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Intrinsic on 18 August 2014
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Will try and match your story with one of mine. Started a lot earlier than you though.

  1. My first stab at proper gaming (not those one off handhelds that basically had one game on it) was with this. An Amstrad. It used cassette tapes. You guys think loading times are bad now? Its games took an average of 23mins to get to the title screen!!! Got it in 1988, an uncle got it for my older brother and I. I was 7 at the time.
  2. My next and first true console was the NES. I ended up getting two of them cause my mum bought one from the UK with two games, and then my dad went to the states and bought like ten games, but they wouldn't work! Damn region locks to hell, so we had to wait 6 months for when next he was going to the states to buy another NES. Which we stupidly plugged into our outlet and fried the console, so we waited another 6 months for another one. This was in 1989-1990. Got introduced to MGS and Zelda and megaman, double dragon.....
  3. Next up, was the super nintendo. All I remember was walking into our upstairs living room sometime in 1992 and hearing SHO RYU KEN!!! before i could even see the screen. I was in love. New console, mind blowing graphics, and the people on the screen looked like human beings!!! OMG!!!!!, also got my taste of final fight, turtles in time, cybernator and contra 3!!! This was when i became an all out true gamer, we all had our own controller that we would carry with us if going to vist other friends to play SF or MK. Can't have yourself losing due to a faulty pad. :)
  4. I sampled a couple of platforms. At some point or time there were consoles like the megadrive, 3DO, Philips CDi (burn cycle baby!!!) and the jaguar, we didnt actually buy any of them, but back then people swapped consoles a lot. Then it happened... was visiting in the states in xmas 1995, super bitter about hearing of a delay of the awesome nintendo 64 (ultra 64), then one day on Tv i saw a commercial. Can't remember shit from it, but I rememebr these words "U r not re D". And that was it, ended up with this baby. And the games i ended up getting are too many to list. But i got every single popular game for the system, even some of the not so popular ones. I still ended up getting the N64 though, couldn't pass up on golden eye and ocarina of time. But the PS1 was my primary console. First nintendo did me over by delaying the N64, then they created the PS by doing sony over. 
     
  5. The rest isn't too interesting, From this point on I got every Playstation console at launch. PS2, PS3 and PS4. never bought another nintendo console, got an original xbox and a 360 which i had for 8 months or so before it red ringed and i never bothered to get another one. Whats funny is that i never owned a handheld, in 2008 I did buy a PSP while at the airport cause i got bored during a very very long layover, butwhen i got to wheer i was going i ended up never even putting it on.  

    The only consoles that I never played at home either e it a loaned one or something, was the gamecube and the wii and so far the wiiU and the XB1. And this is the first generation where I may end up having only one console. Maybe.... just maybe, I get a wiiU for zelda....