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Posted April 07, 2018
I played console and PC all the way back to Odyssey 2
and Commodore 64
But most of my funds went to console
right up until the release of PS3 at which point console got too
greedy and digital distrib started making PC gaming ultra cheap

Now I am PC only

Call out to SNES and PS2 era however - two consoles I would've never felt
complete having not lived through and with
Posted April 07, 2018
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rtcvb32: But most of the games won't be fun unless you have a decent controller. Choose one that works for you and you should be fine once you memorize which buttons are which. Or have an authentic controller (360, PS2, PS3, etc) and plug it in.
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lanipcga: Ah yes, the controller issue is one of my biggest concerns as a longtime mouse and keyboard user. I'm afraid I'll be as clumsy using one as I am with chopsticks. Maybe I'm overthinking this, but something tells me I should just stick to PC gaming for now...
I'm referring more to your hands not getting cramped (not to mention the limit of how many buttons can be pressed at once), trying to simulate buttons and their placements on a keyboard isn't that fun... Doing a game with WASD and IJKL combinations my right hand was cramping like crazy after a little bit. That keyboard layout was kinda crazy and stupid.

Though comfort, ease of use and feeling like it's actually a console are all major pluses.
Post edited April 07, 2018 by rtcvb32
Posted April 07, 2018
Likewise I started off with consoles before PC gaming was a thing, the very first games console I ever played was the Sega Master System but it was when I had the Sega Mega Drive (or Genesis for those Americans) that truly made me into the gamer I am today, and yeah I was a Sega kid. The first PC I ever had ran with Windows 95 so using a PC back then seemed really alien to me. Years later I had the first Playstation and that was a blast back then, the last games consoles I ever played were the Xbox 360 and PS3, sometime between then I actually quit console gaming because PC gaming is just so good now and what you get now is far better than what you can have with a console.

I understand, the 80s, 90s and early 2000s were the golden years of console gaming, if you haven't played console games back then then you've obviously missed out on the nostalgia and it's that which gives us great memories.
Post edited April 07, 2018 by RocketeerRaccoon
Posted April 08, 2018
The very first video games I played were on a Atari 2600... Pitfall 2, Asteroids, Pac Man... at my uncles place, who got the thing I don't know how behind the Iron Curtain.

Still I never owned a console myself. I went C116 -> C64 -> Amiga (500, 1200) -> PCs.

I kind of regret I missed a huge part of gaming, on the other hand my machines have always been not just for games but also tools. Taught myself programming since 1988...
Posted April 08, 2018
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Qwertw: On the contrary, I've always been a console gamer, starting with the NES. I still have those games, with the first Zelda and the first three Marios. I use my PC to play Indie games or old classics not avaiable (or not easy to found) on the consoles I own.
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lanipcga: Interesting. Do your cartridges still work nowadays? Many of my cassettes and CD-R discs from the early 2000s no longer work, so I wonder how these old games hold up after all that time.
To know if my NES cartridges still work, I should first make my NES console work again. I tried some years ago, but it seemed to be dead.
But, all my Game Boy cartridges still work very well. I may be lucky, anyway, because I hear a lot of cartridges battery tend to be dead by now.
Post edited April 08, 2018 by Qwertw
Posted April 08, 2018
First I owned a commodore 64 or what it was and played games on it.
Then I had a sega mega drive from the release and up until 2002 or 2004. One sega mega drive died on me so I bought another one from a friend. Then I gave my sega mega drive away with games to some mothers friend son and he never gave it back, i had around 30 games myself but played probably over 200 of them since friends and the rent shop with games was very close. but I believe I was a pc player from 2002 or 2004.
Anyway I believe I also had some famicom were I played excite bike and mario bros 1 and other games which my uncle gave me and sometimes I borrowed an atari from a friend. So from 2002 maybe even earlier I got a pc from father that was 333 mhz 32mb ram and 32 mb graphic I believe no 3d graphics though I was playing starcraft on it and other games like, stronghold and stronghold crusader.
Then in 2004 I bought my first real pc father did help me pay a little for it but I payed the most for the amd athlon 3000 xp+,512 ram (which was upgraded to 2gb ram) ati radeon 9200 se which the graphic card died in 1 year just when the waranty runned out had to buy an ati radeon 9600xt 256mb which worked for 6 or 7 years. Went for a 8mb graphic card which my uncle gave me for a year or something and then back to 9200 ati radeon se agp which my friend gave me, used that pc for 13 years but processor got weak by needing to underclock it so I got uncles pc which was from 2009 in 2016 someone made the mistake to actually put windows 10 on it and I don't know if the pc motherboard actually burned or it was a windows update that made it too slow so I gave it away which had 4gb ram.
Got now another pc from uncles friend since they didn't need it which is small and didn't have much ram as my first actually bought pc upgraded, this one only has 1gb ram but is still better then my first bought pc.
So wanting to buy a new pc which will happen some day since i couldn't afford it sooner

So with all the problems I actually do enjoy pc gaming more now than console gaming, I did visit friends though who had ps 1 and ps2, i really couldn't afford myself to buy a new pc even though when i worked, lost my job in 2 years seen that i would need the money to pay the bills money went out. Never got a real job back since after getting sick nobody would employ me anymore, now only socially inclused since deemed unemployable.
Post edited April 08, 2018 by Fonzer
Posted April 08, 2018
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RocketeerRaccoon: (snip)

I understand, the 80s, 90s and early 2000s were the golden years of console gaming, if you haven't played console games back then then you've obviously missed out on the nostalgia and it's that which gives us great memories.
GEN - Sonic 1, 2, 3 and S&K, Red Zone, Zombies Ate My Neighbors, GunStar Heros
N64 - GoldenEye, MarioKart 64 (expensive! been looking for a copy), Perfect Dark
PSX - PC ports: Cyberia, Descent I, Descent Maximum

Very good times. And then the PC Games.. Cyberia, Doom, Duke3d, Half-Life, R6.. :)
Post edited April 08, 2018 by BStone
Posted April 08, 2018
We had an Intellivision when I was young but afterwards I never owned a console. Went VC20 > C64 > Amiga > PC. I never had seen a Sega Megadrive before but I had some fun playing Streets of Rage and other games on an emulator.
Posted April 08, 2018
I've gone back and forth between console and pc over the years, but these days, unless it's on GOG, I favor my PS4. For retro, I have an SNES Classic I lucked out on and got late last year.

There are also emulators and online archives if the mood strikes me, but I'm one of those people who believe if a game is no longer produced or for sale brand new from the manufacturer, emulating it is fine.

Good luck on your search. The YS games are all great games, and many other games have borrowed from them, and vice versa, over the years.
Posted April 08, 2018
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Fonzer: First I owned a commodore 64 or what it was and played games on it.
Then I had a sega mega drive from the release and up until 2002 or 2004. One sega mega drive died on me so I bought another one from a friend. Then I gave my sega mega drive away with games to some mothers friend son and he never gave it back, i had around 30 games myself but played probably over 200 of them since friends and the rent shop with games was very close. but I believe I was a pc player from 2002 or 2004.
Anyway I believe I also had some famicom were I played excite bike and mario bros 1 and other games which my uncle gave me and sometimes I borrowed an atari from a friend. So from 2002 maybe even earlier I got a pc from father that was 333 mhz 32mb ram and 32 mb graphic I believe no 3d graphics though I was playing starcraft on it and other games like, stronghold and stronghold crusader.
Then in 2004 I bought my first real pc father did help me pay a little for it but I payed the most for the amd athlon 3000 xp+,512 ram (which was upgraded to 2gb ram) ati radeon 9200 se which the graphic card died in 1 year just when the waranty runned out had to buy an ati radeon 9600xt 256mb which worked for 6 or 7 years. Went for a 8mb graphic card which my uncle gave me for a year or something and then back to 9200 ati radeon se agp which my friend gave me, used that pc for 13 years but processor got weak by needing to underclock it so I got uncles pc which was from 2009 in 2016 someone made the mistake to actually put windows 10 on it and I don't know if the pc motherboard actually burned or it was a windows update that made it too slow so I gave it away which had 4gb ram.
Got now another pc from uncles friend since they didn't need it which is small and didn't have much ram as my first actually bought pc upgraded, this one only has 1gb ram but is still better then my first bought pc.
So wanting to buy a new pc which will happen some day since i couldn't afford it sooner

So with all the problems I actually do enjoy pc gaming more now than console gaming, I did visit friends though who had ps 1 and ps2, i really couldn't afford myself to buy a new pc even though when i worked, lost my job in 2 years seen that i would need the money to pay the bills money went out. Never got a real job back since after getting sick nobody would employ me anymore, now only socially inclused since deemed unemployable.
hope its nothing serious.cheers
Posted April 08, 2018
I grew up on NES and SNES, then switched to PC gaming around 1994 when Doom and similar games were getting hot. My mother had a gaming PC for adventure games like Myst and Under a Killing Moon so I started using it to play stuff like Dark Forces. I haven't really ever gone back to consoles since, other than some local multiplayer at friends' houses. Though I did briefly own a Nintendo 64 and played Mario 64 and Zelda OoT.

I barely have time for the PC gaming I want to do now, let alone get into more modern consoles. That's why the idea of exclusives has always made me shrug. I've got more than enough games. That said if something right up my alley was ever made exclusive, like say Fallout 5, I might sing another tune.
Posted April 08, 2018
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StingingVelvet: I grew up on NES and SNES, then switched to PC gaming around 1994 when Doom and similar games were getting hot. My mother had a gaming PC for adventure games like Myst and Under a Killing Moon so I started using it to play stuff like Dark Forces. I haven't really ever gone back to consoles since, other than some local multiplayer at friends' houses. Though I did briefly own a Nintendo 64 and played Mario 64 and Zelda OoT.
Favorite NES game?
Posted April 08, 2018
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tinyE: Favorite NES game?
Mega Man 3 probably. I know most prefer 2 but 3 was the one I played endlessly. I also had a weird love for Jackal, a jeep combat game. And of course the Mario and Zelda games were great. I didn't like Metroid on the NES though, took Super Metroid to make me a fan. Same for Castlevania. I still to this day listen to Super Castlevania music tracks.
Posted April 08, 2018
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StingingVelvet: Mega Man 3 probably. I know most prefer 2 but 3 was the one I played endlessly.
2 & 4 are my favorites.
Posted April 08, 2018
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lanipcga: I am by no means the most hardcore RPG enthusiast in the world, but I have a feeling I'd really like Zelda II and Crystalis. It's unfortunate that I can't afford any NES gear these days; I would certainly have been interested in giving those two oldies a try.
Check out the PC indie game EvilQuest. I liked it a lot, and it's supposedly very much like Crystalis.

Only $2 as long as you're not allergic to Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/263820/EvilQuest/
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