I was 31 and it changed how I viewed video games. To me, it meant the sky was the limit.

Oh dear god, it was so long ago. I don't remember much about those times, but I do remember my dad cut part of his thumb off while I was on the first snow level... kinda hard to forget something like that.

@Snipzor said:

Oh dear god, it was so long ago. I don't remember much about those times, but I do remember my dad cut part of his thumb off while I was on the first snow level... kinda hard to forget something like that.

Before there were video games, I almost put my dad's eye out with a lego. It popped from my force straight into his eye. Don't get me started on my Lincoln Logs.

Looking at the release date, I must have been eight. I played it for the first time at a kiosk, and was like "OMG what the fuuuuuuuuuuuuck this is amazing holy shit I can't believe I am looking at this let alone playing it oh man oh man".

I really loved that game, but after that there wasn't much I cared for on the N64. I sold it and bought a PS1, which turned out to be my all time favorite game console because it had so many classic JRPGs.

I think 6.  Can't remember to be exact.  I was just a little kid when the N64 came out.

6 or 7? It was still a few years past when it first released, as I got on N64 the Christmas of '99. Had a heck of a lot of fun playing it, took me about 3 years to finally get all 120 stars, and there was one that always alluded me. Not sure if it was a glitch, but apparently the one I was missing all those years was from catching the rabbit in the basement a second time. Except that I could not find him there. Realized I had to start the game over and make sure to catch him when he came up the second time. Finishing that game was a pretty fantastic feeling, one of the first games I ever beat (not counting Pokemon Snap or Yoshi's Story, as those didn't give me as much of a challenge as Super Mario 64.)

@McGhee_the_Insomniac said:

I really loved that game, but after that there wasn't much I cared for on the N64. I sold it and bought a PS1, which turned out to be my all time favorite game console because it had so many classic JRPGs.

I loved that N64. So many great games. I was more of a platform junky and some cool sidescrollers, golf, sports, stuff like that. But the first person shooters were cool as hell. Turok and Turok 2, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, all very cool games.

I finally bought a used PS1 to play Silent Hill. I knew I would love that game. Really wasn't into JRPGs.

I was 20. I'd just moved to Melbourne and my (then) girlfriend bought me the (then) latest Nintendo console, along with a copy of this amazing new Mario game.

First time seeing the game in a Best Buy with those big ass screens really just made my jaw drop. I was about... 8 I believe.

I was 7.

I was 2.

I think I was 7. I don't remember. It wasn't the year it came out, but I got it as a birthday present, however old I was.

I was between 3 and 6 I believe. I never really knew what I was doing but I loved it all the same.

I only ever played the DS version.

I played it when it came out, so that would be 11. Even though I don't remember anything from that time in my life, I do have a very fond emotional connection to the game.

I played it the year it came out, which means I was 14 when I first played it. I remember liking it a lot but preferring the 2d Mario games at the end of the day (an opinion I continue to hold, although the Galaxy games are fantastic).

@Aronman789 said:

I only ever played the DS version.

I thought about adding an other option. But it's still Super Mario 64 even if you played it on the DS or the Wii on your Virtual Console. That's your age.

8 years old. Blew my mind. Put me on the tragic path of being a regular gamer for years.

8 years old. Blew my mind. Put me on the tragic path of being a regular gamer for years.

358. Even back then, that game kicked ass.

I was 10 years old when i played mario 64 the first time. i thought that it was amazing. i didn' get an N64 though i went with the Playstation because of twisted metal and it was 50 dollars cheaper than an n64  I think i made the right choice. 

I dunno, when did that come out? 1996? OK, so 6 or 7.

I was 4 when it came out, but I don't think I actually played it until I was 6 or 7. It was probably one of the first games I actually owned. I really hope there is a more direct sequel eventually.

When I played it I thought that's what games were: Platformers.

I was 7 years old, played it at a friends house!

I never played it until it was known as Super Mario 64 DS. Does that count?

im pretty sure i was 4 or 5.  i dunno thats probably the first video game ive ever seen

@strangeling said:

I never played it until it was known as Super Mario 64 DS. Does that count?

Sure it does. It's all good when it comes to Super Mario 64.

16 or so, I just ran ran around the castle and the first few levels blown away at how open it was.

Never owned an n64 and never played it, sadly.

Pretty sure I was eight years old. Fantastic game. Sadly, I never owned it. :(

@gla55jAw said:

Never owned an n64 and never played it, sadly.

I love the honesty. I'm now waiting for the mother's womb people to show up. Wish me luck.

Probably 4-5.

I was 7 or 8, somewhere around there.

I was 16.  I remember seeing grainy screenshots of it in Nintendo Power when I was 15 and I couldn't comprehend how they could turn a 2D platformer 3D.  Then, one fateful day in the fall of '96, my mom had just come home from taking my 6 year old brother to Toys R Us and told me she saw some kids playing the demo there and she said it looked amazing.  Since I didn't have my license, I made her drive me to the Toys R Us the next day so I could play it.  And when I did, I was floored - a big, 3D digital playground to run around in!  The demo reset itself every 2 minutes, so I never actually made it into the castle (I was all proud of myself when I found a "secret door" in the moat).  We got the N64 that Christmas.  It was the last classic system in my opinion.  Once Sony entered the picture, things changed (not for the bad, it was just a different playing field after that).

13 years old but I played it on the DS.

I haven't played a Mario game since Super Mario Land.

6 or 7...can't remember.

I was 6 and I couldn't believe what I was seeing.

It is the first non-educational game that I remember playing. I played it in a store on launch day. I didn't actually get an N64 till 2001. SM64 remains my favorite game of all time.

Never played it.

I was 12 years young.  I played and loved every minute of it, then about a month later my house got robbed and that was one of the things stolen womp womp.  They didn't touch my SNES but did steal my copy of Maximum Carnage for some reason.  Maybe bc it was a red cartridge?  Oh well...

@Claude said:

I was 31 and it changed how I viewed video games. To me, it meant the sky was the limit.

I was 25 and it made me think that Nintendo + Silicon Graphics = a whole lot of hype and muddy textures.

@SeriouslyNow said:

@Claude said:

I was 31 and it changed how I viewed video games. To me, it meant the sky was the limit.

I was 25 and it made me think that Nintendo + Silicon Graphics = a whole lot of hype and muddy textures.

You must have been a PC gamer. I though Turok was cool as hell on the N64, but looking back it was a foggy as hell adventure.

About 12 or 13.