I've played games since I was young, before Elementary School. My dad and I would play games on his old Atari til he finally picked up a NES and I've been playing games ever since, not always as hardcore as I have since 2002 but during my middle school days I'd beaten Super Mario Bros. any and every combination of ways you could think of. Playing Kingdom Hearts and Final Fantasy VII & VIII over at friends houses got me back into gaming so of course the PS2 was the choice for me. Later got a Gamecube for the wife so she could play Mario games and have collected past gaming systems and games since. The only Nintendo system I don't own is a SNES but that will change this year. I have every Playstation and an XBox 360 (see no need for the original, never got into it or Sega's machines outside of the Dreamcast.) Now I sit on the verge of becoming a Father at the end of June '08 and I hope I can pass along the passion that I have for gaming into whatever it is my child is into... hopefully gaming.