Who did you lose your virginity to? [Archive]

marcus

18-03-2003, 11:18 PM

..Vicky..erm ah, console wise it was the Master System also, a system which I adored at the time thanks to brilliant games like Fantasy Zone, World Soccer and Space Harrier. I even loved the secret shooter game that you could access by holding down buttons on the controller when it booted, that was so addictive, anyone remind me what it was called?

The very first console I ever played was the Atari, however the Master System was the first one I ever actually owned for myself.

lordcookie

18-03-2003, 11:24 PM

I even loved the secret shooter game that you could access by holding down buttons on the controller when it booted, that was so addictive, anyone remind me what it was called?

Was that on the SMS Mk1 or 2?

I had a Mk1 in which there was a snail maze game which you unlocked when you held A+B and pressed U, R, D, L.

Great days :D

vic_viper

18-03-2003, 11:25 PM

The first console i owned 'seriously' was the Master System.

I bought the console, Double Dragon and Ghosts & Goblins. Happy days :D

Sidez

18-03-2003, 11:27 PM

Rep.

replicant

18-03-2003, 11:29 PM

Atari 2600 wooden finish.

Older cousin got one, and immediately I wanted one. Had to wait till the following Christmas till I got it, and boy it was good!!

shifty_geezer

18-03-2003, 11:29 PM

The Sega Mega Drive. :)

marcus

18-03-2003, 11:29 PM

Yep, that confirms many of my suspicions Sidez.

Was that on the SMS Mk1 or 2?

I had a Mk1 in which there was a snail maze game which you unlocked when you held A+B and pressed U, R, D, L.

Ah yes I seem to remember that too, but mine definitly had a shooter. Any chance someone with a SMS can enlighten me on the shooter that was pre-built into the system?

replicant

18-03-2003, 11:32 PM

Rep.

ahh, so thats what that 10 seconds of grasping my left leg was.

:P

Sidez

18-03-2003, 11:35 PM

Rep.

ahh, so thats what that 10 seconds of grasping my left leg was.

:P
Yeah 10 seconds is total duration you could keep it up

wod

18-03-2003, 11:35 PM

Console wise

then the sony playstation never had a mega drive or that

lordcookie

18-03-2003, 11:38 PM

replicant

18-03-2003, 11:40 PM

Rep.

ahh, so thats what that 10 seconds of grasping my left leg was.

:P
Yeah 10 seconds is total duration you could keep it up

maybe so, but it shattered ur earth:P

Sidez

18-03-2003, 11:42 PM

Rep.

ahh, so thats what that 10 seconds of grasping my left leg was.

:P
Yeah 10 seconds is total duration you could keep it up

maybe so, but it shattered ur earth:P
Aye :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub: :wub:

Roost

18-03-2003, 11:42 PM

My old beloved Atari ST

replicant

18-03-2003, 11:45 PM

x x x

sidekick :P

Ashe

18-03-2003, 11:59 PM

Mine was the original gameboy - what can I say, I was a late bloomer.

nips

19-03-2003, 12:22 AM

Nintendo Entertainment System... What a wonderful time!

Firsty

19-03-2003, 12:31 AM

Sonic!
It was love at first sight :wub: . I loved slipping his smooth cartridge into my gaping slot. That bastard told me he loved me, but as soon as he got me up the duff he left! Now I hear he hoes on other systems to make ends meet. He has a shit pimp.

Rav

19-03-2003, 12:47 AM

The Atari ST, i think the first game i played on it was goldrunner, a pretty good shooter. Those where days, i can still remember playing games like mouse trap, major motion, dragon ninja, kick off and double dragon.

Smeghead

19-03-2003, 12:48 AM

Was that on the SMS Mk1 or 2?

I had a Mk1 in which there was a snail maze game which you unlocked when you held A+B and pressed U, R, D, L.

Ah yes I seem to remember that too, but mine definitly had a shooter. Any chance someone with a SMS can enlighten me on the shooter that was pre-built into the system?

The 2 games built in to the Mk1 were Safari Hunt which used the light phaser (and was great), and Hang on (the classic racing game).

The original batch of Master Systems had a Maze game, later ones had Hang on and Safari Hunt, though I think there were other games built in too.

Master System 2s generally had Sonic or Alex Kidd.

ZX Speccy wi rubber keys was my first toy! kept me goin right thru to early 90s, though I did get a NES in about 89. £45 a game was a bit of a shock next to £1.99 speccy games though.

Chadruharazzeb

19-03-2003, 01:03 AM

My cherry was popped by Sir Clive Sinclair. Not the man himself, but his rubber-keyed monstrosity the ZX Spectrum 48k.

Since then I've been very promiscuous, pimping systems by Commodore (Amiga), Sega (MegaDrive and Dreamcast), Nintendo (N64 and GC to come), and Sony (PS1 and erm... what's the other called?)

Excelsior

19-03-2003, 01:13 AM

EN - EE - ES

the turtles game commercial made me want it :)

who would have known how expensive that commercial would cost me :D

Ginger Tosser

19-03-2003, 01:17 AM

1st console was a crappy Tandy video games system, although the motor bike was fun

1st computer ZX81

1st real console Super Famicom

markftmuk2

19-03-2003, 01:18 AM

Master System II for me too, me and a mate spent hours on sonic and asterix, although i never got to play many other top master system titles at the time due to parents only buying the bargain bin games from makro. I remember lusting over sonic 2 and sonic chaos but never got them unitl this year.

killy

19-03-2003, 01:18 AM

ZX Spectrum 128k - I was young and vulnerable but we had fun.

lordcookie

19-03-2003, 01:23 AM

Well it appears that the Master System was most peoples first console, so what was eveyones favourite game on it?

Sonic was mine. In fact the SMS version of Sonic was even better than the MD version with much better levels.

Papercut

19-03-2003, 01:57 AM

First big console for me was a Super Famicom. I had been interested in the PC Engine, but had an Amiga at the time.

First big gaming anything for me was the Commodore 64, which I still think was one of the greatest machines. Shame we didn't have as high quality arcade ports for it as the Japanese did for the MSX, but original titles more than made up for that.

I also had an Atari 2600, which provided a lot of joy over the years. There are few 2 player games as good as Combat...

Honorable mentions should also go to the Atari 800 XL which was and still is very underrated, and the Master System which I lusted after on release and got hold of some time later.

I had a good mix of machines from a young age, and started picking up second hand stuff I didn't have very early on for peanuts.

Since the death of the Amiga, I haven't really followed any one manufacturer.

RE: Master System built in games - there were several versions with different games. Later ones had Sonic 1 built in, some had Alex Kid, some had the maze game, and some had Hang On.

JRMacumber

19-03-2003, 04:33 AM

Atari 2600. Man, I remember when those first game out. I couldn't believe what I was seeing, that I could actually have an arcade IN MY HOUSE!!11! It was an earth shattering event.

wager

19-03-2003, 06:57 AM

Atari 2600 for me. First game would either be Combat or Breakout. Did anyone have the Indy 500 game, the one with the special paddle controllers. Loved that game and played it for hours at a time.

Brats

19-03-2003, 07:51 AM

I had an Atari VCS (still got it), but the Spectrum was my first labour of love. I got a Master System, but I didn't get seriously into it, despite having Shinobi and Phantasy Star. My love with Nintendo went through the roof when I got a SNES.

BTW, the first versions of the Master System came with both hang On and the maze game. Hang On kicked in when there was no cartridge in the machine (great idea, more consoles should do this) and the maze game was activated by pressing the buttons like Lord cookie said. It was just controlling some snail through a maze, but it was strangely compelling.

Dezm0nd

19-03-2003, 08:16 AM

Spectrum ZX was the first. Moved onto some dodgy green-screened Amstrad and shortly after the NES.

Bleeders

19-03-2003, 08:52 AM

Mine was the ZX Spectrum 48K. Then followed the upgraded 128K version, then I moved on over to the Master System.

Geoff D

19-03-2003, 08:58 AM

Atari 2600 for me too - she was so gentle with me.

mechamonkey

19-03-2003, 09:01 AM

Another one for Atari 2600 , well if you dont count my binatone pong game :)

Ravon

19-03-2003, 09:02 AM

Good old Atari 2600 with wood finish, what a cool system.....she was like a whore.... :wub:
Then came the C128, Amiga, PS, PS2, Gamecube and finally Xbox....

A few origanal GB's found there way in their and a Neogeo pocket to boot....

Sandman

19-03-2003, 09:09 AM

Christ - I lived in ignorant bliss of all these types of things, including Arcades, until I was about 25 (just remember, we go back a'while here in Sandman-land), when a work-mate started to bring in C+VG magazine for break-time consumption. I was hugely impressed by the colour and sheer exuberance of what I read, but what really pulled me in was when the same guy brought his Dragon 32 into work one Sat morning, and we stayed over until past tea-time playing the damn thing.

Sinclair labs were pre-announcing their 16k Spectrum at the time, so i pre-ordered one (was about £148 I think). That came, I had to get the memory increased to 48k within a few monthes, and the journey started.

Since then I've had Spectrum 128, Atari 800XL (with a disk-drive!!!), Atari ST, Master System, Commodore Amiga, Megadrive, SNES, Gameboy, Saturn, Lynx, Gamegear,Dreamcast, Playstation, PS2, X-Box, GBA, Gamecube, and PC.

So, getting on for 23 years of gaming, and I'm still captivated by the "magic" of it all :)

killy

19-03-2003, 09:14 AM

Sieg

19-03-2003, 09:32 AM

First 'console' was a pong TV game way way back in the 70's ... can't remember what brand it was, though ...

VIC-20 and the C64 through the early teenage years ...

But then actually losing my virginity led to a period that was virtually game-free apart from the occasional foray into the arcades ~

Parental responsibilities and settling down a bit, I bought the first proper console: a Master System 2 ... (for which The Ninja was my favourite pastime) and basically it's been all down-hill from there ^^

S.

powerslide

19-03-2003, 09:52 AM

lost my gaming virginity to Galaxian in 1984; home computer virginity to the Speccy; console virginity to the Master System.

goldbricker

19-03-2003, 09:58 AM

We picked up one of those pong machines from a car boot sale. I don't remember the make but I distinctly remember it was orange.

The first console proper was the NES with Super Mario and Duck hunt dual cartridge. I could finish Mario 1 with my eyes shut I played it so much so that was probably my favourite game on it although Mario 3 was comes close.

Trok REAPER

19-03-2003, 10:02 AM

Atari 2600 wodden finish.

Days, and I do mean days lost on this. Had the extra bonus as using my twin brother as game fodder for years (only joking Bro, you won a couple of games I think ;) )

Trok

SharkSkin-Man

19-03-2003, 10:05 AM

Ah yes I seem to remember that too, but mine definitly had a shooter. Any chance someone with a SMS can enlighten me on the shooter that was pre-built into the system?

Astro Warrior?

evilmatt

19-03-2003, 02:25 PM

My first console was an Amiga CD32... oops :???:

But before that I had an Amiga 500 and an Atari XE (now we're really going back....!)

Never bought japanese till the Playstation, and even then it was a chipped one near the end of the console's life span. Buying dead/dying consoles is great, all the top games for a tenner :D

mackemansj1

19-03-2003, 02:35 PM

My first was an amstrad green screen computer, as it say on the tin it had a green monitor and took tapes it made the worst sound loading in, but i loved it , set my mother back best part of £200 sortly after that i got the mighty nes :D

lordcookie

19-03-2003, 02:50 PM

Parental responsibilities and settling down a bit, I bought the first proper console: a Master System 2 ... (for which The Ninja was my favourite pastime) and basically it's been all down-hill from there ^^

S.

Only now can I truly appreciate how good The Ninja was. When I first started playing I was too young and the one hit and your dead aspect was too frustrating. But a few months ago I played it again and it is fantastic. The way you could make your self temporarily invisible to dodge weapons was fantastic (and invaluable on the log level).

SonicMarmalade

19-03-2003, 02:53 PM

Hmm.

Arcade - Night Driver / Battlezone
Console - Atari VCS Woody
Computer - ZX81

I feel really old-skool now. ^_^

Adam

19-03-2003, 02:54 PM

Kalia

19-03-2003, 03:29 PM

Anyone here old enough to remember the Commodore PET? It had something like an 8 inch green screen monitor, crap porcessor and cassette drive.

Played an absolute pile of crap called nightmare park - seriously the thoughts on how bad that game was used to give me nightmares!

First real games machine was the adorable C64 :D

Treble

19-03-2003, 03:38 PM

Atari VCS.

Heckler&Koch

19-03-2003, 03:50 PM

Some sort of Spectrum was the first gameing platform I owned. I remember putting in the Rambo casette and it took about half an hour to load, only to crash afterI walked off the first screen :rolleyes:

HA! Neither RAMBO or COBRA on my ZX loaded man.

http://www.btinternet.com/~joffa.smifff/bitmaps/cobra/cobratitle.gif

I dreamed I actually got this game to work all thru out my childhood! http://www.esmileys.com/mig/albums./yahoosmileys/yim19.gif

crazytaxinext

19-03-2003, 04:02 PM

Actually owned? Rather than just played?

Well, first it was the old Game & Watch Marios Cement Factory but machine wise it was the Amstrad CPC 464 Color.

chosen_one666

19-03-2003, 05:08 PM

The first game I ever played (and owned) was Sonic the Hedgehog on the Master System, back when I was about 8. Loved it then, and still love it now. What's the people say about never forgetting your first true love? Well it's true, there is nothing like a good old game of Sonic.

Spatial

19-03-2003, 06:05 PM

I dreamed I actually got this game to work all thru out my childhood! http://www.esmileys.com/mig/albums./yahoosmileys/yim19.gif

Don't worry, you didn't miss much at all

My first time was to a Speccy ( harsh, unforgiving mistress that she was ), quickly followed by a quicky fling with that hussy the NES

:wub:

Burai

19-03-2003, 06:13 PM

Master System II.

With Alex Kidd built in and The Ninja as an extra.

The Ninja was bloody hard and Alex Kidd was sublime. They released Sonic a little later which was pure brilliance. Possibly better than the Mega Drive Sonics (taste the controversy!)

Mervin

19-03-2003, 06:22 PM

I'm pretty sure it was a Grandstand pong type thing, after that it was a VCS.

Freedan

19-03-2003, 06:42 PM

Well first one i played a game on was the amiga 500, then the next christmas or something we managed to find the last 2 nes's currys had and got them for £25..and thus the saga began...

olly

19-03-2003, 07:05 PM

Amstrad CPC 6128.

But after that, Nintendo devotee.

blastre

19-03-2003, 07:08 PM

Had a ZX-81 when I was a kid. We'd sit with some magazine from WHSmiths - one of us reading the code out - the other typing it in. They'd be ridiculously simple games called Red Baron (black block follows black block - press X) even though it couldn't handle colour and one touch of the Panda Ram Pack hanging off the back and it'd crash. The magazines were always full of poor code so usually the games wouldn't work or I'd misheard my bro's code-babble speak - did you say 'dit dit' or 'dot dot'?
After that the Spectrum kicked off, somewhat alongside the Atari 2600. We had a 16k one for Christmas which went back the week after and got replaced with the 48k version. The smell of childhood was the new rubber keys heating up playing some Donkey Kong ripoff. Pretty soon we were back in Smiths trying to nick the original cover for our copy of Penetrator or typing in PEEK and POKE codes into the shop's demo Spectrums to try and get them to crash for good.
The Atari 2600 was beautiful as well. One morning I woke up just in time to see my bro 'clock' the game - a majestic event he'd played all night to get to.
After a while the Spectrum got kitted out in a new black shiny case called the Fuller Orator that was supposed to make it speak. Never got to the 128k version. Moved over to the BBC as it was a bit more educational - the parents must have seen them in the background spinning a green wire frame planet round on Children's telly.

Super Stu

19-03-2003, 07:24 PM

OK, I've just nipped upstairs to take some photos. I suspect there were some cheesy LED and LCD based handheld things, but things kicked off for me (in 1984 I believe) with the Coleco Vision:

http://www.superstu.demon.co.uk/images/coleco.jpg

Cracking machine, and as you can see below, it's been a while since we had both Nintendo and Sega writing games for the same console:

http://www.superstu.demon.co.uk/images/colecocarts.jpg

A year later, I progessed onto the All Time Daddy Computer (2nd only to the Amiga):

http://www.superstu.demon.co.uk/images/spectrum.jpg

:)

Lyris

19-03-2003, 07:48 PM

Well, I first played games on my cousin's SNES, then at home on my dad's PC, I sticked to PC gaming for awhile and when I ran out of good old titles to play, finally my first console was a PAL Dreamcast.

marcus

19-03-2003, 07:52 PM

Stu, you are so lucky owning those two items! That Spectrum has to be the most adorable little computer ever - I went straight for the Spectrum Plus 2 though myself, I saved all the money I had for ages for that computer. Fond memories in deed :)

angel_fear

19-03-2003, 09:19 PM

I think that it was my uncle who put my into gaming, since the Atari, NES and Mega Drive. When he bought his Mega Drive, my parents offered me one too, so this was my first console.

Dark_soldier

19-03-2003, 09:20 PM

my fisrt gaming experiance on a console was on the mega drive laying on sonic.

the first console and game i owned was a NES and mario bros.

i didnt buy another game for it for moths after. had to complete it before a new game was got.

Nick Laslett

20-03-2003, 11:05 AM

Atari VCS 2600, wooden finish, Christmas 1982.

Had a lot of carts. Used to rent a lot to0. I remember having the a booklet with the whole catelogue available for the PAL VCS and obsessing over various games.

Owning the VCS led me to start buying Computer & Video Games magazine. The first issue I have is circa 1983 with Dark Crystal on the cover. It was great for revealling all the easter eggs hidden in the games.

I had 3 friends who also had Atari's this greatly increased the number of games I got to play. Through friends I was able to sample the awfulness that was ET. You really could just fall into a whole and never get out, game over.

Here are some of the titles I remember fondly.

Adventure - First game I ever remember completing. Source of many an english essay at school. The giant bridge was the best bit + all the secrets.

Night Driver - Stuck a picture of a car on the front of the TV. This made the game much more playable. It was my brother who pointed out that the car didn't move but the road did. We even had the paddles to play this!

Missile Command - Bought in the USA. A little twiddle of the verticle hold and it worked on a UK TV. None of this regional coding rubbish on the Atari.

Pac-Man - Also bought in the US. Not a disappointment for me.

Enduro - 2nd generation Activision brillance. First console rally game? The time of day changed (Day to night), the road surface changed from road to dirt to ice!

Keystone Kops - Another activision masterpiece. Chase criminals through a department store. First platform title I played.

River Raid, Chopper Command - Two excellent shoot 'em up's from Activision.

Pitfall - First game to be proceeded with incredible hype and expectation. The Halo of it's day.

Raiders of the lost Ark - The first game I completed using a walkthrough. A great experience, it was so hard and how were you supposed to work the puzzles out with out any hints?

Star Raiders - We had the special keypad peripheral to play this. Another David Crane masterpiece.

Great memories. We even brought the slimline upade to the original console. It saw active duty until I got a BBC B Micro computer in 1985.

drunken_elmo

20-03-2003, 11:07 AM

Was it the atari 2600, the one with those little silver toggle bits at the top? If so.... then that one!

Temple81

26-03-2007, 01:04 PM

For me it as a Spectrum, might of been the ZX81 (my dad had a few).

The main one was a Master System II though as it was MINE and I played it all the time.

Infact about a year ago I got a new one off ebay with about 5 games for £15, my old one died about 10 years ago. Still great fun to be had!

http://img65.imageshack.us/img65/9382/theoldmeetsthenewpc7.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

Good Old (easy) Sonic!

I only really tend to have one or two concoles setup at a time as they get covered in dog hair otherwise.

Charlie

26-03-2007, 01:09 PM

I lost my virginity to a tatty, hand-me down Amstrad CPC-464 but, hell, I never loved her. :(

J0e Musashi

26-03-2007, 01:16 PM

Atari 2600 woody left to me by my uncle. Kangeroo was my favourite game, along with some helicopter one, whose name I cannot remember. I then got a "pointy" new style one. After my sister broke that I took my Mom to Lasky's and got me a C64 Miami Vice Movie pack, and the first game I ever bought with my own money, which was Double Dragon. I wanted it badly after spending many of my Grandad's 10ps on the JAMMA version during the summer at Pontins. My first real console was a PC Engine though. One day totally out of the blue my Mom said "Let's go to Shekana" I ended up a happy boy that day. Meanwhile the C64 had been up in the loft for some time. I managed to get the boy who lived in the house behind mine to give me £190 for it, and a whole bunch of tapes, which I was going to use to buy a Mega Drive, but ended up getting an SFC instead.

eastyy

26-03-2007, 01:19 PM

atari 2600 had hockey/mad bomber/frost byte with it

Jebus

26-03-2007, 01:29 PM

NES but before that I played games on a C64, then a Speccy.

MattyD

26-03-2007, 01:33 PM

Believe it or not it was to Donkey Kong on my old man's Colecovision. I also had Zaxxon and Subroc by Sega (quality games!), and some side-scrolling shooter which I absolutely loved, called Cosmic Avenger.

The first console I owned myself though was a NES with Super Mario Bros, Zelda and TMNT.

Dogg Thang

26-03-2007, 01:34 PM

Zaxxon rocks. Or roxx.

JB@XL

26-03-2007, 01:44 PM

Started playing video games on a phillips g7000 machine then commodore 64.

First real games console was a mega drive.

Nembot

26-03-2007, 01:45 PM

A Sinclair Spectrum 48k, the one with the rubber keys.

It was second hand and the colour chip was broken so it was in black and white.

Just like a typical 1st shag. There`s going to be sumat wrong with it but it`s fun none the less! :lol:

charlesr

26-03-2007, 01:49 PM

Some old console thing with two paddles. It was like a pong game but with bells and whistles.

First one I owned was a ZX81, with Flight Sim. Mostly wrote my own games though.

HaHaUK

26-03-2007, 01:51 PM

Alex Kidd on Master System.

He was hard.

Jebus

26-03-2007, 01:52 PM

Some old console thing with two paddles. It was like a pong game but with bells and whistles.

Oh I remember that as well!

briareos_kerensky

26-03-2007, 01:55 PM

It was a hot summer, long ago, there was this girl barely older than me and she...was playing with Tiger Shark, one of the few coin-ops there.
Love at first sight, even if the second or third enemy shot me down.
Second time was at home, the same, during a cold winter...it was Christmas day and I got a NES action set (two controllers, Zapper, Super Mario Bros and Duck Hunt)...I was only 6 years old, and right now I wish it was sooner.

SuperDanX

26-03-2007, 01:55 PM

Scramble by grandstand or one of the pong tv game things by binatone iirc?

Shotski

26-03-2007, 01:58 PM

Sonic the hedgehog on the master system then i cheated on him with shinobi.

Team Andromeda

26-03-2007, 02:08 PM

Oh Sir Clive got mine :D , the Spectrum was the machine that got me into gaming back in 1985/6 Before then I had no intrest in gaming (even though my brother had a Atari) and wanted to be a Rugby player , and thats all I cared about that all changed with the Spectrum

The 1st consoe I owned , well I my mum got , 2 in a closing down sale in Toms and that was the Phillps GX (somthing) and the Mattel Intellivision (great console btw) back in about 85 or 86 I think .

CMcK

26-03-2007, 02:23 PM

Master System 2. Came with Alex Kidd built in and a lightgun with a copy of Operation Wolf.
Even though I already had a C64 the MS games were so much better to play. The joypad was a revelation to me after using keys for so long.
R-Type, Bubble Bobble, Pacmania, Power Strike and the best version of Populous ever made were just some of the highlights.

Since then I have bought all of the Sega systems and I even bought a MS mk1 as well.

It's a shame Sega isn't making systems any more as they really did make some fantastic games.

charlesr

26-03-2007, 02:46 PM

Oh I remember that as well!

Can you remember harder please? What was it?

Koert

26-03-2007, 03:02 PM

The first console I really bought myself was the xbox 360. My older brother used to buy all the other consoles and games (his first was a SNES I think), so I've never had to buy anything myself :D

Shakey_Jake33

26-03-2007, 03:05 PM

Earliest memory was Hang-On on the Master System in the 80's.

One I can actually remember playing was Raindow Islands on a Japanese MegaDrive.

JazzFunk

26-03-2007, 03:10 PM

I lost my computer cherry to the Acorn Electron, and my console cherry was stolen by the PC Engine.

112

26-03-2007, 03:10 PM

Other than my brothers c64 and days of fun with Ghostbusters, or his atari and hours of fun with outlaw and pong........

My personal purchase into gaming was the game gear, not a home console but it was definatley te start of things to come. At the time it was all about the monochrome game boy, but i wanted the game gear because it had colour lol! Little did i know the damn thing ATE my 6 AA batts in a hour FFS!

But my first sega console and as such i kept loyal to the company and still do to some degree these days..........

Sigh........... im so glad i have a disposable income these days.......... those were tough times........ epecially when evryone else had a gameboy and you were left with playing and talking about it on yah own........ Bastards!

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Supergoal

26-03-2007, 03:15 PM

Mine was the ZX Spectrum. What an amazing piece of kit that was for its' day!
I remember when my parents allowed me to have it in my bedroom I was totally and utterly hooked from that moment on to games. I can remember to this day with extreme clarity the day I got it, and the desk and chair I used with it!

davesol

26-03-2007, 03:15 PM

First console was a PS1 which I loved playing. I have a PS2 but purchases in the last 3 years or so have all been Nintendo. Cube, GBA SP, DS Lite and a Wii.

Pookmunki

26-03-2007, 03:28 PM

My first machine was a Sinclair with Dragons Lair, only worked once so returned it for a C64 with Turtles :)

Nu-Eclipse

26-03-2007, 03:30 PM

My very first was a Commodore 64, playing Imagine Software's brilliant cassette-tape conversion of Yie Ar Kung-Fu.

The first console I actually played on was a Sega Master System 1 (Hang-On & Snail Maze built in! :D). The first console that I actually owned was an NES and my first handheld was an US Original Gameboy.

The rest is history.

Geezer

26-03-2007, 03:37 PM

Sega Master System. That's what began my long love affair with Sega. Pity they had to leave the console game :(

bingowings

26-03-2007, 03:55 PM

it was an Intellivision with Lock n' Chase, Q-Bert, and Intellivision Soccer.

Lock n' Chase was amazing - the sense of achievement at getting to level 5 and snagging the wee brown briefcase was great. and playing the waiting game in Q-Bert - standing at the edge of the pyramid and watching as that slimey sod of a snake bounce towards you, only to move at the last second and watch him plunge to his slimey doom :D

HumanEnergy

26-03-2007, 04:11 PM

Apparently when I was really young, we had some kind of early 80's Philips console (can't remember the exact name) but I've got no memory of what it even looks like, let alone what the games were, so I suppose it can't count!

The first I remember was a ZX Spectrum when I was 5 years old. Great fun with games like Superted and Transformers, and trying to follow the basic examples in the manual to get a moster to appear on the screen :)

The first actual console was a Megadrive that me, my two brothers and sister were given for Xmas in the early 90's (probably '91). The first console I bought with my own money was a SNES with Super Wrestlemania from our local Woolworths, after much saving of pocket money! That must have been sometime in 1992 at a guess.

Prophet Hero

26-03-2007, 04:13 PM

First home machine was a Commodore 64. Thanks to the joy I experienced with Game & Watch (Ahh, the memories of looking for two working LR44 batteries) the NES was the first console.

I do remember playing the demo Vectrex (I think it was anyway) in the local dept store every Saturday.

id-republix

26-03-2007, 04:18 PM

Yep, that confirms many of my suspicions Sidez.

Ah yes I seem to remember that too, but mine definitly had a shooter. Any chance someone with a SMS can enlighten me on the shooter that was pre-built into the system?

Little but OT but the portable SMS/GG thingy released called the PlayPal has the maze game built in ^^

ItsThere

26-03-2007, 04:23 PM

Wow it was Sinclair ZX Spectrum. They came, they took and I haven't seen them since. Just like the rest of my girlfriends :D

pentarou

26-03-2007, 04:38 PM

Spectrum 48k, rubber keyboard and everything! After that, I got a NES and played Lifeforce to death with my Dad until we beat it. Sold the NES for a Megadrive whilst secretly wanting a Super Famicom from the local Telegames. Thinking back they must have been charging hundreds for a SFC at their prices, no wonder my parents wouldn't buy me one.

BeyondJumpFish

26-03-2007, 04:52 PM

Yeah it was the spectrum for me too! Ah i remember those days well, waiting for half an hour to get Batman to load, the excitment building, watching the fuzzy lines do they're thing. Then realising that the fuzzy lines stopped moving ten minutes ago and you've just been listening to the sound of it playing the tape and not ACTUALLY F*CKING LOADING IT!!

MarioMark

26-03-2007, 04:53 PM

C64! But I had to share it with my sister. I can't remember what the first game was, but I remember playing a lot of CJ's Elephant Antics and Turtles (the hard one) on it.

My first console I owned all to my self was the Mega Drive, I nearly went for for Master System, but I turned the page one more time in the Argos book and I saw the Mega Drive. I didn't know what bit meant but the fact that it was 16 instead of 8 made my ask for it for Christmas.

Best Christmas ever! Even now! :lol:

DavidH

26-03-2007, 05:10 PM

Me; computer - ZX81, console - import SNES, handheld - one of the original GamyBoy's.

Hohum

26-03-2007, 05:45 PM

C64 for me. Just that for a long time... then a SNES in 1995 I think. I wasn't well off financially hence why I didn't buy any consoles until much later, as I simply couldn't afford the prices on games.

On The Edge of Insanity

26-03-2007, 06:05 PM

Some sort of Amstrad, playing paperboy.

Shozuki

26-03-2007, 06:41 PM

Megadrive was my first console, but I wasnt really able to appreciate gaming so I just stuck to Power Rangers (my love as a kid). I later was pretty much forced into buying a PSX although I originally wanted a Saturn, none-the-less I 'got' the gaming scene and have been an avid gamer since - even gone back to play what i've missed!

Ajay1986

26-03-2007, 06:44 PM

NES was my first and i bloody loved the thing and still do, still have the original machine from all them years ago still working perfectly. Cant beat the odd game of Double Dragon.

Silvergun X

26-03-2007, 06:44 PM

Computer, 48k ZX Spectrum.

Console, Master System. :)

Mr Fujisawa

26-03-2007, 07:50 PM

amstrad cpc-464 was the first thing i played games on, like The Plague, Harrier Attack and Roland on the Ropes.

console wise, the NES, i remember getting it for xmas, but having a real bad headache, and thinking the blocks in bowsers castle were gold cause i was playing in black and white and figured they werent meant to be grey or something hehe.

i think me and my brother found the nes in my parents cupboard and had a look at it, my parents found out and threatened to take it back to toys r us. much crying ensued.

buster_broon

26-03-2007, 07:53 PM

lovely binatone brown paddle machine - that had pong on it

my first computer was an Acorn Electron, chuckie egg, raptor and elite owned everything

Salsa Party Animal

26-03-2007, 10:02 PM

For me -

Zx81 - my first computer
Vic -20
Amiga A500 (Serious gaming started)

Playstation 1 first console
Nintendo Gamecube 1st Import console.

I wish I have something like GBA SP while I am at boarding school.

Kieran76

26-03-2007, 10:06 PM

First Computer - Spectrum 48k
First Console Owned - Sega Master System
First Import Console - Sega Megadrive

EvilBoris

26-03-2007, 10:07 PM

My first gaming was on the BBC, chucky egg and Granny's garden FTW!

Although it started to take hold of me with the Amiga 500+

Ampanman

26-03-2007, 10:08 PM

Mine was similar to buster_broon, some sort of Binatone/Grandstand machine that also had a light gun - was great.

First machine I bought was a C64 and first console was a SNES but it was almost at the end of it's life and didn't get many games for it.

So first console I really got into and started to get NTSC games was the PlayStation.

mr_sockochris

26-03-2007, 10:11 PM

First Computer - Spectrum 48k
First Console Owned - Game Boy (SNES if handhelds don't count)
First Import Console - Gamecube

burntoutbanger

26-03-2007, 10:41 PM

Commodore Vic=20.

NekoFever

26-03-2007, 10:49 PM

GCE/Milton Bradley, via the Vectrex (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectrex), which my dad bought for me off a mate. I've still got mine boxed with about 12 games, all of which are boxed with instructions and screen overlays. In fact if you saw the Vectrex feature in GamesTM a way back you've seen my machine ;)

Vectrex -> NES -> SNES -> pretty much everything since

bootmonster

27-03-2007, 11:02 AM

Master System II with Alex the Kidd built in was the first I owned, but I remember my cousin always had the latest thing, be it an Atari or the newest version of the Amiga (divorced parents = guilt money I think). Probably cut my teeth on an C64 though, but since I was born 1984, i must have been pretty young. I remember the infamous loading screen more than the games, lol! I don't know what version it was though, just know it worked with the tv and took cassette tapes :)

jimmbob

27-03-2007, 11:21 AM

Commodore 64 for me, one of the newer white ones. The games I had initially were Batman, The 3 decent Dizzy games (1, treasure island, fantasy land) and powerdrift, which was amazing.

Hardbattle

27-03-2007, 12:24 PM

Binatone machine (with sticks, not paddles) was my first console...

1st computer was a Commodore 64 which I loved - I remember the first game I every loaded (from a cassette) was Attack of the Mutant Camels - the original version :)

RetroEd

27-03-2007, 12:26 PM

The Spectrum, and the games in question were Chuckie Egg and Wec Le Mans. :)

AL-ZILLA

27-03-2007, 03:03 PM

Mine was a the Mega drive. I got it for xmas and i had no idea i was getting 1. I went ****ing nuts when i opened it. (Sigh) i still remember the fear in my parents eyes as i was flipping round the living room.:s

Wools

27-03-2007, 03:32 PM

Sonic The Hedgehog on the Master System at Christmas. :wub:

What a fabalous little game, and it's far more puzzley than the Mega Drive version too.

Shotski

27-03-2007, 05:52 PM

And it had the bridge zone too.

bootmonster

28-03-2007, 09:37 AM

Sonic The Hedgehog on the Master System at Christmas. :wub:

What a fabalous little game, and it's far more puzzley than the Mega Drive version too.

First game I ever completed that :)

Distant Cousin

28-03-2007, 10:43 AM

Super Mario Land 2 on Game Boy ^_^

Indy @ S.E.

28-03-2007, 12:42 PM

My gaming path was:

Master System - with Mickey Mouse's Enchanted Forest or something like that
Amiga 500 - Cos my cousin had one
Amiga 1200 - Cos it was better than my cousins 500 :)
PC - 286-386-486 DX4-100!!!!-Pentium-Pentium Pro
N64
Playstation
GameCube
XBox
XBox 360
PS2
Wii

Master System mk1 was my fave though, Alex Kidd, Altered Beast, Space Harrier, Golden Axe, Sonic, Afterburner, Hang On.... truly happy days!

Scythe

28-03-2007, 01:43 PM

A Philips Videopac! Man that as rubbish!

First played on a 2600 though!

greenblob

28-03-2007, 02:05 PM

The Commodore 64........Was bought it by my mum for Christmas with Bubble Bobble and a cartridge that had numerous games on like Klax and some platform game (Freddie I think).

Was absolutely AWESOME and thats where it all started. :)

chaoticjelly

28-03-2007, 06:51 PM

Commodore 16 / Plus4

Fond, fond memories :thumb:

Scooby Doo, Winnie the Witch, Mr. Puniverse, Paperboy, Varmint, Kane, Icicle Works, Fire Ant... all classics in my eyes :w00t:

Big N Veiny

29-03-2007, 09:03 AM

I think it was a Honeybee computer. Memory is not so clear but it had just black and yellow graphics I think.

Or maybe the NES or a 286, I can't remember which came first, but I would have been about 5.

29-03-2007, 01:11 PM

Atari 2600. The game would have been Combat or Adventure if i can remember, i'm pretty sure it was Combat.

Lyris

31-03-2007, 04:53 AM

Sega. Then she got up and left me (sobs uncontrollably) :D

Gavin

31-03-2007, 09:04 AM

Intellivision - it was poo, but I didn't know any better at the time!

Benji

31-03-2007, 06:02 PM

NES for me, got a gameboy at the same sort of time with mario1 i think

Jay

31-03-2007, 06:18 PM

A binatone Pong followed by an Atari 2600, a ZX81, then Spectrum followed by Commodore 64. All the while I had exposure to some of the great arcade classics - Space Invaders, Galaxians, Phoenix, Pac-Man, PacLand, Karate Champ, Kung-Fu Master, Bomb Jack and so on - thanks to a local chippy, local video store and local youth club. Truly the golden age of gaming.

Jay

Ish

31-03-2007, 07:32 PM

It was either some kind of Pong machine. Or an Atari 2600. Its so long ago I can't remember which. All I remember is my dad bringing it home and the wood panelling! Oh and the Pong game.

Schweino

31-03-2007, 08:09 PM

Pong machine for me, but the one that really got me going was a CBS Colecovision. I'm amazed no one else here seems to have owned one.

Jay

31-03-2007, 08:36 PM

Pong machine for me, but the one that really got me going was a CBS Colecovision. I'm amazed no one else here seems to have owned one.

A friend at school had one. I was astounded by the graphics at the time, but lord, those controllers ....]

Jay

Ork1927

01-04-2007, 10:15 AM

Atari 2600 - Combat followed by a Rubber Keyed Spectrum 48K - Horace Goes Skiing.

With the exception of my Xbox - last five consoles have all been Nintendo (GBA, Cube, DS, Wii, Micro)

bluepuddy

01-04-2007, 10:24 AM

Mega Drive was the opening to games for me. Micro Machines and Sonic were the games that sucked me in for a bit of kissing and foreplay.

I would say I lost my virginity Christmas Day 1997 to Mario 64 age 10. I can remember the first 3/4 of an hour I spent playing this and I was simply amazed. Excellent stuff and the rest was history the N64 was my fisrt proper, definitive console.

JU!

02-04-2007, 10:34 PM

Got a ZX Spectrum when I was 7. Then Commodore 64, my first games console was a Sega Master System 2 though. I still love Sega games and try to buy the console that will have them on it which is mostly Multi format nowadays. I seem to buy only Playstation at the mo had all three previous Gen machines, PS2, GC, XBOX and found I bought most for my PS2, so PS3 is the only one I'm going to own providing something I think is unbelievable does not get released for Wii or 360.