What was your first machine and how old were you?

[slac]

I was 24 and picked up MKII in camden NJ!!! 35 now.

 

[YellowDog]

I was 27 in '83 when I bought my Battlezone. Just sold it last week.

ken

 

[Tornadoboy]

Mario Bros, I think I was like 22

 

[RadArcade]

I was 27 in '83 when I bought my Battlezone. Just sold it last week.

ken

That brings up an interesting question (maybe it has been brought up before) , who has had a single game the longest?

 

[SaminVA]

I bought my first arcade game a Bally Star Trek pinball in 1982-83 which made me 24 or 25 at the time.
http://members.cox.net/sverlander/bally_star_trek.html
I was 31 or 32 when I got my first video game in 1989-90 which was a Star Trek SOS conversion in an Asteroids cabinet.
http://members.cox.net/sverlander/Star_Trek_Asteroids_conversion.html
I am 52 now so been collecting for 29 years. Wow time really fly's

 

[DPtwiz]

Millipede in 1985 when i was 15....

 

[jphillip5]

I was 11 when my sister and I received a used Gottlieb Grand Slam pinball machine for Christmas.

I didn't own my first machine until I was 35. It was a non-working Omega Race that took me two years to get operational. That was 7 years ago.

 

[SuperGunGuru]

My first machine was a WWF Superstars in a converted Berzerk cabinet and I was about 12 years old at the time.

 

[blinddog]

My first game was a Williams Stargate I picked up back in 2001. I was 27 at the time and I still have it.

 

[ModCity]

Boy, am I new I was 35 when I bought my Yie Ar Kung-Fu. Just turned 36 on Wednesday.

 

[Phetishboy]

Ms. Pacman Cabaret in 2004. I was 31. I bought it for my wife and she came with me to get it while she was pregnant with our daughter. We hadn't quite been married a year at that point.

 

[BadMrFrosty]

My first machine was a Battletoads, I was 23. Now I am 24, and I just got my third machine today! Now I need somewhere to live with more space...

 

[back2the80s]

My first game was pacman I was 30. I'm 37 now.

 

[AUSyTyIN]

Simpsons, I had just turned 28 when I got it.

 

[Bellybuttons]

Be Nice I'm New

Frogger
I can still smell Cassino's pizza when I play.
No sure how old I was...

 

[jow]

Frogger
I can still smell Cassino's pizza when I play.
No sure how old I was...

I actually had a Popeye that when turned on smelled like pizza. I asked the previous owner if it had ever been in a pizza shop, and he wasnt sure. Oddly enough I had to sell it because I got so fat from getting hungry every time it was on. *sigh*

 

[barrysfarm]

Asteroids in 1999, I was 17.

 

[TheDrewster]

Donkey Kong in 2008. I was 18!

 

[Hyde]

Frogger, back in the summer of 2008. I was 15.

 

[ovfdfireman]

Final Fight.......30