi?

[Father Squid]

For me - it was typing in programs in BASIC on the Vic 20 and Commodore 64... Then progressing to the Commodore 128 (which was my first computer that I owned) before I had my own PC which would have been in 1991. My first game I recall buying would be Infocom's Deadline or Epyx's Summer Games (at least I think that would have been the first ones). Most of my gaming has been of the computer variety rather than consoles, which I enjoy... but since I utilize the PC for everything else, that tends to be where I prefer my games as well...

[TECHNOmancer]

I began playing video games back in the days of Pong, which was its own console if I remember correctly. It was a large gray box with a pair of bulky black paddles. Gee, I feel so old school.

TECHNOmancer

[Kluga]

I started on the Sega Master system with Alex the Kidd. Then thieves broke into my house and took. Luckily my parents felt bad for me and bought me a Sega MegaDrive (or Genesis). This doubled my bits per pixel ratio from 8 to 16!

Had that for a while before I got a PC and was playing DOS-based games. I then got a gameboy and started with pokemon red. Still an amazing game IMO

[Alek]

Talking about the games I started with, it was Golden Axe, some Power Rangers, Contra, Sonic, Super Mario (I had SEGA and NES, I've just remembered :) )

[jameswhite1979]

My first computer was a spectrum ZX 128K with a tape drive, I would get books from the library on programming in basic. I remember copying ~200 lines and when trying to run get a 'Error' message, of the fun! I then moved on to a Amiga 500+ which I loved and started to enjoy the graphics and sound that it was able to produce. I then moved over to PC's and got a 286 > 386 > etc > etc. I had a few consoles but always sold after after a few months to fund the next PC upgrade. I started when I was young about 7 and I am now more in to computing (job and hobby) and games than ever. I have now started creating levels/mods/models/art/etc and hope after a few years to move over towards game dev. I also collect retro hardware and software/games I am lucky to have some rare items in my collection already.

[Llama8]

Comodore Vic20, then a host of other non-mainstream computers before getting an A600 when I was 14/15 or so.

My first (& only) foray with programming (excluding computer lab at uni) was trying to type in a game on the Vic20 from a magazine. I didn't get far...

[zyklop]

For me it began with a Spectrum ZX81, first software for developing our own proggies (an assembler program) we organized from denmark. In the 80´s i also made my first steps with telko "hacking", using an 1200baud modem. Next machine was the C64 - an incredible technological push with it´s 64K ;)
First games i played were text-adventures and simple ASCII games like MUD.

[jameswhite1979]

Thought I would share these items from my collection, sorry for the bad lighting I have a orange bulb so its not bright in my office (gaming room) ;)

Spectrum (Working):

http://www.dosdays.com/Grim_Dawn/IMG_0574.JPG

Amiga 500+ (Working):

http://www.dosdays.com/Grim_Dawn/IMG_0573.JPG

Hope it brings back some good memories :)

[jiaco]

Damn the simpsons are OLD!

[Llama8]

Amiga 500+ (Working):

http://www.dosdays.com/Grim_Dawn/IMG_0573.JPG

Hope it brings back some good memories :)

That brings back memories. :D

[Mines51]

Since Resident Evil came out, for the PS1.

[Malpheas]

Oh man, getting demo disks for my Amiga 500 in PC Gamer were the highlight of my month; I didn't have a subscription, but my allowance gave me permission to buy them, contrary to what my parents said.

But the best one was a game called Balderdash; GREAT GAME.

There were a ton of good games for Amiga: Defender of the Crown, Syndicate, Speedball, Lemmings (ironic that it should be showcased on that box in the picture), various others...

[Rusty]

My first computer was a Tandy (3.11 DOS) IBM compatible. My first games were the Kings Quest series. I still have the games, but not the machine.

[shawnmck]

My first game system was the NES way back in the early 80's....but I didn't really get into PC games til Diablo 1.