Your console chronology

[Jrecee]

I got my first console in 1969 during nam. It was a racketboydrive first edition with Buff Ninja Battalion pack-in. My second console was an old ceramic monopoly board, from when it came with an outhouse piece instead of the thimble. Later I traded it in for an atari 1300, unfortunately it ended up containing several reels of microfilm which the government seized from me during the speak n spell massacre of '82. I made do with a cinderblock and a couple of pinecones until I got a hankerin' for some more up to date technology. Unfortunately Terminator had just come out so technology was banned. I pretty much just dwelled in the forest until nintendo announced the shakeweight console at which point I realized I could live out my favorite forest dwelling activity of jerking my arm back and forth while holding something. Later on I found an R-zone at a garage sale and discovered I could finally live out my dream of playing games and having things on my head.

[YoshiEgg25]

I got my first console in 1969 during nam. It was a racketboydrive first edition with Buff Ninja Battalion pack-in. My second console was an old ceramic monopoly board, from when it came with an outhouse piece instead of the thimble. Later I traded it in for an atari 1300, unfortunately it ended up containing several reels of microfilm which the government seized from me during the speak n spell massacre of '82. I made do with a cinderblock and a couple of pinecones until I got a hankerin' for some more up to date technology. Unfortunately Terminator had just come out so technology was banned. I pretty much just dwelled in the forest until nintendo announced the shakeweight console at which point I realized I could live out my favorite forest dwelling activity of jerking my arm back and forth while holding something. Later on I found an R-zone at a garage sale and discovered I could finally live out my dream of playing games and having things on my head.

[AznKhmerBoi]

1990- nes
1994- snes
1996- n64 & psx & sega saturn
1999- dreamcast
2001- ps2 & gamecube & xbox
2004- xbox 360
2005- ps3
2013- wii-u

[CFFJR]

Alright, I'll bite, but I can't be specific on times for a lot of them. I should note that I have never sold a system, so I still have all of these in good working order.

They are however, in the order I got them.

NES: First system. My dad bought it used for me, just for the hell of it, some time in 90. It came with Super Mario Bros./Duck Hunt and Wrestlemania. He said he bought it from some guy at his job, who's girlfriend had given him an ultimatum: "Its me or the games". He picked her. Dumbass. According to Pops, he paid $40 for the set. Damn good for the time.

Genesis: I'm not clear on the time here, sometime in 91-92. My parents got it for me as a gift, though I don't remember the circumstance. It was the version that came packed in with Sonic the Hedgehog. I seem to recall that this system came with a coupon that allowed you to send away for a free game that you picked from a list. I naturally picked Sonic 2. I adore the Genesis and it is by far my favorite system. Its also a pretty important part of my childhood, so I'm very attached to this particular Genesis. I would never let it go or replace it.

Game Gear: Another gift from my parents, don't know when or why. My first game was Mortal Kombat. The majority of my friends had Gameboys. I looked at my huge color screen and wasn't jealous in the slightest.

32x: My friend got one and I was insanely jealous. After the system had gone way down in price, his folks got me one for Christmas along with Fred Couples 32 Great Holes Golf (This might sound odd, but our families were very close friends at the time). I also picked up a copy of Tempo shortly after.

N64: I convinced my Dad to buy one. Since he intended to play it too, the first game we picked up was Aerogauge, a futuristic racing game that was more fun than I was expecting at the time. I saved up and bought a copy of Super Mario 64 in the following months as well. Bought at Toys R Us.

Gameboy Color: Scrounged and saved like mad to buy it with a copy of Pokemon Red. Its safe to say the Pokemon craze pulled me in on this. Bought at Toys R Us.

Snes: A friend of mine and his family were going to move back to Chicago, where they were originally from. He'd had a Playstation since launch, that he pretty much played exclusively at that point. He gave me his Snes and games (Mortal Kombat 2, 3, and Ultimate, DKC 1 and 2, and Super Star Wars) when they left.

Dreamcast: A gift from my Mom with Sonic Adventure (from Toys R Us), about a week after launch. I played the holy hell out of my DC, and unfortunately, it broke sometime in 2001. I bought a used one from Gamestop which still works fine. I still have the broken original. I have no intention of getting rid of it.

Gamecube: Bought it on launch day at Toys R US. There was no way in hell I was going to wait to play Luigi's Mansion.

Gameboy Advance: Bought it with Sonic Advance (at Toys R Us again) when that game came out.

Xbox: Went to Gamestop to buy it with Fable. They hadn't yet received their shipment of the game, so I bought the system with Shenmue 2. I went back a couple of days later to get Fable as well.

PSone: Picked up a refurb from Gamestop for 40 or 50 bucks. I bought it specifically to play Harvest Moon: Back to Nature, which I bought at Buy Back Games in Lakewood, since GS didn't have it.

PS2: Bought it from Best Buy with Grand Theft Auto Vice City, probably about or month or two after that game came out.

DS: Bought at an Electronics Boutique with Super Mario 64 DS, probably about a week after launch.

Xbox 360: I was on the launch waiting list at Gamestop. I got my system a month later in December, and it red ringed right out of the box (never even saw the startup screen. I was pissed). Sent it to Microsoft in the xbox coffin, and they sent it back (or a new one, I never thought to check the serial numbers) another month later. I was very happy when I finally got to play Dead or Alive 4. This system ran like a champ until earlier this year when it red ringed. I took it to a local shop that fixed it for 50 bucks. Runs perfectly again.

Wii: Got it a few months after launch. I searched fruitlessly for one for a while. My wife (then girlfriend) and I happened to find one at Walmart when we rolled in for the hell of it at 2 am. I bought it immediately (Stupidly. I was pretty much broke at the time and I used credit. Still, I don't regret it. ) I'm not positive on the first game, but I'm pretty damn sure it was Super Paper Mario.

PS3: Got the Metal Gear Solid 4 bundle when that launched. I bought this with my Tax Return and a $100 Wal-mart gift card that the store gave out for the system (Essentially, if you bought the bundle, they covered 100 bucks).

PSP: My family pooled and bought this for me one Christmas. It was the 2000 bundle that came with Daxter.

Gameboy Advance SP: Ebay last year.

Saturn and Master System: Racketboy! Last year. They both came with a few games. Wanted, Gangster Town and Fantasy Zone the Maze for Master System. Virtua Fighter 2, Battle Arena Toshinden URA, Fighting Vipers, World Series Baseball, Ten Pin Alley, and Wipeout for the Saturn.

Sega CD Model 1: Bought last year at Game Force in Longmont. The owner pretty much gave it to me for 10 bucks. I quickly bought Sonic CD on ebay to go with it.

And that covers it. In the near future, I'm planning to buy a modded PC Engine Duo and a 3DS. I'd also like to get a Jaguar one day, and I'm thinking about a 7800 as well.

[RyaNtheSlayA]

1990- nes
1994- snes
1996- n64 & psx & sega saturn
1999- dreamcast
2001- ps2 & gamecube & xbox
2004- xbox 360
2005- ps3
2013- wii-u

The Xbox 360 came out in 2005 and the PS3 in 2006...

Sega CD Model 1: Bought last year at Game Force in Longmont. The owner pretty much gave it to me for 10 bucks. I quickly bought Sonic CD on ebay to go with it.

How did you like Game Force? Sounds like a decent price. Are they always so inexpensive?

[MrEco]

1990- nes
1994- snes
1996- n64 & psx & sega saturn
1999- dreamcast
2001- ps2 & gamecube & xbox
2004- xbox 360
2005- ps3
2013- wii-u

You can see the future?!!?

[CFFJR]

Sega CD Model 1: Bought last year at Game Force in Longmont. The owner pretty much gave it to me for 10 bucks. I quickly bought Sonic CD on ebay to go with it.

How did you like Game Force? Sounds like a decent price. Are they always so inexpensive?

For a model 1, I thought it was a great price . There's more to the story though. I asked him specifically for an m1 (there were a couple m2s on display) and he went and fished it out of the back room. He didn't have an adapter for it and wasn't sure if it was working, so he offered it for 10, saying he'd take it back if it didn't work. It was a small risk, but it turned out great since it works (and looks) like its brand new.

As for the store itself, I quite like it. The prices in general are pretty good; high here, and low there, typical really. Its a bit smallish (especially when compared to the Boulder store, which is just massive and spectacular), but its packed. What helps for me in Longmont is that the owner is a really cool, friendly guy. Aside from the Sega Cd thing, he's also cut me breaks before when buying multiple games.

The Game Forces are all independently owned though, and they definitely aren't equal. There's one in Arvada right next to the Elvis Cinema, and the last time I went there (which was about a year) they were crazy overpriced on a lot of things, especially NES.

I highly recommend Longmont and Boulder though. Both great stores.

[Redifer]

I feature Game Force Boulder in an episode of Game Sack (link in sig).


There is no way I remember exact dates, but my first game systems were a little tabletop Ms Pac-Man (with two little white joysticks) and something my dad gave me where I used dials on the unit itself to control a race car or a pong paddle. The games were built in and did not accept external games. If I recall correctly, the unit was blue and white*maybe* with an orange stripe. Video hookup was RF only, no s-video or HDMI. Anyone got any info on this?

Later on, I started to get into REAL game systems:

-Sega Master System - It came with Hang-On, Safari Hunt and the Light Phaser. I also purchased Space Harrier and Choplifter at the same time. I was in heaven. I'd say this was before Blaster Master came out for the NES because I remember a friend getting that after I got the SMS.

-Sega Genesis - I bought this as soon as it was available (late August, early September 1989 maybe). Came with Altered Beast. Later that weekend I had a choice of buying Super Thunder Blade or Thunder Force 2. A friend of mine also got a Genesis and had purchased Space Harrier 2 which I would borrow the next week. I chose Thunder Force 2. I chose wisely and still love that game to this day. Space Harrier 2 was a disappointment and I was/am a HUGE Space Harrier fan. Still have this same system.

-TurboGrafx-16 with CD-ROM - Got this as a graduation present when I graduated high school in 1991. Still have it. Fantastic system.

-Super Nintendo - Bought this at the grocery store the first Christmas after it was released. Really cool system, but not as good as the Turbo or Genesis as far as games that entertained me. I know many SNES fanboys on this forum will faint when they read that.

-Sega CD - Bought it when it was released. So awesome, with many great full motion videogames which were to revolutionize the industry. Oh wait, they didn't.

-Sega 32X - Another hit by Sega that I bought on day one! Everyone loves this system. I believe it sold more than the NES, SNES, Wii and PS2 systems all combined, despite only being as powerful as maybe a PS Vita. Every kid on the block was jealous of me for owning one of these. They still are.

-3DO - Got this when it came out and paid $700. What a great deal! I have never paid that much for a dried up turd before. I eventually sold this system and still have not regretted doing so once.

-Sega Saturn - Bought this on launch day... the surprise launch day! I was very surprised indeed, but I also enjoyed the hell out of the system with crusty versions of Daytona, Virtua Fighter and Panzer Dragoon. What they lacked in graphical power, they made up for in fun! I especially liked that I paid $400 for the system itself. I don't like money, anyway. I still have this unit and it regularly plays such great hits Sega never intended it to in this country, like Radiant Silvergun and X-men vs Street Fighter. Do you think Sega of America is mad at me for playing these forbidden games?

-Playstation - Bought this on launch day as well with such renowned classics such as Total Eclipse Turbo, ESPN XTREME GameZ and Raiden Project. My then-girlfriend got super pissed at me because I was paying more attention to my new toy than I was to her. She cried. I still have this unit, but she is history. People tell me that this is the best CD player that has ever been made, bar none. It sounds better than real life, they say.

-Nintendo 64 - I almost always forget that this console even exists. I bought it on day one when they only released 2 games for it. Stupid Nintendo, they truly were dumbasses for releasing it this way. Because of the lack of games, I forgot about the system and just moved on to better things. I eventually got a Doctor V64 to play Japanese games before they were released here like StarFox 64 and other crap like that. Still have it, but it has over 2 feet of dust collected on top of it, each dust speck fully deserved.

-Sega Dreamcast - Stood in a line that was maybe 100 feet long at the end of the day on 9-8-99 to get my Dreamcast. This was a super long line back in those days. It was at an Electronics Boutique and they said that this was the biggest system launch EVAR. The Dreamcast ended up being pretty cool, but those controllers sure sucked my ass. Still have this unit along with the broadband adapter which is amazing for porn.

-Playstation 2 - Didn't get this right away. But I eventually got one because the Dreamcast died after it was on the market for 5 or 10 minutes. Lots of great games on this console, admittedly, but I really couldn't get into it much.

GameBoy Advance - Got it for Christmas after it came out. Never really got into it because it had no backlight. Wasn't gonna wait for Nintendo to get off of their slow-as-molasses asses, so I moved on.

GameCube - Got this the Christmas after it was released with one of my favorite games ever (despite being wicked easy), Super Monkey Ball. I kind of liked this system and even got the GBA and broadband adapter, but never amassed more than about 9 or so games.

Xbox - Don't remember when I got this one, but it certainly wasn't right away. I really enjoyed this one as it always had the best version of any multiplatform game. Plus it was the first system with 5.1 sound and that in itself made it completely bad-ass!

Nintendo DS - Got it on day 1 with Feel the Magic XXYYABC (or some shit like that). I was very happy with it. Others were poo-pooing it at the time, but I knew it had potential and stuck with it. I was right.

Xbox 360 - My girlfriend bought me one of these maybe 8 months after launch because I made a comment that I liked the high resolution graphics. I still have it and it has never red-ringed on me, but that could be because I am afraid to turn it on. I figure that if I never turn it on, it will never break. It is a winning strategy if I do say so myself. I am disappointed in the gaming community for letting Microsoft get away with building such shoddy hardware.

Wii - I got caught up in the Wii craze and was able to procure one for myself the February after it was released. It's a piece of shit with a few good games here and there. I do not like that I need to use the wand just to start a game that may not use the wand and I hate that I cannot connect the controller to the system to charge the batteries. I also do not like needing to have a peripheral near my TV for the thing to function. What was I thinking?

Playstation 3 - After I got into a car wreck, I celebrated by buying a PS3 with the insurance money I got for "pain and suffering". To this day I generally buy the PS3 version of multiplatform games (with the rare exception where the 360 version is clearly better, like Bayonetta). I knew the PS3 didn't have design/hardware/manufacturing problems like the Xbox 360 did, so I wasn't afraid to use it. I eventually got a PS3 Slim so I could use the old fatty as a Blu-ray player in another room. It is a great system and I love using it for games and (mostly) as a media center.

PSP - Not sure why I got one of these, I think they must have had a sale, but it is only a year or so old now. It's pretty cool but I don't actively follow releases and whatnot.

Nintendo 3DS - Yay, another hit by Nintendo! I bought this on day one. I don't see how anyone couldn't be overjoyed with the 3DS library. Who needs new, original games when you have N64 remakes? HELL YEAH! It's almost as good as the 32X!

Other systems I acquired at thrift stores and the such, not during general release:
NES
Neo-Geo
Many other Genesis's, SNES's and Sega CD's.

[eSPy]

Atari 2600 (pretty sure it was around before i was born but could be wrong)
NES (picked up at a garage sale along with a copy of Dr Mario with the label ripped off in the early 90s)
Genesis (model 2..another garage sale in the mid 90s)
Playstation (my first brand new system! came with the dual shock controller)
Playstation 2 (picked up while it was pretty new)
Sega Saturn (another yard sale find.)
N64 (2nd hand store)

[NintendoLegend]

Great thread.

Got the NES for my 4th birthday and was instantly hooked -- the concept of actually controlling the characters on the TV screen was mind-blowing.

The rest, though, I cannot possibly remember what years or what order, I do not know how you guys do it...

Soon after, received Super Nintendo for Christmas, mom got a Sega Genesis from some guy in a parking lot, got an Atari 2600 and a Game Boy from my grandmother. Soon would get a Nintendo 64, sister got a Game Boy Color, later would find a cheap Playstation and games at a flea market. Gamecube, then my fiancé (at the time, now my wife, w00t) got me the special edition red Wii under the condition that I had to buy us a house before I could play it. Three months later I totally had a house.

So, yeah, mostly a Nintendo-experienced fanboy, but have always enjoyed sessions with friends on their Xboxes and PSnumbers.