/vr/ - Retro Games

all of them until emulators

>>2238487
>all of them until emulators
Go back to /v/ child.

>>2238478
Saturn for me.

>>2238491
Maybe he was just poor, you know.

I have never owned a Sega system of any kind.

>>2238504
>being poor

>>2238519
That sucks man. Genesis was one of my favorite systems of all time. Used to rent a new game every night at blockbuster. Although I never had a Nintendo console growing up, my dad was a huge sega babby.

>>2238478
Same. I got mine from a friend in like early 2011, who got it from a mutual friend of ours who we no longer are friends with. I still remember being at that friend's house on his birthday and seeing Sonic Adventure for the first time. Utterly mind-blowing.

Let me start by saying I was born in 1987

I didn't know the Master System EXISTED until after the Dreamcast had died, and I didn't know the Turbografx or HuCards even existed until even longer after that

>>2238541
Kek. boot up an emulator. castlevania on the Genesis is a good start.

I only played snes and n64 as a kid so there is a big list of consoles I didn't play until recent.

My mom wouldn't let me play pokemon.
>tfw literally everyone loved pokemon and I could only play it at my bros house plus missed the entire tv show

Every system but NES and PSX.

I wanted a Saturn since I first laid eyes on it, but I never got to play one until 1998, and didn't get my own until 2004. Still my favorite console.

Anything that wasn't a Nintendo console. So no Genesis, Saturn, PS1, Game Gear or Dreamcast. I was a stupid kid.

Was born in 94 and had my dad's genesis, so we never had a snes. Actually switched to N64 and PSX next gen and never looked back.

Speaking of ownership, all of them.

My mom was one of those analogue types in the 90s, hated digital entertainment (still doesn't have a cellphone or use a computer herself) and wouldn't allow a console in the household; apart from the family PC because it was also useful for learning and homework, and almost at the turn of the millennium when the Game Boy Color was already out she allowed me to buy a used brick Game Boy from my own money so I could wish for Pokemon Blue for christmas and not be an outsider in school.

I did of course have some friends with consoles, like the SNES, N64, Playstation or later PS2 or NGC, but I missed out on ever even playing Sega entirely, and having to play the others at a friend's place every time was also not the same thing as having it at home.

Her upbringing didn't pay off, my teen years I got glued to the computer in instead and even my career is computer related now in the form of CAD, plus I'm catching up on all those consoles I couldn't have by amassing a collection now.

We had a NES, SNES, Virtual Boy, Game Boy and PS1. I never played Sega at all, beyond a disc that had a Genesis collection for the PS2. Only played N64 at my aunt and uncle's house, but loved (and still love) it.

I'm pretty sure one of my brothers had a Dreamcast or a Saturn but I only remember seeing it once.

Dreamcast for me to, probably more like 3 years ago.

As a kid, thought the only Sega console was Genesis. I always assumed there was older ones, but I never heard or saw of them and thought Genesis was competing with the PS1/N64.

Fast forward a few years, probably early 00's.
Friend shows me this weirdddddd controller with a big hole in the middle. Just looked cumbersome. We joked about how weird it looked, and then played more N64, Genesis, Atari, and PS2.

Fast forward to highschool. Learn about emulation, get to play things I never got to in the past. I'm a huge poorfag Learn about the Dreamcast, but I'm unable to get the emulator to work.

Fast forward to college. A close friend brings up his Dreamcast and we play it occasionally. It was pretty cool. Learn you can burn any game to a regular CD and just play it. It was amazing. We ended up pirating a ton of games and the sheer volume unique titles at my fingertips for the Dreamcast made me fall in love with it. Bought one while I was still in college because of this, and it's probably my most used console now.

Never heard of the Saturn or Master System before /vr/, and a few other more obscure one.

Literally everything besides a PS1
Literally everything besides a five or six PS1 games

Most people here haven't played a Oddsey, Neo Geo, or 2600.

>>2238547

Buy a MS instead. They're pretty cheap. Or buy some on the eShop

>>2238564

Why? I had some friends whose parents wouldn't let them read Harry Potter because it was witch related but they still owned every Pokemon game

>>2238478
I wanted a Dreamcast, but ended up just sticking with N64 and PS1 until the GameCube. Thankfully most of the Dreamcast games I wanted got ported to GameCube later on and I can just emulate it now anyway, so it's all good.

>>2239054
She thought Pokemon was getting way too big and didnt want me falling into it. When I asked her about it she said Japanese people were trying to brainwash me

>>2239052
>or 2600.
Oh yeah sure, the really obscure console the Atari 2600 that nobody had

>>2238478
Dreamcast for me too.
>Dat utter jealousy watching friends or cousins play Power Stone

>>2239914

Most people here are 90s kids and mid 80s kids. Had NES' but not 2600's

>>2239914
Europe here, I know only a handful of people undfer 50 years old who have played 2600. If you get your timing right, you might get one for ~120€, if you find them at all.

I've played pretty much all the best Atari games as cross-platform games or rereleases though. But how I can't know if they were worse or not other than copmparing video footage, which is less than ideal. But the C64 versions seemed all roughly as good or better.

>Master System
Wasn't aware of it until early 2000's. I was able to buy one for $20 a little over a year ago and have about a dozen games so far. Wonder Boy In Monster Land quickly became one of my favorite games of all time. Most of games I've played though really don't stack up to the tons of great games on the NES IMO.

>Turbografx
Wasn't aware of it until the early 2000's. I've played a few games via emulation, but never really spent much time on any of them. I've resisted the temptation to buy one a few times.

>Playstation
I became aware of it probably around 1996, but stuck with Nintendo and cartridges. I rented one a couple of times to play some wrestling games and hated the load times. I've got MGS and SotN, and I've played a few other games via emulation. I wish I had gotten a lot of games when they were going for cheap after the PS2 came out, and I've always been super-reluctant to buy used discs.

>Virtual Boy
I was aware of it at the time, but I don't think there were ever any demo units in the stores around me. I've never really had any interest in it besides Wario Land, which I played through most of in an emulator.

>Jaguar, 3DO, cdI, and anything else that wasn't Nintendo or Sega
Wasn't aware of them, still not interested.

>>2238519
The first Sega system I actually played was a Dreamcast. A friend of mine bought one when it came out (I would have been about 10 at the time). He swore it'd be the future of gaming. He wasn't too happy a couple of years later.

>>2238904
Ow man

Pretty much every non-Nintendo platform prior to the original PlayStation. I owned a Sega Saturn and Dreamcast when they were still being supported, but skipped out on the Master System and Genesis, as well as the TurboGrafx-16. I do own a few PCE CD-ROM games though.

>>2238478
> Retro games or consoles you never got to play as a kid

virtual boy
atari jaguar
neo geo
sega CD

I had seen these, even in person, but never got to play them as a kid in the 90s. I remember KB Toys had the jaguar for cheap but I never saw any games. I recall the virtual boy on display at k-mart but it was up high on a display and I was too short to reach it. I remember the sega CD being this "elite status" addon for my genesis that I was too young to want because snes and genesis and power rangers filled up my christmas list too quickly to ever have room for it. It was always that mid-summer after thought that you'd plan on asking for it THIS year but never do because xmas game sales.

and of couse neo geo was that "wow you must be rich" system that only your friend's older brother, who was home from college, had with that 1 game you only see at putt-putt.

>>2239959
Europe here, there's a lot of 2600 here, specially bootleg ones.
What I mean is, Europe is too big and has a lot of countries, you can hardly generalize something for the whole of Europe, specially if you're talking about consoles that were pre EEC / EU.

>>2238519
I used to be just like you, until I fell in love with the Saturn.

Only really lacking a Mega Drive now, really.

>>2238904

good for you dude. Keep that up, and don't forget to play with them.

never owned a PS1, PS2
never owned a Genesis, 32x, segaCD or saturn
never owned a gamegear.
never owned an N64
you can imagine the sheer number of games I've missed, i'm a huge JRPG fan and PS1/2 had A LOT OF THEM.
I had an NES, SNES, Gameboy color/advance, dreamcast, and the first Xbox.
I still play my dreamcast and Xbox sometimes.

>>2240816
First Europe here again, all of your points are valid.

I grew up with a SNES and didn't even know the Megadrive existed when I was a kid. I never remember any advertisements for it, magazines themed around it, MD games in stores, absolutely nothing. I was vaguely aware of Sonic the Hedgehog, but I probably never knew he was from a video game. I live in Australia so I know for sure the Megadrive was released here, but as a kid it was a nonentity to me.

I didn't have any consoles growing up, and the only consoles I got to play over friend's house was PS1. Nowadays I have a shitload of consoles and all kinds of handhelds.
I was really obsessed over Dreamcast and I still kinda am. Just the look of the console and the controller gave me these strange vibes. Now I have a Dreamcast in my collection and it's awesome.

>>2238478
The only major ones I never got to play were the TG-16, Neo Geo, and Sega CD. I was a Nintendo kid but had friends with Sega consoles. I actually had a Game Gear instead of a Game Boy though.

>>2243610
I should add that I was born in 1982. We had an Atari 2600 that came from a garage sale but naturally I was much more interested in the NES.

I've always wanted to try a saturn, just for the controller.

>>2243591
That's awesome man. Everyone should have a Dreamcast in their collection and I think I know what you mean. The console and the large controller are so playful and inviting looking.

i recently disassembled my dreamcast to clean it.
Whee does the lid spring go. Does it attach to the black piece or white piece?

That's all i need to know to put it back together.

>>2244290
Did you at least take it out for dinner first?

>>2238478
First console is sega, played nes/snes in friend's home, then owned PS/PS2, didn't know other console of the same gen like xbox exist because everyone owned PS. Never owned another console since PS2.

For handheld I owned GBA then go mobile.

>>2238495
>>2238878
>>2243679

I had a Saturn as a kid, but I ended up missing out on the N64 and PS1

feels good man,
also feels bad too

>>2238904
I am also in this boat.

My brother became addicted to WoW as soon as vanilla hit, and my parents made an executive decision to never allow me any video games right at the time where I became interested in playing them.

Of course, they made exceptions for PC-based learning games which I played on our old COMPAQ. Soon, that became RTS', then FPS'. A slippery slope which led to me being a massive collectorfag, constantly attempting to relive the video games I never got to play in the first place.

I have just now beated Metal Gear Solid. Catching up is kinda fun.

>>2238520
fukken kekked

>>2238478

>Dreamcast existing when you were a "child"

It must be nice being 15

>>2246673
Im 19. So yeah I was 4 when it came out you fucking retard.

>>2246680
/vr/ has just found its newest bitch

>>2246684
Sure thing Gramps