Cross Platform Discussion - Six Generations and Counting

[IcKy99]

dad had a 2600

i had a nes, then genesis and so on

[Ack]

You got your generations a bit wrong. Generation 1 starts with the Odyssey and Pong machines at the beginning of the 1970s. Generation 2 is the Channel F, Atari 2600, Vectrex, and so on, and 3 is the NES/Master System. I started with 3.

I was more thinking of the lines of mainstream and cartridge based gaming systems. I'm more of thinking in regards of marketing was less abrasive to really sway a gamer from one system to another. Mostly people bought them because they were newer then what came previous. Not what we see know where one company tries to beat out another by earlier release dates or beat them over the head with processing appeal.

I see what you mean, you're starting with cartridges, when it really begins the transition to mainstream, though I'd argue that what we see today has been happening ever since Fairchild released their console, and Atari allowed themselves to be bought by Warner Communications so they could get funding to compete with the VCS.

Either way, I was born the same year the NES hit the streets. 1985, baby.

[Dakinggamer87]

I started with Atari 2600 and NES and been gaming since then.. only generation I missed was era with Odyssey..

[Jayson]

I started with the 2600. I pretty much only had one of the available consoles each generation.

1 - 2600
2 - NES
3 - Genesis
4 - Originally a Saturn, but had to sell it to pay rent, I ended up getting a PSX later on
5 - DC, Xbox, GC, PS2 in that order, I gave the DC away when I got the Xbox and GC (what a mistake)
6 - 360 first, then a PS3, 360 died twice so I got rid of it. Got a Wii recently, gave the GC away.

[MrPopo]

You got your generations a bit wrong. Generation 1 starts with the Odyssey and Pong machines at the beginning of the 1970s. Generation 2 is the Channel F, Atari 2600, Vectrex, and so on, and 3 is the NES/Master System. I started with 3.

I was more thinking of the lines of mainstream and cartridge based gaming systems. I'm more of thinking in regards of marketing was less abrasive to really sway a gamer from one system to another. Mostly people bought them because they were newer then what came previous. Not what we see know where one company tries to beat out another by earlier release dates or beat them over the head with processing appeal.

I see what you mean, you're starting with cartridges, when it really begins the transition to mainstream, though I'd argue that what we see today has been happening ever since Fairchild released their console, and Atari allowed themselves to be bought by Warner Communications so they could get funding to compete with the VCS.

Either way, I was born the same year the NES hit the streets. 1985, baby.

85 represent!

My first was an NES. My mom got me one so that I would socialize with the other kids a bit more. That backfired.

[finty]

Started out playing my cousins Master System, then his SNES and MegaDrive. The first console I owned was a Saturn.

[Octopod]

I started with a 2600 then I got a NES for christmas the year they came out..I was 9 I think.

[Dreamstation]

I started in 1989 with NES and i had all major systems growing up. I'm 25 and i have been recently catching up the systems (Neo Geo, 3DO, Turbo Grafx 16, Sega Saturn) and games i missed during my childhood.

[BoringSupreez]

My first games were some free ones that came with my parents Windows 3.1. My first console game was Sonic the Hedgehog 2, on my neighbor's son's sega genesis.

[Wintermute1981]

I started gaming on my family's Apple IIe playing Beach Head and Microsoft Flight Simulator 2. When I got a little older I got a Sega Master System for Christmas one year before getting a NES a few years later. Pretty much stayed with the NES until 1993 when I got a Sega Genesis.