How old were you when you first played a game?
What game was it?
What did you think the graphics were like back then?
Did you ever let down the controller after that? ;p

I think i first started to play when I was 5... I think.
It was Diddy Kong Racing :goodjob:
I thought the graphics were awesome!
And if my brother would let me play I would play that game all day when I was younger

Ahhh the good ol' days haha. I look back now at the old 007 game's.... Oh my gossshhh those graphics hahah :facepalm:

Proabably Alex Kidd or something.

I don't know how old I was, but I know that Duck Hunt/Super Mario Bros. was the first game I played.

Could have been Alex Kidd, or possibly Gods for the Acorn Archimedes.

2 or 3, on my grandma's SNES, likely playing Zelda: ALttP or some sort of Golf game

I was probably about 5 and I played some random ass side scrolling mario game on teh epic old clunky game boy ORIGINALS

Star Wars Rebel Assault/Rogue Squadron on the PC.

It was sometime between 1995-1997.

Your Grandma's?! :touched:

I picked up the controller at 2
First game was the Mario/Duck Hunt duo on the NES.
I wasnt a graphics [censored] then nor am i now
still play mah games.

Yep. I owe my video-gaming life-style to her and her SNES and many games for it including Zelda, Golf, Super Mario Bros 3, some WWII Fighter Plane game and a few others, then she brought out her original Nintendo. Plus she owned Warcraft 1 and 2 for some reason and that defiantly got me started on RTS games when I was about 5.

My first non-educational game was when I was four I think. It was Power Rangers: Lightspeed Rescue on Game Boy Color. I knew the graphics weren't great, but I still liked it. The yellow ranger's level svcked though.

I think I was 4 and it was one of the quakes. Blowin up aliens was awesome.

duck hunt for sure, i wanted to shoot that dog so bad...that doesn't make me a bad person right?

Um, pokemon red was probably when i really started playing, and that was when i was five or six, i got it when i got really sick, i got to stay in and play it. The sprites are down right hideous looking back, no wonder i can barely see anything now lol

Duck hunting for sure on I beleive it was called the NES with the cartidges that had the game on it.

It was an intense game of Pong on the Cray-X mainframe, summer of 1969 - what a summer!

Me and my sister as kids would play that together. We always did the battles against each other, She choose Banjo and I with TipTup always. Has it really been that long? Childhood and nostalgia, it comes back.

How old were you when you first played a game? Seven
What game was it? Chip's Challenge on Windows 3.1 (http://www.mobygames.com/game/win3x/chips-challenge)
What did you think the graphics were like back then? Good? I did not mind them.
Did you ever let down the controller after that? Keyboard and Mouse

I'm going to answer the questions above PC wise. My first handheld (Gameboy) game was Super Mario Land 1989 and my first console (SNES) game was Super Mario World 1990.

I think I was 3. Tom and Jerry's Cat-astrophe.

Must have been around 1975 i was about ten years old and my day care center took us on a class trip to some game arcade. I remember hearing all these odd beeping and cartoony sounds coming from these big tall wooden like boxes. When i walked up to one which had periscope viewer i looked inside and wonder of wonders i saw ships floating on by. Before i could catch up with myself i was putting in a quarter or more into the slot and looking into the submarine periscope as i watched with wonder what looked like to my young mind actual torpedoes heading towards these tankers. I must have sunk like two of em before realising i better hang on to some of my money for other games

Shortly after that perhaps 1977 or 78 my Father got the family a Pong video game console and a 3D Tic Tac Toe console. It was alot of fun but i was still hooked on my Micronauts and Shogun Warrior action figures. Am still jealous my little brother got the Baron Karza figure from the Micronauts on his birthday by a neighborhood friend Fortunately my little brother didnt mind sharing and i could play with whenever i wanted. I gave him my rocket arm Godzilla doll for being so nice when i gave up on toys and switched to video games with the Colecovision console playing many nights of Missile Command and Donkey Kong.

It wasnt til 1989 when i would permenently make video games a daily form of entertainment when my Brother inlaw showed me his Amiga 500 and Commodore 64. After being convinced that the Amiga 500 would be best for what i was looking for i saved up for a few months and by spring i was playing Lords Of The Rising Sun and Battletech The Crescent Hawks Inception aswell as some freebies like...The Uninvited.

I would like to change the question only slightly I know its not my topic but I see little point in creating my own when this one is still so young and lively (reading that back makes me sound like some kind fo creeper o.0 :sadvaultboy: )

any way What was the 1st actual "Violent" video game you ever played and how old were you?

For me it was Carmageddon 2 for the PC and I was either 8 or 9 also even tho it still an epicly dated game i still think the graphics kick ass I only wish i still had my copy got thrown out a few months ago because my mom started clearing space for ll the books i got over the last 2 years and my widnows 98 (now windows me) didnt get fixed untill 2 wesk ago :/

Everyone wanted to shoot the dog. If you missed he laughed at you. Stupid dog. :brokencomputer:

I honestly can't remember my very first game. I just "played" (watched the demo and didn't put coins in) the arcade games. I remember getting a PS1 from a family that had two PS2s and were done with their PS1. I played the Ms. Pac Man maze and Frogger 3D on that (all I remember). Then we got a PS2 for Christmas and that's when my gaming obsession started. I remember my first FPS very well, it was Medal Of Honor Frontline. My first RPG was Fallout 3, which got me hooked on Bethesda games and RPGs.

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Legend of Zelda back in 87, I was 2. Been playing ever since

Ha ha I still play Carmageddon on Dosbox. Fantastic game and stress reliever. I was just playing yesterday while listening to the soundtrack of DEATHPROOF on winamp.

My first actual violent video game? Depends on what you mean by violent. If you mean gory it was probably The Uninvited with its creepy scenes. Next would have probably been Dungeon Master with those scary psychotic mummies. They looked like mental patients wrapped up in bandages. Both were on the Amiga 500. My first violent pc game was The Legacy aswell as Blake Stone And The Aliens Of Gold. Here are some Youtube clips of em-

Blake Stone
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8YQEyrbVpE

The Legacy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ryAxC4NK1A&feature=related

Ahh yes Carmageddon. Good classic! This, the GTA Series and the Hitman series are always great frustration relievers for me. Get a car and start 3-4 star chase in GTA, mutilate pedestrians in Carmaggedon or load Hitman Blood Money with cheats and fire at everyone on the Mardi Gras festival. :tops:


My first video game was Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt. I guess I must have been 2 when I tried it. And I guess it took one or two more years before I actually *played* it rather than moving Mario around without knowing why, without knowing how the game worked.
I still play it today from time to time. I've yet to finish it.

My first violent game was Wolfenstein 3D at my cousin's house. First violent game I owned was Warcraft 1 and Warcraft 2 Battle Chests. :chaos: (Or was it Duke Nukem 3D when I was 9 years old? Anyway, I'll always be thankful to my parents back then, as they let me purchase violent games even though I was way under the age rating...My mother bought me Conker's Bad Fur Day for my birthday. I was 15. )