How old are the "retro" gamers here? Or how old is everyone, really?

[thegamezmaster]

Don't know where I fit in but I'm 57. Remember seeing Pong appear back in the day. Been gaming to the present.

[The Clonus Horror]

37 here...started home console gaming on the 2600, remember Space Invaders being the first arcade game that I ever saw/played.

[Daria]

Another 29 yo here. First gaming system was the Atari, but don't really collect anything older than NES.

[DK1105]

I'm 23 and I grew up as a PC and Genesis kid. My parents had a small business so we were one of the first in the neighborhood with a PC so we would cram around my first DoS box playing every shareware floppy we could get our hands on.

[aryoshi]

I'll be 23 in a month.

[Natty Bumppo]

Another 29 yo here. First gaming system was the Atari, but don't really collect anything older than NES.

Heh!

(* Remembers communicating with Daria when she was but a gangling teenager.*)

[Daria]

Yet somehow Bear you've always managed to be old.

[Griking]

44 here and more of a computer gamer than a console gamer.

[Melf]

I'll be 40 next month and have been gaming since the Atari 2600. No sign of stopping now, either!

[MASTERWEEDO]

28. I remember getting the NES way back, like 1987, from there it was the Genesis...one of my friends used to have a 2600 at his grandmas, so we would take the 2 mile walk to play Smurfs and Pitfall....I think I was 7-8. My friends always had the other systems so if I wanted to play the SNES I had to leave my house.

[Mospeda]

36 years young. I remember arcades vividly. I remember my mother buying Demon Attack for me for Easter. I remember when Atari games were going for $1 circa 1983 in retail stores. I remember Christmas morning 1985 when I got a NES Rob set. I remember begging my dad to buy me Contra at Toys R Us even though it was one of the pricier carts at $34. I remember when Double Dragon and Super Mario 2 were impossible to find. I remember discovering Pirate BBSes on the PC and "Warez" but still being drawn to consoles. I remember it all.

[WCP]

I'm 42 right now.


Started playing home consoles in late 1977 with the Atari. Around 1982 or so we got an Atari 800XL. For Xmas of '86 I got a NES system.


I didn't really become a hardcore video game nerd until I was 19 years old in 1990. I got both a TG-16 and Sega Genesis in 1990, and from that point on I was absolutely hooked. Been a hardcore early adopter ever since. In late 1996, I did kind of make a switch over to PC gaming (3dfx Voodoo). Was mostly a PC gamer till the Dreamcast arrived in September 1999.


My favorite video game era over all the years would be from 1989 till about 1996. Those were some really amazing years. The best of the 16-bit era, along with the weird transitional era (Jaguar, 3DO and 32X), and then full fledged 32 bit / 64 bit stuff with Saturn, PS1 and N64.

[sayewonn]

33 years old. I started with the Atari 2600 and have been gaming since. I truly became hooked with the NES.

[jammajup]

Young whippersnappers!!
I was 42 on June 1st,yes i remember handheld games when things were controlled by magnets then ,led,vaccum lit,lcd.....my adrenallin rush was playing Demon Driver lol. I also have fond early gaming memories of Missile Invader, Mini Munchman,Galaxy Invader1000 and Astro Wars (aahhh good times!).

[Damaramu]

37 here. I've had a life-long love for video games, with my first system being an Atari 5200. Got it for Christmas of '81 or '82.

[8-bitNesMan]

I'll be 36 on the 26th of this month. My folks bought me a NES Action Set for my 11th birthday in 1988 and I've loved gaming ever since. May we all game on...

[FFStudios]

13/f/cali hmu

No, not really. I'm 17 years old (and a male) with a passion for retro-computing as a whole, with video gaming being an awesome subcategory of that.

EDIT: So young, in fact, that my first console was a PS1. My dad was a cutting-edge gamer for a long time, so when the first successful CD-based system came out, he was all over it. Played games like Twisted Metal and Tony Hawk's Pro Skater as a kid, but I became more interested in older machines as I got older.

[bacteria]

I am 47, lived through the early retro gaming years!

[Alpha2099]

I'm 24 (in fact, today is my birthday!). I started retro gaming around the time I started college.

[TheRetroVideoGameAddict]

32, will be 33 this Fall.

Started with the Atari 2600 when I was 3 or 4, played it a lot until 1988 and then it broke so my dad threw it all out on me but for some odd reason I didn't seem to mind much. I got an NES sometime in 1989 and played the hell out of it until about late 1993 and got an SNES in which I adored. The 2600 was my first console but the NES stole my heart and because of that I'll always be a classic gamer 2600-N64 era. I do dabble in some modern games but it probably equates to a 90-10 classic to new ratio.