1981: Donkey Kong was the first video game I can remember playing. I lived in a small town in Arizona and the local reservation commissary had DK, Dig-Dug, and Ms. Pac-Man. My mom also started letting me play on her Radio Shack TRS-80 computer, with glorious monochrome knockoffs of all the arcade greats. One of my favorites was a 1979 BASIC game called Bee Wary, where you were a bee trying to sting a spider while not getting eaten.
1983: My dad got a TI-99/4A, which was our first home color computer. It had a library of good games. My cousin had a 2600.
1986: My cousin and I spent the summer at my uncle's house playing his Atari 130XE computer, which had some really good arcade ports as well as a lot of original titles. It was the best gaming machine of the 80s outside of the NES. A few months later, my dad got my mother one. My uncle hooked me up with a shit ton of games. I wanted a Coleco tabletop DK game but my folks wouldnt get me one.
1987: My best friend got a NES with SMB/Duck Hunt/Gyromite, Zelda, Metroid, and Kid Icarus. I spent so much time there his parents got tired of me. My teacher's husband and I corresponded through notes delivered by my teacher on Zelda game tips.
1988: I got a few LCD games, including a Nintendo G&W Balloon Fight.
1989: I got a Game Boy with Tetris and Super Mario Land
1991: I got a PC. I liked Sim City, and SimAnt, but my favorite PC game was PC-Hack, which today exists as Nethack,. I always wanted the Ultima games having played Ultima: Exodus on my friend's NES. My favorite arcade games was The Simpsons.
1994: I hung out at the arcades as much as I could playing Mortal Kombat II. I got a SNES with A Link to the Past and Mortal Kombat II.
1995: My dad had heart surgery. His home physical therapist brought me her son's copy of Final Fantasy III (VI). I was hooked.
1996: Nintendo 64 with Super Mario 64, was waiting for Zelda 64 and Earthbound 64 (which got cancelled and moved to the GBA, it still hasn't come out here).
1998: I bought a PS1 with my first paycheck so I could play Final Fantasy VII. I bought a shit ton of Squaresoft games that year. I still have most of them. And of course the gold cartridge of Ocarina of Time. I also got a Game Boy Color and Pokemon Red.
1999: Lunar: Silver Star Story Complete, a game I'd wanted since I saw the Sega CD ads. I got FF8 instead of a Dreamcast.
2000: Final Fantasy IX and Majora's Mask.
2001: I got a PS2 and Final Fantasy X for Christmas. I bought myself a GBA.
2002: Virtua Fighter and Kingdom Hearts were my big games that year. I also got A Link to the Past for GBA.
2003: I got a Gamecube for my birthday, got Wind Waker, Skies of Arcadia Legends, and Soulcalibur.
2004: This was a pretty crappy year for me. Tales of Symphonia and Harvest Moon: AWL got me through it.
2005: Resident Evil 4 at the beginning of the year, Dragon Quest VIII at the end of the year. I started going out with my wife that year, she and her daughter played DQVIII with me. She also got me FFXI.
2006: Okami, FFXII, and Twilight Princess. I wanted a Wii but they were sold out. My wife also got me a DS Lite and a bunch of DS games.
2007: I finally found a Wii. I got a Xbox 360 later on so I could play Virtua Fighter 5 Online.
2008: Fallout 3, Tales of Vesperia.
2009: I got a PS3 and Valkyria Chronicles. My wife got me Demon's Souls.
2010: Fallout: New Vegas, Yakuza 3. At that time, though, my interest in gaming was on the wane. Not much good coming out of Japan and I was tired of FPSs and TPSs.
2011: Still was in kind of a gaming slump. I got Mortal Kombat, but that was the time of the big PSN outage. Skyward Sword was my big game that year.
2012: Tales of Graces f and a few other games. I think there was a PS3 version of The Simpsons.
2013: So many great games like Ni no Kuni, Tales of Xillia, Dragon's Crown, A Link Between Worlds, Wind Waker HD My wife got me a Wii U for my birthday and a PS4 for Christmas.
2014: I got a PS TV with Tales of Hearts R. Bayonetta 2 was my favorite game of the year.
2015: FF Type-O, MKX, Fallout 4, Trails of Cold Steel, Super Mario Maker.
2016: FFXV, Odin Sphere
2017: I got a Switch for Christmas. Breath of the Wild has been one of my most played games of my entire life.
2018: Mostly gaming on the Switch, still playing BOTW. Looking forward to Valkyria Chronicles 4.
You wanna know how much my mom was against video games in our home? One day my grandma invited us to a big toystore and she said we could pick one thing of whatever we want. My mom did not allow me to go to the video game area. Which means I had to get my fix for video games elsewhere, in youth clubs, stores and at friends houses. That resulted in me neglecting my school work even more than it probably would've if I had my own console. I got my first own TV when I was 14 and I had to save up over a year to be able to afford a second hand N64. At my 16th and 18th birthday I came to a lot of money and splurged most of it on consoles and games. I bought a launch PS3 so I could finally play PS2 games at home. I also bought a PC, so I could play older games on emulators. That's what happens when you keep your kids from having fun in their youth.
I'm over 2500h in Rocket League now and it's all my mom's fault.
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Besides that I frequently played on some arcade machines (f.e. 1942 + OutRun) and a lot of pinball machines. At my best friend's we were often allowed to play with his Atari VCS (Pong, Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Q*Bert, Atlantis, Frogger, Jungle Hunt, Defender, Pitfall, Moon Patrol and Pole Position) when the weather was bad... otherwise we had more fun playing outside without electronic gadgets.
Late 1980s:
At 14 I had saved enough money for a Commodore 128 + 1571 floppy drive + Commodere 1702 color monitor + an Epson dot matrix printer (of course I needed it for school!).
Additional to the color monitor (much clearer picture than the old TVs) i bought a TV-receiver so I got independant to the family TV.
Here is a ~30 year old "blast from the past": two pictures of the desk in my old room in 1989 (the photos aren't well preserved unfortunately):
The C128 ran mostly in C64 mode, but I loved to program in Basic 7.0 these days, so the additional expense wasn't a waste. Numerous text adventures and especially Maniac Mansion and Zak McKracken had sparked my love for the adventure genre (still my favorite genre) and since most games didn't have a German translation, my English skills improved quite fast.
While reading the test of "Indy 3" in the PowerPlay 10/89, I made the decision to save money for my next computer: an Amiga 500. I couldn't even think of a sinfully expensive PC at that time. I didn't had a sponsor in my family for home entertainment, so I had to buy all my electronics myself (including my stereo, walkman, discman, VCR, TV...), but that's okay.
Early 1990s:
When I finally had the money together, Monkey Island and Loom were already released. So I bought an Amiga 500 + 1 MB memory expansion + Commodore monitor 1084 S. Later I "pimped" my A500 with further upgrades (f.e. two external floppy drives, a turbo card, another 8 MB RAM, a Kickstart-Switch for different ROMS were added)... perhaps I should have started with an A2000 in the first place
I often played Super Nintendo and Mega Drive with my friend and was even allowed to lend these systems and all his games for weeks... my favorites were the Donkey Kong Country games.
Mid 1990s to present (PC):
The next impulse for a new computer was given again by a LucasArts adventure: Day of the Tentacle (and Wing Commander, which was playable on the Amiga thanks to the turbo card, but not really fluid). My first PC was a 486 with 33 MHz + high-quality 15" monitor (the image quality was always very important to me), later the CPU was upgraded to 486 DX4/100 MHz.
This was the beginning of the hardware spiral, especially with the graphics cards I was always up-to-date: I bought the first 3dfx card (Orchid Righteous 3D) right at launch, then Riva 128, Riva TNT, Riva TNT 2, GeForce 256 DDR, GeForce 3, GeForce 4 Ti 4600, Radeon 9800, Geforce 7800 GTX, the almighty 8800 GTX, GTX 275, GTX 460, GTX 580, GTX 970 and GTX 1070.
Due to smaller performance gains I don't change my CPUs that often since my first dual-core, also the bottleneck shifted from CPUs to GPUs decades ago: 486/33, DX4/100, AMD K6-266, Celeron 400, Celeron II 875, Athlon XP 2000+, Athlon 64 3400+, Core2Duo E6600, Core2Quad 9550 and i5 4670K.
Monitor replacements got even fewer: after a 17" monitor, the Iiyama VisionMasterPro 501 (21") had served me well from 1999 to 2007. From mid 2007 to early 2018, the Dell 2407WFP (24" with S-PVA panel, 1920x1200), supported with a 120-Hz Acer-monitor from early 2011 to early 2018. My new main monitor is a HP Omen 27 (G-Sync, 2560x1440 @ 165 Hz), my good old Dell was downgraded to secondary monitor and the Acer was an upgrade for my brother's PC.
Here is another ~20 year old "blast from the past": a picture of my PC room in 1999:
And another 10 year old "blast from the past": a picture of my PC room in 2008:
And another 6 year old "blast from the past": a picture of my PC room in 2012:
Mid 1990s (consoles):
Parallel to PC, I had and still have a lot of fun with all the consoles and handhelds. I played Atari VCS and SNES before (see above), but my first own home consoles were the PlayStation (1) and the Nintendo 64... actually I bought both together with two friends and everyone got his turn. Eventually, both systems and all their games ended in my place, because both friends focused on PC gaming and lost interest in the consoles.
My PS1 is still connected to my good old "black trinitron" Sony CRT in my retro room and ready to go (alongside all my other "pre-HDMI consoles"):
But nowadays I prefer playing PS1 games on a much smaller screen: my Vita.
Late 1990s/ Early 2000s (consoles):
I have to admit that after the 5th gen I wasn't very interested in console gaming for a while... I had more than enough great games to play on PC.
I never bought and played a Dreamcast (I'm playing Shenmue 1 for the first time right now). I never bought a PS2... but I borrowed another friend's PS2 months (I have such great friends when I think about it!).
In April 2003 Nintendo brought me back: I bought a "GameBoy Advance SP Silver" for a planned long vaction (my USA West coast trip). It included a €50-coupon for buying a GameCube:
The GC was already cheap at that point, but thanks to the coupon I got the black "Metroid Prime" bundle for only €144 (including the console, the game, shipping and taxes).
In March 2004 the original Xbox followed... I bought the pretty "Crystal Edition":
Mid 2000s to present (consoles):
After that I bought all handhelds and home consoles, beginning with the awesome PlayStation Portable in April 2005. Similar to the GBA SP, I bought it for my second USA trip (the East coast this time). Since it was region free, I imported the "PSP Value Pack 32 MB" for a very good price (€150 instead of €249) from Canada and got it months before the European launch.
In November 2005 the Xbox 360 was my first console I bought on launch day and IMHO it had the best selection of launch games in console history. I preordered it in the next "Saturn" market and waited together with a big crowd in front of the store until it opened.
In November 2006 the Wii was my second console I bought on launch day. Since i didn't enjoy the "experience" of waiting in the cold the previous year, I preordered the Wii and "TLoZ: Twilight Princess" in a small toy store in my home town and picked it up after work... much better! All hardware after 2006 was ordered online and delivered to my home... even better!
When the PS3 launched in Europe in March 2007, I was going to wait for a long time... too few exclusive games, since I already had the Xbox 360 and a good gaming PC. But just three months later, I got it as a free bonus to a very attractive mobile phone contract. Over the years it has replaced the Xbox 360 as my favorite 7th gen console.
In December 2008 I bought a black Nintendo DS Lite to catch up on the best DS games and fell in love with two third party series: Professor Layton and Ace Attorney. Wasn't impressed by the hardware compared to my good old PSP, but the games were fun nonetheless.
In the summer of '69 2010 I got another great mobile companion: my first iPad. I love that form factor, it is great for point & click adventures (my favorite genre, see above). A lot of good games were ported to it, especially in the first years, and the software prices were wonderful (in-app purchases weren't a thing back then. The Infinity Blade series and some other games were technically impressive and well suited for touchscreen input. Over the years I added a few other tablets (Windows, Kindle Fire, Android), but the iPad series is still my favorite.
2012 was another handheld year for me: i bought my first PS Vita (OLED, 3G) in February and the 3DS XL at its launch in July. The original 3DS had a lot of design choices I didn't like and I'm glad that I waited for the XL-version.
In the last week of January 2014 both the Wii U Premium (Nintendo Land bundle) and the PS4 (Killzone bundle) arrived at my home.
In 2015 I added a PS Vita Slim and an Xbox One to my collection.
In October 2016 the PlayStation VR opened my eyes to a new dimension of gaming, one month later my PS4 was replaced with a PS4 Pro.
As a new VR fan, in 2017 I bought an "Oculus Rift + Touch controller" bundle in the "Summer of Rift" (first big price cut)... also a PS Aim controller together with Farpoint.
In October 2017 I finally bought a Nintendo Switch... I was planning to get the red "Mario Odyssey" bundle, but then got a good deal for the normal red/blue version and the pinkish Xenoblade Pro controller. This year a LAN-adapter, a 200 GB microSD card and a Zelda controller for guests completed my Switch setup.
Update:
At the end of 2018 I "cheaply" shot an iPad Pro 10.5, which is always updated with the latest iOS version and is therefore also "Apple Arcade" and gamepad compatible and is now waiting for "Beyond a Steel Sky". My good old iPad Air remains on iOS 10.3.3 and therefore remains compatible with all 32-bit apps.
In September 2019 I was able to exchange my worn out Xbox One for an Xbox One X for a moderate extra charge. Of course, from then on the desire for a "4K" TV became more present to take full advantage of the console graphics. At first I wanted to wait until the launch of the next console generation, but just one month later I got weak.
I was already a big fan of the deep black levels of the OLED displays in my PSVR and my Oculus Rift, so I also wanted to have it for my next TV as well... and in fact, dark scenes in movies and games look pretty awesome. HDMI 2.1 for variable refresh rate in games, very low "input lag", HDR10, Dolby Vision and other bells and whistles had to be included, too... after all, the TV should accompany me through the complete next console generation.
So I'm ready and set up for the launch of the PlayStation 5!
Oh, and with "Sega Ages: OutRun" for the Switch and a C64 Mini I won't forget the past and we are back at the beginning of the article.
Played any battery powered "tabletop" video game I could get my hands on 80s. Discovered arcade gaming in the early 80s. If someone had an Atari, they had my loyalty.
Eventually saw an NES in my local Walmart and thought it was mankind's greatest achievement. Got my own NES in 1988 and from that point on, I bought every home/portable Nintendo ever made.
In 1996, I ran out of N64 games to play so I got a PS1 in early 1997. After that, I bought every PlayStation home/portable ever.
In 2001, after months of trying to get a PS2 and failing, I bought a Dreamcast. Loved it! After that, I bought every....uh, that didn't work out very well.
In 2007, I saw Gears of War running on an Xbox 360 in person. Before that, I was considering quitting gaming. After that, Xbox became my most played gaming hardware.
Sprinkle in some random hardware like the Ouya and you now have a pretty good idea of who I am as a gamer.
Xbox One X (November 2017)*
Xbox One S (October 2017)
Nintendo Switch (March 2017)*
Xbox One S (November 2016)
PS4 Pro (Nov 2016)*
PSVR (Oct 2016)*
Xbox One w/ Kinect (May 2016)
PSTV (Oct 2015)
Ouya (January 2015)
New Nintendo 3DS (February 2015)
New Nintendo 3DS (February 2015)
Xbox One (March 2014)
PlayStation 4 (January 2014)
PlayStation 3 Super Slim (November 2013)
Wii U (November 2012)*
PS Vita (February 2012)*
3DS ( December 2011)
3DS (June 2011)
Xbox 360 S (Late 2010)
Nintendo DSi (2009)
Sony PSP (December 2009)
Sony PSP (October 2009)
Xbox 360 60gb (2008)
Nintendo DS Lite (December 2008)
PlayStation 3 (June 2008)
Wii (May 2007)
Xbox 360 20 gb (March 2007)
Nintendo DS Lite (2006)
Nintendo DS (2006)
Nintendo DS (2006)
PlayStation 2 (2005)
Nintendo DS (November 2004)*
PlayStation 2 (2003)
Nintendo GameCube (November 2001)*
PlayStation 2 (April 2001)
Sega Dreamcast (March 2001)
Nintendo 64 (December 1999)
PlayStation (1998)
PlayStation (March 1997)
Nintendo 64 (September 1996)*
Super Nintendo Entertainment System (December 1993)
I first learned about video games at about 6 years old when a friend at school invited me over to his house. I played on a Commodore 64 and immediately started asking my parents for one, which I eventually got. Here is a rough timeline of systems, not including hardware revisions e.g. PS2 Slim, GBA SP.
1988-1989- Commodore 64 + weird edutainment system "Socrates" and some use of my step dad's Amiga. 1991- NES and Atari 7800, some exposure to the Mega Drive 1992/1993- Barcode Battler 1993- SNES, some LCD handhelds around this time including Ghosbusters, Dinosaurs (Tiger Electronics) and some game involving shooting planes with AA guns. 1995- Mega Drive, this felt like my first purchased console since my parents stopped giving me money around this time and gave me money at birthdays and christmas. 1996- Gameboy and Sega Saturn 1997- First PC, it was Windows 95 and had a 2 gigabyte hard drive. 1998- PS1 and N64 1999- Gameboy Color 2000- Dreamcast, this was the first console I bought with my own money 2001- PS2, GBA 2002- Gamecube 2003- Xbox, Mega CD and Game Gear 2005- DS, PSP 2006- Wii 2007- PS3 2009- Xbox 360 2012- 3DS and Vita 2013- Wii U 2016- PS4 Pro + PSVR 2017- Switch
Somewhere around 2000, I got my first mobile which could play simple games and I've had several others over the years which I've used for gaming but I couldn't be bothered to remember or list them all. I also haven't listed any PC after my first, since I have never been much of a PC gamer and it took me about a decade to replace that first one and even now I have an outdated PC that is really only used for FFXI and some old games from GoG.
But hardware is only part of the story. There are some key games that I consider milestones in my gaming history.
The first is Pipeline, a C64 game that is the first game I remember playing, funny that it says fast loader in the corner. I don't think I'd ever seen that, but I do remember that it was one of the faster loaders on an incredibly slow machine like the C64. I don't think it was the first game I played, but it's the first I have a memory of when I got a second hand C64 with about 60 games at the age of 6-7, I thought the guy looked like Mario. There were other memorable C64 games like TMHT (yes Hero Turtles in the UK) and Dizzy the Egg games, Blinky's Scary School....and of course Samantha Fox Strip Poker but I only saw that one in a C64 magazine (I also had a huge stack of C64 magazines and demos which are all long gone now)
When I got the NES, the first game that really stood out to me was Duck Tales, and then a bit later, Kirby's Adventure which I still consider one of the best games ever made. Gargoyles Quest II is another memorable one.
Barcode Battler is the butt of some retro gaming jokes, but for me, at the age of 10 this was revolutionary, I could get warriors, weapons and items from just ordinary barcodes....and so began the destruction of everyday product packaging and even....NES game boxes to get those barcodes (Pogs also claimed a few NES boxes when I got a Pog making machine and desperately wanted that HUGE Nintendo Seal of Quality from the Duck Tales box). As far as I recall, I only got a handful of decent characters or weapons from these plundered codes. But aside from that, the gameplay was oddly addcitive for me. It was turn based and revolved around character stats and defeating enemies to improve those stats until I was strong enough to conquer the entirely text based game (I did use the manual for some context as to who I was fighting). This was my first introduction to RPG mechanics, in fact when I first played a proper JRPG, my first thought was "oh this is like Barcode Battler".
The SNES introduced me to Mario, I knew about him earlier and even had Mario Bros on C64, but this was the first time I played his platform games with the Mario All Stars cart. I probably had close to 20 SNES games, but the biggest thing the SNES did was introduce me to the DKC trilogy and Mystic Quest (my first Final Fantasy game but I didn't know it since the FF name was dropped in the UK). About 5 years after the life of the SNES I hunted down more games like Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore and Terranigma which I also enjoyed. I also played Wolfenstein 3D which I though was terrible and put me off FPS games for a few years.
When I got a Mega Drive it was mostly to play Sonic (which I'd played years before at friends houses and one time in hospital) but although that became a firm favourite, I was also introduced to Phantasy Star which helped further my interest in JRPGs. It also gave me Worms and Streets of Rage which are still some of my favourite 2 player games.
The Saturn was a major leap for me, games like Sega Rally (which I had previously played in an arcade), Panzer Dragoon and VF2 were the first time I was actually impressed by 3D graphics.
When I got a PC, I expected it to offer graphics like Terminator 2, Jurassic Park, Toy Story, DKC promo CG or other CG demos, after hearing how much more powerful PCs were and how all this CG I was seeing was being created on 64 bit PCs. So I was a little let down initially to see games that looked maybe slightly better than my Sega Saturn. However, that was still pretty good and I enjoyed several games like Command and Conquer and Outpost that introduced me to the genre of RTS games. POD built on my interest in 3D racing games and introduced me to the idea of online mutiplayer gaming. Dark Earth was...weird but I forced myself to like it, Galapagos was even stranger but the unique idea seemed interesting. Ultimately I gave up on PC gaming as I saw many of these games on consoles and at the time the PC was just awkward with so many incompatibility issues (and DOS) that threw me back to the hassle of C64.
The PS1 and N64 helped grow my already existing love for platformers and JRPGs (especially JRPGs) with games like Mario 64, Banjo Kazooie, Spyro, Final Fantasy 7/8/9, Saga Frontier II, Vagrant Story. This was also the time when I started buying games myself and also expanded my interest in finding out more about games in general. So I bought games magazines regularly, started using the internet and stayed up way to late to watch videogame shows at 2AM. Lots of my favourite games come from this time period. The N64 also got me interested in FPS games again, with Goldenye.
I could go on but I'm getting sick of writing this, so I'll summarise and say, every system since has offered so many real classics but have mostly just given me prettier versions of what I discovered on these earlier systems. They have expanded the services around gaming though, things like digital stores, subscriptions, patches, dlc, streaming, cross play, cross save and widespread online features can all contribute positively in some cases. However, in 2016 I got PSVR which was the first time in a long time, that I felt like I'd experienced a huge leap in gaming. I'm still happily gaming on PS4 and Switch and look forward to the next generation.
I still have my ColecoVision, and ColecoVision "game center" which holds the console and 30 cartridges. I have around 50. The game center thing still has poofy plastic A-Team stickers on it. Mostly Mr T. That's where I started in 1983, right before the crash.
Then:
C-64
NES
Genesis
SNES
PS1 x2
N64
Dreamcast x3
GBA
PS2
GameCube
Xbox
DS
Xbox 360
DS Lite
PS3 x4
PS Vita x3
PS4
PS4 Pro
I think that's everything, and in order. I had a small amount of small "electronic gaming devices" as a very young pup too. The Mattel Football was the best.
- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."
I will skip on console/games played at friends home, Arcade or videogames stores.
I started gaming in 1988 when I was 7 years old, I and my brother asked for a NES for Christmas and fortunately Santa Claus got the message :)
In 1988: Nintendo NES with Super Mario Bros and Kid Icarus. In 1989: Atari Lynx with California Games and Blue Lighting. In 1990: Sega Megadrive with Golden Axe and Mickey Mouse: Castle of Illusion. In 1990: Nintendo Gameboy with Tetris and Super Mario Land. In 1991: Nintendo Super Famicom (jap) with Super Ghouls & Ghosts and Super Castlevania 4. In 1994: Sony PSX (jap) with Ridge Racer and Toshinden. In 1994: Sega Saturn (jap) with Virtua Fighter and Clockwork Knight. In 1996: Nintendo 64 (jap) with Super Mario 64 and Pilotwings 64. In 1999: Sega Dreamcast (jap) with Soul Calibur. In 2006: Nintendo DS Lite with New Super Mario Bros. In 2007: Nintendo Wii with Super Mario Galaxy. In 2008: Sony PS3 with LittleBig Planet and Soul Calibur 4. In 2013: Nintendo 3DS XL with Super Mario 3D Land and Kid Icarus: Uprising. In 2017: Nintendo Switch with Zelda: BOTW. In 2021: Sony PS5 with Astro's Playroom.
JimmyFantasy said: I will skip on games played at friends home.
I started gaming in 1988 when I was 7 years old, I and my brother asked for a NES for Christmas and fortunately Santa Claus got the message :)
In 1988: NES with Super Mario Bros and Kid Icarus. In 1989: Atari Lynx with California Games. In 1990: Sega Megadrive with Golden Axe and MM: Castle of Illusion. In 1990: Gameboy with Tetris and Super Mario Land. In 1991: Super Famicom (jap) with Super Ghouls & Ghosts and Super Castlevania 4. In 1994: Sony PSX (jap) with Ridge Racer and Toshinden. In 1994: Sega Saturn (jap) with Virtua Fighter and Clockwork Knight. In 1999: Sega Dreamcast (jap) with Soul Calibur. In 2006: Nintendo DS Lite with New Super Mario Bros. In 2007: Nintendo Wii with Super Mario Galaxy. In 2008: Sony PS3 with LittleBig Planet and Soul Calibur 4. In 2013: Nintendo 3DS XL with Super Mario 3D Land and Kid Icarus: Uprising. In 2017: Nintendo Switch with Zelda: BOTW.
Yeah, I did the same, but had A LOT of experience with the 2600, and to a slightly lesser extent, the Intellivision. The Coleco TelStar got some time too. I also fell in love with the Vetrex at a couple kiosks on family vacation. I still want one. It's the only old school system I'd still like to buy to this day. There were other systems too. The Vic 20, and another oddball system I can't remember the name of. It had a Pac-Man clone called either CK Crunch? or KC Crunch? but I shockingly can't find info about it on google.
- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."