It would have been my fourth birthday. At the end of the day, mum brought me to her room and gave me my first ever console, the Sega Master System Mk. II. If only consoles these days came with complete games built into them! Alex Kidd for life <3

House of the Dead was how my gaming love begin. In the final boss of this game, my dad couldn't figure out how to damage the boss. But I shot those black parts of the boss's body and it worked! I still remember how shocked my father was and I was only 6 lol. It made me so proud. ( I am ApexofRelaxation on twitter, just wanted to share here as well to participate here)

Well first start was on Atari. Then on PC - Fury of the Furries, Cannon Fodder and later Wolfenstein 3d. I remember that I was not even aware that you actually can save progress in Wolfenstein and when boss in first episode killed me it was hilarious :).

My dad first bought me a video game on Minitel (it was a kind of pre-internet in France back in the 80's). He would order disks 3.01 and then received them by mail. Like gog but they were not old already : )
The first ones might have been Commander Keen and Prince of Persia, the first one. Amazing games. Left me flabbergasted. We spent hours playing those on our dads computer with my brother.

It began with Hover, the game from the Windows 95 CD

It started when I was 4 years old watching my cousin play games on the MSX. I still remember the very first game I played: Magical Kid Wiz. I'm in my mid-thirties right now and my love for gaming is still going strong.

I've been fascinated by anything computers since before I can remember, so I don't remember how my love for gaming began, but I do have a story from when I was five years old that I hope is both close enough and interesting enough.

When the Super Nintendo came out, there was a Nintendo demo kiosk at the local Toys 'R' Us. (the local Radio Shack also had one in their row of kiosks where I got to try Bonk's Adventure on TurboGrafx 16 and Sonic the Hedgehog on Sega Genesis.)

As soon as I tried it, I was obsessed with Super Mario World... to the point where, between the end of August when it came out and Christmas when my grandmother bought me a Super Nintendo, I couldn't take my mind off it.

I'd talk about it, I'd take any opportunity I could to play it on a demo kiosk and, most memorably, to try to take the edge off my obsession, I asked my father (who could draw much better than I could) to draw out some levels with a ballpoint pen and paper, and I remember correcting him when he got what a ghost was supposed to look like wrong. (His first attempt looked more like the wiggly blue ghost-y things around 19 minutes into Halloween is Grinch Night.)

It's a shame I don't have those drawings anymore but, once I got my Christmas present, I completely lost interest in them.

My neighbor had a computer. He would press something on the pitch-black screen and open the "Aladdin" game. But he pretended to caress the magic lamp. And that magic effected all of us

https://www.gog.com/game/disney_classic_games_aladdin_and_the_lion_king

( Same on Twitter )

My first game was Ataris Pong.... then I stayed at games and I am so glad that Good Old Games can be found on GOG ;-)

My uncle was away for university, so he left me with his SNES and taught me how to use it. Take the cartridge, blow it out, stick it into the console, flip the purple power switch. Super Mario World was my first gaming experience around the age of 7. Admittedly, I didn't play around too much with it because it was too hard - around the Twin Bridges is where I'd quit because I couldn't beat the boss. Same with other games like Super Mario Kart, Contra 3, Star Fox, Brawl Brothers, Phalanx, etc. but that was just being a kid playing alone without reading a manual. So I preferred to play outside with friends instead.

A couple years later, he finished school and I got his Playstation. Played FF7, but I'd rather prefer the SNES. Then FF8 came out and I was wow'd by the cinematics. I was older, so I played through all of that and made time for Crash Bandicoot 3, Metal Gear Solid, Tekken 3, Spyro, Twisted Metal 2, Soul Edge, FF9, and eventually FF7. Once I had a taste of Final Fantasy, I went back and tried to get my hands on all of the releases. And around the same time, I got into Starcraft. This is when I knew gaming was for me!

Had a couple more lovely years with the Dreamcast, but after that I got into anime/manga for the longest time (got a Wii in there too) and university wore me down until I got back into PC gaming about 4 years ago. And I haven't looked back since.

I'd played games casually when little, with Pong and Asteroids. No more or less than my other toys. But I became hooked in my 30s upon being given a copy of Doom for Windows 3.1. I'd rush home every night after work and fire it up at 2 AM and play with headphones on to not disturb others. The thrill and fear were real. The monsters, the weapons. Hearing growling in distant parts of the map, ready to jump me. My trusty shotgun for protection. It's why FPS is my home genre but I also collect other types of titles like Rebel Galaxy and Ubisoft's Prince of Persia series.

My gaming journey started with a super simple indie platformer game called 'LIMBO' which was a simple platformer as I said earlier yet it somehow managed to tell us a story about a boy in limbo trying to find someone beloved to him. It managed to make us all understand that without any dialogues or cutscenes which is quite surprising for me to be honest. LIMBO is the first ever video game I played on a PC, before playing this game I was just an average person who used to play mobile games for passing time but after experiencing LIMBO, I decided to dig more into the gaming world and found some gems that belongs to my "All time favourite collection". I usually like playing underrated games like this one which didn't received much appreciation during their release time because they deserve my respect and I'll keep playing such games like spec ops: the line, sleeping dogs, mad max andmany more underrated gems. I freakin love being a gamer and you know what's the best part of being a gamer? Managing the time for playing games, work and family! Indeed I love managing things what else can u expect from a RTS lover hahaha! But thats another story my friend will love sharing some other time, farewell.

I actually was not much of a gamer back in the day, until my father came home with Zork (the very first one!). From that moment on I was hooked! Even today I am constantly looking for games with a GREAT storyline.

My gaming addiction started when I was very young. I think I was around four years old, but I don't know for sure. I DO know it is my earliest memory. It was of my dad bringing home a ColecoVision and playing Zaxxon on it. It was amazing and didn't just get me into gaming, but also made me want to make my own games, which is something I'm actually pursuing now, forty years later.

My love for gaming started when i was around 6-8 when my dad introducted me to call of duty 4(along with Delta force black hawk which i still have disk of to this very day) . That was one of most fun exprineces i ever had and it pretty much kickstarted my love for gaming.

Unforetenatly i never exprineced multiplayer due to internet being expensive for the time, but i still have very fond memmories of singleplayer it was really something else for the time. Certainly would recommend to anyone get it in this day and age as community on pc is alive and well, heck it has sick mod support, happy to see that it did not die off.