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Aw, this is what I get for not paying attention to what instance I was posting in.
I was obsessed with the N64 when I was a kid, but I never owned one. Honorable mention to the GBC, but I did get one shortly after the GBA came out.
For me, it was always consoles I never actually got. Dreamcast for a while (VMUs were so fucking cool), then the GP32.
I really liked my GBA
Oh good. I’m now too old to be nostalgic.
But what 32 year old has ever seen a caleco vision?
Never forget my first but slightly going in reverse…… those SNES games just hit hard.
never owned a snes, had a gamecube before I first emulated snes games. Chrono Trigger fucks.
So good, maybe too good. Soundtrack just slaps, always triggering a moment playing the game.
Gameboy gang rise!!
nes galaga at my dads house <3
I can’t believe I threw away my Dreamcast. I’m such an idiot.
Right there with ya, except I gave away all my consoles. Original 2600, 5200, Intellivision, NES, SNES, Game gear… on up through my two 360s. There were since esoteric ones in there, and some real stinkers: CD-i, 3DO leap to mind.
There’s a few on ebay for like a hundred bucks, or there’s always emulation
https://www.emulator-zone.com/doc.php/dreamcast/flycast.html
I ran NES emulators on my Dreamcast, lol.
Gonna have to dig it out over the weekend…
Didn’t know they were that versatile. I never had one but I’m into retro gaming so I’ve played a little, but I tend to put more time into nes or snes to try to relive my childhood haha
At this point nearly any device with a screen can emulate SNES games and the consoles that came before it. I have a cheap Chinese retro game handheld from Ali Express and it’s honestly so refreshing to play games that aren’t begging me to spend extra money.
Also, playing fan translations of games that weren’t released in the west like mother 3 and dragon quest monsters is so cool. 10 year old me would be so jealous.
ps2?
GBA SP here.
I guess mine’s a PC from the 90s or 00s
Maybe PS1 at a push given the family computer didn’t really do 3D until we got a 3D accelerator a few years later
PSP was my first ('98 here), the 360 my second, a 3DS my third. I probably spent thousand of hours on my PSP, so I’d go for PSP probably. Jailbroke my childhood PSP a year ago or so and enjoyed playing a bunch of games I couldn’t get. Also jailbroke my 3DS and gave it to my partner as a birthday gift so she could play all the Layton games which she grew up with.
A couple years ago, my obsession was probably the GBA, though. Growing up, we couldn’t really afford any consoles, so my only experiences with Pokemon and stuff was via emulators on my PC. Had a period of them where I’d buy old GBAs, shell-swap them, restore old games and their batteries and fun stuff like that. Haven’t touched the couple I have for some time now, sadly
Anyone got the original comic?
Here ya go
This is what happens when parents don’t vaccine. When you are very young, you can get vaccinated with computer gaming. You can absolutely still enjoy consoles and the great games that come out on them, but you have a certain protection against obsessing over a specific console.
For me it was Commodore 64 I was vaccinated with. This also let me enjoy a future of DOS gaming right along side NES and Genesis gaming.
In some places, the ZX Spectrum vs Commodore 64 war was epic. Likewise for Amiga vs Atari ST. Magazines for one fanbase would regularly mock the other. And I don’t know what the TRS-80 was going up against, but I’ve seen it called the “Trash-80” more than a couple of times.
What can help proof someone against this excessive dedication to one platform isn’t which platform you start them on; it’s starting them on multiple platforms as soon as possible. Getting them interested in the individual games rather than the fan club nonsense.
As human beings we naturally oversimplify things. So when our entire experience has been A, and the people around us frame the world as a choice between A and B, we’re naturally going to defend A with our life. That’s because without really thinking about it, we’ve bought into the idea that A is either right or wrong, with no middle-ground, and we hate to be wrong.
