This year alot of gamers and youtubers turned 40

[The_Yoda]

SanAndreasX said:

The_Liquid_Laser said:

These people were born around 1980-1981. That might be the ideal time to be born for gaming if you live in the US. The NES went nationwide in 1987, which meant that these people would have been around 6-ish years old when that happened, which is about the time most people start playing video games. Basically, their earliest experience with video games would have coincided with the most important event in gaming history, the rise of the NES. It's an event that likely defined their entire lives.

I was 9 when my best friend got a NES. I started with Donkey Kong and Ms. Pac-Man, and had an Atari 130XE as my first gaming machine. But yeah, The Legend of Zelda was one of the most amazing games I'd ever played, and the Zelda series is still my favorite game series of all time.

Get behind me in line youngster I turned 44 last year.

I started out with a Pong unit that my grandparents had. But I truly cut my teeth in earnest on the 2600 with a slew of games that I got for Christmas one year.

Zelda oh Zelda.  I got the Mario / Duck Hunt / Gyromite bundle and Zelda didn't come until later.  I still remember talking my mother out of $30 to buy it from KB toys.  Some very fond memories there of her helping me map out the dungeons on graph paper as I played them.  My father still plays the Zelda series to this day (not much of anything else though), that sick bastard took the time to find all the korok seeds if that tells you anything.

edit - Dad found them all in BotW for clarification.