What's your gaming history?
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amazing how many machines you have had when you put them in one list. heres mine
ZX80
Intellivision
Vectrex
BBC Micro B
Atari 7800
Atari Lynx
Amiga 500+
Megadrive
SNES
Sega Saturn
PS1
N64
Sega Dreamcast
PS2
Xbox
PS2
Xbox360
Wii
PS3
PS4
My younger brother also had a 3D0 and a gameboy somewhere amongst that lot.
Standout games for me have been
BBC - Revs & Elite
Amiga - F1 GP, lotus & Kick Off Series
Megadrive - Virtua Racing, micro machines. FIFA
SNES - Mario Kart, Street Fighter 2
Saturn - Virtua Fighter 1 & 2, Sega Rally
PS1 - Ridge Racer, Tekken
N64 - Top Gear Rally, Cruisin USA
Dreamcast - Sega Rally 2. Virtua Fighter 3
PS2 - Gran Turismo 4, Pro Evolution Soccer
Xbox - Forza and Forza 2
PS3 - Call of Duty Series, Battlefield, Fifa series, heavy rain, GT5, F1 2012.
Xbox360 - Forza 4, Call of Duty Series
PS4 - too early to tell.
ZX80
Intellivision
Vectrex
BBC Micro B
Atari 7800
Atari Lynx
Amiga 500+
Megadrive
SNES
Sega Saturn
PS1
N64
Sega Dreamcast
PS2
Xbox
PS2
Xbox360
Wii
PS3
PS4
My younger brother also had a 3D0 and a gameboy somewhere amongst that lot.
Standout games for me have been
BBC - Revs & Elite
Amiga - F1 GP, lotus & Kick Off Series
Megadrive - Virtua Racing, micro machines. FIFA
SNES - Mario Kart, Street Fighter 2
Saturn - Virtua Fighter 1 & 2, Sega Rally
PS1 - Ridge Racer, Tekken
N64 - Top Gear Rally, Cruisin USA
Dreamcast - Sega Rally 2. Virtua Fighter 3
PS2 - Gran Turismo 4, Pro Evolution Soccer
Xbox - Forza and Forza 2
PS3 - Call of Duty Series, Battlefield, Fifa series, heavy rain, GT5, F1 2012.
Xbox360 - Forza 4, Call of Duty Series
PS4 - too early to tell.
late 70's - A single line Sinclair, given to me by a mate who was at British Steel and into the very first comps.
Commodore 64 until I got a Compaq PC
then I played about a million games of Wolfenstein... :roll:
Macs, starting with the "Beige Box"..
picked up a Wii when they came out , and an XBox360 later...
didn't play much, computer time was usually spent mucking about with Excel and Filemaker.
Don't game much at all, when I do I prefer first person shooter games mostly due to my real hobby....I've been shooting rifles, pistols and shotguns since I was 12 and I do pretty well with them.. :wink:
Commodore 64 until I got a Compaq PC
then I played about a million games of Wolfenstein... :roll:
Macs, starting with the "Beige Box"..
picked up a Wii when they came out , and an XBox360 later...
didn't play much, computer time was usually spent mucking about with Excel and Filemaker.
Don't game much at all, when I do I prefer first person shooter games mostly due to my real hobby....I've been shooting rifles, pistols and shotguns since I was 12 and I do pretty well with them.. :wink:
Donkey Kong - does that count?
Oh I was real good at Buggy boy, Lemmings and Tetris.
Oh I was real good at Buggy boy, Lemmings and Tetris.
Updated Oct 2025
1977 TVG 111 Still works
http://www.pong-picture-page.de/cat...ucts_id=418&osCsid=2etqi1e6hlr39k3kg4m9d866s0
1979 Compukit 101 8Kb Mem Tape Drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compukit_UK101
1982 Commodore 64 38Kb Mem & 1541 Flopy Drive
1987 Commodore Amiga 500 HD Expanded to 1Meg
1992 Amiga 1200 32Mb mem 1Gb HD 68030@50Mhz, Fliker Fixer, still used for Pacman & Alien Breed 3D II
1996 PC486 33Mhz Added AMD daughter board 133Mhz
1998 PC Intel PII 333 MHz
2000 PC AMD Athlon 800Mhz
2004 PCI ntel P4 3.2Mhz ,SIngle Core,Win 98, Lives behind mt chair in the lounge, still used it to play Duke Nuke Em & Settlers IV when the mood takes. Still gets used.
2007 PC Intel Core2 Quad 3.0 Mhz (Well it's a Q6600 running at 3.0 Mhz) On it's 3rd Graphics card.
2020 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz (3.19 GHz) Still using this one and it's still more than enough for modern games. As they need to run on a smart phone too.
1977 TVG 111 Still works
http://www.pong-picture-page.de/cat...ucts_id=418&osCsid=2etqi1e6hlr39k3kg4m9d866s01979 Compukit 101 8Kb Mem Tape Drive http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compukit_UK101
1982 Commodore 64 38Kb Mem & 1541 Flopy Drive
1987 Commodore Amiga 500 HD Expanded to 1Meg
1992 Amiga 1200 32Mb mem 1Gb HD 68030@50Mhz, Fliker Fixer, still used for Pacman & Alien Breed 3D II
1996 PC486 33Mhz Added AMD daughter board 133Mhz
1998 PC Intel PII 333 MHz
2000 PC AMD Athlon 800Mhz
2004 PCI ntel P4 3.2Mhz ,SIngle Core,Win 98, Lives behind mt chair in the lounge, still used it to play Duke Nuke Em & Settlers IV when the mood takes. Still gets used.
2007 PC Intel Core2 Quad 3.0 Mhz (Well it's a Q6600 running at 3.0 Mhz) On it's 3rd Graphics card.
2020 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-8700 CPU @ 3.20GHz (3.19 GHz) Still using this one and it's still more than enough for modern games. As they need to run on a smart phone too.
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Taz said:
+1 , never had any game console of any description
spent my youth on skatepark,s & BMX,s before "discovering" work at 16 , children followed at 21 & 24 along with 6/7 day week,s so spare time with virtual reality just never happened in my world . no regrets though Carol M said: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
I sensed there was something strange about you Carol ....
Woots said:
Too many to list (cannot be arsed )
But have been a Nintendo fanboy for many years
I was never allowed a games console (boo!) so my entry into gaming started with an Atari ST-FM, later upgraded to 1meg of ram using a solder in daughter board. It eventually made way for a PC in 1995 and was sold to the editors at ST format...
Wasted many hours play Elite, Frontier and carrier command.... Loved to freedom to explore, trade and a little piracy on the side.
PC building/gaming became quite a time and money sink right through to college. At one point I got quite good at Quake 2 and competed in weekly league matches, the invention of cable modems certainly didn't hurt
I dabbled a bit with extreme cooling and over locking the balls off hardware/voltage modding, suped up water cooling and using peltier effect made for some interesting if short lived rigs.
Thankfully cars and women came along nowadays I use a PS3 but seldom play games - more as a media player, quite fancy the ps4 mind
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Wasted many hours play Elite, Frontier and carrier command.... Loved to freedom to explore, trade and a little piracy on the side.
PC building/gaming became quite a time and money sink right through to college. At one point I got quite good at Quake 2 and competed in weekly league matches, the invention of cable modems certainly didn't hurt
I dabbled a bit with extreme cooling and over locking the balls off hardware/voltage modding, suped up water cooling and using peltier effect made for some interesting if short lived rigs.
Thankfully cars and women came along
nowadays I use a PS3 but seldom play games - more as a media player, quite fancy the ps4 mind Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Atari 800XL
Sega Game Gear
PC FOR YEARS
Playstation
PS2
PS3 Launch (then lunched/repaired/lunched itself again)
Wii
PSP-3000 (mainly for watching UK tele when away through internet/PS3)
PS3 ultra slim
PS4
The one I still have fond memories of is my original Atari, still have it somewhere, have to dig it out now!!
Sega Game Gear
PC FOR YEARS
Playstation
PS2
PS3 Launch (then lunched/repaired/lunched itself again)
Wii
PSP-3000 (mainly for watching UK tele when away through internet/PS3)
PS3 ultra slim
PS4
The one I still have fond memories of is my original Atari, still have it somewhere, have to dig it out now!!
teamemmenracing said:Carol M said: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
I sensed there was something strange about you Carol ....
why am I strange?