I first played Wolfenstein 3D when I was about 3 or 4 years old. Then when I got my 486, I think I was about 5 or 6. So roughly I've been gaming/pc using for about 13 or 14 years. What about you guys?

PS: I'm 17 years old

I been playing with the Atari 2600 of my parents when I was around 3... Now that I'm 26, it makes my gaming career around 23 years.

Played my first games on a C64 when I was about 12, so 24 years or so... nowadays I have pretty much stopped playing games though.

I was probobly 2 or 3 when I first played a NES but I got my first game system (Sega genesis) at 4. I am 15 now So I guess I have been playing games for 11 years.

mhh...I think I was 3, my first consolle was a Philips G7000 (VideoPac Computer Magnavox Odyssey) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnavox_Odyssey%C2%B2

But my real love was Amiga 600...damn, bought in 1991 when I was 5...I'm still using it! ^_^

So I have been playing games for 18 years

I first encountered a computer game on a mainframe around 1982: Colossal Cavern. I think the first game I ever bought was an early version of Sargon, the chess program, back around that time, for the Tandy 2. It took about 25 minutes to load from cassette. :D

My first game review was in 1987, for PC Magazine, if I recall correctly.

Cool, it seems everyone here has started playing games when they were wee lads.

I started gaming with Mattel Intellivision in 1981, but I was already 19 back then.
PC gaming started in 1993 with Indy Atlantis.

My first game was Giana Sisters. I was 6 or something close to it. The machine was Commodore 64.

I started playing games (and only playing games) at the age of 6. My bro had an C64. Then I got a NES and I still have it AND it still works! :max:
Doing something sensible with a PC and NOT gaming... hmm... must have been when I was 11 or 12.
In the last three years I learned like 900% or so of what I knew before...

So my PC-carreer:
6-11 kiddy and n00bie gaming (i was good at some games though)
11-20 advanced stuff
20-now(23) 1337 stuff