I Played My First Game...

Firmly in the 5-10 years old bracket, I'm now 37... Yes, it's been a fair while that I've been playing videogames, now.

I inadvertently opted for 11-15, with my mind fixing on when I first played a home console. Then, about 3.25 nanoseconds after hitting the "vote" button, my head was flooded with memories of playing Space Invaders (including the faux colour one that had tinted acetate over the screen), Pac-Man and Battlezone.

I'm 35 now, so yeah, I've been playing games for bit too.

5-10, we had arcade game in my grandparents' garage which was the family buisness' repair shop then, as it is currently. I was a paid consultant/tester as a child, my wages being all the soda I could drink,and all the Nibs I could eat. My onerous duties included trying to break arcade games by constant play, and determining which dip switches would give me more lives. I remember one night over there, warm, with a slight cool breeze, it had to be really late, me and my sister were playing Super Cobra (new game, just in from the distributor) cooperatively. I was on the stick, she mashed the buttons as fast as she could...that was like '81-'82, so I was 9 or so...

I got my first real console, bought from the five and dime.
Played it 'til my fingers bled. It was the summer when I was nine.

Pong first, when it was awesome and futuristic. Then Space Invaders, and I thought that tomorrow's world had come today. But it wasn't until Tempest arrived that I started skipping school and stealing little kids' dinner money to get my fix...

Those were the best days of my life

I put 5-10 but I think I may have been younger. I remember playing pod (some crappy type and see learning game) and repton on my brothers bbc when I was very small..

The first game of my own that I played was tetris on the gameboy when I was 6 or 7. Everyone had a gameboy back then and Tetris is still in my top 5 favourate games of all time.

My fist cosole was a tele sport... i think its still in my parents attic, although I'm not sure if it works anymore. I think I was 4 or 5, then we upgraded to an Atari 2600.

My 1st console we had @ home was a Binatone which had two paddle controllers & Pong....

Must've been Space Invaders, in a grimy back room of my dad's local pub up in Dishforth in 1979/80 (when I was 7/8)... I remember seeing Galaxian and Centipede only a few years later and being BLOWN AWAY BY THE GRAPHICS!

I refuse to answer this question on the grounds that I can't remember that far back. I think it had something to do with William Crowther and a PDP-10. I distinctly remember saying to Wills, "What a great Adventure we had today at the County Fair..." and then he disappeared into the computing block, mumbling about FORTRAN and caving.

Erm... Kevin Toms Football Manager on the BBC Micro was quite good though. Boothill in the arcades was a laugh too.

Cheers
Tim - I am old and I smell of Wii.