/vr/ - Retro Games

My mother claims I'm a "gamer" because she spent her entire time while she was pregnant with me playing on a Game Boy.

My parents had a Megadrive when I was very young. I barely remember Sonic and Super Monaco GP II at the time.

A little later on my parents split up, I lived with my mother who had a PS1, and my father had an N64. At that point I remember asking my dad if I could "Play Nintendo" whenever I saw him, which as 5-year old me meant Mario Kart 64.

A little later on we got a PS2 and I had the PS1 in my own room. During this time I spent most of my time on driving games such as the Ridge Racer and Gran Turismo series whereas my mother was playing the PS1 and PS2 Final Fantasy games. I got a GBA around the same time as the PS2, beat all of the Sonic Advance series and was a massive Sonicfag until I was 12/13.

Few years later my now-stepfather moved in and brought his PC games with him, himself being brought up with the ZX Spectrum and the PC instead of my mother's console background. Meant I kinda got best of both.

My mother and stepfather play more PS3 now whereas I more stick to PC and "retro",And my father is now a mental patient in Ireland. but looking at the upcoming consoles this will be the first time my parents have no interest in getting a new console.

This is a very abridged history, if I posted the whole thing I'd be here for hours and hit 4chan's character limit many times over.
And no-one cares anyway.