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gtmtnbiker wrote:

Big Stupid wrote:Well, I'm a young whippersnapper at the age of 19

I don't know why but I had visualized you being like your avatar.

Your Navy Pic Avatar does have my curiosity, My Dad and myself are both retired Navy. If you don't mind me asking, any significance maybe a relative?

CRTGAMER wrote:

gtmtnbiker wrote:

Big Stupid wrote:Well, I'm a young whippersnapper at the age of 19

I don't know why but I had visualized you being like your avatar.

Your Navy Pic Avatar does have my curiosity, My Dad and myself are both retired Navy. If you don't mind me asking, any significance maybe a relative?

Maybe he's a fan of Gene Kelly

Well Im 19 and been playing video games for a long time. First console was a SNES and Im still trying to find it in storage. Next console was around 2002 and it was a N64. Goldeneye blew my mind away.Got a playstation 1 later on.Then a Gamecube. Then I bought Counter-Strike for PC and console gaming stopped for the longest.Last year got myself a Xbox 360 but that pooped out.So now Im just playing the Sega Dreamcast and Sega Saturn.

CRTGAMER wrote:Your Navy Pic Avatar does have my curiosity, My Dad and myself are both retired Navy. If you don't mind me asking, any significance maybe a relative?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the avatar pic in question is Gene Kelly.

On the topic, I am 27, and have always been significantly behind the times when it came to gaming. I got a TI-99/4a sometime in 1988, I think. I had a lot of fun with it, but was very excited Christmas of 1992 when our family got an NES. The games were a lot bigger and longer than the TI-99/4a. I pretty much remained a dedicated NES gamer for a long time after that. My brother got an SNES, and I did play it a lot as well, but the NES was pretty much it for me until just a few years ago. I had no interest in newer games, and just enjoyed building my collection.

I did not have much Atari 2600 exposure in my youth, and I'd say that there are few games on the system that really hold my interest. I still really enjoy playing Adventure, Yar's Revenge, Pitfall 2, and Jungle Hunt. I don't much care for the 2600 port of Space Invaders. TI Invaders on the TI-99/4a is just so much better.

A good market are the elderly.

Thank goodness for Brain Age!

I had a conversation about this with a co-worker a few weeks back.

I'm 21, he's 15.

: "Hey sputnik, did you ever play Grand Theft Auto San Andreas when you were a kid?"
me: "I think that game came out when I was in high school, dude."
: "Oh yeah! That must have sucked."
me: "What do you mean?"
: "It must have sucked to grow up with such shitty technology as the PS2. I can't play those old games anymore. The graphics are so shitty."
me:

Although I was born in 89 I was the youngest of four boys so I grew up with an NES with the Colecovision and Atari making some appearances. (I was always technologically behind. I actually grew up with only a Betamax. My father lost the videotape wars, but never was the traitorous type.)

I think that that upbringing always kind of left me with a good bit of respect for older games. I've always cared a lot less about graphics as I have about gameplay, and I think that dates back to growing up having only an NES until around 1997.

fuck I hate getting older

not gonna give out my age here, but 1st gaming experience was when on xmas morn at 4yrs old I unwrapped and plugged in an NES. I think father had seen me in the mall looking at the thing and say something like, "Daddy what is that box on the shelf that all the people want?" I don't remember what he said, but then on xmas day, he said after I unwrapped it, "Do you know what it is?" (and I said) "It's a Nintendo Entertainment System!" and he said, "Yes." and entertain me it did.

After that I was into DOS gaming peripherally, though I did play Doom shareware as soon as it came out, had played Wolfenstein before that, had played Loadrunner before that. But as a boy console gaming was where it was at for me. From the NES, to the SEGAAAAAAAA
then to the SNES (not an rpger fyi), then to the N64, then to the ps1, then more to the PC. Since 99 I've been a PC'er, convinced that consoles as such are just a necessary nuisance. It has nothing to do with the things themselves, just the way they're marketed and the way each console has exclusives? So stupid. Like, if I buy GTAIV for the PS3 I should be able to play that shit on the 360 and the PC. So I mean, I don't buy modern consoles because they're such a gip.

Though I did get into Xbox and then the PS2, both great systems, the Xbox more than you'd think.

But, yeah, PC became my bag around the year 2000 with CS (which I'm sure we all have fond memories of).

Nowadays, I don't really play games much. I don't dig art that costs an assload of money to experience properly, so I retrogame, and get this, my Xbox (original) just shat the bed and started making bad sparking noises and burning-plastic smell. So, thats a PSW problem (anyone have this prob), which I've read can be fixed w/ soldering. So, that'll get done, but jesus msft, it is ridiculous the market share you have in consoles despite the fact that every console you make completely sucks reliability-wise. Srsly

oh yeah!

ps on that last post

wtf are console makers afraid to make huge consoles! I mean, the xbox and the xbox360 would probably have been much better systems if they hadn't been crammed into a shoebox formfactor. I mean, fuck, modern gaming means lots of processing, lots of heat, and lots of space. msft just needs to bite the bullet and set a precedent here, make their next console a 1ftX1ft cube. I mean, fuck it, we'd buy it right? And it'd be such a better system.

take notice msft, nintendo and sony, in that order

(ps now that I think of it, wtf was sony doing in the console business?!)

durrr we whur gonna make a' cd-rohm drive for nentendo, oops, FF6? ok. MGS? ok.

FUCK OFF!

Of course, I'm waiting for the other foot to drop, put these fuckers of business...

SEGA: REVELATION

fuck yea! I'm srs

fucking SEGA, I'd cut off a ball for you

swiftzx wrote:I'm 15 and since my family didn't have much money, I started with the N64 and had a Gba, but since as I stated before, my parents got me gbc games. I view games by their fun factor and not their graphics. Now I got my 9 yr old cousin to be a genesis fan

I'm 15 too. I grew up with N64/ PS2 (my first system was a GB pocket). My cousins had a NES and my second cousins had Genesis so I played retro games since I was very young. I've always enjoyed playing the Mario games on GBA and I had Sega Smash Pack for PC so I have been playing retro games long before I actually started a collection.

Some games are on par with newer games like Super Mario Bros. 3, Sonic The Hedgehog, and Comix Zone. I judge games on graphics compared to other games on that system. I'm not gonna compare a NES game to a PS3 game based on graphics. :p

I was born in 95, I got a Psone with some games for Christmas when I was about 5. I'm not going to say I can stand the graphics of older consoles, because I can't finish it unless the game is REALLY drawing me in. I can stand the Genesis graphics, they are nice and lighthearted, not as blocky as the SNES. I used to be into FPS games, but I have since lost intrest. At the moment I seem to only want to play Top down Shumps or Space shooters (like StarFox)