What got you into Gaming ???

[PopsTheGamer]

For me it was my two sons
HAPPY HOLIDAYS

[Lord_Twisted]

I was heavy into arcade games growing up, pinball, Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong, Centipede, etc.. Had a few stores in my neighborhood that always had the newest arcade games in them.

Then my parents got me the Nintendo NES as a Christmas present in the mid 80's and it brought most of those games home for me. Since then I have pretty much gotten or bought the newest game systems every time they release. <except the PS3>.

[StratyMcStrat]

I saw someone playing a game called Pong.

I said, "Hey, what's that?"
They said, "It's called a video game."
I replied, "Awesome!"

... and I've been playing video games ever since.

[PopsTheGamer]

I wish i had started when i was young

[GrimJack352]

I was heavy into arcade games growing up, pinball, Mario Brothers, Donkey Kong, Centipede, etc.. Had a few stores in my neighborhood that always had the newest arcade games in them.

Then my parents got me the Nintendo NES as a Christmas present in the mid 80's and it brought most of those games home for me. Since then I have pretty much gotten or bought the newest game systems every time they release. <except the PS3>.

Same story here...back in the late 70's - early 80's you couldn't go into a mall without seeing an arcade. They were like kid magnets. Then the Atari 2600 came out and luckily I got one for Xmas. Been a hardcore video game addict ever since.

[mtnbkscul]

I played video games when I was younger, but quit. I was over at a friends house and he was playing Rainbow Six (the first one) co-op on XBox. The next day I went out and bought a new XBox, and Rainbow Six. Been playing pretty much ever since.

[Swervingtaras]

For me it started as a kid, my older had a sega master system and a intellivision II.

[Flu]

I never had an arcade around, but would play arcade games wherever I could - at the front of stores, restaurants, bowling alleys. When I was very young, we got an Atari 2600, and I've been hooked ever since.

[Aronion]

My love of gaming started at a young age. Growing up in a small town, we were lucky to have an arcade. I would go a couple times a week to play pinball, Mario Bros., Pole Position, Moon Patrol, Spy Hunter... The list goes on and on. We also had a Pong system at home and while most of my friends had either an Atari or Intellvision, we also had a Coleco Vision. I guess you can say that I am a life-long gamer.

[krazykop1299]

What really got me into gaming was a couple of different arcades in my hometown. The first one opened when I was in high school, and I was dating the daughter of the owner. If I went in when she was working, I got to play for free.

The second arcade opened when I was working for the state police. I was in there one night and they were charging like 5 bucks a person and then the games were free to play for about 3 hours, once a week. I was talking to the owner one night, and he saw my badge on my belt, and he asked if I would be willing to come in tje night they did the all you can play for free thing and hang out, and I got in for free for doing that.

I also have an Atari 2600 with about 50 games when I was a kid too.