[Classic] *Rips up present* SUPERNINTENDO FUCK YEAH!

Just realized how many of my threads deal with recalling memories. I`m an old foggy bastard.

I KNOW everyone here has fond memories of their first time getting certain systems.

It was the late 80`s, not sure when, and I got my 8-bit Nintendo. I was so excited, I had first seen it at Circuit City and then at my neighbors. It broke my heart though when I could hear it but couldn`t see it... I needed an RF Switch. =/

Super Nintendo... It must`ve been Christmas of 91, or, at latest, 92. Ripped that fucker out, plugged it in, and started fucking around. FUCK YEAH YOSHI.

Sega Genesis... I had one, but have absolutely no memory of when or how I got it. Hmm.

Nintendo 64... It was my birthday, September of 1996. I think my birthday was the actual release date. I still remember being amazed by the 3D graphics of Mario 64. Even impressed this girl I wanted to dig into.

I never got a PS2, but I remember loyally waiting in line, November of 2000, with my friend at Target because of the limited amount of systems Sony released. We were second and third in line. Since I was in line but not buying a system, a dude gave me 100 dollars for my place in line once I got to the cashier. They had, I think, 100 systems to sell and by the time the line was finished there were two left... So the guy gave me 100 for nothing.

Never had any of the nextGen systems, just played the ones my various friends had. Cheap bastard.

Maybe you guys have more elaborate stories than me.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

I got a Nintendo when I was three, so I don't remember that all too well. In '93, I got a Super Nintendo for my birthday. I had been asking for it for a couple years, and I think the price had finally dropped or something for my parents to pick it up. They then told me video game systems were too expensive, and they wouldn't get me anymore in the future.

When the Nintendo 64 came out, I saved up on my measly allowance for over a year, and finally bought the thing in early '98, which would've been in 7th grade. That Christmas, my parents turned around and got one of my younger siblings a Playstation. That felt like a dagger through the heart.

And every system since then I've saved up for with my own money. It's a little more feasible now since I've had jobs (though at the moment, I am a typical poor college student, so this next generation will have to wait until I graduate most likely)

There's nowhere I can't reach.

I was always behind getting these kind of things.

My two best friends had NES from the start - the only thing I had was a damn Pong mashine. Though it had SQUASH for the lonesome nights. Imagine playing pong with yourself against a God damned wall for hours. This was what I had.

I got my NES in 1992. Yeah, just after the Snes came out over here. I could just barely afford it. Used. It was a hunt to find it as cheap as I needed it though, but finally got it with the Zapper, Duck Hunt + Super Mario Bros.
I think I had my first other game, half a year later, at christmas. Power Blade .__.

By the time I got the NES, one of my other friends already had Snes. Suffice to say I didn't even bother to boot my NES up after I've been at his place.
I think I got one myself in 1995 (used) along with a GameBoy.

When the N64 got out I had no hopes at all, but I actually got it half a year after release, amazing head-start, as my brother got tired of it.
Worth to notice that he's 11 years older (I'm not the outcast brother picking up the scraps =P).

By the time the GameCube came out I made my own money and I bought it on the day of release, playing aaaall night.
Ever since I've been taking back all the joy I never had, being with the times.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

My dad rented a Super Nintendo and a few games around Christmas the year that the system came out...it's a bit scary, but this is probably the oldest memory that I have involving him! Everyone in the house just kind of sat around the TV for a few hours playing Super Mario World, my dad flew around in F-Zero for a bit...I think he went out and bought a new system and a bunch of games before we even had to return the rental system.

My parents also bought me a Nintendo 64 with Super Mario 64 the day it came out as a surprise...unfortunately, they forgot to buy an RF Unit for it, so we had to go back to a really crowded Toys'R'Us store to buy one! I'm weird, though...I always rented Pilotwings and played that instead of Mario 64 for the first few months that we had the system.

I was kind of spoiled as a child...

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

My first console that I actually OWNED would have be the SNES, despite years upon years of freeloading on my friends NES. What's strange was that it wasn't any particular reason my parents bought this for me back... 1993? We were just heading to K-Mart, as it was called back then, I think, and we were just looking around. I never had any intentions to get a video game console. So my dad asks me "do you want a SNES?" I said "sure". Strangely I wasn't all pumped up about it, I just said sure why not? Super Mario World and Mario paint, I remember getting.

I like how the next day I was immediately the coolest kid on the block. ZOMG HE HAS A SNES! I'M SO JEALOUS! Yeah, apparently I was the only one who had the console in my neighbourhood, and the news spread quickly. Man, and I only told one friend...

In all, I only had like 5 games for my SNES, while borrowing and renting quite a few others. Super Mario World, Mario Paint, Star Fox, Donkey Kong Country, and Super FX Racer, or something like that. I like how the first time I tried out FFVI, which was my very first RPG, and it was a total foreign concept of gaming to me, I HATED it. I thought to myself, why the hell do you have to select "ATTACK" to attack and why not just attack him yourself?

I don't think I ever played another RPG until FFVIII came out (and the rest is history). I don't know why I wanted to play it, but I was hooked, but that's another story.

The second system, and most recent, I got was the PS2. This was the night RIGHT BEFORE the physics final exam, June 2002. What timing. This time it was my mom who picked it up but I would pay her back. I liked how I felt this was the FUTURE OF GAMING. What beautiful graphics, I thought to myself. I'm feeling the closing of this system. It was a good console, but after getting the last few games for PS2 (FFXII, VP2, Okami, and maybe RE4), I'll start saving up for next gen stuff.

I'm thinking to myself for sure that in 2007, either on my birthday or Xmas time, I might be picking up a 360 or PS3, or hell, even a Wii. Don't know for sure yet.

I was speaking idiomatically.

My first system was SNES... My brother got it, but I don't recall how he did. I think I was 5 when we got ours.

As for the N64, I got because my parents were impressed with my scores on the CATs in the 2nd grade, I was anxious to get one, but an accident on the way there with a garbage truck tipping over and spilling it all over the highway stopped us for about 2 hours. I was trying to convince my brother to get NBA Hangtime as our fist game, but we ended up getting Super Mario 64. I don't regret letting him choose.

I got my first PS1 in 2000. When I went to the Philippines, it's great that I could play bootleg games on it, except the scanline on my system were horrible. Something was fucked up with the wiring...

Then I finally got my PS2 as a present also from my aunt when she came from the Philippines to New Jersey. As like my PS1, it could play bootleg games, but for something in return. I had problems loading DVDs with it. It couldn't play PS1 games, and games that require disc changes wouldn't work, or games that had games within them, like the Street Fighter Anniversery Collection. IT DIDN'T WORK.

I got my latest PS2 last year after the one above finally broke down. With me being a constant seller of my games, I eventually wrangled up $80 in store credit. It was orignally supposed to go to Guitar Hero, but what good is getting Guitar Hero if you have nothing to play it on. So I only had to pay about $30 in the end.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by OctoberOmicron

Just realized how many of my threads deal with recalling memories. I`m an old foggy bastard.

I KNOW everyone here has fond memories of their first time getting certain systems.

It was the late 80`s, not sure when, and I got my 8-bit Nintendo. I was so excited, I had first seen it at Circuit City and then at my neighbors. It broke my heart though when I could hear it but couldn`t see it... I needed an RF Switch. =/

Super Nintendo... It must`ve been Christmas of 91, or, at latest, 92. Ripped that fucker out, plugged it in, and started fucking around. FUCK YEAH YOSHI.

Sega Genesis... I had one, but have absolutely no memory of when or how I got it. Hmm.

Nintendo 64... It was my birthday, September of 1996. I think my birthday was the actual release date. I still remember being amazed by the 3D graphics of Mario 64. Even impressed this girl I wanted to dig into.

I never got a PS2, but I remember loyally waiting in line, November of 2000, with my friend at Target because of the limited amount of systems Sony released. We were second and third in line. Since I was in line but not buying a system, a dude gave me 100 dollars for my place in line once I got to the cashier. They had, I think, 100 systems to sell and by the time the line was finished there were two left... So the guy gave me 100 for nothing.

Never had any of the nextGen systems, just played the ones my various friends had. Cheap bastard.

Maybe you guys have more elaborate stories than me.

I am also old. Same birth month as you but a year off! But we are the same age for the next few weeks.

I got my Nintendo when my dad wanted to buy one for me in approx. 1987.
Playing Super Mario 1 was the best thing to happen to me. I died on the first Goomba!

SNES & Genesis came when my dad actually got me both of them for my birthday, but only one game each. That was awesome. Instead of Mario World, my first games were Super Ghouls & Ghosts and Actraiser for SNES. Sonic 2 for Genesis.

Those were great early memories. Ever since I have bought my own consoles on their release. I plan to get a Wii.

FELIPE NO

ah good memories...my first system was the donkey kong game & watch...it was my first hand-held...my first system was nes....but it didnt even work when i just got it...i was soooo sad

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

My first real gaming system was a Game Gear that my parents got me and my bro for Christmas. Certainly not the best place to start, but there were still some decent games like the Sonics, Shinobis, Mortal Kombat I & II, and believe or not the Power Ranger fighting games rocked!

Later I got the SNES when I asked my uncle in Hong Kong to get me some Game Gear games when they came over to Canada to visit. Thank goodness he didn't give a crap about what I originally wanted!

Jam it back in, in the dark.

My first gaming system was the VIC 20. I had lots of fun with it, until the spacebar broke...

I got a NES when it first came out. My parents were managing a video store at the time, so I could play all the latest games for FREE. I also could play the latest systems at launch since we got them for the store. Yeah those were the times.

I remember this one store in a Chinese mall that sold Japanese NES games. I was stoked when I saw a Japanese SMB 3 on sale! I quickly ran out to tell my parents about it, but we found out later that it was just a jigsaw puzzle >_> The store did get the game a short while later though, and since I couldn't understand Japanese at all, the store manager there explained how to hold a Koopa shell XD That game became a hit at our video store, of course. The NA release didn't come out til a long while later.

Nintendo games were all that I've ever played. We also rented the Genesis and other non-Nintendo systems, but I've never found their games to be much fun overall.

I got the GCN at launch. My mom got it for me, but she forgot to buy a memory card! I ended up playing the beginning of Luigi's Mansion again and again and again until we got a memory card.

I feel so old. I've been playing games ever since the first systems came out. Those were such fun times.

How ya doing, buddy?

Oh goodness. When I was little, I really, really, really wanted a video game system. I kept seeing commercials for them and thought, 'gee, this looks really awesome!' So I kept asking my parents for one. I didn't care which.. a regular NES would have been fine.

But then, one Christmas (93 or 94.. I think the latter though) I received the Ultimate Gift. A Super Nintendo. I was so happy! It came with SMW and Super Mario All-Stars. I played and played and played and for years after, I got more games for it. Eventually, the N64 came out and the SNES was fading away. Of course, I still play it every now and then. It's my favorite console and aside from some yellowing, it's in great condition. I love it so much. ^__^ Aside from my first computer, no Christmas gift gave me as much joy.

I never got an NES though. Sometimes I want one, but overall I just stick to roms.

EDIT: Heck, I'll add some more.

I got my PS2 as a birthday present in 2002. It was the old model (the 'faulty' one, as I've found out through the internet) but it never gave me any problems. The first game I got for that was Jak & Daxter. I never did beat that game..

Anyway, I love my PS2 as well, but I seem to neglect it more than my SNES. I dunno why.. I mean, after I got my SNES I wanted a PlayStation to play those cool looking Final Fantasy games, and when I finally got a system that could play them, I felt like my SNES was more than enough entertainment. But then again, the PS2 played DVDs! XD

I got my Game Boy Color back in like 99 or so after begging and pleading for a Game Boy. My first games were Pokemon Blue and Link's Awakening DX. I wasted many hours on Pokemon.. damn addicting thing. I ended up giving the GBC away about two years ago because I felt that with my GBA I didn't need it anymore.

Speaking of my GBA, I got that for a Christmas gift back in 2004. My first game was Elf, because it was 'cheap', according to my mother. I gave the game to my nephew. XD I still have the GBA though.

I just ordered a DS Lite today. My first game will be Super Mario 64 DS.

Phew, guess that's it!

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Can I pose a question? Who here loves the smell of a new instruction booklet?

I can't say that I've been really amped about getting a system when I was a child, but when getting a new videogame... that's a different story. Now that I'm a bit older, whenever I purchase a new videogame I can't help but maticulously read through the whole entire instruction booklet before playing (it's kind of a ritual thing -- yeah so I'm wierd). The smell brings back memories of all my other old school games that I got in the past e.g. Megaman and shit. Ah, the good old days...

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Jayden

Can I pose a question? Who here loves the smell of a new instruction booklet?

I can't say that I've been really amped about getting a system when I was a child, but when getting a new videogame... that's a different story. Now that I'm a bit older, whenever I purchase a new videogame I can't help but maticulously read through the whole entire instruction booklet before playing (it's kind of a ritual thing -- yeah so I'm wierd). The smell brings back memories of all my other old school games that I got in the past e.g. Megaman and shit. Ah, the good old days...

I do. In fact, the "Funcoland" where I live (now called Gamestop for the past 6 years) has one specific smell everytime I walk into the door -- it smells like 'new video game' every time I go in. I have been smelling that since I was 8 years old and I'm so glad they are still open. I hope when I'm 50 or something I can go in and nothing will change about that.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Jayden

Can I pose a question? Who here loves the smell of a new instruction booklet?

Originally Posted by Borg1982

I do.

Get a room.

My first system was an NES, followed by my beloved Sega Genesis. I was on the whole "SEGA" side in the Sega versus Nintendo era. That was fun. I remember when Mortal Kombat came out and the controversy around the content in both the SNES and the Genesis versions (although I can't really remember which one was censored). My dad rented it and let me play, but I remember feeling 'dirty' back then. Like the game was going to make me into some kind of evil sinner or something.

I recall bugging the shit out of my parents for a Sega CD. I only wanted it for Sonic CD. Never got it. Somehow got the Saturn for Christmas, bought the Dreamcast a few years later, and finally the PS2 later. That about ended my Sega fanboyism. That and Knuckles' weak-ass theme song from Sonic Adventure 2.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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got my NES in 1992. Yeah, just after the Snes came out over here. I could just barely afford it. Used. It was a hunt to find it as cheap as I needed it though, but finally got it with the Zapper, Duck Hunt + Super Mario Bros.
I think I had my first other game, half a year later, at christmas. Power Blade .__.

Yes! Power blade fucking rules!

I remember playing Mario and Double Dragon when I was like 2 or 3...my parents friends would come over with an NES, and we'd play. Some time later we got one ourselves proper THough I honestly can't remember how old I was, but I must have been 6 or 7...putting it around 1992. Some years later I got a Super Nintendo, and I think that's the happiest gaming time for me in my life. Clayfighters 2 and Super Mario World filled my life...YES!

The Nintendo 64? That came in like 1998 or 1997...can't remember, but surely I remember the first game we had with it? Ummm...no! That's really odd.

Ok, now for one in which my memory wasn't fuzzy! The Gamecube! Got that sucker when SSBM was new, because we receive that game along with Madden or something like that. I remember freaking out about the size the the discs (this was JUST before I started paying attention to game sites and stuff). And playing smash brothers was pretty much nirvana, and it felt so much faster and more beautiful.

The next day we pooled our money and got a memory card and Pikmin. That night we and my other friends has unlocked every character

FELIPE NO

Hooooy.

Well, my first system was my parents, who are gamers themselves. And that was an Atari 2600. Yes, Atari. And I played that Atari and all it's games (and they had a LOT of games because they were so darn cheap) up until maybe 1992, when Atari's were so old they were out, and that NES's were so cheap, that they could be bought. Was a cool thing too because not only did I get an NES, but also about twenty games with it because they were so darn cheap.

I still fondly remember playing my NES from six in the morning until eleven at night, with only restroom, and meal breaks. Eventually though, I introduced SMB3 to my parents and their VG spark was reignited. I then had to wrestle the system from them to play over the next few years until, maybe 1996 (whenever it was that Megaman X was ten bucks and you could get SMW and Mario Paint as part of the package). I also got HOme Alone 2. I can't remember if I got bubsy then or not, but I know that I eventually got that game, along with FFVI, SMRPG, CT, and Illusion of Gaia. Man, those were the times...having a new RPG come out every SIX MONTHS rather than every SIX DAYS. You could (would have to ) REALLY spend some time on those games. I also would often rent Lufia II and Zelda. AMazingly, I never bought Zelda, nor FFIV for that matter.

I also though fondly remember playing FFVI. A friend of mine had it and so I played it...and enjoy it thoroughly. So thoroughly that I rented it. So thoroughly that I kept asking for it each day for Christmas. So thoroughly that I would put my PENNIES together to just be able to rent the game. So thoroughly that you could just see me trying HARD to hide the disappointment on my face when my grandparents accidently got me Final Fantasy LEGEND III for Gameboy, even stating how hard it was to find, onyl for my parents to notice it and my father to go out and exchange it for the RIGHT game (as it were, I DID get FF Legends III several years later). Man, did I ever play that game. 99 elixers and megaelixers. Fully leveled up. All of it. And it will come out on GBA soon...SWEET!!!

Anyway, towards the end of the SNES days, I bought my first ever PSX. Now, you heard the old saying every penny counts, right? Well, I definitely know the meaning of that as I literally CUT RIBBONS, one penny a cut (I was too young for a real job), to get JUST ENOUGH money for a PSX and a game. This was helped greatly by my mom who worked at the place and could give me a discount. They were even nice as K-Mart and said if I didn't like the system for any reason, they would give me my money back. My parents also were really kind and helped me get one other game (which was the wisely picked Wild Arms over the, at the time, 'highly-anticipated' Beyond the Beyond which I had read over in a magazine. Thank goodness I didn't get that game. I hated it when I finally did get it, because of it's insane difficulty and nonstop battles).

I won't bother going into the detail ofthe games I got although I got the highly-anticipated FF7, which, I did enjoy. Suikoden was a 'dark horse' to me, that I used to play in between FF7 and WCW World Tour (or whatever it was called), and I thoroughly enjoy that as well. Eventually, my game collection grew, but my interested started to dwindle due to other things. Oh yeah, my rents played this system too, particularlly Crash Bandicoot.

Eventually, all this playing led to the system not working, to the point of it making a loud BANGING sound and freezing when it tried to go to the 'main menu'. My rents got a new system and things were ago, again.

About two years later, my grandparents got me and my bro an N64. I kept asking for it over and over, even being very lame and saying (note, I was still young) that CHristmas would be that great without it. Very lame. Nevertheless, my gparents got it for me, and me and my bro played some Super Mario Bros. We then got all the wrestling games for it, and had countless fun with WCW vs NWO, and No Mercy (and the games in between as well). I also remember thoroughly enjoying Zelda (the first...I barely played the second) as well.

Sometime afterwards, the second PSX broke down. However, we had an agreement with Circuit city and were able to ge ta new system, free of charge. Actually, we extended the warranty and got a PS1. Good deal.

Now, I will say that somewhere in this time, I did get a GBC as well. My best friend had one, and Zelda was coming out. Good stuff. I got that AND Zelda and enjoyed it throughly....especailly the "select trick" as I dubbed it. Gratned, that trick led to me messing up a game when I got over twenty hearts. but hey. Oh yes, believe it or not, POkemon was fun too, although due to a small miscommunication, I never got all 150 pokemon. Oh well...

Sometime, I think APril of 2002, I got another N64. Why? It was fifty bucks. The catch? It had pikachu on it. Yes, I am not kidding. Still, it worked and I didn't care about the look but the funtionality.

I also got a Dreamcast...actually two of them. The first I got litelly a week before it's price break. And...samne with the second...darn it! anyway, I got several games for it ranging from Grandia, to Sonic to Seaman. I also had the joy of emulation on the system AND playing some other, harder to find games like Fire Pro Wrestling D. Good times.

Anyway, afterwards, in 2002, after the price drop, I got a PS2. I remember hearing about it at E3, and got excited. Then, the day it dropped in price, I and my brother paid halfs and went out and got one. I remember this day too. It was sorta like your day Spatula, but the opposite and with a twist. I had jsut started a summer class at my new college. ONly, I looked at the date wrong and thought classes started a week later. However, by luck, a friend had dropped off a friend of his in the same class. SO he questioned me about it. Sure enough, I missed the first day (or week, as each day was equalto a week) of class. So, not only was I trying to make up for that lost weeks worth of classtime, I was also trying to get some PS2, namely some Smackdown! action in as well!!! Unfortunatley, my PS2 was probably not the best buy as I never could put too much time into it due to classes. By the time it was summer break, I was too tired to really want to sit and play games. By the time I was ready to...class time again. Ugh!!!

About two years later though, I bought a GBA as well. Well, sorta. My rents bought it for me for an early christmas gift. So I guess I didn't buy it. However, I got it along with Golden Sun, which I played a little bit. Alas though, my GBA ran into the same problem as my PS2. Lack of time = lack of play time and eventually lack of interest. I did get some game sfor it though...mostly when they were dirt cheap. As it were though, I did eventually start playing it more often as I slowly but surely finished college.

Eventually, our old PS2 broke from straight out wear and tear. Or DID IT?!?!?! It broke on Spring Break, in which my rents went out and bought another one. I guess they felt bad that it broke so quickly...as they rarely ever played games on it (strangely enough ) save for Crash Bandicoot.

However, as I said...the old PS2 broke...or DID IT? As it turned out, for some reason, after turning it on it's side and then back down, iT WORKED!!! So, I now had my own PS2, as I "fixed" it. I wisely though moved it so it couldn't be bumped again, and keep it in working order. I would have eventually replaced it but given my last of use of it...yeah.

After that, my PARENTS got themselves a gamecube. Yep. One day, out of the blue, they said, "We decided we are going to reward ourselves with a game cube". THey also bought themselves an X-box. So, while my gaming system collection or whatever has ceased, they are keeping theirs alive and well. The end.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

The Christmas I recieved my first console, an NES, was a happy day indeed. I aquired it and a bunch of games from my cousin in Cali, who had recently upgraded to an SNES. I didn't care that it was an older, preowned system... I was 6, and it was awesome. Bubble Bobble, SMB 2, Tetris, Zelda 1 and 2... I still consider it my favorite Christmas gift.

The best part, though, came a couple weeks later, when a package that had been assumed to have gotten lost in the mail arrived. A dozen more NES carts and the ZAPPER! I was positively elated. SMB/Duck Hunt... YES!

My parents then realized what made lil' Justin happy, and proceeded to make appropriate gift preperations for following holidays and birthdays. The novelty of getting a new system wore off after that, however, since it became the present I most expected.

Damn you, nostalgia.

How ya doing, buddy?

For a lot of person here (mainly in USA?) their first console was a Nintendo one (NEs or SNES)... that's intresting cause here in Europe (or at least in Portugal) there was no such thing as a Nintendo console, quite literally you could find only few Nintendo games and even fewer consoles Nintendo consoles.

I for one thank with all my might to whoever decided to defend this country from Nintendo lousyness. As you may have guessed my first contact with games came in the form of Sega holyness A.K.A. Master System and Mega Drive

There's nowhere I can't reach.

My first system was a Sega Genesis, which I got on Xmas, '91. I just knew from the shape of the box that it was a Genesis, even though I had never seen the box before then. The system came with Sonic 1, and my family added Toe Jam & Earl along with it. Good times, good times. My family regrets this nowadays; ever since that day, games have been my main hobby.

With the exception of the Xbox and Game Boy, every other system I received as gifts after that point were on normal days. I got my Playstation a few weeks after launch, and the same with the N64, Game Boy Color and Advanced, and any other system that I can't name at this time.

The Dreamcast was the first system I paid for on my own, and since then I've bought and have at least one time owned every game system brought to the US, from the NES on, much to my family's dismay.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

I also love the smell of the instruction manuals. After buying a system I love treating these items with care. Even though, deep down, I know these items will be trashed to hell from lack of use or bad storage.

FuncoLand... When my mom got her nails (or some womanly shit like that) I`d ask her to let me hang around there. I`d read the Legend of Zelda monthly comic in the Nintendo Power issues. Not sure what time period that was. Even convinced her to buy me the SUPERSCOPE there... What a waste of fucking money.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Well, my first console was a NES on 1989 (i was 5 years old... but what the hell, i finished Super Mario Bros in those years anyway =P) but the SNES was the machine who really loved and care until this days, i got 83 SNES games collected from 1992 to now and is still my favorite console of all times, i also loved the Genesis in those years... to be honest, the console war was really the best thing for all us in these days because the quality of the games on SNES and Genesis are awesome for me... i will still loving my SNES for ever.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Atari 2600-I was about 4 or 5. Some kids had it, my mom was hooked on Space Invaders, my dad was hooked on Missle Command, I was hooked on basically everything, so this was an easy purchase. This was one of the remodeled "$50 bux" units. Still have great memories of Atari 2600 Ms. Pac Man.

Atari 7800-Um, I just remember it looked awesome and playing Dig Dug on it a bunch. And Food Fight. And Galaga. And that was it. We didn't have it hooked up long before I got an...

NES-Super Mario Brothers. Metroid. Kung Fu. Zelda. Kid Icarus. Zelda 2 (I think). Mario 2. Then I forget the rest of the order. But the NES days were amazing. When it worked, that is...Funny story was my parents always said they couldn't afford it, then my uncle died and left part of an inheritance, so that wiped out that excuse. LOL...(thanks, Uncle Frederick!)

Game Boy-Nintendo Power's coverage sold me on this and I definitely wanted Super Mario Land, so this was my Christmas gift the year it came out. My parents traveled a lot, so it got some heavy usage.

SNES-I felt awkward moving from the NES and to a controller with (gasp) six buttons, but we decided to rent one with Super Mario World. Christmas of 1991, SNES, SMW and a copy of Final Fight were mine. Damn, I still love Final Fight. At the time, it really looked amazing. Many a battle of words with Sega Genesis owners were to follow (although I enjoyed several Genesis games, I was never a fan of Sega's aggressive marketing).

PS1-Two things sold me on this, over the N64: FF7 and seeing the overall line-up of PS1 games, particularly Capcom's stuff. Oh, and Frogger...Many good times were had before it died. I still have it on display in my room (my wireless adapter is sitting on it).

Saturn-Bought it for the 4 Meg fighters and RPG's like Dragon Force and Magic Knight Rayearth, which weren't on PS1. I still import games occasionally for it (got Twinbee Yahhoo Deluxe a couple weeks ago). Also got it dirt cheap, right after Sega discontinued it ($40, used).

Neo Geo Pocket Color-I had a blast with this when it came out and the line-up was probably better than the GBC's at the time. Still has the best D-pad ever made and the SNK vs Capcom games are classic.

Dreamcast-Christmas 1999...AKA: The Marvel vs Capcom console. Really, those were the only two games I ever played seriously on it. Aside from CvS 2and Street Fighter 3: 3rd Strike.

PS2-I had the chance to get one during the 2000 holiday (I worked at EB) and I made the most out of the smoothed-out PS1 and DVD features (and Klonoa 2) for a couple years, before the library became interesting. Hard to compare to the NES/SNES, but definitely my most played system nowadays. Even more amazing: mine still works perfectly, despite all the horror stories I hear about early systems.

Gamecube-I remember I sold my Magic Cards (which I'd been sitting on for 6 years), then went out and got this as soon as I got paid. Doesn't feel like enough good games came out for it over its' lifespan. Oh well, I got Smash Brothers and F-Zero, which is basically what I wanted (Mario Sunshine and Zelda: WW ended up as kind of a wash).

Xbox-I got a sweet deal on this (traded a bunch of CD's I didn't want straight-up for it). Playing fighting games over Live is some great stuff. Plus I get to play better versions of games I'd probably have bought for PS2 (more a cool bonus, on top of the online stuff) I'm probably the only Xbox owner without any semblance of Halo...I may see about converting it into an emulation system if I ever go for a 360 (or heck, even buying a second one).

DS-I was a little irked that Nintendo was pulling their attention away from the GBA (which I had previously bought), but it's had an amazing run as of late and all the great games helped me get over the gimmicky design. It was my birthday gift this year, along with New SMB. Looking forward to Megaman ZX soon.

So heh...I got to grow up with videogames.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?