The gaming platforms of our lives - Page 2

JCG · December 22, 2003, 15:56

Atari 2600
NES
SNES
Genesis
Nintendo 64
Playstation
PC

And Gameboy + GameGear somewhere in the middle (I never really liked the GG though....the screen was too fuzzy).

Dis · December 22, 2003, 15:57

is that the one where you have to fly out of the hanger and the doors are closing? My brother almost beat it, I never got close.

Sarxis · December 22, 2003, 16:29

Don't forget the very successful Nintendo Dolphin.

:|

loinburger · December 22, 2003, 16:42

Quote:

Originally posted by Dissident
is that the one where you have to fly out of the hanger and the doors are closing? My brother almost beat it, I never got close.

Yeah, that's the one. It took us a month just to figure out how to consistently get out of the damned hangar.

Dis · December 22, 2003, 16:45

yeah my brother couldn't figure out how to get out either. I never got that far- I was too young, and I still sucked at most computer games. Of course, I still suck at most action games

Buck Birdseed · December 22, 2003, 16:53

I much prefer console games now that adventure games are dead, yet I've never owned one (the C64 is borderline). I need a PC anyway, so I just get that and emulate old consoles for my pleasure. Really wish I had a GBA though.

Ownership history:

Sinclair ZX-81
Sinclair Spectrum
Commodore 64
286
486-66
P-200MMX
Celeron 400

I need an upgrade soon.

Stuie · December 22, 2003, 17:05

Double post.

Weeeee..........

Stuie · December 22, 2003, 17:06

Let's see....

Sears Pong machine thing.
Atari 2600
Tandy 1000 (what a piece of shite)
C64
and then the PCs:
386
Pentium 60
Pentium 166
AMD 450 (my first home built)
Athlon 1Ghz
and the latest...
AMD Athlon XP 2400

Oh, and I recently bought a PS One to keep the kids off my computer.

And the only one my "rich" white parents bought was Pong. My mom was AWESOME at Space Invaders on the Atari 2600 though. She could beat everyone in the house.

Kuciwalker · December 22, 2003, 17:13

Quote:

Originally posted by Sava
Harry: You should buy Gamecube just for Mario Kart: Double Dash

And RS:2 & 3

Vlad Antlerkov · December 22, 2003, 17:50

Consoles:

Game Boy
Genesis
Nintendo 64

PCs:

IBM 486, 33 MHz (four years)
Packard Bell, Pentium, 233 MHz (three years)
Gateway, AMD Athlon, 1.4 GHz (two and a half years, May 2001 to present... and two hard drive replacements, plus the computer fan needing to be replaced. Oucher.)

I use the PC more or less exclusively now. Can't be arsed to get a new console system. Hell, I'm not even sure if the N64 even works anymore.

Asher · December 22, 2003, 18:38

Atari 2600
NES
SNES
Genesis (w/ 32X)
PSX
N64
Gamecube
Xbox
PC

Harry Tuttle · December 22, 2003, 18:41

Quote:

Originally posted by Sava
Harry: You should buy Gamecube just for Mario Kart: Double Dash

Nah, if anything I'll buy the Xbox and get a few first person fighters (Halo, etc...) Perfect Dark 2 is supposed to come out on xbox I hear.

Bugs ****ing Bunny · December 22, 2003, 18:47

My sister had a Dragon 32 in 1981 (I think).

I dicked about with a Megadrive, then bought a PC in 1997. That's all. I'm not much of a gamer.

Asher · December 22, 2003, 18:49

Quote:

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle
Nah, if anything I'll buy the Xbox and get a few first person fighters (Halo, etc...) Perfect Dark 2 is supposed to come out on xbox I hear.

Yeah, all Rare games are only on Xbox since MS bought Rare.

Sava · December 22, 2003, 18:55

Quote:

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle

Nah, if anything I'll buy the Xbox and get a few first person fighters (Halo, etc...) Perfect Dark 2 is supposed to come out on xbox I hear.

first person games suck on consoles... PC is the only way to go.

GePap · December 22, 2003, 19:19

Atari 2600
A bunch of Nintendo Handheld machines-the really old Nintendo electronic games
NES
SNES
Then I got a PC.

BeBro · December 22, 2003, 20:40

-Amiga2000
-Amiga4000/30
-then a short intermezzo with a Sony Playstation
-PC

My brother had a C64 earlier, software on tape, that was cool. especially when you waited 30 minutes for some games to load only to realize that they crashed then

But some of the games were absolutely addictive

Lonestar · December 22, 2003, 20:48

NES
SNES
N64
PC
Original Gameboy (The "Toaster Edition" I call it)
Pocket Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Gameboy Advance
.
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.
.
..
.
I Bet you thought I was going to say Game Boy SP, huh?

Dr Strangelove · December 22, 2003, 21:13

I played arcade games in the 70s and 80s, but I never owned a system until my brother introduced me to Starflight. After that I bought a PC. I've never owned a console, but the kids have Game Boys. We're thinking about buying them a Gamecube for Christmas.

Skanky Burns · December 22, 2003, 21:29

I have a Tandy 1000 (which still works, surprisingly)
Then my PC, upgraded over the years.

When I get more money I should change the PCs case - I forget what colour it originally was.

Japher · December 22, 2003, 21:36

My wife bought the Gamecube, and I must admit that it is suprising fun

We play it more than the X-box (I am not into FPS)

Kuciwalker · December 22, 2003, 22:08

Quote:

Originally posted by Harry Tuttle

Nah, if anything I'll buy the Xbox and get a few first person fighters (Halo, etc...) Perfect Dark 2 is supposed to come out on xbox I hear.

Halo's on the computer, too.

JohnT · December 23, 2003, 03:36

Am I the only one to own (well, have owned) an actual arcade machine? I think that Ming and/or Rah might have a couple of pinball machines, but anybody else?

Brent · December 23, 2003, 05:11

My family got its first computer in the early 80s, an Atari 800. A little later we got a TI994A. We didn't get our first PC until late. The one I'm using now is an AMD 500 megahertz with a 10 gigabyte hard drive. Also at my house there is a Pentium with an 80 gigabyte hard drive.

Atari games I remember fondly include PacMan, Typo, Jumpman, Qix, The Search for the Most Amazing Thing, Ball Blazer, and Zork 2. I never played Civ1 until after Civ2. One of my first PC games was Dune 2.

My first console was a SNES. I also have a PS1, a PS2 and a green black and white pocket Gameboy.

On my SNES, I have the three Super Star Wars games, the three Super Mario Brothers games, and Sim City among others, my favorite of which is Sim City, although I haven't used my SNES in a long time.

I only have a couple of games on my PS2, my favorite is Voyager Elite Force. I mostly use the PS2 to watch movies.

I occasionally played the original Nintendo before I got my SNES. I have several games for my Gameboy, but the only one I play any more is Tetris. I liked the Sega game Columns, and Sonic the Hedgehog seemed fun.

Zero · December 23, 2003, 05:50

i started out with:

NES
Genesis
old 286 comp
SNES
486
gameboy

And then I stopped playing console and most PC games until Dreamcast came around. then:

233mhz PC
DC
1 gig PC
PS2

When I got ps2 I got a chance to play alot of ps1 games I wanted to play. I seem to have missed out on a really good gaming years....

Then theres arcades in the early 90s... Competition for street figher games were so fun back then... Its probably why im so obsessed with fighting games. (even though community is dying..

)

Games I remember fondly and obsessed with over the years:

As already mentioned: Street fighter for arcades
NES- duck hunt. I begged my mom to get me that gun......
Genesis- Sonic series. Sonic is still addictive!
SNES- Final Fantasy VI, Chrono trigger and mariokart
DC- Virtua tennis, Soul calibur, Street fighter Alpha 3, Marvel VS capcom....

PC games: Civ I I remember when my dad's friend came to fix the 486 we had, he let me borrow his civ.

because i had no manual i had to figure out everything by myself. And I eventually memorized those stupid quizzes that tested whether you bought the game or not

And other pc games i played way too much (and got carried away in trying to get really good in) Quake I, Simcity, Doom, Wolf3d, Command and conquer, Starcraft.....

Asher · December 23, 2003, 06:05

Quote:

Originally posted by Japher
My wife bought the Gamecube, and I must admit that it is suprising fun

We play it more than the X-box (I am not into FPS)

I went half/half with my brother for the Gamecube, but it sits idle for a long, long time.

The Xbox gets tons of play. My brother is back in town and hogs the TV at all hours for it basically (he's got one back at uni too). He's playing ESPN Hockey on Xbox Live (I get to hear him yell things like "Hat trick! Hahaha! Might wanna pull Brodeur, the bastard."

), or any variety of racing games.

I'm getting 3 Xbox Live games for Christmas, yay.

Last time the Gamecube was played was when we rented Double Dash...and man...

I don't know if the people who think it's great has played the N64 recently. There was more skill required in the N64 version, and it's more fun. Double Dash is cluttered visually, and more of the same, but removing things like the "hop"... Grr, Nintendo, Grr.

I regret buying the GCN.

Zero · December 23, 2003, 06:11

i only have xbox and Gcn for one purpose only:

Soul calibur II.

Well xbox might be played for other reasons when I get mine modded (therefore allowing me to play downloaded games

)

Still deciding whether not buying xbox game >>> Xbox live experience..... grrrr

Asher · December 23, 2003, 06:17

Live r0x0r my b0x0rs.

duke o' york · December 23, 2003, 06:22

Did no-one else have a Binatone? It only had Pong and some BMX game, which you controlled with a single handle that turned, just like on the Pong arcade games. It was great at the time, but looking back, was pretty useless.

st_swithin · December 23, 2003, 16:12

I'm not surprised no one bought the N-Gage.