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While I'd say I've known about video games since I was three or four (early 1980's) I think my first major exposure to them came when I was about five when my dad picked up for cheap from a friend of his a Mattel Intellivision and about twenty or so games. It was a toy for my dad at the time, but it was my equivalent of a sexual awakening with video games. I played far more, asked for more Intellivision games for the holidays (despite it already being a dead platform, but it's not like we could track that back then).

I never actually owned an NES, but I'd played enough on friends' consoles to know I wouldn't be "an outside person" in my youth.

Then my dad got a home PC (a Tandy 1000 HX) and I got introduced to the ideas of PC gaming and Basic coding. That held until the Super NES came out and I was able to get in on that. Game Boy shortly afterwards, and the first console I bought with my own money was the Nintendo 64, and there was no looking back from there.

I'm sure I own no fewer than 800 games across all the platforms I've owned. Then there's the writing and stuff that I do, so yeah.
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CyricZ