I saw a few posts in Shab's Tech hoax topic and thought I'd try to redirect the conversation here.
Well i remember quite clearly i was 4 when we first got an Amstrad cpc computer with a bundle of 30 or so crappy Amsoft games (with the odd gem)
It seems like madness nowadays but all the games were stored on audio cassettes and took 10+ minutes to load but the upside to that was that the games were incredibly cheap to buy (Ł2 for budget games) so we built up a vast collection of something like 300 games.
At some point we were given an Atari 2600 and i was amazed that the games loaded instantly lol.
Then in 1992 we bought a Sega megadrive with Sonic 2 and Megagames 2 ^^ good times.
Spectrum. Stupidly young. The first machine I actually owned was a NES when I was 4 or so. Amiga 600 for Christmas when I was 5 (wild wacky pack, with a Capcom collection which needed Relokick (hot memory!)).
In orderage-
Spectrum, NES, Amiga, Mega Drive, Gameboy, N64-PS1 (same day), GBA, Gamecube, Dreamcast, Xbox, GBA SP, DS "phat, PSP "phat", Gameboy Micro, Wii, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Color, PSP slim.
Remember when I bought Sonic 2 for the Mega Drive, Ł7 from EB! Always loved that game still my fave in the whole series. Best buy was Link's Awakening for my GB when I was about 11 or so. IMO the best game. Marins song has and always will bring a tear to my eye
Commander Keen, at around 5 or 6? Maybe even younger, I can't remember anything else I did before that age. After that I remember Warcraft: Orcs and Humans, DooM, Settlers II... Then there was my Gameboy pocket :] Pokémon blue, Link's Awakening (I feel the same way about Marin's song, James! <3), Pokémon Yellow (hearing Pikachu on my gameboy was immense!). I remember playing Sonic and Knuckles around a friend's house all the time, too. A while after the gameboy years, I got TGF! Yay! And Half Life, that was scary stuff! I got into the HL mapping scene about the same time I was halfway decent with TGF, I might get back into it again with Source
At some point I got a playstation, and that was the only console I had until the Wii release Mostly PC gaming, for me that has always been the best. Only PC games have had me constantly coming back for more.
Seven?? Maybe? Video gaming was a new world when we got an ancient SNES from my dad's boss. I started on classics like MMX, Star fox, B.O.B. (What's that??), Goof Troop... Stuff like that. My friend gave me his N64 in an attempt to steal my SNES, but it failed. Bought an NES at goodwill, never play it. Got a Wii the year it came out (Best system yet). Then a PS2 for sly cooper. Plus two GBA's a DS, an original Gameboy, GBA Micro along the way. I bought a Genesis for the purpose of hacking it, never got around to it.
Sheesh, I remember a time when I was amazed at how much awesome stuff my friends had, now it seems I'm one of those lucky people. (Of course, I used my own money, they just got it from their parents.)
I was like four or five, I think. I used to play these small DOS-based games on my dad's laptop. He had a grid-based puzzle game called Supaplex, and some sort of pinball game, among others. Then in school, one of my friends had a SNES, and that was pretty much my first console experience. Me and my brother wanted one for Christmas, but our parents got us a N64 instead, which was awesome, of course (that was like 1997, so the N64 was brand new then). I'm not sure, but I think that was the same year that I got Klik & Play, and started making games and everything. Ah, memories.
I remember Heartlight, Adam! I got it on this Epic Megagames demo CD. I remember going through every game, heartlight was awesome! There was also One Must Fall (best robot beat-em-up EVER) and Tyrian, and I got the full versions of them for my birthday
Anybody remember The neverhood? I remember a demo from when I was a wee lad and spent years searching for it on the internet. It didn't help that I couldn't remember the name. I found it the other day, just as creepy as I remember, except for the missing whistling soundtrack.
I grew up playing Prince of persia 1 & 2 on my mom's old STARMAX Macintosh clone, day after day. Soon after I got a Gameboy Pocket, then a sega genesis. Then I turned 4.
2600/commie64 (The 80's were FUN!)
NES/Gameboy (Actually the gameboy was my first personal system)
SNES/PC
Skipped the N64 and PSX, gfx on my computer weren't pixelized to hell
Ps2/XB/GC (This solved my problem with the pixelization.)
These were the systems I had immediate access to, but I had occasional access to others through friends and the like.
Originally Posted by OldManClayton Anybody remember The neverhood?
The soundtrack to that game inspired a friend of mine to get into music. I've never played it but he sent me the soundtrack to the Neverhood and the prequel/sequel (whatever order it was in), really awesome stuff. First game to use vocals in most of the soundtrack perhaps?
"Heartlight has been compared to other popular puzzle games as Boulder Dash and Supaplex."
Cool I can see why you liked it then. I used to play Supaplex A LOT when I was little. Then like a year ago I discovered there was a downloadable Win32 port. I didn't leave my room for a week
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Mostly PC gaming, for me that has always been the best. Only PC games have had me constantly coming back for more.
Yay. I think someone should remake Heartlight in MMF2, Id be up for doing some GFX 
