For sure. Tons of Atari 2600. In fact, I was gaming in the 70's

Yes. I'm old.

turbo duo 1992. ftw.

@Tanstalas

Pretty cool grandparents..my parents used to renew my subscription too, as long as I got good grades in school (which I did)...and I do remember getting Dragon Warrior with my subscription...I think it was in 1990.

It was only board games for me in the 80s, with the exception of a Pong clone and "Ports of Call" on my brother's Amiga.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSyFSEU9JZM

Though I'm older than ~98% of VGC's members, I really discovered the wondrous world of computer games only in 1991/1992 with the purchase of my first own PC (i386, MS-DOS 4.01) and my first 5 games: Civilization, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, The Secret of Monkey Island, Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge, Dune II: Battle for Arrakis.

Yes, im 30 years old and played lots of atari and nintendo games in the 80's

Being a few years older than Rubang, I would say "yes". In the mid-80s, the NES was the ONLY game in town. Everybody had one. Everybody played it.

I started at the tail end of 1989. I'm not sure how I even got the system and I don't recall being aware of video games or asking for a console. My parents weren't gamers so it's not like they got it for themselves.

The only games I owned for the NES were the Duck Hunt, Mario 1 and Mario 2. In either 1990 or 1991 I got a Genesis and that's the system that really shaped me as a gamer today.

One of my first games was Bards Tale on the Apple IIGS. It more or less taught me how to read (to use spells you had to look at the descriptions and type in a 4 letter code from teh manual to use em). I was something like 2 and a half playing that in 1985, good times.

My dad did have to use a hex trainer to make the characters start at a decent level for me to really get going though, character creation was a bit much for me at that point.

Also a great game was Taipan, it was this trading sim that games like drug wars (if you played that on your calculator back in the day) were later based off of. You went from port to port trading and fighting pirates on the high seas in basic fashion.

Think my first NES I got around 86 or so, Dragon Warrior was my first RPG on that system, it looks SO dated now but was awesome at the time. You used to get a free copy of it with a subscription to Nintendo Power.

I had a black and white pong + variations, but I preferred the first arcades with Space Invaders and Breakout. But only in the '80s appeared more complex and satisfying games, a favourite of mine was Pengo. And I used the first trackball in my life on a Centipede arcade. Back then there was also a Carmageddon ancestor of which I didn't remember the name, just found now, it was Death Race, it was from 1976, but I first played it in the early '80s.

yeah i was about the same as you, i started gaming in 1987 at a really young age. Parents got me a NES for christmas.