The scary thing about this article is how quickly ten years can pass—especially if you are in a video game world for many of those ten years.
ps: no thanks to trading names :)
My wife and I got very lucky on this front, but nobody in their right mind should ever plan to start anywhere near this age. And the worst part is that we both turned out to love having children which is kind of ironic because neither of us are especially fond of kids, at least other peoples' kids I guess. We'd probably have 5+ if we'd started earlier, but the chance of that happening now are near zero. I regret almost nothing in my life, except for not having children earlier, and the only reason that didn't happen is because I wasn't really aware that sometime in your mid 20s we all apparently just step into a time machine.
A story I've told too many times at work: I was born in 1991. The first game console I owned was an NES which we got one year, for Christmas, new in box.[0]
I can't imagine I was any younger than 5 or 6, first off because I remember the Christmas and second off because I don't think my parents would have bought a game console for me as a toddler. So that means they'd have bought it in 96 or 97.
But the N64 released in '96! So we were two console generations ahead of the NES by that year. So when I tell this story to co-workers, I always end: "where did they find it??
Anyway, the 360 was also a sort of signpost in my gaming career. I don't think it was the first console I self-purchased, but it was kinda the first "grown up" console, I guess. Many happy evenings spent during high school with friends on XBL.
tl;dr - thanks, I hate your fun fact
[0]: From some quick research it appears to have been the "NES Challenge Set," and I saw reports of people buying them as late as 1997, so maybe I'm not as unique as I thought.