Gaming since...

[TCD]

Originally Posted by cosmicfrog

when did the 2600 come out ?

1977

[onkelarie]

I'm gaming since 1977, good old Pong.... Talking about old...heh...! 33 years...! :P

[Macca]

Binatone I think was first followed shortly there after on a BBC Micro. The onto a C16, Speccy 48k+, Toshiba MSX, C64, Amiga 600 then PC.

Binatone = http://www.benwaysworld.co.uk/comput...eTVMaster.html


M.

[cosmicfrog]

crumbs I was 10 in 1977, good year for music though

[deicidal]

I remember playing some sort of RPG on my mates dads ZX81 God knows how long ago that was but the lad in question died in 1983 so it must have been before that.

[Galahad/FLT]

I got my Atari 2600 'woody' back in 1981 I think it was, so thats 29 years of gaming!

[deicidal]

Originally Posted by Galahad/FLT

I got my Atari 2600 'woody' back in 1981 I think it was, so thats 29 years of gaming!

God I had one of those as well, before they made it into the black and metal wedge of cheese shape. Many fond memories of playing pac-man on that

[Galahad/FLT]

Pac Man, Stampede, Space Invaders, plus a few others I simply can't remember!

The cover art on the cartridge for Space Invaders was the ultimate con.... looked really great... until you actually played it, and it was of course crap!

[Dastardly]

Originally Posted by blade002

My earliest recollection is in about 1980 when i was about 6 years old, so would be 30 years ago for me

Same for me. 1980 was my first console at 6 years old. Didn't get 'into' gaming until about 86 though when I got a C64

[DaveGlo]

I can remember playing my mum and dads Grandstand TV game model 2000 but not them actually buying it. My first owned cassette game was Cuthbert goes digging on a TRS80 colour computer 2 that would have been 1984. Id say around 28 years.

[Firthy2002]

Played on other peoples computers/consoles from about '87 onwards, became a regular gamer when we got the A500+ in '91.

[Si-Pie]

Think it was around 1981, 82 for me. I was only like 4 or 5 at the time but it comes from having an older brother who was in his teens at the time who was gaming. I remember playing on the Atari 2600, Colecovision, C64 and Dragon back then. Then as I got older I had my first system which was a Amiga 500 ). So yep its around 28 years ( wow where has time gone???

[Bronko]

Originally Posted by Si-Pie

... wow where has time gone???

To years of gaming, I suppose...

For me it was just 14 or 16 years, you old geezers!
My older brother got a Gameboy for his birthday, bought some years afterward an used C64, and some more years after that an used Amiga500...

I got all machines, when he finally bought a Pentium 75 PC, which was great (Getting the machines I mean, but the PC was great as well).

[Lorfarius]

Originally Posted by TheCyberDruid

Atari 2600 in 1984, so 26 years... I'M FECKING OLD

Same time as me roughly though I have little recollection of it besides going round a neighbours house (I was 4) and watching in amazement as he played Popeye on his Atari 2600. Shortly after that my folks bought a Commodore 16 and the madness grew from there

[Melonfish]

Played on my cousins Amstrad 464 in about 86, my dad got me a Toshiba (ello tosh, gotta-toshiba?) then a master system in about 90, which i upgraded in 92 to an A600
i'd say i got the tosh in 87 so 23 years?
egads...

[Chuckles]

For me it was Pong at a bar in my first year of college in 1973, so that would be 37 years ago.

[zipper]

Yes, Pong clone '77 and then Atari 2600, still operable with tens of cartridges until '91 when A500 got purchased.

[jotd]

PacMan on a crappy Atari 2600 in 1980 in a local television dealer

[blade002]

Originally Posted by Dastardly

Same for me. 1980 was my first console at 6 years old. Didn't get 'into' gaming until about 86 though when I got a C64

Yeah my first console was around this time as well but i really don't know how we got it because my family was far from rich so??? but anyway.. here is a short time line of roughly where it began and where it is or "has kind of ended now".

I pretty sure it all started with the Hanimex in about 1980 This was a Pong style console that also had Football, Soccer ..etc.. which just meant either an extra bat to play with or an extra square ball




As well as that in those early years came the hand held games such as the following which i had and loved!!








This one my brother bought when he started working (he as just over 4 years older than me) and it came with 2 games which were Donkey Kong & Turbo (we got a steering wheel and accelerator peddle for it later on). I also saved all my lunch money up to buy Zaxxon for it lo and behold a system for its time that was superior to the Atari 2600! The CBS Colecovision!




Next came for me the Atari 2600 (kind of a downwards step from the Coleco but far more support!!) and i loved this console! favourite games on that one were probably Solaris, Defender, Battlezone & Crossbow




Need it need an introduction!? probably THE best machine i have EVER owned!!.. The Commodore 64!!!! The only thing that would JUST beat it for me is (I think you know the answer) because its next in line




THE AMIGA 500!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! When i bought this thing i was as proud as 10 men and could not BELIEVE i actually now had one!!! bought it after i left school and spent virtually ALL my of time on it whilst not knowing whether it was night or day outside and forgetting vital bodily functions that involved using the toilet (no i didn't defecate in front of the Amiga, i would just wait until the call became too great and then it was onto the toilet to read an AMIGA magazine!.. lol)




Then came the Amiga 1200 which i couldn't wait to get my hands on!! in all its AGA glory. I sold my A500 which i bought in 1990 to get hold of this baby in late 1992 and damn i had some fun on it, plus it came with a 40meg hard drive!!!! I guess the Amiga scene had changed a lot then because you it moving more into the 3D realm and i used to love seeing the chipset pushed in that area and marveling at what could be done after i installed a Blizzard 030@50. It was all great until i realized the Amiga was never to return from its abyss, so in the year 2000 i went onto the next phase which was the PC.




I would include a picture of a PC but what for? there is no standard look and they are just generic looking with no personality so.. errghhh..... I will admit though that gaming on the PC from 2000 to 2005 was quite exciting as well with games like Deus Ex, The Longest Journey, Hitman, Freespace 2, Dark Reign 2..etc.. .grabbing my attention! loved those games!! but now i have lost my affinity with modern gaming unless its online with friends i KNOW or a link up.

Ok, you didn't need to know all that but now you do

[viddi]

I started playing in 1985. It was my brother´s CPC664 that cast a spell on me.
A few years later (1990) he got an Amiga 2000 and I became an Amiga addict.

THANKS, BRO!