I'm the youngest of 3 boys and my brothers had an NES before I was born. The first system I got that wasn't already in the family was a red game boy pocket. I got it for my 7th birthday (1997) with Wario Land, Wave Race and Donkey Kong Land. I still have everything but Wave Race. (never really liked it) I remember going into Walmart to pick out the color i wanted and my brother was telling me I need to get the special ice edition. Looking back now I should have that gbp looks awesome.
NES for my 10th birthday back in 1990 (the classic two controllers/Zapper/Mario+Duck Hunt; why can't consoles now come fully loaded?)...Duck Hunt was the first game I played. A short time later used copies of Legend of Zelda, 10 Yard Fight, Baseball, Metroid were added. On my 11th birthday I got Super Mario Bros 3 (boy was I obsessed with that game, I did full playthroughs and the cartridge actually felt hot when I was done) and Super Mario Bros 2 the following Christmas (I think). Too bad I had to wait until Christmas 1994...but at least it was the Mario All-Stars+Mario World Super Nintendo Super Set where you get five complete Mario games standard!
Super nintendo for 6th birthday august 1992. Came with mario world.
I dont remember my game order. I remember getting dkc, mario kart, super bomberman, mario allstars, mario paint pretty early. Friend got me super star wars.
I rented alot of games during summer. Joe and mac a bunch. Loved dinosaurs
you got your snes around the time I was born August 12 1992
Man you missed the best era of kids tv ever. Early 90s nickelodeon was the shit!
but since you were born before june 94 your opinion is still valid.(you pass the jurassic park theorem)
man I didn't really watch Rockos or Ren and Stimpy back then but now they're some of my favourites! I did watch tons of Rugrats and Hey Arnold though and a bit of Ahh real monsters, all classics
hey arnold was more late 90s i think. but nicktoons started in 91 with ren and stimpy, doug, and rugrats. Rocko was a couple years later but still a classic. ahhhh real monsters was probably the last nicktoon I watched all the time that started in 94. Started fading away at hey arnold. Started in 96 when I was 10 so I caught the first part of the series. I watched alot more cartoon network late 90s. All the good game shows like nick arcade, guts, hidden temple, pete and pete, snick started in the early to mid 90s. Some just awesome shit. Great time to be a kid. Your age group really is the cut off for knowing what its like without internet and not having a cell phone. Us mid 80s kids got the best of both world. Alot of new tech as teens and adults but got the simple childhood without all the phones tablets and crap.
Don't forget Angry Beavers!
My first home console was the SNES as well, but I got it for Christmas 1992. First 2 games were Super Mario All-Stars and TMNT IV: Turtles in Time.
Parents got me a used Colecovision in what would have been around the summer of 1985. Of course, it came with Donkey Kong (which I played to death) but I also recall having Looping...and that's about all I remember playing on it.
About a year later, they bought me an Atari 2600 and I ended up with about a dozen titles for it by 1988 (the year I discovered the NES) including E.T., Ghostbusters, Jr. Pac-Man, Missile Command, Night Driver, River Raid, Solaris and another game who's name I can never figure out (as I recall, you were a kid trying to get to school on-time by riding a skateboard).
N64 -- I believe we got it Christmas of 1998 when I was 8. Our first two games were Mario Kart 64 and Super Mario 64, played those a ton. Later on, spent a ton of time with Super Smash Bros, NFL Blitz 2000, and Banjo Tooie. I never had Golden Eye as a kid, so instead we just played Banjo Tooie's 1st person shooter mode a lot.
We had another 10-15 not-so-good games that my parents bought for random holidays/birthdays. I picked up Zelda Oot and Star Fox 64 when I was about 12 or 13 (after we had gotten an Xbox) and I had a blast with those.
I honestly cannot remember what I had since it was so long ago, but I do remember having a NES. I remember having the three SMB games, the two Zeldas, Ninja Gaiden, Rad Racer (both of them, I think), the three Double Dragons, Mega Man III, Adventure Island I and either II or III, Bomberman, Dragon Warrior, Little Nemo, Marble Madness, and Chip n' Dale. Quite a few games, but I doubt I ever had them all at once time. Sadly, they were all sold when I was very young, although I cannot remember exactly what happened beforehand.
ti-99, which is probably something most people around here have never even heard of. Games were Slymoids, Parsec, and some others that I've long since forgotten.
For our TI we had Donkey Kong, Picnic Paranoia, Defender, Shamus, Parsec, Munch Man, Hunt the Wumpus, Blasto, A-Maze-ing, Alpiner, Tunnels of Doom, The Attack, Early Learning Fun, Number Magic, TI Invaders, Logo, car wars, Jawbreaker II, plus a bunch of utility and business programs like TI-Writer and Extended Basic
ti-99, which is probably something most people around here have never even heard of. Games were Slymoids, Parsec, and some others that I've long since forgotten.
My next door neighbor friend had a ti-99/4a. We played Munch Mobile which I didn't know was an arcade port until recently.
My older brother was given an nes in '88 and snes in '92. My first console was an N64 for Christmas in I think '96. I got Mario 64 and Cruis'n USA and another game I can't remember day one. I eventually sold the console and 20 games/manuals and my psone with a few games on ebay to buy a ps2. The games were mario, cruis'n usa, ready 2 rumble, ready 2 rumble 2, nfl blitz, tetrisphere, rogue squadron, knockout kings, killer instinct, goldeneye, donkey kong, glover, clayfighter 63 1/3, nhl breakaway '98, madden 64, wrestlemania 2000, mario tennis, nba live 2000, starfox, tony hawk, and my last purchase was battle for naboo.
For whatever reason my parents bought me a Sega Master System with Hang-On/Safari Hunt built in and a copy of Alien Syndrome instead of an NES. Lot of nostalgia for those though, and it gave me a unique perspective on gaming from there on out even though I'm only now just getting to playing a lot of good NES games. I kind of enjoy it this way though. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play those for the first time again.
It was Christmas '89. Got me an NES Action Set and TMNT. Played a ton of TMNT, but didn't really care for SMB at all. Also played lots of Duck Hunt until my dad hid the gun because my sister and I had a tendency to sit right at the screen to shoot. Think he was worried the constant tapping of the gun against the screen might have damaged it Took me almost 10 years to find where he hid the damn thing
For whatever reason my parents bought me a Sega Master System with Hang-On/Safari Hunt built in and a copy of Alien Syndrome instead of an NES. Lot of nostalgia for those though, and it gave me a unique perspective on gaming from there on out even though I'm only now just getting to playing a lot of good NES games. I kind of enjoy it this way though. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play those for the first time again.
It's funny you say that, because that's how I feel every time I fire up my Master System and pop in a new game. I just recently discovered Golfamania, and I have to say it's now my go-to golf game across all systems!
For whatever reason my parents bought me a Sega Master System with Hang-On/Safari Hunt built in and a copy of Alien Syndrome instead of an NES. Lot of nostalgia for those though, and it gave me a unique perspective on gaming from there on out even though I'm only now just getting to playing a lot of good NES games. I kind of enjoy it this way though. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play those for the first time again.
I typically had mostly sports games growing up so I never played any zeldas, metroids, bombermans, etc until adulthood. I am constantly finding new good games to play.
Dad had a pong console probably from sears, but my first was an atari 2600 , came with combat and i seem to remember space invaders and missile command
For whatever reason my parents bought me a Sega Master System with Hang-On/Safari Hunt built in and a copy of Alien Syndrome instead of an NES. Lot of nostalgia for those though, and it gave me a unique perspective on gaming from there on out even though I'm only now just getting to playing a lot of good NES games. I kind of enjoy it this way though. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play those for the first time again.
It's funny you say that, because that's how I feel every time I fire up my Master System and pop in a new game. I just recently discovered Golfamania, and I have to say it's now my go-to golf game across all systems!
Yeah I think it's a really solid system, it's just not the NES. Quartet and Penguin Land 4 lyfe
For whatever reason my parents bought me a Sega Master System with Hang-On/Safari Hunt built in and a copy of Alien Syndrome instead of an NES. Lot of nostalgia for those though, and it gave me a unique perspective on gaming from there on out even though I'm only now just getting to playing a lot of good NES games. I kind of enjoy it this way though. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play those for the first time again.
It's funny you say that, because that's how I feel every time I fire up my Master System and pop in a new game. I just recently discovered Golfamania, and I have to say it's now my go-to golf game across all systems!
Yeah I think it's a really solid system, it's just not the NES. Quartet 4 lyfe
Quartet is good? I'll have to fire it up. So far I haven't fired up a bad SMS game. Even Rampage was better than the NES version, although it was WAY too easy. Popped it in on a lark with a buddy and we both finished the game without a single death between us. Sure there's a lot of "okay" titles, but I haven't found a straight up stinker yet. Of course, it'll happen eventually, but I'm surprised it hasn't happened in the dozen or so games I've played.
For whatever reason my parents bought me a Sega Master System with Hang-On/Safari Hunt built in and a copy of Alien Syndrome instead of an NES. Lot of nostalgia for those though, and it gave me a unique perspective on gaming from there on out even though I'm only now just getting to playing a lot of good NES games. I kind of enjoy it this way though. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play those for the first time again.
It's funny you say that, because that's how I feel every time I fire up my Master System and pop in a new game. I just recently discovered Golfamania, and I have to say it's now my go-to golf game across all systems!
Yeah I think it's a really solid system, it's just not the NES. Quartet 4 lyfe
Quartet is good? I'll have to fire it up. So far I haven't fired up a bad SMS game. Even Rampage was better than the NES version, although it was WAY too easy. Popped it in on a lark with a buddy and we both finished the game without a single death between us. Sure there's a lot of "okay" titles, but I haven't found a straight up stinker yet. Of course, it'll happen eventually, but I'm surprised it hasn't happened in the dozen or so games I've played.
I got ahold of a copy of Quartet awhile back and never owned it back in the day. I wasn't expecting anything and I thought it was a good action game. Not a classic or anything but a good 8-bit game. I agree on the whole there's a lot of passable/pretty good game on it. Ghost House is another I like that maybe not everyone has played. (I swear that one was on the C64 or something too but Wikipedia says it was SMS only).
Well I kind of have two. We already had Atari when I was born. I would play games like Adventure (probably my favorite one), Towering Inferno, Pole Position, Tank Plus, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Mario Bros, etc.. Then the first real console we got when I was 5 was Sega Genesis right after it came out. I still have my original Genesis and it's the best HDG model one for sound and everything. We started with Altered Beast and Sonic the Hedgehog. Slowly picked up more titles such as Road Rash, Castle of Illusion, Starflight, Where in the World is Carmen San Diego, Joe Montana Football, RBI Baseball 4, Art Alive, Taz Mania, Lion King, WWF Raw, NHL '94, Sonic 2, Sonic 3, Bulls Vs Lakers, X-Men, X-Men 2 Clone Wars, Toe Jam and Earl, Comix Zone, NBA Jam, etc...
I got ahold of a copy of Quartet awhile back and never owned it back in the day. I wasn't expecting anything and I thought it was a good action game. Not a classic or anything but a good 8-bit game. I agree on the whole there's a lot of passable/pretty good game on it. Ghost House is another I like that maybe not everyone has played. (I swear that one was on the C64 or something too but Wikipedia says it was SMS only).
Watching it, Ghost House looks like it could be pretty fun, and a bit of a challenge too. Looks like I have a few more games to look forward to playing through
Atari 5200 with Popeye, Centipede, Pole Position, Frogger, Ms. Pac-Man, and Q*bert.
I never knew anyone who had a 5200 when I was growing up (much like the Turbografx). I knew it existed and had seen some of the games on store shelves but I'd never seen the console itself nor anyone playing one until AVGN did his video on it several years ago.
my first console was a super nintendo, my dad still had his from the 90s and i started playing it around 4 years old and i had dkc 1,2,3 qbert 3, super mario world, super mario all stars, and Williams arcade's greatest hits. i still have the console and all those games.
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While it's not original, I do have one now too.
NES for my 10th birthday back in 1990 (the classic two controllers/Zapper/Mario+Duck Hunt; why can't consoles now come fully loaded?)...Duck Hunt was the first game I played. A short time later used copies of Legend of Zelda, 10 Yard Fight, Baseball, Metroid were added. On my 11th birthday I got Super Mario Bros 3 (boy was I obsessed with that game, I did full playthroughs and the cartridge actually felt hot when I was done) and Super Mario Bros 2 the following Christmas (I think). Too bad I had to wait until Christmas 1994...but at least it was the Mario All-Stars+Mario World Super Nintendo Super Set where you get five complete Mario games standard!
Can we talk about how amazing that commercial is? Cuz it's awesome!
Originally posted by: quest4nes
Originally posted by: BertBerryCrunch
Originally posted by: quest4nes
Originally posted by: BertBerryCrunch
Originally posted by: quest4nes
Super nintendo for 6th birthday august 1992. Came with mario world.
I dont remember my game order. I remember getting dkc, mario kart, super bomberman, mario allstars, mario paint pretty early. Friend got me super star wars.
I rented alot of games during summer. Joe and mac a bunch. Loved dinosaurs
you got your snes around the time I was born August 12 1992
Man you missed the best era of kids tv ever. Early 90s nickelodeon was the shit!
but since you were born before june 94 your opinion is still valid.(you pass the jurassic park theorem)
man I didn't really watch Rockos or Ren and Stimpy back then but now they're some of my favourites! I did watch tons of Rugrats and Hey Arnold though and a bit of Ahh real monsters, all classics
hey arnold was more late 90s i think. but nicktoons started in 91 with ren and stimpy, doug, and rugrats. Rocko was a couple years later but still a classic. ahhhh real monsters was probably the last nicktoon I watched all the time that started in 94. Started fading away at hey arnold. Started in 96 when I was 10 so I caught the first part of the series. I watched alot more cartoon network late 90s. All the good game shows like nick arcade, guts, hidden temple, pete and pete, snick started in the early to mid 90s. Some just awesome shit. Great time to be a kid. Your age group really is the cut off for knowing what its like without internet and not having a cell phone. Us mid 80s kids got the best of both world. Alot of new tech as teens and adults but got the simple childhood without all the phones tablets and crap.
Don't forget Angry Beavers!
My first home console was the SNES as well, but I got it for Christmas 1992. First 2 games were Super Mario All-Stars and TMNT IV: Turtles in Time.
About a year later, they bought me an Atari 2600 and I ended up with about a dozen titles for it by 1988 (the year I discovered the NES) including E.T., Ghostbusters, Jr. Pac-Man, Missile Command, Night Driver, River Raid, Solaris and another game who's name I can never figure out (as I recall, you were a kid trying to get to school on-time by riding a skateboard).
We had another 10-15 not-so-good games that my parents bought for random holidays/birthdays. I picked up Zelda Oot and Star Fox 64 when I was about 12 or 13 (after we had gotten an Xbox) and I had a blast with those.
bart vs spacemutants
sonic 1
adventures of batman and robin
It was setup on a tv stand with a new tv and super mario bros/duck hunt.
There we also boxed games laying around it:
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
Paperboy
Platoon
RadRacer
SNES console with Super Mario World
Madden NFL '94 (with strategy guide) from my dad
Battletoads Double Dragon from my mom
SNES with Super Mario World, Christmas of 1993
My dad also gave me Madden NFL '94 and my mom gave me Battletoads Double Dragon
They also ran the free Super Mario All-Stars with proof of purchase promotion around that time, so I got that too
Oh, dammit, I always do that
ti-99, which is probably something most people around here have never even heard of. Games were Slymoids, Parsec, and some others that I've long since forgotten.
For our TI we had Donkey Kong, Picnic Paranoia, Defender, Shamus, Parsec, Munch Man, Hunt the Wumpus, Blasto, A-Maze-ing, Alpiner, Tunnels of Doom, The Attack, Early Learning Fun, Number Magic, TI Invaders, Logo, car wars, Jawbreaker II, plus a bunch of utility and business programs like TI-Writer and Extended Basic
ti-99, which is probably something most people around here have never even heard of. Games were Slymoids, Parsec, and some others that I've long since forgotten.
My next door neighbor friend had a ti-99/4a. We played Munch Mobile which I didn't know was an arcade port until recently.
For whatever reason my parents bought me a Sega Master System with Hang-On/Safari Hunt built in and a copy of Alien Syndrome instead of an NES. Lot of nostalgia for those though, and it gave me a unique perspective on gaming from there on out even though I'm only now just getting to playing a lot of good NES games. I kind of enjoy it this way though. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play those for the first time again.
It's funny you say that, because that's how I feel every time I fire up my Master System and pop in a new game. I just recently discovered Golfamania, and I have to say it's now my go-to golf game across all systems!
For whatever reason my parents bought me a Sega Master System with Hang-On/Safari Hunt built in and a copy of Alien Syndrome instead of an NES. Lot of nostalgia for those though, and it gave me a unique perspective on gaming from there on out even though I'm only now just getting to playing a lot of good NES games. I kind of enjoy it this way though. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play those for the first time again.
I typically had mostly sports games growing up so I never played any zeldas, metroids, bombermans, etc until adulthood. I am constantly finding new good games to play.
For whatever reason my parents bought me a Sega Master System with Hang-On/Safari Hunt built in and a copy of Alien Syndrome instead of an NES. Lot of nostalgia for those though, and it gave me a unique perspective on gaming from there on out even though I'm only now just getting to playing a lot of good NES games. I kind of enjoy it this way though. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play those for the first time again.
It's funny you say that, because that's how I feel every time I fire up my Master System and pop in a new game. I just recently discovered Golfamania, and I have to say it's now my go-to golf game across all systems!
Yeah I think it's a really solid system, it's just not the NES. Quartet and Penguin Land 4 lyfe
For whatever reason my parents bought me a Sega Master System with Hang-On/Safari Hunt built in and a copy of Alien Syndrome instead of an NES. Lot of nostalgia for those though, and it gave me a unique perspective on gaming from there on out even though I'm only now just getting to playing a lot of good NES games. I kind of enjoy it this way though. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play those for the first time again.
It's funny you say that, because that's how I feel every time I fire up my Master System and pop in a new game. I just recently discovered Golfamania, and I have to say it's now my go-to golf game across all systems!
Yeah I think it's a really solid system, it's just not the NES. Quartet 4 lyfe
Quartet is good? I'll have to fire it up. So far I haven't fired up a bad SMS game. Even Rampage was better than the NES version, although it was WAY too easy. Popped it in on a lark with a buddy and we both finished the game without a single death between us. Sure there's a lot of "okay" titles, but I haven't found a straight up stinker yet. Of course, it'll happen eventually, but I'm surprised it hasn't happened in the dozen or so games I've played.
Atari 5200 with Popeye, Centipede, Pole Position, Frogger, Ms. Pac-Man, and Q*bert.
For whatever reason my parents bought me a Sega Master System with Hang-On/Safari Hunt built in and a copy of Alien Syndrome instead of an NES. Lot of nostalgia for those though, and it gave me a unique perspective on gaming from there on out even though I'm only now just getting to playing a lot of good NES games. I kind of enjoy it this way though. I'm sure a lot of people would like to play those for the first time again.
It's funny you say that, because that's how I feel every time I fire up my Master System and pop in a new game. I just recently discovered Golfamania, and I have to say it's now my go-to golf game across all systems!
Yeah I think it's a really solid system, it's just not the NES. Quartet 4 lyfe
Quartet is good? I'll have to fire it up. So far I haven't fired up a bad SMS game. Even Rampage was better than the NES version, although it was WAY too easy. Popped it in on a lark with a buddy and we both finished the game without a single death between us. Sure there's a lot of "okay" titles, but I haven't found a straight up stinker yet. Of course, it'll happen eventually, but I'm surprised it hasn't happened in the dozen or so games I've played.
I got ahold of a copy of Quartet awhile back and never owned it back in the day. I wasn't expecting anything and I thought it was a good action game. Not a classic or anything but a good 8-bit game. I agree on the whole there's a lot of passable/pretty good game on it. Ghost House is another I like that maybe not everyone has played. (I swear that one was on the C64 or something too but Wikipedia says it was SMS only).
I got ahold of a copy of Quartet awhile back and never owned it back in the day. I wasn't expecting anything and I thought it was a good action game. Not a classic or anything but a good 8-bit game. I agree on the whole there's a lot of passable/pretty good game on it. Ghost House is another I like that maybe not everyone has played. (I swear that one was on the C64 or something too but Wikipedia says it was SMS only).
Watching it, Ghost House looks like it could be pretty fun, and a bit of a challenge too. Looks like I have a few more games to look forward to playing through
Am I the only Atari 5200 so far?
Atari 5200 with Popeye, Centipede, Pole Position, Frogger, Ms. Pac-Man, and Q*bert.
I never knew anyone who had a 5200 when I was growing up (much like the Turbografx). I knew it existed and had seen some of the games on store shelves but I'd never seen the console itself nor anyone playing one until AVGN did his video on it several years ago.