22-12-2003 19:28									#1
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Last night, after 9 years of marriage (and 7 prior years of dating) Laura actually asked me about video games - essentially, "have you played these things your entire life?"

And it struck me - Yeah, I have been playing these things my entire life, a history that would take me back to the birth of the industry. I then started thinking about all the gaming platforms that I've owned and I was kinda stunned - there sure are a lot of them:

Magnavox Odyssey
Sears Pong
Atari VCS
Mattel handheld LED games (big in the late 70's)
Colecovision
Adam ( )
Atari 400
Atari 800
Atari 5200
NES
SNES (or am I confusing this with the NES? There have been so many Nintendo machines its hard to keep track of them)
PC - easily my favorite platform of all time.
Arcade machines: Asteroids, Battlezone, Gravitar, Pac Man and one other I can't remember right now.

Never owned an Intellivision, and I've pretty much missed all the console action of the 1990's because of my PC addiction - Consoles don't play Civ1, MOO, or MoM!

What about y'all?

	22-12-2003 19:39									#2
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quote: Originally posted by JohnT I've pretty much missed all the console action of the 1990's because of my PC addiction - Consoles don't play Civ1, MOO, or MoM!

I've missed the console action because I'm too frugal, but for some reason I just absolutely love the Zelda games (which they never bother to port to PC) so it's only a matter of time until I cave in and buy myself a Gamecube.

Consoles are great if you've got a girlfriend or are married -- my mom's never played a computer game in her life (not even solitaire or minesweeper), but even she used to try her hand at Super Mario Brothers back when we owned an NES. Similarly, one of my friend's girlfriends is pretty computer illiterate, but she can still kick my butt at Halo. The problem is that if you get a console to addict Laura to gaming, then Sophie might wind up gravitating to the console rather than the PC, and the world will be short one more PC gamer.

	22-12-2003 19:44									#3
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Yeah, Sophie already has a few games for the PC. I'm not too thrilled with the idea of three people/one computer, but that's why God invented money I guess.

	22-12-2003 20:10									#4
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I was only born in '88 so I started with an NES. I loved that thing - especially Super Mario 3 I get a Gamegear (STILL the best handheld around), we got a computer, and (much) later we got an N64 and a Gamecube. I still even have the NES

	22-12-2003 20:14									#5
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TRS-80

Atari 2600

PC

NES

Sega Genesis

Now it's strictly the PC

	22-12-2003 20:18									#6
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more computers == good.

	22-12-2003 20:27									#7
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The first game ever against a non-human I played 1979. It was a game of chess against a program running on a computer named SM-4, which filled a whole room with several racks, terminals, line printers, magnetic and punched tape+card readers etc, etc. I won that game and was very proud of it, until I realized, what lousy chess players computers were at this time. I wouldn't say this again today.

Later I played text console games like "Star Trek", "Moon landing" and again chess on other business computers. The first halfway graphical game I played in the 80's was "Ladder". It was still in text mode, but already qualified as full flesh jump'n'run.

Then came the time of home computers. I played games on the Atari-800, C-64 and others of this class. In the early 90's I bought a PC, which is still my favorite platform. My son had a Sega Megadrive and I played a couple of games on it too.

	22-12-2003 21:20									#8
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Back in 1976, I remember a trip to the London Science Museum. That kind of set the stage - I loved all the interactive exhibits, especially the "20 questions" computer demo.

I remember my first Space Invaders at a motorway service station, and after that I was hooked.

Owned; VCS, C64, Spectrum, Timex, Amstrad CPC (not a PC - used CPM) before I got a beloved Amiga 1000.

Only had a PC for 2 years!

	22-12-2003 21:40									#9
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Draughts
Backgammon
Chess

	22-12-2003 21:42									#10
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Atari 2600
NES
SNES
Genesis
Nintendo 64
Playstation
Dreamcast
Nintendo Gamecube

	22-12-2003 21:46									#11
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I had an Intelevision; it's what got me into gaming and AD&D... NES and SNES through HS. PC and SNES through college. I now have an X-box and a Gamecube, but my wife usually plays thoughs when I play CIV.

	22-12-2003 21:50									#12
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Intelevision
Atari 2600
Commodore 64
Amiga 2000
Sega Genesis
Nintendo 64
Playstation
Sega DreamCast
And my PC

Wow....that's a lot....

Spec.

	22-12-2003 21:51									#13
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oh yeah, PS, I have 2 of those...

	22-12-2003 21:54									#14
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My Dreamcast died... I was playing NFL2k... beating the Vikings like 140-0... and in the 4th quarter... last play of the game, Randy ****ing Moss scored like a 90 yard TD. I got so pissed, I threw my controller, but it hit the Dreamcast and killed it.

it was a stupid system anyways.

	22-12-2003 21:59									#15
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Atari **** (don't remember which one)
Intelevision
Nes
Gameboy
Snes
PS
PS2
Gamecube

	22-12-2003 22:00									#16
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I think the Commodore 64 is the platforem (PC) that I had the most games one. I had nearly 500 games....

Long live C64!!

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	22-12-2003 22:24									#17
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Atari 2600
NES
Gameboy
Genesis

Computer games turned out to be chaper and more fun to me. I like the new game consoles out there, but I can't bring myself to drop a few hundred.

	22-12-2003 22:28									#18
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Harry: You should buy Gamecube just for Mario Kart: Double Dash

	22-12-2003 22:39									#19
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The first microcomputer I owned was the Atari 800. Excellent game machine, with great games such as M.U.L.E., Archon, Encounter, and Drol. It's the only box that you could have four people play M.U.L.E.

	22-12-2003 23:40									#20
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I (or my family) owned:

Atari 2600
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
Long Time I owned no computer- I was in the military
edit in: I forgot the other console I had- Sega Genesis
P66- later upgraded to P133.
P300 later upgraded to P700- which I'm still using today.

That's all I've ever had. I'm not spoiled like you guys. As Albert Speer would say- you guys are all a bunch of spoiled white guys who's parents bought you all kinds of useless games and you got to have your own bathroom. .

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	22-12-2003 23:51									#21
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* Adagio takes a look at all above lists

Damn you've got lots of computers

I only had:
C64 (From '87)
Amiga 600 (From '93)
PC (From '97)


I knew one who had a SNES with Super Mario and some football game... I didn't care much about football, and it wasn't the best football game I've ever played, but it still was 100x better than Mario... not that it takes much to beat it... Nothing special about this sytem, the games I had at home at that time was much better than the games he had
I also knew one who had several consoles: Nothing special about them, except for the fighting games... wouldn't want to buy a console just to play the fighting games though...

	22-12-2003 23:55									#22
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NES
SNES
PC

	23-12-2003 00:17									#23
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PC
Power Mac
Playstation
iMac
Pentium 4 PC
Mac Powerbook

	23-12-2003 00:20									#24
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Board Games.
PC.


Thats it.

	23-12-2003 00:27									#25
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My roommate had an Atari Jaguar and no games.

	23-12-2003 00:29									#26
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Did they just look at it and imagine playing cool games?

	23-12-2003 00:30									#27
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Atari 2600 (i think)
my friend had a C64, but i never did.
Sega Master System
NES
IBM PS/1 (486, 70 Mhz, i think)
Sega Genesis
Gateway 2000 (200 Mhz)
Nintendo 64
PS1
Homebrew Box (600 Mhz)
Homebrew Box (800 Mhz)
PS2
XBOX
Gamecube (Brothers)
IBM Thinkpad Laptop (1.2 Ghz)
Homebrew Box (2 Ghz)

	23-12-2003 00:34									#28
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ahh, I forgot I owned a sega genesis. The only console I have ever owned aside from my family's atari 2600.

Games I enjoyed were madden football, pga golf, mortal kombat,

	23-12-2003 00:46									#29
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Atari, don't know model # or those specifics
NES
SNES
Sega Genesis
Atari Lynx
PS

	23-12-2003 00:50									#30
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quote: Originally posted by Spec Long live C64!!

Hey, did you ever manage to win Raid Over Moscow? My brother and I were able to blow up Moscow once, but we were blown up along with it.