I started at age of 3 with spaceship on windows 98 and Mario on gameboy color...
i remember starting with the "snake" on nokia phones....:D
Great thread , i remember in 1994 when i first got my Atari and played Super Mario like there is no tomorrow :P i couldn't also forget Super mario BROS 6 ( where you get the option to transform into daffy duck or bugs bunny :P ) dunno if anyone played this one ... then 1997 got my first PC and sucked the hell out of Grand Theft Auto 1 and NFS 2 as long as other games i don't recall ( i might have played every game in the world :P ) .. later on around end 1998 i got hooked to lan HL and afterwards CS , played them until 2008 when i retired after making everyone cry their tears out in cybercafes :P of course played other games during those years like age of empires II ( amazing memories ) , red alert 2 , yuri's revenge , HL single player story , something called Kimmie or somethin i can't remember , captain claw etcc .. afterwards moved to CoH , CoD and now hooked to WoW since 1 and a half years ... who knows how many centuries i'll keep it on WoW , might even spend the rest of my life playing MMOs from now on , the game style that appealed for me the most after all those years..
Wow never thought that so many people would tell thier first experience with games. Gaming truly is becoming a lifestyle!
5 Years old -> Atari 2600 / Tetris / Nintendo...

9 Years old -> PC 33MHZ ( Turbo 66MHZ ) Prince of Persia on Windows 3.11

13 years old -> Pentium 233MHZ Duke Nuken/Red Alert/ Krush Kill And Destroy
Kareem wrote9 Years old -> PC 33MHZ ( Turbo 66MHZ ) Prince of Persia on Windows 3.11
Haha... turbo... I never fully understood the usefulness of these "turbo" switches. Someone told me that it's so you can slow down your computer to play old games or run old software (which would expect a lower frequency).

Back then there was no power management, ACPI, variable frequencies, variable speed fans (in fact there were no fans at all, lol), temperature monitors, virtual machines...
So I guess people needed a crude way to control the frequency of their CPU, just in case...

It's surprising to see how much innovation happened in the 90ies, then it stopped... After all Windows nowadays is not much more then Windows 2000/XP with a thick sugar coating - hardware innovation also slowed down considerably, although the specs and performance of various components still evolve.
rolf wrote
Kareem wrote9 Years old -> PC 33MHZ ( Turbo 66MHZ ) Prince of Persia on Windows 3.11
Haha... turbo... I never fully understood the usefulness of these "turbo" switches. Someone told me that it's so you can slow down your computer to play old games or run old software (which would expect a lower frequency).

Back then there was no power management, ACPI, variable frequencies, variable speed fans (in fact there were no fans at all, lol), temperature monitors, virtual machines...
So I guess people needed a crude way to control the frequency of their CPU, just in case....
That is possibly true. I tried to install Red Alert 2 on my Core i7 last year and I can tell you that the game is uncontrollable. It runs like 5 times faster ( 5 secs in 1 sec) than the normal speed experienced on early P4. The nuclear weapons are almost ready every minute. You need to set the game speed to the lowest value hehe.
I went through all the old gaming consoles, so I can't even remember the first time I've seen a game.

Starting from Sakhr

to atari

to sega and super nintendo


That's when we got our first desktop PC, and it had wolf3d on it.
I also remember playing Family Game
Started when I was 3-4 years old...ah,atari!
Kareem wrote5 Years old -> Atari 2600 / Tetris / Nintendo...

9 Years old -> PC 33MHZ ( Turbo 66MHZ ) Prince of Persia on Windows 3.11

13 years old -> Pentium 233MHZ Duke Nuken/Red Alert/ Krush Kill And Destroy
Same over here. God i loved the Prince of persia days... (CTRL+K all the way ^.^)
dang you people really have a history, you even made this thread a hot topic!
Back in 1993, I had an atari2600 I iused to play alien attack. then after a few years I had a sega: sonic and loney toon ( the little rabbit) and strider, and of course I had the classical NS mario and the duck hunter, tank, and some game about farwest and other about architecture building some house....
in1995 i guess my father brought me a used computer. running win3.1 (cd windows , win :P) I used to play wolf3D and a game that I cant really remember it name...maybe boat2..
At the age of 6 and with the Atari 2600.... Good old days :)

Prince of persia, monopoly, space invaders on our old desktop, then atari 2600 (tarzan, boxing, pitfall), then family game (aka nes) mario, streetfighter, captain majed (tsubasa), ninja turtles, mk, tanks, galaxy...etc. Then sega (superman returns, mk, sf, phantom, justiceleague, international super star soccor..etc). Then pc mk/blood/nfs/doom/duke..etc. Then ps1 with all the awesome games. Ps2 was my last console. I had a gameboy advance too, then i joined the pc gamers bandwagon ;).
Oh guys those picture make me remember old days :) really thanks... i start 6 years old with a game called prince of persia was funny game :P
cant remember,we had a NES from probably before i couldn't even speak didn't actually play it until 6-7, mario bros 1-2...everyday!
then the ps1 came,(can't remember age), i freaking love the games on ps1!
crash bandicoot series, spiro the dragon, resident evil series,pacman,hercules,tarzan
i still have all my games 100+ for ps1 ;)