Let's see... In the mid 70s there was Pong, and my grandfather had a system, can't remember what it was, but probably around 78/79 it was new. Also in the late 70's I was playing (and writing) BASIC games on TRS80's, terminals, and a Wang (it had an ABCD keyboard, not QWERTY). That spilled over a little bit through the early 80s, remember playing a maze game and a nuclear reactor simulator on an Apple. Started up again on an early Compaq (?) with a game called Starflight, this would be about '86. There was also another cartridge based computer in the house, I did some BASIC programming off it, but that had Hitchhiker's Guide and Zork (?), text based games, and a real early version of Ultima, no later than III. Mid 90s - Starflight 2, Nocturnal (PC) Yadda yadda yadda Sorry, skip some stuff. I bought a Wii, my first console, in January '12 primarily to get my Alzheimer's afflicted father-in-law, who was living with us at the time, more active. He couldn't get the controller. So I bought an Xbox with a Kinect a couple months later thinking I could get him doing that. No luck. But........ I picked up a copy of Skyrim for myself at night. That ruined me. Tl; dr - I'm too -blam!-ing old, but I don't know how long I've been a"gamer"