Where did you start gaming?

RazWaz

I sometimes wish I was born 10 years earlier (Born 1990) so that I could have watched gaming move forward from those eras into what it's become today. I love looking back and seeing how far things have come.

Tropez

Had an Amstrad CPC 464 when I was a very little boy - such classic titles as Jet Set Willy (which I have since learned was bugged and thus could not be completed), Spiky Harold, Willow Pattern, Soccer Double (the original Football Manager!), Vampire Killer (totally rigged) and some RPG about a cat called Ceasar.

Next system was my dad's IBM PC something or other - titles such as Ninja Rabbits (yeah, that was messed up), International Soccer Challenge, Alien Breed and a few others.

Then I had my Pentium 75, which was later upgraded to a 133 - that's really where I started getting into games with classics such as Quake, Tomb Raider 1 & 2, Half-Life, Sim City 2000, Theme Hospital.

Built myself an Athlon system after that and then moved on from there over time.

Also have at various times owned a Mega Drive, Nintendo 64, Playstation and currently own an Xbox 360.

Miss_Mario

Started off in about '94/'95 (started young) with my Mum's SNES, mostly playing Super Mario World but occasionally branching into Mario All Stars or Yogi Bear.
My granddad bought me a Playstation about a year after release, it came with Spyro the Dragon and I never really played much more than that.
I did have a GameBoy too but can't pinpoint exactly when and all I ever played was Mario
Have since progressed onto other consoles/handhelds but I still own and play all the above

Mista_C

For me it was 1980, I was 4, and Space Invaders on my Brother-in-Law's Atari 2600, the big wooden looking one.

sickparrot

Binatone TV Pong/gun game

Then: ZX81, Spectrum (3 models), Amiga (2 models), PC (numerous), SNES, Gameboy, Xbox 360, PS2 (yes I got this later than the 360).

DCFC79

Zx spectrum for me.

Paully232000

I also remember having the spectrum with the rubber keys. I remember thinking then that games like monkey island could never be beaten for longevity, graphics and gameplay. As far as I remember i spent as long changing discs as I did playing as it came on about 5+. How wrong was I.

I am now onto an xbox 360 which I cant do without.

Retrogamer

I think i still have the following consoles in my collection. They're all stored away though

2 x Megadrive
2 x Megadrive II
1 x Master System II
1 x Game Gear
1 x Dreamcast
2 x N64. One is transparent blue and comes with the game boy adaptor
2 x Boxed NES both with light gun
1 x Boxed SNES with Bazooka (but no pads )
1 x Game Cube
1 x Game Boy Advance
1 x Game Boy Advance SP
1 x Game Boy Colour
2 x Amiga 1200 (One boxed with manuals and Workbench 3.0 disks)
2 x Playstation originals (1 boxed and with transparent case...VCD player, action replay, multitap, light gun with pedal ect)
2 x Xbox original (1 is modded with Xecuter 3 mod, LCD Screen, front USB ports and running 120GB hard drive with Linux and filled with emulators and is in a transparent case)
1 x Playstation II
1 x Playstation 3 slim
1 x 360 Elite
1 x Atari 2600

There might be more, it's hard to remember.
Got most of them for free when family members were going to throw them out.

vyle

Commodore 64 for christmas in 1989, whch came with Army Days and a few other light gun games. I didn't really get hooked until I got a megadrive in 1991 though, which my bro and I saved our pocket money up for.

Retrogamer

Ahhh i miss these days

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UK9VU1aJvTI