What's your background?

Explain what systems you had growing up, what system you remember most, and what the systems did to give you the taste in gaming you have today.

I started with the NES. Only a few games really stand out. R.B.I. baseball being the biggest one. From there I had a Sega. I was never really jealous of the Snes kids, but I always wanted one. I then had a Sega Saturn. To this day I am the only person that I know that had a Sega Saturn. My parents bought me a N64 for Christmas and later that year I traded the Saturn in for a PS1. This was a huge mistake. I loved the PS, but I wish I still had the saturn. 9/9/99 I bought the greatest system of all time, the Dreamcast. I loved this thing. I played it all the time. My friends bought Dreamcasts, even though the PS2 was just on the horizon. I later bought a PS2, but I never really appreciated it. This is when I think gaming started to decline. In college I played the PS2 and Xbox. The Xbox was a staple of dorm life. Everyone played Halo over the school network. To this day I remember not really liking Halo, but everyone played it , so I felt like I had to. 2 years out of college I bought a gamecube. This was a great investment. I think of the Wii, the same way I thought of the GC. It never had a lot of games, but it had a few amazing games. That's really it. I now own a PS3, 360, Wii, and a DS. I think my favorite system was the Dreamcast. I still play it a few times a week. I have over 100 games for it. I think the Dreamcast showed me that you don't have to have the best graphics, most games, most hype, or even popularity to be good. I always talk about it, but I wish todays companies could take a page out of Sega's book.

commodore 64 (when I was like 4), NES, GB,SNES, N64, VB, PS2, GC, Wii, PS3 (25 years old)

and yes, that's VB (Virtual Boy)

Atari, nes, PC, Lynx, SNES, N64, GCN, DS, Wii, PS3.

Started out young on the atari, moved to nes, and PC in the early 90s. Been PC gaming from 1991 to 2004. I was there before VGA ;) Far Cry was the last great PC game I played. But now I dont have a gaming rig anymore.

In order:

NES

Sega Genesis

N64

PS

GC

Xbox

360

PS2

Started on C64, had hundreds of games for it but the few that I remember best were Giana Sisters(mario knockoff) and Sex Games II.

Then got Sega Master System with those cool 3D goggles or whatever, Alex Kid was awesome. Played 286 at my friend a lot and was mighty impressed by the games like King's Quest.

Then had Amiga 500 and Sega Megadrive(aka Genesis). Loved Shining In The Darkness(my 1st RPG) on Sega, Amiga didn't really turn me on tho I loved the racing games, NAS and few others.

Then got SNES, Donkey Kong just swept me away with its awesomeness.

Then finally got PC with Duke Nukem 3D and Wing Commander IV which are still some of my favourite games.

Shortly had PS1 to play GT and N64 for Zelda and Mario64, but didn't find anything else really interesting and after Half-Life I never got another console, been a PC only gamer since.

In order:

Game Boy Color, N64 Pokemon Stadium pack, GBA, GC, DS, PS2, Wii, PSP slim, PS3.

I got the PSP slim and PS3 this year, Wii last year.

NES, N64, PS1, GC, PS2, GBC, GBA, Wii, and DS. I also had friends who owned a Genesis and a SNES.

Most memorable system -- N64 or NES

NES, SNES, N64, PS1, Gameboy Colour, Xbox, PS2, DS

I haven't bought any next gen systems yet :(

Edit: Despite how much I played GC, I never actually bought one so I took it off.

Sega Megadrive, Gameboy Colour, PSone, PS2, PSP, 360, PS3.

Most memorable: PSone.

in order..

Sega master system

Playstation

Nintendo64 (pokemon one) LOL

Playstation2

xbox

Pc

Xbox360

PS3

SNES, N64, Gameboy Color, Gamecube, Gameboy Advance, DS, PS2, Wii, 360, PSP Slim.

Most memorable would be the SNES; it's still my favorite system.

NES -> Master System -> Mega Drive -> Saturn -> Dreamcast ---*long hiatus*---> PC -> DS -> Xbox 360

Oh my brother had a PS1 and an Xbox but I never played those :D

Nes-Snes-Genisis-TG16-Virtual Boy-Ps1-Saturn-3Do-Game boy-Game boy advance-Ps2-Dreamcast-Atari Jaguar-Xbox-Gamecube-Wii-Xbox 360-Psp-Nintendo Ds--N64.

Not necessarly in that order, with the exception of the first 4

NES, PC, Gameboy Color, Wii and DS

I started with NES. I only played one game on the NES and that was Super Mario Bros. and nothing else. Because of that i'm hooked in video games. Then i started pc only gaming for 10 years. I grew up with pc gaming and it's my most significant platform for gaming. i also loved pokemon on gameboy and so i got a DS. I have never played any game on N64, DC, PS2, GC. Wii is my first own console. it's the reason it got me impressed and hooked in console gaming since other consoles don't interest me.

GB, GB color, PS1, GB advance,PS2, GC,PSP, DS, Xbox, Xbox 360

N64, Genesis,Game boy Pocket, Gameboy color, Dreamcast, GameBoy Advance, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Dreamcast, Xbox, DS, Gamecube, Ps2, Xbox 360

1st ever gaming thing i got was a game boy (with super mario land and tetris) the xmas after they hit the uk, which would've been '89. i was 4.

after that i got an atari 2600 from an advert in the local paper. dunno why i never got a NES though. following that was a genesis/mega drive also 2nd hand out of the paper. i remember me & my dad getting lost trying to find the guy's house and missing the turnoff :oops: after a while (probs around the N64/PS era) my dad got rid of the atari and i had to sell the genesis and games for holiday money (huuuuge mistake)

then i convinced my parents to get my younger brother a SNES. since i had the mega drive i wasn't allowed another 1, i think the MD may've been an early xmas present anyway. but i only convinced my parents to get it for my brother so i could play on it. i remember lending my mate 3 games just to play on link to the past, it was worth it :D worst thing is though with the SNES being my brothers (who's never really cared for anything he's had) he sold/gave away all the good games that he had. street fighter 2 turbo being the biggest 1 i miss :'(

after that we both ended up with playstations to stop us fighting over the others, both of which broke. coincidentally the gameboy still works ;). and i also got an N64 the xmas they came out and a gamecube the xmas they came out and my brother got a PS2 that year as well (which eventually broke). last summer i caved in and bought a 2nd PS2 but i never really got into :(

i never got a GBA mainly because i was in college and all my money went on girls and drink and by the time id saved up to get 1 they were rumours of the next GB coming out, so i left it and ended up getting a DS when they 1st came out, though i had finished college by then and was working.

then last year i got myself a Wii at launch (near enouh anyway), the store got 50 in, i was number 52, so i to actually wait a few days :( but i popped down for the midnight launch anyway to buy twilight princess (since OoT ive gotten MM, WW & TP and PH on launch), which was a bit weird because i was the only 1 there not buying a Wii and i was out drinking before & after, game in hand :? ;)

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my best friend had a sega saturn, i remember him coming round mine with it to show tomb raider off and we loved it. a mate who lived over the road was, and still is, the only person i know who had a sega cd and 32x. ive never seen nor laid hands on a virtua boy and ive never had a dreamcast but i have played 1. 1 of my mates keeps saying i can have his but never actually bothers bringing it round and im always skint whenever i see them in the shops :(

NES, SNES, N64, GBA, GC, PS2, DS, 360, wii.

the N64 is definitly my most memorable system. I spent so many nights playing games like Goldeneye, SSB, and perfect dark with my friends plus it had OoT, MM, SM64, THPS and a bunch of other great games.

1. NES - first gaming system in my household, very big deal. Came with the robot, never used him. memorable games are; double dribble, bionic commando, Zelda, Mario, contra, rygar, gyromite, double dragon, and a slew of others. Porbably the most games played of any system I've owned. Just a guess though.
2. Sega Genesis - I was still a kid and getting my folks to buy a new system was tough. Got them to get me the genesis. Okay system. Mostly into sports games then. Lost of football and hockey.
3. PSOne - Got this freshmen year in college, not a good idea. Lots of smoke-filled memories playing Tomb Raider, JetMoto, Tekken 2, GT, and Resident Evil.
4. PS2 - Was able to get one pretty early in the process when they were hard to find. i was excited as hell for DVD and the new games. Loved Socom series, my favorite by far.
5. PS3

PC , Snes , MegaDrive , N64 , PS1 , Sega Saturn , PS2 , Gamecube , Xbox360 , Wii , and back to PC, because PC rules all.

Gameboy , Gameboy Colour, Gameboy Advance , PSP ( wish i got a DS instead ).

Nobody but me owned a Turbo grafix 16?:cry:grimhope

Haven't heard that name in a while. Believe me, back then, I wanted one. It seemed cool!?!?!?

Edit: Woah. I ranted off about my memories as a child. Here's the short version.

Handhelds: Sega Game Gear, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance SP, Nintendo DS, Nintendo DS Lite (I have since dropped the old one off on my mom... she wants "Brain Age 2" now.)

Consoles: Nintendo Entertainment System, Nintendo 64, Playstation 2, Gamecube, Wii

The first system I ever had was the Nintendo Entertainment System -- it wasn't really mine, it was actually my sister's. But still, one of my first memories from my four year old eyes was jumping through the Underworld in Super Mario Bros -- it's something I'll never forget.

My family bought the NES towards the end of its life -- and my mother never really liked video games. She trashed it... she claims it was broken, but I still don't believe her. Anyways, I didn't buy a SNES, and for awhile I only played PC games (Civilization II comes to mind).

In the gap between my systems, I was satisfied with handhelds. I had the Sega Game Gear -- which, I stopped playing after I ran into this impossibly hard Sonic level. From my childhood, I had always liked Mario more, and Sega never really satisfied my gaming curb -- it was the only Sega system I ever owned. Soon afterwards, I bought a Game Boy Color -- I owned Pokemon games on it, and I loved them. It's the only games where not only I had them -- but all my friends did, and it definitly was a change.

In... Christmas of 1996 (... I have no idea how I remember that), I got a Nintendo 64 and Diddy Kong Racing... man, I played that game to death. Soon afterwards, I got Super Mario 64 (one of my favorite games of all time) and Goldeneye 007 (another one of my favorites) -- I never bought Perfect Dark.

I really only finished playing it after I finished Paper Mario -- which I bought maybe a year or two after it was released. My friends continue to come over to play Goldeneye... I think it shows how much it stands the test of time.

I bought a PS2 when it first came out -- it's the only non-Nintendo console I've owned. I always bought the SSX games on it (1-3), and it was fun... but, with the Nintendo in me firmly situated, I bought a Gamecube, and with it, I had Super Mario Sunshine. Interestingly enough, I always bought the worst games for it... I never bought Metroid Prime (or its sequel), nor did I ever buy Wind Waker. They were apparently all fun games, and it's a shame I never had them.

When the DS came out, I was one of the first to buy it. I own Super Mario 64 DS (the first game I got for it) -- but, I've been spending the most time on Phantom Hourglass and Mario Kart DS.... for the record, I was a bit nervous with its design when it first came out, but I'm happy with the changes when it moved to Lite.

For this generation, though I'm to this day tempted to buy a 360 (all... I mean, all of my friends have it), I've resisted and stuck with the company I know best in the Wii. So far, I haven't been overwhelmed with the collection (Galaxy, Twilight Princess, and Metroid Prime 3 stand as beacons in the darkness), but I feel -- as they did with the DS, that they'll come through. Eventually

So, I'd never thought of it before -- but my blind loyalty to Nintendo stems from a memory of myself as a four year old.

... weird.

NES, Sega, N64, GB Color, PS1, Gamecube, GBA SP, Xbox, Xbox 360, Nintendo DS Lite.

have 3 PC's but ones old and all locked up in my basement :D.

From the beginning to present: PC, NES? (Not sure. I only remember owning a console that played a fun tank game), PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PSP, DS, Wii, PS3, and 360.

These are the game consoles I currently owned or owned in the past:

Atari 2600 (1983), Atari 5200 (1984), Nintendo Entertainment System (1986), Super Nintendo Entertainment System (1991), GameCube (2002), Panasonic Q (DVD/GameCube hybrid sold only in Japan), Wii (2007), PSP (2007), and Nintendo DS Lite (2007). I currently own a Wii and a DS Lite. The PSP was the first non-Nintendo console I have owned in more than twenty years.

I've own these systems, not in any particular order:

NES, Turbo Graphix 16, Super NES, Sega Genesis, Nintendo 64, Gameboy, those Tiger hand helds, Dreamcast, Game Cube, Playstation 1, Playstation 2, Playstation 3, PSP, DS, Nintendo Wii, Xbox, Xbox 360.

From the beginning to present: PC, NES? (Not sure. I only remember owning a console that played a fun tank game), PS2, Xbox, Gamecube, PSP, DS, Wii, PS3, and 360.

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Maybe it was Battle Tanks? It was on the Nintendo 64. It was awesome!

First Gaming Console: Playstation. It wasn't actually mine, but I played a lot of Spyro, it was mostly used for my dad to play Oddworld:P.

First Handheld: Gameboy Color. And I only played 5 games on it, Pokemon Blue, Pokemon Red, Pokemon Yellow, and yes I did have some taste back then Super Mario Bros and Donkey Kong.

Then Came MY First Gaming Console: Dreamcast. Man I loved the Dreamcast, there were so many cool games, I especially remember playing Toy Commander and Crazy Taxi :D.

Gameboy Advance/SP: Yes I loved my GBA, I still played Pokemon A LOT, I clocked in 120 hours on pokemon sapphire, and really got a ton of use out of my GBA and GBASP

Then Came The Gamecube: When I think about my Gamecube I become sad, It was very soon after I got the gamecube that I went on a long streak of PC gaming and stopped playing with my conoles and went to playing handhelds much more often (which wasn't the case before), so I never really got a lot of use out of my Gamecube.

Nintendo DS: I got a DS the nearest Christmas after its launch, for the first year I played it a lot, but eventually got tired of the "Mario" type games, things like Mario Kart just aren't as fun on the DS as they were when I played it on the N64 at friends houses (Yes that was teh game to play in my neighborhood back then :P)

And now I'm here, I have a large amount of Simulation, RTS, and a few FPS for my PC and am looking this christmas/summer birthday to get back into gaming with a PS3 and PSP

back in the day, i couldn't afford every console

my first was the genesis, though i played the SNES a lot at a friend's

next gen, i got a PS1 whilst i played the N64 at my cousin's virtually every day (it was like a second home)

the gen after, i was really into gaming, got a PS2, GC and Xbox .. got a GBA SP around this time too, around it's launch

it'll be the same this gen .. already have a 360, Wii, DS and PSP

i'll be getting a PS3 once it has a better library, and when i have the time to play it!

hmm, well I wasn't particularly around for the NES or Atari Era but here goes:

N64, Game Boy Color, PSone,Game Boy Advance Gamecube, PS2, DS, PSP, and PS3.

My most Memorable: I'd say a tie between Game Boy Color and PS2 as I had a lot of great fun with both. Games like Pokemon, GTA 3, The Jak Series, etc, etc were all great.