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Where did you start gaming?

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I am glad this section is here now, about time.
Just interested to know where everyone started gaming, what platform, and how did you get into gaming.

I remember (way back when) started with a texas instrument like this one
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_Instruments_TI-99/4A

I remember days of writing programmes from magazines, typing code into the computer only for the game not to work due to some misprint in the magazine. Then, being only young then, having my Dad look through the code for hours to see where the mistake was.

And then onto the tape games with their loading screeching. Oh the joys.

Oh the ease these days of just putting a disc in, or downloading a game without (many) issues.
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  • bluenoseam
    bluenoseam Posts: 4,612 Forumite
    1991, Nintendo Game Boy which I paid something obscene for after bugging the bejesus out of my parents to let me buy it with money I'd received as a gift. Who knew that bleep as Nintendo scrolled down the screen was actually a bigger addiction trigger than crack...
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  • Gordon_Hose
    Gordon_Hose Posts: 6,259 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    I started on the ZX Spectrum with games like Frogger, Mrs Mop,Dizzy, Way of the Exploding Fist etc.

    Moving onto the Sega Master System, Megadrive and eventually PC. I then had an Xbox, Xbox 360 and finally a PS3.
  • almillar
    almillar Posts: 8,621 Forumite
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    ZX Spectrum of my Dad's, on the floor in the living room. Tape in, type LOAD "" and away you go! Jet Set Willy, Mikey, Green Beret, Daley Thompson (broke plenty of joysticks and those stupid interfaces they had to plug in through!), Chuckie Egg (I believe my Dad completed this), Jetpac, Jetman, Blind Panic, something where you played a baby and got nappy rash (!) Spy Hunter....
  • Percy1983
    Percy1983 Posts: 5,244 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Commodore 64 for me.
    Have my first business premises (+4th business) 01/11/2017
    Quit day job to run 3 businesses 08/02/2017
    Started third business 25/06/2016
    Son born 13/09/2015
    Started a second business 03/08/2013
    Officially the owner of my own business since 13/01/2012
  • RazWaz
    RazWaz Posts: 1,070 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    It was 1994 and a friend of my mothers passed on his Sega Mega Drive II with a Mega CD attachment on to me, along with a bunch of games. I played the heck out of it for years, until I was given a PS1 for xmas. I carried on playing them both until I got a PS2.

    Since then I've been a bit of a console collector and have pretty much everything released in the last 15 years, and a game collection totalling around 4000. I play my PS3 the most often at the moment, along with my (self built) gaming pc.
  • Cycrow
    Cycrow Posts: 2,639 Forumite
    First games i started playing were on the BBC and Acorn Electron.
    The most memorable being Repton.
    Then i started with PC games, the first being World Class Leaderboard Golf, playing on my dads 286.
    Then from that point is was mainly PC gaming as i got my own 486 PC which then got constantly upgraded over time.
    And even started making my own games and mods in the early 90's

    first console experience i had was with a game gear, followed by a snes that i borrowed for awhile, before getting an N64 for myself
  • preable
    preable Posts: 2,114 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud! Mortgage-free Glee!
    I think I started with a megadrive or a gameboy lol
  • Retrogamer
    Retrogamer Posts: 4,218 Forumite
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    i can't remember when exactly, but it was the mid to late 80's IIRC.

    Used to play my cousins Atari 2600 all the time. When he sold that i got a Commodore 16, then a 64 then onto consoles.

    I collect video game consoles still and still have some boxed NES', SNES' and Amiga's in the attic. The rest are all unboxed sadly.
    All your base are belong to us.
  • Gra76
    Gra76 Posts: 804 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    I started playing on ZX Spectrums at friends houses in the mid 80's. My parents refused to buy one no matter how much I begged.

    Then one Christmas (pretty sure it was 1988) my parents bought an Amstrad CPC464 as a family computer.

    It came with 'Harrier Attack', 'Oh Mummy' and a couple of other games I forget the names of but one was a fruit machine game.

    I couldn't dislodge my Dad from Harrier Attack for most of the Christmas holidays.

    It ended up in my room after a few months and I used to buy a couple of cheap games each week for it with my pocket money.

    I was always jealous of my Amiga and Commodore 64 owning friends though.

    It eventually went into a skip after sitting unloved and unused in a cupboard for probably a decade or more!
  • Paully232000
    Paully232000 Posts: 2,108 Forumite
    I remember having the Amiga 500 and the 500+ with the dizzy heights of 1MB of RAM. I sometimes wish I still had that.

    I also remember the games swapping club I was in, although I am sure it was illegal back then to use copied games but hey ho. 50p or something a week, take along your computer and a shed load of blank discs and you had a whole new games library in a few hours.
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