I grew up in the late 90s, playing Pokemon Red, then Yellow on my old Gameboy. Good times :)
Had a NES, sold that and then got a Mega Drive, sold that and then had a Snes. Still have the Snes although I wish i had kept them all
Snes has far more timeless classics.
Neither. I was Amiga.
But before that, I was Acorn Electron.
A bit of both for me, along with Commodore computers.
Not 100% on the order but Atari 2600, sega megadrive (with master system, iirc, add on) and the original brick nintendo game boy so you could say I didn't have any loyalty lol.
Somewhere in there was a commodore 64 and an atari ste as well.
Then I basically moved to pc's… and haven't actually had a game console since.
Neither. As a 80's baby I owned(not at the same time though) a Gameboy, a NES, a Game Gear from SEGA, the first Playstation from SONY and lastly a Dreamcast from SEGA.
Kids in my neighborhood owned the rest of them like the SNES, the Saturn from SEGA, the N64(haaa Golden Eye 64 and Mario kart 64…good times),the Mega Drive 1 & 2, the Game Cube and Playstation 2.
We pretty much spend hours upon hours on everything at each others houses ending the day with headaches and eye fatigue from playing too long. We played what was great and fun.
But if I had to pick one I'd choose the Dreamcast which is my favourite console I've ever owned. But I show no loyalty nor preference for any brand so like I said, neither.
Smudger
Neither. I was Amiga.
But before that, I was Acorn Electron.
Snap with an A500
Sega.
It all started with a Master System II which has Alex the kid in miracle world pre-installed and a cartridge for Sonic the original. I still have it in its box and occasionally dust it off for a game or two.
Neither. Had an Atari ST. Dad used it for work, and I used it for NewZealand Story, Rainbow Islands, Gods and a whole load more.
Though I did pick up a gameboy in about ´98, and have a wii now, so am a nintendo adult more or less.
Pong.
Though I did have a friend with an Atari VCS. Too old to have had one of those new-fangled Sega or Nintendo doodads.
Made up for it when I was older though :D
Commodore computers all the way till mid 90's when we got the Megadrive but i still preferred the Amiga over it
In the time between my c64/amiga and PS1 I was a Sega kid with the master system and mega drive, I was going to list some games but there is literally hundreds. I liked the nes, snes and n64 too as I played them with friends and family a lot, I actually have fonder memories of Mario than I do Sonic which is odd considering, but 2 player co-op on sonic 2 in the casino level is straight up nostalgia overload.
Mega Drive II all the way, then got the Mega CD. Then N64, followed by PS2, then 360 and finally PS3. Now I game on PC!
I have never played on any of those machines.
A500 and then after that PC
BUT ! i have tried to play on a playstation,,,,, and i did not like that.
It was both for me.
NES, SNES, Master System II and Megadrive II were all ones I had access to at home (although I only specifically owned the Master System II myself) at some time or another, as well as a Commodore 64 and Amiga (no idea which version) at one point.
Sega. Like many here had a Master System II then a Megadrive.
Then I went backwards age wise with a second hand DOS-based PC (primarily for Formula One Grand Prix (AKA Grand Prix 1) and Indy 500) and from there on was PC only. I've not owned a console since.
Started on the Amstrad CPC's - from greenscreen to colour.
Then had a SNES.
After that was onto PC.
Friends had the C64, NES and various Sega's that I used to play
My very first was my famiclone, and till this day i own 3 of them with alot of games wich makes me a nintendo fan. After that super nintendo, ps1, ps2, dsl, ps3 and pc till now. But famicom/nes my favorite of all.
Neither.
Started gaming on an IBM S360 (*) in mid/late ‘60s, then to writing games on an ICL 1905 (*) until about ’77. Nothing much for a couple of years, then Apple IIe in, err, ‘79 I think. That was mainly business, and development, but I did play games …. like the very early Wizardry.
Moved to PC in (IIRC) 1983, and primary gaming machine was a PC until current day. I did have a PS2 for about 2 years (thanks for the loan, Sony) and then an Xbox 360 a couple of years later …. which I still have.
So that means I’ve been computer gaming for something like 53 or 54 years. Anyway beat that? :D
(*) Those machines were heavy iron. Serious mainframes.
Saracen999
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So that means I've been computer gaming for something like 53 or 54 years. Anyway beat that? :D
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I have to admit, gaming has …. ummm …. changed just a smidge since those early days.
Battleships used to consist of a grid of dots, changing to a different letter if you hit. AV effects were a beep for a hit …. if you were lucky.
I was a SEGA child due to not being able to afford the Nintendo and SNES.
Atari 2600, Acorn electron, Spectrum 128+2, master system,Commodore Amiga 500, megadrive, PC 486 dx2 66mhz, Pentium, Playstation, Xbox, AMD64, PS2, Intel i7 920, xbox 360, PS3, PS4, Xbox one, and now a i5 6600K.
Probably missed some machines in between.. (Gameboy, DSi, Vita)
Graphics cards, S3 virge, 3dfx Voodoo + 2, Matrox mystique, Ati 9700, AMD 280, Geforce 1, 2, 3, 4, 970
I never owned any, and I think I only briefly tried either back in the early 90's after going round to a friends house - I vaguely remember them being the SNES and Megadrive. Indeed, I never had anything computer related for a long time, and I spent more time with another friends Spectrum, Amiga, and Commodore systems than with Nintendo or Sega systems. I finally got access to a PC in 1996, and I have stuck with PC's ever since.
i had a megadrive and a SNES after my C64. megadrive was before the snes, then moved on to the saturn and the dreamcast, skipped the N64. eventually camped in the playstation quarter although i tickled the xboxs feet occasionally.
SEGA Mega Drive 2 16 BIT was a good friend in late 90-ies. Also I remember my neighbor had this sega CD version of genesis with Tomcat Alley game… it was unbelievable at that time comparing to mega drive…. also played F1 Beyond the limits at that time on sega cd
C-64 later Pegasus (Japanese model of NES clone).
Neither. I had an Acorn electron and then a BBC Model B until I could switched to a 486DX66. I've stayed with PCs ever since and still don't really understand why people buy consoles.
Neither - I was a Sinclair child.
I miss my 81. It was slow, incredibly limited and would crash if you so much as breathed on the RAMpack, but it made me happy.
I was actually a Commodore 64 child. Then a Nintendo child. In the 90's I upgraded to Sega. When Doom came out for consoles I upgraded to the 32X add-on. Last console I ever got before switching fully over to premade HP PC's.
Nintendo 64 over Sega systems
But I have had many from Atari 2600 all the way up to Playstation 3, And the best for games back then would be Commodore 64 and Amiga 500, Amiga 500 destroyed everything in it's day.
Just game on an enthusiast pc these days
Was born in '92, first go on a console ever was a SEGA Megadrive but my first games machine was an original Nintendo GameBoy, with the grey enclosure and the black and green screen. I think my parents paid £8 for it off my cousin.
I played Pokemon Yellow for hours upon hours upon hours on that thing, probably responsible, single-handedly, for the contribution of at least 15,000,000,000,000 AA batteries going to landfill on that thing.
I was a 70's kid. Atari 2600 followed by Commodore 64 then Amiga 500.
In the nineties I knew friends who had a SNES, so we played a ton of Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo and MK2.
Atari 2600, VIC-20, C-64, Amiga….
Sega or Nintendo! Lets put it this way, Calculators didn't exist when I was a kid. Slide Rules still ruled the day. So my fave pastimes were Hiking, Camping & Cycling.
Never owned a console, apart from the woodgrain Atari VCS that I still have.
Spectrum 48K (rubber keys)
Spectrum 48K+
Amiga 500
Amiga 1200
Then I entered the PC age :)
Brand loyalty is just silly. Even more so for a games console. I just got access to whatever I could as a kid and enjoyed it. Probably had more fun with Nintendo but used and/or owned almost all the systems from 8 bit onwards. I think only real gap of the main stream (Sega/Sony/Nintendo/Microsoft) stuff is a PS4…
Neither.
I bought a Spectrum 48K because it was cheap… and later a 128K +3 came my way.
I first got a NES in the early-mid 90s, after I had a… errr… oh, what was it….. 286 or 386, I think?
Bought a GB Pocket late 90s.
Then got a gaming laptop on long-term loan for things like Baldur's Gate, while also using the work PC for things like Thief.
Got a Netbook late 2000s and tried Tomb Raider Legend on that… It could just about cope with Freelancer, though.
Then got a proper gaming PC around 2009 and not looked back since…….
… OK, I lied. I looked back and got a GBA SP and a DS Lite a couple years ago, but that was purely for fun. GBA lives in my EDC bag, to this very day!!
Oooh boy, this could be a while.
I remember playing on a C64 (With a floppy disk drive, as well as the ubiquitous cassette tapes) and later on an Amiga 500 (Loved that machine, along with some favourites including Pinball Fantasies, Cannon Fodder, Lemmings, Lotus Turbo Challenge 3, etc.).
Around the same time a 286 PC showed up on the house, along with it's CGA screen. I didn't really do much with that. As it got upgraded with an EGA, and then VGA, screen it got slightly more interesting. Then it was a 386SX-25 and Doom came out. Yeah, it was as jerky as hell (No maths coproessor made it horribly slow to play such a game) but that was it. I was hooked. A PC has been my mainstay ever since. (486-DX4-100, Pentium 133, Pentium 200 MMX, Pentium 2-350 (OC'ed to 434), AMD Athlon 900, Pentium 4 (HT) 3.2GHz, Core 2 Quad Q6600 (Yeah, I'm still, somehow, using that)).
However, along with my falling in love with the PC/Doom, the house did gain a Sega Mega Drive at somepoint. Yeah, I played Sonic (All of them), Micro Machines and whatnot, but I always returned to the PC.
Handheld-wise, I was initially a Nintendo-bod, with a Game Boy, but I fell in love with the colour-ed screen Sega Game Gear (Had to have a battery pack grips, that thing ate batteries for breakfast, lunch and dinner!). That was about it for consoles though
So yeah, guess I'm a Sega kid mostly. Never did see the thing about Nintendo, until a friend showed up with an N64 and Goldeneye…
got an Original C64…. still have it and it still works ^^
I was a saga child … Videogenie VRs80? *tandy trs80 clone. So copying others designs started way back when.
i was a sega kid myself there were few games on nintendont i liked or would play and i can count them on 1 hand. start tropics ( first one only), batman, legend of zelda ( again first one only), castlevania series. in fact those are the only nintendont game titles today that i can clearly name without searching LOL. as far as sega goes i still have my original first gen genesis console with the power base converter sega cd. my library of genesis carts last count was 62 including one of those unofficial non licensed bible games “joshua and the battle of jericho”. i was sega all the way through dreamcast and was disappointed when sega folded on consoles of course Mshaft stole design elements and ran with it making the xbox which i becaome an xbox user up to the xboner fail at which time i left consoles.
Quartz
I'm clearly an old fart.
What, because you started with an abacus and a wax tablet? :p
I was definitely a Nintendo kid. Played only Mario games for Nintendo consoles.
I was a Ninty fan until the big delay…
My first console was the SNES which I enjoyed with the help of Donkey Kong, Yoshi and Star Fox, and I was really looking forward to the release of the N64 but when it was delayed again and again I got sick of waiting and decided to give the new kids a go. That was Sony and the PlayStation. As soon as I booted up Ridge Racer I was hooked, no more Ninty for me.
Atari, then a Sinclair ZX80 (built from a kit when I was 15), then C64, Amiga, and PC ever since.
Tried the odd console, XBox 360, PS2, but sold them very quickly as they just don't compare with a PC, and I can't use those silly controllers.
