What was your first machine and how old were you?

[ComputerSpace]

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

 

[JeffC]

I got my 720 when I was 25. I'm 35 now.

 

[gamerex42]

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.

 

[Atari Force]

I was 9 when my parents bought me a Scramble in 1986.

Brian

 

[savit4l8r]

Frogger, 23.

 

[EVB]

Cool parents. I always liked Scramble, that game ate my quarters and pissed me off to no end.

I was 9 when my parents bought me a Scramble in 1986.

Brian

 

[paulliadis]

I was 33, and my first was Donkey Kong Junior. I bought it this past fall. Good times.

 

[osver]

Carrier Air Wing in '02. I was 26.

 

[jawhn]

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.

 

[cleverlyj]

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.

 

[SeanMcL]

I was 30, and I bought an Asteroids.

/my, how time flies.

 

[xxstatic]

DK and I was 43 at the time.
44 now.

 

[RetroReject]

I was 23 or 24 and it was a lot f 10 that included Donkey Kong and Ms. PacMan and 8 other jamma games. I'm 35 now

 

[jow]

NBA Jam, 23

 

[dethfactor]

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.

 

[zenomorp]

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...

 

[tec9]

I bought a Dig Dug back in 1995....I was 18 at the time. Still have the machine, and I'm 33 now!!

 

[airlair]

Space Invaders Deluxe and I was 28 in 1998.

 

[simpsons99]

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(

 

[BrokenTrace]

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.....