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[jbullfrog]

my bros. make fun of me cause I'm 17 already. and  I still play a "gameboy."   :evil:

How old are you?  :?

BTW, I tell them, "It's a freakin ds, NOT a gameboy!"  :o

[jbullfrog]

For those of you over 30, please write how old you are and state the number of years you have played video games.   I salute you!  :D

[DeVS]

27 here. Been playing since I was walking. Started with a Pong machine my grandpa and never looked back,lol.

[angstmann]

I am 30. Been playing games probably since I was about 11 years old. We always had SOME kind of gaming device... be it an old plug in-TV game thing that played Pong etc, ZX81, Oric computer... first decent gaming machine I had was an Amiga. I only really got into consoles later in life... my first console was a N64... since then I have has PS1, PS2, Dreamcast, XBox... handheld-wise I own a PSP, but the DS is the first Nintendo handheld I have owned!!

[SigmaX6]

Im 22, played vid games since i was 6 my parents bought me a snes from japan, because they where sold out in canada for that x-mas the year it came out.

[KTZM]

20 here, great age  :lol:
I've been playin since i was 7. My first playin thing was Comodore64.
Im still playin it from time to time !!!!!!

[NT]

I'm 25.  Been geeking out since the Atari 2600.  

[mclout99]

my bros. make fun of me cause I'm 17 already. and  I still play a "gameboy."   :evil:

How old are you?  :?

BTW, I tell them, "It's a freakin ds, NOT a gameboy!"  

I am 43 and have been playing video game going back to the first PC the Altar 8080.  We coded game in Machine code and entered them with togle switches.    Things have change but all computer gaming either PC, console or hand held is great.

[acky]

I'm 25.  Been geeking out since the Atari 2600.  

Atari 2600 was my first console too.

[Starteck2002]

Phew!  I'm not the oldest :-)

I'm 36, possibly 37 (will check on that and get back to you).  I've been slowing down on the consoles for a while now (selling them on ebay!) but here is my current list:

Consoles:

PSX (chipped)
PS2 (Chipped / HDD)
Xbox (Chipped / HDD)
SNES + WIldcard
N64 with Dr V64
Dreamcast (JAP with RGB mod)
Dreamcast (PAL)
GameCube (Vipered)
AMiga CD32
NES
Sega Saturn (CHipped)

Handheld

NeoGeo Pocket Colour
GamBoy Colour + Flash Linker
GBA SP + EFA Linker 512
NDS + SuperCard
Atari Lynx
GameGear

Computers

Commodore 64 with *RARE* 1581 floppy - upgraded kernel and jiffyDOS
Apple Mac G3 :-(
Atari Mega STe
Commodre Amiga A500 / A1200

Various PCs & Laptops with all flavours of operating systems.

I do like to play with my toys, but my missus thinks i may be getting a bit too old for this kind of stuff.  truth is I love anything like this.  I still have such odd things as a LaserDisc player with loads of films, cards and roms that go in all sorts of weird machines from days gone by and boxes full of crap that really should go in the bin - or at least on ebay!  When i pop my clogs I wonder if my three kids will look at my vast colection of crap and get the same pleasure I get out of the stuff or will they be chucking it all on 'flog-it' to make enough money for a new cat litter tray or other 'ever so useful' item?

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[karurosu]

I just bought an NDS for my uncle and he's about 45.
He loves games like meteos and completely idolatres tetris
Althought he bought the NDS for zoo tycoon

[rocky]

My grandma played video games when she was 75 or something, mainly super nintendo.

[strells]

Phew!  I thought I was going to win until mclout99 posted.  I'm 32 and I've been playing since the Atari 2600 days, though my parents refused to get me one.  So whenever I went over my friends' houses who had one, I always wanted to play!  First computer was a Commodore Vic 20, followed by an Atari 400, the one with the awful membrane keyboard.  First console was Vectrex (which was absolutely awesome and still is)!  So I guess that means I've been playing constantly for a good 26 or 27 years!

Steve

[kyus]

suddenly my looming 20th birthday doesn't seem quite as bad

I've been gaming since the megadrive. My first go on a game was sonic the hedgehog 2 for the master system, which my friend next door recieved for christmas. The megadrive is where all my gaming memories lie though. Best game I ever got was wonderboy in monsterworld. A crappy store called what everyone wants used to sell megadrive games. Not the latest titles, but cheap, obscure ones. They had hundreds of some isometric pacman game, and I was originally gonna pick that one, then i sighted wonderboy... I still love that game to this day. I've completed it around 9 times.

[strells]

suddenly my looming 20th birthday doesn't seem quite as bad

I've been gaming since the megadrive. My first go on a game was sonic the hedgehog 2 for the master system, which my friend next door recieved for christmas. The megadrive is where all my gaming memories lie though. Best game I ever got was wonderboy in monsterworld. A crappy store called what everyone wants used to sell megadrive games. Not the latest titles, but cheap, obscure ones. They had hundreds of some isometric pacman game, and I was originally gonna pick that one, then i sighted wonderboy... I still love that game to this day. I've completed it around 9 times.

[begin Cranky Kong, Dana Carvey persona] You've got to be kidding me.  In my day, if someone mentioned a "megadrive," that would just refer to any drive because they were all mega...in physical size that is, and we liked it!  And in my day, there was no such thing as Sega.  What is that?  Some whipper snapper mispellin' saga?  Not sure what that is.  Any way, it was all black and white or 8 colors and we liked it![end Cranky Kong, Dana Carvey persona]

I am getting old...

Steve