What is your console story?

[Anonymous No.8185356]

I'm more interested in where you started out and where you ended up. What choices did you make? What did you play? What did your friends have? What was skipped?

The first ever console I played was a rare Ingersoll XK-410-C. It would have been one of the plethora of the first home gaming consoles featuring the game "Pong".

[Anonymous No.8185360]

>>8185356
Gamecube was where it's at

[Anonymous No.8185374]

>>8185356
Next was the Atari 2600
The old wooden one. It was huge in its day.
Memorable games include:
Combat
Q-bert
Defender
Empire Strikes Back
Pole Position
Pac-Man
Space Invaders

[Anonymous No.8185379]

>>8185356
ZX Spectrum
Master System
Amiga
Mega Drive
PlayStation X

The only retro consoles you needed.
Simple as.

[Anonymous No.8185390]

My friend bought the nes and I hung out at his house all the time so even though I never owned one I played it all the time.
Of course the Super Mario Bros series of games were the main attraction

[Anonymous No.8185394]

My first games were Malcom (sic) Mortar and Springster on the piece of shit poorfag computer Tandy Coco. Shortly afterwards got a Sega Genesis for Xmas with Sonic 1 packin and also my dad eventually got bored of trying to program the pos Tandy and bought a Quadra 630 Macintosh where I played lots of kino games. Also had brick game boy and n64, missed out on Snes and PlayStation.

[Anonymous No.8185397]

>>8185379
I missed the ZX spectrum.
It wasn't very popular and I never heard about them until much later.
Although some dorky nerdy kids did have a Sinclair ZX81 home computer (including my older brother!). I wonder were they related?

[Anonymous No.8185403]

>>8185397
The Ferranti ULA's failed all the time in them, otherwise they were very simple computers.

[Anonymous No.8185426]

>>8185390
My next console was the Super Nintendo.
Me and my buddies spent countless hours smoking weed and playing SNES.
I mastered all the moves of every playable character in Street Fighter II. My other favorite games were Contra III The Alien Wars, Super Mario, F-zero and Super Mario Kart

[Anonymous No.8185448]

>>8185426
Next one I played was my friends Sega Mega Drive.
I must admit I was more of a SNES dude then. But I gave him a few pity plays now and then.
But I did enjoy the first few games of the Sonic series and really liked Kid Chameleon

[Anonymous No.8185456]

Nintendork for NES + SNES who jumped shipped to Sony because of Capcom and Squaresoft. But I always ended up buying Nintendo consoles once they got cheap.

Obviously I don't have a console newer than the Wii.

[Anonymous No.8185471]

>>8185448
A little later I played a friend's Game Boy
Only games Iliked were Tetris and Pokemon

[Anonymous No.8185504]

>>8185456
>Went from Nintendo to Playstation
Pretty much ended doing that myself
I skipped the Sega Saturn, Dreamcast and N64. They was no buzz around any of them with me or my mates.
Although I did get a Dreamcast and N64 much later.

[Anonymous No.8185536]

what i did
>nes
>genesis
>snes
>game gear
>sega cd
>sega cd broke
>psx
>pc
>dreamcast
>sold dreamcast
>ps2
>gba
>xbox 360
>ds
>ps3
>pc since

what i should have done
>nes
>gb
>gbc
>genesis
>saturn
>psx
>ps2
>gc
>gba
>ds
>pc

don't sell any games or consoles.

[Anonymous No.8185543]

>>8185504
As I said the next console that I owned after the SNES was the Sony Playstation 1.
Another great console.
I started to get into RPG games with this one and bought a copy of Final Fantasy VII on release.
Other favorites included:
Ace Combat 2
Soviet Strike
Driver
Abe's Oddessy
and of course Resident Evil 2

[Anonymous No.8185609]

>>8185543
Stuck with Sony and bought the PlayStation 2 next.
Moved out from home and was earning my own money by then.
Memorable games:
GTAIII
Bully
Warriors
Medal of Honor
Resident Evil 4
Devil May Cry
FFX
Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance
Champions of Norrath
Ratchet & Clank
Jak & Daxter
Simpsons Hit & Run

Probably my favorite console

[Anonymous No.8185647]

>>8185609
I picked up a xbox near the end of it's release and modded the shit out of it.
Although I did like the Halo series
Other games I liked:
Strangers Wrath
Burnout 3 Takedown
KotOR
Half life 2
Fable
Deus Ex
Destroy all Humans
The Godfather
The suffering

[Anonymous No.8185739]

>>8185356
Atari 2600 - 5/6 (1986)
Commodore 16
Commodore 64
Gameboy
Megadrive - 13(1994)
Amiga 600
386 PC
N64
PSX
Gameboy Colour
Pentium III - 18 (1999) to current (rolling upgrade)
PS2
PSP
DS
Gamecube
Xbox OG
Philips CD-i
Xbox 360
PS3
Wiii
PS4
Snes
Wii U

I hardly played my Megadrive compared to my C64 due to the fact I got games for that every week, and cartridges cost more than my pocket money.

I have every console/system apart from the atari 2600, or 386. Though I do have a 486, Pentium, Pentium with MMX, Pentium II, Pentium III etc....

Games
Atari 2600
>Dig Dug
>Yars Revenge
>Kangaroo
>Pole Position

C16
>Mr Puniverse
>Tutti-Frutti
>Ghost Town
>Video Meenies
>Kickstart

C64
>World Class Leaderboard
>Cauldren I & II
>M.A.S.K I, II, III
>Tau-Ceti
>Bubble Bobble
>Turrican Series
>Last Ninja Series
>Monty on The Run
>many, many more.

These are probably the games I remember playin mostly as a kid.

[Anonymous No.8185746]

uh i got a wii and then a phone and then a pc

[Anonymous No.8185882]

>>8185356
Started with an Intellivison in '84 or so. Had a friend in the neighborhood who had a 2600, so we had so e good variety. I have fond memories of the Intellivison and it gave me a love of games.

Around '87 I saw Super Mario Bros. On an NES for the first time at another friend's house and was blown away. He actually looked like a person with eyes, ears, hair, etc. I eventually got an NES as well, and my cousin got an SMS, so again we had a good mix of games and exposure to systems.

Got a SNES and a Game Boy at the end of junior high through high school, and absolutely loved them. Other kids had a Genesis, so got lucky with a mixture of systems and games again.

After high school, I lapsed for about 4 years, then tried to get into 5th gen...but I realized all I wanted was the games of the type I grew up with. Had a few PlayStation games that I liked, but mostly stuck to "retro". Been there ever since and don't feel like I missed anything.

[Anonymous No.8186004]

>>8185536
>nes
>dmg gameboy
>snes
>genesis
>gamegear
>n64
>yardsale 3DO
>gbpocket
>gbc
>virtualboy
>ps1
>gba
>ps2
>gamecube
>wii
>ds
>sold/lost everything & emulation only
>wiiU
>dslite
>3ds
>sega saturn
>dreamcast
>sega cd / 32x
>famicom and disk system
>neogeo x gold
>xbox 360 jtag & one
>atari 2600
>atari 7800
>intelevision
>colecovision
>neogeo mvs supergun
>sega mark iii (sg-1000)
>atari 5200
>bally astrocade
>magnavox odyssey2
>original xbox tsop flashed
>atari jaguar
>mvsx
>philips cdi


tldr;
the lord giveth, and the lord taketh away
live every day with gratitude
its never, ever too late
listen to your heart
dont give up

i didn't include the minis/rp3/mister/clone systems or pc/mac shit but the timeline is accurate OP

[Anonymous No.8186007]

>>8186004
forgot ps3


there really have been times in my life when i had nothing - i still cant believe how crazy the "gameroom" looks nowadays

[Anonymous No.8188403]

>>8185647
Next console was the Xbox 360
I jumped ship from main console being playstation to xbox.
I didn't get it at launch, but the shilling of Gears of War and Oblivion worked it's magic on me.
I J-tagged it myself as soon as the mod came out
Memorable games included:
Bioshock
Fallout 3
Borderlands
Dead Space
Kingdoms of Amalur

[Anonymous No.8188474]

>>8185739
>Commodore 16
>Commodore 64
>Amiga 600
>386 PC
>Pentium III
I had a Compaq windows 95 PC but I didn't play any games on it
My first PC game was Morrowind on a Pentium 3 using a nvidia FX5200

[Anonymous No.8188483]

>>8186004
Wow
You must of had rich parents
I don't think I was ever given a console until it had proven mass adoption

[Anonymous No.8188507]

>>8188483
was 18+ during gamecube era so we purchased everything on our own

both of my parents were into gaming
most of the systems were shared with siblings in the living room

we were poorfags anon
blockbuster rentals every other weekend
i remember looking forward to it fondly

[Anonymous No.8188510]

>>8188507
also note that we never had more than 2 systems at the same time growing up we were always trading shit it swapping with friends "upgrading" etc

thanks mom

[Anonymous No.8188560]

>>8185356
consolefag here
>NES
>Atari 2600
>SNES
>Genesis
>32X
>PS1
>N64
>Dreamcast
>PS2
>Xbox 360
>Wii
>PS3
>PS4
Retroactively moving from NES to 2600 is kind of a strange thing, but I was really young and I just liked games. I also really like the 2600.
I liked the Genesis more than the SNES. Mario on SNES was fun but the Genesis seemed to have a lot more immediate, fast, arcadey games.
I liked the 32X unironically, we got it on clearance with like 6 games, some of which were Kolibri, Star Wars, and Metalhead.
Metal Gear Solid on PS1 made me genuinely rethink what video game experiences could actually offer. There was nothing else like it and I still consider it one of the most important titles ever made. I feel largely the same about the first Silent Hill.
The N64 and Dreamcast are my two favorites on the list. Jet Set Radio, Shenmue, Shadows of the Empire, and Goldeneye are some of my favorites.
6th gen was fun at the time but I don't have much fun returning to it now. As graphics kept getting better it seemed like gameplay kept getting more bland. In terms of gameplay I feel like there's a lot less engaging stuff from this generation. A lot of it just doesn't challenge or engage the player. I like Maximo and the THPS games from this gen.
7th gen was a lot worse, in terms of the games that were coming out. AAA games were wholly uninteresting to me at this point, and the 2D artsy indie scene was just as bland. Game design seemed more homogenized than before. I liked Demon's Souls a lot. The Darkness was a fun FPS from this time too, one of the last to not just copy Call of Duty or Bioshock. Speaking of, Bioshock was also OK.
I like the Wii though, games like No More Heroes and Madworld really made it a fun and interesting console for me, and I got to experience fun Gamecube titles I missed like Pikmin and Metroid Prime.
I only bought a PS4 for Bloodborne. I don't really play modern games anymore. The current Playstation store is genuinely pathetic.

[Anonymous No.8188571]

>>8186007
>gameroom

[Anonymous No.8188589]

>>8188571
kekked

imagine sleeping with your videogames
nothing in the master bedroom besides a giant bed two nightstands and a pc desk in the far corner

[Anonymous No.8188591]

>>8188560
>kolibri
based

[Anonymous No.8188610]

>>8188560
I guess you need to justify the purchase of a console against how many hours you are likely to sink into it

[Anonymous No.8188619]

>>8188589
>computers and consoles in your bedroom
eh. I'd say this is pretty typical of those into computer games.
I only had them in a separate room when I could bought my own place with spare rooms

[Anonymous No.8188918]

>>8188619
i live alone so i can get away with it
if i had a daughter or girlfriend the spare room would be even more cringe desu

[Anonymous No.8188945]

born in 96. first game system was a gameboy. me and my siblings got gameboy colors, and then an n64 for one of my early birthdays. gameboy advanced for christmas a little later, then a limited edition SP that had the short lived nintendo slogan “who are you?” in grafiti style letters on the exterior. dog ate that one.
after that, gamecube, ps2, and on into non retro.
a few years back i got into some light collecting and picked up a SNES and a dreamcast, which i play from time to time. i’ve come to find that handheld is generally my preferred method of gaming, and i have a AGS-101 gba and vita for that purpose.
currently playing wario land and having a blast.