What was your first machine and how old were you?

I was 25 in 1984 and I picked up a Exidy Venture and a Atari Warlords cocktail. Wasn't really collecting just wanted them for cool electronic art for my video room. Man, those games were only about 2 years old when I bought them. I'm 50 now.

Didn't buy another game until 1995 when I found my Lunar Lander - then it got crazy.

Tom
 
15 when I got a Double Dragon for free from a friend that picked it up for $25 at a police auction. Stopped working after it was moved so he gave it to me. I took the back off and saw the loose connector, plugged it back in and played it for a hour.
 
Last couple of years for me... Bad memory, so I will have to look through photo albums when I get home to know dates... But seriously, most, if not all, within the last 5 years.

I'm 40 at this moment.
 
2000, i was 18 and just moved out, got a nice pacman. don't have that one anymore but wish i did. it's nicer than the one i have these days.
 
Damn, All you people are old farts. j/k
I was 28 in '08 when I bought a dynamo xmen/streetfighter that I converted to a MAME. After than I decided to pick up a local centipede for $100 in feb of '10 that was missing it's AR2 and I put it in the kitchen of our old tiny apartment I had with my then fiance. Now I own 14 cabs that are mostly in a gameroom on the back of my garage on the house I just bought with my wife. How time flies. Next I'll probably be hollowing out the back yard to build a bunker to store 200 more cabs underground and selling my organs to afford it all.
 
I was 24 and living in Hawaii with relatives while I was still in the Navy. I wanted to buy a machine, but pickins were slim there, so I built my own...

 
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My first games I brought 4 games at the sametime back in summer of 1990. I was 19 years old.

I wish i still had those 4 games ! :O(
 
I was 28 in 2000. Drove 12 hours in the snow for a Star Wars upright sold by an operator from his personal collection. Good times! 22 games later.....
 
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