How long have you been a gamer? What was your first console?

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June 29, 2009 at 8:31 am #14310

emdeepee
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Gamer since 1983. My parents bought a Vectrex when I was six (yes I'm the ripe old age of 32 now!!).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex

Progressed from that to an Amstrad CPC 464 then Megadrive when Sonic came out. Happy days

June 29, 2009 at 9:16 am #29209

Thickbrow
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My first system was COLECOVISION and I started playing it when i was in grade 1 or grade 2…. So when i was around 5yrs old or so.

Here is a link for those who don't remember it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colecovision

a closer picture of the system is here: http://www.computercloset.org/Colecovision.htm

This system was amazing. It wasn't really kid friendly and I ended up breaking the controller a few times. It looked more like a tv remote and a twisty knob on the top.

The games were great. I remember playing a game called Ladybug. which was a cooler version of pacman IMO. I also played DonkeyKong on here and a game called Carnival was pretty fun. (all these games are linked from the wiki site)

I had also remembered playing a smurf game. I was SOOOO sure of this but everyone i had talked to since then could not remember it. Well after reading this thread i checked on Wiki and there is INFACT a smurf game that came out for this system.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smurf:_Rescue_in_Gargamel%27s_Castle

June 29, 2009 at 9:26 am #29210

Nath-The-Great
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I remember it was an Atari 800XL when i was 8 i think, so waaaaaay back in 1988 (yeah im an old git!) I loved that machine, even though it was a tape loader and would crash 9 times out of 10 lol.

Then i switched allegiance to Nintendo and owned a NES and SNES respectively. Duck Hunt what a game!

June 29, 2009 at 10:03 am #29214

P0kenny
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My first console was a Saga Mega Drive, I was about 6/7ish and I am now 22.

June 29, 2009 at 11:31 am #29215

Oz-Metalhead
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My first console that i can remember playing was a Sega Master System which had Alex the Kid built into it!

And that was when i was….um 7 or 8 maybe? So i started around 1993-4.

June 29, 2009 at 11:36 am #29216

kingofgames73
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First console was PS1, the very 1st game i played was something called MotoGP World Tour, First hand held console was the game boy a.k.a `The Brick`

June 29, 2009 at 3:17 pm #29221

BigWoopMagazine
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Been a gamer for as long as I can remember (literally). One of the first things I can remember is being like 3 or 4 years old when my older brother opened the box for the NES. I was hooked. Marble Madness, Legend of Zelda, Mario Bros. (DUCK HUNT!), Blaster Master, boo yaah for the classics. I'm 23 now, and wish that NES still worked, and that I knew where those games were (I lost some in college, what a shame).

June 29, 2009 at 4:08 pm #29230

Miiiitch
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started playing games when i was about 3, i used to play my cousin’s sega megadrive and i had beaten sonic 1&2 by the time i was 4 then my uncle got me my own console for my birthday and as they say the rest is history.

June 29, 2009 at 5:43 pm #29248

Ps3 Freak
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1st im sure there has already been a topic like this one…

2nd my 1st console was the Philips CDI released in 1991, then naturaly i moved on to the playstation which i got for christmas or my bday when i was 3, i also had the gameboys with pokemon yellow and red…

June 29, 2009 at 9:03 pm #29260

gamerben
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well im a fairly new gamer. started with the gameboy pocket, but that was mainly for traveling. my first proper console was the PS2, since then ive had a psp, pc and of couse PS3

June 30, 2009 at 1:16 am #29266

iiDiNkStErR
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Almost the same as gamerben, although i had a gameboy colour !

June 30, 2009 at 2:34 am #29269

Bdamac
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ok when i was young about 8 my uncle borrowed a nintendo, nes and the 64. thats back in jamaica when you had to rich to have a game console. i was alway playing games with him except for the violent ones so all i would play was mario lol. but the first time i got a game of my own was the playstation i love that game and my favorite game was bloody roar 1 and 2 a fighting game and a gameboy as well. im 23 now and i still love games playstation for life

p.s. if anyone remembers bloody roar tell me if you like it are hate it i really want to know

June 30, 2009 at 6:15 am #29280

Hypnosis
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I am right there with ya emdeepee I am in my 30s as well. We had an atari in the house back when I was younger. used to play Pitfall alot, and tried to play Et,but could never figure that game quite out lol.Then I got a nintendo when it came out and played Zelda nonstop.

June 30, 2009 at 7:14 am #29281

josh_swaGG
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PS1 /2004 WHEN I GOT A PS2 PLAYED ALL DAY

June 30, 2009 at 10:08 am #29285

shadeblack
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born in 1989.

1992 is when i started playing games for myself.

I used to watch my older brothers play games before that.
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