I remember my cousins had a C64: I remember it well because they kept on reminding me how much better it was than my computer. Since my computer was a Dragon 32 it was, well, rather crap at games, to be honest. But it was still my first gaming machine!
I got out of games in 1986 because I was at college and discovered the internet. Which also managed to supplant other things I should have really been doing, like my coursework and stuff. Since then my gaming has gone through peaks and troughs, largely dictated by whether I could afford a gaming PC at the time. Mortgages generally meant that, no, I couldn't, but happily I've since jettisoned that particular burden. Never had kids, which makes me feel a bit broody, but y'know, I'm bad enough at looking after myself. And kids would've just got in the way of gaming and probably used up my entire budget for unnecessary footwear that I need to have.
