I was born with a NES and a Master System. I continued to acquire every Nintendo console aside from Virtual Boy, until 7th gen. I switched from Sega to PS and XB. XB lost me due to 7th gen. I played most pop culture games of the time. I also had a non gaming PC, but I still played many games on it.

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I think Panasonic's Turbo R MSX systems had a similar module/interface bundled with them. Home computers and PC had lots of cool secrets. Modding must have been a blast.

MSX unofficially supports OPL4, but I just don't know how it works. Like... you don't simply connect your MSX computer to compatible OPL4 devices and they automatically transform your old game's multi-channel soundtrack to something more advanced, right? I'm guessing they just output music that you write, as opposed to reading the notes stored in an existing game.

I love-hate modern PC's. They're rendering many cool specialized devices obsolete. Apparently not even the best hardware synths these days can match the quality of the best software synths (but I refuse to buy a software synth!!!). Modern PC CPU's are more than powerful enough to beat the best specialized synth hardware ;( convenient but boring!

OP: Apologies for going off topic!

Born 1986 ,I had a snes for like a year and played mostly sim city/ super mario all stars on it.
After that i got a ps1,my dad bought most of the games.
He also had a pc and i played a phew games on that
After that i got a ps2

So here are my childhood favorites,games i still play to this day.

Kings field
Ff7
Ff8
Ff9

Resident evil 3
Breath of fire 3
Diablo (ps1)
Diablo 2
Warhammer dark omen(ps1)
Starcraft
Tribes
Unreal tournament
Quake 3 arena
Tekken 3
Crash bandicoot games
Tomb raider games
Alundra
C&C red alert (ps1) and red alert 2

And on ps2 games like(early teenager)

Timesplitters 2

Monster hunter 1

Ffx

Ratchet and clank

Jak and daxter

Socom

Devil may cry games

Onimusha 2 

Dq8

Rogue galaxy

Ff12

God of war

And my favorite fighting game ever( better on xbox of) dead or alive 2.

Growing up I didn't have access to anything, only when I turned 15 my dad gifted my a PC.

On my brothers Super Nintendo I played mostly Super Mario All stars, Donkey Kong Country, Zelda a Link to the Past and Mickey's Magical Quest.
On our family computer I played Stunts, Tyrian, Heroes of Might and Magic 2, Skyroads, Duke Nukem and a lot of demo games from monthly computer magazine my dad subscribed to back then.
On my cousins game boy I played Zelda Links awakening, Super Mario Land 2 and Tetris. Me and my brothers used that game boy so much that our cousin give it to us.

Started in 1981. My dad was a big tech-head, so we had a TRS-80, a TI-99/4a, and an Atari 130XE. My first mainline system was the Game Boy in 1989, then the SNES in 1993. I also played a lot of arcade games. That said, my friends did have NES.

So I grew up on a lot of now-obscure home computer games, arcade games like Donkey Kong, Mario Bros, and Joust, and NES classics like The Legend of Zelda, Metroid, Kid Icarus, and the Super Mario games.`

In the RPG genre, my favorite, I got my start with the early Ultima and Dragon Warrior (Quest) games, along with Faxanadu on NES. 

Ill break it down by platform, as I had quite a few:

NES:

• Super Mario Bros 1/2/3
• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1/2
• Duck Hunt
• Double Dragon
• Nintendo World Cup
• Super Off Road

Sega Master System:

• Columns
• Alex Kidd in Miracle World
• Assault City
• Golden Axe Warrior
• Alex Kidd in Monster Land
• Fantasy Zone

Amiga 600:

• Speedball 2: Brutal Deluxe
• Alien Storm
• Battle Chess
• Xenon II: Megablast
• Turrican I/II

PC (the big one):

• Crusher Castle
• 4D Sports Driving
• History Line: 1914-1918
• Settlers 1/2
• Battle Isle 3
• Panzer General 1/2
• Fantasy General
• Lemmings
• Theme Park/Hospital
• Dungeon Keeper
• Wolfenstein 3D
• Doom
• Civilization II
• Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri
• Moraff's Blast
• Magic Carpet 1/2
• Descent
• The Dark Eye: Blade of Destiny
• 3D Ultra Pinball/3D Ultra Pinball: Creep Night (in competition with my dad about who could get a bigger high score; I ultimately won with a score of over 68 billion vs 55 billon points ;))
• Might & Magic III-VI
• Biing!
• Der Planer
• Ceasar II/III
• Crystal Caves
• Boulder Dash
• Master of Orion 2: Battle at Antares
• Imperium Galactica
• Gobliins 2
• Leisure Suit Larry Laffer: Shape up or slip out!
• Raptor: Call of the shadows
• One Must Fall: 2097
• Monkey Island 2
• Sam & Max: Hit the Road
• Afterlife
• Day of the Tentacle
• Serious Sam: TFE/TSE
• Warlords 2 Deluxe
• Windows solitaire/Minesweeper ;)
• Populous II
• Dune

Dungeon keeper whas sooooooo cool!!!!

One Must Fall: 2097 and MoO2 are still among my favorites of their genres.


My first game of any kind was Game & Watch Rain Shower.
Also had a similar LCD game Kitchen Panic by Gakken.

With mates and relatives I encountered C64, MSX, Spectrum... don't remember much about exact games.
My cousins got a Philips Videopac (aka Odyssey 2). I used to stay with them summers for a week or two (and once borrowed it for a while) so that was some of my major early gaming.
Those games included: Air-Sea War / Battle, Gunfighter, Flipper Game, Skiing, Munchkin

Few times I rented Nes, with SMB2, Megaman 1 and Punch-Out.

My true gaming era began when I got Master System at 12.
Build in were Hang-On and Safari Hunt (plus Snail Maze) and with the console I got The Ninja.
Later games were Fantasy Zone, Golden Axe, Slap Shot, Tennis Ace, Phantasy Star, Sonic 1, Lemmings, Wonder Boy III, Double Dragon, Rampage, Afterburner, Ghouls'n'Ghosts, Super Kick OFf, Populous, Dragon Crystal, Great Golf, Asterix and Trap Shooting/Marksman Shooting/Safari Hunt (and years later My Hero).

At 16 began my PC era. First games included Star Control 1, Wing Commander 1, Silent Service 2, Super Off Road, Dune 2, Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis, Civilization 1.
Though previously at school I'd played some Last Crusade and Larry 1, among others. Particularly we played Scorched Earth.

I knew I was forgetting some, gonna add the ones I missed