What Videogame Generation are you???

[madhatter256]

Make your decision on the type of console you played the most when you were a kid up until your pre-teens.

I'm from the 16bit Generation. I played the Genesis about 99% of the time when I was a kid. I loved sonic. However I once in a while played SNES over at my friends house. Ahhhh.. Those were the days.

[Yakumo]

I think you should change the list of choices available for voting. I had to choose Nintendo Generation even though I hate the NES. I had a Master System. Shame that it never had as many cool games though.

May a suggest changing the options to

Pre 8bit Generation (Atari, Colectovision etc)
8bit Generation (NES, Master System, Gameboy)
16bit to 32bit Generation (Mega Drive, SNES, 3DO Jaguar, etc)
128bit Generation (Saturn, PSX)
Next Gen (Dreamcast, PS2, Game Cube etc.)

Yakumo

[madhatter256]

Oh please. I know some of you guys played the SMS but chances are you wanted an NES or played it and liked it. Basically you grew up around it. Besides, it was coined the Nintendo generation because of Nintendo's 97% market dominance back then. Thats what everyone calls it... in the US at least. I will change the Atari to Pre 8bit Generation. But I won't add the Next Gen cuz, I'm pretty sure none of us here are 8yrs old even though we may behave like them.

Still I want to keep it as general as I can keep it (grammar sux). I knew someone was going to tell me about that "It shouldn't be called the Nintendo Generation because I played the SMS nyah." Not that I'm hitting on you Yakumo but while I was makin this thread I knew it was gonna come up. I just based my decision on the fact that 3 out of 4 kids in USA owned an NES. The other one had either an SMS or Atari or a banana phone. I will keep it Nintendo generation but put in SMS just for you :smt061

Excuse my behavior, its late at night. I created this topic late at night. :smt015

[madhatter256]

*Edit**

Apparently I can't edit my options. Oh well it sux. too bad.

[Blur2040]

Well, this was a bit of a tough one for me...

We got our NES in 1989...(In fact, we have that on VHS from the "1989" home movies cassette)...but I was only 4 then...and I guess thats a bit young to be into video games...and well, the NES was essentially dead in North America by the time the 16 bit systems were well established...by 93 or so...so, NES was my first one...

But we did get a Genesis around 93, but we were still buying NES games at that point, used mostly for about .25 cents apiece...we bought a ton of Gensis games, but it still never held a candle to the NES for me...

[kstyle25]

I got the TurboGrafx 16 + cd and the Genesis in December 1989 when I was 12......I consider myself a Turbo and Genesis fan.....they were incredible...brings a tear to my eye...

[Metal_4evr]

My first console was the SNES in the early 90's. My favorite SNES game is still Top Gear 2 closely followed by Donkey Kong Country. My first time playing an import game was also on the SNES. My friends cousin went to Japan and brought back a copy of Super Street Fighter 2 before we could find it here.

[SilverBolt]

A bit in between of the atari and nes generation, we had a atari 2600jr when i was like 4 or 5 and my first "own" console was a NES so i'll go with NES generation.

[turbocozmo]

I got my TurboGrafx when I was about 7. My best friend though had a Genesis, so I started off a 16biter.

[Tachikoma]

Well I was playing (and hacking) on BBC Micro's as a kid (in school, only got a MS when I was about 10). So what does that make me?

:smt024

Ctrl Shift Break

:smt015

Wait for 5.25" floppy (disk *ahem*) to load

Play "Mr E" (Mr Do clone)

:smt040

[the_steadster]

Well im probably the youngest guy on the board (16) and so from about 10 till 13 the N64 was the only system for me, although my brother and sister (both older) had a SNES and NES before that (one of my earliest memory's was completing super mario bros. one day before i could read the level select cheat at the end. And i was the first in the family to accomplish this!). But anyway, back onto the subject, i think the N64 got the most play out of me, so i voted for that generation.

[LeGIt]

Up to preteens I mostle played SMS & SNES :smt023

[WolverineDK]

my first system was Master system so i voted for nes generation

sorry for saying this but i do not like NES although it is the most copied console ever

but i am still quite fond of Master System even today

[Johnny]

Well, the first videogames i played were an Atari 2600 my brother had and a Odissey from a friend.

The fist videogame system i got was a Master System, while my brother got an MSX.

[cahaz]

i'm lost between two generations.
i got my nes (my first console ) when the 16 bit era was installed (new) i played my nes all the time and had no personal snes and genesis until 2001-2003! but i played 16 bits games at my friend house alot , somes friends gived me their genesis or super nintendo for a month or so and i fall inlove with 16 bit, ut my parents said that ihad a nintendo already , and that was enough ( now i have 14 consoles if you don't count the doubles and tripples :smt043 )

i was really sad, i could see any 8-bit new games in store, and i couldn't get 16 bit. i had to do fleamarket and garages sales to have games . yes , iplayed a lot in 16 bit and 8 bit . 16 bit is my favorite era , but my favorite consoles is the nes. i grow with ff 1 ( one of the first nintendo btw) and ff3 , sonic and mario , dragon warrior and zelda.

i've voted nes, because its the only real console i had (the next console i had after the nes was the playstation in 1998! ) i started to play video games in the begin \ middle of 16 bit era.


ahh....the old days.
:drinkers:

[nocomply]

I have the same problem as Yakumo!

I was raised on a healthy Diet of the Sega Mastersystem!
A machine which I loved to bits, had a nice collection for, and holds some very fond memories.. for both me and my parents who played the games!

(My mum finished Phantasy Star and YS!) and did it again not long ago on a Emulator!

Then Along came the Megadrive (imported Jap machine) which again got played for years on end.. Imported Super Famicom then came along.. but still had my MD to play on too.

So I have selceted 16bit.. even thought I started on the Master System.. The MD took a LOT of my time! as did my Super Famicom! which eventually stole ALL of my spare time. :smt023

They were the days.... sniff.

[Yakumo]

The MD took a LOT of my time! as did my Super Famicom! which eventually stole ALL of my spare time. :smt023

They were the days.... sniff.

Yes indeed. They were the days. I remember them well :smt023

Yakumo

[cahaz]

16-bit era is the best!
its a legend! :prayer:

[abionic]

Pre 8bit Generation (Atari, Colectovision etc)
8bit Generation (NES, Master System, Gameboy)
16bit to 32bit Generation (Mega Drive, SNES, 3DO Jaguar, etc)
128bit Generation (Saturn, PSX)
Next Gen (Dreamcast, PS2, Game Cube etc.)

Yakumo

come on yak, we all know you know better

32bit == saturn , 3do, 32x, psx

32/64 == jaguar

64 == N64, (M2)

128 == nextgen == DC, PS2, XBOX, GC


pardon my nitpicking, just trying to hold you to your usual standard of excellence

-ab , atari generation but too late for pong consoles

[Alien Workshop]

This one was hard. My first console was the NES, but i was really young when we got it, and i could not fully enjoy it before we got an SNES, so most of my time went into the SNES, so i would say the 16-bit generation for me.

[Yakumo]

come on yak, we all know you know better

32bit == saturn , 3do, 32x, psx

32/64 == jaguar

64 == N64, (M2)

128 == nextgen == DC, PS2, XBOX, GC


pardon my nitpicking, just trying to hold you to your usual standard of excellence

-ab , atari generation but too late for pong consoles

Yeah, I know I made a big mistake in my 1st post. It was written after a night out though at around 3am if I remember rightly. :Hangman: Saturn being a 128bit system ? I was well out there :smt011

Yakumo

[cahaz]

come on yak, we all know you know better

32bit == saturn , 3do, 32x, psx

32/64 == jaguar

64 == N64, (M2)

128 == nextgen == DC, PS2, XBOX, GC


and what about the virtual boy? .... :smt011

[Calpis]

While I'm nitpicking, I should say *drumroll* THERE IS NO 128-bit system! Atari and Colecovision are 8-bit while we're at it :) My first console was a 4-bit Game Boy, what does that count as? I was raised on my Game Boy, Game Gear, SNES and one friend's Genesis and another's Genesis and Master System.

Virtual Boy should be a 16-bit console, the cartridges I know for sure are 16-bit.

[werd123]

I got my PSone when I was 7.
I only had one game(destuction Derby) and a lot of Demos,but I was so young I didn't care.
Then when I got older and everybody started getting PS2's and I couldn't afford it, I started going deeper into the PSone game libary and I got games like Metal gear Solid and Final Fantasy VIII
Those were the fun days......

[A. Snow]

The Blue Sky Rangers made me the gamer I am today.

[Survival Tobita]

I had an atari, colecovision and intellivision handed down by my uncles, who were smart enought to buy tons of games post-crash for each.

[ammar85]

even though I firmly remember the NES and playing and renting it, I never got more seroius till the SNES~ We never owned one till like 95 but we rented one for the longest time from BB whenever a 3 day weekend or something similar would come up because my parents didn't want me to play too much. MY friend also had a genesis we would play. Even though some people say that 16bit was one of the most polarized geneartions and it "determined on which side of the field you'd play at recess" I never noticed anything I playedl both system cause they were both freaking fun.

And I matured more on the PSX more~ but that didn't come till 9th grade for me (and my Ps2 till 11th grade~ I'm going to be a Sophmore in college now)

Though since I started college my gaming experiences have receded 10 fold (where I once thought they would increase like crazy) but the games I do play...I notice that I play more "casual" and "easy to pick up and go" type of games~ basically I don't have as much time for RPGS (Which are my favorite Genre) so I can't play them anymore...

Pretty Inteesting IMO how I've gone from RPGS and spending hours on a game, to a quick match of Tekken as I go to my room to study/chat on IM~to think I said I would never stop playing games (its true...but what ?I play now changed so much)