ITT: Stories about how or who got you into vidya

ITT: Stories about how or who got you into vidya

>dated a girl
>she didn't play much besides free online games
>bought her a DS and gave her Pokemon, Metroid, Dragon Quest and Zelda
>became addicted
>let her have access to my PC
>now she spends all her time playing Skyrim, Terraria and Warframe
>probably gonna have to break up with her because she won't get a job and expects me to do everything

Be careful what you wish for.

I don't remember, but Rollercoaster Tycoon was the earliest I can remember

>Uncle had Sega MD
>Gave it to me when he got a PS1
>I was then into vidya

I know it's weird but having a girl that into my hobbies would motivate me to work harder. maybe I just haven't got laid in a while

My dad had bought and played a snes which was around from before I was born. (1991) I've never met him.

The games that were already on it were Super Metroid, Megaman X, Killer Instinct, Goof Troop, and the Bonkers capcom game.

Megaman X is still my favorite game to this day.

I got into vidya 2 times.

When I was 5 years old my older sister got an NES for her birthday with Mario and Bubble Bobble. It's now a Christmas tradition to play Bubble Bobble.

I stopped giving a shit about video games around when the Gamecube came out. Not a conscious decision, I just grew out of it.

In 2010 on deployment to Iraq, everyone would play tons of Modern Warfare 2 and I got hooked again.

All I remember is I already had a NES, I can't remember how or when but as far as I remember, it was always in the house, and then the next day it was replaced by the genesis. don't remember how these two got into the house

>My dad owned a PS1 for some reason
>Let me play when I finished chores/schoolwork
>Bought me LEGO Racers one day
>Inherited the console when he got a new job

And the rest is history I suppose.

got myself into it by circumstance

>2nd birthday, my brother's 5th
>he gets a brickboy with tetris and kirby's dreamland
>turns out, he doesn't like video games
>I end up using it all the time
>get a genesis for myself for christmas when I was three
>haven't looked back since

>dad played vidya
>let us play sometimes
>dad & mom drift apart and dad does shady things
>to get him back for doing shady shit mom kicks in his basement window and nabs his playstation plus some baby stuff he took from us
>dad was home atm and starts REEEEEing
>goes at mom with a bat
>doesn't actually hit her so she just crawls back out the window
>gives us the playstation & buys us a gamecube
>dad calms down and gives us his ps2 & modded xbox years later
>been playin ever since
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>being a girl
>not an actual girl though

Back when I was a little kid.. I was playing Super Mario Bro 3. Wasn't really that into it. But my brother who was a year older suddenly came by and said I would never beat it and he turned off my nes right when I was in the middle of playing. Laughed and walked away.

And that marks the day I became a compulsive gamer... I played and played until I beat it the next day. Then I also beat Super Mario Bros 2 the week after.

And then my brother challenged me to Blades of Steel. I have would beat my brother EVERY SINGLE TIME in that game.

>be 4
>love Pokemon
>heard somewhere or saw an advertisment that there were Pokemon games on the N64

And here we are, 18 years later. I no longer give a fuck about Pokemon, though.

when i was like 4 my dad took me to his friends house who had a coleco who showed me smurfs for it. i really liked it and when the nes came out my dad got it for me with the power pad...i bet he regrets that decision because i didn't become the super greek all star working the family business and now run a gaming clothing company...

>2005 me
>8yo
>really into pokemon but never played the games
>Come my birthday
>Mom got me a GBA SP, the blue one, and pokemon emerald
>Never put it down
That GBA helped me through a lot of shit I was going through.
I think I need therapy.

My parents had an Atari 2600 and my sister played it. Barely remember it, except we had a Star Wars game and a Pac Man game.

But at the age of 3, my Uncle bought me an NES with Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda. And pretty much my life was over from that point on. Took me until the age of 9 to beat Zelda, but it was one of the biggest accomplishments of my life. Especially since I kept getting false hints from friends and basically had to figure out everything myself.

my grandma bought me a NES for my 2nd birthday

I really don't know what she was thinking

>Originally had nothing but an old shitty computer filled with Windows 95 garbage like Reder Rabbit and Mavis Beacon
>Went to england once
>Everyone of my relatives and their dog had SNES/Genesis there
>When we got back I got a SNES with Mario Allstars on it
>But by then it was too late and everybody was on the 3D bandwagon
>My second and one of my only other SNES games was Donkey Kong Cuntry 3
>Loved the everloving fuck out of that shit

Though I can admit DKC2 is the better game, Dixie's adventures in Canada hold a special place in my heart for this reason.

This was the boot that shoved me into PC gaming for serious periods of time.

As far as gaming in general, I was brought into the experience by NES's Duck Hunt, and then basically inherited the NES/Sega Master System Dad/his brothers collected by age 5 or 6.

>Go to my cousing home
>He had a Coleco Vision he rented with a weird penalty kick game and Montezuma Revenge
>Loved the shit of Montezuma's, played it as much as I was allowed to
>A month later, du to my excitement, dad got me a console
>It was a Famicom
>No Montezuma's Revenge on it, so I'm bummed
>it came instead with SMB
>2 minutes later, I forget about Montezuma's Revenge
>Next week, my mother bought me the Macross game because she saw me watching the anime
>Game is terrible, but 8 years old me is excited as fuck and loves the only tune the game has, so I'm super happy
>Save for a month to buy the Flintstones game
>By the time I have the money the shop is closed, but I had extra money, so I rent it to get a feeling of it
>I finish the game by the weekend
>End up buying Vice: Project Doom.

To this day, my favourite game of all times.

Dad bought a NES and played Codename: Viper and Solstice.

I was born to vidya, my dad was an odd mix of Hank Hill and George Carlin who owned an NES from my birth.
Pic related was my first game, and I watched him play Mario Bros. Eventually I started going to day-care where they also had an NES and I beat up the kids who made up dumb excuses to make their turns last forever.

pretty much the same here

i just always had hand-me-downs from my brothers... luckily they had commadore 64c, Amiga, Simclair, Sega ect

My dad bought me gameboys and nintendo 64s in exchange for going to his house, mainly because I didn't like him very much. Since he and my mom are divorced, he only got to see me like twice a month or so, anyway every time I would go to his house we would go to church. Only problem was that there were no other children, so I would be sitting in the kid's room in church playing with vidya or megablocks while my dad did whatever the fuck people in church do. It wasn't a very populated church either, in fact I don't think I've seen more than 10 people in it at one time.
Now that I think about it, this was probably what pushed me down the path of doubting religion and detesting those who are religious..

Anyway, afterwards he would bring me back to his house and I would play on Gamecube he had in his house and then usually go home the next morning. Then I would be at home, play with my cats and play Pokemon Stadium on the 64.

Just a youngling, parents got me SNES and then eventually moved to PS1, then Xbox, then 360 and once I was there I started buying my own shit till now where I've migrated to a PC with a 360 still, PS3 and 3DS

>I had parents who weren't poor as a kid
>had videogames
wow shit sorry for this wall of text

Dude I learned some serious shit from Sesame Street 1 2 3
And Freddy Fish, I guess. Mathwise.

I started with flash games and what launched me in was Dawn of War when I was 12

>5th grade
>Chilean student moves into country
>was athletic, a lot of people liked him, a handful of girls were into him, smartest person of my age I knew
>for some reason I click well with him
>invite him often to my house where my group of friends hanged
>show him video games and internet memes (this was before the shitty 9gag boom)
>he gets addicted to that
>fast forward today
>his days revolve around going back from Uni to shut himself into CS:GO and stacking hours in Hearthstone and Overwatch
>never had a gf
He still gets straight A+'s but God damn. I feel kinda guilty 2bh.

>somewhat sheltered as a kid
>would go to the neighbours house almost every day and watch him play PS2
>literally didn't want to play, just loved watching and telling him what to do
>play through Jak and Daxter series, Sly series, and Dark Cloud 1 and 2 this way
>play the FUCK out of the PS2 demo disc (that airblade demo and that klonoa demo were so fucking good)
>sometimes sneakily play his brothers Dynasty Warriors and DMC
>these are by far the best vidya memories I have, and I barely even actually played the PS2

The first console I ever actually had was a 360 I bought with my own money years later when I was about 12.

My auntie had a NES and we only ever saw her on holidays but my brother and I played the ever living shit out of it when we were there. Bartman meets Radioactive Man was and will forever be utterbullshit hard.

We then got a SNES for 40 bucks in 98. Played that too death as well.

Man those days playing awesome nes and snes games were the best.

Brother had an NES, I played it and the rest was history. We skipped Gen IV and went from Super Mario Bros. to Crash Bandicoot and Tekken overnight in 1997.

Me and my dad used to play mario party on the n64

>Early 90s
>Family was semi-poor at the time. Mother was the only worker (She was a social worker, which did not pay much) and my dad was disabled/crazy.
>Dad saw a Sega Genesis and wanted me to have something nice, since we did not get stuff too often.
>Got me that + Sonic 2
>Would usually get 1 game a year at best, while rentals were the only viable option.
>When family could afford a bit more, we got the Sega Channel. It was a absolute godsend.


I tell you what though, it is a weird feeling going from 1 game a year + rentals and playing the shit out of it to being able to afford multiple games a month.

My father instead of raising me.

>was born
>3 years later
>my sister uses me as an excuse for my parents buy a ps1
>we get a ps1
>i actually play them
The end

Underage

I also enjoyed Pajama Sam and those classic point-and-click games, later Spongebob: Employee of the Month.
Also classic school computer games like Math Blaster and Oregon Trail.

dad bought me Lego Star Wars II: The Original Saga. Still the best platformer of all time other than N+.

>11 + 8 = 17 or under
mate

>live in a small suburb with not much around
>local arcade remodels in to a cheap lan cafe
>people are playing cs 1.6 with like 15-20 people on lan
>go their after school almost every day because no pc
>notice a lot of kids from school go there to play cs.
>end up becoming friends with half the football team in highschool because of cs
>enjoy life a lot more because of it
>a few of us got in to world of warcraft senior year when it released
>still keep in touch with these guys 15 years later

true story maybe someone will enjoy it

user 2005 was 11 years ago...

arcades

rate my story please

>Be 5
>Dad has a bachelor's in electronic systems, studying a CS PhD and is an overall geeky guy
>Gets a new PC, sets the old one up for me and my siblings
>DooM, Dark Forces, Close Combat, Commandos, Outlaws, NFSII, MS Combat Flight Simulator all in the bookshelf.
>Learn to install and configure games and joystick by that age from watching dad
>Selectively install same games on the old PC

Now we both barely have time to play together, or play at all. Doesn't help that most new games are commercial trash.

>be a literal baby, like 4yo or less
>one day big bro takes me around town
>we go to a place with a Street Fighter 2 arcade and he teachs me how to play
>as soon as we get back I ask my parents to buy me a game and they get me a Genesis with a Sonic Collection cartridge that comes with Sonic 1, 2, and Dr.Robotnik Mean Bean Machine

So yeah, that SF2 arcade and Sonic were pretty much my introduction to vidya.
Later I got Golden Axe, Street of Rage, Bomberman and some other Genesis games, my little brother got a Super Snes with Super Mario World and stuff.
Good times. Everything was simpler back then but I'm glad technology advanced like it did.

>see Pac-man at a pizza place when we're ordering one, ask my grandfather if we can look at it
>instantly mesmerized by the visuals, of course I do shit because I don't know what to do
>he beats a few levels and comments on how he used to play it a bit
>goes out and gets NES
>play both Super Mario Bros/Duck Hunt, TMNT, a few other games
>me and my grandfather play the shit out Super Mario Bros alone
>distant cousin comes over, proceeds to put magnets on the NES and it gets fucking ruined, don't know it would do that since I'm roughly 5 at this point
>Pokemon gets popular, want to get a Pokemon Blue and a Gameboy Color since all the cool kids are playing, my mother tells me to get into a sport and stick with it, do so and get both when I'm 7
>shortly afterwards my mother somehow acquires a playstation, my two games for it are a demo and Spyro 1
>I play this thing religiously, I don't even get a memory card for about a year before I learn saving is a thing you should be able to do
>first experience with PC gaming is Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, Sonic R, and Crimson Skies

All I can think of off the top of my head. Though I always do have to laugh at myself for remembering what I would do when I played games, such as the moment I got to the second world in Spyro 1, I turned off the console, ran to my grandparents, shared the good news, and then ran back to turn the console back on and played through it again because I thought I beat the game.

>Says the retard that can't into math

>PS1 comes out
>Don't give a fuck, I don't vidya
>Buy a muffin maker form ASDA
>It doesn't fuck it work
>Go to trade it in for a new one
>I really want a fucking muffin maker
>They're out of stock
>They give me a PS1 as a replacement
THE VIDYA BEGAN

>homeschooled
>rural town
>0friends
>lonely
>play vidya
>get computer
>get internet friends
>still lonely
>first girlfriend was at 21
>long distance
>A S E X U A L
>broke up
>maximum lonely
what was this about again?
oh yeah, vidya helps fill in the gaps.

>Selling candy door to door for a school thing
>Me and my mother hit this one house, and as soon as the door opens my mom ends up in an endless talk with the woman who answered
>The little girl who lived there comes up to me, grabs me by the arm (without saying a word) and escorts me into her living room
>There is an NES hooked up
>We play SMB for an hour
This was 28 years ago

>want to say but that'd reveal that I am not an oldfag

you just did
now post or gtfo

I also kinda grew up at the arcade, I'd always play Marvel Vs Capcom and Virtual On when my dad would take my brother and I to the mall.

Was about 3 years old, dad showed me "dat runnin thing" as I called it. (Mario NES, also had duck hunt with the gun) would always drink Mountain Dew and play it, never looked back. Fond memories, but thanks dad for the caffeine and vidya addictions

>3 years old
>have oldass TV in converted rec room in my house
>watch PBS on it while my dad fucks around on the computer so he can keep an eye on me
>one day Barney sucks so I look over and see what dad's doing
>he's playing the original Doom
>get enraptured by the game
>somehow it instantly clicks that "this isn't real" so I have zero problems with violent it was
>eventually get the motor skills to actually play
>play the shit out of Doom II when it comes out
>fall in love with the Super Shotgun
>have been addicted to computer games ever since

I thought the Cacodemons were cute. I wanted one as a pet. I don't know WHY I thought that, but I assume it had something to do with being 3 years old.

*with how violent it was

It's too late at night.

I used to live outside of Fayetteville AR in the woods in a very nice little area. Very idealistic for a young boy. Houses were not very close to each other but there was this single dude, early 30s his name was hot rod. I never knew his real name because why would I not call him hot rod. He had this cool house and a nice garage where he fixed up old cars. In that garage he had a Galaga and mortal kombat arcade cabinet and let me play them til the sun went down. Imagine that back in 1997. Unlimited free arcade. I was only interested in video games after that. Now that I'm older I just assume he was a faggot or a serial killer. But he never touched my sweet sin chimney so whatever.

>3 years old
>Father buys C64
>Don't understand the game I'm playing

He gave up for a little while, but
>4 years old
>MS-DOS Computer
>Commander Keens
>Turn 5
>Get One Must Fall 2097 for my birthday

That game REALLY got me into vidya. I absolutely loved the RPG elements in that fighting game and it really gave it so much replay value that I spent almost a year playing that game daily until we got a W95. After that it was Age of Empires, Diablo etc.

That kinda happened with me. Dad rented pic related one night when we went to Blockbuster (I imagine in an effort to 'play Starship Troopers') and I manned up and played with him.
The bugs scared me at first but after I killed them I had a fairly comfortable grasp on 'unreality' and ever since vidya has always been comfortably divorced from real life.

Aunt and Uncle hand me down an NES. I got hooked. Soon I bought a gameboy. Then dad goes ahead and buys a PS2, plays the shit out of Agent Under Fire while I had BfBB and Spiderman 1.

Older brothers got me into vidya. Ironically enough, they don't really play anymore. Me and my younger brother are the only ones who play vidya and he only plays pleb-tier games anymore. I'm literally the only hardcore 'gamer' in my family anymore, it's pretty lonely.

>be me as a kid
>computer games and shit always looked interesting as fuck
>not sure how or when, but at one point, we had a few games on old computer
>mostly emulated SNES, Genesis, and NES games
>fucking loved that shit
>knew Nintendo somehow
>mother shows up out of the blue with a Nintendo 64, which one of my older brothers convinced her to buy iirc
>eventually sometime soon, after renting a few games, we bought our first game: Super Mario 64
>pretty much THE point at which I really got into vidya
>never really looked back since
>tfw brothers don't really play anymore
>no longer want to play Smash, Mario Kart, or fighting games with me anymroe

It's pretty sad. I think it's because they were older than me when they got into video games. One of them was in middle school. They didn't grow up with them like me and my younger bro did. So to them, it was like a passing interest and looking back, they were never quite as into it as I was. I've been utterly obsessed ever since that day my mom brought home an N64.

I got into video games thanks to my grandfather mostly, when I was a tiny bab he'd sit me on his lap in front of the computer and load up educational baby games for me to play. As I got a little older and my family moved around I ended up playing all sorts of classic stuff on my parents' roommates' computers, I was probably playing Doom at age 2.
After that my dad had a Genesis, though I never played any of the games (he eventually smashed the fucking thing after getting too mad at Vectorman), and after THAT he got a Playstation. I spent a good chunk of my life in that house watching my dad play Tomb Raider and Armored Core, but I was too scared to try and play them myself, so I played computer games for kids my age, the Humongous Entertainment games were particular favorites.
It wasn't until I was about ten that I started playing video games on my own a lot, by the time the PS2 came out I was hooked.

And now I'm fuckin' tired of video games and can't get excited for anything coming out. The last game I sat down and sank five hours into at a time was Ratchet and Clank Going Commando.

Parents got a PC in 96, played a lot of Solitaire and Pinball. Eventually moved to Doom and Doom 2 as well as Heretic. That was it until I went to a friend's and he was playing Tekken 2. The 3D characters blew my mind

Also, I was about 6 iirc when we got the N64. I'd been playing computer games since I was like, 5.

I don't even know when I initially became interested in games, I just always kind of really wanted to try it before we even got that computer that had some games on it.

Now that I think about it, I wonder what my life would be like if I never got into vidya.

Father got me into vidya.
Started with strategy games like C&C red alert and Starcraft.

For my third birthday my grandparents got me an Atari 2600, came with the game food fight. This was in 1988. My parents didn't think much of it (this was after the great video game crash due to ET, a copy of which I still have) the games were neat but kinda forgettable

A couple years later, after the NES had established itself as a success, my parents bought me one for my birthday, either in 89 or 90 I forget. My dad taught me how to play the Mario games and where the warp whistles were in smb3. We kind of bonded over a few games, he loved Punch Out.

We went to blockbuster one fateful day and rented Mega Man 3 and I fell in love with it. Asked for it for my bday and got Mega Man 4 instead, loved it just as much. Still one of my favorite franchises. I still play that cart sometimes. By this point my dad couldn't keep up with my habit anymore.

As I got into school it was more obvious that socially I wasn't on the level of other kids. To get away from the realities of being a social pariah I got deeper into it. A huge moment for me was renting final fantasy 4, later buying ff6 which is still one of my favorite games. Another huge one was Earthbound, a game that reminded me it was OK to feel feels.

Funny I had a falling out with video games a few years back around when I got married, tried to tell myself I was focusing on having an adult life now... some bad shit happened and I ended up picking up a video game to blow off some stress. That game was Portal and it drew me right back in. It just felt so wrong without games in my life, feels much more fulfilling to be a gamer

Now I have twin babies so I don't have much time for vidya but maybe once a week I will make a few hours to play. I literally can't wait until they're old enough to play vidya with me, I hope one of them loves the hobby as much as I do

PS thanks kids for telling me all these stories about your first GameCube and making me feel old. /blog

>Mom loves RPGs
>Pokemon Red/Blue comes out when I'm 4
>She buys me it
>Can barely understand what the fuck is going on but keep playing
>Absolutely love it
>2nd game after that is the original Final Fantasy
>Absolutely fucking love it
>FF becomes my favorite franchise, ever.
>Mom still plays RPGs, but not as often.
Love her. Where as my dad thinks video games are the spawn of Satan.

How?
my mom and dad bought a N64 for me and my brother.
I think my first game was SM64 when I was 3.

We had a SNES, my mom played it and that got me into it. She'd play with us on there fairly often, mostly the Donkey Kong Country games and a Beavis and Butthead game.

>the great video game crash due to ET

You're clinically retarded

>Mom had to operate her leg
>She to stay at home for two months and had nothing to do
>Buy Animal Crossing New Leaf on my 3DS and give it to her
>She proceeds to play it for nearly the entire year
>A few months later she asks me to play an easy game on my PS4
>Give her P.T. and say nothing about it just for the shits and giggles
>Cold stone faced the whole way through
>She sees Lisa at the end of the hallway being creepy as fuck
>Turns to me and asks if this is Silent Hill or something
>my fucking face when

I think she's ready for some baby tier RPG

>Big bro fucking loves vidya.
>one day get bored with my barbies and ask him can I play his PS1.
>Blown the fuck away by how fun it is.
>Me and bro start playing vidya together. passing the controller and co-op
>we form a deep connection through vidya. while gaming we could joke, laugh and tell each other anything
>Ultra right wing dad catches wind of all the fun we're having, gets in a huge fight with my brother because he thinks playing games would turn me into a dyke.
>vidya time with bro gets restricted to whenever dad and mom aren't around
>during this time bro buys me handhelds
>he introduces me to his friends as a rad 10 year old who's amazing at pokemon pearl despite me picking up all my skill from him.
>he goes off to college in another state.
>we don't keep in touch because I'm not allowed to use the phone (hurr no daughter of mine is going to make calls and turn into a slut/dyke/whatever this crazy fuck thinks fun mutates people into)
>he finally comes back one summer break after skipping out on us for two years
>he's a complete chad now, when I asked him if he wanted to take a run through of final fantasy 13 with me he went "holy shit user you still play shit like this? grow up."
>He only plays modern warfare 2 online with friends. Tells me to be quiet and watch or he'll tell dad.
>brings home random girls and fuck them on the couch we used to play games
>gets kicked out by dad a few days later.
>never see him again. play video games solo ever since
>tfw college killed my based bro.

idk just pressing buttons and making something or someone move just felt really awesome especially at 4 yrs old

Got my best friend into PC gaming, although he bought an xbone for BF1 because he hates how tanks move as fast as mouse as move unlike console versions and prefers battlefield with a controller even though I have seen him wreck with a mouse. He just likes the way the game is when everyone has to use a controller and it isn't as much of a twitch shooter.

Also built his PC and another friends.

>being a boy
>not a happy man because I want to be a girl

I wanted a 64. I got a 64.

The end

Pic related got me into the concept of MMOs
>MMOs never were like this
Its sad

That girl in The Simpsons was my first waifu.

>Toon Disney is dead
it's sad.

>all these people with parents who played vidya with them
You lucky fucks. I always thought that'd be weird but really cool to have had parents who played all the newest games with you that came out and had at least a passing interesting in vidya, not just reminiscing about old Atari games, some old arcade games, and Pong.

If I ever become a parent, I'll be that parent who plays vidya with my children. Always wanted to get my kids into the types of games that I really like and maybe have a qt daughter who's really good at fighting games.

My father bought me a gameboy pocket when I was 6. A decision he would regret forever.

>get into games before earliest memory
>know that my brothers all love games too
>bros are crazy hardcore guys at beginning of ps3 era
>i stopped caring after a while
>just before ps4 comes out I get back into it
>brothers stop caring
>they love games and talk about them all the time but won't play anything other than league or dark souls
>tfw no one will play ANYTHING with me
>tfw not even the games we grew up on
>tfw they are the reason I am starting to hate games

>middle child in a middleclass family
>didnt have a console or even a computer in our family
>whenever i went along with my dad when he visited one of his buddies who had a PC i ended up playing various games on it with his son (couple years younger than me)
>two idiot pre-school age kids trying to play games
>Over the years we played Warhammer: Dark Omen , Army men (by 3DO), Dune etc.
>Stop dead in our tracks at every casual filter
>it wasnt untill later - 5th grade- or so when a computer is brought into our home
>play warcraft3 and fall in love with the multiplayer - been playing it ever since
>10 years later dad still ask me if im winning when he sees me play that game..

I didnt get back to Dark Omen untill a few years ago and now its one of my top games of all time. Still wonder what happened to that kid or how he is doing every time i launch DO

me and my sister would always crowd around and watch my dad play diablo 1, doom and age of empires. he convinced my mom to let us have an n64 and super mario 64 because she laughed when the elevator on bom-omb battlefield sort of smushed mario at the bottom

the earliest game i remember playing is art of fighting on snes. actually i have 3 extremely early memories. playing art of fighting, mario world and street fighter 2 at a 7-11. not sure which was actually first but they were all at 3-4 years old.

FLEENTSTONES?

My dad played some ultra old PC platformers and simulators in the early 2000s. Got a PS2 for Christmas so I wouldn't be hogging the computer and it snowballed from there

a guy in class installed a pirated version of diablo 1 on the school computers back in 98

>tfw they are the reason I am starting to hate games
I don't hate games at all but I do wish my brothers would play more vidya the way I do. My brother is thinking about buying a PS4 and an Xbone and maybe some games with that, so that's cool. I do miss the times when we'd just spend all afternoon playing Mario Kart or Smash Bros. though, not gonna lie. Or some other kind of game. Those were the fucking days and I have a lot of good memories from that.

gg, life... gg.

my biggest regret is that my dad saw me playing LoL a lot a couple years ago, and i ended up catching him watching those champion spotlight videos to try and get into the game himself. now years later, hes still playing it. despite not liking the game anymore i still pop in from time to time to play with him

>you now realise that you will never be a young child again, hanging out with someone you respect deeply playing vidya

Fake

>cousin had ps1 and a pc with Counter Strike back in the day
>dad bought me a Sega Mega Drive/Genesis
My life went downhill from there

Played shitty old games on my dad's old PC. Eventually became me playing shit on PS1 and my gameboy color and it only went downhill from there.

>tried to get little sister into vidya
>she gets pretty into nintendo games like pokemon and animal crossing
>highschool rolls around and she's too busy doing drugs and getting fucked by everything with a dick to play games
it was nice teaching someone the ropes of my hobby. shame life had other plans.

Vidya parents are the best. With my dad I have
>gutted the dragon in Gauntlet Legends
>successfully fought off the Horde in Gears 3
>enjoyed many rounds of Mario Kart
Also I'm and

>had a great childhood friend who introduced me to runescape
>at first i wouldn't even play myself, i would just watch him grind
>but it was okay

i miss you jesse

Honestly user, I couldn't tell you when I started, but I can tell you that it was before I started preschool. Only reason I can say that is because during preschool, I was pushed up a year (for whatever reason?) and the older kids were stuck on a part on LoZ:OoT on the N64. I had played it before and I had shown them where to go because I had it at home and played it a lot.