PC was all I had. Commander Keen and Duke Nukem (original, not 2 or 3D) were my go-to games for a long while.
Mine was the PS2. Ratchet and Clank, Ace Combat and Metal Gear Solid were my favorites
Same with Ratchet & Clank on PS2 for me. Also, Midnight club 3 dub edition was so fun.
Need for Speed Most Wanted was my JAM in 2005 or so. That game was just so damn cool. It made me want an E46 M3 GTR for basically all of my childhood.
My Pentium 120 MhZ playing Duke Nukem, Quake, Diablo, Red Alert. All my friends had 133 MhZ so was the underdog at LAN meetups 🙂
I only got to truly experience Red Alert recently with the remake. My first taste of it was on PS1, and I remember it being pretty clunky. Come to think of it that was the first RTS I ever played
I went back and forth between my SNES and N64. SNES was better for RPGs and a lot of 2D action games, but the N64 was much better for multiplayer/party games. If I had to pick one, I’d probably go SNES, but it was close.
MSDOS
I remember being like 5 years old and my grandfather (who built the PC for us and would later take me to computer shows) made a “cheat sheet” for me telling me how to “cd” etc in order to find and run my games
I had a copy of DOS for Dummies. super helpful, the official manual for MSDOS 5.0 was really dry/uninteresting
SNES when growing up. When it was released, it felt like having an arcade machine at home. The sound & 16-bit graphics with titles like TMNT Turtles in Time, Street Fighter 2, Mortal Kombat, Final Fight, Super Double Dragon, and T2 The Arcade Game.
I was also a PC gamer but never looked at a PC as a gaming system/console. Played games like Sim City, Sim City 2000, Doom 1 & 2, Duke Nukem 3D, Wing Commander series, Warcraft, Starcraft, Command & Conquer series, and the list goes on.
This for me as well. Gotta add Chrono Trigger. FFV. Breathe of Fire. Some really great RPGs that are still being emulated today.
I remember SNES coming out when I was 6 and writing repeatedly on my christmas list “super nintendo” over and over until I filled up the entire page. I thankfully got it and for the next decade that was pretty much all I played. Even when the N64 came out I was unimpressed with the blocky polygon graphics. SNES games even today have aged so well. Most of my favorite RPGs of all time are on the SNES.
P.S. GBA is a close second
Nintendo DS, actually I think it still is, I was just playing Jump Ultimate Stars through Wiimmfi with a folk lol.
My Game Boy with Super Mario Land 2: 6 Golden Coins, Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3, T2: The Arcade Game, Tetris, and F1 Race
I just found my childhood Gameboy pocket, opened it up, cleaned it up (it was a transparent case so definitely needed it). Have started replaying Pokémon red and having so much fun with it. The joy of hearing that power up sound.
A lot of old games don’t hold up and I don’t know if it’s just the nostalgia but some of these Gameboy games still stand up
Honestly I think a lot of them hold up really well. They were held back by the hardware of their time.
Master System because I’m special
SNES followed by the PS2.
Eaaaaasily the Dreamcast, even though I think I was the only person I knew that had one. I think I had:
- Shenmue
- Power Stone
- Soulcalibur
- Quake III Arena
- Skies of Arcadia
- Capcom vs SNK
- Timestalkers
- Sonic Adventure
- Phantasy Star Online
Stellar lineup. I also loved my PlayStation.
Oh yeah the Dreamcast! Never saw a console with such a quirky lineup. My favorites were
- Rez
- Tokyo Xtreme Racer
- Cosmic Smash
- Crazy Taxi
- House of the Dead
- Space Channel 5 (right left chu chu chu!)
I’m really happy most of these games are available on Steam. Rez in VR is amazing (and Tetris Effect, made by the same team I think).
I would love to see a modern Power Stone game made
God, me too. I don’t understand why ‘arena fighters’ in that style just seemed to fall off the face of the earth.
Personal Computer (80-90s)
Doom 2 - Spent my childhood on dial up playing other friends over the modem. Up all hours of the night using chainsaws and rockets. Late 90s when Duke Nukem came out, It was the first game I drove immediately to the store and purchased. Back in the day when you bought the box and had to take it home and install it. Thought it was leading edge and funny as hell. To be fair it was at the time. Today that information is tracked. I’d like to know how many thousands of hours I spent on this game. But it was hilarious and late fun filled nights.
Today I buy 2-3 games per decade. But still game for a majority of my entertainment. One of the benefits of being an old gamer is that if you build a new system today it can play everything from the 70s to 2023 at a minimal. Toss in Emulation for other consoles in there you really have a plethora of choices, 4 decades worth to be specific. All of which contain no tracking, no always online, no micro-transactions. As gaming was intended! Really hard to find something that checks those boxes, about 2-3 titles per decade worth purchasing.
PS2… even though, during its last days, I had to stack half a set of encyclopedias on top to get it to run a game 😭
Had a lot of fun with our SNES but I rocked the heck out of the PlayStation.
I grew up basically worshipping the N64. Mario Kart, Ocarina, Majora, both Pokemon Stadiums, Mario 64, Paper Mario, GoldenEye, Wave Race, Perfect Dark, Mario Party…Not a whole lot of games, but the good ones are some of the best of the time.
