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

[AOD_Caledric]

1985... We had an atari

[Weazelsun]

I'd say around 2004 or so, and PS2.

[Deformographist]

Around 1991 I'd say. I was about 5 years old and started playing on a hand-me-down NES from my older half-brother. My favorites games were Super Mario Bros., Double Dragon, and Rad Racer. Good times!

[iXiBlack]

2001 and it was a playstation

[YourXWife]

Ti96? playing word games like Zork and Adventure, then moved on to Atari 2600,Intellivision, Colecovision, Odessy(sp-magnavox), Commodore Vic20, Sega genisis, Sega CD, Nintendo, Super nintendo, Commodore 64 (C64 bulletin board) 386x66, etc

[Suhdude]

First console game every played was Rayman on ps2

[Valiant]

I believe I started playing in 2002 :\ on call of duty 2 and BF1942

[DaGrandCanyon]

early 2000s when I helped my father build his first pc to play Halo. Such good times man, was addicted immediately!

[IceCB]

1989 on the NES

[Blackkrd]

2004 I believe. It was on a garbage desktop running XP.

[PharaohSphinx]

1985, 2 years old, father taught me how to play Atari 2600 and NES

[BuickTechGaming]

Early 2000's. Started with the original Playstation... Crash Bandicoot!!

[D0ger]

1981 or 82... My dad got the very first Atari VCS (wasn't even called the 2600 yet)

[AOD_WeDGE]

think it was 1988 - the intellevision, which was already 9 years old at the time, first game was called "major league baseball"

[Synkronus]

Early 90's on a BBC Electron... the same time I started programming simple "games" like guess a number. We had Paper Boy and a few other games, but the coding was the best part.

[Conflict]

PC circa 1996. Good old days of really bad graphics.