Which came first for you? Video games or sci-fi?

[Captain Wrong]

Video games or Sci-Fi?

I was thinking about this the other day. Growing up in the last 70s and early 80s, I was bomabarded with Star Wars and all that, but nearly ever video game I liked had a space theme as well. I can't figure out if the interest in sci-fi led to an interesting in gaming or if it was the other way around as I seemed to develop an interest in both at the same time.

So, what about you???

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

They both entered my life at roughly the same time, helping to forever alter my destiny and ensure that I would become the bulbous, sedentary (and yet well-entertained) creature that I am today. :D

[Gapporin]

Video games, by a landslide. Even now, I'm not that much of a sci-fi geek, but I still like some of its offerings (HHGTTG, MST3K, various books, etc.).

[ozyr]

That's an easy question to answer - Sci-Fi. Started out when I was rather young, before video game were even out, at least to the general public.

[Cryomancer]

Pacman first. My earliest memories all revolve around pacman.

[Sotenga]

There's actually this OLDE videotape of me somewhere, performing poorly on the NES at the age of two. Twas video games that shaped the insane young being you see today, but Sci-Fi, what with Star Wars and MST3K has also had many influences on my life. It is a bit close between the two, but VG's have the substantial margin.

[Lady Jaye]

Sci-fi first. The Empire Strikes Back was the first movie I remember seeing in my life, I had the Star Wars storybooks, later I was into Star Trek (I remember that in 1984, I got a Starship Enterprise paper model book -- the kind of book where the pieces are printed in the book and pre-cut, ready to punch out)...

My favorite anime when I was a kid was Albator (Captain Harlock, by Leiji Matsumoto) and Goldorak (Grendizer, by Go Nagai).

In comparison, I really got into videogames 5 years later (in 1985) and didn't get a console of my own till 1987.

[ubikuberalles]

Sci-fi definitly. My first experience with Sci-Fi was in 1970 when I was in the hospital from a car accident. I read all of the comic books in my possession, I was bored and one of the nurses gave me a sci-fi book from the hospital's library. It was a Tom Swift-like adventure. I can't remember the title but I was hooked on the genre from that point. After that I was reading Heinlein, Asimov and Clarke like there was no tomorrow. I don't think I had even seen a video game until a couple years later.

[dreamcaster]

Probably sci-fi, but only by a bit.

I was watching Star Trek since I was born in 1985. I can't remember NOT watching it. My dad used to watch it all the time, and I was always there with him. I'm guessing I was probably watching it as a baby.

Most kids grew up with Sesame Street of Play School - I have Star Trek.

I didn't start on games until we got our 286 PC in 1989.

So yeah, sci-fi first for me.

[googlefest1]

probbaly sci-fi

but i would have to say both

since i was a kid in the time when both existed

i cant realy remeber a time where i saw one first

but thinking about it - i come up with sci fi

thinking that the empire stricks back was the first scifi movie i remeber and i dont remeber playing games at that time -

but i also sort of do

[Kid Ice]

I've probably posted this before, I don't think it was a coincidence that videogames took off a couple years after Star Wars.

[Dire 51]

Roughly the same time for me.

[Flack]

I would say roughly the same time for me as well. I know that I saw Star Wars in the summer of 1977, and I can remember playing Pong that fall (and maybe earlier), so it would be pretty dang close timewise.

[Rogmeister]

Sci-fi for me. I remember reading science fiction when I was in high school before video games ever became popular...Arena and Edgar Rice Burroughs' "A Princess of Mars" and "The Midwich Cuckoos" and stuff like that.

[PDorr3]

videogames, the first real dose of scifi i took in was star wars re-edition in 1997 re-releases so videogames came into my life around 1992.

[ubersaurus]

Games. My first real bout of scifi didn't come til I was about 10 , when I stayed up late watching Star Trek.

[Nature Boy]

I'd have to say sci-fi was first, because I don't ever remember *not* wanting a sci-fi video game.

Back in the early 70s the US space program was still very much in the news, so my interest in all things space started with that (and was merely accentuated by my love for space lego ships, Star Wars, and Asteroids). The moon landing was in 68/69, wasn't it?

It's a good question, because I've wondered how my son will get interested in the stuff, if he ever does. With shuttle missions a rare occurance, and space related information in the news only rarely, it just doesn't seem like it'll be at the forefront for him like it was for me. Excepting all the crap I have around the house of course :)

[Uzi 9mm]

Probably Sci-Fi. ET was one of the first movies I ever watched, and I didn't really get into video games until I was 6 or so.

[Slimedog]

Both. I was playing with Star Wars toys and Atari since I was 2. I never really had a chance though. My folks were both proto-gamers and sci-fi fans. My Mom was buying the Star Wars figures for me long before I had any idea what space was. Choking hazard be damned. Chalk one up for genetics, although she will tell you I'm a game nut because she played a lot of pinball while she was pregnant. Apperantly I kicked a lot when she hit the multiplier.

[GameSlaveGaz]

Both came at roughly the same time, as I was 8 when I sat down and watched Next Gen with my dad for the first time and that's also when I got my first video game system, a used 5200, then finally a few months later an NES. They were both always underlying earlier than that, because before I had my own system I was playing it at friends' houses, and for as long as I can remember I was always really into fantasy worlds, more so dragons and magic than sci-fi but sci-fi is always interesting too, so I was meant from birth to be a video game and sci-fi geek but the real foundation started 12 years ago at age 8 and just grew from there.