What Gaming Generation Are You?

[bombatomba]

I'm Nintendo generation. I first played the NES when I was 10 (in 1987) and haven't looked back since. But before that there were arcades, UFO! on Odyssey2, and Blueprint on Atari VCS.

Plus, is there anyone else here about my age (31) and living (or lived) in Metro Detroit?

[Tony_32]

Never lived there but I'm 32 and consider myself the NES generation also. That's when I really caught on to videogames.

[Data]

I'm 31 now,was 8 or so when my dad bought us the Adam computer with the Colecovision. I played Atari and Intellivision before this at friends and families. When Turbographx came out I got that as well as a NES. Then I started buying my own games at age 13.

[Mister Zero]

NES Generation. I was born in 84 and got my first NES at 4 and still have it today. It's been my constant companion through house moves and life. =)

[Liberator8200]

Atari (2600) generation.

[nickerous]

I'd say the NES generation as well. I'm 34, but didn't really get into gaming till the NES. We had a 5200, but hardly ever played it.

[Thor]

I could have sworn I've seen this question before... might have been a different forum.

Anyway VCS.

[loupgarou1317]

Well I'll start with the Vcs when I was 6 but also older systems than that too..........so is there a Vcs\older group?

[jayrox]

Started on the old space invaders arcade games, got into home playing with the atari 2600, had most systems since but never really got into the nintendo until the wii came out.

[Crazylightsaber]

33 years old. I can remember playing my cousin's Atari 2600 when I was quite the wee lad. But the NES is what got me hooked. So I would say I am the "NES" generation.

[Gnash]

I had an Atari but the Nes is probably when I really became interested. So Nes age.

[TheyCallMeBruce]

Definitely NES. I was born in 1983, and my parents bought my sister some crappy picture drawing toy that hooked up to the TV for Christmas in, I believe, 1987. The item was defective (and terrible), so it was returned and replaced with an NES. My life began on that day.

[KiwiArcader]

Yep ... seen this question here before. I am pre-pong myself. I remember playing some of the mechanical games in early 1970's that can be seen at this site ...

http://marvin3m.com/arcade/

One I remember was a P-51 Lightning mechanical fighter plane game where the playfield ground rolled underneath the plane like a treadmill. A gunsight was lit onto glass in front of you and you had to shoot targets stuck to the playfield. Archaic stuff really but ground-breaking for the day.

[Mister Zero]

One I remember was a P-51 Lightning mechanical fighter plane game where the playfield ground rolled underneath the plane like a treadmill. A gunsight was lit onto glass in front of you and you had to shoot targets stuck to the playfield. Archaic stuff really but ground-breaking for the day.

I love stuff like that! Before my time, but I love to see it. Such creativity and aesthetics back then. I really like the designs on carnival rides and details on old arcade machines like fortune tellers and things.

[finchy]

C64 Generation - played the good old Commodore a lot before I got my NES around 1992.

[BitLooter]

NES Generation. I grew up playing games like Zelda and Fantasy Zone, the NES and SMS are the first consoles I ever played.

[Gynoug]

33 years old... Atari (2600) generation.

But my golden age of gaming was on NES.

[Gnash]

Yep ... seen this question here before. I am pre-pong myself. I remember playing some of the mechanical games in early 1970's that can be seen at this site ...

http://marvin3m.com/arcade/

One I remember was a P-51 Lightning mechanical fighter plane game where the playfield ground rolled underneath the plane like a treadmill. A gunsight was lit onto glass in front of you and you had to shoot targets stuck to the playfield. Archaic stuff really but ground-breaking for the day.

I saw some of those games at the House on the Rock in Wisconsin. Man those were awesome. The care to make them and all mechanical. Very nice stuff.

[kenchi]

Im 35 years old, but I started gaming during the twilight years of the nes/famicom. Ninja Gaiden was the game that got me hooked.