When I was about 3 years old, my mom's teenage brother (about 15 years younger than she is) was living in our house, and he had an Atari 2600. He would play Asteroids and Space Invaders until the scoreboard ran out of digits. He moved out shortly thereafter but left the 2600, and I accumulated about 10-15 games for it. My favorite was Starmaster, which was probably the most advanced game the 2600 had. It was a first-person space combat sim!
Anyway, the Atari market crashed and I grew tired of these games (honestly, how much replay value does Missile Command have?), so I didn't play video games for a few years. When I turned 6 we moved into a new neighborhood, and a year or two later while we were swimming at a friend's house, I saw them playing Super Mario Bros. This was the defining moment that got me hooked on video games for good, and I got my own NES and countless games from A Boy and His Blob to Zelda II. From then on, there was no turning back.
