What Console were you raised on?

m3llowship

It being Christmas and with the shelves of Wii's and PS3's rapidly disappearing what was your console that changed your life?

For me it was the Nintendo Entertainment System. (NES) I was obsessed...

Mario 1,2 and 3. California Games, Duck Hunt and Time Lord were my favourites.

Only last year I got one from my brother for Christmas, I was nearly in tears! It was the best present I ever got and it still works. I think he got it on EBay for about 100 quid? And I still challenge anyone to beat Mario 3 faster than I can.....without using the world jumping whistles!!

THe best thing about the NES is something that still stands today. Its ability to be timeless and reach across generations. Every Christmas all the extended families come to our house for celebrartions, last year was no different. In the sitting room when the oldies were getting good and liquored up in the kitchen, the kids were hidden away in the sitting rooms showing off there DS's, PSP,s and other such high powered gaming consoles! Last year they all stayed off and saved their batteries. Mario Brothers 3 was played for 8 hours solid, and everyone agreed from 4 years old to my 24 that the NES was the only console worth playing! All the kids are coming again tomorrow and all they are talking about is the NES again!

So what was it for you? Mega Drive? Atari? or the new school N64?

aidan_walsh

Obligatory "Atari Jaguar", but actually also a NES boy, with a Megadrive in the mix as well.

RasTa

I had an C64 and Master System but it was a SNES for me.

Ponster

Atari 2600

Miguel_Sanchez

Never had a console when I was a kid. Used to play my games on an Apple II and a BBC Micro rip-off called the Acorn Electron.

First console I got was a PS2 when I was 23!

super_furry

Atari 2600 before graduating to the heady heights on the Commodore 64. I remember then getting an Amiga for Christmas and thinking 'graphics will never get better than this'.

m3llowship

Jeff_Lebowski wrote: »

Never had a console when I was a kid. Used to play my games on an Apple II and a BBC Micro rip-off called the Acorn Electron.

First console I got was a PS2 when I was 23!

Apple II, thats bad ass!

A mix of the NES and SNES for me (as my avatar would probably suggest). I had all the NES games the OP did except for Mario 2 and 3 but got the latter one later on. Also had Punch Out, Marble Madness and Digger T Rock. A few years back I got a NES for nothing off a neighbour and he also had Excitebike and Konami Hyper Soccer. I then got an immaculate copy of Mario 3 off eBay last summer. I had it previously but it was mislaid when I moved house last May.

Unfortunately I don't have my SNES anymore but I had Mario All Stars, Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, FIFA International Soccer and FIFA 96. Never had Earthworm Jim but loved it any time I played it.

m3llowship

Karsini wrote: »

A mix of the NES and SNES for me (as my avatar would probably suggest). I had all the NES games the OP did except for Mario 2 and 3 but got the latter one later on. Also had Punch Out, Marble Madness and Digger T Rock. A few years back I got a NES for nothing off a neighbour and he also had Excitebike and Konami Hyper Soccer. I then got an immaculate copy of Mario 3 off eBay last summer.

Unfortunately I don't have my SNES anymore but I had Mario All Stars, Super Mario World, Mario Kart, Donkey Kong Country, FIFA International Soccer and FIFA 96. Never had Earthworm Jim but loved it any time I played it.

Oh man, Digger T Rock and Marble Madness were awesome games, I always remember there being something kinda strange and sinister about the look and music of Marbel Madness. I still have a lot of the games but unfortunately the only ones that still really work are the ones that I get off Ebay.

Good to hear from another NES head!

ShooterSF

The Texet version of the 2600 with 120 odd built in games but the Nes and Megadrive was where I became a true gamer as such. Mario, Zelda, Calafornia games (hackey sack king) followed by Golden Axe and Up-c down-c left-c right-c start and A code for a certain game (The oldest cheat code I still remember)

Duiske

Ponster wrote: »

Atari 2600

Same here, and still have it. Come to think of it, it must be 30yrs since I got it.

m3llowship

ShooterSF wrote: »

The Texet version of the 2600 with 120 odd built in games but the Nes and Megadrive was where I became a true gamer as such. Mario, Zelda, Calafornia games (hackey sack king) followed by Golden Axe and Up-c down-c left-c right-c start and A code for a certain game (The oldest cheat code I still remember)

Sorry to be quoting and posting so much on my own thread but this is important!

I have the Up-c down-c left-c right-c start on a tshirt and it says "never forget" under it. Fantastic.

California games ruled man, trying to hit the bird with the hackysac, and how freaking hard it was to catch the frisbee. Also, I dont think I ever managed to complete the rollerblade part?

Kiera

C64 + NES. Good times were had with these

m3llowship

m3llowship wrote: »

I always remember there being something kinda strange and sinister about the look and music of Marbel Madness.

Everything you know is wrong!

Killme00

Kiera wrote: »

C64 + NES. Good times were had with these

Yeah C64 in my day too. Couldnt afford one though...booo hoo. Used to play 1941 in a mates house, rich bastard!!

:pac::pac:

rwilson_ie

I'm going a little further back - didn't start with a console but with the ZX81 ! - if you remember, it only had 1k RAM - for all you young folk out there - yes, I said 1k, not 1Gb or 1Mb - just 1k !!! But then I got a RAM pack which brought it up to 16k A year or two later, I progressed to a ZX Spectrum and then on to the Commodore Amiga.

Didn't play many games for years then until i got an Xbox, which just sat there (were in my drinking & women days, so had no time to play (with the xbox, not the women ).

So, then got the PS3 on the first day and because I'm now married with two young kids, I'm still getting no time to play it

Rob

Blowfish

Couldn't afford a console, but did manage to scrounge an original IBM PC from my Dad's work. In retrospect it was a good thing, I learnt a heck of a lot from it.

Davidius

SNES.

Holsten

Sega Megadrive.

And the Amiga.

mike65

The console of my mothers tit.

Biggins

My console was called a pencil.

m3llowship

Karsini wrote: »

Everything you know is wrong!

Incredible

So incredible in fact I PMed you!

Dubh Geannain

Had an Amstrad CPC 6128. My favourite games were Fruity Frank, Roland in Time and World Cup.

It's still knocking around at home. Tried to fire it up a few years ago but it's not reading the floppy disks any more

Edit: Not a console I know but it was as good as

biko

First game: Dungeon Master on Amiga
Still one of the best games ever

ShooterSF

Damn it this thread has me digging up my emulators again!

Mossy Monk

Although not a console the C64 followed by the Sega Megadrive.

Voodu Child

Apple IIe, but my first console was an Atari 2600. It was UNDER 50 BUCKS!!

And then a NES and then a SNES. Every console after the SNES was crap, kids these days are morons, with their gay Metal Gears and Halo's, and terrible haircuts.

BigUnit

I'm old ireland.

Bread and Butter.

InkSlinger67

Atari 800XL -> Sega Megadrive -> Playstations 1 & 2 -> XBox 360 -> My Penis

monkeyfudge

I had a Commodore Vic-20.

Didn't have a tape deck for it... But the video game magazines would come with pages and pages of code for you to type in to play a game... so I'd use that.

They'd have cool illustrations of giant robots battling each other... but after hours of typing you'd find the robots were just letter 'H's throwing '@' signs at each other. And then you'd turn the computer off and it would all be gone.

Reganio 2

Raised on a Sega Megadrive myself, well I think I had one before that but don't remember it.

The Nes is the only reason to sign up to bebo by the way

Voodu Child

monkeyfudge wrote: »

But the video game magazines would come with pages and pages of code for you to type in to play a game... so I'd use that.

10 print "ASSFACE"
20 goto 10

Good times... :cool:

Azureus

nes and megadrive were the ones i loved most. . mainly the sega cuz it had my fave game ever-james pond!
had an atari from my older bros too, and a 3DO which nodody seems to remember??

Sarky

I cut my teeth on the Amiga as a child, setting me up for feeling smug and superior to the console kids for decades to come.

RandolphEsq

SNES was my console for about 5 years before I got a PS1.

Absolutely loved Mario All Stars, World Cup 94, Super Metroid, Donkey Kong and Super Smash Bros. Still have them all upstairs with the console!

That Super Metroid music, fantastic!

Sabre0001

"I'm a PC"

Sad but true...Got to experience consoles at friends houses but my first experience of owning one was a PS2 (when it was about to be made obsolete by the PS3 )

Ruu_Old

Sega Master System II->Sega Megadrive (we had to rent one from the video shop for a while). /me wanders off to play World Cup Italia '90.

Davidius

Sabre0001 wrote: »

"I'm a PC"

Sad but true...Got to experience consoles at friends houses but my first experience of owning one was a PS3 (when it was about to be made obsolete by the PS2 )

Fixed your post.

Reganio 2

Any of you managed to get this

- Pic

http://www.engadget.com/2007/12/15/wooden-snes-portable-is-the-greatest-thing-ever-devised-by-man/ - Short article and vid

Ass

Sega Master System

30txsbzmcu2k9w

Atari 2600
32 games on one cartridge? awesome stuff.

Then a Mega Drive which will forever be the greatest console IMO. None of this 'save game' sh1t, boss man at the end of the level, eating cooked chickens off the ground for power ups...ah good times indeed

JC 2K3

Sega Megadrive -> Playstation -> Dreamcast -> Xbox -> I don't really game anymore.

Dreamcast being the best console of them all. Now if they would just finish Shenmue 3...

nyarlothothep

Complete sega head here, xmas 94 was the 32x, wow, it was so amazing. I played Doom and was totally freaked out by it, two months later in February I got virtua racing deluxe, what an awesome game. Then in 96 it was the Sega Saturn, virtua cop completely blew me away, for the whole year I rented out such classics as Shinobi X, replete with oscar winning fmv scenes, worms, aliens, command and conquer, sega rally championship, nights, and quake which was terrifying and brown. I still have the saturn and occasionally play it.

Tarzan_man

Megadrive -> N64 -> PS1 -> Xbox

Loved sonic on the megadriven and banjo kazooie and zelda on N64. Abes oddesy on PS1 and few racing games and finally Halo on the Xbox. Love all those games to this day

30txsbzmcu2k9w

JC 2K3 wrote: »

Sega Megadrive -> Playstation -> Dreamcast -> Xbox -> I don't really game anymore.

Dreamcast being the best console of them all. Now if they would just finish Shenmue 3...

Actually i've just promoted the Dreamcast to best console now
Shenmue was just incredible.

WoollyRedHat

I had a box as my first console, it wasn't amazing, but it was mine and it had loads of colours on it so...

Valmont

Between my console and my friend's ones, we were all raised on a healthy mix of the Sega mega drive and the SNES. We had epic Street Fighter and Star Fox battles on the SNES and on the mega drive, it was long, long games of Streets of Rage and Golden Axe.

cherryghost

gameboy and mega drive

BaRcOe

NES All the way and I agree with OP 100%, LOVED them mario games, the whistle, the running to fly, the castle with the walls dropping every few seconds near the end be4 d boss, princess, trying to match 3 of d slides to make a picture..etc
Dam gud times!

I got these games on the wii, it just aint the same, rooting around for the big cartridges, giving it a blow as to make sure it will work and then slapping it in while flapping down d flap.:D

Oswald Osbourne

Commodore 64.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nfgdr4fOS8

Believe it or not but it was very exciting seeing this clip playing on xmas day many years ago.

m3llowship

BaRcOe wrote: »

the whistle, the running to fly, the castle with the walls dropping every few seconds near the end be4 d boss, princess, trying to match 3 of d slides to make a picture..etc

This thread is getting very thick with nostalgia! I love it!:D