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Post by englishinvader on Aug 3, 2022 16:10:09 GMT
We had a few 8 and 16 bit home computers as a family in the 80s, but my first console that could be considered my own was the Sega Game Gear. The SNES was my first home console. My brother had the Gameboy at the time I got the Game Gear, and my cousin had the Atari Lynx. Nothing could touch the game gear in my eyes at the time, but i'd have to concede the Gameboy is the best of that bunch with the benefit of hindsight. The first console I could call my own was the Game Gear as well (the 2600 and the Mega Drive were family systems). 10 years loyal service before the video capacitors gave up the ghost. Went out and bought a GBA the very next day.
Super Monaco GP was one of the first games I got thanks to a deal from a place called Special Reserve in Sawbridgeworth (they did mail order back in the day so some of you guys might remember it). It was the standard Sonic pack with Super Monaco GP thrown in to sweeten the pot. That game remains one of my favourites to this day.
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 3, 2022 16:44:15 GMT
I didn't start with a console, my world of gaming was introduced with an Amiga 500 plus. Few of my mates had SNES's and Megadrive's, my friend Mark (RIP) had a C64 I used to play on (American Warewolf in London was a go to!) My best mate in middle school also had a C64, I'd go round his house after school, get one go on a game and it was time to go home! Earliest console I played way back was an Atari 7800, mostly Centipede or Asteroids. My first actual owned console was a Megadrive 2 I bought second-hand with a load of games for £30, then the whole collecting thing spiralled massively from there! *EDIT!* I completely forgot my first ever foray into games, if you can really call it a game, was Grannie's Garden on the good old BBC when I was in 1st school! Early 80's I think nearly every school had a BBC, ours would only come out if we were 'good' Grannies Garden was cool |
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Post by megamixer on Aug 3, 2022 17:54:15 GMT
*EDIT!* I completely forgot my first ever foray into games, if you can really call it a game, was Grannie's Garden on the good old BBC when I was in 1st school! Early 80's I think nearly every school had a BBC, ours would only come out if we were 'good' Actually, similar here. We had a few RM Nimbus computers at school (which I believe were something to do with BBC or Acorn?!?) and I remember we had 2 games on floppy discs. I can't remember one of them, but the other was a Hangman which was actually quite sinister in an abstract way, especially for kids at infant level - if you failed, the man's neck would stretch really long as he fell/died and he'd go all red/purple!! |
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Post by pratty on Aug 3, 2022 21:33:34 GMT
First games I played at home were on the BBC Micro, we had a fair few games that came on legit compilation discs, games like Repton, Citadel, Ravenskull, Hunchback, and Imogen which was probably my fave.
Then PC gaming. I remember my dad had an early laptop which didn't even have a colour screen and we played games on that. I remember my dad and older brother were very fond of a German U-boat game. Once we had a proper PC I played mostly the Lucas Arts point and clicks and Sensible World Of Soccer.
The first system that was mine was an original Gameboy. My fave games were Mario Land 2, Batman and Alfred Chicken. I missed out on Zelda and Pokémon at the time, just didn't realise what I was missing.
My younger brother got a N64 and I watched him play Ocarina Of Time and was blown away by it. I had to play it myself and I ended up buying more games for the system which we then effectively shared. It was the N64 that made me 'hardcore' gamer, and a Nintendo fan since I was hooked on Mario and Zelda and knew I was going to want to play the future installments of Nintendo's main franchises more than what Sony, Sega and later Microsoft were offering. Goldeneye, Perfect Dark and WWF No Mercy were some other N64 faves of mine too.
The Gamecube is the first system I bought with my own money and probably the system I have the most fondness for. I own 6 of the things and a solid collection of the best games but I very rarely play them these days due to time and a huge backlog of modern releases.
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Post by Markopoloman on Aug 3, 2022 22:53:46 GMT
Looking at these posts, I'll edit my history to: the first computer I purchased myself was the Amiga 500 after I sold my C64 (Oh how I wish I still had that!)...
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Post by lupogtiboy on Aug 4, 2022 10:10:08 GMT
*EDIT!* I completely forgot my first ever foray into games, if you can really call it a game, was Grannie's Garden on the good old BBC when I was in 1st school! Early 80's I think nearly every school had a BBC, ours would only come out if we were 'good' Actually, similar here. We had a few RM Nimbus computers at school (which I believe were something to do with BBC or Acorn?!?) and I remember we had 2 games on floppy discs. I can't remember one of them, but the other was a Hangman which was actually quite sinister in an abstract way, especially for kids at infant level - if you failed, the man's neck would stretch really long as he fell/died and he'd go all red/purple!! I believe the Nimbus computers were put into schools as they weren't any good for the councils that bought them! We had 5 networked into a Brother server computer in my secondary school, so this was the first time I ever got to use a PC. Needless to say, they were 286's, and 5 networked together were painfully slow, 10 minutes to load Microsoft Paint! They slowly got replaced with newer 486 DX2 Brother machines which were a million times better! |
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 4, 2022 11:04:52 GMT
The first console I remember actually buying with my own cash and not having got for me as a present or a hand me down was the NES... I got it near the end of the SNES days before the N64 was out, basically as my first real retro purchase, I wanted to kind of see some of the games I had missed and got a great little bundle the machine and a bunch of games maybe like 10ish for less than one new SNES game would have cost me.
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Post by AlexH on Aug 4, 2022 17:59:18 GMT
My bro and I had an Amstrad CPC, but first console: the NES. I suppose it must have shaped my gaming future, but I always preferred Nintendo consoles to the alternatives. Mine was a Master System (2) as well. I'd been saving up for a NES doing stuff on the farm and in the garden for my parents, then switched my savings target to a Mega Drive, this must have been around 1991. I'd saved up £45, needing £129.99 from Special Reserve for a Mega Drive, but then I walked past High Tech Video in Congleton and there it was, a Master System 2 with Alex Kidd built in.... BUILT IN!! Decided to cut and run for the Master System. Eventually got a Mega Drive, from the same shop too. We've got someone who was from Alsager here, I'm from Newcastle-under-Lyme. Is there any one not from Staffordshire or Cheshire?  |
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Post by RetroBob on Aug 5, 2022 4:14:20 GMT
Master System 2 for me, can't ever have enough love for the built in Alex Kidd. Wouldnt mind trying out one of the sequels. Definitely worth exploring though they are quite different games. |
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Post by sephiroth81 on Aug 5, 2022 17:57:29 GMT
Looking at these posts, I'll edit my history to: the first computer I purchased myself was the Amiga 500 after I sold my C64 (Oh how I wish I still had that!)... I had no idea you were a bank robber during the 1980s. |
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Post by megamixer on Aug 5, 2022 18:10:59 GMT
Is there any one not from Staffordshire or Cheshire? Can't help you there I'm afraid...I'm from Staffordshire too |
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Post by RetroBob on Aug 5, 2022 19:21:30 GMT
My bro and I had an Amstrad CPC, but first console: the NES. I suppose it must have shaped my gaming future, but I always preferred Nintendo consoles to the alternatives. Mine was a Master System (2) as well. I'd been saving up for a NES doing stuff on the farm and in the garden for my parents, then switched my savings target to a Mega Drive, this must have been around 1991. I'd saved up £45, needing £129.99 from Special Reserve for a Mega Drive, but then I walked past High Tech Video in Congleton and there it was, a Master System 2 with Alex Kidd built in.... BUILT IN!! Decided to cut and run for the Master System. Eventually got a Mega Drive, from the same shop too. We've got someone who was from Alsager here, I'm from Newcastle-under-Lyme. Is there any one not from Staffordshire or Cheshire? Awesome, I used to go to Alsager regularly with my mum for shopping in Kwik Save, then the butchers and Chatwins; also used to occasionally go to Newcastle-under-Lyme, that was a treat as we'd often blag going to McDonalds. |
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Post by kerr9000 on Aug 5, 2022 19:38:36 GMT
Master System 2 for me, can't ever have enough love for the built in Alex Kidd. Wouldnt mind trying out one of the sequels. Definitely worth exploring though they are quite different games. A guy I have done Podcasts and stuff with in the past but a review of one of the other Alex Kidd games up recently I am a Nottingham person, while we are on the subject of where we are all from, so the vast majority of my purchases are from round this neck of the woods. |
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Post by Antiriad2097 on Aug 6, 2022 13:33:08 GMT
We had a series of old Pong clones, possibly a Binatone among them. They fell out of the back of a shop my uncle worked in, returns from customers that were sometimes a bit flaky.
The first cartridge based system was a 2600 clone, we only had a handful of carts for it, it was very temperamental.
Then I moved to computers, with the first being my 48k Oric 1, then ZX81 I got for about a tenner in a sale in Boots. 1987 got me a Spectrum and C64 on the same day from Woolworths, £40 and £35 respectively which was a steal, they were dumping stock. Atari ST came from the local pub for £100, though I'd ordered an Amiga. Apparently this was the best they could sneak out of Dixons.
Briefly had a Mega Drive while with my first wife, that was left behind with the kids as it was bought for them.
Had a SNES I shared with my sister, only had a few games as they were £40 a pop, where I was still getting copies of ST games then or picking them up for £15 tops. Cart prices made no sense to me.
Stuck with the ST well beyond it's useful gaming lifespan until the PS1 came out. As soon as that had its first price reduction I was all over it.
From then, Mrs Ant bought me for Christmas/Birthday my Vectex, PS2, GC, PSP, 360, PS3, Wii, Switch and Quest 2. Somewhere along the line I got into Dreamcast collecting, after it had been dead a while, and I bought a Jaguar after playing with one at an exhibition.
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Post by rednoggy on Aug 6, 2022 14:44:51 GMT
I got a nes for Christmas 89/90. I didn't ask Santa for it and was utterly bemused by this grey block😂. By the end of boxing day I was hooked. It definitely shaped my gaming as I've had every Nintendo home console since, despite them not always being the popular choice.The first I bought myself was a dreamcast, which is the point I started yo branch out from just Nintendo gaming.
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