Bill Gates was born in Seattle, Washington, on October 28 1955. His father is William H. Gates Sr (Born 1925, currently 93 years old) is a retired lawyer. His Mother was Mary Maxwell Gates (1929-1994). He had 2 siblings, one older sister Kristianne and another younger sister Libby. He grew up in a middle-upper class family. The Gates family was tightly knit and the children were always encouraged to be competitive and strive for excellence. Young Bill was always competitive as he would organize family games at there summer home in Puget Sound. He excelled at board games such as Risk and Monopoly. Around age 10 and 11 he became an outstanding reader often times reading reference books such as the encyclopedia. He was so focused in his studies that his parents became concerned with his behavior and although he was doing well in school, they were worried about him becoming a loner. At age 13 his parents enrolled him in Seattle exclusive Preparatory Lakeside school. He blossomed in nearly all subjects, especially Math, Science and English. While at Lakeside, the school adopted a system of letting there student work with a teletype terminal (computer). Bill became very intrigued by the capacities this terminal and would spend much of his free time with it. He created a Tic-Tac-Toe game written in BASIC computer language, enabling users to play versus the computer. He later graduated from Lakeside in 1973 and scoring 1590/1600 on the college SAT test which was a very impressive feat.