Re: Your Console Journey
Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2018 6:34 pm
ZX Spectrum - My dad bought this when I was just 4 I didn’t get into it until I was about 5.
Atari 2600 - My dad bought this from a car boot sale in 1985 with about 20 games for £5 (which is about £765 today). I enjoyed this a lot but much preferred the Speccy.
BBC Micro - Again something my dad bought under the pretence of “work” but we played loads on this, Elite was the game that really got me into gaming.
NES - My dad bought this in early 1987, I’ve searched high and low for a UK release date but can only find the European release in 1986 but we didn’t get it the same time as them, we were later. My dad maintained it was the first day it came out, sadly I never asked him the date before he died
Mega Drive - When my parents split up in 1990 my dad bought a Mega Drive as a way to make coming to his and the new woman in his life more bearable.
Amiga - Got this for my 12th birthday joint present from my parents under the pretence of “school”.
SNES - I asked my dad for this but he said wait until Christmas so I asked mum and said dad was going to get it so she bought it for me about a month after launch as they were sold out in my area.
Saturn - I chose this on the strength of Daytona in the arcade. Of course as soon as I saw Ridge Racer at a mate’s house I realised the Saturn was a bit gooseberry fool, still loved the system and it’s one of my favourites.
N64 - This I was super hyped for, like never before, sadly a few good games and that was it for the shittest Nintendo platform.
PlayStation - Bought this early 1997, didn’t really warm to it until later that year with WipEout 2097, Castlevania SOTN and Final Fantasy VII, with the bad taste of N64 still in my mouth and the death of my beloved Saturn the PlayStation was the main system for me that gen.
Dreamcast - What a library and what a strawberry floating awful controller. But again like Saturn has a big place in my heart.
PlayStation 2 - Bought at launch but couldn’t get a memory card for a few months, so it was just a glorified PS1 for a while. But slowly became my favourite console ever.
GameCube - Now this was an amazing system with some of my favourite Nintendo games ever. That handle
Xbox 360 - Got an arcade and a hard drive at launch and loved this thing for three years until avatards appeared.
Wii - Took a while to win me over but when it did, it was magical.
PS3 - Didn’t really like the hardware but loved the exclusives.
PS4 - Bought at launch and over time it’s probably got my favourite library of games, I’ve never bought so many games but I guess going single platform for the first time would do that.
I bought a Wii U and Switch but they are basically for the kids.
Edit: gooseberry fool forgot my portables
Atari 2600 - My dad bought this from a car boot sale in 1985 with about 20 games for £5 (which is about £765 today). I enjoyed this a lot but much preferred the Speccy.
BBC Micro - Again something my dad bought under the pretence of “work” but we played loads on this, Elite was the game that really got me into gaming.
NES - My dad bought this in early 1987, I’ve searched high and low for a UK release date but can only find the European release in 1986 but we didn’t get it the same time as them, we were later. My dad maintained it was the first day it came out, sadly I never asked him the date before he died
Mega Drive - When my parents split up in 1990 my dad bought a Mega Drive as a way to make coming to his and the new woman in his life more bearable.
Amiga - Got this for my 12th birthday joint present from my parents under the pretence of “school”.
SNES - I asked my dad for this but he said wait until Christmas so I asked mum and said dad was going to get it so she bought it for me about a month after launch as they were sold out in my area.
Saturn - I chose this on the strength of Daytona in the arcade. Of course as soon as I saw Ridge Racer at a mate’s house I realised the Saturn was a bit gooseberry fool, still loved the system and it’s one of my favourites.
N64 - This I was super hyped for, like never before, sadly a few good games and that was it for the shittest Nintendo platform.
PlayStation - Bought this early 1997, didn’t really warm to it until later that year with WipEout 2097, Castlevania SOTN and Final Fantasy VII, with the bad taste of N64 still in my mouth and the death of my beloved Saturn the PlayStation was the main system for me that gen.
Dreamcast - What a library and what a strawberry floating awful controller. But again like Saturn has a big place in my heart.
PlayStation 2 - Bought at launch but couldn’t get a memory card for a few months, so it was just a glorified PS1 for a while. But slowly became my favourite console ever.
GameCube - Now this was an amazing system with some of my favourite Nintendo games ever. That handle
Xbox 360 - Got an arcade and a hard drive at launch and loved this thing for three years until avatards appeared.
Wii - Took a while to win me over but when it did, it was magical.
PS3 - Didn’t really like the hardware but loved the exclusives.
PS4 - Bought at launch and over time it’s probably got my favourite library of games, I’ve never bought so many games but I guess going single platform for the first time would do that.
I bought a Wii U and Switch but they are basically for the kids.
Edit: gooseberry fool forgot my portables