Found my "era" of nostalgia.

[JordanPlayer]

My "era" is hard to define... I definitely grew up playing/loving the classic NES games such as Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc; I also remember playing all of the Sonic games, Vectorman, Rocket Knight... then I somewhat skimmed over the SNES era mainly playing the Mario games; Donkey Kong Country (which I LOOOOOOOVE); and some Mega Man. I also loved the N64 and have a ton of games for that system. After the N64 I got a Gamecube and also transitioned into PC gaming. I remember the NES/Genesis (and some SNES) games of my younger years as my kid era, the N64 as my teenage era, and PC as my current/grown up machine due to online gaming.

[Octopod]

My era for gaming nostalgia stretches from the Atari 2600 to the NES and maybe even the SNES somewhat. Also arcades.

[ZeroAX]

My "era" is hard to define... I definitely grew up playing/loving the classic NES games such as Mario, Zelda, Metroid, etc; I also remember playing all of the Sonic games, Vectorman, Rocket Knight... then I somewhat skimmed over the SNES era mainly playing the Mario games; Donkey Kong Country (which I LOOOOOOOVE); and some Mega Man. I also loved the N64 and have a ton of games for that system. After the N64 I got a Gamecube and also transitioned into PC gaming. I remember the NES/Genesis (and some SNES) games of my younger years as my kid era, the N64 as my teenage era, and PC as my current/grown up machine due to online gaming.

really? cause all i've been reading in your post is 90s (minus the nes)

[aaron]

1990 - 1995
got my first game boy, played the SHIT out of batman, duck tales, super mario land, tetris, metroid 2, super r.c. pro-am, and a bunch of others. also got my genesis, used to rent games from the video store across the street. countless hours on sonic 1-3, sonic & knuckles, eternal champions, road rash 2, nba jam, michael jackson's moonwalker, earthworm jim 1-2 and a slew of other titles.

and also 2002-2004
i worked at toys r us in the electronics section so i bought and played a lot of ps2, gc, and xb games. i had my biggest collection around this time, also. then i got married.

[Yukima]

1999-2001.

This was when I "discovered" gaming - my first SNES, SFC import gaming, Genesis on emulators, GBC on emulators, N64 on emulators, PS1 on emulators... pretty much EVERYTHING on emulators... if I could get it to run on a 486DX2 Packard Bell computer, I'd play it (heck, even if it didn't run or was never supposed to run and be playable, I'd MAKE it playable until I'd scream from frustration! )

And thus I completely burned myself out on playing games via emulation on PC... Now I'd rather be able to plug the game in and play it instead of spending hours, days or weeks trying to get a computer to play it properly!

[Hobie-wan]

And who could forget Scorched Earth?

Many an afternoon was wasted with 5 or 6 friends crowded around my 13 inch monitor with randomly selected PC opponents blowing the crap out of each other. None of the 'artillery' type games I've tried since then duplicated the fun of Scorched Earth.

Console gaming wise, the late NES and SNES era are big on nostalgia for me. I rented and borrowed a lot of games and despite the 'Nintendo hardness' I would play them for hours trying to beat them before they were returned a day or 2 later. I have very specific memories tied to playing certain games.

I borrowed Rygar from a kid at school and played it one weekend that I was grounded. My father was away on a business trip and my mother was out doing errands. I spent 6 hours playing the game and finished it. Probably half of that time was jumping up every time I heard a car drive by checking if it was my mom coming home so I could shut off the NES. I borrowed Zelda from the same kid and had forgotten my key that day. I spent a few hours after school across the street with my younger neighbor playing it waiting for my mom to come home. Once I got a hand me down TV, I spent hours lying on my floor playing games.

[DNT 2.5]

My current Era is this one, the seventh gen. It is the one I Am enjoying the most, and I am relatively new to gaming. However, the Atari 2600 is my favorite console. by far.

[xxstatic]

Tough to put myself into one small "era", my first game system:



I was 10 years old in 1976 and the minute we brought this home I was hooked on video games forever.
I have owned about every significant video game system since then and at 43 I don't plan on stopping.

[JordanPlayer]

really? cause all i've been reading in your post is 90s (minus the nes)

Well... the NES and N64 are my most beloved systems; I grew up as a kid on the NES. I even purchased my first NES at the time that the SNES was out (that's how much I loved the NES). So I guess technically I grew up playing games in the late 80s through the 90s; but it was NES games from the late 80s that had the biggest impact on my gaming

[Octopod]

Tough to put myself into one small "era", my first game system:



I was 10 years old in 1976 and the minute we brought this home I was hooked on video games forever.
I have owned about every significant video game system since then and at 43 I don't plan on stopping.

Did you buy that rug and the console at the same time?