Your gaming history

[johnph]

First game ever played:
Grand Prix 2 on PC

First system ever owned:
Playstation

First Game on owned system:
Gran Turismo

First System bought with pocket money:
N/A

First game bought for pocket money system:
N/A

First system bought with earned money:
Playstation 3

First game bought for earned money system:
Formula One Championship Edition

Favourite game on sub 6th generation system (pre dreamcast) :
Gran Turismo 2

Favourite game of all time:
ToCA Race Driver 3

System Ownership chronology:
Playstation
Playstation 2
Playstation 3
(If the X360 had more exclusives that appealed to me beyond Forza 2 then i'd have one of them as well)

In case you haven't guessed I like racing games.

[Jinx]

Youngsters - don't know they're born I tells ya.

First Game I played (other than the pong-football tv game thing) - Blasto on a Texas Ti 99/4 - not the later 4a.

[Steve_Evil]

First game ever played:
Probably something like Tic-Tac-Toe or Dig-Dug on my ancient 386 back when I were a nipper.

First system ever owned:
PC, then the master system started off my console days

First Game on owned system:
Alex Kidd!

First System bought with pocket money:
N/A

First game bought for pocket money system:
Another tough one, possibly Commando on the Master System.

First system bought with earned money:
Nintendo 64

First game bought for earned money system:
Something for the Saturn... No idea what though.

Favourite game on sub 6th generation system (pre dreamcast) :
Zelda: Ocarina of Time.

Favourite game of all time:
Toss up between San Andreas and Oblivion

System Ownership chronology:
PC
Master System
Mega Drive
Saturn
N64
Gameboy Colour
Playstation
Dreamcast
Playstation 2
Gameboy Advance
Gamecube
Xbox
PSP
Nintendo DS
Xbox 360
Wii
Playstation 3

(And I still have them all)

[big_treacle]

Systems owned & a kind of rough year guess...
1982 Acorn Electron 32k!!!! Niiiiiiice
1987 Commodore 64 (upgraded that with a floppy disk drive!)
1990 Commodore Amiga
1995 PC - Intel Pentium(1) 75mhz
1997 PS1
2000 PC - Intel Pentium 3 667mhz
2001 PS2
2003 PC - AMD 2600
2004 PC - AMD 3200
2004 small PS2
2004 Atari 2600 its a lot sh1tter than I remember!
2005 Laptop - Intel P4
2006 PC - AMD X2 4400

Not sure on games but there's been a few! Until I had the cash to pay for my own kit, I always seemed to have a slightly outdated games system! luckily most of my friends were more spoilt so i just used theirs instead

Edited by big_treacle on Thursday 29th March 16:01

[mr_yogi]

First Game - Jet Set Willy, Spyhunter & Warlock of Firetop Mountain on the Spectrum

Systems - Fav Games
===================
Amiga 500/ 1200 - Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix/ Lemmings/ Bubble n Squeak/ Flashback

PC 486DX - TFX/ Doom/ X-Wing/ Tie Fighter/ Dark Forces

3DO - Need For Speed/ StarFighter/ Space Hulk

PS (x2) - Wipeout (linkup)/ RR Revolution (linkup)/ Doom (linkup)/ GT 1&2 / ISS Series

PC P2@550 /w 2xVoodoo2 - Unreal/ Quake2/ Colin McRae Rally/ TOCA 2/ X-Wing Alliance

PS2 - GT 3&4/ PES Series/ GTA Series

PC Athlon C & XP /w GF2 Ultra - Quake 3/ C&C TS/ Counter Strike

PC Athlon 64/ Core2Duo /w R9700Pro/ GF7950GX2 - HL2/ C&C Generals/ Supreme Commander/ FEAR/ rFactor / GTL

I'm sure I've left out loads of great games

[signia]

big_treacle said:

Systems owned & a kind of rough year guess...
1982 Acorn Electron 32k!!!! Niiiiiiice

Strictly speaking the first game I played was one of those handheld Binatone things with pong, tennis etc - all looked the same.

But the electron was my first computer too. Got it when I was 3 or 4 - can't remember. Fortunate my dad bought one for me even though he can't use a computer.
He figured it would help me learn, so the first game I got was Mr Men Had all the classics, chuckie egg, repton etc.

Didn't go down the C64/Speccy route. I got an Amiga in about 91/92 maybe? Then came Lemmings, Lotus Turbo Challenge (1, 2 and 3). Mainly driving games and a few flight sims.

Got a 486DX266 in 94ish running Win3.1 with free upgrade to 95 on launch. That was good - I learned everything I know about PCs and software now after many nights screaming at the PC because of experimenting and user error. One time drivespace crashed half way through and had to rebuild from an MSDos boot disk! I was proud
The motherboard failed within warranty. So Gateway upgraded it to a P75, which I later had MMX overdriven to 180 and added in a 3DFX card (remember those?!)
An AMD 850 replaced that, running WinME in 2000.
That was replaced with a custom build AMD64 3400 in 2005 which I'm still using now. Needs a rebuild!

Had a plethora of laptops over the years too. Currently a very slow K series Vaio.
Also picked up a BBC Model B and a BBC Master with loads of software - currently in parents' loft. As well as an old HP green touch screen device my old school was throwing away - never got it working properly though.

Games consoles - started with a Master System 2 in 1994 I think. Sold that because it was boring compared to the PC games.
Got a PS2 in 2001 and the PS3 last friday!
Ah such fun!

[tim2100]

First game played - Probably jet set willy on Sinclar ZX128
First machine - Commodore 64
Then
Sega Megadrive
Sega MegaCD
Nintendo 64
Playstation x 3
Playstation2 x 2
XBOX
Xbox360
Nintendo Wii

Numerous Games along the way + PC's games on 286 onwards

Edited by tim2100 on Thursday 29th March 23:02

[Rob P]

ZX128
NES
PC 486 (DX of course, with turbo button)
Megadrive
SNES
N64
Playstation
PC (Intel P2 I think)
Playstation 2
Xbox
Back to a Playstation 2
PC (beast!)
Nintendo Wii
Xbox 360 (as of yesterday)

[rebelstar]

I'm going to have to do some research in my loft to do this properly, but here goes.

First game played on my own system: Gulp! on the ZX81.

Went down the path of Spectrum 48k, +2.
Any number of games on the University Sequent Symmetry machine (or telnetting into other machines). Examples: lpMud, Empire and for the graphically adventurous, XPilot.
Back Atari ST, Atari Falcon, Atari Jaguar.
A couple of Gameboys of different types.
Finally bought a PC (486, ran Linux... so same as the uni machine really). Continual succession of PCs.
Eventually PS, Saturn, PS2, XBox and finally Wii.

[forthright MC]

i've still got my original 16 bit Megadrive in the loft somewhere!
that was the first console i remember having and the first game i played was the original Sonic platform. used to spend hours in front of the thing!
i was then given a PS1, Tomb Raider was the first game i played on that and my favourite game on it has to be the original grand theft auto. i still remember the first time i played it, a truly groundbreaking game IMO. (i liked GTA2 quite a bit too!)
my playstation eventually broke and i waited ages to get hold of a PS2, which i still have now. the first game i played on that was GTA3, theres been so many great titles come out over the years , its hard for me to pick a favourite one but for sheer gaming enjoyment Vice City or The Warriors are pretty hard to beat IMO! (you can probably tell i've got a thing for the GTA games!)
the only new things i've needed for my PS2 are 3 handsets and a handset cable extension.
i can't quite justify a PS3 yet, so my PS2 will have to do me for a little while yet!

[qube_TA]

First game ever played:
Pong on Binatone thingy

First system ever owned:
The Binatone thingy

First Game on owned system:
Pong (built in)

First System bought with pocket money:
N/A

First game bought for pocket money system:
N/A

First system bought with earned money:
Amiga 500

First game bought for earned money system:
Shadow Of The Beast

Favourite game on sub 6th generation system (pre dreamcast) :
Turrican 2

Favourite game of all time:
Turrican 2

System Ownership chronology:
Binatone
CBS Colecovision
Commodore VIC 20
Commodore 64
Loads of Grandstand/Tomy/CGL electronic games like Astro Wars n such, still awesome!
Commodore 128
Atari 520STFM
Commodore Amiga 500
Sega Genesis
Commodore Amiga 2000
Commodore Amiga 1200
PCEngine
Nintendo SNES
PC (evolved from a 468 DX to current AM2 Athlon)
Sega GameGear
Atari Lynx
Playstation 1
Dreamcast
Nintendo N64
Nintendo GameBoy
Nintendo GameBoy Advance
Nintendo GameBoy DS
Sony Playstation 2
JAMMA Arcade Cabinet running modified Xbox with MAME
Microsoft Xbox
Nintendo GameCube
Microsoft Xbox 360
Nintendo Wii
Laptop

Think that's everything.

Oh I got given a boxed Matel Aquarius a few years back, still in it's box.

Edited by qube_TA on Thursday 29th March 20:25

[nick heppinstall]

Phew ! Far too much to remember !! But I started viseo gaming in around 1977 .....

[FourWheelDrift]

First game ever played:
River Raid, although played many arcade machines before.

First system ever owned:
Atari VCS

First Game on owned system:
River Raid (VCS came with Pacman which I have never liked or played much ever)

First System bought with pocket money:
Atari VCS

First game bought for pocket money system:
Star Raiders

First system bought with earned money:
PC

First game bought for earned money system:
Geoff Crammonds Grand Prix

Favourite game on sub 6th generation system (pre dreamcast) :
Eh?........

Favourite game of all time:
rFactor

System Ownership chronology:
Atari VCS
Commodore Vic20
Amiga 500+
PC Pentium 60
PC Pentium 120
PC Pentium 300 (bought as a top of the range system when they cost £3000)
PC AMD 2400+ plus many upgrades.
(still own all of the above)

[mr_yogi]

qube_TA said:

Turrican 2

Forgot about that game, absolutley loved it. Great music too

[qube_TA]

mr_yogi said:

qube_TA said:

Turrican 2

Forgot about that game, absolutley loved it. Great music too

I bought the soundtrack CD

www.huelsbeck.com/cdinfo.html

[fidgits]

First game ever played:
Either Pong or Breakout - very long time ago

First system ever owned:
Atari 2600

First Game on owned system:
Again, Pong or Breakout

Favourite game on sub 6th generation system (pre dreamcast) :
Probably GT2

Favourite game of all time:
:sucksteeth: going to have to go for Gran Turisimo 3..

System Ownership chronology:
Atari 2600
Atari 2800
Sega Game Boy
Sega Megadrive
Playstation
playstation 2
Xbox 360

[[k]arl]

First game ever played = Ghostbusters (C64)

First system owned = Commodore 64
First games on owned system = Ghostbusters, Infiltrator, The Last Ninja 2, Project Stealth Fighter, Turrican

First system bought with pocket money = Sinclair 8086-based PC with dual high-density FDDs
First games for pocket money system = Silent Service, Ski or Die

First system with earned income = AMD K6-2 500, GeForce3 Ultra, 1Gb RAM, SoundBlaster AWE32
First game for earned money system = can't remember!

Current system = watercooled Athlon FX-57, 2Gb RAM, 2 x watercooled GeForce 7800GTX in SLI, SoundBlaster X-Fi

Next system (currently under construction) = watercooled QX6700, watercooled EVGA 680i, 4Gb RAM, 2 x watercooled GeForce 8800GTX in SLI, SoundBlaster X-Fi

Favourite game of all time = Deus Ex (PC)
Favourite sub-6th gen game = Doom (early PC) or The Last Ninja 2 (8-bit)

System ownership chronology (initial spec before upgrades) =
Commodore VIC20
Commodore 64
Commodore 64C
Sinclair 8086-based PC
Whitebox 486 DX2 66
Selfbuilt K6-2 500
Selfbuilt Athlon XP 2600
Selfbuilt Athlon 64 FX57
Currently building Intel Quad-Core QX6700 Extreme

[k]

Edited by [k]arl on Friday 30th March 00:17

[ThePassenger]

First game ever played:
Zooom on the Spectrum 48k along with a multitude of Binatone, Tiger Electronics and Game n' Watch handhelds.

First system ever owned:
Spectrum 48k

First Game on owned system:
Trans AM

First System bought with pocket money:
Atari 2600

First game bought for pocket money system:
PacMan... just because.

First system bought with earned money:
Atari ST 520FM

First game bought for earned money system:
F-19 Stealth Fighter by Microprose

Favourite game on sub 6th generation system (pre dreamcast) :
M1 Tank Platoon by Microprose on Atari ST.

Favourite game of all time:
Command & Conquer: Red Alert

System Ownership chronology:
Spectrum 48k
Atari ST 520FM & Atari 2600 & Gameboy.
Beigebox 386sx33 (2mb RAM.. wooo....) & SNES
Beigebox 386dx40 (64mb RAM... jesus don't ask what I did to get that amount of RAM .. no boss server's just working hard).
Beigebox Pentium 166 (64mb RAM)
" " AMD K6-2 333 (128Mb RAM)
" " AMD Athlon Thunderbird 800 <--- Sarah gets a GeForce 4 Ti4200 here and goes a little nuts as you can see.
" " AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.2Ghz
Novatech/Mitac AMD64 3400 Laptop & GameCube
Dell XPS Gen 2
Dell XPS M1710 & Nintendo Wii


I don't generally do consoles as my main form of entertainment and prefer simulations/RTS to anything. I'm a slut for Gameboy Tetris and Zelda games though...

Edited by ThePassenger on Friday 30th March 00:41

[RobPhoboS]

I cant remember all of that !

You guys got photographic memories ?

[gt2man-2]

ZX81 - 3D Monster Maze / Catacombs
Electron - Blagger / Elite
Amiga - Elite Plus / Dungeon Master / Shadow of the Beast
Megadrive - Sonic / Jungle Strike
SNES - Super Mario Kart / Super Mario 3
PC - Eye of the Beholder / Indy 500
3DO - Need for Speed / Killing Time
PS - Toshinden / Ridge Racer
Saturn - Sega Rally
N64 - Mario64 / Pilotwings
PS2 - GT3