Quote by chrisarcade:
anyone over 40 here that still play video games?
Yes.
I started with Odyssey 300 in 1976. (Thanks internet for reminding me about the model number as I had forgotten over the last 33 years). In this year I also celebrated our nations Bicentennial, skated my first concrete skate park, and won several BMX trophies. I had grown up playing pinball in Atlantic City Arcades so progression to video games just seemed natural.
The next year for Christmas I got an Atari Video Pinball System.
The year after that I got an Atari 2600 for Christmas. I used this console all the way through my freshman year of college. Many a late night playing Berzerk (Intruder Alert, Intruder Alert)
Consoles went dormant in the early to mid 80's as Video Arcades hit the big time. Why play crappy games at home when you can hang at the arcade and play gems like Gauntlet, Dragon's Lair, Tempest, Wizard of War, Defender, Missile Command, Zaxxon, Galaga, Space Invaders, Pac-man and dozens more that I can't remember right now. FYI....arcades and games were so mainstream that there was a song called "Pac-man Fever" that hit number 9 on the Billboard 100 back in 1982. I skipped way too many college classes due to not be able to walk away from a group game of Gauntlet.
I won a color TV and a NES in a Christmas contest at my first job after graduating college. I was also going to grad school at night, but still managed to find time for The Legend of Zelda, RC Pro-Am, and one of the Mario series.
Soon after NES, I got my second PC that would actually run games as well as Windows applications so consoles were out and PC games were in. Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, and the Command and Conquer series were favorites. We had tried the first generation PC games like Wizardry, but they were all text based and hardly qualify as video games.
I heard that Mortal Kombat had been released for the Sega Genesis 2 so I actually bought the console just for that game. I later added on the CD player so I could play Night Trap, and Sonic CD.
I had a Playstation 1, but only really remember playing Gran Turismo on it.
My wife bought me my first Xbox and I bought a PS2 so I could play Grand Theft Auto when it was still only on Playstation. Favorite OG Xbox game was PGR for the game and the On-line racing. Then there was Halo 2, which was awesome on-line. I think I played H2 online every night for a year. Just realized I've been on Xbox Live for 6 years with the same gamer tag.
Xbox 360 exclusively now. Still love driving games, FPS, and RPGs the most, but play a ton of games I don't really like just for the achievements. That will stop soon when I get to 150k and start gaming exclusively for fun again.
This was probably TMI, but I couldn't stop once I got rolling.