[Meddyan]

How much on an old-skool gamer are you?

First thing i can remember playing was an old Amiga. It was awesome. Lemmings was addicting fun, Cannon Fodder was plain awesome, Killing Game Show was frustratingly good, and then there was those text adventure games. Man, those were the times...

What was your first systemt then?

[Tetsu]

NES, i rocked at ice climbers :D

[Elliott]

- NES.

Games like Battletoads, Mario 1, and the classic that is "Anticipation".
Ah, the good 'ol days.

[My Best Wishes]

Agatio, on May 19 2005, 08:04 PM, said:

- NES.

Games like Battletoads, Mario 1, and the classic that is "Anticipation".
Ah, the good 'ol days.

ahh battletoads, that brings me back. I loved that.

I uh lost 'it' to Nes aswell, the battletoads, teenage mutant ninja turtles, duck hunt classics.

[Venus_Man1]

SNES. I rocked at Donkey Kong Country. ^^

[Nick Presta]

I first remember playing SNES (Super Metroid) and Mario Paint when I was 7 or 8. I ended up buying all older generation systems (NES, Atari 2600, Game Gear, etc) to play them and they all kick ass.

[Kewne]

NES, my older siblings had it. I think the first game I played was Super mario bros. or the first Zelda. But I loved Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and this game where you control the main character with the Gun instead of the controller(you made him jump by shooting him). I don't remember it's name though.

[I'm Always BROKE]

Donkey Kong Land for the gameboy.

I got that for my 5th birtday. I loved it! :D

[Eugine]

The NES, I remember playing the Mario games. I still do infact today :D.

[Isaac13]

Ah, Zelda... good games, good games... The zelda games back then were good.

[Nemphtis]

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

My uncle was a huge fan of it and when I played it I got really hooked, bought myself a Sega Mastersystem and a NES and begun my quest to pwn all the morons in this dimension. =D

[Shikonaurum]

*grins* Me, being the relatively mild gamer...

I lost my "virginity" to the N64. Chameleon Twist was my first game... Yeah... >.>

[Kite]

Ahh..
The good ol' days >w<
My first system was S/NES. I loved it, but now its broken and we have a HELL lot of games for it ;_;

[Mars Djinni]

Nintendo 64 was my first. I think the game was either super smash bros or Pokémon Stadium. Yeah, I started late. I could have got a SNES, but I had no idea it existed.

[Betrayer]

Hm ... It was the NES. I loved to play Duck Hunter when I was little. >>;

Then came the SNES, and then I got a computer. =) Lemmings.
Now I have every system out except for the PSP.

[Papercut]

NES. Kirby's Adventure In Dreamland. Ah I played the hell out of that game. Still one of my favorites.

[Elliott]

Betrayer, on May 21 2005, 10:55 AM, said:

Hm ... It was the NES. I loved to play Duck Hunter when I was little. >>;

Then came the SNES, and then I got a computer. =) Lemmings.
Now I have every system out except for the PSP.

You have an XBOX Gamecube, both playstations and all the previous Nintendo consoles then o.0 ? ? ?

[Black Mage]

Betrayer, on May 20 2005, 05:55 PM, said:

Hm ... It was the NES. I loved to play Duck Hunter when I was little. >>;

yeah, duck hunter was an awesome game.

The first time i played it was right after my operation (i was about 6, i think). Iv loved that gane ever since

[Betrayer]

Agatio, on May 21 2005, 05:59 AM, said:

You have an XBOX Gamecube, both playstations and all the previous Nintendo consoles then o.0 ? ? ?

Yeah. But they're not all mine ... my seventeen year old brother owns most of them. Probably because he can afford them an' I can't. I sold my PS1, and the dreamcast recently, though. So I guess I should shut my mouth.

[TheDogWho]

Master System, ah... badly rendered Sonic, what a classic.
And who could hate such a chunky simple controller. 2 buttons and a D-Pad...

[musicman2059]

I lost my gaming to virginity to one of THE first consoles, the Mattel Intellivision. (Then came along the Atari 2600 and the NES, followed by a GB and Genesis, then a loooooong hiatus without any new systems, then a GBC, followed by another long hiatus and wrapping it up with a PS2, GBA, and GCN.)

[Evilynn]

Zelda: A Link to the Past on SNES, I loved that game :rolleyes:

[Lance]

I don't even remember what it was called. It had these big controllers with a whole bunch of buttons and numbers and stuff. I used to play that Q-Bert game all the time.

Then there was the NES (which I still have, but it doesn't work :D ) that I used to play Zelda on when I was like 7. Then there was the crappy gameboy with lines on the screen (so hard to play, but I still loved it), then the Super NES (hours playin Illusion of Gaia!).

Then my Game Boy colour, my first system that wasn't a hand me down, then there was the N64 that my mom bought for both of us, then there was the GBA (it was fushia, not pink!) that I enjoyed, then the Gamecube that my mom also got for both of us. Then she got me a GBA SP that I didn't even ask for (shiny silver!) and then I got an X-Box for my birthday (cost me 100 bucks to make it a fair present) and then the DS that I didn't ask for or want (don't want either PSP or DS) but I got anyways, and now here we are.

That's basically my whole life of video games in two paragraphs. :rolleyes:

I still have all those systems except the very old one that I can't remember the name of, that wasn't mine.

[Someone Else]

*cough* The GBA... and the game was LoZ.

Yeah, yeah, I know, I started *actually* gaming when I was 12, probably the latest of all the people here, but I have those... kind of parents. ;_;

[Blink]

My first console was an N64, but I might have touched an SNES first. Don't remember, I started in the transition from N64 to SNES...

[Izar]

Agatio, on May 21 2005, 07:59 AM, said:

You have an XBOX Gamecube, both playstations and all the previous Nintendo consoles then o.0 ? ? ?

A fiend of mine does. He doesn't even play them all, lol.

I played NES all the time when I was younger. But that was when I wasnt much of a gamer. Then I skipped to an N64, but played an SNES after that.

[Elliott]

Anyone who has that many systems has either too much time, or too much money.

[Izar]

nah, he just collected them over the years, anad never sold them.

[Luna]

The first three systems we had here were the Atari, the NES and another one that we called "The Chinese Nintendo". (You see, in spanish, people don't bother to say "console" they just say nintendo. "Hey, do you have a nintendo?" "Yeah, I have a PS2." That's how it is.)

So, my first system was "The Chinese Nintendo" :O And then I moved on to the SNES.

[Izar]

Same here, but with coke, we call all sodas cokes.

People I know who are from mexico call them all things, lol. "Which thng ya got, ese?"

I think my favorite old time console was the NES and SNES, Sega just didn't do it for me, exept Sonic and Wonderboy, that was good.

[Elliott]

I remember that war between Sega and Nintendo :lol: Now Sega makes games for Nintendo :angry: . Sega never did it for me either, of course the Alex kidd Games were awesome, but that was about it.

[Echo_djinn]

Playstation. Playing NHL 99 was what got me hooked not only to sport game but to video games period. while I was playing and scoring and kicking all a** on all-star difficulty I asked myself "What other games are there?". That's what got me hooked.

Sidenote: No game could ever take me virginity away. :lol:

This post has been edited by Echo_djinn: 30 May 2005 - 05:07 PM

[Izar]

Hahaha...

I think NES was the best of the classical game consoles, period. It started the Ol' Gaming spirit.

[Golden Djinn13]

The NES... I loved playing Mario ( As much as I tried to save the princess, I failed. I will make it my life's goal to save her)

[Izar]

Ha, I beat only like, 3 times, and it was hard. Final Fantsy was my all time favorite NES game though. Why can't they make games as addictive as good ol' mario anymore?

[Luna]

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Ha, I beat only like, 3 times, and it was hard. Final Fantsy was my all time favorite NES game though. Why can't they make games as addictive as good ol' mario anymore?

Too true. I get completely obsessed over the games from old consoles but with the newer ones..I just beat it once and then it just flies away...

[Elliott]

Same here as well, nothign beats that 8/16 bit sidescrolling fun, not even the bes 3d graphics and surround sound. Not saying I hate new generation games, but the oldies are the best by a mile.

[Meddyan]

Exactly.

I'd have far, far more fun playing 2D lemmings than playing say, Halo 2.

[Izar]

Well, I wouldn't say THAT much better, but some are better, like mario, FF, and wonderboy, but as for Fable, Halo(Don't like halo 2 that much), and FF7/FFT, no way, they own.

[Elliott]

Depends on your point of view. 16 bit fun is great on it's own, running and jumping, just the simplicity of all, but then again, running around in first person view with a huge gun blasting away finely rendered monsters is also great.

[Meddyan]

True, graphics can still be good, but its not always the defining point of gameplay.

Now for example, graphics are needed when you have to build an atmosphere, like it would really add to the whole creepy effect of an area if the blood-spattered zombie walking towards you actualy looks like a blood-spattered zombie, and not some cheaply rendered polygon mess.

Some games need it, some don't.

[Izar]

Ah, don't foget Fester's Quest! I remember going at it for hours on end, blasting the aliens away!