Your Gaming History!

[Crispin]

GC Jap: Current machine and the machine which has revitalized my interest in gaming.

The GC has had the same effect on me too. Not bad going for a so-called 'failure'...

Odd, it had completely the opposite effect on me until recently. Mind you, that was only because of the lacklustre PAL release schedule. I imagine it gets better if you can play a game where a Mole tells you off for cutting the power.

Y'know what? Nintendo were utter bastards for including promo stuff in their SSB:M trophies. All those games, and they never came out over here. Even the Nintendo disc they sent me last year full of trailers, had several seconds worth of Animal Crossing.

*Breaks down and cries.

Now for me, the Xbox reaffirms my belief in gaming, second fave console. I see it as the spiritual successor to the N64, which is my favourite all time console. Third place goes to the NES. Fourth is the GameGear, simply because it still manages to piss over the GBA SP. Adjustable contrast! Suck that!

Admittedly you needed to keep the thing on mains, but who plays portables outside? It rains where I live and it doesn't exactly fit in the pocket.

GameGear - the Xbox of portable consoles.

Fifth is the Vic 20 as it started it all. Sixth is PS2 for eyetoy and GTA:VC. Seventh is the GameBoy and it's various iterations (all of which have had flaws, otherwise they'd be much higher in my list - don't have an SP).

Seventh is the PC.
Eight is GameCube. Only as Nintendo broke my heart. Should rise in my opinions once I play VJ and F-Zero.

[Max M]

GC Jap: Current machine and the machine which has revitalized my interest in gaming.

The GC has had the same effect on me too. Not bad going for a so-called 'failure'...

Odd, it had completely the opposite effect on me until recently.

I felt the same when I had a PAL GameCube as well, you should really look in to importing. It's cheaper these days too.

[Kratos]

The first time I played a game it was on the Amstrad. I remember when a tape had two games on it you had to load up the first one, restart, then load up the second one. Argh lol. All I remember playing is some robin hood game and postman pat (lol, well, i was young). The latter was really buggy and sometimes I found myself just driving through walls into glitchy areas (at the time they looked like cool secret areas).

Then I moved onto the Amiga 500+ and the NES. Amiga 500+ was great. I happily recall my days playing SWOS and Cannon Fodder. Then I think after that I moved onto the SNES, PSX, N64, DC, PS2, GC, Xbox (in that order). Sega Saturn came in somewhere, but I only bought that for the resident evil battle game.

Of course there is a lot more to my gaming history but I don't wanna go on all night.

[Moodmon]

Always a bugbear that I can never remember the first game I ever played. Could have been some dodgy old coin-op. Considering I was only born in 84, the fact I owned a speccy, and everyone else had a C64 was amazing. Only two games really stick in the mind, Ghostbusters and a motorbike game (Super Trans-Am Pro Am I think).

Next was the NES. with the might of Mario 3 and Low G Man (drools). Afterwards came the GB and MD. I loved the MD. Sonic 3 and Knuckles, Vectorman, Dynamite Headdy, SOR2. The console that had the most effect on me, and the glory days of games (for me).

Then it all changed. Walked into an arcade on holiday one day, and I heard some music. Wander over to a stand up cabinet in a corner. Virtua Fighter. God I love that game. Helped the family got a PC I upgraded with a 3dfx. TIE Fighter, VF (yes, I have around three PC joypads) and more TIE Fighter (whisper it, best game ever). As well as all this, I got into emulated games. Chrono Trigger and FFIII especially.

Edit- Crap, forgot about a generation. N64 and DC. Home to the finest 3D games money can buy. OoT, Jet Force Gemini, Excitebike 64 (?5!), Soul Calibur, Bangai-0 (yes, it's 2D), Skies of Arcadia.

Then, before I went to Uni, I had to get a job. Of course, with my student loan and all this cash, I quickly got a monster PC, GC, PS2, and Xbox. Metroid Prime, Battlefield 1942, ICO, Halo, KOTOR. Still the good times roll...

[spagmasterswift]

Not sure of the dates but the chronology goes a little something like this (with fav games) :

Friends Atari (Empire Strikes Back)
Friend of a friends Vectrex (Space War)
Megadrive (Toe Jam and Earl, Sonic and Golden Axe)
Gamegear (Sonic)
SNES (Super Mario Kart)
N64 (Golden Eye, Zelda OOT)
Gamecube (SW RS2)
PS2 (REZ and Vice City)
Gamecube (Mario Sunshine and Metroid Prime)
Gamecube (Zelda WW and Ikaruga)

I got into the wonderful world of the games console late and didn?t really have a home computer to play on. I don?t count the Tutang Einstein my parents bought as it was a tragedy with only Elite worthy of play. The day they told me they had bought a computer without consulting me was a very, very dark day indeed!

A lot of my early gaming experiences came from the Arcades on Southend seafront and watching friends play on their home computers.

I am on my third Gamecube now, due to North and South London crackheads and only have my trust SNES left for nostalgia.

[Ginger Tosser]

I cant remember many of the dates but here's the list:

ZX81
Spectrum
QL
Spectrum 128K +2
Spectrum 128k +3 (for about 2 weeks)
Atari ST
Amiga
Another ST
Another Amiga
Game Boy
Super Famicom
Playstation
Game Boy Advance
Playstation 2
Gamecube
N64 - Late I know
Game Boy Colour
Dreamcast
NES - Car Boot !
Game Boy Advance SP

Phew ! all done

[Pavey]

All started with the Dragon 32, think i was in Primary school,aged 8ish.
Then;
Spectrum 48k (rubber keys)
C64 (Second version)
Spectrum 48k (plastic keys,was it called the plus?)
Amiga 512 (saved up my paper round money to buy this,?13 a week,still have nightmares about the Sunday round!)
Sega Master System 1,with Hang On
Super Famicom(?480! Paid work experience money this time)
Sega MegaDrive 1(Swapped for the Amiga)
Original Game Boy
Game Gear
Game Boy Pocket
N64
Game Boy Color
Dreamcast
GameCube
Ps2
GBA
X-Box
GBA SP
Pal Saturn
US Snes Jr
White Jap Saturn
Present day and my skin has gone grey and eyes have gone square from so many hours indoors!
Also picked up a UK SNES somewhere along the line,though not sure where from.

[Gradius]

ok

1972 - Born

Vectrex - from Woolies around 1984 swapped for Vic20 (doh)
Vic-20 - around 84,85 - since sold
Commodore 64 around 84,85 - since sold
Atari ST - 1987 since sold
Amiga - 1988 - since sold
PC Engine - 1989 (first import machine) since sold
PC Engine - 1990 (RGB Scart instead of horrid plug in pal booster) since sold
Mega Drive(jap) - 1990 - last machine i got rid of (lessons learnt)
Super Famicom (jap) - 1991
Playstation (jap) 1994 - got this about 3 days after japanese release, paid through the nose for it. But my god, Ridge Racer.
Saturn (jap) 1995
N64 (jap) 1996 - again paid a ludicrous amount for it, just to have it about 3 days after jap release. Later paid ?150 for mario kart
Dreamcast (jap) 1999
PS2 (pal) 2001
Gamecube (usa) 2001 - I got this on day 1 on a pre arranged trip to the USA (i was on holiday - just happened to be there at a convenient time
XBox (pal) 2002 - just for Halo
PC Engine Duo - 2003 - the machine i should never have sold
PC Engine (white) - 2003 - ditto
PC Engine (core grafx) - 2003 - I only use the Duo out of the three, i have replaced every game i used to own bar 1(anybody got a spare Pacland)
AV Famicom - 2003 - I never owned an NES, so i thought this would be an interesting puchase. I only have 2 games for it, one of them is Gradius which i am collecting on any format as its my all time favourite game.

[jim g]

Ok here goes

Atari 2600
Spectrum 48K
C64+floppy disk
Amiga
Megadrive (Jap with 50/60 hz switch)
Super Famicom + Pro Fighter + 100's disks (still got all of them!)
Neo Geo
Sega Master System
PC Engine
PC Engine Duo
3DO
Atari Jaguar
Turbo Express (US PC Engine GT)
PC Engine GT
PS One (Jap)
PS One PAL - chipped
Saturn - Black USA
Saturn - Gold - Jap
Saturn - White - Jap
N64 US - RGB Modded
DC Jap
DC Pal = Modded
PS2 Pal
PS2 US
Xbox PAL
GC US
GC Player (Jap, Silver)
GBA
GBA Sp
GBoy
Gboy Colour
Gboy Light (JAP only GBoy with a back light)
NES PAL

Christ knows how many games (still have over 500 Super Famicom floppy discs) I have some rare stuff and have sold **** loads over the years

Top spends

?120 Starfox - Jap Super Famicom when Console Concepts only had 6 copies
?535 for Jap PS One on Dec 4th 1994 with Ridge Racer (the weekend it came out and I could have sold it for double that!)
?70 Street Fighter 2 Super Famicom
?90 for a sealed copy of Panzer Dragoon Saga (USA)

I was born before most of you guys and I first started playing Videogames when Pong was launched and my local pub got it in! (1970 something)

One last thing, I have been buying from Joe at Tronix since 1996 and finally met him NY this year. I bought his first US PS2 he got in stock and first US DC!