How Long Have You Been Gaming?

[mlauzon]

Well, I've been gaming since the days of the Commodore VIC-20 -- or maybe a little before that -- & C64. The first computer I played video games on was the CV-20 way back in 1980...so all in all, I've been gaming for well over 30yrs.

I've included a poll with this post, so be honest with your answers.

[Big V]

Well I'm gonna abstain from the poll as I do not consider myself a gamer in the modern since of the term, as I do not really play a lot of modern video games.
Yes I do play a couple of old school shooter games like Serious Sam & Doom but that is about it.

I can remember in the mid 70's getting our first video game.

PONG
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Then a couple of years later getting a handheld football game and driving my parents nuts with the beeping sound of the game.

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Then graduating up to a colecovision I spent many of hours in front of the tv playing it.

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IF you want to consider old school gaming then I would have to pick over 40 years as i still can not walk past a pinball machine with out having to drop a couple of coins in and play at least one game.

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[mlauzon]

Then a couple of years later getting a handheld football game and driving my parents nuts with the beeping sound of the game.

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My foster brother had that, sometimes he would let me play it with him around, I actually got better at it then him, and I was a good 10 years younger or thereabouts.

[8pecxstudios]

Dam lol I Been Working With Computers Since The Old Amstrad & Commodore64 days i even the old IBM's and Macintosh's. i remember playing games on the old Atari, Sega, Sega mega-drive, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, snes, the original sony & xbox.

i have an xbox 360 and ps3 tho i rarely play them any more as im more a pc gamer now BF3 all the way lol

[peter.pan]

Dam lol I Been Working With Computers Since The Old Amstrad & Commodore64 days i even the old IBM's and Macintosh's. i remember playing games on the old Atari, Sega, Sega mega-drive, Nintendo, Nintendo 64, snes, the original sony & xbox.

i have an xbox 360 and ps3 tho i rarely play them any more as im more a pc gamer now BF3 all the way lol



Well i remember buying the first Atari it cost me 350 bucks at the time......:Smug: sh++t for that i got pong ..

[mlauzon]

Dam lol I Been Working With Computers Since Commodore64 days

I own a working Commodore 64, don't have it setup though.

[deviantdon]

well my first computer was made by tandy way way back and was just a tapedeck keyboard and a tv and if i wanted to play a game it had to be programed from a book in dos...god im old
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but my first home system was the atari system and now ps3.
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[mlauzon]

well my first computer was made by tandy way way back and was just a tapedeck keyboard and a tv and if i wanted to play a game it had to be programed from a book in dos...god im old
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That's exactly what the Commodore VIC-20 was.



but my first home system was the atari system and now ps3.
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First console I ever played on was an Atari 2600, the second one was a Sega Master System. Didn't play on a NES until sometime in '89.

[IceBabee]

I'm not much of a gamer either but.....to enbark on what Big V said.....I started on Atari LOL.......wow....what a difference now hey? :)

[Stephanie]

18 years ago was playing Space Invaders. Developer: Paul S. Reid: Year: 1995, I was 14 then, today Im not big on gaming but do like playing Earth Defence Force: Insect Armageddon (just frag anything that moves) lol

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[Harvey Sewdin]

My first game console was the SNES, mario, duck hunt those games. I had allot of fun with those. After that i played my first pc game, Serious Sam: The second encounter. I dont know anymore, 2001 or 2002 it was. Since then it has been pc gaming the most. Especially BF2, UT2004 and DOTA. Now its UT3, BF3, Planet Side2 those games

[Effexion]

I have been gaming for about 23 years. I started at 7, and have never looked back. As a lot of you will know, it is amazing to look back at the games we played then, and then at today's games. The advancement astounds me.

[Ali-chan]

I started playing games (Sonic OMG :loving:) when i was 3 years old, haven't stop since that time XD so i play for 17(almost 18) years.

[A Guy]

Age one...Peek-a-boo ;)

A Guy

[Aragon Speed]

First games I remember playing were Pong and Tanks on the Atari 2600. However I don't really class them as when I became a gamer as I was only about 6 and it was something my friends mother plonked us in front of to make us sit still and shut up. :D

My first real foray into becoming a gamer was when I was about 9 and got a Sinclair Spectrum Plus (the one that had a real keyboard rather than those rubber keys/creations from hell). I still remeber spending hours playing Jet Set Willy and Commando. Funnily though, I seem to remember trying to get games to load even clearer. (Put in tape, press play, cross fingers, fail, tweak volume control on tape deck by a micron, rewind tape and play it again. Repeat until game finally loads. Then don't switch it off for a week because you finally got one to load. :D )

From there I moved onto an Amiga 500, then a Sega Megadrive, original PlayStation, then went PC and haven't looked back since. I don't even own a console any more. ;)

[YolanSwagowich]

Last time I was wondering about how much I'm gaming, it turned out I've spent 60 days of playtime in Planetside 2 in the 2 years that I had it. which is roughly 8% of that time..
I'm no longer wondering about how much I'm gaming

[BJDware]

Voted 25-30.
I Had my hands wrapped around an Atari joystick before i could walk.
Was a heavy console gamer over the years. Atari, NES, Snes, mega drive, gameboy variations, N64, PS1, PS2, Wii, Xbox, Nds, PS3 and Xbox360. Nowadays i still have the consoles, but i am pretty much a dedicated PC gamer.

[Iceman2232]

I remember when I was growing up playing on the original playstation. Spyro, Crash Bandicoot and Need for Speed: High Stakes were my most played games, as a matter of fact, I still have my original high stakes game and still play it on ps3 haha.

[Hunk_4TH]

I started out with the Sega Master System around late 1989- early 1990 :D

[Carenwdum]

I have lurked here for a little over a year and have been a member for a little under a year. Still new to the whole CED hobby but thoroughly enjoying it and the community here