My Dad was in IT back in the seventies so when in the early eighties, aged seven or eight, i said i wanted a Computer (ie a spectrum 48k) what i got was a PC. Huge brown/beige box, Green Screen, massive floppy disks. And precisely two games available to me. Zork 1 and a Star Trek simulator. Suffice to say i was not overjoyed and rarely switched it on.
I had better luck in the second half of that decade with the advent of the 286 rocking a 20Mhz processor, followed by a 386. Good times.
I just about remember my dad getting a Binatone device that came with simple games like pong. Would have been in the late 60's.
Wasn't until the Atari 2600 came out in the late 70's that I got properly involved in computer games. That thing cost me nearly a month's wages back then. And although I'm not a big gamer I have always been playing something or other over the years.
My main game types lately are either racing "sims" and first person shooters.