Im just curious as to how people first became gamers, was it a particular console, my first one was a Sega Master System 2 with 1 game - asterix or was it a particular game, my first heavily played game was Unreal Tournament.

Basically the title says it all! 

Me and my brother got a Sega Genesis from my mother. WE got Sonic the Hedgehog 2 and Doom along with it

My first experience of videogames was of the arcades at the local dairy. My first console was also the Master System. The first games I ever played on it were Rampage and Double Dragon.

i discovered gaming in 1986 in an arcade shop in somalia that had galaga but i became gamer around 91 with a knock off nes that had about 600 games

I got an N64 for my 10th birthday, ive been hooked since, Goldeneye, MK64 and Zelda were my first big games, now i play Nintendo/Sony and Sega games.

My first console was the Sega Genesis, and I got it with a wierd monkey game. It was like Mario, but you fired "balls" out of your mouth.
I'll look up the name at the database

I was young and in school and I saw this attractive young girl sitting accross the room ... Oh wait, that's how I discovered something else.

When I was a child my father came home from a business trip to the states and he brought home a Collecovision as a gift for me and my siblings; a couple of years after that he decided to replace our typewriter with a PC. From that point on I think I have always juggled between being a console and a PC gamer.

Doom on the Genesis? I didn't realise a Genesis version was made. It must have looked like crap lol. Did you ever play Zero Tolerance?. It was a first person shooter on the Mega Drive. Given the lack of sprite scaling and rotation capabilities, first person shooters were not very suitable for that system.

Pong.

That wouldn't be Toki would it? I was quite a fan of the arcade version.