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"Your console history"

What consoles did/do you own? (Dont worry you can just list them)

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Atari 2600 - Okay we didnt actually own this but our cousins did, we played on it every time we visited them. This was in the very early 80ies so they didnt have many games, we played pong a lot and most of the other classics. It was great, my first experience at playing computer games :)

BBC Micro - I think most of you guys got the Spectrum, we got this instead. I'll be damned if I can remember the games I played on it but we loved it. It was also my first exposure to pornography on computers. My dad had a disk with a naked lady on it heh.

Commodore 64 - Woo! I think we still have this somewhere in the house. We had lots of games, just looking at the list of games on Wikipedia, there are so many. This is such a long time ago I can't remember all the oens we played. Spy Vs Spy was one of them or did we played that on the BBC, ah I forget.

Amiga 600/1200 - I think we had both these the first was made in the UK but I'm pretty sure we still have the latter somewhere in the house. Again we played a lot of games and I think you could get a lot of demos from magazines which was great. One game we liked was this Viking one, where you threw axes to cut the pigtails off women heh. Zool and James Pond I remember playing too.

Gameboy - How cool was this, now we could go anywhere and play games. We had so many games, Tetris, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Paperboy, Duck Tales, yeah I cant remember the rest :/ maybe we didnt have lots of games but we played them a lot.

Megadrive - You either had Sega or Nintendo, if you had both you were considered rich, or atleast in my eyes back then. We ended up with the Megadrive which was a great console and had lots of great games I mean we spend hours and hours each day playing it. Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Mortal Combat, Sonic, Aladdin, Zombies Ate My Neighbours LOL god I remember that game, I even completed it. Killing zombies with water pistols heh.

Sometimes I wished we'd got a SNES instead because all the good RPGs seemed to be on there :(

Playstation - We ignored the Jaguar and the Saturn, maybe because we couldnt afford them but when the Playstation came out it was definitely something we wanted and we got it and my god were we in for a treat. I think we played games even more than we did before. We were certainly spending a lot of money on them. Then this game called Final Fantasy VII came out and wow what a game. Now you didnt need Ninteno to play great RPGs anymore.

Dreamcast - My relationship was short with this console, but we had some great games on it. Crazy Taxi was one of my favourites, I just loved relaxing, listening to the music driving through everything and everyone. Power Stone another great game I enjoyed playing with my friends, it was just so crazy lol.

Playstation 2 - Excellent, better graphics, better games, everyone's still playing on it. I think my brothers played more on it than me. I played Dynasty Warriors a lot, Timesplitters was great, Final Fantasy X of course. Strange since that game has come out gone knows how many years ago I ahvent given Square any of my money, what are they doing wrong :S. Oh Grand Theft Auto what a great game, maybe I should have mentioned this in the Playstion bit. Apart from them and maybe a few others games I havent played many on teh PS2. I don't know why, I mean my brother buys all the games now, I tend to watch him complete them. I think the last new game I played on teh PS2 was Rumble Roses, I'm such a perv.

Xbox - My brother gave up the PS2 for the Xbox, the other day he bought this game and completed it within 2 days. What a waste :) The console is in his room and his room isnt the nicest so I rarely play on it unless it's a good game. We played the latest Timsplitters, of course the Halo games, we loved playing on them. Another game I really loved playing, can't remember what it was called but it had those dog fight planes from WWII anyone know the name? Me and my older brother loved playing that online. We did pretty well but of course there were lots of people who you could tell play it for hours every day. Haven't played it in awhile.

I remember it was my younger brothers birthday or was it Christmas I forget, I bought him the Xbox live starter kit. He wasnt interested at all and felt like I wasted my money and could have got him something else instead. What happens? Yep he ends up loving it and spending hours and hours late into the night on it. He even made lots of friends and went to Alton Towers with a bunch of them. Unfortunately for him his 1 year expired and so did the credit card you needed and he hasn't been online for a very long time. I'm sure he'll get the 360 one day and go back online but he's terrible with his money.

Gamecube - My brother bought me this for my birthday. I don't know why I said I wanted to play some of the games, but I never did buy them so the console is lying around somewhere. I never really got the chance to play on it. Maybe I should sell it now.

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Okay that's all of them, at the moment I'm playing more games on the PC, but when the next lot of consoles come out I'm sure I'll get them, maybe even the Wii if it's cheap as everyone says it will be.

What consoles did/do you own? (Dont worry you can just list them)

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Atari 2600 - Okay we didnt actually own this but our cousins did, we played on it every time we visited them. This was in the very early 80ies so they didnt have many games, we played pong a lot and most of the other classics. It was great, my first experience at playing computer games :)

BBC Micro - I think most of you guys got the Spectrum, we got this instead. I'll be damned if I can remember the games I played on it but we loved it. It was also my first exposure to pornography on computers. My dad had a disk with a naked lady on it heh.

Commodore 64 - Woo! I think we still have this somewhere in the house. We had lots of games, just looking at the list of games on Wikipedia, there are so many. This is such a long time ago I can't remember all the oens we played. Spy Vs Spy was one of them or did we played that on the BBC, ah I forget.

Amiga 600/1200 - I think we had both these the first was made in the UK but I'm pretty sure we still have the latter somewhere in the house. Again we played a lot of games and I think you could get a lot of demos from magazines which was great. One game we liked was this Viking one, where you threw axes to cut the pigtails off women heh. Zool and James Pond I remember playing too.

Gameboy - How cool was this, now we could go anywhere and play games. We had so many games, Tetris, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Paperboy, Duck Tales, yeah I cant remember the rest :/ maybe we didnt have lots of games but we played them a lot.

Megadrive - You either had Sega or Nintendo, if you had both you were considered rich, or atleast in my eyes back then. We ended up with the Megadrive which was a great console and had lots of great games I mean we spend hours and hours each day playing it. Golden Axe, Streets of Rage, Mortal Combat, Sonic, Aladdin, Zombies Ate My Neighbours LOL god I remember that game, I even completed it. Killing zombies with water pistols heh.

Sometimes I wished we'd got a SNES instead because all the good RPGs seemed to be on there :(

Playstation - We ignored the Jaguar and the Saturn, maybe because we couldnt afford them but when the Playstation came out it was definitely something we wanted and we got it and my god were we in for a treat. I think we played games even more than we did before. We were certainly spending a lot of money on them. Then this game called Final Fantasy VII came out and wow what a game. Now you didnt need Ninteno to play great RPGs anymore.

Dreamcast - My relationship was short with this console, but we had some great games on it. Crazy Taxi was one of my favourites, I just loved relaxing, listening to the music driving through everything and everyone. Power Stone another great game I enjoyed playing with my friends, it was just so crazy lol.

Playstation 2 - Excellent, better graphics, better games, everyone's still playing on it. I think my brothers played more on it than me. I played Dynasty Warriors a lot, Timesplitters was great, Final Fantasy X of course. Strange since that game has come out gone knows how many years ago I ahvent given Square any of my money, what are they doing wrong :S. Oh Grand Theft Auto what a great game, maybe I should have mentioned this in the Playstion bit. Apart from them and maybe a few others games I havent played many on teh PS2. I don't know why, I mean my brother buys all the games now, I tend to watch him complete them. I think the last new game I played on teh PS2 was Rumble Roses, I'm such a perv.

Xbox - My brother gave up the PS2 for the Xbox, the other day he bought this game and completed it within 2 days. What a waste :) The console is in his room and his room isnt the nicest so I rarely play on it unless it's a good game. We played the latest Timsplitters, of course the Halo games, we loved playing on them. Another game I really loved playing, can't remember what it was called but it had those dog fight planes from WWII anyone know the name? Me and my older brother loved playing that online. We did pretty well but of course there were lots of people who you could tell play it for hours every day. Haven't played it in awhile.

I remember it was my younger brothers birthday or was it Christmas I forget, I bought him the Xbox live starter kit. He wasnt interested at all and felt like I wasted my money and could have got him something else instead. What happens? Yep he ends up loving it and spending hours and hours late into the night on it. He even made lots of friends and went to Alton Towers with a bunch of them. Unfortunately for him his 1 year expired and so did the credit card you needed and he hasn't been online for a very long time. I'm sure he'll get the 360 one day and go back online but he's terrible with his money.

Gamecube - My brother bought me this for my birthday. I don't know why I said I wanted to play some of the games, but I never did buy them so the console is lying around somewhere. I never really got the chance to play on it. Maybe I should sell it now.

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Okay that's all of them, at the moment I'm playing more games on the PC, but when the next lot of consoles come out I'm sure I'll get them, maybe even the Wii if it's cheap as everyone says it will be.

ZX81
ZX Spectrum 16k
Megadrive
PC*
Saturn
Dreamcast*
Playstation
Gameboy
Playstation 2*
GBA*
XBox*
XBox 360*

*Still regularly play.

Games that gave me the most fun on each format:

ZX81 - can't remember any ever working properly so used it to learn BASIC
ZX Spectrum 16k - Jet Set Willy
Megadrive - Buck Rogers in the 25th Century
PC - FFXI
Saturn - Tomb Raider
Dreamcast - Skies of Arcadia
Playstation - FFVII
Gameboy - Tetris
Playstation 2 - EverQuest Online Adventures
GBA - Pokemon Leaf Green
XBox - Forza Motorsport
XBox 360 - FFXI

With the exception of the CD32 I've owned every console from the Atari 2600 onwards.

Spectrum ZX, don't really remmeber much about this as i was only around 5 at the time, Pitfall was good though.

Commodore 64 - Mission Impossible was good as was this side scrolling army game which i forget the name of. Ah the glorious days of waiting 5 minutes for the tape to load, getting killed in about 3 seconds and having to do it all again.

Atari ST - Had this at home, pretty rubbish i only remember playing some football manager game on it.

Amiga 500/1200 - Uncle had this and as he lived with gran and me i also got to play it whenever he wasn't on it. Absolutely loved it, such classics as Cannon Fodder, Pool of Radiance, Buck Rogers and SWOS and other stuff like GODS and Magic Pockets.

Megadrive - Pretty good console, NHL 95 was good as was Soleil.

Playstation - My friend had a Saturn and i saw how rubbish that was so i got a Playstation which proved out to be a great choice. FF7, FF Tactics, Vandal Hearts, Suikoden, Front Mission, Hoshigami etc gave me endless hours of fun.

Playstation 2 - Another wise purchase for me. Dragon Quest 8, Disgaea, Grandia 3, Shadow Hearts, Makai Kingdom and a whole host of other RPG's i've still yet to get to along with MVP Baseball giving me plenty of fun plus i've only had one fail on me which was my launch one that lasted for 4 years so i've been pretty lucky in that regard.

Gameboy Advance - Granted it was just the emulator but pretty good, glad i didn't spend money on it though.

DS - bought this in China and i've yet to actually buy a game for it yet over here. Gathering dust on my shelf.

Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K +
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 128K +2
Nintendo Entertainment System
Super Nintendo Entertainment System
Nintendo 64
Nintendo GameCube
Game Boy
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance / SP
Nintendo DS
SEGA MegaDrive
SEGA Dreamcast
Xbox
Xbox 360
PS2
PC

Could you spare us a few quid there Edgy, you seem loaded enough :-D

Yeah he does, very impressive, but what stopped you from owning the original Playstation Edgy?

That's between me and my brother mind :P

I used to be single and worked in Game, so I had discounts and a small amount of money.

Now I'm doing a better paid job, aren't single, and so things have changed a little*

Who knows, I might get a decent payrise sometime in the future...either that or a lottery win (if I did it) :)

*Note: By 'a little' I mean 'a lot'

Machie wrote:
> Yeah he does, very impressive, but what stopped you from owning
> the original Playstation Edgy?

At the time, the N64 was my brothers and I was happy to play on that and the PC. Plus, I am a bit of a Nintendo fan and in those days a bit of a fanboy.

There are a couple games I would have liked to have had...one is on order with Amazon now, Final Fantasy VII, and as the PS2 is backwards compatable, can't see a reason not to play it on that instead.

Ah right, i'm just an only child :-) although this generation if i do buy one will mark the first time i have actually bought a console myself. I either inherited my uncle's consoles or my nan bought me them as christmas presents