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At what age did you start playing computer games?

My dad was a major repair head for a certain big manufacturer so he raised us watching him and mom play point and clicks like Sierra or Zork line, so longing to play and adding my input started there.
 
I don't remember, it was way back in time. The computers that I had access contained the 8086, 6502, Z80, 8088. I also was writing code for the 1541 drive to read disks outside the "normal" tracks or even half tracks.

I still remember making my first backup copy of Super Utility. The program would help you make backups of other software but not of itself. Kim Watt, I know what you did. I still have the 5.25 disks.

If you know what any of these are, I believe you are old.

Ok, you did not ask for all of that. But here we are. :)
 
4 years old around christmas 1979 it was first console play on an Intellivision that an older cousin had with Space Invaders. My first computer game played on a computer was Oregon Trail on a Apple II computer in elementary school sometime in 1985. And then the library had an IBM 5150 8088 with DOS in 1986 and learned some GW-Basic on that and had fun copying programs in Basic out of a book and magazines to type exact to the GW-Basic IDE and run programs and mess with stuff and cause and effect learn Basic Programming as well as learn how to correct syntax errors either made by myself or a typo in the print of the magazine.
 
I started playing computer games when I was about 6. My first ones were really simple—stuff like platformers and arcade games that my parents would set up on our old desktop. I remember getting hooked on the challenge of figuring things out on my own, especially since we didn't have guides or walkthroughs back then.
 
I started playing very early on, probably when I was 7 or 8. I remember playing games like Tank wars and oregon trail a lot on my school computers in the late 90s and early 2000s. I didn't start playing true online games until runescape became big and I started WoW a few months before AQ came out
 
My grandparents had a computer room with one of those old-style roller-ball mice, and I played the Captain Crunch cereal box game on their dial-up back in 2001.
 
TheKillerChicken said:
I was around 6. On a 80486DX with windows 3.1 and it started with Commander Keen. Ah yes, good old Vesa Local Bus technology. A whopping 256 KB video ram, shared with the IDE controller, floppy controller, serial ports, and LPT printer port. When I moved to Windows 95, it was a whole different game as 3d hardware acceleration was then available, thus moving games into the 3d realm. Good times. I have a Windows 98Se machine running at this time as it is being used as a MIDI entertainment centre with and AWE32, AWE64 Gold, TerraTec EWS64XL, Sound Blaster Live!, Sound Blaster PCI 128, TerraTec ESS Solo-1, and a Sound Blaster Extigy USB. I forgot to add: By the windows 95 era, I had a Sega MegaDrive (Genesis) with all the Sonic games as well as a few arcade-like games Learn more as well which I really enjoyed playing a lot of until my Genesis died on me, 10 years later. I also had a PSX (PS1) and had a lot of fun with the games there also.
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