I'm 37 years old.
Lifelong console gamer, pc gaming noob.
First major console I owned was the colecovision in 1982, and I played the shit out of it. At the same time, I also had a vic-20 . Even though I remember screwing around with the vic-20 a lot back then, I can't remember just exactly what I was doing with it.
had all of the major consoles after that. I had an imac from 1998-2003, and tthere wasn't much available to play on it ( i played a little MDK on it), so I just gamed on n64, dreamcast, ps1, ps2 , gamecube and xbox.
In 2004, I started playing more on the PC with Baldurs Gate 2 and Starcraft. It wasn't till 2009 that I actually signed up for a steam account and other dd sites like gog.

32 here. Started out with a C64, then Amiga500, then a PC. Somewhere along the way I've also fiddled with a Spectrum48k and a BBC Micro.

26 here. My dad worked for Coleco in New York ages ago and so we always had tons of Colecovision games and hardware around the house, so I got started there, and then with an NES when it was released in the mid 80's. When we moved, I remember my dad put together a DOS machine with scavenged parts for me, I can't remember around what year, but I remember the following games being installed on it:
Matterhorn Screamer
Test Drive
Ewing vs Bird (or some kind of basketball game like that)
Bouncing Babies
Win, Lose, or Draw
Pharaoh's Tomb
Leisure Suit Larry 1 EGA
Eventually my dad bought the Quest for Glory series and I got hooked. I remember spending MANY summers as a kid, replaying through the entire Quest for Glory 1 game (VGA edition only, we never had the EGA) because it was so fun. My dad eventually bought me the first Police Quest game and I got hooked on that, then Kings Quest V and VI.

I'm 18 and my first gaming experience was with my super Nintendo but i don't remember which games i used to play. I first got into PC gaming with rts's like total annihilation and starcraft. When my step dad left he took the PC with him and i started playing xbox until about 3 years ago when i got a decent PC and Ive been catching up on all the amazing games i missed and some before i started playing.

27 as well,
Started on the sea green apple 2's... My parents got me this machine that (cant recall what it was called) was set up for Basic Programing... did the whole NES/SNES fell in love with Koei Uncharted Waters/Romance of the three Kingdoms, and of course the final fanatasy series. Got big in EQ my freshman year of Uni, (it had paid for more then half of my bills my dorm mates and I would EBay the HELL out of EQ Items/char's/Accounts shoot I remember selling SSoY for like 50 bucks each back then.... I miss those days...).
Stopped the MMO thing after I had my BS, and started focusing on SP games mainly because I left the states.....
I remember having a pentium 75, and a 7200 modem thinking I had a such a kick ass machine, early days bb servers, paired ram........ man.... those were the days.....

34 for a few more weeks. Been gaming in one form or another for 30 of those years, got a pong-a-like console that was just a brick with a pair of sliders that looked like they came from an audio mixing desk and a coax out (not even an on switch, just turn it on & off at the wall) when I was about 5 and an Atari 2600 a year or 2 later.
After that I got the c64 which astonished me regularly with its epic levels of awesome. I remember one incident when at school, some kid in my class had this magic new thing called a nintendo. Everyone was amazed and envious, it was the most awesome thing ever, the games were like nothing we ever played before and it was infinitely better than everything else in the universe. Naturally I was curious and so went for a look, played super mario brothers and a handful of other NES classics and was distinctly underwhelmed so came home and played GOOD games on the 64 instead, Wizball, The Bards Tale, Paradroid...
After that I got an Amiga and eventually did my first system upgrade of installing the memory expansion so I could have sound in Their Finest Hour. Then I got a crap 486 (tautology, I know) with the star trek technical manual that featured interactinve voice commands and a lifelong string of vocal control disappointment began. Then I got a PS1 with dozens of games, some of them even GOOD.
Then I got something important, a shitty celeron 333 that was the first machine I ever tore apart and upgraded, after that I made myself the first DVD equipped 1GHz machine I'd ever heard of. Got an xbox next specifically for the eventual purchase of KOTOR and was rapidly impressed by the fact that Halo (which I got with the machine) managed to be a console FPS and not be completely unplayable.
A while later I built my P4 2.8GHz gaming rig that served me well until the AGP port shorted out and astonishingly did no damage to the video card. I got a 360 (specifically for Mass Effect) not long before the death of my gaming PC and was one of the best purchases I made as it gave me some top games that my PC couldn't and gave me something to play when my PC kicked the bucket (or socket if you prefer).
I ended up getting a desktop replacement lappy towards the end of life of my P4 system so I could do light gaming and heavy uni work and thats the system I'm still struggling with today.
Bought a PS3 recently, specifically for Heavy Rain (I'm detecting a pattern in my console purchases) and have been rather enjoying that. Getting Arkham Asylum with the console was a freakin amazing bonus and made the nasty mindfuck of the 3rd scarecrow sequence even worse since I'd only had the console for 2 days before the apparent fault... What date? Mine's on the 26th

Dude 28th! Ok, on the 27th we're having a joint birthday thread for real.

Awesome, I'll make cake

Don't forget the socks!

Sock SHAPED maybe but still cake, I'm no sockeater

33yo, I started playing games with Mattel's Intellivision. I still LOVE Advanced Dungeons and Dragons, indeed.....

21 here, started gaming ... well, when I was about 5 years, but I REALLY had my own machine at home 10 years ago - so yeah, I'm not really that hardcore gamer :D
Played some P'n'P in between and even drawn my own desktop games that resembled 'real' ones (especially proud of Unreal game :D It actually kinda worked, we have played the hell out of it with my friend :D ). As a side-note, I have red a review of System Shock roughly at that time in an old magazine and wanted the game ever since. Then, I got my first computer ... Well, in year 2000, and it was a shitty one: Pentium 100Mhz, with 16 MB RAM and ... smeg knows what graphics card. Oh, and 1.6 GB space on the harddrive - all the stuff I've had to do to actually get this machine somewhat WORKING was enough to develop my love for computers in me. And, since I've had it 'till year 2004, it also developed love for old computer games.
And 2004? My first custom-built machine! 2.4 ghz, 512 MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9200 for a graphics card - the fastest machine in the neighborhood! I upgraded it a few times in the meantime, and today, I'm gaming on 2 years old notebook, Acer aspire 8920g, and raising money to buy a new PC.

Hey, April 26th for me too.

I'm not gonna do a full eulogy here, but:
27 years old, been gaming in some form for about 20 of those years, on the following systems, in more or less chronological order:
- Atari 2600
- Commodore 64
- Amiga 500
- 386 DX-25
- 486 DX-33 (I think that was it)
- Pentium 166 MHz
- Various PCs thereafter
- Very recently started on PS3 and X360, although I own only 3-4 games on both systems (plus an additional 10 or so on XBLA I suppose) and am a complete noob, as it were, at consoles. Mostly have them to play exclusives and arcade releases, and for the sofa factor.

I'll be 20 in November. The first time I played a video game was Sonic the Hedgehog when I was 4. When I was around 5, we had gotten a few extra computers, and I used to sit next my brother, watching him play, then try for myself on the computer usually placed next to it. By the time I was 6, I was beating all his friends in Doom deathmatch. The most memorable games of my childhood would be the Doom 2, Warcraft 2, Descent, amongst others. I didn't get into more story driven games until I turned 12, as all of the games I used to play those days were acquired by my brother; who preferred games which jumped straight into the action.
After all that I started checking out more genres. Neverwinter Nights captivated me for a while, until I got my hands on Freelancer, which is the only game I've ever played through the campaign of eight times in a month, then proceeding to explore every inch of the universe, seeing everything there was to see. Warcraft III came out, and took over all my RTS gaming for a long while (it also happens to be the only damned game my brother is playing these days, apart from the occasional UT99 match).
These days I've got a Famicom, Super Famicom, NES, Sega Mega Drive, Gamecube, Xbox, PS2, PS3, PSP and NDS, though lately only the PS3, PS2 and NDS have been used out of those. I would say that I have a gaming PC as well, but the PSU quite literally went boom last week. It was replaced the day after, but it wouldn't boot up, so I'm ordering a new motherboard, CPU and RAM on monday; hoping the rest of the insides survived.