What is your console history?

[xshadowscreamx]

i recnely found out that i had a sega first but died in a few months

SNES- what i thought i had first, my life has been a lie lol

original gameboy

N64

gameboy colour

playstation 1

playstation 2

brother got xbox1

playstation 3 40g - died with the YLOD

(brother got DS)

brother got 360, died- has been fixed

xbox360 elite

(brother got psp)

i replaced my old ps3 with a ps3 slim

thinking about getting a psvita



side note, we have had a inconsistent history with our PC,, does not last long until there is a new problem

oh and parents have a wii
mum has an ipad and a 3DS i brought her

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

What console/computer did you start out with?

What did you choose in successive generations, and why?

What do you have now, and what do you intend to purchase next gen?

It's a much shorter list to just say what I didn't own.

I never got around to buying an Intellivision because I was playing Atari 2600, Pong, and my ColecoVision.

Never got suckered in by a 3DO or a Jaguar.

Could never afford the NEO-GEO consoles, but I still played the hell out of them at arcades.

Never had the original Gameboy.

And I never imported a foreign console (I live in the US) so I missed out on SEGA's SG-1000.

Beyond those exception, pretty much all of them. As far back as there has been consoles to play on, I played on them. And Arcade machines and PCs. Though I never had a TRS-80 or Commodore 64, but my cousins did so I played on their machines from time to time.

EDIT: Sorry, forgot to chime in on "next-gen". The answer, to no one's surprise, I'll be getting both the PS4 and the X1 as well as a WiiU eventually (likely once there is a Kirby game to play).

 

[sir neillios]

Windows 7 Computer(Intel 2500K, HD 6870)


Snip

Windows 8 Computer(FM1 Quad Core, HD 7770)

Colour me curious but why would you use a less powerful GPU in a newer machine you bought? Last time I looked a 6870 far outpaces a 7770.

So me...

Lets see, Gameboy colour when I was seven.

PS2 when I was ten.

Okay laptop when I was 16, can't remember the specs, but I played a lot of Rome Total War on it.

PS3 the year after.

Last year built myself a pc, fx4100 quad, HD6670...
Last month upgraded to a HD6850.

Next? Probably will gut the rig with a new board and chip when I think its getting on a bit.

Captcha: we go forwards... yes we do captcha, yes we do.

 

[J Tyran]

In order

Amiga 600-->then a 1200/Sega Megadrive

Playstation

PS2-->Xbox

Xbox 360/several gaming PCs/PS3/PS Vita/3DS XL

 

[Kazam24a]

Keeping Comps out of this one and sticking to consoles and it chronological order

PONG (Although tech my parents), NES, Gameboy, Sega Genesis, Game Gear, Play Station, Nintendo 64, Super Nintendo, X Box, Game Boy Advanced Micro, PSP, Gamecube, XBox 360, Nintendo DSi, Nintendo Wii, 3DS. I played lots of comp games and started in the 286 era and played a lot of PC games until 2002 then Xbox took over due to convenience . I love games and realize i very much need to add a PS2 and 3 to my collection.

 

[IndomitableSam]

Hmm. May be slightly out of order as I forget when things were released.

-Something that played Pong
-NES
-SNES
-Someone lent us a Mac, too, the one with the black screen and green type.
-N64
-PS1
-Gameboy Colour somewhere in there
-Someone lent us a newer mac, one of those giant cube things with the handles on top. I played the hell out of a Hitchiker's Guide MUD-type game where you type the proper answer to continue the story. Whatever ti's called. (This may have been Pre-PS1.)
-Gamecube
-Gameboy Advance
-PS2
-First PC was in late '97, don't think we got internet until '98
-A few more PC's over the years
-I bought a DS about 5 years ago?
-XBox 360 a few years ago
-New computer last year

So, a good amount. Gameboy Advance onwards were with my own money, though my mom, sister and I split the cost of the PS2, and the 360 was my sister's purchase. However, the number of games we have averages out to maybe 2, sometimes 3 games a year, so we don't have many at all. We like to replay things.

 

[ImperialSunlight]

The first console I played on was my dad's Turbografx-16 (which is now mine). Then I got an N64, which was mostly my parents' decision because it was the most family friendly of the consoles at the time and I was really young, though I loved it regardless. Then I got a Gamecube because I'm a Nintendo fanboy, though I later got a PS2 because there were a lot of games that generation that I wanted to play that were on it. I got a Wii when it came out for various reasons and a PS3 a year later. I also got a used 360 because there were a few exclusive games that I wanted to play that were on it. I haven't bought a Wii U yet, mostly because none of the games that are already released are appealing to me. I'll get one eventually when LOZ Wii U or Smash Bros. come out for it. And probably a PS4 after that.

Oh, and I recently bought a new laptop and it's doing a decent job of playing current-gen games, if that counts.

Handhelds, I have all of the Nintendo ones (besides rereleases/redesigns) since GBC.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

PS1 > Xbox > Xbox 360 > PC with occasional PSP and PS2

 

[s0p0g]

let's see... there was some thingy whose name i cannot remember (instead of a NES, i guess; it had Tennis, some weird fighter-plane game aaand... can'r remember the third. the resolution was basically nonexistent, but its joystick was cool ^^), then a GameBoy, SNES, PC, N64, Gamecube, NDS, PC (only the last two are used for... well, quite some time (=years) now possibly in part because i don't have a tv)

 

[Terry Diamantis]

I started with an Atari XT but I didn't really get into video games until the NES. In terms of what I've owned.

Nintendo Consoles
NES
SNES
N64
Gamecube
Wii

Sony Consoles
Playstation
Playstation 2

Microsoft Consoles
Xbox 360

Nintendo Handhelds
Gameboy
DS

I still consider the SNES to be the best console ever made and I'll probably end up getting a Wii U when the next Smash Brothers game comes out. I'll probably end up getting a PS4 at some point too.

 

[Joos]

Nintendo NES which me and my brother got for christmas in 1987. My very own first game was Ice Climber and my little brother got Super Mario Brothers. I later saved up to Metroid, Zelda and Zelda 2 while my brother got Castlevania, Castlevania 2 and Faxanadu (which was pretty hard but quite fun).

I later bought an Amiga 500, which we had lots of fun on until I bought my first PC, an IBM PC clone called blue lightning. It was a reverse engineered 486DX2 which ran a speedy 66MHz, had dual channel memory (a whopping 4 megs!). That's when I learned DOS and made combat with EMM386 to make my games run; good times.

It later got updated to a Pentium 133 and a couple of months later, the Pentium 166MMX was released and I did my very first deep dive into the box itself and swapped the CPU! This was way before the Internet was mainstream (no anandtech or tomshardware to refer to) so I was pretty chuffed with my achievement.

Many PC's later, I finally decided to get back to consoles. However, my idea wasn't to play games on it. I'd just bought my first FullHD LCD-TV and I wanted a bluray player to go with it. This was back in blu ray's infancy, when HD-DVD and Bluray were still battling for supremacy. I decided that bluray were more progressive of the two tech's and realised my best option would be a PS3.

I didn't expect to get hooked on a joypad again, but my PS3 library is currently quite big, more games next to the PS3 than in my Steam account (just), so that's where it's at.

I'm not sure if I'll buy a PS4 at this point in time, but maybe I'll get one if Sony keeps decent relationships with the consumer, unlike Microsoft.

 

[The Lugz]

What console/computer did you start out with?

commadore 64

What did you choose in successive generations, and why?

amiga 1200 dad bought it.

gameboy christmas present.

psone birthday present.

pc inherited. pentium 233 with some extremely poor agp card, i believe? struggled to render anything.

ps2 bought with my own cash. ( frankly the best money I ever spent, and I still have it now. )

pc upgrade, pentium 4 some verison or another.. 'shrug'

psp it's a psp, i needed to go places..

pc built this, for wow. core 2, gtx 260.

pc upgrades, added i5, watercooling.

pc upgrades, added ivy i7, ssd's, 24bit 128db sound card, sli 480's and a micro-nuclear power plant.
( ok i jest, but the psu was £260.. >.> )

pc Current gen, considering upgrades of the above.. waiting for new games.

What do you have now, and what do you intend to purchase next gen?

pc.
probably more pc parts, slim chance of a ps4 if the exclusives are actually good and not just junk wrapped in a nice graphic engine.

microsoft's monetizing advertising device can go blow, not interested even if it were free.

 

[purf]

Amiga 500
Playstation
PC(s)

...keepin' it simple.

 

[Lenderian]

As I grew up I had the following systems up to now
-Nintendo Entertainment system (no cords for it)
-Super Nintendo Entertainment system (no cords for it)
-Sega Saturn (no longer have it)
-Gameboy colour (broken screen)
-N64(have had 4 of them)
-Playstation 1 (no longer have it)
-Playstation 2 (no longer have it)
-Gamecube (went through 5 of them)
-Nintendo DS (broken screens)
-Nintendo Gameboy advance (broken screen)
-Nintendo Gameboy Advance SP (currently working)
-Xbox360 (collects dust it used to be white now its dust grey)
-Gaming pc i5 3570 8gb 1333ddr3 Geforce gtx 550ti (has currently 347 games for it for steam,I eventually plan to upgrade to a GTX 780,790*if it comes out, or titan by november)
My future console I want to eventually obtain is a Wii U likely closer to 2014 when those sweet e3 releases are mostly out
You could say I have had a alright history with games I kept breaking handhelds in moves so whatever, either way my gaming is likely going to continue to be dominated by pc and once I get a Wii U I am likely going to use that also.

 

[Insideout Ink Demon]

showing my age here

Atari 2600
C64
Master System
Mega Drive
SNES
PC
PS1
Xbox
PS2
360
PS3
back to PC

friends also have had Spectrums, Amigas, Jaguars, 3DOs but i never felt like they had anything for me or couldnt afford them

 

[Kantoken]

//rant
Why are so many people listing computer systems when it is clearly a console thread...
//rant

The NES was my first system ever, and had it for many, many years. When I won an Atari Lynx at a drawing competition,
I sold both the NES and the Lynx to be able to afford a SNES.
It was this system that has stayed the closest to me, despite later buying a PS2 (my brother already owning a PS1).
Bought a Gamecube because there was a special offer with Fire Emblem for it, and because there was a special Zelda game
that included almost every earlier Zelda game.
Next was the Wii, which was amazing for a year, and then I kinda forgot about it (a friend borrowed it, and when
he asked when I wanted it back a year later, I was like "oh yeah, I had a Wii").

I bought a PS3 this year, second hand, to use as a media centre. I have almost no games for it (around 3 I think?)
and rarely play on it, just use it to watch films and play music.

I'm working my way back actually, owning more NES and SNES games than I ever did way back then, got myself a N64,
a Sega Saturn, all the old school stuff.

The games on these machines are amazing and for me, will always beat the next generation.

 

[Frybird]

PC->Gameboy->PS1->PS2(+a little bit PC)->Xbox 360->Nintendo DS->Wii (well, not much)->PSP (even less so)->PC->most likely PS4 (+a little bit more PC)

been a Playstation Fanboy until they really messed up leading up to the release of the PS3, bought the Xbox 360 (wich was much more attractive in any way except vague technical specs back then) and never regretted it. But now History repeats itself the other way around, and given how much i admire how Sony improved over the last years, i'm "coming home", so to speak.

I recently bought a PC that should be as/more powerful than a console (for the first years, and by then i hopefully only need to update the slightly outdated GTX 660 i have) to play more games on it, but i'm more of a console gamer and will probably play more on the PS4. That said, i do not regret my purchase at all.

 

[Do4600]

Commodore 64->MS-Dos->Atari 5200->Nintendo->Super Nintendo->Playstation->Playstation 2->Nintendo 64->Gamecube

PC has been my primary system since my family got a P5 during the launch month, I'm sticking with it.