How old were you when you played your first video game and what game was it?

I don't remember how old I was, but the first game I played was Pac-Man on an Atari 6400. That is still one of my favorite games, although I have to admit that I really like the newer graphics a lot more. My parents still have that old game system and all of the games we had to go along with it.

Well my first memory was when I was 3 , playing DOOM. This game is very special to me as it was the start of PC gaming for me.

The first game, if my memory serves me right, was on a SINCLAIR ZX computer which was made in the UK, almost pre-dating the first IBM PC computer. Those days, everything was in monochrome (amber/black) and low resolution, programs fed into the com via cables hooked into a tape recorder. Games were plain and simple (Pong and Pac-man). Much later, I got a Nintendo console which played the first generation Mario games straight from a cartridge. What a great step forward that was! Then IBM launched their colour monitors and ECG cards along with the first floppy drives (huge plyable black diskettes!), 64k ROM, introducing the first hard disk drives (100MB?). Nobody really imagined why you need such a huge storage capacity because games and programs were tiny, about 100-250k or less. Everything picked up from than: graphic cards, accelerators, memory capacity, and so on and so forth. Today, customers are unhappy if the graphics are not HD in real-time motion, almost 3-D, surroud sound, etc. What will the next generation of gadgets bring us?