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When next-generation gaming got underway with the release of the Dreamcast I already knew which console I wanted. That console was the Gamecube and it appealed to me over all the other consoles as you could say I had grown –up with Nintendo. I loved the SNES, I played for so many hours on that black clump of plastic called the Nintendo 64, I just couldn’t wait for the Gamecubes release.
Now, like many of you, I planned to buy one console and one console only out of the batch of next-generation consoles being released. But, that was to change…
My friend bought a Dreamcast and I would sit at his marvelling at how amazing Soul Calibur was. The way it moved was so slick, the graphics were top notch, the gameplay the same. It was unlike anything I had seen before, it was something my N64 wasn’t capable of doing or any other machine I had owned before. But, I resisted the temptation and continued waiting for that Gamecube.
A month on I go to visit my Aunt who was very ill at the time. She has a son, his name is Phil and he was playing on his Dreamcast in his front room. He had a whole host of games, everything from Sonic Adventure to Sega Rally. I again was amazed at the frame rates the Dreamcast could handle and was drooling at games like Sonic Adventure. My hands were so eager to grab a Dreamcast controller of my own, but I’ll wait for the Gamecube.
A few weeks later I finally give in, handing my money over to the guy in the shop for my Dreamcast along with Crazy Taxi which I had slotted so many pounds in at the arcade. I plugged it in and played it as my next-generation console, forgetting the Gamecube and just enjoying some class gaming.
It’s many months on, maybe a year, and the Dreamcast has slowly faded into nothing. The release list just got smaller and smaller for each month, I knew my Dreamcast had served me some classic gaming moments but I also knew I wouldn’t insert another new game into it again.
I soon found myself not playing games much at all. The Playstation 2 had just been released and I despised it, the Gamecube was forgotten and not considered my style anymore and I didn’t post here much anymore as I had no interest in games. I didn’t like it at all, the next-generation era proved so much yet it seemed like now I was just waiting for the next-generation of gaming in a few years time. If not that, waiting for nothing at all.
2002, I am at a friend’s house who owns a Playstation 2. At this time I was getting interested in the Gamecube again, as the Dreamcast had gone and I wanted to get back into gaming so much. I sit on the couch at my friend’s house looking at his new game called Grand Theft Auto 3 just envying him. It was a game like no other, it promised so much for me. There was freedom, there was fun, I saw this as the game to get me back into the gaming world which I missed so much. I looked at the Playsation 2’s released list and saw games I wanted to own and so a while after I buy a Playstation 2 with GTA 3 telling myself how I didn’t want a Gamecube anymore again. And I actually didn’t, I saw Luigi’s Mansion running in a shop and at first glances it looked like the same old N64 style games I was getting bored of in it’s final years.
I played my Playstation 2 for a while. Then it grew on me that I didn’t like it. It was slow in loading considering I had owned a fast-loading N64 before, GTA 3 just didn’t do it for me anymore and there was nothing really special I liked after trying some demos. I now didn’t want my Playstation 2 I had paid so much for and only bought one game.
Then the Gamecube comes out and I realised that I wanted one again after saying I didn’t on and off. All the talk on here and all the things I saw just made me go back to my routes and I thank everyone for that. I now have a Gamecube sitting downstairs and I am loving Rogue Leader.
I feel bad about myself. You see, all those consoles I mentioned I bought up there were bought for me by my parents. I just feel liked I’ve wasted their money in a way. It all came to me today as my Dad said to me whilst I was playing Luigi’s Mansion – “I’ve seen this all before, aren’t you getting a bit old for playing games?” I am sixteen and no way too old for gaming, he said that as he didn’t like the fact that I had a Dreamcast, Playstation 2 and Gamecube sitting downstairs. As he says – “It’s just another games console” and right he is too.
I bought all of these consoles as I wanted a certain type of game. With the new news of RARE maybe going multi-format it came to me – Why must I own all these consoles, pay so much, just to play a few ‘exclusive’ games? I know it’s my doing, I didn’t think at the time I bought the consoles, I wanted them all so much. But now as I look back and see how in the beginning I was only going to get one yet ended up with three it makes me wonder how my parents could buy them all for me. They are very generous and I will be more careful with money and buying things as I get older. I’ve wasted their money, the time they spent working to buy me something for nothing.
And that’s why I like the fact that most games these days are on all formats. With the RARE news it’s just getting better in a way. The next console I buy will have the same games as all the others, hopefully. I learn from mistakes and buying all the consoles was. All I had to do was wait a while for the PC release (which they hadn’t mentioned at the time) and saved my parents a lot of money.
Mum, Dad – Sorry.
So, how many consoles do you own? Have you done the same thing as me? Do you regret it? Do you want all games to be multi-format so we won’t be lured into buying every single console? In other words, have you ever fallen into the gaming trap?
The world of gaming can be deceiving place sometimes, let’s hope that improves in the future.
Monkey_With_Attitude
Now, like many of you, I planned to buy one console and one console only out of the batch of next-generation consoles being released. But, that was to change…
My friend bought a Dreamcast and I would sit at his marvelling at how amazing Soul Calibur was. The way it moved was so slick, the graphics were top notch, the gameplay the same. It was unlike anything I had seen before, it was something my N64 wasn’t capable of doing or any other machine I had owned before. But, I resisted the temptation and continued waiting for that Gamecube.
A month on I go to visit my Aunt who was very ill at the time. She has a son, his name is Phil and he was playing on his Dreamcast in his front room. He had a whole host of games, everything from Sonic Adventure to Sega Rally. I again was amazed at the frame rates the Dreamcast could handle and was drooling at games like Sonic Adventure. My hands were so eager to grab a Dreamcast controller of my own, but I’ll wait for the Gamecube.
A few weeks later I finally give in, handing my money over to the guy in the shop for my Dreamcast along with Crazy Taxi which I had slotted so many pounds in at the arcade. I plugged it in and played it as my next-generation console, forgetting the Gamecube and just enjoying some class gaming.
It’s many months on, maybe a year, and the Dreamcast has slowly faded into nothing. The release list just got smaller and smaller for each month, I knew my Dreamcast had served me some classic gaming moments but I also knew I wouldn’t insert another new game into it again.
I soon found myself not playing games much at all. The Playstation 2 had just been released and I despised it, the Gamecube was forgotten and not considered my style anymore and I didn’t post here much anymore as I had no interest in games. I didn’t like it at all, the next-generation era proved so much yet it seemed like now I was just waiting for the next-generation of gaming in a few years time. If not that, waiting for nothing at all.
2002, I am at a friend’s house who owns a Playstation 2. At this time I was getting interested in the Gamecube again, as the Dreamcast had gone and I wanted to get back into gaming so much. I sit on the couch at my friend’s house looking at his new game called Grand Theft Auto 3 just envying him. It was a game like no other, it promised so much for me. There was freedom, there was fun, I saw this as the game to get me back into the gaming world which I missed so much. I looked at the Playsation 2’s released list and saw games I wanted to own and so a while after I buy a Playstation 2 with GTA 3 telling myself how I didn’t want a Gamecube anymore again. And I actually didn’t, I saw Luigi’s Mansion running in a shop and at first glances it looked like the same old N64 style games I was getting bored of in it’s final years.
I played my Playstation 2 for a while. Then it grew on me that I didn’t like it. It was slow in loading considering I had owned a fast-loading N64 before, GTA 3 just didn’t do it for me anymore and there was nothing really special I liked after trying some demos. I now didn’t want my Playstation 2 I had paid so much for and only bought one game.
Then the Gamecube comes out and I realised that I wanted one again after saying I didn’t on and off. All the talk on here and all the things I saw just made me go back to my routes and I thank everyone for that. I now have a Gamecube sitting downstairs and I am loving Rogue Leader.
I feel bad about myself. You see, all those consoles I mentioned I bought up there were bought for me by my parents. I just feel liked I’ve wasted their money in a way. It all came to me today as my Dad said to me whilst I was playing Luigi’s Mansion – “I’ve seen this all before, aren’t you getting a bit old for playing games?” I am sixteen and no way too old for gaming, he said that as he didn’t like the fact that I had a Dreamcast, Playstation 2 and Gamecube sitting downstairs. As he says – “It’s just another games console” and right he is too.
I bought all of these consoles as I wanted a certain type of game. With the new news of RARE maybe going multi-format it came to me – Why must I own all these consoles, pay so much, just to play a few ‘exclusive’ games? I know it’s my doing, I didn’t think at the time I bought the consoles, I wanted them all so much. But now as I look back and see how in the beginning I was only going to get one yet ended up with three it makes me wonder how my parents could buy them all for me. They are very generous and I will be more careful with money and buying things as I get older. I’ve wasted their money, the time they spent working to buy me something for nothing.
And that’s why I like the fact that most games these days are on all formats. With the RARE news it’s just getting better in a way. The next console I buy will have the same games as all the others, hopefully. I learn from mistakes and buying all the consoles was. All I had to do was wait a while for the PC release (which they hadn’t mentioned at the time) and saved my parents a lot of money.
Mum, Dad – Sorry.
So, how many consoles do you own? Have you done the same thing as me? Do you regret it? Do you want all games to be multi-format so we won’t be lured into buying every single console? In other words, have you ever fallen into the gaming trap?
The world of gaming can be deceiving place sometimes, let’s hope that improves in the future.
Monkey_With_Attitude
===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> Monkey, are you the same monkey behind the "Special Reserve
> Navigation for Monkeys"?
Nope, thats Monkey_Man.
But cheers for the link dude :-)
> Monkey, are you the same monkey behind the "Special Reserve
> Navigation for Monkeys"?
Nope, thats Monkey_Man.
But cheers for the link dude :-)
Monkey, are you the same monkey behind the "Special Reserve Navigation for Monkeys"?
If so, the Life and Sport forums have split... so the links on the site will need changing.
If not, here's the link. It's the best method for getting about online. However, be warned that, when you go back to a page you visitted earlier, it won't be updated from then- u need to refresh it.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.whiston/nav4monkeys/
Sonic
If so, the Life and Sport forums have split... so the links on the site will need changing.
If not, here's the link. It's the best method for getting about online. However, be warned that, when you go back to a page you visitted earlier, it won't be updated from then- u need to refresh it.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/paul.whiston/nav4monkeys/
Sonic
===SONICRAV---> wrote:
> Oh, btw Monkey, annoyingly the Sport and Life forum has been split...
> So the nav for monkey's thing will have to change... I can't be
> bothered to follow 2 links!
Sonic, I have to admit I have no idea what you are talking about there. If I should know please tell me :-)
I really should trade in all of my consoles I don't use for an extra bit of cash. But, I find it hard too. It's like I bought the game and so I know I'll want to come back to it someday and treasure the memories, just like I do with my old Master System etc.
> Oh, btw Monkey, annoyingly the Sport and Life forum has been split...
> So the nav for monkey's thing will have to change... I can't be
> bothered to follow 2 links!
Sonic, I have to admit I have no idea what you are talking about there. If I should know please tell me :-)
I really should trade in all of my consoles I don't use for an extra bit of cash. But, I find it hard too. It's like I bought the game and so I know I'll want to come back to it someday and treasure the memories, just like I do with my old Master System etc.
Oh, btw Monkey, annoyingly the Sport and Life forum has been split...
So the nav for monkey's thing will have to change... I can't be bothered to follow 2 links!
So the nav for monkey's thing will have to change... I can't be bothered to follow 2 links!
Being a massive game fan, but with no perminant income (doing A levels), I need to keep up with technology with the little money I have.
So, I owned an N64... which I then traded for a DC... which I then traded for a PS2... which I then traded for a GC.
Although I don't think I'll go for an Xbox- it's a PS2esque affair.
Anyway, with games being so short these days (how many games last you more than a week these days???), I find myself trading games with friends, and getting games of GAD and then trading them almost immediately.
Thank God I'm going to work next year!
Sonic
So, I owned an N64... which I then traded for a DC... which I then traded for a PS2... which I then traded for a GC.
Although I don't think I'll go for an Xbox- it's a PS2esque affair.
Anyway, with games being so short these days (how many games last you more than a week these days???), I find myself trading games with friends, and getting games of GAD and then trading them almost immediately.
Thank God I'm going to work next year!
Sonic
Yeah, university students *looks at Cooky* are always playing them!
I don't like the way in which parents tell you you're too old for games even though your sixteen. Maybe they just want you doing something better with your life?
They don't also realise that most gamers are over twenty according to all these polls and things. Roll on the day I leave home :-)
They don't also realise that most gamers are over twenty according to all these polls and things. Roll on the day I leave home :-)
I did get consoles more when I was younger and my parents bought one for Christmas. At first we got a NES, then a few years later at Xmas a Megadrive, then a Snes. Also, we got a Gameboy and Game Gear pretty much at the same time. But the handhelds were cos my Dad was working abroad, and they didn't cost so much.
But now my parents won't really get me a console for Christmas, they might do if I put money towards it too. Since I got my N64 my parents have bought me games on my Birthday or Christmas if I ask them to, but like yours they say I'm getting too old for games, so aren't going to buy me a console, after all if I want games I've got the PC...
Well, although all developers being multiformat would be good in some ways, it would also mean a lot less competition in the gaming world. Console wise, no one would need more than one console, so eventually only one would be available. And then this would mean no competition for the hardware, so they likely wouldn't go out to do all they could on creating a new console, and also could charge pretty much what they wanted...
It would be good in some ways, but bad in others...
But now my parents won't really get me a console for Christmas, they might do if I put money towards it too. Since I got my N64 my parents have bought me games on my Birthday or Christmas if I ask them to, but like yours they say I'm getting too old for games, so aren't going to buy me a console, after all if I want games I've got the PC...
Well, although all developers being multiformat would be good in some ways, it would also mean a lot less competition in the gaming world. Console wise, no one would need more than one console, so eventually only one would be available. And then this would mean no competition for the hardware, so they likely wouldn't go out to do all they could on creating a new console, and also could charge pretty much what they wanted...
It would be good in some ways, but bad in others...
When next-generation gaming got underway with the release of the Dreamcast I already knew which console I wanted. That console was the Gamecube and it appealed to me over all the other consoles as you could say I had grown –up with Nintendo. I loved the SNES, I played for so many hours on that black clump of plastic called the Nintendo 64, I just couldn’t wait for the Gamecubes release.
Now, like many of you, I planned to buy one console and one console only out of the batch of next-generation consoles being released. But, that was to change…
My friend bought a Dreamcast and I would sit at his marvelling at how amazing Soul Calibur was. The way it moved was so slick, the graphics were top notch, the gameplay the same. It was unlike anything I had seen before, it was something my N64 wasn’t capable of doing or any other machine I had owned before. But, I resisted the temptation and continued waiting for that Gamecube.
A month on I go to visit my Aunt who was very ill at the time. She has a son, his name is Phil and he was playing on his Dreamcast in his front room. He had a whole host of games, everything from Sonic Adventure to Sega Rally. I again was amazed at the frame rates the Dreamcast could handle and was drooling at games like Sonic Adventure. My hands were so eager to grab a Dreamcast controller of my own, but I’ll wait for the Gamecube.
A few weeks later I finally give in, handing my money over to the guy in the shop for my Dreamcast along with Crazy Taxi which I had slotted so many pounds in at the arcade. I plugged it in and played it as my next-generation console, forgetting the Gamecube and just enjoying some class gaming.
It’s many months on, maybe a year, and the Dreamcast has slowly faded into nothing. The release list just got smaller and smaller for each month, I knew my Dreamcast had served me some classic gaming moments but I also knew I wouldn’t insert another new game into it again.
I soon found myself not playing games much at all. The Playstation 2 had just been released and I despised it, the Gamecube was forgotten and not considered my style anymore and I didn’t post here much anymore as I had no interest in games. I didn’t like it at all, the next-generation era proved so much yet it seemed like now I was just waiting for the next-generation of gaming in a few years time. If not that, waiting for nothing at all.
2002, I am at a friend’s house who owns a Playstation 2. At this time I was getting interested in the Gamecube again, as the Dreamcast had gone and I wanted to get back into gaming so much. I sit on the couch at my friend’s house looking at his new game called Grand Theft Auto 3 just envying him. It was a game like no other, it promised so much for me. There was freedom, there was fun, I saw this as the game to get me back into the gaming world which I missed so much. I looked at the Playsation 2’s released list and saw games I wanted to own and so a while after I buy a Playstation 2 with GTA 3 telling myself how I didn’t want a Gamecube anymore again. And I actually didn’t, I saw Luigi’s Mansion running in a shop and at first glances it looked like the same old N64 style games I was getting bored of in it’s final years.
I played my Playstation 2 for a while. Then it grew on me that I didn’t like it. It was slow in loading considering I had owned a fast-loading N64 before, GTA 3 just didn’t do it for me anymore and there was nothing really special I liked after trying some demos. I now didn’t want my Playstation 2 I had paid so much for and only bought one game.
Then the Gamecube comes out and I realised that I wanted one again after saying I didn’t on and off. All the talk on here and all the things I saw just made me go back to my routes and I thank everyone for that. I now have a Gamecube sitting downstairs and I am loving Rogue Leader.
I feel bad about myself. You see, all those consoles I mentioned I bought up there were bought for me by my parents. I just feel liked I’ve wasted their money in a way. It all came to me today as my Dad said to me whilst I was playing Luigi’s Mansion – “I’ve seen this all before, aren’t you getting a bit old for playing games?” I am sixteen and no way too old for gaming, he said that as he didn’t like the fact that I had a Dreamcast, Playstation 2 and Gamecube sitting downstairs. As he says – “It’s just another games console” and right he is too.
I bought all of these consoles as I wanted a certain type of game. With the new news of RARE maybe going multi-format it came to me – Why must I own all these consoles, pay so much, just to play a few ‘exclusive’ games? I know it’s my doing, I didn’t think at the time I bought the consoles, I wanted them all so much. But now as I look back and see how in the beginning I was only going to get one yet ended up with three it makes me wonder how my parents could buy them all for me. They are very generous and I will be more careful with money and buying things as I get older. I’ve wasted their money, the time they spent working to buy me something for nothing.
And that’s why I like the fact that most games these days are on all formats. With the RARE news it’s just getting better in a way. The next console I buy will have the same games as all the others, hopefully. I learn from mistakes and buying all the consoles was. All I had to do was wait a while for the PC release (which they hadn’t mentioned at the time) and saved my parents a lot of money.
Mum, Dad – Sorry.
So, how many consoles do you own? Have you done the same thing as me? Do you regret it? Do you want all games to be multi-format so we won’t be lured into buying every single console? In other words, have you ever fallen into the gaming trap?
The world of gaming can be deceiving place sometimes, let’s hope that improves in the future.
Monkey_With_Attitude
Now, like many of you, I planned to buy one console and one console only out of the batch of next-generation consoles being released. But, that was to change…
My friend bought a Dreamcast and I would sit at his marvelling at how amazing Soul Calibur was. The way it moved was so slick, the graphics were top notch, the gameplay the same. It was unlike anything I had seen before, it was something my N64 wasn’t capable of doing or any other machine I had owned before. But, I resisted the temptation and continued waiting for that Gamecube.
A month on I go to visit my Aunt who was very ill at the time. She has a son, his name is Phil and he was playing on his Dreamcast in his front room. He had a whole host of games, everything from Sonic Adventure to Sega Rally. I again was amazed at the frame rates the Dreamcast could handle and was drooling at games like Sonic Adventure. My hands were so eager to grab a Dreamcast controller of my own, but I’ll wait for the Gamecube.
A few weeks later I finally give in, handing my money over to the guy in the shop for my Dreamcast along with Crazy Taxi which I had slotted so many pounds in at the arcade. I plugged it in and played it as my next-generation console, forgetting the Gamecube and just enjoying some class gaming.
It’s many months on, maybe a year, and the Dreamcast has slowly faded into nothing. The release list just got smaller and smaller for each month, I knew my Dreamcast had served me some classic gaming moments but I also knew I wouldn’t insert another new game into it again.
I soon found myself not playing games much at all. The Playstation 2 had just been released and I despised it, the Gamecube was forgotten and not considered my style anymore and I didn’t post here much anymore as I had no interest in games. I didn’t like it at all, the next-generation era proved so much yet it seemed like now I was just waiting for the next-generation of gaming in a few years time. If not that, waiting for nothing at all.
2002, I am at a friend’s house who owns a Playstation 2. At this time I was getting interested in the Gamecube again, as the Dreamcast had gone and I wanted to get back into gaming so much. I sit on the couch at my friend’s house looking at his new game called Grand Theft Auto 3 just envying him. It was a game like no other, it promised so much for me. There was freedom, there was fun, I saw this as the game to get me back into the gaming world which I missed so much. I looked at the Playsation 2’s released list and saw games I wanted to own and so a while after I buy a Playstation 2 with GTA 3 telling myself how I didn’t want a Gamecube anymore again. And I actually didn’t, I saw Luigi’s Mansion running in a shop and at first glances it looked like the same old N64 style games I was getting bored of in it’s final years.
I played my Playstation 2 for a while. Then it grew on me that I didn’t like it. It was slow in loading considering I had owned a fast-loading N64 before, GTA 3 just didn’t do it for me anymore and there was nothing really special I liked after trying some demos. I now didn’t want my Playstation 2 I had paid so much for and only bought one game.
Then the Gamecube comes out and I realised that I wanted one again after saying I didn’t on and off. All the talk on here and all the things I saw just made me go back to my routes and I thank everyone for that. I now have a Gamecube sitting downstairs and I am loving Rogue Leader.
I feel bad about myself. You see, all those consoles I mentioned I bought up there were bought for me by my parents. I just feel liked I’ve wasted their money in a way. It all came to me today as my Dad said to me whilst I was playing Luigi’s Mansion – “I’ve seen this all before, aren’t you getting a bit old for playing games?” I am sixteen and no way too old for gaming, he said that as he didn’t like the fact that I had a Dreamcast, Playstation 2 and Gamecube sitting downstairs. As he says – “It’s just another games console” and right he is too.
I bought all of these consoles as I wanted a certain type of game. With the new news of RARE maybe going multi-format it came to me – Why must I own all these consoles, pay so much, just to play a few ‘exclusive’ games? I know it’s my doing, I didn’t think at the time I bought the consoles, I wanted them all so much. But now as I look back and see how in the beginning I was only going to get one yet ended up with three it makes me wonder how my parents could buy them all for me. They are very generous and I will be more careful with money and buying things as I get older. I’ve wasted their money, the time they spent working to buy me something for nothing.
And that’s why I like the fact that most games these days are on all formats. With the RARE news it’s just getting better in a way. The next console I buy will have the same games as all the others, hopefully. I learn from mistakes and buying all the consoles was. All I had to do was wait a while for the PC release (which they hadn’t mentioned at the time) and saved my parents a lot of money.
Mum, Dad – Sorry.
So, how many consoles do you own? Have you done the same thing as me? Do you regret it? Do you want all games to be multi-format so we won’t be lured into buying every single console? In other words, have you ever fallen into the gaming trap?
The world of gaming can be deceiving place sometimes, let’s hope that improves in the future.
Monkey_With_Attitude