Author Topic: How did your gaming evolve? (Read 7320 times)

menace · « **on:** October 02, 2003, 10:11:43 am »

I started on the VIC-20 then "graduated" to the C-64, then a 386 sx-25 (sx stood for Sux) then 486 and on and on. I never had an atari 2600 as me and my brothers couldn't comvince my mom of its obvious educational value...I always wanted one of those coleco tabletops but it was never in the cards

CitznFish · « **Reply #1 on:** October 02, 2003, 12:50:42 pm »

Omni at a friends house, then Intellivision at another friends house. Finally I got a Colecovision, then another (they kept breaking), tried to buy a C64 off TV and got ripped off. my next machine was a 486SX (played Indycar Racing from papyrus 24/7) then came SNES, N64, PS1, PS2 and many PC's inbetween. Only have PC's now since Consoles are a waste of money to me. (I play them for 5 months then sell it off at a loss)

Nailz · « **Reply #2 on:** October 02, 2003, 01:54:36 pm »

1. Atari 2600 of my own (much begging to Mom and Dad involved), also massive amount of quarters spent at the arcade from my paper route money

2. Intellivision at a friends
3. then Colecovision at a friends
4. Vic-20 thrown in there somewhere, my Grandpa won it at a school raffle
5. A friends Commodore-64, we played that damn Bruce Lee game for hours at a time
6. Nintendo (NES) came along
7. Sega Genesis in the Army
8. 486DX-33 after I got out and started college (Castle Wolfenstein starts it followed by Doom and Quake and skipping many classes)
9. At this point, just a PC, step-son has an X-Box, and of course the MAME cab

SirPoonga · « **Reply #3 on:** October 02, 2003, 02:33:41 pm »

I started with playing an Atari 2600 at a babysitters.
Then pong at my aunts.
Then NES at my neighbors.
Played Master system at another friends.
Then I got a NES
Then my parents got a 8086 computer I played with.
Then I got a genesis.
My parents got a 386 and I got the 8086.
In high school I built a 486 computer (I still have the 1.2 gig hd I use in a set top mp3 player).
Then I went backwards. I picked up a TRS-80 from my 6th grade teacher that retired.
And i picked up an atari 2600 from a garage sale.
I picked up a Genesis.
Then I was happy for awhile. The next system I bought was an n64 from a roommate in college.
Then in college I bought this PIII 500.
Then a dreamcast.
Then a gamecube.

Apollo · « **Reply #4 on:** October 02, 2003, 04:31:06 pm »

Apart from arcade games:
ZX81 programming machine code in to play Galaxian etc
Then nothing for a long time
Sega Megadrive
Playstation 1
PC

Pretty boring I'm afraid

APFelon · « **Reply #5 on:** October 02, 2003, 10:37:05 pm »

God, I don't even remember anymore. I have been playing electronic games for as long as I can remember.

APf

paigeoliver · « **Reply #6 on:** October 03, 2003, 04:31:32 am »

A few arcade games when I was really small.

Then a Colecovision with the Atari 2600 adaptor.

Then a Pong console. Then an Atari 5200 from a Garage sale that didn't have any joysticks (never did get any).

Nes eventually came, then Supernes.

I got a 3DO when I was in the Army.

Back from the Army. Got an Atari 7800.

First Computer 486/100 Mhz. Then 233, then 300, then 450, then 500, then 650, then 1200. Currently own 286/10, Pentium 120 (won't boot), and 486/100 laptops, 486/50 and 486/100 desktops, pentiums 90, 133, 200, 333, 400, 533, 650, 733, and 1200. And a couple of incomplete systems as well. My god, I didn't even realize I owned like 14 computers until I just typed this.

I also currently own 7 Genesis consoles (but only 4 cartidges). They are left over from a buyout of a pawnshops videogame section I did back when I was an ebay seller, most of the don't even work. Also have a dissasembled Nes that doesn't work (and it isn't the edge connector either), an Atari 800, a Pong Console, and a DDR clone console on the way.

jerryjanis · « **Reply #7 on:** October 03, 2003, 07:19:43 am »

Pong/lightgun console
Atari 2600
Commodore 64
Commodore 128
(End of parental purchasing)

Nintendo (bought and sold on several occasions)
Gameboy (breifly - sold it)
Amiga 600

Pentium 200mhz
Nintendo 64 (bought and sold within a year -
I LOVED the fact that it came with 4
controller hook-ups out of the box)
AMD Athlon 1.3 Ggz
Free Pentium III 600 from work (for the arcade cabinet)
Dreamcast

Dave_K. · « **Reply #8 on:** October 03, 2003, 01:35:01 pm »

Pong on the Telstar (Coleco's first console)
TRS-80 model 1 at school
Atari 2600 at friends house
Intellivision
Apple II at school
IBM PC 8088 at school
Nintendo 8-bit
Turbo Grafix 16
Playstation
Dreamcast
Nintendo Virtual Boy (off ebay)
Vectrex (off ebay)
Stargate, Robotron, Joust
Hard Drivin, Marble Madness, Spy Hunter sit down
PS2
XBox
(Gamecube at the end of this month :-)

RandyT · « **Reply #9 on:** October 03, 2003, 03:34:24 pm »

Telstar (poor man's pong

)
Bally Astrocade
Magnavox Odyssey 2 (had cool "programming" cartridge and no way to save

)
Atari 2600
Intellivision
Colecovision + 2600 adapter
Vectrex
Atari 400 computer
Commodore 64
Amiga 1000
Sega Master System
Genesis
NES
Playstation
Nintendo64
Saturn
Dreamcast
XBOX
PS2
Dual AthlonMP 2000+ w/ Ti4600

RandyT

*edit*
forgot about my SMS

And then there was the VirtualBoy I picked up on closeout and the GB, GBC and GBA in there somewhere too......

Zapper · « **Reply #10 on:** October 04, 2003, 05:07:25 am »

My gaming began with Pong then Fairchild, Atari 2600, Colecovision, Pac-Man Watch, VIC-20, NES, SNES, PSX, PowerMac and now a PC inside of a large wooden MAME monster. I've also collected most of the classic game consoles, then sold them. Now I own a Jaguar, Saturn, Dreamcast, N64 and PS2. GameCube and Mac G5 are on my wish list, X-Boat I think I'll pass on.

menace · « **Reply #11 on:** October 04, 2003, 08:25:51 am »

Quote

My god, I didn't even realize I owned like 14 computers until I just typed this.

You either live by yourself or have the world's most understanding spouse!!! I get "the look" when i bring parts home--not even a whole PC!

u_rebelscum · « **Reply #12 on:** October 05, 2003, 06:07:10 pm »

vic-20 at neighbor's house
atari 2600
commodore64 at same above neighbor's house (he taught me basic/baby-sat me once a week over a summer)
commodore64 at jr high school (basic)
genesis (brother & I pitched in together)
ibm 8086 at high school (pascal class, but tetris when the teacher wasn't looking)
8086 at home
ibm 286 & macII at high school senior year (year book)
286-16mhz first year college
486-66 third year college
pen-200 after graduating
friends have playstation and gamecube

Currently have a athlon 1ghz, and bought a dreamcast after the price dropped to $50.

paigeoliver · « **Reply #13 on:** October 06, 2003, 01:33:18 am »

Quote from: menace on October 04, 2003, 08:25:51 am

Quote
My god, I didn't even realize I owned like 14 computers until I just typed this.

You either live by yourself or have the world's most understanding spouse!!! I get "the look" when i bring parts home--not even a whole PC!

Yes, I am single. Also the computer thing isn't quite as bad as it sounds. Two of them are laptops that live in their little carrying cases all the time. Two are in arcade cabinets and two more are designated for arcade cabinets. I only have one actual desktop unit set up. The rest are just stacked up in a corner, and I (of course) don't have enough monitors to go around anyway.

ErikRuud · « **Reply #14 on:** October 06, 2003, 10:04:44 am »

Let's see if I can remember correctly. I think the years are accurate.

1976 - Talked parents into buying a Pong machine from Sears for christmas.
1977 - Purchase better (4 pplayer) Pong-type system at church rummage sale.
1977 - Best friend gets an Atari 2600 for christmas.
1978 - Joined computer club at high school. A time-share system with hard copy terminals. Space Slalom and Star Trek were two of the games on it.
1978 - Talked parents into purchasing an Odyssey2 console for christmas.
1979 - Added "The Voice" speech module to the Oddyssey2
1980 - Dad brings haome a Commodore PET with black and white monitor. It is on loan from work.
1981 - Talked parents into purchasing Vic-20 for christmas.
1982 - Purchased 16K expansion cartridge for Vic-20 with birthday money.
1985 - My father buys a Commodore 64.
1985 - I purchased a Commodore 128 with a 1541 disk drive and 1200 baud modem with my own hard earned cash.
1986 - 1581 3.5" disk drive purchased for C128.
1988 - I purchased a Comodore Amiga 2000
1990 - I bought a Sega Genesys
1992 - My girlfriend buys me a 32X expansion for the Sega.
1997 - My wife (girlfriend from 1992) and I purchase a 100 Mhz pentium PC.
1999 - Upgrade the 100 mhz to 200 mhz.
2001 - We purchase a used 233 mhz Pentiom MMX PC with 17" monitor from work for $50.00. The 200 mhz becomes the MAME machine.
2003 - We purchase a 1.8 Ghz P4 PC. The 233 becomes the MAME machine.

menace · « **Reply #15 on:** October 06, 2003, 04:19:32 pm »

I was at the toronto auction on oct 4th and my buddy commented that we could likely strike up a conversation with just about anybody seeing as we all have a unique interest in video games (and likely computers) I get the same feeling on this board--its like we lived parallel lives

zero-one · « **Reply #16 on:** October 06, 2003, 04:36:10 pm »

More memories...

Other than the time spend at the arcades I spent my gaming hours this hardware...

Played the classics (ports), Pacman, Galaxian, Centipede, Robotron on:
Atari 400 computer
Atari 600XL w/ 64K RAM (was cheaper than the 800XL)

Atari 520ST
Atari 1040ST - one game stands out here - Time Bandit (no relation to the movie)

Played many PC games - Ultima, Wing Commander on:
386DX, 486, P233

NES - Zelda and few others

Sega Genesis - Bought it just to play Sonic.

PlayStation - Spyro and Crash Bandicoot series.

GameBoy Advance - love Metroid Fusion

SirPoonga · « **Reply #17 on:** October 06, 2003, 06:47:15 pm »

Quote from: RandyT on October 03, 2003, 03:34:24 pm

Telstar (poor man's pong )

the one with the lightgun? I have that.

ErikRuud · « **Reply #18 on:** October 07, 2003, 10:05:16 am »

Sir Poonga,

Ranger, Sportman, Marksman, Gemini, or Telstar Arcade?

http://www.pong-story.com/coleco.htm

I really, really wanted a Telstar Arcade when they came out.

RandyT · « **Reply #19 on:** October 07, 2003, 10:50:10 am »

Quote from: ErikRuud on October 07, 2003, 10:05:16 am

Sir Poonga,

Ranger, Sportman, Marksman, Gemini, or Telstar Arcade?

Wow! Cool link. I had no idea there were so many under the Telstar name. I had the original one

MMmmmm..Beige plastic and artificial woodgrain.

RandyT

mrhowell · « **Reply #20 on:** October 07, 2003, 03:41:14 pm »

TRS-80 model III with optional cassette player to load games. Got it from my brother who used it on the USS Nimitz back in the early 80's. 16k of ram.

xar256 · « **Reply #21 on:** October 10, 2003, 03:35:15 pm »

Hmmm...Lets see. Aside from the arcades thoughout...

Colecovision at a friends place
Atrai 2600 at a friends place
Then I got my own 2600
Commoder 64 at a friends place
8088 computer <Tandy 1000HX - no hard drive just floppies and a black and white tv>
NES <still got it>
Super NES, Sega Genesis, Turbo Grafix 16 at friends places
286 <Tandy 1000RL - with CGA monitor - tres cool>
Gameboy
486 dx 66 upgraded to dx2/66 and dx4/100 later on
Various pentiums <75, 100, 133, 166, 166MMX, 200MMX, 233MMX, PII, 300-450, PIII550, 1Ghz, now 2Ghz
Sony PS1 <modded of course>
Sony PS2 <modded of course>

Currently have: NES, Gameboy, PS1, PS2, 486/33 laptop, p100 laptop, 1-p133, 1-p166, 5-p166MMX, 3-pII-300, pIII-650, PIII-1Ghz, P4-2Ghz <all working too>
Plus everything else in the server cabinet

So you're not by yourself Paigeoliver. Although, stangely enough, I'm not married either.

Xar256

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #22 on:** October 10, 2003, 04:45:55 pm »

Well, it all started in a liquor store with star castle, 1980. I then found the doughnut shop with pac-man.

My dad owned a bar, and I would play Space Invaders in there. That was sweeeet!

Playing at my best friends house every morning before school on his Atari 2600! I was jealous when he got that! (also 1980)

Coleco head-to-head football! (1980, maybe '81)

Anyway, first home computer was a Texas Instruments TI-99 4/A (1983). I then dumped way to much money into it making upgrades and buying games. My neighbor got an Apple II with the funky green monitor and I would go play on that with him a lot also.

Next I got a commodore 64. Used that until like 1992.

Then I was given an Apple IIc or some crap. Pretty useless. I gave it away.

Bought a Pentium II 233mhz PC system for $2500 in 1996. Still using that same case, but have upgraded myself since.

Bought Nintendo 64.

1998- Discovered MAME, Dave's Classics, and BYOAC.

BONUS: I just remembered this old game. Not a video game exactly...It had a steeering wheel, and a car on a road. I think the car was metal or plastic, and a "screen" behind had cars that scrolled at you. I think it was like 1974 or 1975. I was too young to really remember details. Anyway know what this game is?

RandyT · « **Reply #23 on:** October 10, 2003, 04:53:30 pm »

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on October 10, 2003, 04:45:55 pm

BONUS: I just remembered this old game. Not a video game exactly...It had a steeering wheel, and a car on a road. I think the car was metal or plastic, and a "screen" behind had cars that scrolled at you. I think it was like 1974 or 1975. I was too young to really remember details. Anyway know what this game is?

Was this it? I really enjoyed this one (for some reason)

CitznFish · « **Reply #24 on:** October 10, 2003, 08:08:26 pm »

i remember that racing game!

How come nobody mentioned having a Vextrex??

this was the sh*t back then:

i never got to own one though...

Magnet_Eye · « **Reply #25 on:** October 10, 2003, 08:23:51 pm »

RandyT: Yeah, i remember that one! But the one I am talking about is different. It was in a hamburger joint my family used to go to. I think it was 10 cents to play, i don't remember. Dammit!

Vextrex! Yes, I forgot! A friend had that and i used to play it with him. That was in high school, around 1985.

Nailz · « **Reply #26 on:** October 11, 2003, 01:29:11 pm »

Quote from: RandyT on October 10, 2003, 04:53:30 pm

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on October 10, 2003, 04:45:55 pm
BONUS: I just remembered this old game. Not a video game exactly...It had a steeering wheel, and a car on a road. I think the car was metal or plastic, and a "screen" behind had cars that scrolled at you. I think it was like 1974 or 1975. I was too young to really remember details. Anyway know what this game is?

Was this it? I really enjoyed this one (for some reason)

RandyT, holy crap, you just brought back a flood of memories with that thing. I loved mine, between that and my handheld football and my Evil Knievel wind-up motorcycle, I was in techno-heaven....

menace · « **Reply #27 on:** October 11, 2003, 03:14:30 pm »

Holy crap!-- I still have my filmstrip racer (or whatever it was called) I traded it for some train stuff when i was 11, then promptly opened it and hacked it so i couldn't crash. I guess i was "building" my own arcade controls back then too

have to pick that up when I'm home for thanksgiving.

ErikRuud · « **Reply #28 on:** October 13, 2003, 09:15:36 am »

Magnet_Eye,
Was it Bally's "Road Runner"?

http://marvin3m.com/arcade/roadrun.htm

http://www.arcade-museum.com/game_detail.php?game_id=9340

I remeber playing this way back when.

I also remember an eve older one that they had at the campground my family used to stay at. It had a similar cabinet, but the game looked more like a cartoon, and the race track was a constant curve to the left. I am still trying to track down the name of that one.

ErikRuud · « **Reply #29 on:** October 13, 2003, 09:29:04 am »

I think this first one is the older game I remeber, but they all appear to be similar.

http://marvin3m.com/arcade/cspeed.htm

http://marvin3m.com/arcade/drmast.htm

http://marvin3m.com/arcade/sroad7.htm

Jabba · « **Reply #30 on:** December 02, 2005, 10:45:47 pm »

Quote from: RandyT on October 10, 2003, 04:53:30 pm

Quote from: Magnet_Eye on October 10, 2003, 04:45:55 pm
BONUS: I just remembered this old game. Not a video game exactly...It had a steeering wheel, and a car on a road. I think the car was metal or plastic, and a "screen" behind had cars that scrolled at you. I think it was like 1974 or 1975. I was too young to really remember details. Anyway know what this game is?

Was this it?

missioncontrol · « **Reply #31 on:** December 02, 2005, 11:21:33 pm »

hand held electronic football game ---->
atari 2600 ---->
lots of quarters in the arcades ---->
c-64 ---->
Games on aunts tandy computer ---->
lost of quarters in super mario brothers at h.s. bus stop (which caused me to miss the bus many of times)
nes ---->
lots of 100 yen coins in the arcades (while in japan) ---->
genises hand held ---->

took break away from computers and technology

quake on pc's ---->
never stopped after quake

Harry Potter · « **Reply #32 on:** December 02, 2005, 11:25:58 pm »

A few coins in machines...
Sinclair ZX-81...
Sinclair ZX Spectrum...
Lots of coins...
Commodore 64...
Amiga 500...
Amiga 2000...
PC (too many to mention...
A few coins now and then

Never did consoles.

JONTHEBOMB · « **Reply #33 on:** December 02, 2005, 11:52:11 pm »

My dad taught me how to kill Nazis on a 286 in Wolfenstein 3d.
Then SNES, N64, Pentium III 650MHz, Xbox, Xbox 360 and
my cabinet when I'm finished.

Crazy Cooter · « **Reply #34 on:** December 03, 2005, 12:37:56 am »

In order of first appearance in the living room:

Atari 2600
pong console
Commodore-64
NES <- "ordered" through relative. Promotional use only box.
NES x2 to replace #1
NES x3 to replace #2
PC
PS1
SNES
GameCube

As far as "modern" PC games, Quake1 was good, but Team Fortress got me hooked.

danny_galaga · « **Reply #35 on:** December 03, 2005, 02:22:02 am »

couldnt afford anything as a kid. lucky to get a meal on the table! but friends had atari 2600's and id usually get to play galaxians and space invaders at the arcades when i had some pocket money. high school brought me the wonder of the appleIIe with castle wolfenstein. lost interest in computer games after high school except for an old galaxians cocktail at the cafeteria when i went to trade school. and the next buzz i got out of games would have been when a friends boyfriend showed me age of empires on his laptop. they went out to dinner and when they came back in the wee small hours i was still on it! then from there-

MAME

(",)

BackAgain · « **Reply #36 on:** December 03, 2005, 03:09:32 am »

Wow!! I almost forgot all about my Fairchild! I spent many hours on that, especially Drag Racing...

I wish I still had it. It went into the attic when I got my Atari 2600 and I never saw it again.

missioncontrol · « **Reply #37 on:** December 03, 2005, 03:17:11 am »

Quote from: Crazy Cooter on December 03, 2005, 12:37:56 am

As far as "modern" PC games, Quake1 was good, but Team Fortress got me hooked.

a friend of mine had 5 computers in his house all networked (this was 1998 - 1999) we'd all go over to his house on THursday night to play cards. After a while we decided it was more fun to bet on quake winners rather than cards. We'd drink beer and play quake all night.

I wish I could find some of those older quake maps

Zakk · « **Reply #38 on:** December 03, 2005, 10:39:53 am »

Our first system must have been around 1976, it was a home version of atari combat, but black and white, and had two sets of "battlezone" type joysticks. I remember it because the sticks broke more often than the 5200 sticks. Anyone remember this gem, I can't find a reference to it, and I can't remember if it was early atari, or coleco, or what.

skippy · « **Reply #39 on:** December 03, 2005, 11:26:31 am »

Zakk, it was Coleco Telstar Combat. Played that bad boy for hours. Still haven't found one on greedbay I'm willing to pay for.

I started with the combat by coleco
then the 2600
and all those cool ass handhelds
A vic 20 Can't believe how much you payed for a 3K expansion card
Then a 64
There was a Apple IIe somewhere in here
A real early IBM clone
then about a ten year hiatus while I concentrated on ---Bad words, bad words, whatcha gonna do? Whatcha gonna do when saint censors you?---
then a pentium 100
then a mmx200
then a III
Now a IV HT


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