I have here a 20 question survey so just leave it as one word answers no long arse ones as i just want to see basic personal opinions. (Don't worry, I wont thumbs down answers, I'm no fanboy) My answers can be found in the comments section.

1. What was your first console?

2. Why do you like it?

3. What was your fav game for it?

4. If you had not owned it, what console would you have bought at this time?

5. What game drew you to that other console?

6. Which portable console did you buy first?

7. Which game did you play most on it?

8. Which consoles during the fifth generation of gaming did you own (PS1,3DO,N64,Sega Saturn,Jaguar, Amiga CD32)

9. Which games did you like from each of your owned consoles?

10. Did you own any of the portable systems from tthe fifth gen? (Gameboy Colour, Sega NOMAD, NeoGeo Pocket)

11. What was your fav. game for that console? (NOMAD was a portable Genesis, so if you didnt own a NOMAD but owned Genesis, put a Genesis game here)

12. What about the sixth generation? What did you own out of the Dreamcast, XBOX, PS2 and Gamecube?

13. Fav game for each?

14. And the portables of the sixth gen? (Gameboy Advance "include specific type of GBA", NEoGeo Pocket Colour, N-Gage)

15. Best game for each?

16. Today's generation, what do you own? (360,Ps3,Wii)

17. Fav. game for each?

18. Of today's gen, which portables do you own? (DS/DSlite/DSi, PSP/PSPgo, iPod Touch/Phone)

19. Fav game for each?

20. What game for your current consoles are you waiting for?

Thank you if you deciede to answer my survey.

I have been a gamer ever since I could walk and talk (age 2) AND in my opinion gaming has made both steps upward and downward. I remember the days of the SNES, Genesis and the other consoles that came and went (3DO, 32x, Sega CD, and the famous crapmaster Atari Jaguar) and games being quite basic, both graphically and in gameplay and I still prefer to pop in a SNES cartridge over some of today's games.

Firstly, I find that gaming has made steps upward due to online gaming as it allows us to converse with people worldwide and allows us to compete a lot more and todays games don't require you to leave to get sequels or expansions as you can download them.

But on the other hand, gaming's integrity is ruined by this because gaming is much more different. I remember when people LEFT THEIR HOMES to game with friends. Conversations I used to have at school used to be like "Hey, do you want to come over and play some Mario Kart or Star Fox 64?" but now conversations are "JOIN MY PARTY." Whatever happenened to split-screen?

Just one example of how it also ruins integrity is the whole "ApocolyPS3" scandal where gamers couldnt play games because they needed the internet to play. WHY IN THE HECK DO WE NEED THE INTERNET TO PLAY????? I wish we could just go back to the days when we could just pop in our game of choice whether it be on a floppy disk, cartridge, CD, or DVD and just start a game?

You may notice, I have a whole hell of a lot of my games listed, that's becuase I am actually filing them so I was just doing this while browsing gamespot, so I just added them... Oh and there's more to come.