Nostalgia and age?

[Daria]

I was born in 83, and the systems from my childhood are NES, Genesis, GameGear and PlayStation. I dabbled in the Atari at the age of 4 but thre's no nostalgia there. Too old a system for me I suppose.

Anything after that I bought as a collector/adult and while I enjoy newer games, it's just not the same as going back and playing a childhood favorite. Course the same can be applied to "new" PSX games I pick up. It's also fun to go through my collection and pick out which games are my "originals". You can always spot em from the fucked up manuals. :P

[Aussie2B]

I was born in 1982, and I'd say I'm most nostalgic about the NES and SNES eras (back then I only had Nintendo consoles). I'm finding myself becoming more and more fond of the N64 and PlayStation era, but I don't really feel much nostalgia for that time.

[Aswald]

Heeeyyyyyyyy...where's ColecoVision?

[tritium]

I was born in 80, I'm most nostalgic about the 2600 & news, though I prefer to play and collect 16-bit Genesis, and Dreamcast. I never owned either during their Heyday.

-Tritium.

[Azazel]

I was born in the 70s but I'm more nostalgic for the NES and Genesis to a lesser part.

[Emily]

I was born 86, but i love the consoles released before my birth. I guess that means I love 8 bit the most( isnt the Intelly 16 bit)
Our first system was an intellivision, then NES and i have strong nostalgia for both, but I love the Vectrex in a special, unhealthy way.
Mabey its becauase I wasnt allowed to play with my grahmpahs Vectrex, and it sat atop a high shelf out of reach for all the little kiddies to wonder up at.
Perhaps its the machines uniqueness, or its rarity, or its interesting history ( well they are all interesting historicly) NES / VECTREX RULE :P

[rbudrick]

I was born in 78. We got an atar1 2600 when i was probably 4. So, I hold that pretty close to me for the earliest years. The NES, takes the cake, no doubt. I think I got this when I was 8 or 9. The Genesis+NES pwn3d my teenage years, along with SNES running a very close 3rd to these two.

-Rob

[izret101]

Born in 1988. I guess im the youngin' so far.
Have the most fond memories for Genesis after that the eras start to bland SNES DC and XBox are all in there too.
And of course the odd love for the NES which i never played all that much and never owned until recently but it makes up 1/2 my collection.

[mezrabad]

The Atari 2600 was the PS2.
The IntelliVision was the GameCube.
The ColecoVision was the Xbox (graphics powerhouse).

That's a good analogy! Excuse me, but I want to run with it a little!
Could the Vetrex have been the Nintendo DS?
The Atari 400/800s could be the iMacs.
The C64 could be the PC platform.

Okay, enough of that, my brain hurts.

I was born in Dec, 1967 and feel the most nostalgia for the Atari 2600.

It should be noted that I feel the most *curiosity* about Atari's contemporaries, I really want to play what I was missing out on regarding the 5200, Intellivision, Colecovision, Vectrex and even the Odyssey^2 and Bally Astrocade. Unfortunately there's no nostalgia fix in playing an old system you didn't own or play "back in the day". There's only raw primal fellings of "mm, good game", "ugh, bad game" and "the graphics make my eyes bleed so jagged are the pixels!".

[imanerd0011]

Born October 16 1983

The only system I really have any nostalgia about is the NES. I have no idea why, because I played SNES a good deal when it came out, but the NES is the only system that gives me that sweet feeling. Although , Zelda LTTP gives me a very nostalgic feeling as well.

Great topic by the way .

[Lemmy Kilmister]

1983

16-bit era; more specifically the Genesis/SNES and a side of GB.

Just about took the words out of my mouth. Same year, same taste. Though I would edit the gameboy with either the nes or sms.

[Kepone]

1981

Atari 2600

First system I ever had and learned to love.

[Lord Contaminous]

May 25, 1982

First system: The NES. The first hardest NES game I ever mastered at a early age was Bionic Commando. I learned to beat BC back when I was in 2nd grade.

[Mr.FoodMonster]

1988, I'm most fond of the 16 bit era.

[Lemmy Kilmister]

May 25, 1982

First system: The NES. The first hardest NES game I ever mastered at a early age was Bionic Commando. I learned to beat BC back when I was in 2nd grade.

Kind of off topic, but I love your Rival Turf avatar.

[Berty]

Whoa!

thanks everyone for the replies. I have posted this on three message boards and have been getting tons of repsonses. This is really really really helpful!

I would like to add that i should have put the DC in there as well as part of the Saturn/Psone/N64 era.

Keep'em'comin!

[EnemyZero]

1984 - honestly i dont have a specific era, but 3 systems, which were the genesis, saturn, then dreamcast....always will be...but if i had to choose it would be 16 bit generation

[suppafly]

I was born in 1977. And the NEs is the most nostalgic console for me....everybody seemed to have one, and nintendo power was SO cool

[Dr. Morbis]

I was born in 1977. And the NEs is the most nostalgic console for me....everybody seemed to have one, and nintendo power was SO cool

^^Ditto. That is, almost word for word, the exact same post I was going to make.

My friend had a 2600 that we played quite a lot in our early years. But when I got a NES for Christmas in '87, Whoa boy! I'll never forget those years (Late '87 to late '91).

NES: the perfect blend of graphics and gameplay. Pre NES consoles had all the gameplay you could ever need, but the graphics were lacking. Post NES consoles have all the graphics you could ever dream of wanting, but somehow the gameplay got lost in the shuffle.

[ianoid]

1971 and Atari as a company is 'most nostalgic' for me. Although I nostalge actively about my Apple II pirating days. My NES days in my college dorm room. My return to modern gaming with the Dreamcast around a year after it came out. Gaming = fond memories.