When did you get interested?

[dj-spuddy]

I was five I think and my family got a Sega Megadrive. I played that every waking hour until I think I was 6 or 7 when I got my own Playstation and Street Fighter EX. I can't really remember much when I was young because all I did was game. Still do heh.

[CronoTriggerfan]

Well, when I was two, my babysitter would always bring her NES over, and we'd play SMB3, along with Duck Hunt. Later that year, I got my first system, my red "Play it Loud" original GameBoy from Funcoland, along with Kirby's Dream Land. Good times. Then on my third birthday, I got a Super Nintendo with my first game for the system, Yoshi's Island. I still remember asking my mom for help beating the slime boss at the first big tower in that game.

CTFan

[Electric Rain]

Heh... your baby-sitter sounded awesome.

Also, YOSHI'S ISLAND IS THE BEST PLATFORMER EVER!!!

[Ecksem Diem]

Moved on to Quake, Descent, and some of these other new games before we finally got AOL when I was 5 or so.

Did you ever beat Descent using the keyboard? It doesn't count if you didn't.

[jackfb13]

C_mon played Atari as a fetus in his mothers womb! I dare anyone to beat that.

Where'd the joystick go Actually i don't want to know.

[Electric Rain]

C_mon played Atari as a fetus in his mothers womb! I dare anyone to beat that.

Where'd the joystick go Actually i don't want to know.

... >.>

[Krepticor]

Ha I was playing the NES and the Atari when I was just big enough to hold the controllers (I think my original copy of SMB3 is worn out...), I really grew up with the NES since That was all I had until the N64 came out (and then I Bought a SNES go figure) My real passion came a few years later when the Playstation was released and I got my copy of Final Fantasy VII, the rest is gravy...

[cowsgoquack101]

My first was playing Fury 3 "trial version" on my acer pc. We got it when I was 2 and I played it with my dad (who's now very adamant that I don't play them) but I got sick a lot. Then I played it by myself for a while. Until I was 5 when we got our first system. It was a NES at a garage sale for $15 with 5 games. They were all exceptional, but the NES had the blinking problem. So we fixed that by blowing the cartridge, the system, then finally rubbing down the pins with rubbing alcohol. These were big mistakes. I sold it a few years later after receiving my Gameboy Color. We never had any really good games except for like Wario Land 3. We received an N64 for X-mas 2 years later and loved it to death. That's how it all got started. Then I bought a Gamecube at Meijer for $100 on super Saturday. I've been addicted ever since.

I remember when I first got my GC and rented Spyhunter (2?) and was enameled with the fact that it had shadows, relfections, and explosions compared to my N64. I loved it!

[myuusmeow]

We had a Gameboy. I used to watch my sister play Super Mario Land. I never got to play it until we got a Gameboy Color. We were at my mom's jury duty, and she pulled it out of her purse with Tetris! I was amazed that the long sticks were yellow! lol I believe that is my earliest memory and my first video game. (I think I was 3)

[11up]

I remember when I was very little, I would watch my old man play NES games like Rad Racer. I was obsessed with anything that had wheels on it, so it peeked my interest. It wasn't until I was able to read that Mom and Dad bought me Zelda that I was allowed to play games. I still remember the excitement from beating Ganon . That's when I started playing games.