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CladInShadows said:

CaptainExplosion said:

I didn't play any online games at that time, but I loved Diddy Kong Racing and then Banjo-Kazooie. ^^

In 1997, I was actually all in with PCs, and kind of skipped consoles.  I never owned a PS1 until I had a backwards compatible PS2, and never owned an N64 until 2006 or so.  N64 feels like that lost Nintendo console that I just really never got into aside from a small handful of games.  

Almost exactly the same for me.

I started gaming with both the NES and an i286 PC, but quickly transitioned more and more to the PC. 1992-2004 I was almost exclusively PC gaming apart from the Master system at my mom's place (my parents were divorced and I lived with my dad but visited my mom every other weekend). In 2004 I really needed an upgrade as Master System games became almost impossible to find even on flea markets, so I convinced my mom to buy a 99€ silver Gamecube with Mario Kart: Double Dash (best Mario Kart ever btw imo). I brought it and my TV set to the trade school (we had our rooms rented for 9 weeks straight at a nearby hostel), where a colleague sold me his SNES with 40 games (among them Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, Doom, Terranigma... not bad for 40 bucks ;) just Super Mario World and Super Mario Kart were missing) for 40€. Then a couple month later I helped a friend move out of her old home at the university, and she gave me her old PSONE as a thank you gift. Of course, if you get 3 consoles in as many months, you're bound to get back into console gaming, and a couple years later my mom's second husband gifted me with his N64 and PS2 because he couldn't find games for him on modern consoles anymore (he loved 2D Jump& Runs, which really got rare at that era)

And so, with all those donations, I got back into console gaming, though PC will forever be my main platform.