What is your gaming background?

[Gildan Bladeborn]

At this point in my life I can no longer recall whether my first gaming experience was on the Atari 2600 or the Commodore 64, but it was one of those two, followed relatively shortly thereafter by a desktop PC I assembled from components myself. I also did a fair bit of gaming on other people's NES and Genesis systems back then, but never owned one myself.

Apart from very infrequent exceptions (maybe 3 times across the better part of two decades), I've pretty much gamed exclusively on the PC for the past 15 years, and ever since I first had one it's always been my primary gaming system.

My entry into the world of pen and paper roleplaying is comparatively far more recent, though there was a stretch some ways back predating my initial foray into the medium where I used to memorize the information in D&D supplements even though A) I didn't play and B) I didn't know anyone else who did either. To an extent I still do that, but not with D&D - I currently collect/read/memorize the contents of Dark Heresy, Rogue Trader, and Deathwatch rulebooks/supplements; I now possess a near encyclopedic recall of the material even though I've never used them to actually play the games.

Nerd pride!

 

[kzeelio]

The fist game I played was King's Quest VI on the PC. I think I was 4-ish.

PC
GameBoy (Original)
N64
GameBoy Advance
GameCube
PS2
GameBoy Advance SP
XBox
XBox 360
DS
Wii
PS3

 

[BreakfastMan]

Well, the first games I played where on my parents old Macintosh computer. They were mostly educational games, like Reader Rabbit or kick-arse stuff like Spy Fox or Pajama Sam, but there were also some good old adventure games, like Myst and it's sequels (actually, Myst, Riven, and Myst III had a significant impact on my childhood, come to think of it). When I was ten, my younger brother (who was eight or seven at the time) saved up all our pennies and bought ourselves an original X-Box, with no help from our parents. We loved that thing. Still do, in fact. I actually still have it, and still play stuff on it. That is actually the console that we have the most games for.

 

[AMX58]

duckhunter on Nes and Super Mario World for Super Nes

 

[F'Angus]

Well I seem to regressed.

Ps1 > Pc> Ps2 > Xbox 360 > Ps2 > Pc > GBA

 

[Bomberman4000]

NES
GameBoy
SNES
Sega
N64
GBA
Playstation
PS2
Gamecube
Xbox
Xbox 360
PS3
Wii
DSi

I didn't throw in PC because the only thing I played on the PC was WoW and I didn't think that merited being listed. I had a bit of an unfair advantage because my brother got the NES for his birthday when he turned 5, and I was about 16 months old at the time and I started playing as soon as I could sit upright. So I guess it's safe to say I've been gaming my whole life.

I'm a little disappointed I've never owned a Dreamcast though.

 

[ronald1840]

Consoles owned in order
- Playstation 1
- Nintendo 64
- Nintendo Gameboy, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy SP
- Playstation 2
- PSP 1000, 3000
- Playstation 3

Favorite Gaming Genre: Action/Adventure

Age when first started gaming: 5

Best Gaming Memory/Excitment: Arriving in the Star Village for the first time in Paper Mario 64.

Favorite cast of characters: Persona 4

Greatest Game I'll Ever Play:

 

[Retronana]

Gameboy>PC>N64>PS1>PS2>GB advance>Gamecube>Xbox>DS>360>Wii>Brand new PC

So a fairly up and down progression

 

[Voodoomancer]

Some really old Win95 games. Then a Gameboy color and a PS2. Ahh, good times.

 

[Ace of Spades]

Gameboy Color
N64
Gamecube
PS2
PC, discovered how buggy it is
PS3

 

[UlytimateDestruction]

Playstation -> Gamecube -> Gameboy Advance -> Playstation 2 -> PSP -> Xbox360&Xbox -> Nintendo Wii -> Playstation 3 -> In the exact order I played them in.

 

[psicat]

NES
SNES
PC
Gameboy
Gameboy Color
Playstation
Playstation 2
GameCube
Gameboy Advance
DS
DSi
PS3
PSP
Xbox 360
3DS
PS Vita (Will eventually be my next one.)
Final Fantasy was my first console game, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers was my first PC game.

 

[Popadoo]

Started off with a Play Station for christmas and first game was Crash Bandicoot. Still use Sony's consoles, just prefer PC right now. Think most people are the opposite to me, start off with PC, then move to console.

Bloody hell. You're me in disguise, aren't you?

 

[AnAngryMoose]

When I was about six or seven I played some PS1 at my friend's house (mainly Worms) and loved it. A couple years later I got one for my birthday and played the shit out of Ape Escape, Team Buddies, Spyro, Crash Bandicoot and Abe's Odyssey.

The PS2 was my next console where I experienced Timesplitters, Ratchet and Clank, sequels to Ape Escape, Spyro and Crash Bandicoot. I began more and more involved up until playing Gears of War at my friend's house (the same one who inspired me to get PS1) made me decide to get an Xbox 360 rather than wait on a PS3.

EDIT: Also forgot my years of playing Pokémon Blue and Gold along with Metroid and Tetris on my Gameboy

 

[Allspice]

In order of when I got them, not when they came out:

-Genesis
-Gameboy Color
-PlayStation
-PS2
-Wii
-Xbox
-DSi
-Gameboy Advance SP
-PS3
-PSP
-Xbox 360

Also, my cousin had a SNES, and we used to play Mario 3 at her house all the time. I never had one myself.

And obviously I have a PC too, but it doesn't play games very well. PC gaming wasn't something I was interested in when I got it four years ago. I'm looking into upgrading it, but I'm hesitant to do it myself. ::shrug::

 

[EzraPound]

NES-->N64-->Dreamcast-->Xbox-->Genesis-->Wii-->PS3

 

[LCP]

When I was born, I was given a Super Nintendo, with Mario, from then on I played PC mostly beating doom 1, doom 2, rise of the triad, and Heretic when I was around 8. and just recently bought a ps2 and ps3 just to see what the fuzz was about. My cousin used to own a n64 and I spent countless hours on

*Games of my childhood

*Super Mario Bros (Snes)
*Mortal Kombat (Snes)
*Doom 1 (simpson doom mod) & Doom 2 (PC)
*Heretic (PC)
*Rise of the Triad (PC)
*Quarantine(PC)
*Goldeneye 007 (N64)
*Time Commando (PC)
*XIII(ps2)

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

My friend had some sort of Sega that I played some Sonic on. Then I got a Gameboy Pocket with Pokemon Blue. Sometime around there I started playing things like Total Annihilation, Star Wars Rebel Assault, and other games like that on our PC. Another friend had something with StarFox on it so I played that (and was so much better than him)

Then finally in 1998 I got a PlayStation 1, with Tomb Raider III and Crash Bandicoot, and that was basically that.

I PC gamed for a little longer but it was impossible to keep playing any decent games on our battered old computer, so the cost put me off (that and having to learn how to build a computer everytime I needed the next generation of games) and I became the console fanboy you all know and love.

In terms of genres, I was big into third person shooters/platformers. Tomd Raider, C-12 Human Resistance, Syphon Filter, MDK. A friend bought me Final Fantasy IX for a birthday and I became an early jRPG nut. Eventually I got an XBox with Halo and Midtown Madness.

Any further down the line and I'll start just listing my entire backcatalogue.

 

[ms_sunlight]

I started gaming on a home computer rather than a console, and I hail from the 8-bit era. The first games I played were on my dad's ZX81 when I was a very little girl. We moved on to a BBC Micro and a ZX Spectrum. Eventually we got a PC.

I've never owned a games console, althrough I did have a couple of those Nintendo Game and Watch games when I was little - Donkey Kong, Oil Panic etc. I have played a lot of classic console games under emulation through.

I suspect I am slightly older than some people on here!