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[Dragoonlordz]

I'll list how I started and how got to stage at now in list format. Currently I am 31 years of age.

First ever computer I had was~

Atari 800XL

Then over time as grew up the computers/consoles I bought or got bought went from (chronologically of ownership)~

Atari ST
Atari XE
Amstrad 464 CPC
Commodore 64
NES
ZX Spectrum 16K/48K
Master System
MegaDrive aka Genesis
Gameboy
Atari Lynx
Snes aka Super Famicom
Sega Gamegear
Sega 32X followed by MegaCD
Panasonic 3DO
Atari Jaguar
Nintendo64

From this point on worth mentioning that I had a PC at same time to play games as the following consoles~

Playstation
Playstation2
Xbox360
Playstation3

And now I tend to only play on PC. Which brings me up to date as far as my history goes.

I'm curious what other people started on and how they went through systems up to today though I'm guessing most of BSN given age poll did while ago would give the impression they were not around prior to most of system's in my list. But there are exceptions as seen in my poll that there are many older people than myself.

Reason for links leading to commercials of the systems instead of pictures is simply they are more entertaining.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 26 août 2011 - 01:37 .

[KenKenpachi]

Hmm... figure 19 years ago, an Atari of some sort was first, its what my stepdad owned. Eventually I got a Sega Genesis, then a N64.

Around there I got a PC with Windos 95. Played some starwars and RTS games on it mainly., Then a PS 1 and a Ps-2. Some time around then I got a replacement PC, then a newer one. Mainly for RTS gaming. this was in the Early 2000's.. Then I got a Gamecube for my wife mainly, though she ignored it mainly and I played it, plus the Original X-box. Which I then got the X-box 360, then the Slim version of it. Fallowed up with a new PC, though it has an old gfx card in it. Only play my old Windows 2000 games on it.

Oh yeah and around the X-box time I got an SNES. Got rid of it not long ago. Also I rarely had more than one system at a time. I tend to stick to one system for the most part. And PC gaming has pretty much killed over for me.

[Dragoonlordz]

KenKenpachi wrote...

Hmm... figure 19 years ago, an Atari of some sort was first, its what my stepdad owned. Eventually I got a Sega Genesis, then a N64.

Around there I got a PC with Windos 95. Played some starwars and RTS games on it mainly., Then a PS 1 and a Ps-2. Some time around then I got a replacement PC, then a newer one. Mainly for RTS gaming. this was in the Early 2000's.. Then I got a Gamecube for my wife mainly, though she ignored it mainly and I played it, plus the Original X-box. Which I then got the X-box 360, then the Slim version of it. Fallowed up with a new PC, though it has an old gfx card in it. Only play my old Windows 2000 games on it.

Oh yeah and around the X-box time I got an SNES. Got rid of it not long ago. Also I rarely had more than one system at a time. I tend to stick to one system for the most part. And PC gaming has pretty much killed over for me.

Interesting that you went from Atari>Sega>Nintendo>Sony a couple of times then back to Nintendo (for wife) after which continued switching brands this time to Microsoft. Seems like you either wanted to give them all a chance or maybe was it just specific games that push you for one system or the other. In other words it seems you did a lot of switching between brands.

Did you skip the 8bit generation systems and handhelds like have you not owned or currently own a single handheld from GB, GBC, GBA, GG, Lynx or current generations of PSP, DS and 3DS style systems.

Personally I skipped the Gamecube myself it never appealed to me as with the Sega Saturn. Back around that time I think I was on PSX, 3DO and Jaguar systems. Titles like Need for Speed original on 3DO sticks in my mind from those days as well as Alien vs Predator on the Jaguar. As for PSX owned so many titles because had such variety it's hard to thin back over what the early titles I bought for it were.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 26 août 2011 - 01:52 .

[MrFob]

I used to play on some atari console at my friends place, never had a console myself.
First computer my family got was supposed to be a 486 33MHz with 8 MB ram and a 60MB hard drive with MSDOS and Windows 3.11. Took me about 6 months to figure out our local computer salesman had screwed us over and actually built a 386 processor into it .
Anyway, that is what I used to play games like Sim City 2000 and some old Star Trek adventures like ST: 25th Anniversary and Judgment Rites as well as TNG: A Final Unity later on (still one of my favorites).
From there I went on through models, getting a Pentium MMX, later a Pentium 2, later a voodoo graphics card for Unreal and so on and so on up to the AMD Phenom X2, I got at the moment.
So there you go, PC gamer all the way .

[Dragoonlordz]

lol the 386 I remember those well my brother had one too. Fond memories of Windows 3.11 especially BattleChess used to play in school on old RM Nimbus systems. Used to go sneaking into IT room at lunchtime go into root and locate where we had hidden the game since Maths teacher hated how we always played it instead of working. He wasn't very computer smart even though was head of IT, he could never figure out how we accessed the root or where we had stashed the game itself in the directory structure.

But because he was head of IT and therefore our antics annoyed him he refused to let me take the IT course at school. There was obviously more to it like making fun of him during classes with such things as him calling me upto front of class to have a go at me for only using one side of paper in my maths book all the time, of which told him it was against my religion to use both sides. The class laughing at him might have also been the cause of why never let my take the IT class in the end. Either way I ended up taking Advanced IT at college just to spite him and passed it even had to teach him college computer systems when he brought the school children from my old school to show them what courses his IT class could get them in college. He was surprised to see me to say the least..

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 26 août 2011 - 02:03 .

[MrFob]

Yep, loved it. Thinking back on configuring "Autoexec.bat" and "Config.sys" to free up enough EMS and XMS memory to run games still almost brings nostalgic tears to my eyes. It is incredible how the human mind can just blank out hours of frustration and cursing and make the experience into a fond memory.

EDIT: Oh yeah, math teachers! I remember, we removed the trackball from our mouse in school and then complained to our teacher that the cursor wouldn't move. He tried it and had no idea what was going on. When he was gone, we returned the trackball and dished him some story of how we repaired it. That actually got us good mark in math.

EDIT2: sorry for getting off topic on the first page. :innocent:

Modifié par MrFob, 26 août 2011 - 02:05 .

[Tommy6860]

I played exclusively TP D&D games for most of the mid 70s to early 80s. I had an Odyssey and my older brother had a Intellivision system, but we rarely touched them. MY first true electronic gaming system was the Apple II and my first game was Ultima I. I played a great deal of D&D on the mainframe messaging system where I worked from the late 70s until about 1983, then I was just totally into PC gaming after that

First console I really played alot (probably the same for most of the same for that period):
NES

Then off and on:

SNES
PS1
N64
PS2
Xbox
Xbox360 (played this the most of any console)

But in all of those consoles, I played various PC setups the most. By the late 80s, it was all x86 Windows based system until now. I have bought (or built) 13 PCs since the early 80s

[Dragoonlordz]

@Tommy

The original Mario on Nes still brings back fond memories playing it in the youth club back then between skatboarding and football. Expensive place to hang out though, we had to purchase cans of drink from the counter in the youth club and cost like a weeks pocket money back then.

If wasnt for local chippy right out back giving away free 'batterbits' probably would have starved since had no money left after buying drink and only reason was in youth club at nights was because parents ditching us for darts night which didn't get back till 2am when I was like around 10 or 11. They then started to charge a fee due to how popular it got of kids asking for them after we started the craze locally. So that put end to that and ended up having babysitter instead of youth club, used to play Amstrad games with him or her at time and would bet golf balls to whoever won the amstrad game matches.

Your older than me Tommy so not surprising your systems used are ones that pretty much predate the ones I owned. It was so competitive back then PC wise early on with friends, it would always be my P90 is faster than your P100 or my SiS card out powers yours, every other week having to compete with benchmarks with friends everytime bought a single upgrade. Got worse when I switched to AMD early on and the most competitive friend stuck with Pentiums. Then GFX card war started comparing much bigger with things like my favorite being Matrox series and his SiS series.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 26 août 2011 - 02:28 .

[Zanallen]

27 now. I started at five with the NES. Then SNES - Gameboy - N64 - GBA - PSOne - GameCube - Virtualboy - PS2 -Xbox - 360 - DS - Wii - PS3. Throw in a smattering of PC games.

Timeline might be a little off.

Modifié par Zanallen, 26 août 2011 - 02:22 .

[Dragoonlordz]

@Greengoran

I have no idea what the Colecovision was like, never saw one for sale anywhere growing up. I'm surprisedyou skipped the original Gameboy though ad went straight to Colour and then Advanced.

@Greengoran, KenKenPachi and Zanallen

Three people in here so far who had the Gamecube, I don't know why exactly it never jumped out at me to purchase but why did other people buy it like was there something great about it or a title or series of games that made it stand out from the crowd compared to the competition of the time for you?

@Zanallen

lol Virtualboy? Thats quite rare system if I recall I never knew single person who had one of those back then and I believe they fetch good price these days.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 26 août 2011 - 02:24 .

[Zanallen]

Ganecube - It had Smash Bros. And Tales of Symphonia. Animal Crossing, while not what I would call fun, is an interesting waste of time.

Virtualboy - I received it for Christmas. I think I only ever had three games for it and never the one that I really wanted, the robot boxing one.

Modifié par Zanallen, 26 août 2011 - 02:26 .

[Tommy6860]

Dragoonlordz wrote...

@Tommy

The original Mario on Nes still brings back fond memories playing it in the youth club back then between skatboarding and football. Expensive place to hang out though, we had to puchase cans of drink from the counter in the youth club and cost like a weeks pocket money back then.

Your older than me Tommy so not surprising your systems used are ones that pretty much predate the ones I owned. It was so competitive back then PC wise early on with friends, it would always be my P90 is faster than your P100 or my SiS card out powers yours, every other week having to compete with benchmarks with friends everytime bought a single upgrade. Got worse when I switched to AMD early on and the most competitive friend stuck with Pentiums. Then GFX card war started comparing much bigger with things like my favorite being Matrox series and his SiS series.

I know what you mean by competing as well, but that wore on me by the early 90s. I remember when the first near affordable hard drives first came out in the late 80s. A 20MB drive cost about $800, YIKES! In the early 80s you could get them but they were way out of reach I am serious, every 1MB you wanted on an HDD in 1981 would cost about $5K.

And yes, the NES and I have fond memories as I liked the RPGs on it, I played a few Ultimas on that system and bypassed the Pc versions. I don't know if you remember or not, but there was a minor console sales crash in the late seventies where a few makes went under. The bigest one was in 1983 where they went under en masse and that's when the PC market really took off for gaming, made me happy though .

[Dragoonlordz]

Zanallen wrote...

Ganecube - It had Smash Bros. And Tales of Symphonia. Animal Crossing, while not what I would call fun, is an interesting waste of time.

Virtualboy - I received it for Christmas. I think I only ever had three games for it and never the one that I really wanted, the robot boxing one.

Virtualboy was the red lines visually inside headset wasn't it? Were they even safe to use.. Always worried me would damage retinas/perception or something which is one of major reasons never invested in one. But dang the adverts were cool for them.

[Zanallen]

Dragoonlordz wrote...

Virtualboy was the red lines visually inside headset wasn't it? Were they even safe to use.. Always worried me would damage retinas/perception or something which is one of major reasons never invested in one. But dang the adverts were cool for them.

Yeah, that was it. You weren't supposed to play it for long periods of time. Eye strain and all that. It was interesting, but not really all that cool. Every game was red outlines against a black background.

[Dragoonlordz]

Tommy6860 wrote...

I know what you mean by competing as well, but that wore on me by the early 90s. I remember when the first near affordable hard drives first came out in the late 80s. A 20MB drive cost about $800, YIKES! In the early 80s you could get them but they were way out of reach I am serious, every 1MB you wanted on an HDD in 1981 would cost about $5K.

And yes, the NES and I have fond memories as I liked the RPGs on it, I played a few Ultimas on that system and bypassed the Pc versions. I don't know if you remember or not, but there was a minor console sales crash in the late seventies where a few makes went under. The bigest one was in 1983 where they went under en masse and that's when the PC market really took off for gaming, made me happy though .

First HD I owned for PC as opposed to say Amstrad, Commodore, Atari and Sinclair systems but actually PC one was a 40MB variety. I have to admit I missed the sales crash in the 70s due to being born in 1980. Though was the Thatcher years so was alternative financial crash at time not specific to computing. Some of my fondest memories though are of some weekends as child parents taking me to closest major town and would go down back alleys find out of the way computer game shops since was no high street game shops at time, given was niche'esque industry the video games where I was atleast.

Paying £1.50 or £2 for cassette games for example the Atari system. Rushing home with glee to wait the 20 minutes of loading time per play. With that beloved screeching then humming then screeching sound with strange lined visuals on black and white screen loading up the games. Which over time switched to my favorite wonderful green screened Amstrad monitor yet keeping the 20 minute load times for the cassettes. :3

Titles like Spy vs Spy and Time and Magik the text based adventure game plus many more such as Elite on the Amstrad and Chronos (I think was called) which was simular to Elite but ground based... Good times. People moan about cost of games now but they were more expensive back then in a lot of cases since people were not so well off and prices were still very high.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 26 août 2011 - 02:56 .

[Dragoonlordz]

@Zanallen

I remember the adverts of the time where went on about the future of gaming amazing 3D and such.

This one is the one I remember watching while growing up.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 26 août 2011 - 02:41 .

[Dragoonlordz]

@Greengoran

I remember Q*bert, do you remember titles like Dizzy and Boulderdash the original they were great fun back then. Another one I remember from back then wonder if you ever played or heard of it. Wont say name since might land me in trouble but heres link. My friend sold me the Gamegear in school, as for Gameboy original version I bought purely for the original Zelda (still my favorite Zelda of all time) plus Tetris.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 26 août 2011 - 05:00 .

[frustratemyself]

I started on console with a Sega Master System 2 when I was about 8 or 9. From then went:

SNES - some great loves here - Lufia, Teranigma
N64
PC
Wii
Xbox 360 - only got this 2 months ago, still all new & shiny

I also played a bit on my brothers NES (Spy vs Spy, Arch Rivals). He seemed to take a perverse joy in kicking my ass at games I never got to play.

Never got into handhelds.

[Dragoonlordz]

frustratemyself wrote...

I started on console with a Sega Master System 2 when I was about 8 or 9. From then went:

SNES - some great loves here - Lufia, Teranigma
N64
PC
Wii
Xbox 360 - only got this 2 months ago, still all new & shiny

You missed out on Genesis then? It's a great shame because it had some truly magnificant titles like Shining Force, Phantasy Star series and Buck Rogers Countdown to Doomsday. I remember Alien3 was huge fun back then but beleive was also on Snes. Another World was something truly amazing imho but I think was on more than one system so might have played it on Snes even if you never had the Genesis or as known over here the MegaDrive.

Castle of Illusion was one that is shame you missed out on aswell as Faery Tail Adventure was great and was like Dungeons and Dragons. Snes never had Ecco the Dolphin either did it? But nevermind the Snes had some truly amazing games too some of my fondest memories was first time played Mystic Quest and Secret of Mana even today is one of my all time favorite titles ever. Plus titles like ChronoTrigger and more such as one of my all time favorite series which is Breath of Fire.

He seemed to take a perverse joy in kicking my ass at games I never got to play.

lol As is always the way, no point challenging a family member to something you know will lose at.


@Tommy

Do you remember this title? One of the most memorable titles I played back then.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 26 août 2011 - 05:01 .

[Ghost Lightning]

It all started on the SNES with Ultimate MK 3. From there it was the N64, PS1, and Dreamcast. Then PS2, GCN, and Xbox. And now the current gen consoles. But it really took off with the N64. Mario and Mariokart, Diddy Kong racing, Super Smash Bros. Also Spyro the Dragon on PS1 as well as Crash Bandicoot and of course, Gran Turismo. But when I really got into it was with Halo 2 on the Xbox. My brothers and I played so much Halo 2 it was inhumane to treat a game disc like that. We loved it so much in fact that the only reason we bought a 360 was for Halo 3 (Of course now I see that there's much more than that on the 360). KoTOR is the game that got me into RPG's, unless you count Croc on PS1 as an RPG.

I also played hundreds of hours of GTA: San Andreas, which is still one of my favorite games....darn, it's hard to list everything....I won't try

Modifié par Ghost Lightning, 26 août 2011 - 03:27 .

[Dragoonlordz]

@Ghost

We used to play MK in school we convinced a teacher as part of English class to let us write up on the aspect of gaming and to be honest it was just an excuse to play MK during class on MegaDrive. He fell for it and we did end up playing games for quite few lessons till he caught on and stopped it. Surfice to say we never wrote a single word about gaming or MK in class.

I remember Crash Bandicoot quite well though never got into Spyro myself. I don't think I ever completed CB though which is shame. I have to admit I have never heard of Croc that one must have slipped under the radar for me.

Modifié par Dragoonlordz, 26 août 2011 - 03:41 .

[bussinrounds]

Started with Intellivision in 82, also played Atari 2600, C64 and IBM PC DOS games at friends houses.

Then Nes
Sega Master System
Sega Genesis
PS1
PS2
PS3
Finally got my own PC to play games on. Whoooo !! (about time)