@sanderson72
He's older than me. He's older than me-e. Oh check out old Sandy. He's older than me!
Ok guess I just figured out the 72 on your username, maths innit.
Someone randomly said to me a few weeks back 'well you'll be heading towards 50 now', I replied 'yeah but so is everyone who is not yet 50!'
Yeah never had a speccy myself (though most of my friends did!) Personally went from Vic-20 to C64 to Amiga500.
My first console was something that played a bunch of pong like games - no idea what it was called. Do remember having something called a Vectrex (check it out, it was awesome) it had transparent coloured cards that your click to the monitor for faux colour games and a built in joypad.
Then onto Master System to MegaDrive, random SNES before settling on my PS fanboyism. (Maybe an occasional foray onto the greenteam rival consoles - but I don't talk about those dark days much!!)
@Voltan
I will also wish you many belated happy returns. However I'm not entirely sure what is meant by returns in this sense or how they would be happy or how that would impact someone. But there you are. And yeah you should buy yourself a game.
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
@Sorteddan Ha ha! Yep, at the end of May I hit the big 5-0 (not Hawaii)
My brother and I had one of the those 'pong' consoles too, played tennis, football (all looked the bloody same) and had a hard wired light gun thing that rarely worked!
After that it was a 48K Spectrum, C64, Amiga 600 (the little portable one) and then the A1200 which I wrote my university thesis on (using Wordsworth!) The A1200 got expanded with a Blizzard(?) 68030 50Mhz with an extra 16Mb of fast RAM and has a massive 340Mb hard drive inside!
Traded in the original PS at Game for a PS2 - said they weren't interested in the old ones (wanted the PSOne models) but then they took my pristine one out of it's pristine box with all the original packaging and so on and suddenly seemed much happier to take it!
PS2 got traded in against a fat boy 60GB PS3 that lasted about 5 and a half years before the dreaded 'pop' sound and the little flashing yellow light. I originally replaced it with the Super Slim but that was cost cutting too far (noisy disc drive and used to fall over when trying to change disc!) and managed to track down a 25xx series which is widely regarded as being the best Slim. Still in use and quiet today!
I remember the Vectrex but didn't own one - wasn't that the only console with vector graphics rather than a pixel display??
@sanderson72
Yes indeed, every game was pretty much just white lines! It was a monitor with built in console and joypad. One of my biggest gaming regrets was not keeping hold of it, as it was self contained it would still function today if in good repair. Think it got sold for a few quid at a car boot sale!
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.”
@Sorteddan Retro stuff seems to be viewed as either junk or priceless these days dependent on how rare it is, so yes, I bet a working Vectrex would be worth a pretty penny in today's market!
Just seen the price for the Hori Vita Slim grip - I bought mine for about £20 from PlayAsia many years ago (not use it much tbh) and CEX are now selling them for £120!
32, my first gaming experience was when I was about 3-4 Super Mario on the NES, I only know this because my Dad loves to bring it up but I've been gaming ever since.
32 in a couple months. I started playing games around 4-5 at my Aunt/Uncle's place who had an Atari system along with NES & SNES with mostly Super Mario. Got a PS1 Christmas of '98 and man oh man the Pizza Hut demo discs that had Crash Bandicoot, Metal Gear Solid, Tomb Raider III, Final Fantasy VIII among others sealed the deal for me as a PlayStation fan and gamer overall.
I currently own a Retron5 for my NES/SNES/Genesis physical gaming, PS1, Dreamcast, PS2, PS3, Gamecube, Wii, PS4, Xbox One S, and PS5. Overall, probably a common theme but easily my teens-early 20s were my peak favorite gaming years now that I only have a fraction of time to game for now.
Started gaming heavily when I was young around 10/11 years had operation that rehabilitation took many many years alot of stuck in house and hospitals playing games then as I got older got in to more competitive gaming as online gaming became popular and now 35 a still have that love for gaming. Some people love TV and film and can watch hours on end each week, for me it's gaming.
idk if you’re still here TC but , i dread reading but at the same time prefer to read gaming-related articles than watch videos myself too ; & i wonder the ages of users sometimes , but it’s pretty much all in the same bracket of (wo)man children , imo , lol . pushsquare is more chilled but it has its moments (& that’s not to say that i’m a saint or anything , hell no , far from it )
to answer your other question though , i’m 25 & started gaming when i was 4 , with my first ever console i ever played being my older brother’s PS1 . my older siblings had sega genesis , N64 , PS1 & SNES , so even though i’m a 00’s kid , i was fortunate enough to have a taste of the 90’s .
my very first own console though , was my nintendo gamecube i got when i was 6 , that i still have to this day , & all my games for it . love the cube , i think it’s nintendo’s best console but & the same time i don’t let personal nostalgia or bias cloud my judgement like it seems a lot of gamers - specifically the older ones do . there’s absolutely no way in hell i can play anything before 6th generation , because while they were good for their time , they didn’t age well & are boring as ***** now with a few exceptions of course ; 6th gen is still tolerable imo because 3D was pretty solidified around that time and it was just an all-around evolution of what was started . some 6th gen games actually hold up better than ps3 games , so no i didn’t contradict myself , lol .
36. I got into gaming relatively late at the age of 11. I was a typical football child that was out all day and was only thinking about kicking a ball until the sun went down. For Christmas, I got a PS1 as a surprise gift and funnily enough, I was hugely disappointed because I didn't know what to do with it. That same evening I thought to myself I might just try it out, popped in the famous demo disc 1 and the rest is history, lol.
37 next month. I started gaming when I was about 4 or 5 on a Commodore 64 before moving onto the Sega Mega Drive then the PlayStations from 97 onwards.
I’m 40 but I’m just really getting into gaming this year. I played a little Nintendo 64 twenty or so years ago. I’m hooked to my PlayStation 5 every night now. I basically haven’t played anything before so I’m spoilt for choice with games
I am currently 22 and quickly approaching 23. I made my account here back when I was 17. How time flies. I haven't been constantly active throughout that time, but I always keep coming back here! Just a lovely community with lovely people with a lot of the best gaming discussions I've had with anyone. Not surprised to see that I am on the younger side here. Maybe that has something to do with why it's so civil and great discussions can be had. Just give it a blink of the eye and I'll slowly be making my way up the ages as well! The fact that my account here is five years old is already shocking to me.
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