Vintage game consoles

[DaptoDog]

Completely off topic but my ring tone is the music that played during the rock paper sissors battles.. I still play the game every now and then. Love it

Damn it I can't remember it off the top of my head, will have to look it up. Props for still owning it, my brothers and I used sell our current console with games in the newspaper and then use the proceeds to help pay for the next model.

[Wormz]

Damn it I can't remember it off the top of my head, will have to look it up. Props for still owning it, my brothers and I used sell our current console with games in the newspaper and then use the proceeds to help pay for the next model.

Yea I love it to bits.. from a time when games were designed not to be finished in a day.. I still try to finish the MK II ladders every now and then.. but because its a port straight from an arcade version it is border line impossible.. Goro flogs me and tells me to insert more credits.. The only bad thing about the master systems is that they dont work on new TVs.. had to install different outputs in the back of it

[kup]

Wow now I feel really old! My first console was the Sega Master System, with Alex the Kid built in. Since then I've had the Sega Megadrive, then ditched Sega for the Sony PS1 and have had every iteration since to the current PS4.

My first console was an Atari 2600, not even the black smaller version but the big ass 6 switch 'wooden' finish Sunnyvale model!

[Paulbot]

My first console was an Atari 2600, not even the black smaller version but the big ass 6 switch 'wooden' finish Sunnyvale model!

My family had the four switch wooden VCS version. Good times.

Then jumped up to the SNES.

[Meister]

Have to say that I grew up in the age of home video gaming and probably experienced most of its offerings. Next door neighbour had the Atari 2600, spent hours on pitfall, Winter Olympics, formula 1 grandprix, dodgems, space invaders, sea quest..., had a friend and cousin with Commodore 64's, one was cassette the other floppy disc. As for me personally, we scored an Amiga 500, now that made me a popular kid in the neighbourhood, so much epic gaming... And loading times for any games requiring anything over 1 disc, then my other neighbour got a sega master system 1, from memory it had snailmaze built in, remember games like action fighter, secret command, Shinobi, and oh my god Wonder Boy!!!. Cousin got a NES and remember playing mario and trog. Then another cousin got an IBM, remember playing prince of Persia and the original platform versions of Duke Nukem. Then the Mega drives came out and I was lucky enough to pick one up (Mega Drive II that is), and all because of Mortal Kombat!.(A-B-A-C-A-B-B) Since then I've picked up a PS2 and PS3, mainly due to the DVD and Blu-Ray players. I've got no interest in the PS4 as I see no additional benefit in Technology (still just a Blu-Ray player which breaks the mood from all previous models) and also pissed that they didn't make it backwards compatible for PS3 games (I mean seriously they both use Blu-ray technology)

Yep, like I said, I was fortunate enough to experience it all, and man there was some fun times

[BigTransformerTrev]

Think my progression was:

Atari 2600
NES
Super NES
Nintendo 64
Wii
PS3

With my Gameboy and PC off to one side

Like many others, I haven't bothered to upgrade to the next generation of systems and probably wont until my kids get old enough to want one

[kup]

Think my progression was:

Atari 2600
NES
Super NES
Nintendo 64
Wii
PS3

With my Gameboy and PC off to one side

Like many others, I haven't bothered to upgrade to the next generation of systems and probably wont until my kids get old enough to want one

That's awesome Trev!

My Progress was:

Atari 2600/Coleco (they are contemporary)
NES/PC - Always a PC gamer so for many years it was also a big part of my gaming.
SNES/PC
N64/PC
PC
PS3
WiiU

After N64 I became a 100% dedicated PC gamer for several years. Most of the console games released at the time did not interest me much. Then the original Wii came out but very soon after the Dolphin emulator on PC had matured so well that it technically surpassed the Wii console itself. I played several Wii Games as well as Gamecube on the PC in HD with updated effects and graphics.

After that I bought a Phat PS3 very cheaply (because it was broken but I was able to fix) and started playing the PS3 exclusives that had caught my attention which were really just a few games as everything else had been released on PC and often with superior graphics.

Only recently when I decided to collect Nintendo consoles did I get a Gamecube and Wii.

The last console I bought is the Wii U and mostly due to the great exclusives. I actually use the Wii U a hell of a lot more for games than the PS3.

For handhelds

- Gameboy
- Pocket Gameboy
(Huge gap)
- Nintendo DS (which I used an R4 card to have apps like a smart phone as I only had a normal Nokia at the time)
- 3DS
- New 3DS

Only recently as I begun collecting consoles did I buy a Gameboy Color, Gameboy Advance and GBA SP.