What did you ACTUALLY have? (late 80s/early 90s)

Atari 2600 then onto an Amstrad CPC 464 ;-)

Atari2600 , then onto Megadrive.
Bought a Megadrive with my communion money through the Buy'n'Sell back in the day. Musta been around 1992 ?
I remember mine being different to my friends...as mine was bigger (musta been the original) and the ones they got the following year or so had red buttons or something on the front whereas mine had white I think.
My friends had NES and SNES, so we would often swap consoles and games for a week or so.

The same thing continued on with the swapping consoles throughout the PS1/PS2 - N64/Gamecube generations.

Just google it...

I had the above, they had the below.
Dunno the versions or difference

Is that poll a little misleading?

As in, I’d a mega drive and an MsDos ‘gaming pc’

Voting for both splits reduces both of them as a percentage (if the percentage is supposed to indicate something)

quad_red wrote: »

Is that poll a little misleading?

As in, I’d a mega drive and an MsDos ‘gaming pc’

Voting for both splits reduces both of them as a percentage (of the per cent age is supposed to indicate something)

Yeah I voted for multiple ones, platforms I actually played on. Was it meant to be 'first gaming platform'?

Zx48k , Zx128K , 1040st , Master system , Megadrive , SNES , Gameboy , Gamegear , Lynx , PS 1 ,2, 3 , 4 , Xbox , X360 , XBone

I remember as a young kid staying with my grandparents for the summer, I got really bored one day and started rooting around in their old wardrobe. Suddenly, I find a box of something. I pull it out, a complete Atari 2600. Belonged to my uncle who had recently moved out. Like mint everything in box. Took it out and played Yar's Revenge and Pac Man all summer. Amazing.

At that time I was gaming on friends' NES and Master Systems. I only had a Gameboy. Then I remember my Mom agreeing to get me a Megadrive. But I remember we could only afford to pay it off in installments. We used to go in every Friday and pay off a few pound. After what seemed like forever, Sonic was finally mine. I don't think I've ever been so excited as the day I got that Sega.

Ever since that day I've paid for my own machines and I'll be a gamer until my death bed.

Pong machine initially, then we had a few Atari 2600s (they really don't like liquid). Had a long loan of a NES, then got a SNES, PS1, PS2, PS3, Xbox 360, gaming pc and now PS4. I'll always remember the moment I got the SNES and PS1, very few memories have stuck with me like that. Gamer4Lyfe or whatever the cool kids these days say.

I grew up in Eastern europe and gaming there was a bit of a mess. We never had official Nintendo support there.

So we all started out with "Zilitonas", which was just a hacked famicon in different shells. We would still go to market places to buy pirated versions of games. Majority were not even in English and something more rare was extremely hard to come by. For example I never even knew there was Mario 2 until I moved here.
After that if you were lucky, you would get Sega Mega Drive 2. Again, unofficial and hacked, but we bought games in same shops. At some point we sow official Sega shop in Capital city, but it did not lasted long. Proper Sega costed as much as 3 months wages. Games were not much different.
And then PlayStation came out. Hacked of course. Was so expensive, that we would only play in these "gaming places", which were just a basement with few Tvs, PlayStations and chairs. Payed hourly to play it. Only very rich kids could afford to have one themselves. After good few years I finally got my own and played the **** out of it. Again, a lot of asian versions of games. You were lucky to get English one or Russian hacked translated. For example I played Parasite eve 2 in Japanese up until a safe in that desert town place and had to quit. Just, because I had no clue what to do and couldn't read where to go next, obviously. And thats just one game. A lot of them we actually finished without having a clue what is written in a whole game. :pac:

Only sow one Snes in my whole life until I moved here at 19. It was never officially available and never sow one hacked. The only one that I sow was at my class mates house, whos parents were very rich. Dont know what his father did, but he went to Germany on regular bases.

I can still remember my first gaming experiences to this day.

I never experienced home console gaming, rather my experience of gaming came from an arcade, in small town West Ireland, that had like 4 machines. One of which was Street Fighter 2.

I'll never forget my cousin telling me he had this game at home, on his Super Nintendo. I hadn't a clue what a SNES was. Getting to play that in his house was pure magic.

Later on, my dad borrowed a Sega Master System from a friend, and he only had Duck Hunt and Sonic. When we finally got our own console, it was a Mega Drive (2nd gen). I never thought gaming could get much better than that. Sonic 3 (& Knuckles) was my favorite, I played it to death. I think the Mega Drive may be buried in my parents attic somewhere

gerrybbadd wrote: »

I never experienced home console gaming, rather my experience of gaming came from an arcade, in small town West Ireland

There has been what, like 2 or 3 generations of kids now that have never experienced the arcade? And that's really unfortunate.

I used to often go into the arcade on the Lahinch promenade. McDonald's wasn't it? My parents would be out walking the beach and I'd be inside playing Terminator 2 or something :pac:

Arcade should totally be an option in the poll.

NES, Megadrive, PS1,2, Xbox, Ps3, Nintendo Wii, Xbox360, ps4.

Gameboy, GBA, Gamegear, Various DS

Mulling over the switch but I am not gaming really anymore.

Erm....probably something like:

Atari 2600 -> Amastrad CPC 464+ -> Master System -> Mega Drive II -> Saturn + PS1 + N64 -> Dreamcast + PS2 + Gamecube -> Xbox 360 + PS3 -> WiiU + PS4 + Switch

Also a Gameboy, GBA, DS and 3DS in there somewhere, and a PSP late in its life. Started onto PCs at about 2000.