What age are ye?

RiseToTheTop

I'm a 25 year old male. Got a NES from my Father in the early 90's and never looked back.

degrassinoel

40-44

In town one day in the early 80's, lashing rain, the old man brought me into barneys to get out of the rain.. big mistake! got hooked on Frogger! xD

I'm 35 now, hopeless addict

Potential-Monke

30-34

29 in May, started with a Pong machine back in the early/mid 80's, found what i enjoyed more than anything else, still playing to this day. Always will be playing. It's what i work for. I don't follow sport, i'm not huge into drinking, i don't do drugs. One could say, it's my life. If only when i was going through school gaming was bigger in Eire (and i didn't live in the arse end of nowhere) i would most certainly have done a game related college course.

ShadowHearth

30-34

25. got my first console - ziliton. it was a NES in some fake chinese coating. It was basicly NES, but with yellow cartriges, it had 1-5 games on them. from where i came things like NES or SNES was something Allien... . the real deal happened when i got my sega mega drive 2! sega genesis in here?

Sephiroth_dude

30-34

25,26 in april :-/.........saw my brother play ff7 and was hooked straight away

Mr E

40-44

Fun question. Public poll added (so don't answer if you're shy about your age!)

richymcdermott

25-29

22 in May , 94-95 Sega MegaDrive , first game sonic 1 best days with my dad playing all day , then sonic 2, streets of rage , golden axe kick started the gamer i am today , best childhood moments by far, and i still go back to playing those games today

Mr E

40-44

38 in April.... started with Atari 2600 about 1982, moved to C64, SNES, PC (various machines from 286 to Pentium), N64, Gamecube, PS2, all Gameboys at one stage or another and Dreamcast. I have all current gen consoles apart from the Vita.

Helix

28 (29 in may)

got a commodore 64 for my 8th birthday, followed by a master system at christmas of 1992 - from that point onwards ive had every home console apart from the 3do, jaguar and ps2 (which my brother had)

now i write about games for a living

Dozen Wicked Words

40-44

Old enough to have played with my brothers Atari 2600 Vader Console when Santa got them it, and also their ZX81 when it first came out, spending hours inputting stuff to end up with a terrible joke about goldfish if memory serves.

Old then, still as C. Montgomery Burns would say "It's not important how old you are on parchment, it's how old you feel in the humours"

Oh yeah, 38.

30-34

27 (28 in September). Got a NES for Christmas when I was 8. Been hooked on Nintendo since; I have a NES, SNES, N64, GameCube, Wii, Game Boy, Game Boy Pocket, DS Lite and a 3DS.

mise

35-39

31... Atari 130XE with River Raid, Moon Patrol, Rescue on Fractulus, Ghostbusters, Super Zaxxon, Fort Apocalyse, and a lot of good memories

frozenfrozen

20-24

16, 17 in june. after a couple gameboys which got confiscated by my parents for overuse - my sister got a ps1 in maybe 1998 (asked my mom and she said 2005 :rolleyes:) and i haven't gone outside since.

Sasquatch76

40-44

Just turned 36 (and relieved to see so many of a similar age in here :pac:) and started in the mid 80s mainly playing on friend's machines - ZX Speccie, C64 etc. We had a BBC B microcomputer which wasn't great for the ould games... in fact the only ones I remember owning were Galaxians, and a blatant rip off of Donkey Kong called Killer Gorilla!

Anyway, my addiction really took hold when I got both the Megadrive and SNES in 1990-91. Mainly a PC gamer these days though.

Bubblefett

25-29

24- growing up I could never pass an arcade machine without playing. Also used to sneak into my older sister's room when she was out and play her nes

Kiith

30-34

28, not sure what my first console was, though i think it was a snes. We had a nes and a few earlier ones, but thats the one i remember most. I do remember when i started playing pc games though.

I was with the family in Donegal for a week, and my brother stayed home and ordered a cd drive and Magic Carpet. I didn't want to be there, and all i wanted to do was go home and try it. I remember getting home and seeing that Bullfrog logo, followed by an awesome into...blown away

calex71

35-39

32 this year

My 1st console was one of those boogie games systems that had all the Atari / consoles of that era built in 87ish????, some one brought it home from abroad. The hours I lost to Pitfall and River Raid. Even my mum liked river raid

After that Amstrad 464k and it's lovely tapes that took ages to load,Snes, Ps2.

I skipped PSone as I was between 15-22 during those years so had discovered girls and and music and being in band and part time jobs and such

WolfForager

25-29

21 in April. First console was a NES, can't really remember how I got it. PlayStation X was my second!

hightower1

30-34

27, first machine was a commodore 64 back when I was in single figures. Used to start to load a game before dinner... have dinner and by the time I was done the game would hopefully have been loaded.

Loved centipede, batman and cj in the usa!

Nothing will beat the NES for me though... Still remember the pure delight of using a light gun for the first time, entering the cheat for probatector (up down up down left right left right A B B A), getting hooked on mario, blowing the dust outta cartages .... AND IT WORKING!

SeantheMan

30-34

27 in may

Krusader

30-34

29, the auld Amstrad was the first gaming system, games were pretty expensive for it back then £20, wished i had a commie 64

oxo_

20-24

I'm 4.

Harps

25-29

22, first console was an N64 with Zelda OoT and Mario 64 but I leached off my best mate who had his brothers Atari 2600, SNES & Gameboy and another mate who had an NES and Genesis back in the mid 90's! Good times

Played pretty much every console since then and currently have a 360 & Wii as well as my laptop. Would love to have a good PC but being a student its not exactly affordable at the moment so I'm content with PC classics (recently finished Deus Ex for the first time!) and the latest 360 games

Mikeyt086

25-29

22 (23 in May)

First console was a Sega Megadrive with the 8 games on 1 cartridge. Played Italia 90 until my thumbs bled, streets of rage too. Next console was an N64, I played FIFA 98 and ISS 64 until my thumbs bled. I did of course expand and play all the classics (Goldeneye, Mario 64, Mario Kart, Zelda etc.), this was when I knew I loved video games. Next up came the Dreamcast. I ****ing loved that machine. I played Virtua Striker 2 until my thumbs bled. Owned loads of games for this (and still do), Shenmue has to be my favourite. Then I had a PS2, explored loads of different genre's of games. Played Pro Evo until my thumbs bled (obviously not literally, ive just committed to using it as a cliche). I got an Xbox one Xmas and got to try online gaming properly for the first time, I was so infatuated with PES and FIFA online that I eventually represented Ireland competitively in a series of FIFA Championships all over the world, all the while playing the likes of Halo and other superb online games, I was truely swung into online gaming. Got the Xbox 360 on release day (was actually given a free one for my FIFA endeavours) and am still clocking up solid hours on all the major games. Have a PS3 aswell (again, sound for that FIFA) but I mostly use it as a BluRay player. Gaming is a serious past-time of mine and I dont see it changing anytime soon.

Spunge

26

In the early 1990s my dad got me a .........

Atari 2600

RichT

>50

46

Started out with this...



Don't remember playing games through late teens/early 20's..... I must have found other distractions

Got the NES, SNES and N64 for Jnr and joined him for a few games over the years.

Out of the blue the missus got me an XBOX a couple of years ago and for the last eight months I've been steadily going through the games recommended for me on my Crusty Gamer thread.

RobbingBandit

As old as my tongue, a few months older than my teeth.

29

The Nes was my first console,still remember banging on the top to make the games work.

Welease

45-50

41.. first machine was one of those generic Pong machines, then a ZX81, ZX Spectrum, moving across to PC's in 88 (a Turbo 8088 processor)...

Wrote my first games in 1982.. been involved with computers ever since.

ShadowHearth

30-34

bubblefett wrote: »

24- growing up I could never pass an arcade machine without playing. Also used to sneak into my older sister's room when she was out and play her nes

Untill the last word it sounded so damn dirty!

Zero-Cool

30-34

hightower1 wrote: »

27, first machine was a commodore 64 back when I was in single figures. Used to start to load a game before dinner... have dinner and by the time I was done the game would hopefully have been loaded.

I'm 29 in May, 1st machine was a C64 and just like Hightower, would load a game, head for dinner and then hopefully have a game when I was finished. I say hopefully because sometimes I would come back to find the loading had forze and I would have to rewind the tape and start again!

I dunno how i'm not blind spending so long staring at the screen below flashing for 30 minutes!

Big Knox

30-34

27 but my old man is 60. He's retired and plays Black Ops online on a nightly basis and he's not too bad either!! I get onto him for playing CoD and have tried to get him to play BF3 but he's not interested, he loves zombies aswell and plays it solo.

It's funny, he spent most of the time I was in school shouting at me for playing games online when I should have been studying and now he probably plays more then I do. When my nephew calls over they play split screen, never in a million years imagined grandfather and grandson playing CoD online bustin heads!! :pac:

We had a chat about it one night over a few cans and he genuinely said he's sorry for giving me hassle and he can now understand why I do it. Legend

calex71

35-39

Big Knox wrote: »

27 but my old man is 60. He's retired and plays Black Ops online on a nightly basis and he's not too bad either!! I get onto him for playing CoD and have tried to get him to play BF3 but he's not interested, he loves zombies aswell and plays it solo.

It's funny, he spent most of the time I was in school shouting at me for playing games online when I should have been studying and now he probably plays more then I do. When my nephew calls over they play split screen, never in a million years imagined grandfather and grandson playing CoD online bustin heads!! :pac:

We had a chat about it one night over a few cans and he genuinely said he's sorry for giving me hassle and he can now understand why I do it. Legend

What a dude!!!!!!!! Hopefully I'll be the same when I hit 60, if my hands haven't gone to bits from rsi etc from using a keyboard or controller

kearneybobs

30-34

28 atm. First computer was an Amstrad cpc 464 (green screen)

Very interesting to see the age spread in the poll.
I imagined some people on here to be younger than they actually are, oops. :o

RedXIV

30-34

Just turned 25, been playing games as long as I remember. Its in the blood, on my dad's wedding night, my mam fell asleep and he was up till 7am playing the C64

I remember vaguely playing games on my dad's amstrad and atari but vivdly remember my brother getting a game boy when we were tiny and being absolutely hooked on it. Then we got a SNES and having two controllers with two boys with a year between them led to an epic childhood. We were the kind of kids who sat down for 3 days with mortal kombat to figure out how to change characters with Shang Tsung or perform fatalities.

Ended up doing Computer Game Development in college, started my own video game company (which flopped) and in the last 2 years I've pretty much gotten every console that was commercially released here since the NES.

My girlfriend hates it

tonydude

30-34

26, started with the nes, atari and commodore, the final fantasy and mgs games concreted my addiction on the ps1

BopNiblets

30-34

29 in July:
1st there was the SNES (only really had Mario, a few rentals), then got a Pentium PC with C&C: Red Alert, Total Annihilation, Commando...
Then got a new Gateway 2000 PC, included a games pack with (amongst others) Deus Ex, Half Life, Shogun: Total War
Then there was AVP2, Jedi Knight II, GTA series, Counter Strike (both), Hitman series, Half-Life 2

Recent years: TF2, Deus Ex: HR, Shogun 2, Batman and a few odd Android games (Where's My Water!)

Found a link that might interest people, I know what I'll be browsing instead of working!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_years_in_video_gaming

krudler

35-39

30, 31 in september.

started in the atari 2600 days, have been a gamer ever since, from the amstrad cpc 464 to the news to the ps3 with most stuff in between, some of the best days of my youth were spent in local arcades playing street fighter 2 and mortal kombat, christ I miss real arcades...

Grumpypants

35-39

33 now got my first game system in around 81/82 which was called Parachute by Nintendo. This was followed by Octopus and then came the game changer the dual screen Donkey Kong.



That was followed up by a Spectrum (the one with the touch sensitive buttons that you had toforce until your finger broke ! ) for the house. That was upgraded to ZX. After that it was into PC's for computers didnt get a c64 or amiga.

Console wise, Atari 2600, NES, SNES, Mega drive, N64, 3, PSP, PSP GO, PS VIta, Xbox, xbox 360. All still working and set up under my TV to this day.

Wii is downstairs the DS is locked in a press somewhere as both are terrible and my PS1 & 2 got traded in to upgrade.

dclewis

30-34

25. Never forget the day my dad brought home the NES with super Mario world 3. Then I got the Sega megadrive 2. Became a serious gamer when the PlayStation and n64 first came out

Doctor DooM

35-39

32. Was an arcade rat, loved games like Golden Axe and Final Fight especially.

The first time I saw SFII it blew my mind

First home system was a c64. Loved that thing to bits.

FutureGuy

35-39

34, 35 in May.

Woke up on Christmas morning when I was about 5 and Santa had brought an Atari 2600. Super memories of me and my dad playing Combat together.

A few years later, my uncle from England brought home a Spectrum ZX which was such a step up! Endless hours spent playing Dizzy, Impossible Mission and MatchdayII.

In the early 90's, a friend returned from the States with a Gameboy and I fell in love with it. Got one for Christmas with Super Mario Land and Tetris. Saved all year to get Golf, Duck Tales and Double Dragon.

Then came the SNES. I was at the age that I could afford to buy more games. Hated Sega (archrivals etc etc). I bought the Gameboy Advance and one of the subsequent models.

My interest waned just as the PS/N64 came out but my brother bought the latter machine and we spent ages playing WWE No Mercy and Goldeneye with friends. Good times.

After University, my love for games began to return. I was still a diehard Nintendo fan and went with the Gamecube over the PS2. Eventually caved and bought the slim version PS2 but never really took to it.

Then came the day I bought my Xbox360 and have to say I haven't really looked back. It's the console that takes up 90 of my gaming time. I have all the current next gen consoles and the 3DS. I still love the /Mario Kart/Mario/Zelda franchises but that's about all I play on Nintendo consoles.

Mark Hamill

30-34

27.

Fist console was commodore 64 (I think). It ran on cassette tapes, which took forever to load. The only games I remember where Boulderdash (awesome), some karate one (which had a cool mini game where you punched through bricks) and an Olympic game which had the most physically draining game to play I've ever accounted - a 10,000 meter (actually, could have longer) race. You had to hit the joypad button repeatedly to run. It took about 15 minutes to finish the race, and while it was multiplayer, the screen only followed whoever was in first place.

Flancrest

30-34

26 at the moment. Still remember setting up my first SEGA MEGA DRIVE and playing Sonic for about 10 hours. Also got the 3 in 1 cartridge with Streets Of Rage, Golden Axe and Revenge Of Shinobi on it. Class stuff all together.
Bought the mega drive classics for my 360 a while back and really thought they stood the test of time until my young cousin came over and looked at them like i used to look at an abacus

Duggy747

30-34

27 this year and still love gaming, though I don't venture too much with online playing beyond the Left 4 Dead community I have. Still play new PC releases but love returning to the old classics every now again like the SNES & arcade games.

First experience was when my brother got the NES one Xmas with the Mario / Duck Hunt cartridge + Zapper. Kept us entertained for years and the old girl still works. The Zapper is surprisingly in mint condition, too.

Brother got the bug and went on to win Nintendo competitions around the country for a few years. Won a national competition in '92 I think where he won a SNES plus all of the launch titles. They then sent him a further 30 games a year later so that kept us entertained for a long time

Not too big into the consoles these days. I won a 360 at work but rarely played it, used it more as a media server to stream stuff through and use the controller for playing old games on the PC :pac:

Nothing fires up the ol' nostalgia like running through Setup.exe to get Blood going again!

bennyc

40-44

35 now we had a few of the space invader one game machiens and a dual screen donkey kong before the Amstrad 128k , Tayto Coin up Hits pack with with Bubble Bobble was a must own set, although I would never admit to my mates that the C64 version kicked the Amstrads Ass in that game:mad:
R-Type, Shinobi, NZ Story were my best games Rainbow Islands maybe.
I didnt do much with the megadrive my brother had but got an N64 for my 21st so Mario 64 got me going again
I had a GameCube and PS2 , sold the PS2 and got an XBox before 360 , and recently have just built a gaming rig and starting to love PC gaming.

Penn

30-34

26. Used to visit various cousins who had Ataris or the Sega Genesis. Then I got a Game Gear (which wasn't all that great). Christmas after I had turned 10 though, Sega Mega-Drive with the 6in1 games (Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Shinobi, Italia 90, Columns and Super Hang On), Sonic & Knuckles, The Lion King and Mega Bomberman. Thanks, Santa!

(actually, I thanked Santa there, but that Christmas was also the Christmas I found out Santa wasn't real. Parents told us the back toilet was broke so they locked it, but I managed to get into it anyway (really needed a piss and the other toilet was occupied). Saw a load of presents, but presumed they were presents my parents bought for cousins/godchildren etc. But Christmas morning, saw them all again when they were given to me and my sisters from "Santa". Knew then that he wasn't real. Didn't care though. F*cking Mega-Drive, b*tch!)

A-Trak

35-39

33 now, and married. Was an arcade rat since about 9 or 10.

Last weekend was away with the Mrs in London. She wanted to visit a specific shop for some shoes or other nonsense.

Told her I might just wander around for 30 minutes and we'd meet up.
17 tube stations and 3 transfers and I was in an arcade playing StreetFighter with the prodigy playing, felt like I was 13 again.
Stayed for 3 hrs. Nearly missed flight and cold shoulder for the entire week.

Totally worth it.

Sarky

30-34

I'll be 30 in a week, but for now I still get to tick 25-29. :pac:

There was always some battery-operated little handheld game around the house as far as I can remember, but the first proper games machine was when my dad bought an Amiga 500. He insisted on the Class of the 90's pack, and I was annoyed because I wanted the Batman pack (This was either 1989 or 1990, can't recall). I forgave him once I discovered how much fun the art and music packages were...

Halcyon days, I only had a megabyte of memory to play with but sweet jesus did the developers manage to make it sing and dance. People were really just getting to grips with computer games and realising what was possible, really wringing the last ounce of performance out of the hardware. The days when Syndicate, Lemmings, Populous and the like were genuine innovations and had never been seen before were a great time to be a gamer. Real shame what happened to the Amiga, I think.

Corvo

25-29

23. Mega Drive was the first love.

I think we should all meet up with bats. NES users on one side (you hairy japanese bas*ards) and us Mega Drivers on the other side.

FREEEEDDOOOMM!

Myrddin

35-39

Griffin1988 wrote: »

23. Mega Drive was the first love.

I think we should all meet up with bats. NES users on one side (you hairy japanese bas*ards) and us Mega Drivers on the other side.

FREEEEDDOOOMM!

8bit v 16bit? Don't you mean SNES users?

Corvo

25-29

EnterNow wrote: »

8bit v 16bit? Don't you mean SNES users?

Less of your jibba jabba. To battle!