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Our first system was the Magnavox Odyssey, we probably played it as a family once a month, it was a real pain in the ass to set up because of the static screens that clung to the tv. This was bought by our parents. We suffered with this system for years, with my parents ignoring us to get something better.
As a teenager, I purchased the NES, shortly after my parents bought the Atari 7800, & I countered by buying the Sega Master System a year later. All of these were very solid systems, we enjoyed them as a family for years.
My best friend and I bought my mom the Action Max for her birthday, what a dud that turned out to be.
At this time, I started becoming interested in computers, so I purchased a Commodore 64 with a tape drive and hooked it up to my tv. It was okay, but the tape drive was such a pos. I tried connecting to a few BBS online with a modem. Did a little bit of programming, no lie, it was fun at the time.
The day I graduated from highschool, I purchased an Apple II + from a friend of mine, eventually ended up giving this to my grandmother 10 years later, but it was my first experience gaming on a home computer & trading warez with friends. I paid an assload of money to have joystick ports installed… smdh
Well, I decided to go to a technical school for cad, my father bought me a computer that I could use for homework, and IBM clone. This thing was a beast at the time, 8088 turbo, math co-processor, 640 kb ram, 20 mb hard drive, evga card, intellisync monitor. I later upgraded it with 2 mb ram for a ram disk, text to speech board, joysticks & connected it to my home stereo with a stereo synthesizer. I even bought a laser printer for it, had that thing until I threw it away 20 years later.
With the release of the Playstation, I was sucked back into console gaming, since I purchased both the ps1 & 2. With the PS1, game night became a bigger than family extravaganza. I’d have friends come over, my parents would compete against them in games, it was a very fun time in my life.
At this point, I bought some crappy Emachine, then replaced it shortly after with an HP and upgraded it with graphics, ram, hard drives through the years. Mikeb gifted me with an alienware which I used for awhile until I decided to build my current pc. I gave it to a friend of mine who used it until the agp card gave out on it.
I bought my PS3 before I built my current pc, which I am more into PC games now, hardly turn the ps3 on
Now, I am considering either building a shell arcade game system that I can plug my pc into, or build one from scratch using a pi 3b+… or just building custom game controllers. Which is strange, since it feels like I’ve gone full circle from wanting better graphics to the nostalgia of older game systems.
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[quote quote=1119] Which is strange, since it feels like I’ve gone full circle from wanting better graphics to the nostalgia of older game systems.[/quote]
I completely understand. The thing is my 8 year old son has all the power in the world to play big huge games and opts to play this game ALL THE TIME: http://www.diep.io
That and Minecraft. Visually Minecraft looks like old Windows but he can mod it and that’s badass. He also loves all the old games I show him.
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My brother and I started on an NES. I remember us playing the crap out of Rampage and the TMNT game. We had the gun and the pad as well. Stupid duck hunt dog…
Thenwe actually rented an SNES from the local rental place. That lasted maybe a year until our parents bought us one to own.
From there we got into computers. Our first was a 486 dx2. I don’t remember much about it but they got it from a rent to own place. My brother was deleting stuff to clear up space and killed an important file it needed to boot into windows. I used to know but time is a bitch. Anyway we played games like Doom, Hexen, Warcraft on it. I will never forget playing multiplayer with a friend and having to dial them on the game. We’d always tell our parents not to pick up the phone, but they’d always answer to the screeching sounds or pick up in the middle of a game.
Next was N64, Playstation, PS2 with some gameboys in the mix.
Now I’m almost exclusively a PC gamer. I have a PS3 and a wiiu but they never get much use. I do have a Retropie built and it’s a lot of fun.
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Can’t believe I haven’t replied to this yet.
My first brush with a console was as a 7/8 year-old, playing Pong on a crappy black and white screen my teenage uncles had in their room in the early ’80’s. I’ve loved computer games ever since; I remember wondering how my uncles could ever get bored of this amazing device:
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Our family got a Commodore 64 a few years later and it just sealed the deal. Forget the fact that a low-end modern graphics card could provide the resolution of ALL of the Commodores that existed on the planet that same year, that Commodore opened my eyes to some really cool ways to have fun – my first brush with programming included.
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I’m so glad we live in an age where computer games (and VR) exist. Now I just want to see a man on Mars and my wishlist would be complete 😀
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[quote quote=1627]yeah man, I can’t even do 3D games that use shutter glasses, any FPS game, stuff like that. Now, if I take motion sickness pills or something that contains a lot of ginger, I can play for awhile without getting sick, that is how I beat the last Tomb Raider on some parts.[/quote]
So freakin’ glad that’s not me. I happen to not be sensitive to whatever causes nausea in VR use…and after so many years of waiting for it to finally arrive thank Christ for that.
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