What year did you start gaming, and on which platform?

[Profligates]

Late 1990s, I was like 4 years old and always borrowing my cousin's gameboy to play Pokemon Red even though I could barely even read or understand what was happening.

[Pulsifi3d]

Mine was Original Ninteno/Atari.

[Darkn3ss F4lls]

Atari early 90's.

[Dannihilator]

Fam friends of ours had the SNES and after a few turns at Super Mario World, Super Knock Out, and Mortal Kombat, bro and I were hooked. Ended up getting the SNES (bundled with Donkey Kong Country) a few months later, and the rest is history. Soon after, still young, we would watch our uncle play DOOM on PC, and then that era was ushered in, even though PC gaming would come a few years later. Good times.

[Intensified]

Atari...Such fun times :)

[AOD_GeneralSoko]

Between 2008 and 2010 on my Nintendo Gameboy.

[AOD_RTMPro]

1987 - Atari - Asteroids

[Camzilla]

It was 2002 - I started with the original Xbox with crazy taxi! haha crazy to think back to when you first started and seeing what you have now, unbelievable!

[VeccZyyy]

I started playing in 2002 on the Playstation 2! My mom got it for my dad for father's day but he never used it so he let me play it. I played some kind of ATV Offroading game, it was a lot of fun!

[znick]

Gosh.... whenever Pong game out, so I'm guessing around 1975? Then PacMan, etc..

My first computer was an Apple IIc, my first ad last apple product, I couldn't make the payments and it got repo'd, lol.

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[AOD_WoopdyDoo]

Late 90s on Windows 95. Started with the Bumper Cars game that game with 95, then dad got us an 80 game shareware CD-ROM that had a bunch old DOS and Windows game episode 1 without the full version. Some of the highlights include Major Stryker, Raptor: Call of the Shadows, Doom 1993, Duke Nukem 2, Biomenace, and more games then I can neither remember nor list.

The big game I was super addicted to back then was Star Wars X-Wing Collectors CD-ROM.
Besides that, in the early years of the web I was heavily into Java, Flash, and whatever else platforms they used for web games. This included a game Jagex, the RuneScape people, did before they did RuneScape.


So while I am not old old, I have been around just long enough to have played games on most to all of Microsoft development platforms (slightly looser then every OS; luckily never had to deal with Windows ME).

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[AOD_Tranquillo]

omg tecmo bowl, myself and 2 of my cousins stayed up for 2 days straight playing that game. then super tecmo. then the madden series on the snes. I still bring out the old x360 to rock some madden 16 (i think maybe 15). The first online game was the original counter strike on an an ancient isdn line, 112 mbit if memory serves, on a celeron 333 no less, 15" crt monitor.

[Violet]

I started gaming on my Gameboy advanced around like 2004

[ThunDerHawK]

If your talking purely video games, 1995 ish with SEGA and Original Nintendo. But my online experience came around 2003/2004 ish with SWAT4.
BF2 from 2005-2008 or 09.
Those were the days where you really had to commit to a game to "rank up"
BF2 was by far the best ranking system i've ever seen.

U.S Army ranks
I got to Colonel, to get to 1,2,3 star general I needed
150 hours in a jet and "x" kills (completed)
150 hours in helo and "x" kills (completed)
75 Hours in a transport (completed)
my short fall was
400! HOURS! in a TANK! with "x" kills.

I was only 250 hours short lol.

Regardless I had all other qualifications to be a 2 or 3 star general (in Rank) but never satisfied the hours.

It was SO cool that EA introduced the 4 Star General Rank in the game.
The only way to be a 4 star general was be in the top 10 I believe in the entire player base(which was around 10,000,000 at the time) for score within that month. Obviously you had to be a 3 Star before this.

But EA Admins would then promote a handful of select players to be that ultimate rank every month.

[Jayla]

1981 ish - PacMan on Atari

after reading some of these posts I dont feel so bad about gaming still

[AOD_SuPeRNoVa]

Atari 2600 in the late 70's playing pong, missile command, centipede etc...

[Mechrot]

1999, Duke Nukem on the old family computer!

[Teljkon_Nugs]

1989, and Airborne Ranger on the comador 64

[Darkeligos]

1993ish, playing Are You Afraid of the Dark: The Tale of Orpheo's Curse on an old IBM PS/2 machine

[Hanzzo]

Lol 1985. Dad had an Atari 2600 that he set up for his toddler and created a lifelong addiction.

We got a PC in the mid 80s with a monochrome monitor, soon upgraded to EGA, 16 colors yo! All the while I'd play NES at my friends house whenever possible. I remember being super stoked about getting a 3.5" floppy drive. On the PC, Thexder was my jam, along with Midnight Rescue, Space quest, and Silpheed.

Things got real in the 90s, I got a Sega genesis and played the shit out of street fighter. We got a 486, at 66 MHz, with 8mb of ram and a 500Mb HD it was more computer than anyone would ever need. We got wolfenstien, and then doom, then duke nukem. After that we entered the era of dedicated graphics cards. I got a Voodoo2 3dfx card with 8megs of ram and everyone was losing their shit about how awesome it was.