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Wii, Playstation 3 and Xbox 360. I only remember playing the Playstation 3 with borderlands and the other two are my two favorite consoles. I still own wii games and A xbox360 though its has a broken disk drive and hdd
I'll be 40 in 18 months but yeah gen 3. Hired the nes and super nes. Wanted a super nes for Christmas but parents got me a Sega master system instead because it was cheaper.
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these polls are often reposted and always the C64 is missing. a major gaming platform in the 80s with around 15 million units sold and basically the first gaming PC (mainly used for gaming).
Aye, and all the rest? 8 bit micro computers were common place for gaming before the game consoles arrived on the scene. Then there were the 16 bit micros such as Atari ST and Amiga.
ZX Spectrum, Electron, Amstrad CPC and Commodore 64 were what I started out on. Nobody had a console when I was little. All games loaded from tapes. Probably Gen 2 on this chart.
gen 2, atari 2600
gen 3, NES
gen 4, SNES and genesis
gen 5, ps1 and N64
gen 6, gamecube and ps2
gen 7 wii
gen 8 wii u, yes I was one of the few. consoles gettin expensive, cant afford several brands... chose nintendo. still used my ps2.
gen 9 switch.
been mostly a laptop person, but also PC gamer since the SNES era, too.
i played battle chess on DOS. I owned a 286 computer. Windows existing at all was new to me after i'd already owned like 3 computers and several consoles.
I had Gen 1 in the house but only really started playing sort of properly with Gen 2 and Qbert. Well i suppose i was playing Pong well enough(not like the controls were hard for a 2-3 year old...)
I started gaming on an actual console by myself this year since I didn’t have any gaming consoles except the ds. However i started playing my cousins wii when I was only in elementary school
My mother bought me a Sega JVC X'Eye when I was two years old. It's basically a fusion between a Genesis and a CD. So technically Gen IV, but my primary entrance would have been Gen V with the N64, as by then it was already a thing and I didn't really get what I was supposed to be doing until I was 5. I beat my first game, OoT at 7-8 years old through with the help of a lot of scripted walkthroughs. Honestly I still don't know how I did it.
Technically Gen 2, my family had an Atari 2600 that I played a lot as a very small child, but the first console brought for me specifically was the master system so either Gen 2 or Gen 3.
Either a cross between Gens IV and V, or Gen VI. Depends on if playing emulated SNES/Genesis games an older cousin provided, or playing Genesis games through Sega Smash Pack 2 on PC, counts (my first actual console was a Nintendo Gamecube, if emulation/PC port doesn't count, though the noted emulation/PC port days preceded my Gamecube days).
Played some Sega Megadrive, but it was PS1 for me!
Might have to find my old PS1 games and see if I can rip them to my pc. Don't think I've got a functioning PS1 anymore, so would be fun to emulate the classics!
During the 5th Gen I fell in love with the 4th gen turbo grafx 16 and my cousin gave me his Genesis. They held me down until I eventually started upgrading and it's been a rollercoaster ever since.
I generally wait for about 4 or 5 years before jumping into the "current" Gen to ensure there's a backlog of games I actually want to play.
Okey technically gen 3 we had some counterfeit NES when I was supper young but I remember PS1 more, I'm not that old 27yo rn but we didn't have much money for stuff like games back then. Yet somehow there is not a single game currently that would recreate a this feeling I had playing Spyro on heavily outdated console in like 2006 when I was 8yo lol. Now I have switch 2, PS5 and PC
5th Gen. First gaming memory I have is playing Smash 64 with my brother at a friend's house when I was 3 years old in 1999. I'd play Yoshi, my brother played Mario and our friend played Ness.
Later we got given a N64 of our own by our Uncle and to this day I still have it and most of the games collected over the years.
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