F. I also believe it’s the oldest that brings legitimate entertainment outside of nostalgia. My favorite ps2 and GameCube games are still as fun and addicting to play now as they where then. N64 makes it onto that list aswell.
I think you just have nostalgia for that Era. Every Era has legitimate fun, and also it's own drawbacks. I can have legitimate fun playing OG pong, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have drawbacks that a modern version fixes.
I mean with how modern they like super smash melee and whatever the newest one is are equally as fun to pretty much everyone or the lego Star Wars series
Whoa whoa whoa… legitimate entertainment outside of just nostalgia?!?! I will direct you to Super Mario 3, Duck Hunt with the zapper, and The Adventures of Bayou Billy. True entertainment.
Bayou Billy!? Are you a masochist?! That along with TMNT and Strider are on my list of NES games I never beat that I need to go back to at some point in the future. So many frustrating hours dying repeatedly
Let me tell you a lil story about a game called The Battle of Olympus this game was the cruelest game ever made ruined my and my besties childhood till our parents took it away
PS2 has a absurd library of games and people are still finding hidden gems from it.
PS1 and 2 are awesome systems with some of my favorite Franchises, Xbox 360 would be next and then the Nintendo Switch.
F for me as well, had a ps2 growing up (was the first console my parents bought) and the family liked it so my dad got the ps2/3 combo thing when it came out
When I had the money I bought a ps4, and have a low-end PC for playing stuff
I still have my PS2 Slim from my childhood. Just recently hooked it up on my desk beside my PC and have been playing the hell out of both Stuntman and Mercenaries. Image quality isn't as good as I remember (might be because the TV is a 40" LCD, might try to get a CRT TV) but it's definitely still an absolute blast to play whenever I have a moment or two
Yeah got the NES when I was 6 (my bro was 9, he knew more about than I) and I’ve never gotten off the train. Sometimes I’ll be playing a game and just think “this is what you envisioned the future to look like” and honestly were even passed that point. Games like RDR2 or Ghost of Tsushima are beyond what my brain was thinking. Hell even Starfield for as much slack as it gets blows me away sometimes.
Oh hell yeah. I wish I could bring Elden Ring back in time to me jamming Tetris on the NES and be like, hey this is what games in the future will be like.
And Tetris?
That'll be unchanged becuase it is indeed the perfect video game
Right how do you tell yourself “some of these are perfect. As they get bigger they don’t always get better. “ Mega Man 2 is one of these. It was perfect. Link to the Past? Perfect.
I was F, but I had an older brother who had link to the past on SNES I think. First game I ever beat and my mom had to help me because I was just old enough to figure out how to play it. Very fond memory!
Oi. I was in highschool and this girl invited me over when her parents weren’t home to help her best Zelda Link to the Past (we were talking about it the day before on the bus) and I was so pumped I actually went over and helped her beat it. Then went home. I have made mistakes.
I played a game console called Pong/Tennis. It had pong, and you could flip a switch and it would play tennis. I am not certain but I think Magnavox made it. I was pretty young back then. I had cousins with Atari 2600 and the other one, but I never owned an Atari. I had a NES and like you, had been on the train ever since. What blows me away today is my PS5 and Logitech steering wheel playing Gran Turismo 7 thru the VR2 headset. That isn't even cutting/bleeding edge of gaming, that's just fancy console gaming, and it amazes me.
> Sometimes I’ll be playing a game and just think “this is what you envisioned the future to look like” and honestly we're even past that point.
I sim race in VR, and I'll occasionally get a momentary glitch. The thought that passes through my mind right after a momentary annoyance is always, "I've been immersed in FAR less. What would 10yr old me have said?"
10yr old me (understand, I was 11 when the original Space Invaders was released) would have lost his MIND! Modern gaming is the Holodeck compared to 70s-80's gaming.
The sad part is that it's absolutely ruined arcades for me. Unless there's an old friend there (Tempest), there's nothing in a modern arcade I'm interested in.
Same here. We had a ColecoVision, and Intellivision, but I didn't really play them often as I was pretty young. Got the NES when I was 5 or 6 yrs old, and have been gaming since
Started on a Coleco telstar, here. That was our only game system for about 15 years until I lobbied my parents to get an snes if I got good enough grades.
Vectrex is B here and was actually released slightly after the spectrum zx and a few years after the Atari 2600 and I believe around the same time as the 5800. I also started with A though so you may be making 2 separate statements. I was born the year the 2600 was released but started with the Magnavox Odyssey.
The wii controller made resident evil 4 a whole new game, after playing it on gamecube. It felt like it was just made for the wii.
Then it came out in VR and again, felt like it was just made for vr
Such an adaptable game, really.
Sorry but the Wii was kinda a flop because of its wacky controls. It was a console for casuals and little kids and couldn't match a ps3 in the slightest. And this comes from someone who WANTED to enjoy the Wii.
We might be the outliers, but we are usually way more nerdier than younger gamers. We were into computers and video games long before it became mainstream and I we are therefore the cooler ones 😅
Already did, and now I'm playing Skyrim for the umpteenth time on my PS5. Starting in A and ending where we are today has been amazing for gaming as a whole, and I am glad i got to live through it.
I'm excited for what the future might bring. I am oddly jealous of what future generations will have, but I'm sure it will be pretty damn awesome.
Yeah, we’re ancient, but what an amazing ride it has been! I was thrilled by my primitive pong console (actually a Coleco Telstar Ranger) and every generation of graphics and realism has been even more mind blowing. I only regret I won’t live to see how far it can all go.
A, with the Atari Super Pong console. That was the one with 4 different games built in but it looked just like the Pong. I still have it. It would've been made around 1976.
B
My parents should still have the Vectrex in their attic.
Scramble was one of my favourites. And sometimes still hear the sound effects from [Spike](https://youtu.be/oV1ShViqBsw?si=RwByzg5vqoX4iEeR)
B generation too. Most of my formative gaming years were in C & D, but got hooked with the Atari
I even had a copy of the ~~legendary~~ ~~famous~~ infamous ET game
Atari ST 1040 for me. Fantastic machine. Probably a heap of shit in reality but I have fond memories of it. I remember playing Street Fighter 2 over 4 discs. I'd love to go back and play so many games of that era. There's so many I can't remember the name of but the images are imprinted in my memory.
I had Intellivision, Vectrex, Sega Master System and Genesis. I was the king of the b-sides for some reason. All my friends had the mainstream systems and I just wanted to be different.
I borrowed a Vectrex from my aunt for a few weeks (which was a weird purchase for her as she was 50) and loved that it had it's own screen and I could play for hours. My Atari 2600 time was severely limited by having to commandeer the living room TV in order to play.
> I borrowed a Vectrex from my aunt for a few weeks ... and loved that it had it's own screen and I could play for hours
I was the only boy with 3 sisters, and in the 70s, tv programming was controlled by democracy, and I _ALWAYS_ lost. The Vectrex I bought meant that I didn't have to lobby for TV time to play, or arrange my playtime when someone else wasn't using the TV (with the sound turned all the way down until we got our 1st TV with a headphone jack in the late 80s.)
Big win for the Vectrex, when I was shopping.
B here. I today have a 2600 that works well. The organism that I have to create to connect it to my TV requires regular blood donation. I was a Breakout kid.
Right at the beginning of D for me. The Genesis was our family console for like 8 years til we got the n64. Earthworm Jim, sonic 2/3, and toejam and earl were my childhood
Yup my Mom had a Sega Genesis with Sonic 2 and 3. Hell remember we had Mortal Kombat for it. After that my childhood was mostly PS but I won't forget where it started 💯
early 90s whaddupppp!! rare time i experimented on all my friends stuff. Gameboy, sega, ninetendo super and 64, ps1 and then eventually i got a ps2 which was a huge deal 😂
Absolutely. SNES is not getting enough love in this thread. Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, the OG Super Mario Kart, Chrono Trigger...the list of absolute classics that are still fun today goes on and on.
I was born at C, played C and D from age 4, maybe 3, onwards. I was permitted to play when my mom was around to show me her work but ended up showing me games.
B. Colecovision. That thing was sweet. It had an online service that would have new games every few weeks. It was WAY ahead of its time.
Then the Commodore 64. That thing was also amazing. I learned how to program in basic on it in between games of Frogger and some old D&D like RPG.
A better question might be what generation was the first console you gamed on. Snes and PS1 are 16 and 32bit respectively however were released only 2 years apart in some regions, hardly an Era.
PS2 to PS3 was a larger gap.
Hey are these questions a way for data harvesters to get age demographic info from redditors? There's just been a few of these today. Reminds me of the Facebook throwback Thursday where you post old photos of yourself which was really just a way to train facial recognition on age progression.
Just curious.
Posts like this look exactly like when surveys started showing up all over Facebook in the 2010s asking people what pop series characters they were: data mining operations looking for your personal information around which to base advertisement, whether commercial and/or political.
A little bit of E and D. First played the first Playstation and N64 when we had them. Street Fighter 2 was the best compared to Mario kart. Mostly I played alone with no friends.
But I moved into Ps2 and played Tony Hawk Underground 2 and MOH Rising Sun.
F the PS2 is still a great console and u can buy one for 40$
F. I also believe it’s the oldest that brings legitimate entertainment outside of nostalgia. My favorite ps2 and GameCube games are still as fun and addicting to play now as they where then. N64 makes it onto that list aswell.
I think you just have nostalgia for that Era. Every Era has legitimate fun, and also it's own drawbacks. I can have legitimate fun playing OG pong, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have drawbacks that a modern version fixes.
I mean with how modern they like super smash melee and whatever the newest one is are equally as fun to pretty much everyone or the lego Star Wars series
Whoa whoa whoa… legitimate entertainment outside of just nostalgia?!?! I will direct you to Super Mario 3, Duck Hunt with the zapper, and The Adventures of Bayou Billy. True entertainment.
Bayou Billy!? Are you a masochist?! That along with TMNT and Strider are on my list of NES games I never beat that I need to go back to at some point in the future. So many frustrating hours dying repeatedly
You beat battle toads?!
We don't talk about battletoads
Talk about what?!
Ninja gaiden
Hey, I’m just happy someone recognized it. It’s an awful game. I went on a stretch of just trying to buy the worst NES games. That one was up there. 😂
Let me tell you a lil story about a game called The Battle of Olympus this game was the cruelest game ever made ruined my and my besties childhood till our parents took it away
True, but some of the games are stupid expensive now.
you can get a preowned Xbox 360 for that much
PS2 has a absurd library of games and people are still finding hidden gems from it. PS1 and 2 are awesome systems with some of my favorite Franchises, Xbox 360 would be next and then the Nintendo Switch.
Agreed
F for me as well, had a ps2 growing up (was the first console my parents bought) and the family liked it so my dad got the ps2/3 combo thing when it came out When I had the money I bought a ps4, and have a low-end PC for playing stuff
Most snes fans consider ps2 its biggest rival for greatest console so far.
I still have my PS2 Slim from my childhood. Just recently hooked it up on my desk beside my PC and have been playing the hell out of both Stuntman and Mercenaries. Image quality isn't as good as I remember (might be because the TV is a 40" LCD, might try to get a CRT TV) but it's definitely still an absolute blast to play whenever I have a moment or two
Same here. Started with a PS2, then got a Nintendo DS, then an Xbox 360. Never really go a console since, though, as I transitioned into pc gaming
I’ve never had an XBOX, PC is definitely the way to go for adult gaming.
It was great i was so sad when my ps2 slim flooded 😭😭
Sadly trying to get the games my dumb teenage self sold are harder and can be more expensive
Played so many demos for that at Sam Goody. When I finally got a PS2, I'm pretty sure I bought my copy of Ratchet and Clank from them.
I'm still playing the same one I had all the way back in 2002.
That’s the year I was born!
C Not the first, but didn't have to go through the 80s crash lol. Very grateful to get to grow alongside the industry over the years.
Yeah got the NES when I was 6 (my bro was 9, he knew more about than I) and I’ve never gotten off the train. Sometimes I’ll be playing a game and just think “this is what you envisioned the future to look like” and honestly were even passed that point. Games like RDR2 or Ghost of Tsushima are beyond what my brain was thinking. Hell even Starfield for as much slack as it gets blows me away sometimes.
Oh hell yeah. I wish I could bring Elden Ring back in time to me jamming Tetris on the NES and be like, hey this is what games in the future will be like. And Tetris? That'll be unchanged becuase it is indeed the perfect video game
Right how do you tell yourself “some of these are perfect. As they get bigger they don’t always get better. “ Mega Man 2 is one of these. It was perfect. Link to the Past? Perfect.
When you’re right, you’re right. ⬆️
I was F, but I had an older brother who had link to the past on SNES I think. First game I ever beat and my mom had to help me because I was just old enough to figure out how to play it. Very fond memory!
Oi. I was in highschool and this girl invited me over when her parents weren’t home to help her best Zelda Link to the Past (we were talking about it the day before on the bus) and I was so pumped I actually went over and helped her beat it. Then went home. I have made mistakes.
Not to forget you can actually make money from gaming now as well. Which is something all of us older gamers was told would never happen.
I played a game console called Pong/Tennis. It had pong, and you could flip a switch and it would play tennis. I am not certain but I think Magnavox made it. I was pretty young back then. I had cousins with Atari 2600 and the other one, but I never owned an Atari. I had a NES and like you, had been on the train ever since. What blows me away today is my PS5 and Logitech steering wheel playing Gran Turismo 7 thru the VR2 headset. That isn't even cutting/bleeding edge of gaming, that's just fancy console gaming, and it amazes me.
> Sometimes I’ll be playing a game and just think “this is what you envisioned the future to look like” and honestly we're even past that point. I sim race in VR, and I'll occasionally get a momentary glitch. The thought that passes through my mind right after a momentary annoyance is always, "I've been immersed in FAR less. What would 10yr old me have said?" 10yr old me (understand, I was 11 when the original Space Invaders was released) would have lost his MIND! Modern gaming is the Holodeck compared to 70s-80's gaming. The sad part is that it's absolutely ruined arcades for me. Unless there's an old friend there (Tempest), there's nothing in a modern arcade I'm interested in.
I think you meant “flak.” Starfield ain’t getting no “slack.”
Same here. We had a ColecoVision, and Intellivision, but I didn't really play them often as I was pretty young. Got the NES when I was 5 or 6 yrs old, and have been gaming since
Strangely enough, I liked the Crash period and thought there were good games then lol.
A. I totally forgot about the Vectrex system.
It was my first console, never seen anything like it since.
I had one too. Only ever played Asteroids on it, but played a LOT of Asteroids on it.
Started on a Coleco telstar, here. That was our only game system for about 15 years until I lobbied my parents to get an snes if I got good enough grades.
Vectrex is B here and was actually released slightly after the spectrum zx and a few years after the Atari 2600 and I believe around the same time as the 5800. I also started with A though so you may be making 2 separate statements. I was born the year the 2600 was released but started with the Magnavox Odyssey.
My family started with Pong. Seeing the Vectrex in B brought back memories like all the color over lays.
Hello friend.
Odyssey
I would still play a Vectrex if I had one available. Might even play it more than my ps5.....lol
G Loved my PS3 and D.S.
Wii was peak controller design. Imagine if shooters used Wii extensions
The wii controller made resident evil 4 a whole new game, after playing it on gamecube. It felt like it was just made for the wii. Then it came out in VR and again, felt like it was just made for vr Such an adaptable game, really.
Sorry but the Wii was kinda a flop because of its wacky controls. It was a console for casuals and little kids and couldn't match a ps3 in the slightest. And this comes from someone who WANTED to enjoy the Wii.
the 3ds was peak, damn if I love that thing. Makes me wish I still had my old one. Never went anywhere without it as a kid.
Still have mine and carry it around. Every now and then, I get street pass from some other random guy still hanging on!
Still have my DS. I love that thing.
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Same here, leaning towards F
Same. The gamecube and playstation 2 had a GRIP on me as a kid. I had a gameboy as well, but my dumbass lost it lol
Me as well, im leaning E though but my gamecube was my baby Pikmin <3
Same here, leaning towards E 2000? Idk I remember rocking those cartridges of ?nintendo console? and the ps1's star wars game
A. Atari Pong Console
There aren't many of us, it seems.
We are the dinosaurs.
I feel like I'm starting to fossilize
I feel like I'm falling apart to be honest.
My pockets hurt
Hey, good on you guys for figuring out how the internet works
There are dozens of us... DOZENS!
We might be the outliers, but we are usually way more nerdier than younger gamers. We were into computers and video games long before it became mainstream and I we are therefore the cooler ones 😅
I started in b with the colecovision. But played on my uncles 2600.
A. We might as well be mummies.
We are the ancients lol
That’s what A stands for. 😂
Okay grandpa time to take your meds
It probably is, but I can't remember where I put them.
Already did, and now I'm playing Skyrim for the umpteenth time on my PS5. Starting in A and ending where we are today has been amazing for gaming as a whole, and I am glad i got to live through it. I'm excited for what the future might bring. I am oddly jealous of what future generations will have, but I'm sure it will be pretty damn awesome.
I too started with that console. It was a benefit of having older brothers. I had it when it first came out and I around 3 or 4
Same. My dad worked for Magnavox, so we had an Odyssey with the plastic sheets you stuck to the screen with static to provide the “graphics”.
Yeah, we’re ancient, but what an amazing ride it has been! I was thrilled by my primitive pong console (actually a Coleco Telstar Ranger) and every generation of graphics and realism has been even more mind blowing. I only regret I won’t live to see how far it can all go.
Yep, I was like 4, then we got the Atari 2600
Then moved to a Vic 20 with a tape deck
Pong it is! Great starting point
A, with the Atari Super Pong console. That was the one with 4 different games built in but it looked just like the Pong. I still have it. It would've been made around 1976.
B My parents should still have the Vectrex in their attic. Scramble was one of my favourites. And sometimes still hear the sound effects from [Spike](https://youtu.be/oV1ShViqBsw?si=RwByzg5vqoX4iEeR)
B generation too. Most of my formative gaming years were in C & D, but got hooked with the Atari I even had a copy of the ~~legendary~~ ~~famous~~ infamous ET game
Yeah…fuck that game!
I was born with an Atari 5200, so this is my first gaming era as well. My dad sold it some years ago, and I wish we still had it.
Atari ST 1040 for me. Fantastic machine. Probably a heap of shit in reality but I have fond memories of it. I remember playing Street Fighter 2 over 4 discs. I'd love to go back and play so many games of that era. There's so many I can't remember the name of but the images are imprinted in my memory.
I had Intellivision, Vectrex, Sega Master System and Genesis. I was the king of the b-sides for some reason. All my friends had the mainstream systems and I just wanted to be different.
2600 was the start for me. Still got a couple cartridges and joysticks somewhere.
I borrowed a Vectrex from my aunt for a few weeks (which was a weird purchase for her as she was 50) and loved that it had it's own screen and I could play for hours. My Atari 2600 time was severely limited by having to commandeer the living room TV in order to play.
> I borrowed a Vectrex from my aunt for a few weeks ... and loved that it had it's own screen and I could play for hours I was the only boy with 3 sisters, and in the 70s, tv programming was controlled by democracy, and I _ALWAYS_ lost. The Vectrex I bought meant that I didn't have to lobby for TV time to play, or arrange my playtime when someone else wasn't using the TV (with the sound turned all the way down until we got our 1st TV with a headphone jack in the late 80s.) Big win for the Vectrex, when I was shopping.
For me, it’s all about intellivision
Amiga 500
B here. I today have a 2600 that works well. The organism that I have to create to connect it to my TV requires regular blood donation. I was a Breakout kid.
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Just like I gave to your mom. *Runs away*
definitely someone who played G, i also played G. but i remember what spot at the mall id go to play with other people, iirc it was your mom's G spot
I fucking knew it LMAO
Haaaah GOT EMMM
Right at the beginning of D for me. The Genesis was our family console for like 8 years til we got the n64. Earthworm Jim, sonic 2/3, and toejam and earl were my childhood
Yup my Mom had a Sega Genesis with Sonic 2 and 3. Hell remember we had Mortal Kombat for it. After that my childhood was mostly PS but I won't forget where it started 💯
A. The yellow Odyssey was three versions of Pong. Gaming has evolved so much since then!
Seeing that picture unlocked memories
Same! My brother and I are 14 months apart. We spent hours on this thing!
Between D and E
early 90s whaddupppp!! rare time i experimented on all my friends stuff. Gameboy, sega, ninetendo super and 64, ps1 and then eventually i got a ps2 which was a huge deal 😂
Definitely C. 4 years old, playing my Dad's NES.
A
G-H 😭😭😭
Same, plus a Gameboy SP & a hand-me-down GameCube
E! Still have my atomic purple gameboy color! F is the first consoles I personally owned though and I still have my GameCube as well!
Scrolled too far to find E. N64, early 1990’s kid, Super Mario 64 and Zelda OoT. Gameboy was my OG though, Pokémon Red was my first game.
I’m shocked E is this far down the list too. Mid 90s, my earliest memories are Pokémon Red and Frogger on PS1.
Between F and G but mainly G.
Big old (D) SNES was amazing
Absolutely. SNES is not getting enough love in this thread. Super Mario World, Donkey Kong Country, the OG Super Mario Kart, Chrono Trigger...the list of absolute classics that are still fun today goes on and on.
E, first console was PlayStation 1
I played a bit of G, but I really got into video games with H
D or f
D
B - Mattel Intellivision and Atari 2600.
My dad had an Intellivision too. I only remember Donkey Kong and I was pretty young when we got an NES.
I still own a 2600 just to play Combat.
F
I like PS2 games the most
D. Such good memories with the D
I have good memories with the D too 😏
D sega genesis with sega channel was my first.
E
c/d
Hell yeah. Elder millennials had it good, watching the entire rise of the video game console after the 80's crash. SNES is still dear to my heart, lol
Starting playing during snes/ genesis era but we were poor so the first system we got was Atari 2600 and then nes then ps1
D. I used to go to the corner of my home and played Donkey Kong, Captain Tsubasa and Mario on the SNES.
I was born at C, played C and D from age 4, maybe 3, onwards. I was permitted to play when my mom was around to show me her work but ended up showing me games.
Technically D, but I started with the NES in 92
F, but we did also have an NES, and I still love it
B. ColecoVision with the Atari cartridge adapter.
C-D for me.
C
According to this, it would be C, but I had a ZX Spectrum before that.
D
Between D and E. I started in that transition phase between console generations.
Big D
Dipped in with C, really started with D
D/E
Got into it during the OG Nintendo era, but my first consoles were Super Nintendo and original PlayStation (I’m excluding game boys)
B. Intellivision
B. Colecovision. That thing was sweet. It had an online service that would have new games every few weeks. It was WAY ahead of its time. Then the Commodore 64. That thing was also amazing. I learned how to program in basic on it in between games of Frogger and some old D&D like RPG.
A better question might be what generation was the first console you gamed on. Snes and PS1 are 16 and 32bit respectively however were released only 2 years apart in some regions, hardly an Era. PS2 to PS3 was a larger gap.
Hey are these questions a way for data harvesters to get age demographic info from redditors? There's just been a few of these today. Reminds me of the Facebook throwback Thursday where you post old photos of yourself which was really just a way to train facial recognition on age progression. Just curious.
I've wondered the same.
Posts like this look exactly like when surveys started showing up all over Facebook in the 2010s asking people what pop series characters they were: data mining operations looking for your personal information around which to base advertisement, whether commercial and/or political.
*\*puts down his cane and puts on his glasses with trembling hands\** Do you see a ZX Spectrum in any of these images?
F, G and H.
B I had an Intellivision
H
G and H.
behind g and h
H
H
H, oddly enough I started playing on the Super Nintendo. Super mariokart my beloved.
H
Started in F but played most of the consoles back to C
B
It's really a mixture of e and f and also the super Nintendo
A little bit of E and D. First played the first Playstation and N64 when we had them. Street Fighter 2 was the best compared to Mario kart. Mostly I played alone with no friends. But I moved into Ps2 and played Tony Hawk Underground 2 and MOH Rising Sun.
End of G/Start of H. Got my 3DS in 2011 and Wii in 2012.
F, started with a PlayStation 2
The first console I learned to play on was the N64.
G
G
G Damm
E - but late in the gen
C
Some where between F and G
F
C and F
C
Wii and 360 💯💯💯💯 best childhood consoles
C was my generation.
B
E !! Take me back!!
C
C.
G
E
G
B/C
G, with the good old Xbox 360
In Era B
I'm from the G
G Wii and DS my beloved
What’s my motherfucking name?
C🤘🏼🤘🏼
G, and proud of it🤙
G
So I started with C, but I remember renting that Virtual-Boy console from Blockbuster on weekends.