I remember my parents just up and got me this little bootleg NES system one day. It had Super Mario Bros, a Tanks game, Bomberman, and some others. It said it had 999 games but they were different levels from the same dozen or so games - - - Bought like 5 of those since they'd break so easily and they were so cheap XD

And that's how I became a gamer

My first legit game system was a SNES I bought one random day

OP you're not a real gamer, Super Mario Land wasn't on the SNES. Anybody knows that.

If you're talking about Miz he never said SMB was on the SNES.

I became a gamer during the early 90s, when I started to know what console gaming was. Before that I used to play a shit load of arcade games on a 386 PC bought while I was 8. Now I am 27 and still my passion continues to grow. There was the children's magazine around the time that had a column for gamers and they used to post details on all sorts of games and consoles/handhelds. The highlights were SNES and the 16 bit Sega mega drive sold in my region(Doha-ME) around the time. Sonic the hedgehog, MK II on the 16 Bit Sega really lured me onto console gaming. MK 2 barely ran on my 386. I would thus say the gamer in me was born from then on with an urge to get SEGA but I couldn't. I kept playing at my friends' all the time and kept updates of upcoming games and consoles. I won a PS1 in 97 for the month's best sketch posted on young editors' magazine issued by the then local daily. That catapulted everything in me to this level of gaming I am in today.

My Grandpa had an NES with Super Mario 1 and 2 along with other random games I liked.

My brother got an N64 when I was 4 and I played Mario 64, Yoshi's Story, and other games, but I was REALlY excited to go to a family friend's house because they had Mario Kart 64 and SSB.

In 4th grade I saw a GC commercial with the goofy store seller dressed as Link to advertise the Collector's Edition. I asked my parents for a GC, but they were reluctant. That is, until my parent- Teacher conference showed my parents how wonderful I was in school. And the rest is history. :)

I started back when I was 2 years old. My sis (who was 5 at the time) would play super mario bros for the NES and I would just sit there and watch for hours. Then when I was 3, I started playing myself and from there on, I become a hardcore gamer. When I got Super Mario RPG when I was like 8 or 9, I knew this would be my destiny. Favorite RPG to date.

They are my passion, my favorite hobby and I will continue playing till the day I drop.

i played on the Atari when i was about 5 and then i got the Nes at about 7 but i never became gamer until i finished OoT! from that moment i just felt something born inside of me and I wanted more!

ha ha great catch you are correct i never played Land i meant to say World there have been so many i get them mixed up.  although mario 64 was my last played mario game SM World was my favorite mario game even compared to the NES titles

OP means original poster, he was talking about BHR 

I started watching my brother playing on its Mega Drive when I was 3 or 4 I guess, after some months I started playing.