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The first console I ever played was technically the Atari 2600, though I never really cared about it much. The NES, on the other hand, dominated my childhood, even if it held technical status as the second system I played. Ultimately, though, the PlayStation had a more significant impact than either on me, as it brought me back to consoles after having put them behind me for roughly a decade. That said, it was still a pretty limited impact, and the PS2 ended up having more to do with my getting back into console gaming at large (23 of my 25 PS1 games are RPGs; I had no real diversity of games back then).

It's not really wrong, per se, to like a system just because it was what brought you into gaming. There's a certain nostalgia factor involved that makes it more or less assured that, whichever system you had the best experience with first, you'll be greatly attached to it. I only really see that as a problem when you start to judge other systems solely on how they stack up to your memories of that favorite system, without even giving the games a fair chance or comparing the games based on here-and-now experience for that favorite system.



Sky Render - Sanity is for the weak.