When you were a child, did you ROCK at video games?

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I will never know if I could have been good at them or not. There were absolutely no such thing as video games when I was a kid. I was well into my teens when I saw the first video games. I thought they were simplistic and boring.

The exact opposite. Since I was crap at video games like doom, captain claw and especially mario it was actually more fun watching other people better than me play. Since I always played on very easy and was very lucky to have finished a level

I don't play video games anymore tho.

only duck-hunt.

Yes.

I kept passing this up because I interpreted "ROCK" to refer to rocking as the stim, and I was like, "I have no idea what I'm doing when I play a video game."

As far as it goes:

As a child, I had an almost feline sense of balance, as in I could leap from a two-inch wide ledge to another two-inch wide ledge, over a 3-4 foot wide two-story drop. I also have really fast reflexes, as in I can catch some things almost as soon as I drop them.

But I sucked at video games. Oh man, I was terrible. I could never seem to do all the things in the right order to keep a game going. Don't get me wrong, I loved games, I just couldn't make them work to my advantage. I ended up mostly playing paper and pencil games that used hex maps and counters. And then instead of playing them I spent most of my time sorting and stacking the counters.

I started playing video games again when I was 25 - I got into the PC gaming, with Doom, X-Wing, TIE Fighter, Descent, Warcraft II, Daggerfall, Diablo, Starcraft, and so on. I love turn-based strategy, real-time strategy, first-person shooters, RPGs, action RPGs. I usually play them at normal difficulty and hardly ever much higher, except as a lark. The exception being games like Diablo, where higher difficulty levels are part of the game's progression. Or hard modes in games like Guild Wars.

What I got out of WoW was hyperfocusing on playing to the point that everything else melted away. I mean, during raids, playing a high-maintenance roll (healer), so that I have no time to actually think and have to simply function on reactions... I do pretty well at that. The harder the boss, the better. Not that I've played WoW since December, but that's what I was doing before.

When I was a young child, all that was available was 'Pong'. When I was about 10, Nintendo starting producing the handheld games. I bought myself a Mario Bros bottle stacking game and I 'm sure I was about the first in my class to get one. There was only one game on it with 2 modes (easy and a bit harder). I remember playing this a lot and got really good at it. I have good reaction speeds. That's the only video game I've ever really played. We have a Wii and I don't play the games on it at all, but use Wii Fit, etc.

In the late 70s, my family got a Coleco Telstar game console. It didn't take cartridges - it just had settings for tennis, hockey, some solitaire game you'd play where you bounce the ball off of three walls and keep it from getting past you.

In the early 80s, a family friend loaned us his Atari 2600, which was a big hit in the house - mostly because he also had a large selection of game cartridges to go with it. After he took it back, we got a Magnavox Odyssey 2. I seem to recall for games we got:

Some kind of space invaders-type game, except the shields were a) indestructible and b) also your extra lives. When you were hit, you'd lose your ship and have this guy on the screen, and you'd have to get under a shield and activate it as another ship to fight off the aliens.

A bowling game. There was a sweet spot where you could guaranteed score a strike every single time, and I recall someone smudged the television screen on that very spot. I think there was also a golf game, but I do not properly recall.

K.C. Munchkin - Like Pac-Man, except the character you controlled was green, and there were only 12 dots, that moved. Also, you could design your own mazes.

Hangman. Just what it says on the tin.

Anyway, after that, we got a Coleco Gemini, which was actually an Atari 2600 clone. I really got into Asteroids, Yar's Revenge, Adventure, Missile Command, Pac-Man (which was a terrible port, but I was obsessed with Pac-Man for a time), some kind of bizarre Kool-Aid game where you were trying to stop these monsters from drinking all the water, Pitfall (hard and frustrating at times), Space Invaders, and I forget what else. I had a Commodore 64 a few years later, but only got a couple of cartridges for it.

If Im aspie then I'd have to say my obsessive hobby is video games. So in other words, Im great at them. I don't like shooting games or sports, but I love RPGs and Im also pretty good at standard action/platformer games like Mario.

Back when I was about 5 years old I used to beat my 20something year old neighbors like it was nothing. In 9th grade I came in 3rd place for a Smash Brothers tournament of approximately 15 students.

I was always pretty good at the classic sidescroller or top-down action/adventure games. Most don't require fast reflexes so much as they require finger finesse and good visual tracking / timing. I was also pretty good at those old fighting games that required crazy button combos. However, I've never been great at PC FPS games that require fast twitch reflexes, at least not when playing against other humans. I find FPS too anxiety provoking. I can play normal action/adventure games in a much more relaxed state = more fun.

I was and still am...mostly (some of those old games are HARD) and people still ask me for help on games =D

Hard to say. Whenever I played video games I was always by myself. Anytime I was with friends they'd hog the controllers.

I more or less sucked at video games. With video games, there were a handful of games I was completely great at, but it wasn't really relevant. I still lose at COD4 when playing with friends, and your ability to get 200 lines in Tetris, beat Jet Set Radio in 2 hours, or get 700 points in Shenmue darts was pretty irrelevant. I only got good at games I got "obsessed" with and played constantly, but most reflex games, pretty bad at, never beat any Mario or Sonic games, never beat an FPS game, and just due to sheer boredom never beat a real RPG, I'd just get frustrated and stop playing.

HOWEVER, I am pretty much the best person I know at racing games. Then again, most of my friends don't like racing games, don't like cars, etc, so again, pointless. I'm good at simulation games for the most part, where I can upgrade my cars, but I'm kinda bad at arcade games (like Project Gotham, I do like playing it, but I'm terrible compared to Forza.) I think it's because when I'm modifying a car, I can play with suspension settings or camber or whatever to offset my driving ability. Also, most of the time in those games, I'd only race for money, I'd find it much more enjoyable doing practice laps on the Nurburgring trying to beat my own lap times (or real life laptimes) than racing simulated people in the game, or Xbox live, screw playing games online with other people.

They were not invented yet ! !

First game I played was pong at 13

I was in the arcade all the time. I played all the classics when they were new. I've seen quite an evolution !

and yep I still rock at video games.... the ones I like at least
..currently playing GT5 btw>wheel is must have!

I was pretty good, but I could have been much better if I had been better equipped to deal with failure and frustration. Oh well.

When I was young my dad bought me a Nintendo. I only had three games: a Duck Hunt/Super Mario Bros cartridge and The Legend of Zelda. I was good at Zelda because I could remember the locations of hidden things. I spent a very very very long time playing Zelda. I liked it a lot. I had trouble in world 8-2 in Super Mario Bros because there was a jump that couldn't be made without running over some gaps, and I didn't know that. I gave up and only found out how years later how to beat that level.

I was given a used Atari, and Atari games were generally simple. I was capable of playing those games.

Several years later I was given a used Super Nintendo, but only had two games, Super Mario World and Super Mario Kart. I was capable of playing them.

I got a Sega Genesis which had two games, Columns and Sonic the Hedgehog. I was capable of playing Columns, but wasn't very good at playing Sonic.

When I was 11 years old the Playstation was introduced. I remember the first time I tried playing a Playstation. I was downstairs in a Montgomery Ward, and I saw one in the "Electric Avenue". I picked up the controller to try to play it, and I had so so so much trouble trying to control it. There were too many buttons and I had no coordination and I was terrible at all of the games. I couldn't properly move around, let alone pick up things.

I've tried playing games on Playstation 2, Playstation 3, X-Box and X-Box 360, and wasn't coordinated enough to control the characters with the controllers.

I've tried playing games on the Nintendo 64 and the Wii. I had trouble with the Nintendo 64 controller too. I couldn't control the Wii with the wheel controller, but with the Wiimote controller I had enough control that I think I could have become decent if I had played with it long enough. I played Mario Kart Wii, and although I kept driving off of cliffs, I thought it was fun. I enjoyed Wii Golf and Wii Bowling, because they didn't involve complex movements.

I was generally at least capable of playing games that involved moving around in two dimensions, but moving around in three dimensions is usually too complicated.

I am very good at Tetris when playing with a keyboard, because it only requires using a few fingers. But otherwise, no, I have never been good at video games.