What's your gaming history?

inkey$

inkey$

Lifer
 Sevenoaks & Suffolk
Inspired by Carol M and Maniac (our resident 80's programmers), it got me thinking of how important computing and gaming has been in my life growing up. Yes it was incredibly geeky, no I didn't have really have any luck with girls in my early teens and yes it was pretty much my entire life during the 1980's and a nice distraction from worrying about potential thermo nuclear war.

Below is a timeline of the tech I've had up until present day (XBOX360). The only ones I've kept for posterity are the Gameboy's and the PS2. Tech marked in bold are the machines that I spent most time with and there are a few notable call outs on others.

The Gameboy I bought in 89 I had to sell a year later due to seeing Tetris blocks in my sleep (bought another one from eBay since). The Dreamcast lasted around 3 months. The Playstation I bought 'off the back of a lorry' in 96. The Playstation 3 worked until a week after the warranty ran out - then committed suicide. The Laser was something my father (Sinclair addict and official Treasurer to the UK Sinclair QL Club) gave me to practice BASIC. The Atari started it all off and the ZX81 had a 16k RAM pack which led me down the road of bedroom programming - spending hours typing code from Crash magazine only to find out the next month there were printing errors.

Anyway, here it is. What's your story?

 
I used to play on the pac man machines in pubs and we have a Wii that I've dabbled with.

Put me down as a non gamer....

Your line-up is pretty impressive :thumbsup:
 
Commodore 64 (which I've still got)

ZX Spectrum (ditto)

Spectrum 48K

Gameboy (still got)
Gameboy colour

SNES (with a game genie) still got

Playstation

GameCube (recently sold it)

PSP

Playstation 3

Nintendo wii

:thumbsup:
 
Spectrum 48k
Spectrum 128k +2
Spectrum 128k +3

(A huuuuge gap as I had a mate with all consoles/games under the sun!!!!)

PS1
PS3

XBox 360 (for sale with loads of extras if anyone wants one)

XBox One
 
spectrum 48k
spectrum 128k+
Commodore Amiga 500
Atari Lynx (handheld)
Colour Gameboy
SNES
PS1
PS3 (x2)
Xbox 360 (x3)

One console that I wanted but never could never afford was the Neo Geo
 
was i the only fool that invested in the atari jaguar!!!!! REMEBER that bad boi.....

also loved my amstrad cpc-464
 
Had a commodore c64
Saga hand held thing

Thats about it. Never owned a play station or anything similar. Quite strange for a guy my age!
 
In no particular order.....probably missed a few out.
Have also had many PC gaming rigs both pre and post Pentium.
Still have a lot of kit stored away that I'll never probably use again until I retire.

ZX81
COMMODORE VIC 20
GRANDSTAND ADMAN
ATARI VCS
ATARI 400
ATARI 800
COLECOVISION
SPECTRUM 48k (Rubber Keys)
ZX SPECTRUM +
COMMODORE 64
COMMODORE AMIGA 500
COMMODORE AMIGA 1200
COMMODORE AMIGA 1000
AMSTRAD CPC464
AMSTRAD 6128
ATARI 520 ST
ATARI 520STFM
ATARI LYNX
NINTENDO NES
NINTENDO SNES with SUPER UFO
NINTENDO 64 with DOCTOR Vc4
NINTENDO GAMEBOY
NINTENDO COLOUR GAMEBOY
NINTENDO GAMEBOY ADVANCE
NINTENDO GAMECUBE
NINTENDO DS
NINTENDO Wii
SEGA MASTER SYSTEM
SEGA MASTER SYSTEM II
SEGA MEGADRIVE
SEGA SATURN
SEGA DREAMCAST
SEGA GAMEGEAR
SONY PSP
SONY PLAYSTATION
SONY PS2
SONY PS3
XBOX
XBOX 360 (5 or 6)
XBOX ONE
 
Great thread!

My first was a Commodor with the cassette tapes (cant remember which now! i was only a wee chap)
Then i got an Amiga 500.. which i loved - even 6 disk games making me go from disk 1 to 6 to 3 in random orders!
Overlapped with my master system II (built in alex the kid)
Then my Atari Jaguar - which is where my console gaming ended and i got into PC gaming.
Fast forward 10 years and i get a Nintendo Wii... which brings back my love for consoles again.
Now have a PS3, Wii-U and PS4.

Beedub said:
was i the only fool that invested in the atari jaguar!!!!! REMEBER that bad boi.....
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Haha i got one too... £100 games... but was 64bit when all the other fools had 16 bit.... oh what a shame!
 
Commodore Amiga 500
Gameboy
Sega Game Gear
Atari Lynx
Sega Mega Drive 2
PC
Gameboy Colour
PS2
XBox
GBA
Xbox360
 
Ah man, memories! I just downloaded one of those SNES emulators, Zelda a link to the past, Mario Kart, Supermario all stars- those were the days!

Line up- Some old Amstrad, Master System, NES, Game Gear, Game boy, Mega Drive, Saturn, SNES, N64 with disc doctor, Dreamcast, PS, PS2, PSP, PS3- some i shared with my bro who went the Xbox route rather than PS.
 
Started on the original Pong tennis game that plugged into the TV!!

Then got distracted by outdoor type stuff for a few years then bought a SEGA Megadrive. Played Sonic the Hedgehog to death on that one!

Then it was Playstaion 1, Playstation 2, Sony PSP (first version that I still have) Playstaion 3 (first version that I still use after upgrading the hard drive to 500 GB!) and a Nintendo Wii that I still have but hardly use. Never fancied an XBox.

Been thinking of a Playstation 4 but can't really justify it as hardly have the time for the PS3 these days!
 
Great thread and some of you have spent huge amounts on consoles, where as I have spent a small fortune on self build and upgrading PC's which I tend to do every two years.

ZX81
BBC Micro - Elite (first proper game)
First PC Windows 95
PC Windows 98
PC Windows XP
PC Windows Vista
PS3
PC Windows 7, Intel i7, GTX 760 and 250 GB SSD/3TB HD

I dislike consoles immensely, and have never got on with the games on them, particularly the pad, apart from Gran Tourismo. Steam was a revelation, with games downloaded, which I've had for 8 years. To me buying a game on disc loading it onto the PS or XBox is stupid and antiquated.
 
Tennis game that plugged into the TV
Vic 20
spec 48k
Spec 128k
Commodore 64
Then spent most of my life in the arcades after school!
Sega Saturn
Sega dream cast
Playstation
Playstation 2
Playstation 3
Psp
Enjoy mame on my laptop a hell of a lot just love all the arcade conversions of out run, r type, Kung fu master, double dragon, ghost & goblins & so on.
 
Tries to remember so far back....

Sinclair ZX81 (first computer and first task was to program, in assembler, a way to make sound from it as it could't output sound. I managed this and it was published as a basis for others to write music programs on a purportedly soundless computer).

Oric Atmos

Amstrad CPC464

Texas Instruments TI44/9A with speech pack.

BBC Micro

Commodore C Plus 4

Commodore C16

Commodore Vic20

Commodore C64

Atari ST

Amiga 500/600HD/1200HD

Amstrad business computer 1640

An array of different PC's from 808x/286/386/486/Pentium and on.

An array of different Apple Mac computers/laptops from PowerPC through Intel.

Nintendo GameBoy

Sega MegaDrive

Sega MegaDrive CD

Sega MegaDrive portable

Sony PSP

Microsoft XBox

Nintendo Wii


There's probably a lot more but I have a headache...
 
Neo geo - blast from the past or what. Always wanted one also but the console and games were money back in the early 90s - for example 99 quid for a game!!!
 
sars said:
Great thread and some of you have spent huge amounts on consoles, where as I have spent a small fortune on self build and upgrading PC's which I tend to do every two years.

ZX81
BBC Micro - Elite (first proper game)
First PC Windows 95
PC Windows 98
PC Windows XP
PC Windows Vista
PS3
PC Windows 7, Intel i7, GTX 760 and 250 GB SSD/3TB HD

I dislike consoles immensely, and have never got on with the games on them, particularly the pad, apart from Gran Tourismo. Steam was a revelation, with games downloaded, which I've had for 8 years. To me buying a game on disc loading it onto the PS or XBox is stupid and antiquated.
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Same here but I had a Windows 3.1 PC aswell and I have never had a Playstation.

As for loading games! The BBC was bad but things improved on the first PC, well apart from Wing Commander 2 - 24 1.44Mb floppies copied to a 100Mb hard drive one at a time then leave it overnight to decompress and install!

Andi.
 
Binatone pong console
Handhelds (Scramble, AstroWars, SpaceInvaders)
Jupiter Ace :tumbleweed: (yes...I was the one that bought it)
Spectrum 16k
Amstrad CPC464
Amiga A500
Atari Lynx (almost forgot about that)
PC 486DX33
Playstation
PC Pentium 133
PC AMD 64bit something or the other
XBOX 360
PC Dell 7720 SE Core i7 3D

I was a back bedroom coder...wasted so many hours writing silly games but set me up nicely for my current job DirectX/Direct3D coder for video streaming and such like. I still on a day to day basis write code that isn't that far removed from what I was writing in the early 80's!
 
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