I was pretty passive about video games until about 89. Sometime around my 11th birthday, Strider came out on the NES. That was most likely the first game I got totally hooked on and lead to long hours of looking for secrets and perfecting double jumps. Video games had been around me much longer than that and is been playing games as far back as '82-'83 maybe? Kings Quest 3 and Starflight were my first forays into PC gaming. Though I often had limited time on my Dad's work PC, so I stuck to consoles. The early '90s were definitely the pinnacle of my gaming years. I backed off for a while until MGS and FFVII came out for the PSX and played that system off and on for a while. I got back into gaming with the PS2 and my computer in the late '90s and early 2000s. I ran off and joined the army around then and didn't have as much time to game for a while, but ended up getting hooked on WoW. That put a damper on the console again until I got a PS3 in 2008. After that I went back and forth, occasionally getting hooked on a game for a few weeks or a month. It stayed that way until late last year when I got a PS4. Now I rarely get on WoW anymore, but I did level up one of my characters and got a chance to see the new content. I've been rolling from one obsession to the next, while filling the gaps with Destiny. I still keep my SNES emulator handy though... The nostalgia is strong there.