I'm 16, been gaming since I was 2.

16 been playing video games for 12 years

I'm 22, i've been gaming since I was 3, on an old Spectrum ZX and an Atari 2600.

I'm 21, (22 In September) started gaming on my SEGA Master System and my neighbor's NES when I was 3. First game I ever played was California Games, followed by Fantasy Zone: The Maze.

I think the 16 year olds should just band together as a symbol of youthness.

I'm 17, 18 if you count the nine months in the womb. :P Played video games since I was 3.

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'm 16, and have been gaming since I was 3 with my SNES although I wasn't into RPG's between age 3-6 so it appears I missed a lot of great games