An element of nostalgia.....

[BurntLime]

Hi,



I was just wading through the Wii Shopping Channel a while ago (as you do!..... ) and thought "God, I was born in 1996 (and remember playing some of these) and now they're classed as OLD!!!". Right, so I'm only 13, but that still makes me feel ancient!



I remember my parents getting a Sega MegaDrive when i was about 4. playing Sonic and Columns filled up most of my weekend! .... I think my mum went as far to wake my sister up at 3am just to reset it! (it had frozen, probably because she'd been playing on it all night!)



T'was very sad tho when the RF Modulator gave up the ghost - have no clue where it went after that and I ain't willing to pay £25 for an old system off ebay. Saw this tho, perhaps its half near as good?



Sega Mega Drive Twin Player - From Firebox.com



Good Times!



Does anyone else have some fond memories of old systems? What was your first games console?



Joe

[dannytheone]

Starting way back in '91, when I was 1.5 years old, and my older sister put a joypad in my hands, I've had:



Sega Master System

Sega Master System II

Sega Mega Drive

Sega Mega Drive Alternate

Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)

Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES)

Nintendo 64

Sega Dreamcast

Playstation

Nintendo GameCube

Playstation 2

Xbox

Xbox 360 (Current console)

Wii



Portables:

Gameboy

Gameboy Pocket

Gameboy Advance

Gameboy Advance SP (NES Edition)

Nintendo DS

Nintendo DS Lite (current console)





Fondest Memories?



Lets see, finally completing Alex Kidd (which I was told and believed was called alex the Kid until about 2 months ago) on the master system



Playing the first Mortal Kombat on the SNES for my 6th Birthday, before game Age ratings existed



Playing the first Mario Kart, before it got "Kid-ified"



Playing the Original GTA, and spending forever on it



And the Pokemon games of course, I remember taking the Advance SP on holiday and spending ages getting the to final battle and winning on pokemon Blue!



Ah, the fun.

[BurntLime]

Starting way back in '91, when I was 1.5 years old, and my older sister put a joypad in my hands, I've had: [...]



Ah, the fun.

nice!



thats one nintendo history you've got!



just one thing; how many people in 10 years will be able to tell you what a MegaDrive is without scouring wikipedia?



I have to say it is a dying system, much to my sadness (hehe)



Thanks for sharing your nintendo history!



Joe

[Neurion]

Now you're making me feel old

[BurntLime]

Now you're making me feel old

lol, whats your most prominent memory of retro gaming then?



hehe, i feel ancient and I'm only 13, so i dont know how you must feel!

[william]

I've owned, in this order:



Nintendo GameBoy Advance SP (red)

Microsoft Xbox (was mod chipped, with XBMC)

Sony PlayStation 2 Slim (silver)

Microsoft Xbox 360 (blew up)

Microsoft Xbox 360 (sold it)

Sony PlayStation 3

Apple iPhone 2G (Apple think it's a games console, so...yeah. )

Apple iPhone 3GS

Microsoft Xbox 360 (I'm getting the 250GB Forza 3 Elite bundle tomorrow (well...it's 01:05 so, today))



The only ones I still own would be the PS3, iPhone 3GS, and as of tomorrow, the 360.

[BurntLime]

Microsoft Xbox 360 (I'm getting the 250GB Forza 3 Elite bundle tomorrow (well...it's 01:05 so, today))

And, yeah, I'd count your iPhone(s) as "new" console (if you get what I mean, they're not like the traditional type - i.e. control pad and discs etc. - but they've got some amazing games for them)



joe



[edit] OH! I still have my GameBoy Advance SP (Silver!) hehe, i forgot about it and just realised that it's sitting right in front of me on my desk!



I guess they're not worth much now - but I dont want to sell it because I still have three *AMAZING* GameBoy Games. I think it's Krusty's Fun House, Mario&Yoshi, Donkey Kong Land III...... plus sonic and mariokart super circuit. So it's all good!