Your Video Gaming Lineage

[digitalpress]

Tell me your PERSONAL timeline with regards to what game system got the MOST use (don't list them ALL), from your very first owned console to the present. Be as detailed or brief as you like. Don't worry too much about the dates, either - you can just call it "the 80's" or "my high school years", etc.

If you feel the need to use dates, feel free to use our timeline:
http://www.digitpress.com/archives/timeline.htm

Here's mine, to help you get started.

1972: Odyssey
1978: Atari 2600
1980: Atari 2600 and Intellivision
1982: ColecoVision
1984: Commodore 64
1987: Nintendo NES (yes, a latecomer)
1989: Genesis and TurboGrafx
1993: 3DO
1995: Saturn, then PlayStation
1999: Dreamcast
2001: PlayStation 2
2002: Dreamcast :)

[hydr0x]

1987-1990 Atari VCS 2600 (remember i was born 1983 ;) )
1990-1991 PC
1991-1994 NES
1994-1999 PC
1999-2000 SNES (don't say a fuckin word :p)
2001-2002 Dreamcast
2003 Gamecube

[RetroYoungen]

Mine's a little short, since I haven't been around I don't have a lot to tell like some guys might.

Age 2 (1986): Got an NES for Christmas (well, my sister did, but she let me play it anytime I wanted, so it was sort of mine).

Ages 6-10 (roughly): Addicted to Super Mario Bros. 3.

Age 8: First (and only) perfect report card; Dad buys me Game Boy and Super Mario Land: 6 Golden Coins. Still have it, still play it (even though I've beaten it however many times).

Age 12: First mag subscriptions - GamePro and Nintendo Power (yup, the two most biased mags were my first foray into gaming journalism).

Age 13: First started collecting games with leftover lunch money and allowance cash. Collected primarily NES games. Also, I think this was the first year I bought myself a console: my second SNES.

Age 14: Broke 100 games, happy as a little Japanese schoolgirl at her favorite bands' concert.

Age 16: Broke 10 consoles (I think).

Age 19 (today): broke 500 games, over 16 consoles, and started college where I most of the time am playing emulated games on my PocketPC (but it LOOKS like I'm working... ;) ).

That's all I can remember.

[Darth Sensei]

1978 Atari 2600
1980 Intellivision
??? TRS-80 Coco and Model 3
1981 Microvision
1984 Commodore 64
1985 PC
1986 NES
1989 Genesis & later CD
1994 Playstation
1997 Game.com (just kidding) LOL
2002 PS2

This is to the best of my recollection. I've been playing PC games ever since 1985.

[Sniderman]

1970's Coleco Telstar with Target/Shooting Gallery

Late 70's Atari 2600, which I stuck with for a loooong time.

Mid 1980's Commodore 64. I never owned an NES, as I had this powerhouse.

Early 90's Sega Genesis/CD/32X

Mid 90s - PSX

Now - PS2

[IntvGene]

Early 80's Atari 2600
Mid 80's Atari 8bit
Late 80's NES
Early 90's SNES
Mid 90's Saturn
Late 90's DC

Of course, these are just approximations... my #2 system would be Intellivision for all those years of course.:) I didn't own one until early 90's though...

[hezeuschrist]

1986-1991: NES
1992-1997: SNES
1997-2000: Playstation
2000-2002: PS2
2003: Gamecube/PS2. They both really get equal play.

Somewhere in there I was addicted to Dreamcast for about 2 months, but it didn't last long :embarrassed:

[rolenta]

1972: Odyssey
1979-Present: Atari 2600
1983: Atari 800
1983: Intellivision II
1986: Atari 7800
1989: Sega Master System
1999: Dreamcast
2001-Present: PlayStation 2
2002-Present: Gamecube

[Oobgarm]

1981-84: Atari 2600 (I was only 3 the first time I played it)
1985-91: NES
1989-93: Game Boy
1991-96: SNES
1996-97: N64
1997-2000: PSX
1999-2002: Dreamcast
2000-Present: PS2
2001-Present: Xbox/Gamecube/GBA

1998: Picked up Game Gear, Genesis, Saturn, and TG16 since I missed out on them back in the day.

While I still play a small spattering of all consoles now, my PS2 sees the most use.

[jaydubnb]

Early 80s- Atari 2600. I pretty much liked everything I'd played on it an it was this system that got me hooked into gaming. However, the vast majority of games that I used to love as a kid, now suck hard.

Late 80s- NES. Classic system. 'Nuff said.

89/90- TG16. Bought it on launch. Still play it and its PCE imports heavily.

Early 90s - SNES. Still play it often, though I come back to it less and less over the years,

Late 90s: PS. Castlevania : SotN and Metal Gear Solid = only games I care about for the system.

2000 - DC. Oh, how I love thee...

2001 - PC Engine Duo R. My TG16 love made me go to the source ;)

Late 2001 - NGPC became my favorite handheld.

Early 2002 - PS2. *yawn*

Early 2002- Genesis. Yeah, I know, about 10 years late. Worth the wait just to play Gunstar Heroes :)

Late 2002 - NEO*GEO - Booya! This puppy is always in the heavy rotation.

coming soon: Game Cube. Viewtiful Joe owns me.

[NE146]

The MAJOR times spent were.

1. Coleco Telstar Colotron
2. Sears VCS
(intersperse Colecovision and Vectrex here.. both borrowed.. and of course Arcade games)
3. Handelds of all types. Usually Jap ones.
4. Atari 5200.
<long pause while the crash happens and I go to High School>

5. NES / SMS
6. TG-16/Genesis/SNES

By that point I have my own money so it's pretty much every major system since then except the 3DO and Neo Geo.

[Scoots]

1981 or so: Atari 2600
1984: Colecovision
1986-1990: NES and PC
1990-1995: Girls
1995: N64
2001-2003: Odyssey2, Intellivision, Vectrex, Genesis, PS2, etc etc etc

The NES was the only system I really cared about as a kid. I bought it with money I won in an art contest and I loved that thing. It's still my favorite system though I don't play it as often as I did then. I only really got into "collecting" in a serious way in the last few years, before that I'd acquire some NES carts casually, but nothing systematic.

[Ed Oscuro]

Age 19 (today): broke 500 games, over 16 consoles...

Broke? Do you mean "beat" or "won" ? That's more games than I currently own, of any type, PC or console, freeware or otherwise. Damn. Probably more than I've ever owned too.

My lineage:

Born at the tail end of the year when the Nintendo Famicom was released (the 29th of the last month of that year)

Saw my first game...dunno when. NES I believe, sometime earlier than 1993 and possibly as early as 1990. Possibly.

Spent most of this time reading books and doing other more scholarly activities, fun :D

Saw my first Street Fighter 2 (-esque game) owned by same friend, at this time living in a different house. I immediately took a liking to Chun Li :) We're still considerably earlier than 1994, though.

In 1996-97 or so I started getting some FPS titles for my PC, started with the DOOM trillogy box, moved on, was still in this mode.

By 1998 I had become current, had a Nintendo 64, a PlayStation that I believe was bought in 1997 with my own money (still have had few games for it), and had become up-to-date in the PC games world with Half-Life. Never cared so much for the shooting, I usually used cheats in Half-Life and other FPSes when possible and became somewhat well acquainted with the Half-Life console (still not much better :D) I was a big fan of Heretic (by Raven) and Rise of the Triad (shareware only until 2001-2002, when I actually bought a copy and realized the full game sort of sucks). I also bought the AD&D Silver Edition set, with the big book and small quake-esque paper binder with three discs. Got to like Pool of Radiance quite a bit and struggled to give myself better weapons by hacking the files...without use of a hex editor. Oops! I also got to play some of the other games on that disc; unfortunately I don't know where the disc is anymore (same for many of my older game discs) and only have copies of a few of the titles on that CD.

1999: Bought Quake 3 band new at full price for Christmas, was disappointed at the game's structure. Started a trend whereby I'd buy a game and my brother would play it more; sometimes the opposite has been true.

1999-2001: Sort of hazy. Found AYB a bit too late, started my forum carrer by thinking it would be cool to be the last poster in each forum of GameSpy forums all at once, which I accomplished, posted, and later realized wasn't too cool.

2001: Lots of asshattery at GameSpy Forums. Lots of people coming, some going in disgust.

2002: Solid year of game buying, paid too much money for some stuff, but generally it was a good year learning.

2003: Started off with considerably less knowledge than I have now. Now things are looking much better, and I feel that I've evolved considerably past my roots.

[YoshiM]

1979/1980: Coleco Telstar Arcade
1982/1983: Atari VCS (won at a K-Mart Moonlight Madness event)
1985: TRS-80 Color Computer 2
Latter 1985/1986: TI 99 4/A
Latter 1986/1987: Atari 2600
1987: NES
1989/1990: Genesis
1993: IBM PC (moved from my 8088 to a 486 SX 25)
1996: N64
1999: Dreamcast
Latter 1999: N64
2001: Gamecube
Late 2002 to current: Xbox, but DC gets equal love as well.

[Raccoon Lad]

I don't remember the years, but it goes something like this:
2600
Nes
Genesis
SMS
Sega CD
SMS
32X
SMS
PSX
SMS
Dreamcast
SMS

gotta go back to what's best :)

[Half Japanese]

1989: NES
1990: Game Boy
1993: Sega Genesis
1998: Playstation
1998: Game Boy Color
1999: N64
2000: Dreamcast
2001: Neo Geo Pocket Color
2001: Playstation 2
2002: Gamecube
2002: Xbox
2003: Game Boy Advance

I didn't play very many games in the early 90s because I couldn't afford them (I was young), but I rented a good bit. I picked up in the last 5 years as you can see :D. I'd say I've spent the most time with the Dreamcast (ungodly amounts of time with Unreal Tournament and PSO online). Probably my favorites out of the bunch are the Xbox, DC and the NGPC.

[Sylentwulf]

1982?-1984? - Colecovision
1985 - 1989? - NES
1989?-1994? - SNES
1994?-2000 - Playstation
2000-2003 - Playstation 2

One system at a time for me :) I played a few atari games (I know blasphemy) but I don't think I ever owned one, I got a coleco when I was 5, NES when it came out, SNES, then PS1.... In Fact, the gamecube and PS2 are the only 2 current gen consoles I've ever owned at the same time.

[can_dude]

1986 - 2600
1989 - NES
1990 - SNES
1993 - PC
1995 - N64/PSX
2000 - PS2
2001 - PS2/XB/GC

[Zubiac666]

19?? (I think it was 83-84) Texas Instruments PC-Console thingy
1986 Famicom+Famicom Disk System
1986-1992/1999-2003 NES
1992-2003 SNES
1996-2003 N64
2002-2003 Gamecube

[Phosphor Dot Fossils]

1974/75-80 - Sears Pong Sports IV
1980-present - Odyssey2
1981-present - Apple II
1982-present - Atari 2600
1988-present - PC (if that counts)
1989-present - Game Boy
1998-present - Colecovision, Intellivision
1999-present - Atari 7800, Playstation 1
2001-present - Atari 5200
2002-present - NES (how's that for a latecomer?)
2003-present - Atari 8-bit, Aquarius, TI 99/4A, Magnavox Odyssey, Odyssey 100-4000 consoles, coin-ops

I'm hoping to add a GameCube to my 2003 list, God and/or Santa Claus willing, with a GBA SP to follow in 2004. :D

[Achika]

1987 to mid 1990's: NES
early 1990's - 1997: Game Gear, SNES
1996-1999 - Intellivision, Gameboy, Saturn, N64, Playstation
1999-2003 - Dreamcast, PS2, everything else I currently own.

[ubersaurus]

(when I had enough motor skills to play) - 1987
Atari 2600
1987-1988 Atari 7800
1988-1993 NES
1993-1996 Super NES, my aunt's genesis, game boy
1996-2000 N64, playstation
2000-2002 Dreamcast, odyssey 2, genesis, saturn
2002-present Gamecube, genesis, xbox

[Kid Fenris]

1985 -1986: My grandparents' Commodore 64
1988 - 1990: Apple IIGS (with The Bard's Tale, Defender, and not much else)
1990 - 1995: NES, SNES
1995 -1996: SNES, Genesis, SegaCD
1996 - 1999: PlayStation, Saturn
1999 -2001: PlayStation, Dreamcast
2001-2002: PS2, GameBoy Advance
2002-present: PS2, Xbox, GameCube, GBA

[SoulBlazer]

Joe, where's the SNES on your list? :D

Okay, here's the best I could do on mine -- and I'll say I was born in 1976.

1982-1988 Atari 2600
1985-1994 Commodre 64/128
1988-1994 Nintendo Entertainment System
1989-Present Personal Computer
1990-1999 Game Boy/Game Boy Pocket
1992-2000 Super Nintendo
1997-Present Nintendo 64
1998-2001 PlayStation
1999-2001 Game Boy Color
2001-Present PlayStation 2
2001-2003 Game Boy Advance
2002-Present Game Cube
2003-Present Game Boy Advance SP

[wberdan]

1982-1986: ColecoVision and Atari 8 Bit computer
1986-1989: Nintendo NES
1989-1994: Genesis/SegaCD/32X
1995: Atari Jaguar (briefly)
1995-2001 (PC, but even that was rare to use frequently)
2001- dreamcast
2001- NOW : anything/everything


willie

[Kid Ice]

I have been a late-adopter in most cases. This goes by the year I got them, without regard to whether I played them much (see 1987), nor whether I still have them.

1976 some Pong machine w/ a gun target game
1979 Atari VCS
1984 Vectrex, Commodore Vic 20
1986 Commodore 128
1987 RCA Studio 2 (the kid goes retro waayyy before it's cool!)
1991 NES
1994 Sega Genesis
1995 3DO
1995 Atari 7800
1996 Playstation
1997 Sega Saturn, Atari 5200
1998 SNES, N64, Intellivision
1999 Sega Dreamcast (launch)
2001 Nintendo Gamecube (launch), Bally Astrocade, Colecovision (DINA)
2002 Playstation 2, Atari Jaguar, XBox
2003 Sega CDX

[Flack]

1977: Pong
1978: Odyssey 2
1979: Atari 2600
1980: TRS-80 Model III
1983: Franklin Ace 1000 (Apple Clone)
1985 - 1993: Commodore 64
1991: NES
1993: PC (386 dx/40)
1995: SNES
1997: PSX
1998: N64
1999: Dreamcast
2000: PS2
2002: GBA
2003: GP32

Today: All of the above!

Somewhere in the middle there should be a PC-XT and a PC Jr ... just can't remember exactly when/where.

[TheRedEye]

1982: Born in May, with a 2600 in the house
1989: Got an NES for Christmas
1990: Got a Game Boy for Christmas, dad got an Amiga
1992: Sold my Game Boy to buy a Genesis (and Sonic 2), gave my NES to an extremely needy family.
1993/94: Jumped on a dying ship and got a Turbo Grafx
1994-1997: Due to some odd child custody stuff, had only a Sega Genesis. I think I have every pixel in Sonic 2 memorized.
1997-1998: Bought my first PC, fell dearly in love with emulation.
1999-2000: My brief collecting stint, played almost nothing but my NES.
2001-Present: Bought a Dreamcast for Christmas 2001, with a bunch of heavily discounted games. Half of which I haven't even played yet. Sold most of the "collection," now I'm down to owning only the essentials (i.e. Phantasy Star and Choplifter are the ONLY SMS games I own).

Right now I'm playing the Saturn I just bought from omnedon (http://www.digitpress.com/forum/profile.php?mode=viewprofile&u=568). Dracula X is approximately the best game ever.

I still have yet to own a Playstation or Nintendo 64, and have absolutely nothing against either system.

[Zaxxon]

late 70's Radio Shack Electronic Scoreboard w/ light gun
1982 ColecoVision
1984-85-ish Coleco Adam
1988-1994 nothing
1994- ColecoVision
1995 Genesis/CD and Jaguar
1996 PSX
1997 Saturn
2000 DC
late 2001-present PC emulators

I notice almost no one had a Vectrex. I didn't either nor knew anyone who did.

[tabbs]

The playstation was the first system my parents ever bought.
My dad had a SNES at his house though . . .

The first system that was ever mine however is the SP . . .
I have Brandon to thank for that. ^,^

[thegreatescape]

1990-ish: My aunt and uncle gave us their Master System after they got a mega-drive. I think it had something to do with the fact that i had to be dragged away from it when we visited them LOL
THeres a sort of sad story involving the game hang-on and a motorcycle crash, but i wont go there..

1993-ish: My aunt left to live in new zealand, gave us the Mega Drive with like 30 games, Menacer, arcade stick.

1997-ish: The megadrive was getting dusty, so my mum gave it (and ALL the stuff) away to relatives, bought us a Playstation, which i still love.

2000- My younger brother bought a Dreamcast, but i ended up using it heaps more. Now its next to my keyboard connected to a vga box :D

2002- I have a friend that worked at a video game store near me, and every day he worked (sundays usually) i would come in and we'd waste the whole day playing FIFA, etc. In november of 2002, Electronics Boutique offered to pay the shopping center more for the site (waay more), so they closed down. My friend was working the night before they closed, so we went through the store and grabbed as much freebies as we could, including some Megadrives and games. Since then ive been buying anything sega i could get my hands on (and afford).

Somewhere in there was a gameboy color that i won, and promptly sold and bought an atari lynx. It just feels wierd playing a nintendo. That and i couldnt stand the screen.
I now also have a PS2, 2 computers and a Saturn.

[scooterb23]

I think this about covers it...

1980: Atari 2600
1982: TI994A
1985: NES
1986: Commodore 64
1990: Genesis
1993: SNES
1994: Genesis
1997: Playstation
2000: Dreamcast
2001: PS2
2002: Gamecube
2003: XBox

[Duncan]

Dates are approximate...

Before 1985: I barely recall playing both Atari 2600 (at one friend's house) and Mattel Intellivision (at another friend's) when I was very young. You can count the "shifty" dealer in Las Vegas Blackjack as my dad's first favorite video game character, and the very first video game image that I really remember.

1985: RCA Studio II (bought second-hand, obviously, and really only played occasionally -- Bowling was a favorite, though)
1987: Nintendo Entertainment System (bought new with SMB/Duck Hunt and Ring King -- very underrated, play it!)
1991: Sega Genesis (Christmas gift with Sonic 1 and Quackshot. Sadly, most of my friends had the SNES...)
1996: Nintendo 64 (Christmas gift with Mario 64 and Wave Race -- again, very underrated!)
1998: Sony PlayStation (bought used for the exclusive purpose of playing Gran Turismo -- which is still its main use, actually)
2001: Sony PS2 (bought new, mainly to play GT3 and GTA)
2002: Nintendo GameCube (bought new, as a treat for myself, with Mario Sunshine -- because I can't let Nintendo die!)
2003: Just picked up a new PSone, to replace my ratty old PSX (thus maintaining the ability to play GT2 at any time)

The present: My classic gaming era has begun. I've dusted off the Genesis (still my favorite period), found a busted Sega CD (I'm working on it), purchased a Master System and a Super Nintendo for the first time, recently picked up a Lynx on the cheap (my first Atari system!), and I'm working on finding a way to get the NES and N64 hooked up on the same TV (along with my Cube and PSone) without major surgery. (Sadly, I haven't been able to play the Studio II since roughly 1987, thanks to a missing switchbox. No big loss, though.)

There's also been a constant stream of Game Boy action. My brother bought an original Game Boy (used) in 1994 or so, then I picked up a GB Color and GB Advance in 1998 and 2001, respectively. And I'm thinking about getting a Game Gear now, assuming I can find all the good games for it.

Duncan :D

[dreamcaster]

Age 3.5 - 1989: Got our 286 PC. This is where gaming started for me. SimCity, F-15 Strike Eagle II, Captain Comic and many other late 80's PC classics graced my gaming screen.

Age 10 - 1995: After sticking with the PC for far too long, I bought my Super NES in September 1995. Came very close to getting a Mega Drive though. Never went back to PC's after this.

Age 12 - 1997: In August 1997, I upgraded to the Nintendo 64, after a difficult choice between the N64, PSX and Saturn. Product loyalty won this time. First handheld was also purchased - Atari Lynx. And for a while, new games were still readily available for it.

Age 13 - 1998: Upgraded to a Game Boy Color after games for the Lynx dried up.

Age 16 - 2001: First two consoles I got as 'collectables' - Sega Game Gear and Atari 2600. Both for free too.

Age 16/17 - 2002: Bought a GCN on launch day. The next month I found a SNES. Pretty much decided I'd become a console collector. Later in the year I got an NTSC N64 (first and only import console so far), a NES and a PS2 in December.

Age 17/18 - 2003: Went into full collecting mode. Dreamcast, Saturn, Mega Drive, Mega CD, Master System all purchased this year. Also got an Xbox for birthday.

And....that's it.

[nesuser2]

this should be easy enough......

1988: NES
1993: GBmono(parents bought us one to shut us up on the way to florida, worked...but we fought over it :) )
1996: still NES(poor, never had another system)
1998: PS1 and N64(birthday and some money i rummaged up through a garage sale)

dropped gaming until
2002: NES
2003: Gamecube...

NES all the way!! XBox action is on the way though! :D

[oesiii]

Great topic once again, I don't know how you keep coming up with them Joe :D


1979: Atari 2600
1981: Atari 800, 10 solid years of use.
1989: NES
1993: Genesis
1993-1997: Girls, like Scoots said 8-)
1998: Gameboy Color
1999: Dreamcast
2000-present: Too many to count now

[Dire 51]

Lemme see here...

Late '70s: generic Pong standalone
Late '70s - 1987: Atari 2600
1987 - present: Atari 7800
1989 - present: NES
1990 - present: SMS and Genesis
1990 - 1992: TurboGrafx-16 w/ CD
1991 - present: SNES
1992 - present: TurboDuo
1997 - present: PSX
1998 - present: Saturn
2001 - present: Dreamcast
2002 - present: PS2
2003: Famicom w/ Disk System

That about sums it up.

[DDCecil]

~1985 - Atari 2600
1987 - NES
1990 - Gameboy
1991 - SNES
1992 - Genesis/Sega CD
1995 - 3D0
1996 - N64
1998 - Saturn/PSX
2001 - Gamecube
2002 - PS2

[WiseSalesman]

Elementary School - NES
Middle School - SNES
HighSchool - owned N64 first, but PSX got most use
First year of college: Gamecube (i lived in dorms, multiplayer rocks) & N64
2nd year of college: Moved home, no friends at first, lots of free time, PS2
Now: I don't know.....Gamecube or GBA

[opcode]

Let me see...

Before 1982 - wasn't aware about videogames :(
1982-1984 - Atari2600/arcade games
1984-1985 - ColecoVision/Arcade games
1985-1991 - MSX/MSX2
1991-1995 - SNES
1995-2001 - PCs
2001-now - NGC

Opcode

[The Manimal]

198? - 1989: Atari VCS
1989-1996: NES
1996-1997: Game Boy
1997-2002: SNES
2003 - present: PlayStation

[sisko]

Mid 80s - Early 90s - Atari 2600
Early 90s - Late 90s - NES
Late 90s early 00s - N64
01 - SNES
Late 01 - Dreamcast
02 - PS2

[mizarkgram]

Late 80s, 90s and up to the present.... NES

Actually, I went to university, and I only brought by N64 and Gamecube.... and I had to get my old man to send me down my NES... I felt lost without it. Its always been there for me :D

[ianoid]

1978 Channel F
1982 Atari 2600
1983 Apple 2
1988 NES
1997 Everything else except Gamecube


Nobody did Channel F here? Nobody did Apple 2?

ian

[ubikuberalles]

The dates given are the dates I started playing games on the system. I have no idea when I stopped on the machines listed. In fact I still play games - new games even - on my 2600 to this day.

1976 - Altair computer (I killed a LOT of trees playing Star Trek on this machine)
1980 - Atari 400/800 (Star Raiders RULED)
1981 - Atari 2600 (My dad bought the machine on a whim and I was immediately addicted to Super Breakout)
1986 - Atari ST (I loved playiing Empire on that machine)
1990 - VAX computer (Someone found Empire for this machine. W00+! We didn't have it for long as management found out about it and removed it. Dang! I'm just glad management didn't catch me playing the game and fire me)
1993 - PC
1995 - Game Gear
1998 - Alpha computer (I ported Star Trek from the Altair over to the Alpha)
1999 - Lynx
2000 - Jaguar
2002 - Game Boy
2003 - Dreamcast

[Keir]

1981-1984 VIC-20
1984-2000 Commodore 64
2000-Present everything I can get my hands on

[maxlords]

I was a late bloomer as my parents forbid me a console game machine until I could buy one myself!:

1986-89 Commodore 64 (that's all I was allowed cause it was a "computer"
even though all we had for it was games!

1989-90 Genesis (at friends' houses, ah the misty memories!)

1991-95 SNES (my first home console!)

1996-98 PSX (RPG glut on the PSX made me ignore my Saturn, even if I did buy all the RPGs for it!)

1999-2000 DC (yeah baby!)

2000-02 PS2 (ugh...I know, but hey, there ARE good games for it)

2002-present Turbo Duo

Currently, and for the last year or two, I've been playing mostly older games....getting back into Genesis, SNES, Turbo Duo, etc. I've mostly ignored my current gen systems, and there's no overriding system that I find myself playing more than any other. I'm in some weird sort of zen balance zone for gaming platform fairness :)

[o2william]

My history goes something like this (dates approximate):

1981 - Odyssey2. Played it constantly.
1982 - I met my best childhood friends (twin brothers). They had a 2600, which I could play whenever I wanted. The O2 and 2600 got about equal use.
1986 - Tandy 1000EX. Lots of hours spent playing Starflight, Sierra "Quest" games, and arcade ports. O2 and 2600 went into storage, but still came out from time to time.
1987 - My friends moved away, but let me keep the 2600(!).
1988 - Bought an NES. My parents pressured me into giving away my 2600 and O2 stuff. Became major NES addict.
1992 - Received SNES for Christmas. Loved it, but NES continued to get some use too.
1994 - Bought B&W Game Boy, quickly followed by Super Game Boy. Really only used for Caslevania and Metroid.
1995 to Present - Became obsessed with classic games. Discovered Len Herman's book "Phoenix" and "The 2600 Collection" newsletter. Started collecting.
I then acquired systems in roughly this order: Atari 2600, Odyssey2, ColecoVision, Intellivision, Master System, Astrocade, Vectrex, Atari 7800, Genesis, Atari 130XE, Atari 5200, C64, VIC-20, Playstation, NGPC, Saturn, GBA, NUON. Right now, I'd say Playstation and GBA get the most use overall, but it varies depending on what I'm in the mood to play.

[SpasticFuctard]

1977 My birth, and unto this scorched earth was releasted a terrible pox.

1978 My older brother's Atari 2600 was to become my teething ring for many years to come. I gnawed the rubbed off ever frikking joystick we ever owned. Some people chew pens, I gnaw on controllers. You shoudl see my universal remote control

1980 - The Vic20 came home. I remember hour(sic) of video slots fun. Back into the box with you.

1981 - My TI99/4a was unleashed upon me, complete with my 50 baud accoustic coupler. It was then that I honed my reading skills to a razors edge with the aid of innumerate reading games on my TI and began the long slow decent into inveterate geekdom with the addition of first the Extended Basic, then the Logo and finally the Pascal expansion cards (card? These things were behemoth monoliths. I am fairly sure they weighed more that the rosetta stone)

1983-1991 - And so came the Commodore 64. The system to which I would become endlessly devoted, the system which my older brother would have confiscated by the Feds for operating within a hacking ring. This is the system which would pollute ever square inch of my basement with cassettes and eventually floppy disks full of 0-day warez. We were |33t at the Sorcerer's Scroll. We had a 1200 baud modem. And much much later, we had a 9600 baud bulletproof hayes, the 1581, and a 20 Meg hard drive (Can you imagine how much bloody space that is in c64 terms?). I plunged headlong into uncountable flamewars with PC owners, laughingly trumping their clunky machines with my SID chip and my vast library of games, not to mention a decent joystick. Commodore, I miss you buddy.

1986 NES - Nuff said.

1988 - And lo, the Commodore was terribly dated. And so Commodore endeavored to release to their PC hating fan base a new gaming rig which would make their x86 competitors look even more like the chumps they were. It was the Amiga 500, and it was good. And again, my room was filled floor to ceiling with stolen goods. It is people like me that sounded the final trump for Commodore.

1990 Sega Genesis - Awesome joyous system, I even bought all the crap perephrials, 32x? Sega CD? nothing was too good for my baby. It still languishes in my bedroom with the ill-fated Shadowrun game poking out of the top and the terrible Tick license title next to it.

1992(?) Round about now, my Amiga was giving up the ghost. No amount of Bodega bays, or video toasters could keep up with the awesome might of a dx4/100. Nothing could stem the tide of new PC games. What was I to do? I game in and gave up. Stepping into rank and file with countless other Microsoft drones. I feel dirty for this admission.

1995 - Got a free n64. Got 3 games, one of them was Wetrix. This system ate ass.

Present - Got an Ps2 - it rocks my socks. Got an Xbox, it doesn't but Bioware does. My girl's got a Gamecube, it rocks one sock, maybe gently shakes the other.

SF - Like you care, yeah?

[Chunky]

dates and such are unknown.

so here we go:

2600
TI99
400
intellivision
IIe
NES
TRS 80
SNES
Genesis
TG-16
PS
N64
DC
PS
Jag
Neo-Geo
Saturn
PS2
GC
Ps2 Jap
ColecoV
7800
5200
Intellivision
SMS

thats the order that i got em(not counting handhelds), i think.

current light rotation:
Neogeo-tg16-2600-GC
Heavy rotation: DC/ps2

[den68]

late 70's- no consoles but I had a slew of the LED handhelds, most notably the Coleco Electronic Quarterback.

1982- first console, the Atari 2600. I recieved this as a gift for my 8th grade graduation. I was 14.

1985- Commodore 64. blew out a slew of joysticks playing 4th & Inches and Fight Night with my buds.

1987- NES. 1st console I bought with my own money, earned while working at Kay-Bee Toys. Spent many long nights playing drunken Blades of Steel tournaments with my buds.

1991- Sega Genesis. my future wife bought me this one.

1998- Playstation. figured it was finally time to upgrade from the NES and Genesis.

2000 to present- everything else.

[Neonsolid]

Gone.

[FlufflePuff]

1986: Atari 2600
1989: NES
1991: Gameboy
1993: SNES
*pause*
2001: PS2

I played games during the 32 bit era, but never owned the systems until I started collection in 2001. Also, my PC is a consistant throughout those years. From Carmen Sandiego to Civ 3 my PC has been the one solid gaming machine for me.

[G4MZ0v3R]

NES
SNES
Genesis/CD
Gameboy
CDI
Playstation
Saturn
Dreamcast
Gameboy Color
PS2
Xbox
Gameboy Advance
Just started pre NES gaming last year with a Atari 2600

[qbertandernie]

man, everyone else has a long illustrious history with many different systems...

1982-ish : parents buy the atari 2600 so dad can play Frogger...played this until about 1986 or so when my friends got NES systems, and i still fell for the 'peer pressure' thing. stopped playing it for awhile..

1990s - my brother buys SNES when it comes out, i buy a few games for it...play quite a bit when hes not playing every year of madden and nhl. entire seasons. and trading players to have accurate teams listings. hes owned every year of madden and nhl since 1993, and still is this freakishly anal about the sports games.

1993-7 - pull out the old atari 26, still enjoy demon attack(moreso the version where the projectiles move with your ship) and 'borrow' all of my current friends classic atari games... still play SNES periodically.

1997 - buy a 3do with several games off of my friend. this thing gets ridiculous amounts of play time, usually at night, and usually because of star control 2. best buy still had some clearance 3do games, and i still shopped there, so i got some games new. LANDMARK: this is the first system i actually puchased and owned by myself. at this point i am 19. (salutes the purveyors of the DP guide)

early 2000 - find a blinky ass NES at the goodwill with 30 games. puchase it, recalling all of the late nights with TMNT, excitebike, MArio Bros, etc at friends houses in my youth. play quite a bit...start buying all of the used games i can find and end up with a roomfull by the middle of 2004.

xmas 2003 - get a gamecube for xmas because my mom and dad cant think of anything else to buy me and my GF says i want one. comes with zelda 4 game disk. i dont like zelda, so i buy mario sunshine, luigis mansion and pikmin at a used shop for $13 each. kept the zelda disk sealed for collectability. LANDMARK: this is the first new system ive owned.

mid 2004 - buy a PS2 network bundle because i long to play the PS2 and am a cheap bastard. the price drop is enough so i buy one. GC takes a back seat to the PS2 for awhile, now both are about equal when i actually have time to play.

Sept 2004 - work rampantly to finish my game room, which has never been neat and tidy or have anything displayed well. new house, new hopes for neatness. have about 3000 games, 37 systems, countless variations of systems and games, as well as a fair amount of merchandising stuff.

[Dan Iacovelli]

well basiclly my time line happens to be when each atari system came out (minus the 5200 and XE)
1977: 2600
(I got the ti-99/4a around the 80's not sure since it was mostly my bro's computer)
1984: ibm clone computer
1984: 7800
1985: Atari Lynx(funny thing about this I was working at TRU around this time and my parents brought the system from the same store I was working at at and it was only time I didn't know what I got for Xmas(the 2600 and 7800 was also Xmas presnets )
1993: Jaguar(my mom gave half of the money to pay for this at mars merchandise)

[SegaAges]

most of early childhood: Sega Master System
Rest of early childhood: NES
middle childhood: SNES/Genesis
Middle School: Saturn
High School: N64 and Dreamcast!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
College: got the next gens, 2600, but they don't compare to high school

[VinnyT]

1987-Atari 2600
1993-Sega Genesis
1996-Game Boy(5 bucks at garage sale)
1997-Playstation
1998-First PC
1999-N64
2001-GameCube

[drivefast1690]

87-92 NES
92-96 Genesis
96-02 PS1
02-Current PS2

[izret101]

Mine is all over for the times. Duplicate is because the original was sold by parent.
Atari VCS (1992-3ish)
SNES (Xmas eve 1994)
Genesis (Xmas 1994)
Gameboy (April 1995 or 96?)
Playstation (Xmas eve 1996)
Gameboy Color (April 1999)
N64 (Xmas 1999)
Psone (Xmas 2001)
Colecovision (Summer 2000) Free
Genesis (Summer 2000) Repurchase
PS2 (Xmas eve 2001)
GBA (April 2002)
Gamecube (Xmas 2002)
Dreamcast (2003)
NES (Summer 2003)
Halo Xbox (Summer 2004)

Remember i was born in '88.

[Dr.Yang]

mhhh
1979-pong clone /destroyed it at the age of 3 ^^
1982/83 atari 2600 /sold
1986 atari 800xl /sold
1987 c64 /sold
pause
1990 gameboy / sold
1990 nes / gave away
1991 gamegear / sold
1991 snes & shortly an amiga 500 /sold
1992 genesis /sold
1993 pc (just for x-wing!) / old ^^
1994 owned nothing played jaguar & neo geo / bought ^^
1995 playstation / sold
1996 n64 / still got it
1998 snes again / still got it
1999 dreamcast (best console ever!) / still got it
2001 pc again, but not for playing / still got it
2002 gamecube / still got it
and after that i started collecting fo real ;)
so in the past 2 years a lot of stuff came to my place, ( neo geo / jaguar with cd rom (yeeha), saturn , cd32, colecovison, vcs2600 again / turbo duo / playstation again / interton vc4000 / poppy 9015 / nes again / mastersytem / genesis again, this time with the 32x / microvision / gameboy again / tiger r-zone ) and it won`t stop! yeeeha ^^

[SkiDragon]

Mine is short.
Most played consoles.

Sometime -1991 or 92 NES (not mine, a friends)
'Til September 1996- SNES
1996-2001 N64
2001-Present Gamecube
Currently- Probably all current systems are kinda tied.

Of course I had a genesis, playstation, etc, but they did not get as much use.

[jenzyme]

1981: Atari 2600 (through my dad, I wasn't born until 1982)
1985: NES
198?: Game Boy on launch day
1989: Action Max
1991: SNES
1993: Genesis
1995: Windows based PC (yeah, it took this long)
1996: N64
1997: Playstation, Saturn
1998: Jaguar, Turbo Grafix 16, Sega CD
9/9/99: Dreamcast
March 2001: PS2
June 2001: Game Boy Advance
November 2001: Gamecube
May 2002: Xbox
November 2004: Nintendo DS 8-)

[Pantechnicon]

Bump. But this is a cool topic:

1981-1988: Atari 2600
1989-1992: Gameboy
1992-1994: PC
1994-1998: PC, Atari 2600 redux
1998-2001: Jaguar (to a lesser extent, these were my all-Atari systems years)
2002-2003: MAME
2003-present: Dreamcast, PS2, Atari 2600 re-redux.

As you can see, I always eventually come back to my first love.

[ddockery]

Let's see, dates are fuzzy, but they're boring too so who cares?

Early 80's - vaguely remember my Dad kicking the crap out of me on Atari 2600 Combat and Ginslinger

After that - Intellivision baseball - Yer Out! Night Stalker and AD&D were my other favs

couple years later the Intellivision dies so we get the INTV II

Atari 5200 which saw very little use

Jr High - NES, I knew one guy that had SMS and was considered a loser

couple years later Genesis

Towards the end of HS I sell my Genesis off and stop with consoles altogether, preferring PC Gaming

1996 - friends are home over Thanksgiving, I play Mario Kart 64 for a bit, then we start Goldeneye. The next thing know it's 10:30 AM and I'm barely awake for the feast

1999 - I sell off a barely used N64 + V64 to buy myself a launch Dreamcast. THIS is the system that really gets me hooked. I still have that system, along w/ 2 other DCs for good measure.

Everything after that I've bought and play when I get the chance.

[SKVermin]

1980: Intellivision
1989: Nintendo NES
1991: Nintendo Super NES
1995: Sony PlayStation
1998: Nintendo 64
1999: Sega Dreamcast
2001: Nintendo GameCube and GameBoy Advance
2004: Microsoft Xbox

Those are the primaries. I still collect other systems and games (for the purpose of playing, not hording) but they get less overall playtime.

[Starcade]

Hmm, this is as close as I can recall.

1987- Was born
1990-1993- NES
1993-1995- Genesis (Mortal Kombat..Beavis and Butthead were the favorites)
1995-1999 TONS of SNES (Chrono Trigger, many other RPGs and action titles.)
1999-2001- Gameboy Color (pokemon 24/7)
2001-2003- Dreamcast and Ps2 24/7
2003-current Ps2 and PC gaming.
2004 and beyond- Who knows...

[miaandjohnrule]

1979 Born
1983-1986 - Intellivision & Atari 800XL
1987-1989 - Sega Master System
1990-1992 - NES
1993-1995- SNES
1998 - 2001 N64
2002 - present GC , XBOX , PS2 , Atari 2600 + 7800 , TG 16 , PS1 , Genny

[Aussie2B]

I was born in '82, so with that frame of reference:

1987 - Brother got an NES, and I LOVED watching him play, especially Metroid and Castlevania. I mostly stuck with attempting to play SMB1 and Duck Hunt with my friend. I was so excited when I finally made it to 1-2. :P

1990 - I was obsessed with Mario 3, especially the Mario Bros. two player game. It wasn't long after this that my brother sold his NES... He knew I loved it, and he even let me have it in my own room for awhile, but he wanted the cash... :( I don't think he got much more than $50 for the system and all the classic games he had...

1993 - At age 11, in 6th grade, I finally was able to save up my own money. The memories of the NES stuck with, and even with a couple years of no games, my love for them didn't disappear. I saved up about $100 bucks and bought my very own SNES. I bought the cheapest version with only one controller and no game. I sent away for the free Mario All-Stars offer, and in not long I was able to relive all those Mario memories for just the cost of shipping. :) I proceeded to KILL every game on it, to the point that I can't really stand to play them anymore. o_O

1994-95 - Since Nintendo had my info, they sent me the DKC promo video... it worked, haha. :) I was so hyped up, and my sweet grandma bought it for me the day it came out, and it wasn't even a birthday or Christmas present or anything. She also got me DKC2 and DKC3 for Christmas each respective year that they came out. I became absolutely OBSESSED with anything and everything DKC during my 7th and 8th grade years. I was such a nerd going to school in my DKC2 shirts, hehe. :)

1996 - I got the DKC guide at a store, but when I had some difficulty with DKC2, I decided to use the slip from the game's box to sign up for Nintendo Power and get the DKC2 guide for free. When they did their Power Awards, Chrono Trigger beat DKC2 in a lot categories. That was just mind-boggling to me. o_o "How could this game be better than DKC2?!" I thought. Well, I had to check it out for myself... I forked out $80 for it, and almost instantly I was in love. I hadn't so much as seen a RPG since Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy, but it didn't matter, Chrono Trigger replaced DKC as my new full-blown obsession.

Sept. 29, 1996 - Nintendo Power got me hyped once again. I HAD TO HAVE A N64. I can't even remember how many times that month I went to Toys R Us to play Mario 64 on the displays. When they called saying I could pick up my system a day before the official release date, I was literally hopping up and down. N64 was just about all I played during the 9th grade, and I spent a ton of cash buying many games brand new. I'd bring Nintendo Power with me to school, summer day camp, everywhere, and I'd talk to other kids about N64. In shop class, I made goofy N64-themed crap out of metal. o_O

1998 - I finally got a PC, and after doing almost nothing with it for a few months, I discovered Nintendo.com. I joined their message boards, and I started to talk with others who had a fondness for NES. I looked up a store that sold old used games in the phonebook, and I got a small stack of NES games there (Zelda, Metroid, Dragon Warrior, and a couple others my brother had). Shortly thereafter, I was told of eBay, and I immediately registered and bought a NES. I recovered my childhood, and I couldn't be happier. :)

1999 - When PlayStation dropped to $100, I finally broke my Nintendo-exclusive game playing. I bought Final Fantasy 7 and Star Ocean 2 with it. One was one of the worst RPGs I've ever played and the other was one of the best RPGs I've every played. It was strange, those 11th and 12th grade years. o_O

2000 to the present - Nothing especially notable, in my opinion. I bought a ton more systems, a ton more games, and these days I play anything, new or old.

By the way, I didn't include EVERYTHING (it's a long enough lineage o_O ). There's Game Boy, Game Boy Color, etc., but they didn't have a massive impact on me.

[El CiF]

born 1989

1995- Gameboy
1997- SNES
1999- N64
2000- GBA
2002- PS2
2003- XBOX
2004- Dreamcast, just bid on a Genesis on ebay
:D :D

[imanerd0011]

Born in 83'


1986 - my parents bought an atari at a garage sale , but I was too young to really play it all that much. I remember playing Frogger and Combat.
1988-1993 - I got a NES because a few of my friends had them and I got made fun of by them for owning an atari, so I had to get a nintendo. I think the reason I love the NES so much is because so much of my childhood was made up of playing this system.
1993 - My brother got a SNES , but I didn't like it as much as I did the NES. Although I did love Killer Instinct.
1997 - I didn't get a N64 during their first run. I remember they all sold out for the first 3 months in my town. I got one soon after that.I only played N64 for around 1 year or so.
1998-2001- I didn't really play any games during this time period because I was to into sports.
2002-I bought a Gamecube and a Playstation 2 . I also rebought a NES in early 2002 and have been buying games for it ever since. It's really the only system I play.

[XxMe2NiKxX]

1991-? Genesis, SNES.

[wufners]

1982-1986: Intellision II --I wanted an Atari, but this kept me plenty entertained until:
1986-1989: NES
2001-present: PS2 --I got it for the DVD player, but it ended up getting me back into console gaming
2002-present: Gamecube -- It was cheap(er), cute, and held the promise of all the series I loved as a kid
2002-present: XBox--I had the other 2, how could I not have this one?

Without a doubt, the NES is the system I got the most use out of.

Of the 3 current gen systems I have gotten the most use out of the PS2 (due to Twisted Metal, Devil May Cry, Ico, and the Silent Hill series) but the Gamecube is my favorite (due to my nostalgic attatchment to many of Nintendo's series.) I like the X-Box, but there just hasn't been enough games that have interested me for it to compete (so far I've only seen Halo and Crimson Skies through to the end, tho I'm currenlty working on Ninja Gaiden.)

[jdc]

I've only been playing video games for 9 years. In that time I've run a game store as well as made up for lost time.

First system was the N64, soon after launch. Then;
PSX 9001 Dualshock.
Dreamcast.
PS2 (Gran Turismo pack)
PSone
GameCube
Genesis Model 1
Genesis Model 2
GBA
XboX
NES
PS2 with infrared and progressive scan upgrades.

[Nesmaster]

NES - 1991 - 1994
SNES - 1994 - 1996
N64 -1996 - 2001
Gamecube - 2001 - present