Remember your first time?

[McTom]

must have been Crystal Quest (Mac ][) or Alex Kidd in Miracle World (Master System)... when you're a kid you can play those simple games for hours on end...

[Nihilum]

Diablo... Ahh brings back such good memories of slaying hell-spawn, setting up clans, and becoming #1.

[ajsmart1]

When the family got a Sears Video Arcade for Christmas one year.  My brothers and sisters and I fired it up and didn't even bother unwrapping the rest of our presents.  It was Asteroids, Space Invaders and Air Sea Battle all day long.

Man those were the days.  When high-def meant your charater had limbs.  Consoles had fake wood veneer, were flat so you could rest your drink on it and used sensible controllers like paddles. good times. good times.

[Adamant1]

It was the arcade version of Outrun. I was completely in love with sitting in the cabinet, playing with the wheel, watching the car on the screen drive around, and pretend I was controlling the action.

Eventually, my dad decided I should play for real, and put some money into the cabinet. My car flew off the road and crashed constantly, time went up, and I hated this impossible game. Back to sitting in the cabinet and pretending to drive while watching the demo.

[X-pert74]

Honestly, I can't remember a thing about when I first started playing games. I just literally grew up with video games. My dad was into computer games, and my older siblings were into systems like the Atari 2600, Colecovision, and NES (eventually SNES as well), so I really just grew up with video games. Asking me what my first time playing a game was like would be like asking me what my first time eating or walking was like. I just can't remember it. I can remember playing certain games as a really little kid, such as Montezuma's Revenge, Frogger, and Smurf: Rescue In Gargamel's Castle on the Colecovision, a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles game on some old computer, and Super Mario Bros. 1-3 on the NES, but I have no idea what my first game was. It could be a game I don't even remember.

[andrew]

For me it was playing space invaders or a space invaders typer of game like Galaga or such on an Atari VCS around 4 years old. I had so much fun playing that game and other atari games on an old 27" sony with classic wood trim at the incredibly convex screen. Why my dad had to give the system away to relatives that suddenly hated us a few years later  for some reason after we got an NES is beyond me.

[sdf]

The original Super Mario Bros. is the first game I ever played. I think that if everyone played Super Mario Bros. at the age of 3 everyone would be a gamer.

[pfccypret]

Super Mario Brothers. I remember playing it at someone's house when I was 4 or 5. On the way home, I immediately demanded a Nintendo from my mom........6 months later at Christmas, I got one

[wur1]

1942

I remember being baffled after learning that the game was made by Japs.

[voor]

4? 3? 5?....Man, I didnt think parents (even gaming parents) let their children play VGs at those ages.  I think I was 9 when I got my first NES.  My brother was around 11 when he got a 2600.

Makes me wonder....I started relatively late (apparently) and I'm not that big of a gamer to this day.  Actually never really was, I played average of about 1-2 hours a day at the height. 

So....are kids that start gaming at a real early age more like to become hardcore, obsessed gamers (and ya'll know they're out there...don't deny it)??