So I'm doing this video game survey next semester. One of my questions is to ask respondents how long they have been playing video games, but I'm not sure what a good cap on that question is. I know for me, the answer is 12 years, but is that long, short, right in the middle? What is the range I should put on this? So I'm turning to my local geeky crowd to help answer that question for me. Besides, it's kind of a fun question so that we can figure out who has the least amount of a life.

How many years have you been playing video games?

11/27/2007 3:19:54 PM

wat

11/27/2007 3:21:05 PM

22 years?

11/27/2007 3:21:17 PM

started when i was like 5....i noticed after about age 17 i stopped playing as much

11/27/2007 3:21:19 PM

haha, does that mean total, how many years of your life you have spent playing them if you add up every hour or whatever? or just time that has elaped since you first played a game until now

11/27/2007 3:21:33 PM

none of your fucking business

11/27/2007 3:21:49 PM

after each of these medicines say "all my life"

Tylenol

Asprin

Bengay

11/27/2007 3:22:08 PM

about 20 years...

11/27/2007 3:23:06 PM

from ones born at least in 1978 or back you can count on most of them to say since the nes hit the shelves.

11/27/2007 3:23:09 PM

i think started around 5, i started playing seriously when i first played mortal kombat 1 at the arcade when i was 6. then got more serious when i discovered everquest when i was 14 (made me have no life for like 2 years in hs). so all in all, 16 years

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11/27/2007 3:25:45 PM

I was born in 81 and we got an NES the year that they came out.

11/27/2007 3:27:13 PM

Quote :

"from ones born at least in 1978 or back you can count on most of them to say since the nes hit the shelves."

i was born in 82, we got a NES in 87.

11/27/2007 3:31:09 PM

Quote :

"haha, does that mean total, how many years of your life you have spent playing them if you add up every hour or whatever? or just time that has elaped since you first played a game until now"

Time elapsed since you first played a game is easier to measure. There are also other questions about current frequency, so if you played Super Mario when you were a kid but stopped playing after that, you don't register as a geek. There's way more to the survey than just this one question, but this is the one I was having trouble figuring out a good range for.

11/27/2007 3:32:55 PM

i just wanna play vidya games.....everything else is really lame

11/27/2007 3:33:35 PM

too long

11/27/2007 3:34:30 PM

19-20 years? about?

11/27/2007 3:35:54 PM

Since about 1980. How about THAT, motherfuckers?

27 FUCKING YEARS

11/27/2007 3:39:01 PM

Yeah, you gotta figure on some of the older gen. who played Ataris and earlier games.

11/27/2007 3:43:22 PM

Seriously, folks, I wore out some Atari 2600s.

I still have my first computer at home from 1983. Texas Instruments 99/4A. I've also got the older version (black and polished aluminum) from '80 or '81, but I bought that as a package deal later on from a friend.

11/27/2007 3:46:06 PM

i think x-men for the sega genesis was my first game that i played a lot, and it came out in 1991, so maybe 15, 16 years

11/27/2007 3:46:56 PM

since i was like 2 so 18 years

11/27/2007 3:48:33 PM

Yeah, my older brother is 44 and he had some of the earliest video games that he played and played, so I know he's been playing pre-NES.

11/27/2007 3:49:01 PM

my first ones in the arcades were deathrace (1976)
at home, my brother in-law had the original pong.

11/27/2007 3:49:23 PM

I have been playing video games since the beginning.

11/27/2007 3:50:06 PM

Since Atari man, I've gotta say at least 22 years. Atari birthed me, Nintendo raised me, Playstation made me a man. But they all made me fat.

11/27/2007 3:57:58 PM

^well said sir

11/27/2007 4:02:19 PM

just figure out when the first video game came out, and figure how many years have gone by since then.

11/27/2007 4:02:59 PM

since i was 6, stopped really playing when i turned 17.

if i play now it's only with friends while we're chillen or waitin for something.


12 years

11/27/2007 4:09:36 PM

i ended up getting a sega genesis and nintendo in 91.

Started playing sonic and mario 3.


good times.

11/27/2007 4:13:38 PM

Do not know what my first videogame experience was but I know i did get a SNES when i was 8 and that was my first system.

11/27/2007 4:16:20 PM

i had an atari 2600 and the first nes on the block

and totally cannot handle games today.

if there are more than like 4 buttons i can't do shit

11/27/2007 4:23:02 PM

i get a headache playing Call of Duty 4

am i really that far past my prime?

11/27/2007 4:23:54 PM

systems became obsolete after i started playing counter strike.

last system i had was a ps1 before i go into pc gaming. dont game anymore like i use to, but pc>>console.

11/27/2007 4:26:03 PM

lets go with 20.

the first year or so running into the first goomba constantly doesnt count

11/27/2007 4:27:19 PM

I plan on playing them for the forseeable future.

I'm gonna whoop my kids in Madden 2019.

11/27/2007 4:28:10 PM

pick up your sticks, bitch

11/27/2007 4:29:18 PM

I went genesis -> PC -> Dreamcast -> PC -> Xbox; no more PC since I don't have a desktop

11/27/2007 4:29:45 PM

I first starting gaming on an Atari 2600 that my family had back in about 1987. My dad had some DOS computer too had had a few games on it (Golden Axe was one I remember distinctly, although I think that came later), so for about 20 yrs I would say. From then on it was a downhill spiral. Atari 2600 -> NES/Gameboy -> SNES/Gameboy -> N64 -> PS2/Gamecube/DS -> Wii/360

With PC gaming in there with all of them.

11/27/2007 5:07:00 PM

well over 20 years, although I don't really play anymore (until my nephew gets older, that is)

I still have issue #1 of nintendo power in a box somewhere

having subscribed shortly after getting my nintendo

I also played atari before that

and in the very early 80's (I'm told) I "played" games on my dad's apple II plus

oh yeah

11/27/2007 5:14:36 PM

19 years, and still am an avid player of video juegos

i own, or used to own all of these: atari 2600, nes, super nes, gameboy, sega genesis, game gear, nintendo 64, sega dreamcast, ps1, ps2, xbox, xbox 360, and a pc.

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11/27/2007 5:16:14 PM

28 years...and i still cant beat pitfall

11/27/2007 5:22:49 PM

i just wannan played vidya games

11/27/2007 5:24:20 PM

you should ask how old all these people are, too.
that said, i'm 21 and have played for 12 years.

11/27/2007 5:24:52 PM

20

11/27/2007 5:41:10 PM

Since I was a fetus

11/27/2007 6:25:53 PM

since doom was on the computer the old school style, I guess 12

11/27/2007 6:32:32 PM

'bout 15 years, I guess? My first platform was definately the NES, but I don't remember exactly when I got it.

NES->Gameboy/Sega Genesis->N64->PC/PS2/GBA->DS/Xbox/Wii




[Edited on November 27, 2007 at 6:42 PM. Reason : .]

11/27/2007 6:37:40 PM

18 years

11/27/2007 6:38:46 PM

all day.

11/27/2007 7:02:01 PM

Got my Atari 2600 in December of 1979, so that'd make 28 years. First game I ever played was Combat.

And wouldn't you know it, I've gone on to make a career of it.

11/27/2007 7:37:24 PM