What consoles did you grow up with? - He's going to take you back to the past...

Original NES. My eldest uncle bought it for his brothers when he graduated from Uni abroad. It had SMB 1, 2, 3. And most importantly, this game which came at a time when I was in the middle of TMNT obsession:


I later went on to get an SNES, a 3DO (God that was a dumpster fire, Gex and SSF2: Turbo were great though), and from then on I became a repeat Playstation sperg customer.
 
Joysticks joysticks joysticks

If I could have 4 joysticks I’d be happy, just train my digits to use something besides buttons.

Not just joysticks but they make control pads that are circular and gyroscopic and are very good for control. I can’t wait to see controllers in the far future
 
Since my dad's a gamer, we had a lot of "modern" consoles... and a lot of them. A GameCube, two Gameboy Advance SPs, a bunch of DSes of varying models, two (if I remember correctly) Xbox 360s, a Playstation 2, and like three Playstation 3s.

We sold the Xboxes though, and nobody's allowed to touch one of the PS3s because it's "first generation" or something like that. I dunno.
 
The Mattel Intellivision. Unlike most consoles of the time, it had a controller with a sort of disc instead of a joystick, and a keypad on the controller you could put overlays on so it would have a ton of buttons. Not many games used most of the buttons, although there was one called Sea Battle which was a pretty complicated naval battle simulator for the time.

There was also a keyboard/computer expansion for it so you could turn it into a computer, but we never did this.

It was really ahead of its time for 1980 or so but its niche eventually dried up and Mattel stopped making it after 1983 or so. Wikipedia says someone else picked it up and started making it after 1984, but I don't remember that and had moved on to the Apple ][ by then.
 
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According to my dad, he and my older sister played on the SNES. He had me play Duck Hunt at one point.

My earliest memories however were playing Crash Bandicoot 2 on the PS1. Alongside stuff like Spyro, Oddworld, Rayman, ect.
 
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NES that my dad bought. I played it a bit but not that much.

Then we skipped to N64. I played the shit out of Goldeneye and Zelda. Then I went through a bunch of Gameboys when I was in the military because it seemed like they were coming out with a newer one every six months.

And now a PS4.
 
my first console was an atari, but I cant tell which model it was.
then I moved on to a mega drive, game gear and a snes. I also used to spend lots of time in arcades, because honestly, most arcade ports were shit at the time and even the good ones, werent as good as the original.
 
I think that the first console I had was the N64. I had a lot of Nintendo consoles growing up but the ones I'm fondest of were my N64 and Gamecube.
 
Pretty much everything from NES forward except the Turbo Graphx 16 and weird crap like the Jaguar and Neo Geo type stuff. Twas a great hobby and still is. Anything we played pre-NES was from neighbors' consoles.
 
I remember growing up with the then-relatively new GameCube. Most of my time using it was spent on Mario Party 5 and Sonic Heroes, but I remember LOVING Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door.

Too bad none of those three games work anymore.
 
The ones that really defined my childhood were the NES and Game Boy, then later the Saturn. Sadly my Saturn loved to delete my internal memory because CR2032s would never last that long. Made playing RPGs a struggle.
 
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The ones that really defined my childhood were the NES and Game Boy, then later the Saturn. Sadly my Saturn loved to delete my internal memory because CR2032s would never last that long. Made playing RPGs a struggle.
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Not sure if you are aware now, but the cartridge sized slot on the back of the Saturn was for memory cards. There is a homebrew device that can be used as a memory card and it allows you to play Japanese games, which are far cheaper than american copies. However, it was fully cracked a while back and now it has a card in development for you to run roms off of.
 
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I had all the classic 80s-90s systems: NES, Gameboy, Genesis, SNES, Game Gear, N64, PSX, Dreamcast. I was a spoiled little shit.
 
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Not sure if you are aware now, but the cartridge sized slot on the back of the Saturn was for memory cards. There is a homebrew device that can be used as a memory card and it always you to play Japanese games, which are far cheaper than american copies. However, it was fully cracked a while back and now it has a card indevelopment for you to run roms off of.
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Very good info to have. Thank you! Gonna be looking into this, as I love the Saturn.
 
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The very first console I played was a SNES when I was three years old, though by then the PS1 and N64 were already out.

The majority of my childhood gaming was done on the original Playstation and the Playstation 2.
 
NES and SNES but I kind of skipped everything after that as I was a teenager and more interested in being out doors and eventually cars than video games.

I picked up a Playstation at the end of it's cycle about a year before the PS2 came out which I picked up at launch. So there's a pretty big gap in my gaming history.
 
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