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[Cyprien Walker]

Hell iam 16 ive been following nintendo ever since well i started with the nes with supermario bros 3 great game and still is then i played on the snes with donky kong and a wile after that i owned a snes my self with supermario world ahmm i had a gbc and i realy loved it it was the first handheld i had aftherthat i had a gbaSP for a year and sold it and bought a ds now iam stuck with it LOl cant keep my claws of it and thank god for the supercard what i would love for the ds its self will be a dos emu couse i like retro stuff and old games :Dand if i could play it on my ds and take it everywere i can i never sell my ds ever again

[sunjammer]

Had everything from a ZX81 to an  Amstrad CPC464 to first PC (8080 processor, 640k RAM and a massive 30Mb hard disk that never seemed to get full!!!)  Never had the Spectrum or C64 but had mates who I spent most of my time with who had both...

Still have the following:
Grandstand Scramble (desktop version)
Grandstand LCD Pacman
Grandstand Desktop Pacman (big round yellow one)
Sega Megadrive (somewhere...)
SNES
Game Boy (first revision)
Game Boy Advance (first revision) x3 (passed down to my kids)
[one with an afterburner light that I fitted (badly!) ]
PS
PS2 (black)(original)

...and my Trusty DS.

Same here. I am 36, too.
I started with the Sinclair ZX81, the killer machine!

You won't believe it, but I still have my old ZX81. Totally disassembled (I added a soundchip, more RAM (64kbyte!!!!!! Woot!) and replaced this freaky "keyboard")... Well, I don't think I'll get this thing working again... :/

...
Ah, I remember my first Gameboy. It was one of the first devices in germany. At that time I went on holiday to another country. I traveled by plane. Passing the security check, the "bomb detector" went all crazy. The officer on duty searched through my luggage and pulled out my precious gameboy! He didn't believed that this tiny thing was a device for gaming. I got dismissed after I have shown Mario jumping around a few platforms... Phew!

[jameyc]

I'm 28, my consoles have been a magnavox Odyssey, followed by an atari 2600, trs-80, nes, commodore 64c, sms, gameboy, genesis, game gear, sega cd,  snes, cd-i w/mjpeg pack, n64, ps2, gamecube, xbox, gba, and last but not least a DS, in that order. Various pc's interspersed though the timeline too if they count ^^

Also had a few game-n-watches, and those old nintendo tabletop mini game things with the crappy screens, shaped like miniature arcade machines. I think I had donkey kong and q*bert (gotta love the asterisk...) on them.

Oddly I still have all this except the original gameboy and the n64, and it all works except the watches and the mini-arcade things. Hell the watches might work if I checked batteries, but I doubt it...

[orb_nsc]

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.

So far I think it's you and the Altair 8080 for the win.  I'm 31 and started gaming with the Atari 2600, then called the VCS, moving on to the TI 99/4A (Hunt the Wumpus, baby!).  I also recall having a handheld Pong that was completely electromechanical...it had an led that moved around inside the casing from player to player.  I wish I knew where that was nowadays.

I remember that I had to mow a lot of yards to acquire the cash for the Nintendo Entertainment System, when it was all the rage.  As I recall it cost $110 for the setup with SMB and Duck Hunt back then.  Quite a cheap console compared to today's standards!

[norcalscot]

First time poster...

I'm 38 (!!) and just got myself one of the blue DSes after borrowing my son's  silver one once too often to play Super Mario.

Consoles owned:

Various early consoles (early 80's) whose names I forget...

Sega Megadrive
Sega Dreamcast (still have 2 of them...)

Nintendo Gameboy (original black and white - it still works !)
Nintendo Gameboy Color
Nintendo Gameboy Advance
Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP
Nintendo DS

Nintendo Gamecube

Nintendo 64

Computers owned:

Sinclair ZX81
Sinclair Spectrum
Sinclair QL
Toshiba MSX
Atari 520 ST
Amstrad CPC464
Sun Sparc 5

I've got a bunch of PCs at the moment including at least 4 old laptops,
an HP Pavillion, a couple of HP Kayaks, and a self-built Pentium 4 machine.

[dbharding]

Glad it is not just me. I'm 34 and my 1st console experience was my cousins Atari woody. I spent all day playing space invaders on it. I remember spending most of my summer holidays in debehmans playing on the display intellivision. The game was football and we thought it was brill.
My 1st machine was the spectrum 48k and I remember fondly swapping copied tapes in the playground. I remember programming the games into the system out of the magazines. I never managed to get one to work and I spent hours keying in the programme. One typing error and you had it. I still love the speccy games which I pretty much have the whole collection on a 28mb file to play on the DS.The great thing is I don't have to wait 10 minutes to load the game.

My brother then had an Amiga which I thought was amazing after the spectrum. The leap seemed massive. I went of the scene for a bit until the PS1 came along. I could not belive the quality of the games then. I then went on to the PS2 with my trusty HD Advance installed :razz: and I'm looking forward to the PS3.

With regard to the handhelds my kids use them and owned a GBA and then upgraded to the DS this xmas. Again I think this is a great system although it would have been nice if it had the same graphics and screen size as the PSP. I think the games are superior on the DS and it is the touch screen that makes all the difference.

[morpheus384]

36 and been playing since my dad bought a COLECO Telstar pong when I was 5. Drooled over the 2600 when it came out, as well as my buddys Odysey 2000 but had to wait til 78 when the 2600 came boxed with the crappy Pac man game.

I remember sneaking down the stairs at 3am christmas night to play and almost got busted cause my dad was still up playing pacman. He used to come home for lunch and spend the whole time trying to turn over the score at 1,000,000. He still claims he did but the power cord pulled out of the wall before he could show off...lol.

After the great video game crash of 84' -85'I started gaming on a Vic 20 , C64 then IBM PC Jr; Yes I remember when Zork was the bomb:-) then my bro got a colecovision til we got a nintendo 8bit.

 My first full time job I bought a SNES and 2 games for my dad..(Right) even though he was a complete Castlevania IV nut as well as a Super Marioland Virtuoso, he didt really take to Zelda.

I fell out of the scene during the N64/Playstation years and just had my gameboy mono and A TG 16 I bought off my brother with a bunch of hue cards. Got my first screeming fast 200 mhz computer in 97 and discovered emulation-Been a die hard retrogamer ever since until I bought my Dreamcast and GBA this year.

Im hoping Im not the oldest since all my buds have been gaming as long as I have; but they have pretty much been into keeping up with the jonses and selling every system theyve have for the latest one, they drop by my place to play all the games of yore (and drink up all my Homebrew..:-).

[zektor]

This is great. And now who can say that Nintendo consoles are just for kids, eh? Maybe they should add the demographic of grown up kids too, like me!

[q_armando]

I am 32 and I also started to play as a kid at the early 80's with arcade games like Frogger and Asteroids.
I eventually got my first microcomputer(Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K) in 1984 and then after it broke, I upgraded to a +2.
I also owned an MSX 2+(Sony FX1-XDJ, original Japanes games were fantastic, like Metal Gear Solid and other Konami hits) and then an Amiga 1200.
But I really started hardcore playing with an original Gameboy(1989) and then SNES.Those game still rocks!! I still think Snes games where the best ever 2D games ever released!
I got then an N64,(skipped PS1) and after that a Dream Cast(bad faith).
I was a bit against it, but i got a PS2 as well because some sequels of games that I started on the DC were coming out only for the PS2, but after playing them I sold it.
Of course nowdays I own a Game Cube as well, a GBA and recentely I purchased a blue DS, and I am glad that my Supercard comes in a pretty blue color that matches my DS.
And I am writing this on my Desktop computer, but I also own a Laptop.
I am looking forward to the N Revolution, the only console that I am excited about in years !!
That's my story.

[Cyprien Walker]

Who Dang i didnt know there were so many along us that had alot to do with gameing i tought i was one of the most that comes here every day to check atleast 25 times on this site

[fexo]

Sorry to say, I'll be 50 in 3 weeks time (no grey hairs though- time has been kind).

I don't actually play much (couldn't even master pong at university) but it's for my 8 year old son; we started with a N64 when they were getting rid of them at ToysRus (I helped on the difficult stars then got kicked off).

We're hanging on for the Revolution. I wouldn't touch Sony as my friend's wife is the head of the Sony PS legal dept in London (15 strong)- nasty people!

Anyway, I'm having fun reading all the stuff that you children are up to.

Back to the wheel chair

[bz5]

30, played everything from atari2600 to current consoles/portables

[breizhatavpilamiks]

I'm 31 and have been a computer geek for most of my life. I started playing on my father's 2600 in 1982 and got my first computer in 1985: a so-called 'portable PC' manufactured by IBM which then weighed only slightly less then myself.

[berlinka]

I'm 31! I suddenly feel quite vital having read this topic. It all started with my brother's Commodore 64 which we played on a black/white telly in the beginning. Then it was Amiga time! Boy those were the days. And then...the Super Famicom (Snes). Well after that I got on to other things but after several years I bought a Gameboy Advance and now I'm totally in seventh heaven again with my precious DS! Long live Nintendo!

[754boy]

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

Same as me lol. And I still got that Atari 2600 in the back of my closet along with some crappy football game lol.