Now that hit certain string in my memory - I remember playing Wings of Fury on my Amiga 600 which i was given in 1995 or so. When I went to secondary school I got my first PC. And finances were no so good, so console was out of the question, so I grown up to be exclusively PC man. But maybe I will buy a console for my daughter (but obviously not only :) for her) when she will be a bit older (4 years now).

I got an Atari when I was around 5, and then a nintendo when I was around 12 or so. I think we got our first PC when I was 14, since then I couldn't stop playing Tie Fighter, XCom terror from the deep, Warcraft Orcs and Humans, Mechwarrior 2, and, of course, Dark Forces 2 Jedi Knight.

I am still a nerd with a family, but I was pretty in to console and PC. I mostly bought my PC games with money from working on the weekends and got my consoles and games from friends that had the newer gen and would give me their old ones. I think N64 was the first console I bought in high school.

Reminds me a lot of Sopwith which I used to play on a friend of mine's IBM XT. Ah, the memories of repeatedly crashing into those mountains on either side of the valley :P

I started to play video games full time when I got my PC before that I mostly was an audience to other playing games.

What's a console?

I started with tabletop games like HeroQuest and consoles like Genesis and NES. I was friends with a guy from school who had a C64 and was amazed by the tapes and really wanted one. Later I got myself an Amiga 500 that I had for a few years, by the time I got my first PC I didn't have much time for gaming. Now that I'm in my 30sh I play more games than I did as a kid, strange how things turn out.

A Con's Soul is what happens when you shoot someone that is trying to sell you a 20 story 1 bedroom apartment... See it bursts from their body raining skittles everywhere, and then it ascends to heaven, gets sucked into a jet engine and comes out in a thousand pieces which plunge down towards the earth landing on some poor sap's house looking like wet toilet paper.

Hmmm... Unless someone has a better approximation of what happens?

I started with Apple ][ clone, but my first own computer is IBM PC AT clone.

Apple ][:
Choplifter!
Conan: Hall of Volta
Captain Goodnight

PC AT:
Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?
Test Drive
Gunship

As awesome as it sounds, I'm not so sure I want to approximate to that.

My parents hated videogames. Because of this I've never had any console, and I only got a proper gaming PC when I started college.
Before that I had an "office" PC I could write homework on, and play some old games I was able to obtain, mostly from friends. Dad had a C64 he sometimes allowed me to play games on, but it was a rare occasion.

Mouse and keyboard feels natural for me as well. I've only used a controller just a few times in my life, when I visited friends who had consoles, but I really didn't like it =/

Yeah I still remember when my father brought my first PC.

It was while I had still gone to elementary school. A old pentium with stunning 75Mhz from when they changed the PCs at his workplace to newer ones. And my first game for it was "The Settlers". He got it from colleague at work on 13 floppy disks.

But I also remember later playing classics like Albion or Pizza Connection.

The only "console" I've ever owned was a Game Boy Color. (Bought it for playing pokémon, back in the day).

Was really tempted by the Wii, but ultimately never bought one.

Otherwise, it's been PC all the way. (That is, if you count my very first computer, an Apple ][+, as a PC for gaming purposes).

Grew up on thr Amiga, i kinda miss these hard little floppy disks, their touch and their sounds. I was never an enthousiast for HD installation. I also play, nowadays, without a certain magic of that time. Maybe games don't impress me as much anymore because they don't really push boundaries. We are used to photorealism, and to infinite sizes. We don't really get new milestones or really clever ways to rearrange these limited colours limited quantities of pixels. The same way we aren't impressed by stunts or special effects in movies anymore.

When i install a 6 Gb game, i still have a thought for the similar gaming/gameplay content that used to fit on 880k, though.

Technically, I didn't start from the very beginning on PC, because my first platform was very popular in Poland famiclone, Pegasus. But that was my early childhood, and since about 1997/1998 I've jumped on PC-wagon. And stayed there up to this day :) I liked the big variety of genres (literally everything, from rather simple platform and action games up to quite hard cRPGs and turn-based strategy games), so to be honest, for very long time I didn't feel any need to try anything from console's "world". I remember that I've played a lot in such games as Jazz Jackrabbit 2, Captain Claw, Akimbo: Kung-Fu Hero, Leo the Lion, Starcraft..demo (it took me some time to obtain full version), Tzar, Black Moon Chronicles, Disciples, Pizza Sindicate, Heroes of Might & Magic III (a bit later i've "discovered" that Heroes 2 were fun as well!), Gorky 17... well, there was more of them, sadly many only in form of demo version (for quite a long time only games possible for me to buy were those added to game magazines and in budget series). Fortunately, after years I was able to play in many of those games in full version (GOG, ebay and other sources).

So yeah, despite that relatively short (but still important) period with famiclone, I was always PC-gamer.

I guess you could say that... as I only played PC games and never had a console :D Screw consoles. Secret of Monkey Island, Heroes of Might and Magic, Dune, Warcraft, Diablo, Jazz Jackrabbit -that's the good stuff. Hell, I for years I didn't even know something like consoles exists, and I never understood what their point is :P