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[vinchick]

started way back with zx81 bout 7 years old firt game I think was chukie egg maybe wrong it was a long time ago, upgraded to zx spectrum +, Atari 520stfm upgraded to 1mg mg2: how fast did that go ,sega megadrive, went to pc age 12 first game played on PC was leisure suit larry (borrowed from my neighbours older brother he didn't know though). I do remember playing games on a console that you plugged in to the tv can't remember what it was called though you could play pong etc. I know I'm old

[Pelastajasankari]

I think it was 1987 when we got a Commodore 64 (I was about 5 then), and in 1992 a 25 MHz 486 PC with 4 MB ram. About 20 years of gaming and 15 years with a PC.

[Borodin]

I first saw Colossal Cave around 1981. A couple of years later, I purchased a Radio Shack 1, I believe, and got Sargon. (Took 30 minutes to load via cassette.) A year or so after that I saw the original Commodore version of Ultima. "How long before it's ported to the IBM?" I asked the sales rep. "Probably about 10 years," he said, showing extreme cupidity and ignorance.

First game review I wrote was for PC Magazine in 1978, if I recall correctly. One of the earlier Wizardry titles, I think.

[stewie90]

i played my first game on nes, about 13 years old(now i'm 16) and i loved play mario... it was my favourite game. then in 1999 i bought the psx and today i have a ps2 with around 50-55 games

excuse me... not 13 years old, but 13 years ago

[strider2]

I've been playing/messing with computers since I was 8 years old. What a great experience, especially with all the information and software found simply by googling. Most of the issues were everyday problems that were solved through the use of a search engine.

[pellets]

First Vic-20
Second spectrum (Model??)
Third C-64
Forth Amiga 600 (Amazing 20Mb Harddrive!!!)
And now pc (Since 10 years)

[STFM]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Eva02Soul @ Jun 27 2007, 12:03 PM) [snapback]296580[/snapback]</div>

I'm 20, my first gaming machine was an Amstrad CPC which I was using fluently (including basic BASIC coding) by the time I was 4.
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By the time you were 4? Most 4yo's have trouble writing their own names let alone even the most rudimentary program and comprehending what it is doing!

10 PRINT "hello"
RUN 10

[airsoftsnake]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(STFM @ Aug 8 2007, 09:43 PM) [snapback]303761[/snapback]</div>

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Eva02Soul @ Jun 27 2007, 12:03 PM) [snapback]296580[/snapback]

I'm 20, my first gaming machine was an Amstrad CPC which I was using fluently (including basic BASIC coding) by the time I was 4.
[/b]

By the time you were 4? Most 4yo's have trouble writing their own names let alone even the most rudimentary program and comprehending what it is doing!

10 PRINT "hello"
RUN 10

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I remember my first Vic-20 and the datasette! My god!!! I'm too old!!! I started when I was 10 or 11, and I had the Vic-20 when it cost more than a xbox 360 does now!! 850$$$$!!!

I remember this code:

10 PRINT "my name is : sxxxxx xxxxxxx"
20 goto 10
run

I impressed my parents to no end!! And boy did I ever have fun!!!

Did anyone else type in pages and pages of code to play crappy games???

[STFM]

Yes, but I used STOS

[Japo]

I'm 27 now. My father had the idea that kids should play with homemade wooden swords, well kidding --but kinda true. I finally got an Atari 2600 console (1.19 MHz, 128 bytes RAM --I said bytes not kbytes nor Mbytes, no kidding) when it was already a grossly hilariously obsolete piece of junk, during the nineties. Have no idea where did my father find that museum piece --it was the first pugin home console, from 1977! :blink:

Then I managed to make him buy me a new obsolete Sega Master System (8 bits console) when the Mega Drive/Genesis (16 bits) had been around for ages. Oh boy did I cry when Flashback came out for then Genesis. But at least the Master System had real (crappy) games unlike the Atari... macropixelated historical curiosities.

Around 1996 I got a... 286 16 MHz 1 MB RAM, and adding insult to injury the monitor supported only grayscale. For my father it was either trashing it (from his office) or giving it to me. Yes that's when the Pentiums had been around for years. But those were the days. I started PC gaming already as an oldgamer out of necessity, Civilization was one of the first ones. Then out of boredom I taught myself all the DOS advanced stuff (when DOS had started its demise long ago), then QBasic then C.

After that I've had a 486 SX 33 MHz, a Pentium III 450 MHz 65 MB RAM, and then my current fairly new computer. This is the first not grossly obsolete computing equipment I've owned in my life, and boy it feels good. But now I don't like new games and I never think about buying a modern console.