You bleeders, post what computer/console systems you've owned in your life and what happened to them. I was thinking about it earlier, and I had quite a diverse range in my 21 year living period.
So, in chronological order, I've had...
Commodore 64 (somewhere in my loft) Had hundreds of cassette games for it, and a couple of cartridges.
Amiga 500 (sold) I loved Amigas, I started my graphics with Deluxe Paint and also my programming with AMOS.
Amiga 1200 (broken) A step up from the old A500, Mine didn't work too well so I kept getting pissed off with it and eventually stabbed it repeatedly with a screwdriver.
Gameboy (still got it somewhere) Tetris and Mario, enough said
BBC Computer (probably in loft) Just had this for homework and stuff, pretty shit system with green monitor.
Mega-Drive (exchanged for CD-32) I loved this, but there came a time to move on...
Amiga CD-32 (sold) I got this so I could connect to my A1200 as a CD-ROM drive
PC - Pentium 233 (hardly working/given away) It was cool at the time, but became outdated
Playstation (given to my mom and dad) Got this for my 16th birthday
PC - Athlon 1GHz (upgraded, some parts given away, some parts kept) Again, sweet at the time, but times change...
Gameboy Advance (still got it somewhere) Bought this while I was on holiday to keep me entertained in the tent
PC - Athlon 3200+ overclocked beast-machine (current system) I love this machine, no Doom 3 slowdown
Playstation 2 (current console) Bought this off eBay, purely for the Tekken games and Tony Hawk games.
Lets see...
Amstrad cpc (still have, just about works. But then they did come out in 1984)
Atari 2600 (dumped somewhere, but worked fine)
Megadrive (still have, but controllers are stuffed)
Playstation 1 (buggered laser, just works)
Psone x 2 (and one mini screen)
Playstation 2 (£180 plus a shit dvd + gta3)
Gamecube (got it on the cheap at argos for £79.99 + a game)
Gameboy (so old and scratched i binned it, the screen fell off and loads of lcd lines were missing)
Gameboy advance (old version)
Neogeo pocket colour (i got it in the small time they were available in the uk for £30)
Pcs
Some crap 533mhz thingy (really shit even for a 533mhz but my dad wont get rid of it, Seriously. The old Unreal tournament is like a slide show.)
Celron 2gig (mine but wasnt good with games)
Pentium 4 3gig (a beast, i got it to play half life two, a year ago... and for network gaming)
I still play most of my consoles from time to time despite having most of the games on emulators too, It just isnt the same playing them on a pc.
Nintendo (Mario, Smash TV, Blades of Steel, etc)
Super Nintendo (16-Bit RPGs and Metroid)
Nintendo Gamecube (Metroid Prime, sold it later)
Sega Genesis (Sonic, Gunstar Heroes, etc)
Sega Saturn (Nights, Virtua Cop, Panzar Dragoon)
Sega Dreamcast (Best Game Console of all time)
Microsoft XBox (Halo, JSRF, Live-enabled games)
Sony Playstation 2 (DDR, MGS2, PSone RPGs)
Computers
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Macintosh 512 (8MHz M68000, 512K ram, no HDD, black and white screen, sold it a long time ago)
Macintosh Classic (8MHz M68000, 4MB Ram, 40MB HDD, black and white screen, sold it)
Macintosh Performa 6116CD (60MHz PowerPC 601, 8MB Ram, 700MB hard disk, 14" monitor. upgraded to 240MHz PowerPC G3, 72MB Ram, Cd-burner, later sold it)
iMac (233MHz PowerPC G3, 64MB Ram, 4GB HDD, 15" monitor, 2mb video ram, piece of she-ite, sold it)
HP Pavilion 6330 (500MHz Celeron, 64MB Ram, 10GB HDD, 15" monitor, 2mb video ram. upgraded to 192mb Ram, 16MB 3Dfx Voodoo 3, still have it as secondary system)
Dell Deminsion 8200 (2.26 GHz Pentium 4, 512MB RDRAM, 80GB HDD, 17" monitor, dvd, cd-burner, 64MB GeForce 4 TI 4200. upgraded to 128MB ATI Radeon 9600XT, duel 17" monitors, planning to upgrade Ram when needed). My current system.
Macintosh- I don't really remember this that much... Tank and this one Snake clone was a good game for that.
Atari 2600- Jungle Hunt, Defender, Star Trek 2, and Buck Rogers were fun back in the day
Sega Genesis- Sonic 2, Eternal Champions, Hellfire, Rolling Thunder 2... good stuff.
Game Gear- James Pond 2 and Woody Pop was pretty much the only good game on that.
PC- Madden 2000, my collection of freeware games, Chaos Gate, Civilization III, The Sims, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2, and many other quality titles
Sega Dreamcast- Street Fighter 3: Third Strike and Power Stone 2 rock like no other. I only bought it a few months ago, and I still play it a lot.
well, I don't know much about the history of my computers. But I know we had too many problems with HP ones.
as for consoles:
Sega Genesis(x2):73|-| 133720|22!
Gameboy Pocket:*yawn*
Gameboy Color(x3):*yawn*
Gameboy Advance:*yawn*
Playstation(traded for GCN...why!?!): better than a gameboy, can't hold a candle to genesis
Nintendo 64:Is there such a thing as a good game for this? That has a worthwhile challenge to it.
GCN: why did this even exist!?!
XBoxitto that.
PS2(first one got broken by billybobjoe, second one died to disc read errors, hope the third one lasts ): best of the "nextgen" systems. But still fails to match the genesis(if you look at the games on that, there is no original game for anything after it)
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As a boy, I wanted to be a train. I didn’t realize this was unusual—that other kids played with trains, not as them.
Consoles:
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GameBoy - Good old tetris
NES - Ahhhh.....the memories, the days when games had a challenge.
SNES - Some of the best looking graphics, and the funnest games!
N64 - Had some great games this baby did, Banjo Kazooie, Mario Kart, Zelda, Goldeneye, Perfect Dark, Mario the list goes on.
GameBoy Colour - GameBoy.......but with colour....OMG
PS1 - Didnt play this much, only games i liked was Tekken 3 and the good old classic MOH!
GCN - I love this baby it has my favourite classics and brings back the memories of old skool gaming!
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Computers:
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???MHZ, Win95?????? - First family pc, this thing was awesome, used to always play keen, doom, wolf3d plus all the other DOS classics!
350MHZ, Win98, 128mb ram - 2nd Family PC, sharing it between 5 people was a bitch
2.6GHZ, WINXP, 768MB ram, DVD-+RWDL(8x), CD Burner(48x), 200GB HD, 128MB 9200 radeon - My current pc, its wicked, if you were a rapper itd be wizzicked!
i got my nes about a year before the snes came out but it didnt bother me none, i got a good 3 years out of it and moved onto snes then n64 then gamecube. got a gbc after my n64 i think, just to play tetris dx. besides nintendo ive owned a sega megadrive aka genisis a ps1 and now ps2.
Used to have a megadrive (great console), then playstation 1, then N64. All died/got put in to some dark cupboard/lost interest etc.
PCs I've personally owned: firstly, several years ago, an old 366mhz Cyrix or something crappy like that. Then a year or two after that, a 600mhz P3. Still using it today with no problems
Commodore 64
BBC Micro (I never saw it being used, ever)
Amiga 500 - and the hard drive/memory expansion for it
Amiga 1200 x 3, one of which is in a tower, another was given to us
Supervision - Think Game Boy SP, but about the same time as original Game Boy and with not very good games.
Game Gear, with a Master Convertor so you could play Master System games with ridiculously small text
Amiga CD-32 - got an SX-1 for this which let you connect keyboard & floppy to it. It predates the tower and therefore the CD-ROM drive it had
PC - Pentium 133. Cool at the time, it even played Tomb Raider reasonably well... on the low resolution mode.
Playstation - joint Christmas present. It had to be at that launch price!
PC - AMD K6/2 500MHz. My first own PC
Dreamcast
Playstation 2
My current PC (Duron 1.3GHz)
Gamecube
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in some form of order:
game boy
game boy color
p2 266 mhz (cost nearly £1000 back in the day!)
game boy advance
1 ghz athlon
playstation 2
my current PC, 2.53ghz
Spectrum ZX81
NES
Amiga 600
Sega Mega Drive
Gameboy (sold though)
N64
PS1
Gamecube
GBA
GBA SP
Gameboy and Gameboy Pocket (recently aquired )
*still have all consoles in full working order, minus the Spectrum
PCs!!!
not entirely sure; 486, 400mb hard drive, 16mb Ram
Pentium 2 233mhz, 4gb, 32mb Ram
Pentium 3 500mhz, 20gb, 256mb Ram
Pentium 4 2ghz, 80gb, 512mb Ram
IBM laptop, 1.3ghz Celeron, 30gb, 256mb Ram, 12" TFT. best laptop ive had
Gericom super laptop, 3.06ghz P4, 80gb, 512mb Ram, everything laptops can have at the moment heh. but its 15" making it harder to transport than my wee laptop
getting!
12" PowerBook, 1.33ghz G4, mobile Radeon 9700 etc...
(it's gone)Gameboy(the first one black/white)
(it's gone)Intel 386 Processor PC(dunno it's system)
(sold it for 25$)Playstation I
(this system sucks)P3-933 512MB ram 64mb gfx,etc(still owning but it broke down.)
^CONSOLES^
SNES/NES - (20 games or so)(Gunsmoke,Mario, DuckHunt*Oldschool, Link & Zelda Games
GB - (the big bulky grey one)
Sega Game Gear - (3 Carts)
Sega Mega Drive -(6 Carts *SF *Chuck D' Head *4got the others)
SONY PSX - (200+ GAMES)
GB Pocket - (Poke'mon )
GB ADVANCE (2 units *THPS3/THUG *N4SUn *BreatheF2 *Tekken Adv
^SYSTEM^
133mhx pc.. )
then a 200 MMX (broke it)
AMD k-6 (2) 500mhz 192 ram, Vodoo 3, Xwave Scard, 17.6gig Seagate HD
step Down) 230MMX 30mb ram, 8MB VGA, USB SOUNDCARD, 17.gig Seagate HD (From my AMD System)
p2 400mhz (overclocked to 530mhz COOL!) 192 ram nvidiaTNT2(32mVram) Xwave 17" Monitor=P
BBC Micro
Master System II
Game Gear
Mega Drive II
Playstation 1
Dreamcast (Best console I've ever owned)
Mega Drive (re-bought because I sold the previous one)
Saturn
Had many PCs over the years from a 486SX2 to my current system which is...
That orange console which had about 8 variations of Pong on it
Commodore 16
Commodore 64
Spectrum
Amiga 600
Master System
Game Gear
Mega Drive
Playstation
Gameboy
Gameboy Colour
Gameboy Advance
Nintendo 64
Dreamcast
Playstation 2
Gamecube
X-Box
Dreamcast
Playstation 2
PC - can't remember what type it was, had it about nine years ago
PC - Pentium 2 processor (sold to my brother for a very high price )
PC - Athlon 2400 (Current)
Nintendo
Sega Genesis
Sega Saturn
PS1
PS2
GameCube
GBC
GBA (Orignal GBA)
PC (Gateway, Windows 98SE, forget the rest of the specs.)
PC (eMachines, Windows XPSP2, Intel Extreme Graphics Controller Videocard with 64MB [shittest videocard I've seen in a loong time! Getting Radeon 9200 Christmas] Intel Celeron Processer CPU 2.50GHz, 512MB/RAM.)<Current Computer(No Comment)
I've decided I'll buy a new PC when one ten times faster than the one I have comes out. So if Moore's law stands maybe we'll have 6ghz here in 18 months, then I can buy a new PC.
Commodore 64
A gaming gem in its day, the only games on it that I remember the names of are Space Taxi and Usagi Yojimbo (or something like that... a kick arse game about a ninja rabbit). However, we had boxes and boxes full of discs, most of them with over 10 games on them. I think we sold it to my cousin, who as far as I know still has it buried in his shed somewhere.
Nintendo
The first Nintendo, which I think I got from my parents. I used to have the original Mario Brothers on it, as well as a few classics like Duck Hunt and Double Dragon. It's since broken down and now lives on the mantlepiece above my fireplace, like an altar to retro gaming. I've only ever sacrificed chickens in its honour once.
Super Nintendo
Probably the most used console I have, I currently own over 80 games for it and I'm still collecting, when I find places that sell second hand SNES games. I have some of the best games ever made on it, such as Killer Instinct, Zelda: A Link To The Past, and Super Metroid. I love this machine, it's been with me since I was 8 years old, if memory serves. My parents had it set up in my room for me as a surprise one day when I got home from school. It's still in use, placed lovingly beside my Xbox and GameCube, in a place it has definately earned.
Gameboy Colour
I got this for Christmas years ago with Gameboy Gallery 3, which I find surprisingly fun to play. Over the years I collected a few more games for it, mostly for the original Gameboy, but I don't use it any more since I bought a Gameboy Player for my GameCube. I think it's packed in a box somewhere, begging to be given away to an orphan. It's not going to be.
Atari Lynx
Way ahead of its time, it was "the original Gameboy Advance". By that I don't mean it was Nintendo's original model, I mean that even though it was around at the same time as the Gameboy Pocket (I think), it still had SNES style (and better!) graphics. We got this for Christmas, but barely any games came out for it and we eventually lost interest, plus I think it's broken now. We had Crystal Mines 2 (brilliant), Shadow Of The Beast (pretty cool), and some other crappy puzzle and platformer games (not really good at all). Rest in peace.
Nintendo 64
My best mate at the time gave me this, when his highly religious mother told him he couldn't use it because Zelda had magic in it. Not quite the machine I hoped for, I still had my fair share of gaming bliss on it with the likes of Starcraft 64, Holy Magic Century, Mario Kart 64, Super Smash Brothers, Mario 64, Zelda: Ocarina Of Time, Goldeneye, and Perfect Dark. It's still intact, hiding in the cupboards behind my SNES, Xbox and Cube. It's probably dusty with disuse now.
Xbox
My beloved Xbox, when I got it for my birthday, it was the first time I had owned a console that was 'current' at the time. When I owned a SNES, there was Nintendo 64. When I owned an N64, there were PS2's, etc. Anyway, I use this a fair bit and I've got about 15 games for it. They include Halo 2, Prince Of Persia, Full Spectrum Warrior, Worms 3D, Magic: The Gathering Battlegrounds, Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance, Manhunt, and Wrath Unleashed. When my mates are over, this is the beast we fire up. When I first got this machine, I went to sleep dreaming of playing Halo I was that stoked.
GameCube
As a big fan of Nintendo for most of my life, I had to buy this console. I was disappointed at first when I thought all the games were too childish, but now I love this console after savouring such games as Metroid Prime, Super Smash Brothers Melee, Zelda: Wind Waker, and Lost Kingdoms. I also have a Gameboy Player which lets me play Gameboy Advance games on it. The GBA games I play the most are Sword Of Mana, Final Fantasy Tactics, and Advance Wars 2. This is also the only gaming machine I own that I bought myself.
PC
Ever since PC's were first out we've had one, and at times we've had up to seven (between two houses and two families, though). Now each member of my family has one to their name (I have two, hehe... one for my Dad's house and one for my Mum's). PC's used to be my favourite to play games on, but I hardly use mine any more unless I'm klikking. I still use it to play RTS games and certain FPS games, but that's about it I think. Our PC's are around medium to low end in terms of specs (the high spec ones aren't mine), which is probably why I use my consoles so often instead.
Phew, that took longer than I thought. I'm in nostalgic mode now, thinking of all the SNES games that rocked my world. If you would excuse me, I might go arc it up. Killer Instinct, anyone?
Gameboy (still working)
Pentium 90 (still working)
SNES (broke down after 6 years or so)
PSX (sold to my little bro, and he sold it again after 2 years to some retard for a higher price)
Pentium 3 500 (broke down, I won't tell why cuz its too stupid)
GBA (still working, just bought the Minish cap for it)
N64 (stolen from my little bro, still working, but the gamepad is crappy)
Pentium 4 2400 (the one I am using now)
SNES again (still working)
A little story as to how i got my gameboy, When i was on work experience at school i choose Argos (which was as boring as hell but they had about four different choices left at that point) One of the kids i was working with offered my a gameboy, marioland 1 and a battery pack for a tenner. Now that was a bargain there but i was broke, so i swapped it for a copy of Onside soccer for the psone. That game is SO shit i nearly cried when i played it but he liked it. Twat.
Still one of my friends found a pocket gameboy and pokemon blue cartridge on the FLOOR at a park so he is luckier than me.
i almost sold my GB and all my games just so i could get a Gameboy Colour and Pokemon Silver but i didnt... and the other night, when Yassar Arafat died; I CAUGHT MEWTWO! on FireRed, with an ultraball
You sold your NES and SNES
Lol Jay, I racked up so many hours on my Pokemon Yellow. That game kicked ass, i got like 5 Pokemon on lvl 100....ahh those were the days.
ive spent 48 hours on Ruby and 44 on FireRed. ive never used cheats but ive managed to snag myself a latias(or was it latios?) and ive got a rare colour Loudred nothing near your levels though my highest level is Raquaza at 74
I spent over 100 hours on Yellow. I tried playing Gold/Silver/Crystal but I couldn't really get into it... just as well, since it means more time playing stuff like SOCOM 2
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): best of the "nextgen" systems. But still fails to match the genesis
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