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O-D-C on 12 July 2009

20 years old, first console was an NES in 91 with Mario and Duck Hunt cart, still have both



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weaveworld on 12 July 2009

@ Kowenicki

Congrats!

ot: 32 years young, and familiar with gaming since i'd say 26 years. Started on a Philips 2000 or something like that.



starbruin on 12 July 2009

Yikes so many youngsters haha! Anyway I'm 27 gaming since before the NES released in the states so I was gaming since I was rather young, I guess I'm part of the older crowd here ;)



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NYANKS on 12 July 2009
Akvod said:
tedsteriscool said:
txrattlesnake said:
I'm 36. My first game console was Super Pong. Then I got an Atari 2600 about the time The Empire Strikes Back and Frogger were released by Parker Brothers and Pitfall, River Raid, and Megalomania were released by Activision.

The first console I payed for with my own money was a Colecovision. Then I had an Adam for a day before it broke. I traded it in and got a PC Jr., and started enjoying the adventure games from Infoco, Sierra On-Line's classics, and Lucas Arts, and rpgs from SSI like the Gold Box D & D games. I guess my favorites were the Sierra and SSI games. I preferred Sierra games like King's Quest, Space Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and Police Quest to the Lucas Arts Adventures (but the only one I had of those was the original Maniac Mansion). These games occupied my gaming time from the end of the first crash until some time in the mid nineties when fps games started to become more popular than adventure and pc roleplaying games.

I did get an NES the first Christmas that they were advertised in the Sears Roebuck and JC Penny catalogues. Mine came with the light gun and ROB Super Mario Bros., Gyromite, and Duck Hunt. But I never really liked NES as much as I liked PC games.

I also got both Genesis and Turbografx-16 for Christmas in 1989. Like the NES though, I never really thought they were all that at the time.

I bought a Super Nintendo in 1992, and I did enjoy some of its early games, but I didn't really pay that much attention to it until the mid nineties when Super Metroid, Final Fantasy VI, and games like Chrono Trigger and Earthbound came out. I felt that they filled the void in my gaming life that had started to come about with the advent of fps pc games and the decline of high profile big budget pc adventure games. So, the SNES became my favorite console since the Atari 2600 and Colecovisions. In the summer of 1994, I bought an Atari Jaguar but never really got that into its games. I much prefered the 3DO that I received for Christmas 1994 to the Jaguar.

I bought a Saturn on irs initial US release date in 1995 (which I traded in a little over a year later to get a Nintendo 64 on its release date). I thought that the PSX that I bought on 9/9/95 was doing the best job of carrying on the legacy of the games that I prefered on the Super Nintendo than any of the other 32 bit machines.

I bought a Dreamcast in mid 2000. I consider Code Veronica and Shenmue to be two of the greatest games of all time.

In the 6th gen I had a PS2, Gamecube, and original XBOX. I prefered the original xbox because of the boost in graphics and because I had a subscription to OXM which brought me the demo disc each month. But PS2 had all of the classic series and the best Japanese niche titles. My Gamecube has never really received that much use. I have yet to complete one Gamecube game. During the 6th gen, I bought the first handheld console that I ever owned (as opposed to early eighties table top games of which I had quite a few) in the Gameboy Advance because it was the spiritual successor to SNES (one of my three favorite consoles of all time with PS1 and PS2).

This gen, I've had an xbox 360 which gave up the ghost after three years and a PS3 which I sold. So, I have no current gen consoles. I also don't have any of the current handhelds. I've been thinking of getting a DS Lite or DSi (or maybe a PSP Go!), and either a Wii or replacing my 360, but my finances are limited, so I don't really know which to do. I think I will also probably buy a PS3 again at some point this gen after Final Fantasy XIII, Versus XIII, and The Last Guardian are released in the US.

Anything else you'd like to share?

Wow, that was like an autobiography...

I enjoyed reading that.  Love console history.  And hearing from people who were there so far back, during the crash and such.  No one born after could exactly get how those times were......good stuff. 



theRepublic on 12 July 2009

I am 23 years old.



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Lolcislaw on 12 July 2009

Im 20

System that i owned are: Commodore 64, Amiga, NES, GB, N64, GC , Wii , DS and 360

I've been playing games since about age of 6 however there were long periods like beetween age of 15 to 18 when i barely played (apart from a casual session of Pro Evolution Soccer, and the "BIG" games on the GC). Wii Brought me back to gaming in 2007!



Retrasado on 12 July 2009
nordlead said:
MontanaHatchet said:
nordlead said:
MontanaHatchet said:
http://alexa.com/siteinfo/vgchartz.com

This link is somewhat vague, but basically, Vgchartz has a lot of people ages 18-34. So the average person here is fairly young.

ok, how in the world do they generate demographics information like age or sex from IPs?

I assume they're going by what we put in our profiles. The information does reflect what you see in this site.

do you really think they wrote a script to parse the websites profile pages? I'm sure it is quite possible, but that seems odd as I always figured Alexa was just a completely automated website. Not only that, but they wouldn't have a proper representation of guests.

you're right. it is completely automated. They get their traffic statistics from internet users who download an attachment that tracks where they go on the web and sends the data to alexa. I don't know for sure because I don't use it, but I assume they have a place where you put your age and other info in your attachment and it sends the data to them as well as the traffic stats.

OT: Just turned 19. Been gaming since we got our first computer when I was 8. (My parents weren't, and still aren't very interested in new tech.



Not trying to be a fanboy. Of course, it's hard when you own the best console eve... dang it

Jboy0990 on 12 July 2009

18 here be 19 in a few months. Been gaming since i can even remember



Mummelmann on 12 July 2009

I'm 25 like the OP and I've been gaming since I was four years old. Started off with a Commodore and a NES and after that I've owned a little of this and a little of that through the generations.
Gaming is, after all these years, still what makes up the most of my spare time and it is by far my biggest hobby.



Undying on 13 July 2009

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