Video games have certainly evolved over the years. For anyone like me who remembers countless hours sitting in front of their brand new Atari-2600 blasting aliens who were made out of red squares, wood grain case and all, It seems like it hasn't been really that long. Now we have games like Skyrim. Just wondering did you ever, as a kid, imagine River Raid and Combat would one day bring you games like this? What old consoles did you have as a kid? And yes I know the list should be much more extensive but I was trying to keep it reasonable.

Missing the Mega Sega Drive :whistling:
I've still got the original PS not the PS1, N64, GameCube, MegaSegaDrive, Original GameBoy....I have most* game consoles still apart from a PSP, my brother has that.
I watched my dad play the old, really old, Defender game and he was still good at it like 30 years on, its weird home he can play those old games and not the new games I have.

*That were released after I was born and old enough to play

I've got a closet full of old game systems myself. Now I did play my share of pong, Aliens and asteroids.... I wasn't as addicted till I think it was on nintendo that I played the original zelda...I was crazy about that game. Pregnant with my first daughter. Since then I loved most of the series (not on the handhelds, never have liked those much). OOT and MM being my fave, and windwaker being my least fave. from there I had a love of chrono trigger and eye of evermore. Later I got into horror adventures...eternal darkness, the remake of resident evil, almost the whole series of silent hill and bioshock...couldn't get into the second one, shrug. My first mmo wow. Then ran into morrowind, oblivion...loved those. Fallout 3 was a blast..new vegas was ok, the end ticked me off...didn't finish cus I hated the choices. Things have changed alot in the gaming world. Of course I like low tech games still...I have dirty secret loves such as World of Keflings. lol

A store in the town near our home in Tennessee had a Defender Arcade game. Still it was one I played whenever I had the chance. I think I still prefered Missile Command though. :thumbsup:

Was that the one where meteors would fall from the sky, landing and destroying your bases while you had to fire missiles up and try to predict the meteors path ?

missing the Atari 800xl :ermm:

Played pong at the local pizza joint in the bay area California, early/mid 70s..

I still have a working NES and half a dozen games for it :hehe: Too bad my SNES and C64 didn't survive

TI-99/4a (Hunt the Wumpus, Tunnels of Doom, Super Demon Attack!, Burger Time!)
Sega Master System (Shinobi and Safari Hunt. Some golf game I never played)
NES(Nintendo World Cup, Super Spike V'Ball, Super Mario Bros 3, The Lone Ranger, Paperboy 2)
Sega Genesis(General Chaos, Sonic, TMNT: Tournament Fighter, Terminator 2, Crüeball, Sonic Spinball, Ecco the Terrifying Dolphin, Golden Axe, Streets of Rage 2)
SNES(Final Fantasy II(US), Final Fantasy III(US), Out of this World, Super Mario Allstars + World, Yoshi's Safari, Gradius III)
N64(Shadows of the Empire, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Diddy Kong Racing, Bomberman 64, Goldeneye 007, Q...Qu...Quest 64 :cryvaultboy:)
PSX(FF7-9, Crash Racing, Vigilante 8, Vigilante 8 2nd Offense, Resident Evil 2)
Gamecube(Tales of Symphonia, Mario Sunshine, Resident Evil 4, Super Smash Bros Melee, Metroid Prime, Metroid Prime 2, Timesplitters 2, Timesplitters 3, 007: Nightfire)
PS2(Final Fantasy X, Timesplitters 1, Timesplitters 2, Syphon Filter)
Wii(Smash Bros Brawl, Mario Galaxy1&2, Metroid Prime 3, No More Heroes 1&2, Zack and Wiki, Tales of Symphonia 2, Super Paper Mario, Monster Hunter Tri)
360(Tales of Vesperia, Sega Collection, Lego Indiana Jones)(Until it died out of warranty)

Started with the original NES and got an atari 2600 I think to play around with until I got a Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Pretty much stuck with Nintendo only getting a Sega Game Gear because I wanted one and Nintendo didn't come out with a true "Color" gameboy for some time. Right now I have a Nintendo Wii and a PS3 however I refuse to get a 360 since Microsoft doesn't impress me.

I first started playing with my Atari 2600 at the ripe age of 5 or 6, and while it wasn't Pong, it was Breakout. Have had at least one console per generation since then, sometimes 2 or 3, and because family members never communicated with each other when giving presents, often times I'd get more than one of the same console.

I always got rid of any console I wasn't using, or just broke down, or just broke period, the latter covering fall damage or rage. I'm not much of a collector and don't like hoarding things I don't use often enough to justify it taking space in the house.

We've had just about every major consoles between the NES and now, the only notable exceptions that I can think of being the SMS, PC Engine, Neo Geo AES and Sega Saturn. NES and Sega Genesis were what I spent most of my time on when I was little. Still have our original SNES, N64 and PSone; had to re-buy all the others.

Speaking of the NES, I found http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/comment/9/2011/10/e3ce1864029b7f6deae386102d332a68/original.jpg picture of my big brother playing our NES on Halloween in 1991 or '92. It's somehow relevant. And adorable.

My first console was the 2600 and a lot of my friends had them as well. I also spent a lot of my youth washing arcade games for tokens and vacuming/sweeping.....anything to earn tokens in the 80's. But after the atari I didnt actually get another console until the sega came out and then another gap of not playing until I got my first PS back in 97-98 I think. Then I shared a PS2 with a friend of mine until I bought an Xbox and have been a microsoft fan ever since.

Your missing the portables like the game boy....Any, I think, as a form of media and compering it to other forms, we have made huge leaps in just 50 years of video gaming tech and in my 15 years of playing video games, I've never seen it become so mingled with modern norms.^_^

Playstation 1 (the PSX was it also known?) was my first console. I played pretty much solely racing/ driving games for many years before I started broadening my horizons and try more action adventure games and FPSs. Still love my racing games through, but the majority are on my old Xbox and PS1, nowadays on the 360 I have only Forza, PGR and Need for Speed. I'm interested in picking up Dirt 3 as well, since the return to focus on rallying intrigues me to give it a go, but Forza 4 is coming and I must get that.

Nope, Missile Command was the one where you had incoming nukes that you had to shoot down by firing at least close enough to them for them to be caught in the blast. You had a few cities you had to protect and once the last one was gone you were greeted with a big GAME OVER on top of a mushroom cloud. It had a lot more relevance in the 80's I guess, at least to a kid.

Maybe http://unleadedlogic.com/moesgames/?page_id=77&category=36&product_id=377? That game was soooo addictive!

I had a Genesis that was falling apart that my dads friends gave to me but I have lots of great memories with it trying to beat Ecco although I never did lol, and I had an N64 which was my first console.

My first System was the SNES with Super Mario World.

Got an NES at a garage sale, got an SNES for Christmas, then we got our first PC, then a Sega Genesis, N64, GameCube, XBox, Wii, and XBox 360.

The NES and SNES had the best games and I'm pretty happy that I can play a lot of them on the Wii now.

Vic-20, TRS-80, Apple II-e and 8-bit NES. Eventually we got a Compaq i386 running some new-fangled system called "Windows" something or other and it was mind blowing. Played quite a bit of Sid Meier's Civilization, Master of Orion and a few old school cRPGs at the time.

So far I haven't had a chance to try the N64, Wii or any of the more recent consoles, like the PlayStation or Xbox

If you like JRPGs I recommend a Playstation
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NES
SNES
Genesis
N64
Jaguar
PSX

Where's the NES and Intellivision?

As I stated in the first post, I wanted to keep the list reasonable.

Its unreasonable to have the first Nintendo system?

The first game console I owned was the stand-alone Atari 2600 clone, the Coleco Gemini ( thanks for including it separately, Hrothjorn :celebration: ).
I like many other teenagers had played the Atari 2600 and Commodore Vic 20 and C-64 in stores, before getting to own a console.
As for imagining about the graphics improvements that would ensue over the years, I never gave it a thought. This despite playing Apple ][ games since 1982 and Sinclair ZX-81 games since 1983, and having been playing arcade video games since Pong back in early 1978.
To me, the variations in graphics systems and degrees of detail they could manage were just an utterly mundane part of the non-standardized computer world of the day.

Jenifur Charne