Topic: Your Gaming History

Well my gaming history start when I was a kid like 4-5 years old, I can only play computer the sundays 1 time in the morning at my father computer, really educative games, and really boring ones haha. Somes years later I see at carton network something about a shagy and scooby do game, and I say "I must play these'', finally I convince my father to let me play cartoonnetwork games, at home we just got 1 family computer, it was soooooo old, I can only play 1 game per day, and each game need to charge itself at least 30 minutes! Like a year later, I change a false diamond for a gameboy color in the school, at that time my parents don't let me buy some of thoses, so it was a completly secret, and my first game was pokemon yellow, In all my lie I just have like 3 games, pokemon yellow, G & W gallery 3, and a stupid 18 in 1 game that didn't save. Like 2 years later I buy a gamecube, the platinum edition, it was sooooooo cool, I really loved it, my favourite games were super smash bros melee and mario kart double dash, I have soo much fun with the gamecube, later I buy a gameboy advance, long history hahaha, much fun too till I found the computer games. Some years later in my houses were 2 computers, one of my mom and one of my dad, I used my moms one to play some lego games, one about skating, the other about football, later I buy a gameboy simulator, hahaha alot of fun also, and my first like real game was gorund control II for computer, at the age of 12 years , I played and enjoyed it alot, till one of my friend show me a MMORPG: runescape, OK I get like addicted to the game hahaha, played it alot, like 1year and 3 months, when I found another MMORPG: Guild Wars, that time was also the Wii time, my sister buy one Wii and it was the boom of the moment, it was amazing!!! But all the games my sister bought were really bad, so I get bored and continue played Guild Wars, like a year later, I get bored and started played halo for the computer, but it was too easy and I get also bored. The last christmas I get a DSi, it was really fun, but after some time of playing it I forget it, and continue playing runescape. Like 2 months later, I found the DSiware, and I start buying games, but I buy sooooo much junk that I decided to watch videos about the games after buying them, then I buy less junk but actually buy junk, so I need a othod to not to buy junk anymore, and there is when I found these great page NL. I enjoyed alot the DSiWare games, till I have a fight with my dad and he doesn't want to put more points into my DSi again, oh god say I, then I start looking about DS and Wii games, I foudn there were really cool games, and oh well long history, and didn't tell it at all, but well, what's your gaming history?

I began on Sega with sonic (1994), than I got a GB with DKL, than i thought Sony was all cool with Spyro, Crash, a bunch of ShovelWare, (2001)than got a PS2 with RaC, Jak, and more ShovelWare, (2003)than got a GBA with Metroid, got better with Pokemon Silver and Ruby, Golden Sun, (2003)than I got an N64 with SM64, and SSB, loved SSB, didnt get into, SM64, (2004)got a GCN with Metroid Prime, and SSBM,(2005) Went out to get a PSP because I still though sony was cool but really REALLLLLLLLYYYYYY!!!!!! Wanted Pokemon Pearl that was coming out in 2 years, so I got a DS with SM64DS, than got a couple shovelware for DS and Ps2, (2006)but than when I saw SSBB I really wanted a wii, got myself prepared for SSBB by Buying tons of Nintendo Items, like Mario Kart DS, ACWW, MPH, M&LPIT, Got a DS Lite and NSMB, (2007)Got a Wii with Excite Truck than It all when uphill from there, No more Sony for Me. Next year or later this year ill get a 3DS

I first had a Sega Game Gear with Sonic 2. I loved that thing, and I would bring it everywhere I could. I even had the giant battery pack brick. Most of my games, other than Sonic, were licensed shovelware, but they were still fun for me, since I was a kid. When I saved up enough money, I bought a Sega Genesis that came with Sonic 3 and Sonic and Knuckles. Sure, the Playstation was already out, but I was a kid, and therefore, poor. There was a blizzard a few weeks after I bought it, so it was a good investment for a snowed in week off school. Similar games as before. I couldn't get violent games or anything at the time so still a lot of licensed games. I sometimes still go around and if I see a good game in a flea market or something for cheap, I'll pick it up. I want to grow the collection I have. Probably the second favorite game I own on the system is Vectorman.

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In middle school we got an N64. Goldeneye and Smash tournaments FTW. OoT saved my life by being super awesome. I also got a gameboy color shortly afterwards. Didn't play much on it except Pokemon though. My mom kept stealing it to play Tetris.

My bro sold the N64 to get a Gamecube not long after I went to college. Didn't play it that much except for Melee sometimes. Lame. I stopped playing videogames with the exception of the occasional emulated retro title.

Played Wii at friends' houses a bunch (esp. Mario Kart) and really enjoyed it. So when I had some moneys I got one. I got a DSi last year, because it wouldn't have been practical to take my Wii to China for a year for grad school. Now I'm home and too poor to buy games.

It all began in 2002, when I played games like Yoshi's Story and Mario Kart 64 outside of my home. I wasn't very good because I was just a beginning player! A few months later, I visited my grandmother and noticed her Genesis. I immediately noticed Sonic the Hedgehog, thought to myself, "my friends talk about this character a lot. Time to see what all the fuss is about." Even though I couldn't make it past Act 2 of the Green Hill Zone, I was hooked. The next year, I played my cousin's Mario Party 4 game and had a ball, but I didn't want to wait until Christmas to play it again. I figured it's time to finally get a video game console, since I never had one before. Since I loved Mario Party, I thought the GameCube would be a great first system. The wait was horrendous and long, but when my birthday came, I finally got my GameCube and Mario Party 4. My life suddenly began to change for the better ever since that day. Once a boy without a hobby, I was now a boy with a love for Nintendo, which many new friends, including Otaku, had in common. As I grew up, my game library grew bigger and bigger from Mario and Sonic, to Kirby and Donkey Kong, to Star Fox and Zelda, to Metroid and Mega Man, and everything in between. As the years progressed, I got more systems, too, including the Game Boy Advance SP in December 2003, the original DS in December 2004, the DS Lite in July 2006, the Wii in December 2006, and the PlayStation, DSi, NES, and Super NES all in 2009. As I became older, my gaming skill has increased, too, from party games to platformers, to racing games to shooting games, to adventure games to puzzle games, and from RPGs to everything in between. To this day, I am still a gamer, and it was all thanks to the GameCube. Also, like everybody else on this website, I will be getting a 3DS in the future.

Heh, thank you. =)

Since i've been gaming for over 30 years (holy crap!) it would take far too long to go through it all. Even if i chopped out those years that are rather hazy in my memory ... what did they call it? Oh yeah, college, the only place that "pong toss" is actually fun. XD

I started gaming back in 1986 with the release of the NES with a game that stared two plumber brothers in a magical kingdom. Back then my parents rented my brother and I a NES untill Christmas 1987 when we got one of our own. Anyway to make a very long story short I continued with all the latest systems. I have had the following systems at one point or another. NES, SNES, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Gameboy, Gameboy Color, GBA, DS, Virtual Boy Genesis, Sega CD, Playstation, PS2, Xbox 360 and a computer. I have beaten too many games to mention or remember after 24 years of gaming.

I started when I was 4. My first games I played were Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Bros. and then a couple christmases later, I got a Game Boy. I continued getting only Nintendo systems until games like Jak & Daxter and Ratchet & Clank caught my eye, and so we got a PS2...and then my brother got interested in Halo and so we both got 360s.

Somerwhere between the age of 4 or 5, I played Tetris on a GameBoy demostation in a local shopping mall - a very good start I think Mostly, my parents used to "park" me at one of these GameBoy or NES demostations to do their shopping in piece. I got so hooked, that I ennoyed them enough to buy me a GameBoy. Later, around 1990, a NES followed. It was one of this later european bundles with Super Marios Bros + Tetris + Nintendo World Cup incl. 4 controllers. For beeing a relatively poor family, that was quite a sensation. My brother and I, we played the hell out of it. Beeing limited to 2-3 new games per year, every one counted and got played out to the max. For a while nothing changed that, even the Super Nintendo or Sega Genesis. Of course we where jealous as hell, but what can you do...

A gifted Commodore 64 followed around 1995 (you see, I used to lag behind!) and it layout some foundations for me, like learning how to computers operate, how to set up stuff and doing some baby steps in BASIC programming. The games kicked ass and we enjoyed the "Games" series from Epyx in multiplayer and I personally war games like Steel Thunder, Power at See, A.C.E. or Risk.

Begging my parents again, we got in 1997 a Windows 95 PC "for education". And "education" for me meant playing the hell out of it ^_ Okay, I learned to handle the common computer problems on my own, but barely touched the (not bad!) educational software.

After my brother managed to get our trusty NES stolen by one of his gypsy friends (seriously !) and the C64 malfunctioned due to bad care taking by myself, and sold GameBoy games, we went all the way PC until 2000. My brother seriously wanted the N64 and for reasons I dont want to mention here he got one. Mario 64, Mario Party, Zelda:MM and Smash Bros I remember the most.

2002 followed a GameBoyAdvance and 2003 I bought a GameCube almost entirely for Metroid Prime and F-Zero GX only.

Another long PC period followed until I went all Nintendo again in 2007: bought a DS Lite and some months later a Wii. The Wii is also a great way to replay most of my beloved NES classics and to fill some "gaps" like the Genesis games. Nothing changed much back then, except that I got rid of my gaming tower and had some retro flash that lead me to get a C64 again - now beeing able to download disk roms and transfer them on actual 5.25" floppys is the coolest thing ever - and a SNES for a first time. With the SNES - a system I realy enjoy right now - came a Super GameBoy aswell. Having an original Tetris (GB) box on my shelf again feels very good

Mostly this.

It all started in 1997 with GoldenEye 007 on the N64. I was called up to help defeat by my brother and I did good for my first time, then around '98, my bro got a PlayStation and I lived on Crash Bandicoot and those PS demo discs from PlayStation Magazine. My sister also had a Game Boy Color and that was like my best friend.

Soon after I moved to Jamaica, my dad got me my own N64 system ($50 ~ Fiery Orange) and a bunch of 5-star games (Conker's Bad Fur Day, Super Mario 64, Mario Kart 64, Super Smash Bros., etc.) that belonged to him. I had no portables since someone stole the Game Boy Color from my sister. For most of the sixth generation, I was gaming on the N64 (which wasn't so bad in Jamaica since a few peeps were behind). My sis got a PS2 and I had a lovely time playing NBA Live 2003 and GTA: San Andreas, along with other games I borrowed from friends.

Back in Jamaica at the local electronics store, I had my first dose of Xbox gaming (playing Halo 2). Also, I was hooked onto GBA gaming with Pokemon FireRed/LeafGreen versions.

Around 2004, I ran into G4's Nintendo DS Day coverage on November 21 (launch day), and by Christmas, one was in my hand along with Spider-Man 2 and Madden NFL 2005. I almost escaped NYC with the system intact until my nephew spilled orange juice all over it. I have to wait until April 2005 to get a new one, and more new games including Pokemon Dash, WarioWare: Touched and Super Mario 64 DS. That summer, I got Kirby: Canvas Curse after being barraged with the game's commercial for 2 straight weeks. [youtube:x7RLr2TMjAQ]

By the time E3 rolled around, I was hooked onto the new consoles, especially the Wii. I was previously disappointed at how it looked but it blew my mind at E3 2006. Around the summer, I got Mario Kart DS and Brain Age from the Nintendo World Store. It was also where I had my first taste of GameCube gaming and also Smash Bros. Melee. Through the mail, I received a ton of games: Metroid Prime Hunters, Star Fox Command, Clubhouse Games, Ultimate Spider-Man, New Super Mario Bros. among others.

I got a Wii console around Christmas 2006, so what better could I do than run around my Jamaican neighborhood with a Wii Remote in hand. I received a ton of games with it, including Zelda: Twilight Princess, DBZ: Budokai Tenkaichi 2, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam etc.

My old DS was getting busted so I took up on a friend's offer to sell his Crimson/Black DS Lite to me. I also got my own copy of Smash Bros. Brawl during the summer. (This was 2008.)

Finally, the next system I received was my balck Nintendo DSi in July 2009. It was because of the DSi system/DSiWare service that made me discover Nintendo Life, begin my YouTube channel and work at DSiHub.com in the long run. Right now, my next purchase would be the Nintendo 3DS whenever it decides to come out.

I started gaming in the early 80s when my parents first took me to an arcade. I played stuff like Pac-Man, Donkey Kong, and Space Invaders. Over the years, I only occasionally had the chance to get to an arcade, but every time I did I tried new stuff out. Gyruss, Gauntlet, and Space Harrier were among my favorites. Meanwhile, we got an Apple IIe and played lots of different games, most of which my brother picked out because his friends were into computer games: the Bard's Tale games, Conan, Karateka, Kung Fu Master, and many more. While the family continued to use the Apple IIe, my brother got better and better computers and sometimes let me on to play stuff like Earthworm Jim.

When I first got a computer as an adult, I mostly played old arcade games on MAME as well as a cool version of Tetris (Acid Tetris, I think). I went several years without doing much gaming, and then oddly came back into gaming because of a demo of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets included with the DVD. I kept playing it, and eventually bought the game. It is still my favorite Harry Potter game, though I haven't tried the lego game yet. I became a member of RealArcade for a few years, and found some fun games (back then they offered Sonic games and a few other core titles in addition to their casual games, some of which were also quite good) but I became frustrated with PC gaming the first time I had to replace my graphics card to be able to play a game I had bought.

I did some research on consoles, and decided the GameCube would be the best fit for my family. I bought several games with it, but most of them were bad because I didn't know what I was doing. I started doing more research, and started getting better games for it. Within half a year I decided to get a GBA so I could play games when the TV was being used. I played my first Zelda game, the Minish Cap. I know a lot of people consider that game a footnote in Zelda history, but it remains my favorite Zelda experience, probably because it was my first. I also got into Fire Emblem with The Sacred Stones, which for some reason I like better than its predecessor. Again, I think your first game in a series can easily become your favorite unless something radical is done in a later iteration.

A couple years later I got a DS for Christmas, and was hooked to the DS while occasionally firing up the GCN. I've since tried both the PSP and PS2, and mostly found that I just don't like what Sony has to offer as much as what Nintendo has to offer. I had some fantastic experiences on both (Daxter, GOW: Chains of Olympus, Jak & Daxter, Final Fantasy XII until I got bored halfway through) but ultimately sold them as only Jak & Daxter brought the family together the way Mario games did. Last year I finally got a Wii. I'm still on the fence about the 3DS, as I don't devote much time to handheld gaming anymore. I'm finding that I now prefer consoles for more involved experiences and the simple games I can play on my cell phone for quick "on the go" gaming. The 3DS sounds cool, but I'm going to wait and see how things play out for awhile before I decide.

I began in the arcade on a vacation with my parents to Lake Arrowhead, CA when I was like 5 (1982) and did Pac-Man on 2 games on a chair. From there, the usual quarter in the machine at a pizza place or whatever until 1985 when I got one of the Los Angeles released NES test run units and it had was the console, 2pads, ROB, Gyromite and Duck Hunt, then I had Super Mario Bros and Hogan's Alley tossed in. That was my start and why in a weird way I'm here at this site now. From there came the Gameboy for Holiday 1989, the SNES in 1991 which was to be Christmas but I paniced and raided my mailbox safe and barely came up with the $216.50(w/tax) and was lost in it 2wk straight doing 100% of Super Mario World, and doing chores(lots) got Gradius III and Actraiser just after. In this period was given a Coleco tabletop arcade(beat up but works) of Donkey Kong from a friend. From there came in 1996 the N64 and around that I had all those iterations of the Gameboy (Pocket and Color.) Sadly due to the lies of Sony Media Corp (I learned this working in the industry Sony put a smear campaign out about N64=kiddie box and no T/M games despite in 1996/97 they had MORE than PS1!) combined with Nintendo greed with those $20-30(to a dev'r a piece) carts I got bored and survived off Gameboy Color and pokemon saved my interest in Nintendo gaming as did Mario Golf. Fed up and bored in college I diverged into the Turbo Duo and even got Japanese discs like Dracula X and Panic Bomber...and just around/before that time was the waste of time Virtual Boy I kept a couple years. Between the N64 and Gamecube launch of 2001 I ended up with a Dreamcast 3wk after it came out on 9/9/99, a Neo Geo Pocket Color, Genesis(3 core) and a NOMAD, and more as in June of 01 I started to work at Midway Home Entertainment and due to there I ended up with a PSOne+LCD, PS2, Sega Saturn, various little LCD games too. Beyond all that sadly I hit some crappy times after moving away at the end of 2002 and over the next few years lost most my stuff though for a time I did re-acquire a second Virtual Boy and a Dreamcast they're gone too. These days my NES collection of 150 and parts is down to like around 35~, and my other Nintendo systems (minus the VB) still are around with smaller stock, all NEC, SNK, etc are gone other than a PSP and PS3, though I did keep my Coleco tabletop and added a DK Jr one an a modern Excalibur games Frogger knockoff. Since then I did re-buy a GBA SP as there were a few old games I missed (non ports) and others I never had a stab at I wanted to get some time on. This is what remains and that's the history of it -- http://members.cox.net/tanookisuit/gameinventory.html

to make a long story short:

I have 6 older siblings. when all of us were in the house (pre 2001) we all took turns playing gameboy. see, our parents didn't let us get any home consoles, and the only reason we got a gameboy was "to stop us from fighting in the car".

the game we all played the most was "Donkey Kong '94. we took turns over deaths and level completion. naturally my turn went by the fastest; I was 4 years old! as time went on, we updated our gameboys to the gameboy color, the advance, and the sp. I always had to ask for permission to play gameboy, and I was only allowed to play non-RPG's (I would "ruin" their game).

I loved the donkey kong, mario, metroid, and zelda games the most. I hated pokemon, as my siblings tried to scare me away from rpg's. ("I would delete their files")

we all took piano lessons, so while we waited for the our lesson, we played our teacher's N64. Smash Bros, Mario Kart 64, and Star Fox 64 were my favorites.

as siblings moved out to college, I gained more control over the gameboys. I bought my own games (the more obscure ones, because we had all the first party games), like Castlevania.

in 2007, we finally got our first console---the Wii. Slowly, we got older systems off Amazon, like the Super Nintendo.
and the rest is history.

Video Games are a huge part of my life. Not just playing them, but (attempting) to make them.

It bugs me when a kid at school thinks they know everything about video games, when they tell me "you don't even know where metroid keeps his missiles!

that's my story.

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I have played with these from the late 80's (at the time each were on the market): Commodore 64, NES, Super Nes, Genesis, N64, PS one, Gamecube, PS 2, Wii and DS.

I had a Genesis to and was a big fan I can't believe I spaced it off my list...

Pac-Man on GBC was the first game I played, but I got a GBA for my 6th birthday and got Pac-Man Collection for it. My first true-love game was Super Mairo Advance: how I loved that game. The first console and game I got was a Gamecube and Kirby Air Ride, which still resides as one of my favorite games ever made.

In late 2003 when I was 7 I decided to try my friend's Xbox and play Tony Hawk's Underground and I was hooked. Over the course of the next year or so, I played various friends' gaming consoles, but really fell in love with the Gamecube. However, I decided to "start small" and ask for (and recieve) a GBA SP for Christmas 2004, not knowing that the DS already came out.

Then, for my birthday in 2005 (turning 9) I got Gamecube and played it incredibly often, especially Mario Kart: Double Dash. The following Christmas (2005), now knowing about the DS, I decided to ask for one and once again recieved.

In 2006 I started hearing about this new Nintendo console called the "Revolution," which would have motion controlled games which to 10 year old me sounded ZOMG SO COOLZ!!! Later the name was of course changed to Wii and I asked for it for Christmas again. However, since it was the "new, hot item" that year, my parents weren't able to find one, but gave me an IOU and promised that they'd get me one at some point. But, 2 days later, while at Target returning a present that didn't work, she noticed a Wii on the shelves and, despite being in complete shock about the fact that it was there, bought it. When she brought it home to me, I completely flipped out (in a good way) and played it endlessly for the next week of school vacation.

In 2008, I finally hooked my Wii up to the internet, which allowed me to start buying Virtual Console games (and WiiWare games, but that's besides the point), allowing me to enjoy all those great games that came out on consoles that existed before I was born.

In 2009 as a complete surprise for Easter I got a DSi, which I of course am still using.

So yeah....