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41, been gaming since Pong. I remember being 10 and dumping money into Death Race and Night Driver like there was no tomorrow. Was a pinball wizard too, back then a good arcade would have 15 or more.
 
Originally posted by: foghorn67
29 here.
I wonder how old Prickly Pete is? His damn avatar and his lack of slang makes him seem like 60.
said in jest of course.

-edit--had a commodore in the garage. I got the NES a full season after it's release.
Before that, I spent hours playing the table style Galaga arcade at the local pizza joint. That lasted years. I still play it once in a while. It crashes after 999,999 points.
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Ironically we're the same age. 29 here and I've been gaming since Commodore 64 and Atari 2600 days. Spent much time on the NES and Genesis...but moved to PC gaming. Returned to console gaming with the PS2/Xbox...but never really caught on...liked gaming on my PC much better. With the introduction of the 360 and HDTV gaming...I haven't played one game on my PC (and I don't ever see me switching back...now I have much more money for games rather than spending it all on hardware...and time to actually play them instead of "tweaking").
 
29 here as well. Never had a PC of my own when I was young but my Dad was/is a computer engineer and because of that I grew up watching computers evolve into what they are today, going back to the Commodore 64/128. Consoles I've had started with several Ataris, NES, Genesis/Sega CD, PSX, PS2, Xbox, and now an Xbox 360.

-Jason
 
Originally posted by: PricklyPete
Originally posted by: foghorn67
29 here.
I wonder how old Prickly Pete is? His damn avatar and his lack of slang makes him seem like 60.
said in jest of course.

-edit--had a commodore in the garage. I got the NES a full season after it's release.
Before that, I spent hours playing the table style Galaga arcade at the local pizza joint. That lasted years. I still play it once in a while. It crashes after 999,999 points.
Click to expand...

Ironically we're the same age. 29 here and I've been gaming since Commodore 64 and Atari 2600 days. Spent much time on the NES and Genesis...but moved to PC gaming. Returned to console gaming with the PS2/Xbox...but never really caught on...liked gaming on my PC much better. With the introduction of the 360 and HDTV gaming...I haven't played one game on my PC (and I don't ever see me switching back...now I have much more money for games rather than spending it all on hardware...and time to actually play them instead of "tweaking").
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We're brothers from a different mother.

I'm the same age and you summarized my gaming experience almost exactly.
 
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: PricklyPete
Originally posted by: foghorn67
29 here.
I wonder how old Prickly Pete is? His damn avatar and his lack of slang makes him seem like 60.
said in jest of course.

-edit--had a commodore in the garage. I got the NES a full season after it's release.
Before that, I spent hours playing the table style Galaga arcade at the local pizza joint. That lasted years. I still play it once in a while. It crashes after 999,999 points.
Click to expand...

Ironically we're the same age. 29 here and I've been gaming since Commodore 64 and Atari 2600 days. Spent much time on the NES and Genesis...but moved to PC gaming. Returned to console gaming with the PS2/Xbox...but never really caught on...liked gaming on my PC much better. With the introduction of the 360 and HDTV gaming...I haven't played one game on my PC (and I don't ever see me switching back...now I have much more money for games rather than spending it all on hardware...and time to actually play them instead of "tweaking").
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We're brothers from a different mother.

I'm the same age and you summarized my gaming experience almost exactly.
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Except you still like your Frontier better than my Tacoma! 😉 😀

 
Originally posted by: PricklyPete
Originally posted by: vi_edit
Originally posted by: PricklyPete
Originally posted by: foghorn67
29 here.
I wonder how old Prickly Pete is? His damn avatar and his lack of slang makes him seem like 60.
said in jest of course.

-edit--had a commodore in the garage. I got the NES a full season after it's release.
Before that, I spent hours playing the table style Galaga arcade at the local pizza joint. That lasted years. I still play it once in a while. It crashes after 999,999 points.
Click to expand...

Ironically we're the same age. 29 here and I've been gaming since Commodore 64 and Atari 2600 days. Spent much time on the NES and Genesis...but moved to PC gaming. Returned to console gaming with the PS2/Xbox...but never really caught on...liked gaming on my PC much better. With the introduction of the 360 and HDTV gaming...I haven't played one game on my PC (and I don't ever see me switching back...now I have much more money for games rather than spending it all on hardware...and time to actually play them instead of "tweaking").
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We're brothers from a different mother.

I'm the same age and you summarized my gaming experience almost exactly.
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Except you still like your Frontier better than my Tacoma! 😉 😀
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I convinced my wife to buy a Highlander instead of a Murano so that balances it out.

😛
 
35.

Remember playing games on the Apple II, TI-994a along with my old 8088 and logging on to BBS's and playing Trade Wars. 300 baud was smoking fast back then!

Console wise, Atari 2600 was the first console I owned. Still have my OdysseyII along with an Intelevision. Good times.
 
Originally posted by: vi_edit

I convinced my wife to buy a Highlander instead of a Murano so that balances it out.

😛
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Giddyup! So you weren't able to talk her into a Lambda? (Sorry for the thread hijack guys)
 
32 ... started gaming on an Coleco system, then a Vic 20, then Apple clones before graduating to better and better PC gaming. The first console I owned was a PS1 (that I obtained after the PS2 came out), and now I also have a Wii.
 
Now if only the XboxLive community echoed the age makeup here. Sure would be a lot fewer prepubescent soprano-voiced little children incessantly singing or making nonsensical comments.

edit: Oh yeah, I'm 28.
 
Almost 27.
First gaming experience was a Atari 2600 my father borrowed from one of his friends in 1984. I ended up buying a 7800 with money I earned from my parents when I was 7 or 8. I could play Pole Position II and Galaga for hours.
 
I'm 26. My first gaming experience was on my aunt's Atari. I loved that thing. Then, my dad got a C64C. I was in heaven after that.
 
41. first game system I had was a pong knock-off in the mid 70s then the Atari 2600, payed something like 400 bucks back in the late 70s, then another 200 to fix it after I fried it. 🙂 And then i bought and still have every single games console (except the PS3) since then. Over 30 I beleive. My closet is literally full of all my consoles.
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
41. first game system I had was a pong knock-off in the mid 70s then the Atari 2600, payed something like 400 bucks back in the late 70s, then another 200 to fix it after I fried it. 🙂 And then i bought and still have every single games console (except the PS3) since then. Over 30 I beleive. My closet is literally full of all my consoles.
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The idea of a closet filled with consoles piqued my interest. Just out of curiosity, what's the most rare console in your collection? If including add-ons, the most rare recent possibility I could think of was an import 64DD. Although I'm sure there were a ton of obscure hardware releases that pre-date my experience since 1988 or so.
 
Originally posted by: CKDragon
Originally posted by: Oyeve
41. first game system I had was a pong knock-off in the mid 70s then the Atari 2600, payed something like 400 bucks back in the late 70s, then another 200 to fix it after I fried it. 🙂 And then i bought and still have every single games console (except the PS3) since then. Over 30 I beleive. My closet is literally full of all my consoles.
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The idea of a closet filled with consoles piqued my interest. Just out of curiosity, what's the most rare console in your collection? If including add-ons, the most rare recent possibility I could think of was an import 64DD. Although I'm sure there were a ton of obscure hardware releases that pre-date my experience since 1988 or so.
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I guess the rarest in my console collection would be the Atari 400 computer, modified with 64k ram. my Vic-20 is also hard to get. And my Vitual Boy! hehe! Or perhaps the Commodore 128!
 
Originally posted by: Oyeve
I guess the rarest in my console collection would be the Atari 400 computer, modified with 64k ram. my Vic-20 is also hard to get. And my Vitual Boy! hehe! Or perhaps the Commodore 128!
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I played a Virtual Boy for the first time today; I was pleasantly surprised at how fun some of the games are...
 
29, been gaming since forever. Mostly on a computer and an old NES I got when I was 8 or so. I recently switched over to the Wii since I got tired of having to upgrade my computer every year,

 
Originally posted by: Oceandevi
25, started with sega genesis. then moved to pc games.. dune 2 and doom.
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25 here, too. You sound like me, although I started with the Nintendo and then went to Genesis, then PC with Dune2/Doom.
 
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