What era of gaming did you grow up in?

[Jrecee]

90s. The first thing I had to play games on was an Atari ST computer when I was about 5. My uncle was into all that stuff and would bring over bags of copied (cracked?) games. Then in 2nd grade xmas of 93 I got my sega genesis with Sonic 2. Since I was a kid that felt like the longest era of gaming ever to me, even though within 4 years I had an N64, it felt like ages. I must have rented every genesis game they had at the videostore.

[Jayson]

2600 era.

My Parents made a deal with us kids to get us that instead of feeding us quarters for the arcade. I still snuck down to the local arcade every chance I could get to play the "real" versions of Donkey Kong, PacMan, and Ms. PacMan though. I got to also play Intellivision and Colecovision at my Uncle's house occasionally.

<edit> Man after reading all of these posts, I feel really, really old for some reason!

[DCsegaDH]

I grew up in the 90s era and I was playing Genesis a lot back in the day,Saturn a little bit and then the Playstation to 128 bit systems.I was so busy with the Genesis I completely missed SNES and that's why I'm getting the games now.I'm glad I grew up in the 90s because I think it has the biggest change in gaming,2d to 3d to realistic 3d.

[corn619]

I guess my gaming started with Colecovision and Atari 2600. Its the NES that I really grew up on and made gaming a full time hobby and passion of mine.

[Zork]

In my terms of growing up in, I pretty much went from 16-Bit to 128-Bit generations. That is Genesis/SNES through PS2/Dreamcast/GC/X-Box.

I really started playing on an Intellivision when I was like 3 or 4. It burned up one day then for Christmas in 90 I got a Genesis. I really cut my teeth on that and loved every second of it, it remains one of my most favorite consoles to this day. Then I got a Saturn in Christmas 95 and I loved it. It was awesome being able to play great games like Virtua Fighter 2, and Nights into Dreams, and Street Fighter Alpha 2 later on. I would probably say it was my favorite console and is today especially because of importing and the memories.

About two years after, Christmas 97 I got a Playstation as the Saturn was pretty much kaput and I didn't understand how importing worked at that time because I was too young and still didn't have internet. It was on that console I played some of my most favorite games like Resident Evil 1 and 2, Final Fantasy VII and Tactics, MGS etc etc. I got me a Dreamcast in the Summer of 99 and also really enjoyed it, I was caught up in it's hype so it felt great to finally be able to own one. I still played my Playstation as well I pretty much rotated what I would play for a lengthy period of time.

When the Dreamcast got retired I went until 2002 until I got a new console, I picked up a Gamecube because I knew big Resident Evil titles were going to be on it and it looked promising, it was my first Nintendo console other than a GameBoy which is different and I got burned because for a whole year nothing came out that interested me. I hated the concept of Super Mario Sunshine, I didn't like 3D Metroid (Still don't to an extent), and I didn't care about Zelda one bit at this time. I was burned, and I migrated to the PS2 in 2003 and was happy ever since.

[t0yrobo]

Well my first console was a nes, but I did the majority of gaming on my families trusty 486 for a very long time. I didn't get back to consoles till the psONE, which I got pretty late in it's life.

[otaku]

my first game was super mario world on SNES it belonged to my cousin. Few years later I finally got in on the game and received a N64 for xmas.

[glynnahab]

I started in the NES era. We had a solid collection of games. My mom worked in retail and had a cheap hookup, otherwise we could have never afforded the 30+ NES games we owned by 1993.

But I really became a devoted gamer during the SNES era. Zelda and Mario were both masterpieces, as well as a helluva lot of other games on the console too.

[Mod_Man_Extreme]

My first system was our old NES that lived in the basement until we got an N64 in 2000.

So you could say that I lived through the 16/32 bit eras but really came into my own in the 128 bit/Mid 2000's eras.

And RyaNthaSlayA are you really 15? I just turned 17 like two weeks ago and thought I was the youngest guy in this place.

Anyway to answer the question that I know people are going to start asking I came to be a retro gamer out of the sheer obsession to find a SEGA Genesis back when I was eleven after playing Sonic 1&3 at a friend's house. After that I learned about the SEGA CD, 32X ( still trying to find one in good shape with metal clips, spacer, & cables ), Dreamcast, Saturn, GameGear, SNES ( I had never seen, played, or even touced one in person until 2005 ), and all other sorts of game systems add ons and accessories that now litter my bedroom & TV shelf & bookshelf.

[RCBH928]

I got to play a lot of systems , I believe I played all systems that were released after 1980(those that had any kind of significance)
The only thing I didn't play was philips cd-i
I do not think I even saw one
and commodore , I might played it but I just can't recall but i played msx.
I didn't get to play turbo-grafx either..

but if one system that took most of my time it would be the NES, but japanese, famicom I guess. We used to call it family game. I also got to play psx for what seems a long time but now that I can swear that I stopped by '99 and I am 100% didn't get it before '96 , that leaves a maximum of 2 years that I played it.