How old were you when you first heard 'Nintendo?'

[wraggster]

via dsfanboy

Oh, we're not asking. This time, Miyamoto is. It seems the master himself is looking for more stories of happy gamers to add to his collection. At Yahoo! Answers, he's asked, "How old were you when you first heard the term, 'Nintendo,' and what does the name mean to you now?" With hundreds of answers and counting, it's likely he'll end up with more nostalgia than you could shake a mushroom at.

Since many of us started with Nintendo, back in a time when everyone was a Nintendo fan and no one was a fan of anything else, we've already hashed over a lot of the 'first encounter' memories. But the second prong of the question is intriguing. What does Nintendo mean to us now? There are a lot of possible answers, but most of them boil down to one thing: if you're here at DS Fanboy, then 'Nintendo' probably means fun. Through the ups and downs, for us, Nintendo always means a good time.

[toymin80r]

i was like 3 when i got mine, but i didn't know that it was the name of a company. It made me start calling all of the consoles nintendo.

[kcajblue]

i was around 4-5.
it was the first console i got.

[redsyrup]

seven or eight, when I was a boy Nintendo was like a gift from God and Super Mario Bros was Jesus.