The most influential gaming console in your life.

[Rooster893]

Nintendo GameCube.

Thanks to Soul Calibur 2, SSX 3, F-Zero GX, Metroid Prime, Super Smash Bros. Melee, and Sonic Adventure 2 Battle, I owe my elementary years to that amazing console. Needless to say, it was well spent.

 

[StereoMike]

If I were to go by total gaming time it would be the ps2 or the original xbox. Specifically SSX tricky and Halo. Me and my friends poured entire summers into those games.

If I was looking at influence, a game system that impacted how I live my life, I would have to go with the PC. When I was really young (3 or 4) I desperately wanted to play Monkey Island because my dad was playing it. The catch was there was no voice acting and I couldn't read. So I spent a ton of time just trying to sound out the words so I could play the game. That's right: video games were probably the major motivating factor, and prime teaching tool, that got me to read. I was the only kid in kindergarten who was reading.

It is also the main reason I can't take these idiotic anti-videogame lobbyists seriously.

 

[hctib_elttil]

N64
its what made me go from wow i like these video game things
to WOW this is what i want to do with my life.
at the moment i am a government funded wow player
and student learning how to make video games
so im not sure what i meant when i thought that

 

[Outright Villainy]

The N64 pretty much defined gaming for me.

Zelda, Banjo tooie, Perfect Dark, Mario 64, the list goes on and on...

 

[Wayneguard]

Oh God this is really tough. The N64 was my first console but the SNES was the one that got me "into" games. The xbox was my first console that I played online multiplayer and the ps2 has the lion's share of my favorite games... what is a man to do?

I'm gonna go with PS2 but this is really too difficult of a question to answer.

 

[ineedscissors]

Definitely the Playstation 2. Jax and Daxter solidified me into the gaming world; this was then followed by Metal Gear Solid 2 and 3, Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, FFX, and about a billion other amazing games. The PS2 is the reigning champ of all time, and its also #1 in my heart.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

Atari 2600.

Yes, I am ancient.

This or the NES. I really can't decide either way. Both of them were used thousands of hours (and still work today) and had hundreds of carts put in them. I think I might pull a little more toward the NES since that was when I was in public school and had school friends who lived nearby to play it with and before I was in private school and the other kids lived mostly across town so it was harder to visit.

Either way or any system you say, they've all been influential (some in what not to do) in their own way.

Oh, but when I got a Genesis on release day, I was king of Jr. High since my history teacher let me hook it up in class (yeah, I was one of those sit at the teachers desk and really not have to do anything but grade papers students in his class lol). It was fun picking and choosing who got to try it out and who had to read about the Magna Carta lol.

 

[RowdyRodimus]

The catch was there was no voice acting and I couldn't read. So I spent a ton of time just trying to sound out the words so I could play the game. That's right: video games were probably the major motivating factor, and prime teaching tool, that got me to read. I was the only kid in kindergarten who was reading.

It is also the main reason I can't take these idiotic anti-videogame lobbyists seriously.

That was me and comic books. According to my parents and my grandma, she (my grandma) got tired of hearing me ask "what does that say?" from the age of 1-3 and saw that I loved anything with the Spider-Man character on it that she got me a few issues of Amazing Spider-Man and a subscription to it and taught me to read using them at the age of 3.

That was one of the anecdotes I always use when I heard teachers telling students that comics are a waste of time and nothing can be gained from them. (Basically video games are going through now what comics did during the 50's with Fredrick Wertham)

 

[Lord Beautiful]

The Playstation 2. I poured my childhood into that console, and I got awesome games in return.

I get the feeling a lot of people will share this sentiment.

For me, it was the console that saw my maturation from button-mashing nooblet to skilled gamer.

 

[ImprovizoR]

The Playstation 2. I poured my childhood into that console, and I got awesome games in return.

I'm gonna go with PS2 as well. Best console ever. I still have over 100 games for it and I love that little black plastic box of fun. I am crowning PS2 with this award because I do not count PC as a console. But if we're talking about systems then it's PC all the way.

 

[JUMBO PALACE]

While the N64 was my first console, I've got to say my 360 is the most influential. This generation is when I really got into not only games, but the entire industry and news that surrounds it. The 360 showed me that games deserve to be called art.

 

[TiefBlau]

The Gameboy.

It was the first time my passing relationship with gaming took a more serious tone. Deep, passionate figurative tongue-kissing ensued, which was quite a lot for my seven-year-old self, even if it was figurative.

I'd take my Gameboy everywhere. I took it to restaurants where I was scolded for bad manners. I mourned its battery death on road trips as I played Pokemon Red. I'd buy lights and strategy guides for it, and trade with my brother. It was the first time I've expressed legitimate care for gaming as anything but a casual hobby.

 

[Alfid Zeiss]

The PS1, I remember when I went over my friends house and saw him play Crash Bandicoot.
Then I got a PS1 and Crash Bandicoot. Oh, and Tomba 2. Oh yes, Tomba 2, god what memories I had with that thing

 

[Vault101]

PC, Ive always been a PC gamer...I just didnt always know it

or N64 I supose for being my first console, and the console all my freinds had good times

 

[C95J]

I have 2!:

GameBoy Colour: The very first games console I played on, I had Mario and Pokemon Blue on it, and I loved it to bits.

Playstation 2: I had loads of my all time favourite games on that console, and it has really influenced which games I buy, and love to this very day.

 

[urluckyidunbeatu]

The original gameboy,not only was it going to spur my love for handheld gaming over the years it had games of all of my favorite things like Batman and Pokemon and Star Wars, so it was like the gaming companion piece to everything about my childhood. I still play my PSP more than I play home consoles and my DS has seen some good use in the short time I've had it and I can attribute all of my gaming preferences to the kinds of things I played on my gameboy.

 

[JRCB]

The XBOX 360.

Seriously, so much shit has gone down because of it, some days I want to throw it out a window. And light it on fire.

 

[Katana314]

PC for me, but it's seriously a split because of Phoenix Wright and Elite Beat Agents on the DS. I don't still play it because those games don't have lasting appeal, but they definitely left an impression on me.

 

[ddon]

The playstation. When I was little my parents brought me over to a friend of theirs, and that friend had a playstation. I played it and really liked it so I asked my parents for a playstation 2, and then a game boy, then a game cube and the list goes on. I don't think you can have a more influential console then the one that you started with.

 

[LeeHarveyO]

IDK which one for sure but its real close between the SNES and the N64.