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I probably played some random arcade games in the early 80's when I was super little but I can't remember. in like 1985 or something my older brother found an old atari 2600 at a garage sale and that was my early beginnings. but then in like 86 or 87 we got a NES and that's really where I got into it for good. I think of the Atari as like the prologue to my gaming life. and the NES to be Chapter 1

Apparently according to my parents I played the NES they had when I was 2. I don't remember that though.

I do have conscious memories of playing it at around 5 years old after it got moved to my grandparents house. This was 1995 (so it had been out for a while) and I remember playing the Mario/Duck Hunt combo, Mega Man 2, and the first Zelda. Around that time we got a Genesis with Sonic 2 and Lion King and that was the first console we had at our own house.

So I'd say my own beginning was with the NES/Genesis but more Genesis since it was closer to its release date. Looks like PS1 was already out by that time but I didn't get one until like 1998ish.

NES era for me. My sister and I would beg my mom to rent one constantly, and finally she got tired of that and bought us one for Christmas.

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I had an Atari 2600 when I was 6. Around that time my grandfather would take me to the local arcade every Saturday.
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Played my parents' NES since before I could remember. The first "new" system I had was the PS1. Also got an N64, but just a year before the Gamecube came out.
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My dad bought me the NES Action Set with the zapper and SMB/Duck Hunt. I could have sworn this happened when I was 4 years old, but from what I'm reading online that game came out in November of '88 so I would have been 5 at the time. Memory is foggy going that far back, and I can't recall if I knew what a video game was prior to.

Anyway according to my mom he bought it as a way of bonding with me. However after watching me play SMB a few times he seemed to find it too difficult to follow and just sat back and watched me occasionally. Honestly I never had the best connection with my father and this is one of the reasons why.

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I played a few games on a Gameboy Color when I was 6(?), but I didn't really play games until I was 8-9, and I played all the Mysims games on my sister's DSi. Incidentally, I also discovered Gamefaqs shortly after that.

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Probably when my parents bought me a used Mega Drive (Genesis) in the mid 90s, aged 5/6. I'd played games before that (I vaguely remember playing an Atari at home, and an NES, Amstrad and Master System at cousins'/friends' houses), but with the MD I was at a better age to really get into them. Then the PS1 and Pokemon on the GB sealed the deal (I may even have had the GB before the MD).

Around 1991. Started with NES when I was 5 years old.

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