How old were you when you first started gaming?

[PeterK]

Maybe 7-8 years old , had a family pc with pentium 3 500-ish mhz , some ram )) , and some gpu? , i played super old games , cause it was 2001 and i played ms-dos gamess those that only take a few hundred kilobytes , and some 'newer' ones like Captain Claw .

A tad more seroius gaming started in like... mid 2005 , played games such as need for speed underground 1 , 2 and some fps games(quite a few but i don't remember the names of...). Tis was on a 1,81Ghz AMD sermpron 3000+ cpu +nVidia FX-5200 128mb + 256mb ram , later added 1gb.

But like 'Proper' gaming started in the summer of 2009 , when i made my first custom rig with Core2Quad Q8400 , Nvidia 9600GT-1gb version,4gb 1066Mhz DDR2 , 1tb HDD , all this on a shitty Biostar Tp45hp motherboard , powered by a 700w psu.

With this rig i could play any game released before 2009 on maxxx settings , except a few like Crysis1 .

So Playing games started when i was 7-8yo , but GAMING started in 2009 .

[Geekazoid]

Ratings are for pussies.

[Rmlk2ei]

5, played some weird game called tactical ops on my old compaq desktop back then.

[SirReallySam]

About 3 Playing Spyro: Year of the Dragon

[ACatWithThumbs]

3 yr playing Sonic on the SEGA Megadrive/Genesis 

[krazykarth]

I started at 7 when my family got our first home computer in 1999. First game I played was Oregon Trail 3rd Edition.

[Sauron]

Probably when i was 4-5 years old and played children games on my dad's pc with him and my sister. The big blow-up happened 8 years later when as a consequence of moving I got an indipendent bedroom (I used to share a bedroom with my sister) and got a pentium 3 800mhz to put in it (it was horribly old even then but hey, it worked ^^ and back then I played mostly age of empires 2 and quake 2 which you will agree are not the most demanding games on the planet). Then a couple of years later I got a pentium 4 in replacement and when I was 15 I got my current beast (it was june 2011).

[Pentium4Life]

I don't remember how old, playing Mech Warrior 2 on windows 95 was fun. 

[PhantomChevron]

5 played some old lego harry potter game, and also had a gameboy

[jdsb52]

4, 1995, Meagdrive 2!!! Then all Playstation, and now Playstation and PC!

[Misanthrope]

Must have been like 6 or 7 when we had an Atari 2600 and like a year later got an NES. I also have fond memories of some PC games on my uncle's computer or school computers and such playing a game called Stunts, some tetris clones, etc. I must have been like 9 when I started gaming on PCs

[Daniel4799]

6 my frist game was crash on the ps1. god times

[azzo]

6-7 ish. I was using my dads computer to play flash games on Ebaums world

[maxib7]

The good old days when I was little and had no responsibilities but to play legend of zelda and pokemon. 

[Guest]

6 my frist game was crash on the ps1. god times

And mine was on ps2, hehe

[Guest]

The good old days when I was little and had no responsibilities but to play legend of zelda and pokemon. 

Those days, we lov'em!

[Andjelk0]

I remember playing GTA: San Andreas on pc when I was 6 or 7.

[deviant88]

4 year olds play mario on a terminator tv console at my neighbours house.When i was 5 got my 1st one too since them im hooked dont need other drugs/food/smokes get outta here.

 

memories  :rolleyes:

[DaRk0]

12 i think.

[Sharif]

9/10

[Nexus]

Early 90s so about 4.

My first gaming experience was on one of these bad boys:

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

 

I got a ps1 a few years after its release, playing games like Tomb Raider series and Metal Gear Solid, along with the generic kids games like Crash Bandicoot.

I switched to PC because of my love for the RTS genre. I remember having a demo for an RTS game on the PS! (can't remember the name now), and because I couldn't find a copy anywhere i bought my first PC game - Command and Conquer. 

From that point on i was primarily a PC gamer.

[Filippus]

When I was four, Golden Eye 007 on a Nintendo 64. *Ah good times*

[wildy]

i was 3 played pokemon gold and crystal and gta 2d and xp pinball

[Prodigydeadeye]

I was about 8 when I got a Gabeboy Advance SP for Christmas with a really old Star Wars game. Before that, my parents avoided video games and tv. We didn't  get cable television until I was in 6th grade. That day was a good day. 

[Ryan_Van_Mass]

i was 5