I have been gaming for as long as I can remember.  I started out on the TI-99/4A which was released in June of 1981 with a retail price tag of $525 without a monitor.  The games were more learning games than anything, like number munchers, hangman, etc. The system itself had a 3MHz processor with 16K RAM and an eye-popping 16 color graphics card.  One of the accessories for it was a 300 baud modem, though I never had one.  That's kind of exciting to think about though that it even had a modem in 1981.  I can only imagine that if it had been included as part of the standard system what it might have lead to.

In 1985 Nintendo released its first system the NES and I definitely logged a lot of hours on this gaming system.  I know I played over 100 games on it and still have my original system today.  It takes a bit of cleaning to get going, but it's worth it once a year to break it out and remember what gaming was like back when it first started becoming popular.

I of course picked up all the Nintendo systems since then including the SNES, Gameboy, N64, Gamecube, and Wii.  I don't play console games as much as I used to as the games just aren't as exciting as computer games have been.  Though with the addition of my PS3 and online game play, consoles are definitely becoming more interesting again. 

My name BioHazardous I created back in 1993 for online chatting on Prodigy.  I stuck with it and used it for ANSI BBS gaming, DOOM, etc.  Doom was the first computer game that wasn't turn based I played over a modem.  I first used it on a 9600 baud modem and I remember it being very exciting, the idea that you could connect with a friend to play video games over the telephone lines.  I stuck with it and continued playing games like DOOM, Quake, Unreal, WarCraft, StarCraft, TFC, Ultima Online, Age of Empires, Shadowbane, World of WarCraft, Darkfall, Counterstrike, etc.