What was the era you first started gaming in?
NES was my first owned system but I also played on the Atari 2600 started playing sometime around 86-87. First Game was Mario/Duck Hunt
My progression of consoles not including pc has been NES> SNES> N64> PS2> Xbox360 > PS4
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Mine has been N64-NES/SNES-Gamecube-Wii-xbox-Xbox360 and then i stopped playing console permanently But i did get a pc when i was 4.
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I went primary PC during the PS 2 era started getting consoles again at end of the 360 era to get my kids started in the gaming tradition. With PS4 upgrade and bundles/steam sales among other things don't really see the point owning consoles anymore. PS4 will probably be my last and I'll get the kids into PC gaming.
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Summer of 2007 oe 2008 with Burnout Revenge and Halo 3 on the 360.
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BBC model B - my first memories of gaming on it would have been from 1985, but we had it for a few years before that.
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my first game was pong https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4VRgY3tkh0
I think it was in 1979 (yeah I know I'm old)
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A chronology the best I can remember:
First was some black & white TV pong game system in the 70's, maybe it was from Sears.
Then Atari VCS with the woodgrain ;) aka Atari 2600. It came out in 1977 but I don't think I got one until 1981 or so.
At some point got rid of the Atari and replaced it with a Colecovision and the converter which let you play Atari games on the Coleco system.
My cousins had Intellivision so I played a lot of games on it though I never had one myself. I hated the controllers on Intellivision, it made my thumbs hurt.
There was some kind of Texas Instruments computer, it hooked up to the TV. I didn't use it for much and really don't rememebr anything about it.
Apple ][ / ][e / ][c (various systems over the years)... this was my main form of entertainment for some years in the 80's. I had a lot of exposure to Commodore PET and C64 systems via school and friends but never had one in my own home. I had the green monochrome monitor and at some point upgraded to a COLOR monitor :D
Nintendo NES
IBM PC (clone), 4MHz CPU with 2 floppy drives, no hard drive. Replaced and upgraded parts many many times through the years. My first hard drive was 10 megabytes, I thought "there is no way I'll ever fill this up!". Started off with an amber monochrome monitor and playing text games. Then at some point got a CGA card and a color screen and could enjoy some nice cyan and purple graphics. :P
My close friend had an Amiga so I got exposed to that but never had one myself. I did have a Sega Genesis and a lot of the top Amiga games were ported to Genesis since they shared the 68000 processor so I didn't completely miss out. But I was always jealous that the Amiga games were better than the IBM games.
and then the more modern stuff followed.
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Is the Colecovision any good? I was thinking of getting a emulator for it.
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It was definitely a big improvement over Atari 2600 in graphics. You can play the games in your browser if you want to look at screenshots and try them out: https://archive.org/details/coleco_colecovision_library
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Also if you are into retro systems like that, check out the Sega SG-1000, it was Sega's first game console, it uses very similar hardware to Colecovision so the games are comparable. The SG-1000 version of Pitfall 2 is my favorite version! It was totally remade by Sega and is stylistically quite different from the Atari one.
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My first system was a console called Dendy - Russian NES (Famicom)
Second was Sega Genesis and third was the PC.
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First games I ever played was before the Atari VCS, an old black&white light pistol thing if I remember correctly. Then Atari VCS and space invaders ;)
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One of those NES/Dendy whatever Chinese ripoff consoles. Possibly because my country was fresh outta USSR and there was still not much import of good stuff going on... or possibly it was too expensive. There were a few people I knew with legit Nintendos, but most of the other kids played the ripoff consoles.
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Commodore 64 (bought with awesome Bruce Lee and not so awesome Ninja Master ).
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A Binatone TV Master consoloe (picture at bottom) when I was a very young child. It was a black and white console that had only the most basic of games. Not long after that we moved onto a Commodore 64 which felt like jumping ahead by decades.
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Oh wow, I remember that thing! May even still have it hidden in the house somewhere :D
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Commodore Vic-20 : ]
Omega Race was my favourite game on it.
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Sega Mega Drive (or Sega Genesis if you are from the USA), Sonic The Hedgehog
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One of those pirate nintendo-clones. Pretty sure it was the Terminator 2. I probably still have a bunch of them left in good shape somewhere, had lots of them since they were easy to get and I was an "I want to open every toy I have kid" so I ended up destroying most of them xD
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same here. :)
I guess a lot of 90s kids from Bulgaria, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Serbia etc had one of those. :D
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This one, around somewhere 1985:
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first was a basic Atari. then an Atari XE, Commodore 64 and ZX Spectrum. later an Amiga 500, 600 and then 1200 before finally moving onto PC after grudgingly admitting that there just weren't many decent games being made for Amiga any more
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Just wondering what everyones first system is. Mine was an N64 and the first game i played was lego racers. Good times.
Edit: Wow only 2 SG users who voted here started gaming in this decade. Were all old.
As mentioned in the title my promotional GA:
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/rCbIF/fallout-a-post-nuclear-role-playing-game
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