/vr/ - Retro Games

It was certainly the first piece of gaming hardware I owned.

However I had been exposed to gaming in other forms prior to this, I think.

My dad's business partner, a human piece of shit who blackmailled $1 million from my family, gave us an Atari 7800 in the late-80s. It was a hand-me-down. The only game we had was Phantom Panzer II.

My older brother's atari 2600.

>>8493740
had the gamegear also
but played gameboy more because of the batterylife

kids have zero money in the 90s
parents didn't want to constantly buy batteries every single day

I was the same OP. First time I ever played a game was Sonic the Hedgehog on my dad's Game Gear, followed by Sonic 2 on his Mega Drive.

Arcade games. No one I knew had the home system.

>>8493740

Neighbour's PC.
Doom and Skyroads.
Never found Doom disturbing or brutal with its completely over the top amount of blood. Thought the animations looked cool but far too "balloons filled with blood". Ah, good old days of hysteria.

>>8493853
Zoom zoom.

>>8493740
I had an atari 2600 at the end of it's life cycle but before the NES. The games were good for the day but quickly got outdone by better systems.

>>8493740
unironically those bootleg 75000 in 1 plug in and play consoles from the early 2000s. the one that was shaped like an n64 controller.

Sonic, which is also the peak of video games.

>>8493740
My parents’ DOS-compatible Power Macintosh 6100, which my dad bought as a “Christmas present to the family” in 1994. For those who aren’t familiar with this thing, it was basically two computers in one. You had the Dr. Jekyll Macintosh and the Mr. Hyde IBM-compatible PC, which came in the form of a 486 and 8 MB of RAM jammed onto a NuBus card. This gave me access to the huge world of DOS and later Windows gaming. The first games that I had were all educational games for Mac OS, but I soon discovered Power Pete, then I figured out how to switch between Mac OS and Windows 3.1, and I just went from there.

Unfortunately, in a fashion similar to Tim Cook Apple, the computer relied on some jerry rigged cable to carry out the crucial operation of switching between the PC and Mac systems. If you lost this cable, then you would no longer be able to switch between the DOS card and the Macintosh computer. My parents somehow lost the cable sometime between 2009 and 2011, likely in a spring cleaning where my mom found an “old computer cable”, didn’t know what it was for, and sent it to ewaste. I still have the 6100, and I even have a very rare NuBus VGA card, but the 486 card has been sitting on a shelf for almost 10 years.

My first game system was my mom's old ColecoVision. That's all I had to play on from 1996-1999 until my parents got us a N64 for Christmas. Going from playing stuff like Donkey Kong and Venture, to Mario 64 and OoT in one quantum leap was like the equivalent of a monkey suddenly learning how to talk overnight. Pretty sure some of my synapses are still fried from that. Zoomers will never understand.

>>8494105
Do you think that's the GG equivalent of a USB power bank or something?
>Zoom zoom
the ironing

>>8493740
I'm not sure. I had a hand me down game gear with lion king and i think a baseball game as well as a hand me down SNES with lz: lttp and super mario. my first system was an atomic purple GBC and Pokemon red, i remember my mom taking me to Sears to buy it

>>8493740
Bio Menace was the first videogame I ever played.

> Sega Gamegear

I remember when a kid in my 5th grade class showed up to school with a brand new Game Gear. He had Mortal Kombat and one of those retarded giant lenses that acted as a "screen zoomer". I had seen and played Game Boy games before that, but seeing a portable that played games in color was the first time a videogame truly blew my mind.

>>8493740
Zoom zoom.

Dendy

super pong machine
Apple II
I'm not super old, just was poor. To have seen gaming grow up was amazing. I hate the antichrist, btw.

>>8495612
Did you ask your parent or guardian for permission before playing online?

>>8493740
This exact console and game.

>>8495575
No but this is

>>8493740
My older brothers had an NES but they wouldn't let me play it. Eventually the cartridge slot got worn out so it would only work for a few minutes if at all.
I got pic related for christmas when I was 6. It came with Sonic Classics which had Sonic 1, 2 and Mean Bean Machine.

>>8493740
Late 90s, had an Ames near my house, only place i ever saw game gear stuff for sale. Already was familiar with sanic from my cousin's genesis, the cartoons and owning 3D Blast for PC. Really wanted a GG every time id be in there. Was up at a cabin my grandmother had and we took a trip into local redneck town mall with my grandmothers brother and wife in their pickup truck. They had an Ames there as well and had the Majesco Core GG models for sale for 30$. My "aunt" (what i called my grandmas, brothers, wife) said she'd get it for me, which was surprising because they were very scringy when it came to money. Was super happy and sat in the cabin with no games but still put batteries in just to turn it on.

On way back to my house, stopped at the local Ames near me and got Sonic 2 as my first game for it. Eventually got every game they sold at that chain for it when the stores all went out of buisness.

Got 2 og model GGs later on, but need repairs while my Core model still runs perfectly fine.

One time there was a power outage at my house and i brought my GG out to use as a light source for my family because shit was bright as fuck. Actually used it as a flashlight on more then one occasion.

Pitfall on the 2600
So sweet

>>8495930
Fucking never mind, thought thread was introduction to game gear specifically. Was some card flipping game on commodore 64 while i sat on my dads lap and sitting on a Hang-On arcade machine, my dad needing to help me move it cause i was so little.

My first gaym.

>>8493746
FFA/Solar Striker was my 2nd. Little did I know I cut my tooth on the greatest Hydlide clone to be on console for a long long time.

>>8495885
And only further proves the anon you were projecting your zoom onto correct. Is there a tiktok challege for self owns going on or something?

>>8493740
This game on NES. My dad spent an entire summer beating it. He'd come home from work and play for a bit while Mom cooked dinner. I was 3 at the time.

>>8493740
Sega Genesis.
I don't recall what was the 1st title I played on it, but I believe it was the original Sonic The Hedgehog, I also owned Arch Rivals, Ariel The Little Mermaid, QuackShot, Road Rash 2 and Streets of Rage 2.

>>8496557
I was just another anon responding to your shitposting

>>8496637
>i no read thread so ur shitpost
Yeah, that's the way it works.

Atari 2600 Jnr

First game was Kangaroo

>>8497113
No reason to get upset anon, it’s not our fault you didn’t know about other options

Pong. Yes, I'm that old. (GenX)

>>8493740
Super Mario World.

Was sega master system, and Alex the kidd - what a frustrating platformer. I have never beaten it. I think it’s about time to give it a go again.

>>8493793
This and it wasn't even mine, I just played it much more than my older brother.

Pic related for me. My Dad got it as a gift for me when I was 3 or 4. He got us some maze game where you avoid spiders and robots and video blackjack.

>>8497176
Yet another projecting zoom zoom. What a surprise.