ZX81
arcades (while at university)
long gap (occasional use of Commodore 64, arcade visit, work pc during lunch break, etc)
playstation (when the local arcades abandoned videogames to be fruit machine only)
Saturn
Dreamcast
Playstation 2
XBox
Gamecube with gameboy player
X360
Wii
Playstation 3
How did your gaming develop?
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Posté 28 août 2011 - 11:54
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Impressive collection of machines you have been through Dragoonlordz.
My first gaming rig was a Commodore Vic 20:
5k RAM, 1Mhz 6502 CPU - not exactly state of the art at the time, but it did run games. One of my first games for that thing was Garden Wars:
(Warning turn down your volume, the sound is horrible)
http://video.google....93033529075484#
Most of my games for the VIC20 was actually text adventures. A few Scott Adams adventures were released on cartridges. I learned to appreciate this special genre at a very young age.
Next on my list was the C64. Back then pirating was generally accepted, especially because very few games were available in shops There were thousands of titles available for this box. I played everything from platformers to strategy games on the C64. The one unique genre I encountered was the RPGs. First "Temple of Apshai", which I later learned was a rogue-clone. Then titles like Bard's Tale, Wastelands and of course some of the AD&D gold box games.
The C64 was also my first real experience in programming. Back then if you wanted something done, you mostly had to do it yourself. Considering the shabbyness of the built-in BASIC interpreter, most people serious about coding quickly learned assembly language.
When I got old enough to buy my own computers, I got myself an Amiga 500.
This was a beast of a machine compared to its 8-bit counterparts. Integrated graphics chip, a real OS, half a meg of ram, 7Khz 68000 Motorola processor. Some of the features of the Amiga I still miss today on modern machines.
The games looked like something out of the future, and programming it using a real C compiler was a breeze compared to the stone-age assemblers of the C64. I soon upgraded it with 2 Mb RAM and a 40 Mb harddrive. A few years laters it had bits of wire sticking out everywhere.
Some of the classics I played on the Amiga:
Civilization
Railroad Tycoon
Ultima V
Pinball Fantasies
Wing Commander
Dune II
I got introduced to PC gaming by some of my friends. The PCs at the time were under-achievers compared to the Amiga. The graphics were horrible and MS-DOS was a monstrosity 10 years behind AmigaOS, but admittedly some very good games were released for the PC. At about 1998 no more games were released for the Amiga so I had to cave in and buy my first PC - A second hand 486.
The big thing at the time was the release of CD-ROM as a media and the gaming industry tried to reinvent games as "multimedia". These were the first feeble attempts at cinematic gaming, lots of innovation was attempted but most turned out sour. It was an important time for game development though. The technical limitations of old had almost been completely lifted and game designers experimented in a wild and disorderly fashion.
Some of the great early PC titles I remember:
UFO: Enemy unknown
Populous
Return to Zork
Master of Magic
Alone in the Dark
Doom
Panzer General
Grim Fandango
Day of the Tentacle
My first gaming rig was a Commodore Vic 20:
5k RAM, 1Mhz 6502 CPU - not exactly state of the art at the time, but it did run games. One of my first games for that thing was Garden Wars:
(Warning turn down your volume, the sound is horrible)
http://video.google....93033529075484#
Most of my games for the VIC20 was actually text adventures. A few Scott Adams adventures were released on cartridges. I learned to appreciate this special genre at a very young age.
Next on my list was the C64. Back then pirating was generally accepted, especially because very few games were available in shops There were thousands of titles available for this box. I played everything from platformers to strategy games on the C64. The one unique genre I encountered was the RPGs. First "Temple of Apshai", which I later learned was a rogue-clone. Then titles like Bard's Tale, Wastelands and of course some of the AD&D gold box games.
The C64 was also my first real experience in programming. Back then if you wanted something done, you mostly had to do it yourself. Considering the shabbyness of the built-in BASIC interpreter, most people serious about coding quickly learned assembly language.
When I got old enough to buy my own computers, I got myself an Amiga 500.
This was a beast of a machine compared to its 8-bit counterparts. Integrated graphics chip, a real OS, half a meg of ram, 7Khz 68000 Motorola processor. Some of the features of the Amiga I still miss today on modern machines.
The games looked like something out of the future, and programming it using a real C compiler was a breeze compared to the stone-age assemblers of the C64. I soon upgraded it with 2 Mb RAM and a 40 Mb harddrive. A few years laters it had bits of wire sticking out everywhere.
Some of the classics I played on the Amiga:
Civilization
Railroad Tycoon
Ultima V
Pinball Fantasies
Wing Commander
Dune II
I got introduced to PC gaming by some of my friends. The PCs at the time were under-achievers compared to the Amiga. The graphics were horrible and MS-DOS was a monstrosity 10 years behind AmigaOS, but admittedly some very good games were released for the PC. At about 1998 no more games were released for the Amiga so I had to cave in and buy my first PC - A second hand 486.
The big thing at the time was the release of CD-ROM as a media and the gaming industry tried to reinvent games as "multimedia". These were the first feeble attempts at cinematic gaming, lots of innovation was attempted but most turned out sour. It was an important time for game development though. The technical limitations of old had almost been completely lifted and game designers experimented in a wild and disorderly fashion.
Some of the great early PC titles I remember:
UFO: Enemy unknown
Populous
Return to Zork
Master of Magic
Alone in the Dark
Doom
Panzer General
Grim Fandango
Day of the Tentacle
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Posté 28 août 2011 - 02:54
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Well, I started with the Atari a long, long time ago. I played and played that console...until my folks felt that it was antiquated and threw it in the trash (unbeknownst to me). I was really young back then, but I remember asking why they threw out something that still worked.
After that, we eventually got an NES. I remember renting games at the local A1 video store every weekend and playing Blue Marlin, Gilligan's Island...all sorts of games (though I was rather partial to Blue Marlin). For Christmas that year, I got Life Force and I played it until the NES broke. The music still worked, but the screen was extremely distorted. That didn't matter much to me, as I had played the game so much that I had memorized the maps and could still get through 2-3 levels without having to actually see much changing on the screen. However, my parents decided it was trash and threw that one out too. At that point however, I was old enough to be possessive of it and I dragged it back out of the trash, declaring that I would fix it someday... I stored it for the time being under my bed and that's where it stayed for many, many years.
After the NES, I got a Sega Genesis. I ended up collecting the Sonic, Ecco, and Earthworm Jim games and played them nonstop. On the side, I managed to get a SNES, but unfortunately due to my location I missed out on many of the classic RPGs of the era. All I really had to chose from was the selection at the local Sears lol...
I then moved on to the N64, paying for it with my allowance, as I had with my Genesis, starting out with Goldeneye. Those were the good old days. I bought extra controllers so that I could play multi-player with my friends and family and spent who knows how many hours on Jet Force Gemini and Zelda.
After my N64 experience, I was still relatively loyal to Nintendo. I wanted so badly to buy a Dreamcast but I had heard that it might not survive the console wars, so I waited it out and bought a gamecube next. I wasn't thrilled with the looks (I waited until it came in black at least), but it did have Eternal Darkness on it and a promise that the Star Fox games would return to it. Having Rogue Squadron back again too was something I was thrilled to have. The Dreamcast died out so I knew I had at least made the right decision there.
I also had my eye however on the PS2. My cousins had a PSx but all I had ever seen them play on it was Tony Hawk games and GTA games....neither of which impressed me (I so wish I had exposure earlier to the other games the PSx had to offer). However, the PS2 had caught my eye and I eventually went ahead and bought it when Kingdom Hearts came out. I played that game for hours upon hours...trying to get all the secrets and items unlocked in the game. By that time, I was also looking back on the Sony exclusives I had missed out on and began collecting PSx games and older PS2 games where I could. I still have a significant backlog to go through there. The PS2 probably became the greatest system I own...with 175 games for it alone in my collection. I definitely made the right decision that time and I still play my PS2 today.
During this time, the xbox had come out. Now, I NEVER buy consoles on release day and this one was no different. I knew if there were to be any problems, it would come out in the first 6 months, and true enough the RROD happened. I waited an excruitatingly long time for Microsoft to fix those problems and stock the stores with xboxs that were not defective before I would even consider the system. It did have several games I was highly interested in, and eventually I bought the console. It was a good buy. I don't have as many games as I do for my PS2 on the xbox, but considering things, it was still a good console to have.
At about this time, I decided that with ebay, I could go back and buy any of the Dreamcast games that I wanted to play back in the old days...and finding a dreamcast that wasn't used and disgusting looking from abuse would be relatively easy on ebay as well. I ended up as a junior in college finally buying that dreamcast that I always wanted. I got Ecco and Shenmue to start me off on the dreamcast and played to my heart's content. It was like having nostalgia...without the experience you base nostalgia off of. At this time, I also pulled out my old NES and decided to have a friend of mine, who worked in a repairs/pawn shop, look at it to see if it was fixable. He had claimed that he had fixed others before and had some spare replacement parts lieing around so I figured, it couldn't hurt! Well, he took it for 3 weeks before I ever saw it again. He had never seen a NES in such good shape. No dust, no cracks, no oxidation, no grime....it was his first well-cared for repair ever. There were two parts to fix...first the power adapter/connector within the NES needed replacing...and then the motherboard maybe...it's been a long time. The motherboard would have been for the distorted images on the screen. Anyways, 40 dollars later I had a fully functional NES again which I still play today. Gotta love Duck Hunt sometimes. I also tracked down a copy of Blue Marlin again though somehow I really suck at bringing in those Marlins these days! What happened to my fishing skills between then and now?
It was somewhere during this whole time that Sony and Microsoft had been making their next-generation announcements. Being the miserly cheapskate that I am (waiting for pricedrops and trying to buy the most games for my buck), I bought neither on release day. The PS3's price was definitely a shocker to me. I was relatively uninterested in the Wii seeing as I was still in love with my PS2 and the 360 seemed to have problems overheating....again, it pays off in the end to wait a minimum of 6 months before buying. I ended up waiting over a year for the overheating problems of the 360 to be resolved before I ever bought it. I remember even then, I bought a 360 and had tracked down a new, unopened, collector's Edition copy of Mass Effect at a local gamestop, and was going to play it as my first 360 game... I took it home...tested it out on the TV...and did my best not to get hooked. It was early summer and I could've played ME all summer long...but I knew I had been accepted into Pharmacy school and needed to not undermine myself by allowing myself to be distracted by videogames so I put it back up and didn't touch it again all summer long... Somewhere about 75% of the way through my first semester my resolve completely shattered on its own and I hooked it up to my tv and played Mass Effect nonstop for 2 weeks. I can't remember how much class I skipped...I know without some really good friends who let me borrow their nearly indecipherable notes and without a lot of luck I might have had some problems passing that med chem final (granted....I will faint if any patient ever comes up to my counter and asks me to draw the chemical structure of Tylenol for them!) but I somehow made it and after that experience I made sure to not allow my love of video games ever interfere with my classes ever again. I wanted to replay ME then and there...but instead I put it up and chose something less interesting and less addictive...it might've been a Harvest Moon game on my Gamecube, for the next semester. Considering the time I spent in class and the unrealistic expectations of some of my professors, even with me being an exceptional student...it is just as well. Something like Mass Effect would have doomed me that semester.
After that, my fiance who doesn't game much anymore, told me he had a surprise for me. He even made me close my eyes and everything while he went and got the box. I had no clue what to expect. He brought out this old cardboard box and put it in my lap. As I opened it, I was shocked beyond speech. He actually kept his old Atari and it was in perfect condition...with the games still in the boxes. That was probably the best gift he's ever given me. I sometimes hook it up so we can play pong together and some of the old classics. Ahh, the memories it brings back.
So, over the next year, I'm still playing most of my consoles here and there, and for Christmas I become irritated at my family for asking me repeatedly what I want (and not listening to what I say) so I throw out, "Just get me a PS3....XGB....blah blah blah, it costs $XYZ, and you can get it at any store here there or wherever". I was not being serious...I was thinking of buying it myself the next year but I had just bought a Nintendo DS (which I forgot to mention up there...I rarely play it) within the past year and I have a strict 1 console/yr buying limit. Well...Christmas came and went and I had a PS3 which I was still uncertain how I got it. I really wasn't being serious...but perhaps it was the only thing they could remember me saying and thus felt they HAD to buy it for me. I didn't actually take it out of the box, though I already had collected games for it (my other rule is you must have 6 games for the console before buying it...or it isn't worth the purchase), for well over 6 months. Even after 6 months, I rarely turn on my PS3. I spend too much time all starry eyed with my 360 lol.
After that, I waited for the price drop on the Wiis this past year. I haven't taken it out of the box, not even to test it, but I don't feel bad about that. I'm sure it'll someday see the light of my television screen.
So...that's my gaming life there. I also refuse to buy games for my phone or iPod as I see each device is suited purely for a different purpose and I won't list my PC as a console since...well....I see it moreso for use as internet and data crunching than anything else.
Edit: Fixed a typo
After that, we eventually got an NES. I remember renting games at the local A1 video store every weekend and playing Blue Marlin, Gilligan's Island...all sorts of games (though I was rather partial to Blue Marlin). For Christmas that year, I got Life Force and I played it until the NES broke. The music still worked, but the screen was extremely distorted. That didn't matter much to me, as I had played the game so much that I had memorized the maps and could still get through 2-3 levels without having to actually see much changing on the screen. However, my parents decided it was trash and threw that one out too. At that point however, I was old enough to be possessive of it and I dragged it back out of the trash, declaring that I would fix it someday... I stored it for the time being under my bed and that's where it stayed for many, many years.
After the NES, I got a Sega Genesis. I ended up collecting the Sonic, Ecco, and Earthworm Jim games and played them nonstop. On the side, I managed to get a SNES, but unfortunately due to my location I missed out on many of the classic RPGs of the era. All I really had to chose from was the selection at the local Sears lol...
I then moved on to the N64, paying for it with my allowance, as I had with my Genesis, starting out with Goldeneye. Those were the good old days. I bought extra controllers so that I could play multi-player with my friends and family and spent who knows how many hours on Jet Force Gemini and Zelda.
After my N64 experience, I was still relatively loyal to Nintendo. I wanted so badly to buy a Dreamcast but I had heard that it might not survive the console wars, so I waited it out and bought a gamecube next. I wasn't thrilled with the looks (I waited until it came in black at least), but it did have Eternal Darkness on it and a promise that the Star Fox games would return to it. Having Rogue Squadron back again too was something I was thrilled to have. The Dreamcast died out so I knew I had at least made the right decision there.
I also had my eye however on the PS2. My cousins had a PSx but all I had ever seen them play on it was Tony Hawk games and GTA games....neither of which impressed me (I so wish I had exposure earlier to the other games the PSx had to offer). However, the PS2 had caught my eye and I eventually went ahead and bought it when Kingdom Hearts came out. I played that game for hours upon hours...trying to get all the secrets and items unlocked in the game. By that time, I was also looking back on the Sony exclusives I had missed out on and began collecting PSx games and older PS2 games where I could. I still have a significant backlog to go through there. The PS2 probably became the greatest system I own...with 175 games for it alone in my collection. I definitely made the right decision that time and I still play my PS2 today.
During this time, the xbox had come out. Now, I NEVER buy consoles on release day and this one was no different. I knew if there were to be any problems, it would come out in the first 6 months, and true enough the RROD happened. I waited an excruitatingly long time for Microsoft to fix those problems and stock the stores with xboxs that were not defective before I would even consider the system. It did have several games I was highly interested in, and eventually I bought the console. It was a good buy. I don't have as many games as I do for my PS2 on the xbox, but considering things, it was still a good console to have.
At about this time, I decided that with ebay, I could go back and buy any of the Dreamcast games that I wanted to play back in the old days...and finding a dreamcast that wasn't used and disgusting looking from abuse would be relatively easy on ebay as well. I ended up as a junior in college finally buying that dreamcast that I always wanted. I got Ecco and Shenmue to start me off on the dreamcast and played to my heart's content. It was like having nostalgia...without the experience you base nostalgia off of. At this time, I also pulled out my old NES and decided to have a friend of mine, who worked in a repairs/pawn shop, look at it to see if it was fixable. He had claimed that he had fixed others before and had some spare replacement parts lieing around so I figured, it couldn't hurt! Well, he took it for 3 weeks before I ever saw it again. He had never seen a NES in such good shape. No dust, no cracks, no oxidation, no grime....it was his first well-cared for repair ever. There were two parts to fix...first the power adapter/connector within the NES needed replacing...and then the motherboard maybe...it's been a long time. The motherboard would have been for the distorted images on the screen. Anyways, 40 dollars later I had a fully functional NES again which I still play today. Gotta love Duck Hunt sometimes. I also tracked down a copy of Blue Marlin again though somehow I really suck at bringing in those Marlins these days! What happened to my fishing skills between then and now?
It was somewhere during this whole time that Sony and Microsoft had been making their next-generation announcements. Being the miserly cheapskate that I am (waiting for pricedrops and trying to buy the most games for my buck), I bought neither on release day. The PS3's price was definitely a shocker to me. I was relatively uninterested in the Wii seeing as I was still in love with my PS2 and the 360 seemed to have problems overheating....again, it pays off in the end to wait a minimum of 6 months before buying. I ended up waiting over a year for the overheating problems of the 360 to be resolved before I ever bought it. I remember even then, I bought a 360 and had tracked down a new, unopened, collector's Edition copy of Mass Effect at a local gamestop, and was going to play it as my first 360 game... I took it home...tested it out on the TV...and did my best not to get hooked. It was early summer and I could've played ME all summer long...but I knew I had been accepted into Pharmacy school and needed to not undermine myself by allowing myself to be distracted by videogames so I put it back up and didn't touch it again all summer long... Somewhere about 75% of the way through my first semester my resolve completely shattered on its own and I hooked it up to my tv and played Mass Effect nonstop for 2 weeks. I can't remember how much class I skipped...I know without some really good friends who let me borrow their nearly indecipherable notes and without a lot of luck I might have had some problems passing that med chem final (granted....I will faint if any patient ever comes up to my counter and asks me to draw the chemical structure of Tylenol for them!) but I somehow made it and after that experience I made sure to not allow my love of video games ever interfere with my classes ever again. I wanted to replay ME then and there...but instead I put it up and chose something less interesting and less addictive...it might've been a Harvest Moon game on my Gamecube, for the next semester. Considering the time I spent in class and the unrealistic expectations of some of my professors, even with me being an exceptional student...it is just as well. Something like Mass Effect would have doomed me that semester.
After that, my fiance who doesn't game much anymore, told me he had a surprise for me. He even made me close my eyes and everything while he went and got the box. I had no clue what to expect. He brought out this old cardboard box and put it in my lap. As I opened it, I was shocked beyond speech. He actually kept his old Atari and it was in perfect condition...with the games still in the boxes. That was probably the best gift he's ever given me. I sometimes hook it up so we can play pong together and some of the old classics. Ahh, the memories it brings back.
So, over the next year, I'm still playing most of my consoles here and there, and for Christmas I become irritated at my family for asking me repeatedly what I want (and not listening to what I say) so I throw out, "Just get me a PS3....XGB....blah blah blah, it costs $XYZ, and you can get it at any store here there or wherever". I was not being serious...I was thinking of buying it myself the next year but I had just bought a Nintendo DS (which I forgot to mention up there...I rarely play it) within the past year and I have a strict 1 console/yr buying limit. Well...Christmas came and went and I had a PS3 which I was still uncertain how I got it. I really wasn't being serious...but perhaps it was the only thing they could remember me saying and thus felt they HAD to buy it for me. I didn't actually take it out of the box, though I already had collected games for it (my other rule is you must have 6 games for the console before buying it...or it isn't worth the purchase), for well over 6 months. Even after 6 months, I rarely turn on my PS3. I spend too much time all starry eyed with my 360 lol.
After that, I waited for the price drop on the Wiis this past year. I haven't taken it out of the box, not even to test it, but I don't feel bad about that. I'm sure it'll someday see the light of my television screen.
So...that's my gaming life there. I also refuse to buy games for my phone or iPod as I see each device is suited purely for a different purpose and I won't list my PC as a console since...well....I see it moreso for use as internet and data crunching than anything else.
Edit: Fixed a typo
Modifié par Beocat, 28 août 2011 - 02:58 .
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Posté 28 août 2011 - 03:07
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My gaming history is pretty short.
486mhz PC(my Dad's)
PS1
Gameboy Color
PC(Again,but this time my own with better hardware)
PS2
PC(Completely new rig with a new case, cpu, graphics card, motherboard etc.)
PSP
PS3
Basically, as you can see I'm a bit of a Sony fanboy(as well as an avid PC gamer)
486mhz PC(my Dad's)
PS1
Gameboy Color
PC(Again,but this time my own with better hardware)
PS2
PC(Completely new rig with a new case, cpu, graphics card, motherboard etc.)
PSP
PS3
Basically, as you can see I'm a bit of a Sony fanboy(as well as an avid PC gamer)
