What Game system got you addicted to Video Games?

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:34 pm

I played NES when I was 2 all the way up to 4. Then my older brother decided to find out which wires on the NES he could cut & still have the NES working (I know, retarded). My mom sold that at a garage sale about a year later. We then got a GBO & a Genesis, which I played up until I was 8 when all the anonymous objects I stuck in the cartridge slot shorted out the controller leads. We then gave that to someone, but by then, we had a couple computer games to keep us occupied. Eventually, my little brother got a (modded) PlayStation w/ probably a few hundred burnt games, & that kept us occupied for a while...

Sir Games-A-Lot · Post by **Sir Games-A-Lot** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:42 pm

The first games I seem to remember playing were DOS based, asteroids, battlezone, centipede, and a game whose name I can't recall in which you looked down a vector graphics tunnel and and fired at bugs. My first console was (rather embarrassingly) a GBA. I also have very fond memories of playing HE's SCUMM based games on the PC in the mid and late 90's.

myuusmeow · Post by **myuusmeow** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 6:51 pm

"DARNIT KILL THE DARN INDIAN THINGYS!!!"
~My sister playing Super Mario Land shamelessly in front of me.

The Gameboy, I had the original one, it died though, although it will live on via Goomba on the DS.

Post by **bicostp** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:45 pm

Hmm.. let's see...

When I was about 3 my dad got the old 2600 heavy sizer out of the attic. Asteroids was fun. I chucked ET at the couch a few dozen times. Space invaders scared the crap out of me. (Hey those aliens were darn creepy back then!)

After that I moved on to the Mac IIci. We had a whole slew of games on that thing, mainly because of the budding internet and BBS connections at work. Lode Runner, Stratego, IAGO, Amazing!, Hangman, Brickles, Nuke Snake... later on I played Sim City 2000 and other 256 color games. Most of the B+W games are still on the SE/30 in the garage to this day. The IIci and external hard drive with most of the stuff on it are long gone. (It was a loaner from work anyways) However, my Mac stuff lives on through floppies, the internet, a small surviving collection, and Basilisk II.

Then around 1998 we got a Playstation. When we booted up Gran Turismo for the first time I nearly ruined my shorts. I mean, that was incredible compared to the few MacAddict CD games that ran on our Quadra! Countless hours passed by while Crash belly-flopped onto spinning penguins and Spyro toasted green frog guys. Crash team Racing is still my favorite game of all time.

Later on I bought a Genesis and a NES myself, but they don't really count because I bought them a few years ago.

I can't really pick one over the other, because all of them are equally important.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 7:56 pm

lifeisbetterwithketchup · Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:43 pm

It was PokÃ©mon.

PokÃ©mon brought me into video games. I bought a teal GBC and PokÃ©mon Yellow in third grade and played the crap out of it. Then I left it on a plane, so I bought a second teal GBC and PokÃ©mon Yellow. After that, I bought PokÃ©mon Silver, which I absolutely overplayed (I checked a while back, 192 hours of my life spent on Pkmn Silver). Then I got Super Mario Bros. Deluxe for Christmas, and discovered the amazingness of Super Mario. About 6 months before GameCube came out, I bought a used N64 from FUNCOLAND (not GameStop), along with Paper Mario, with the intention of buying PokÃ©mon Stadium later (but now I'm glad I didn't). After buying more used games for N64 and GBC, I recieved a GameCube with Super Mario Sunshine for my birthday a few years later.

And years later, after buying a DS, a PS2, an Xbox, an NES, a Wii, and a GP2X, I'm still going at it, and waiting patiently for PokÃ©mon Diamond/Pearl to come out. (I never played Ruby/Sapphire.)

So, I guess PokÃ©mon brought me into it, and PokÃ©mon keeps me in it.

Well, not really, Pkmn is cool, but there's better things; it just sounded cool to end like that.

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 8:45 pm

SNES man. First system I ever got. (Is a 1992 kid)

Metroid fan · Post by **Metroid fan** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:11 pm

It was the SNES that I got with Yoshi's Island... That game is amazing.

Post by **Gamelver** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:47 pm

'Twas the Genesis for me...

Though I REALLY started to lve games after I got the N64 (Shadows of the Empire was my first game....this was around the time the special edition Star Wars movies came out

).

Post by **Skyone** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:53 pm

Gameboy -> N64, first two systems.

Post by **Gamelver** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 9:57 pm

Oh yeah, I think it was the gameboy for me as well, actually

....ah, Super Mario Land....great memories...

cheese007 · Post by **cheese007** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:08 pm

Skyone wrote:Gameboy -> N64, first two systems.

Same. I still have both.

Mageslayer · Post by **Mageslayer** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:23 pm

Well the first system that I had that I really enjoyed was a SNES, but it was my stepfather's and thus I wasn't allowed to play that much. Once I got a gameboy, I played it nonstop, first Zelda, then Kirby (1 and 2 lol) then a bunch of other games. After the SNES my stepfather got a PS1 (the big gray box, not the small white one). By that time he was a ltiile less of a video game hog and I got to play quite a bit. I never really got into the Sega systems until Dreamcast and I find the N64 to be an humongously overrated system.

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:33 pm

Sir Games-A-Lot wrote:The first games I seem to remember playing were DOS based, asteroids, battlezone, centipede, and a game whose name I can't recall in which you looked down a vector graphics tunnel and and fired at bugs.

You sure it wasn't Star Wars?

Post by **Triton** » Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:34 pm

my first "game system" was an amiga 1000 and a500 computers! it was all i had as far as video games were concerned till i got my n64 xmas of 97 i think. i had played other games at friends houses and stuff but not much. the amiga kicked major ass! graphics superior to the snes and it was made in 86 (totally blew away the macs at the time with their green and green displays and even the IIcs crap color) 320x240 res and a 256 color pallet (plus tricks to double it and other things) made for awesome gaming. pac man, tetris, the great gianna sisters (mario clone, better IMO) major motion (similar to spy hunter) stunt track racer (old skool 3d racer!) 4x4 offroad (yay truck racing) thrust 2140 (number might be wrong, kinda like light cycle game sorta) clown o mania, starglider, battle chess, arkanoid, chuck rock, bubble ghost and tons more great games! its still my favorite system by far

here is an example of some of what the amiga could do, i had this game (chuck rock) running on my a500 all the time, one of my oft played games!