Aw, this is what I get for not paying attention to what instance I was posting in.
You never forget your first
Submitted 11 months ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to retrogaming@lemmy.world
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GraniteM@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I_R0_B0_T@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I was obsessed with the N64 when I was a kid, but I never owned one. Honorable mention to the GBC, but I did get one shortly after the GBA came out.
Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
For me, it was always consoles I never actually got. Dreamcast for a while (VMUs were so fucking cool), then the GP32.
Zomg@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I really liked my GBA
lunarul@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Never had a console growing up. PC all the way. Started with a ZX Spectrum clone, then a 286, then a Pentium 100, and so on. I got my first consoles as an adult, first the Xbox One, which I never really played anything other than Just Dance on, then a Switch, which I couldn’t really get into either and ended up playing more on Ryujinx than on the actual switch. Bought an old 3DS at one point and its also just sitting in a drawer. Guess I’m too much of a PC gamer to get into consoles.
ExtantHuman@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Oh good. I’m now too old to be nostalgic
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Never forget my first but slightly going in reverse…… those SNES games just hit hard.
glitchdx@lemmy.world 11 months ago
never owned a snes, had a gamecube before I first emulated snes games. Chrono Trigger fucks.
ABetterTomorrow@lemm.ee 11 months ago
So good, maybe too good. Soundtrack just slaps, always triggering a moment playing the game.
arararagi@ani.social 11 months ago
PC engine, even though I never even saw one in person lol.
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
To me, that’ll be the Amiga 500 computer then. I don’t think it ever existed in Brazilian soil, but damn, talk about the best consumer hardware you could get in the mid-late 80s. Like many good things, (mis)management fucked it up. Ars Technica has a series of articles that explain its history very well
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Atari and Amiga were sooooo good at the time. It’s a shame Microsoft and Apple won in the end. These machines were so much better technologically, power, and usability wise.
I plaid lots of LucasArts adventures on these
SynopsisTantilize@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Gameboy gang rise!!
whotookkarl@lemmy.world 11 months ago
In all it’s shades on green 💚
cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
nes galaga at my dads house <3
TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I can’t believe I threw away my Dreamcast. I’m such an idiot.
JayleneSlide@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Right there with ya, except I gave away all my consoles. Original 2600, 5200, Intellivision, NES, SNES, Game gear… on up through my two 360s. There were since esoteric ones in there, and some real stinkers: CD-i, 3DO leap to mind.
tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
There’s a few on ebay for like a hundred bucks, or there’s always emulation
ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 11 months ago
I ran NES emulators on my Dreamcast, lol.
Gonna have to dig it out over the weekend…
Gonzako@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ps2?
Matriks404@lemmy.world 11 months ago
GBA SP here.
9point6@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I guess mine’s a PC from the 90s or 00s
Maybe PS1 at a push given the family computer didn’t really do 3D until we got a 3D accelerator a few years later
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
PSP was my first ('98 here), the 360 my second, a 3DS my third. I probably spent thousand of hours on my PSP, so I’d go for PSP probably. Jailbroke my childhood PSP a year ago or so and enjoyed playing a bunch of games I couldn’t get. Also jailbroke my 3DS and gave it to my partner as a birthday gift so she could play all the Layton games which she grew up with.
A couple years ago, my obsession was probably the GBA, though. Growing up, we couldn’t really afford any consoles, so my only experiences with Pokemon and stuff was via emulators on my PC. Had a period of them where I’d buy old GBAs, shell-swap them, restore old games and their batteries and fun stuff like that. Haven’t touched the couple I have for some time now, sadly
turkalino@lemmy.yachts 11 months ago
Anyone got the original comic?
cm0002@lemmy.world 11 months ago
DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
What war you will be obsessed with
lime@feddit.nu 11 months ago
the original is about wars i think
Rakonat@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Loved the Wii but it definitely wasn’t my first (NES) but have fond memories with all the consoles my friends owned when I was.growing up
partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
This is what happens when parents don’t vaccine. When you are very young, you can get vaccinated with computer gaming. You can absolutely still enjoy consoles and the great games that come out on them, but you have a certain protection against obsessing over a specific console.
For me it was Commodore 64 I was vaccinated with. This also let me enjoy a future of DOS gaming right along side NES and Genesis gaming.
Redkey@programming.dev 11 months ago
In some places, the ZX Spectrum vs Commodore 64 war was epic. Likewise for Amiga vs Atari ST. Magazines for one fanbase would regularly mock the other. And I don’t know what the TRS-80 was going up against, but I’ve seen it called the “Trash-80” more than a couple of times.
What can help proof someone against this excessive dedication to one platform isn’t which platform you start them on; it’s starting them on multiple platforms as soon as possible. Getting them interested in the individual games rather than the fan club nonsense.
As human beings we naturally oversimplify things. So when our entire experience has been A, and the people around us frame the world as a choice between A and B, we’re naturally going to defend A with our life. That’s because without really thinking about it, we’ve bought into the idea that A is either right or wrong, with no middle-ground, and we hate to be wrong.
whelk@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Granted I was pretty young, but I friggin loved the ColecoVision. It had a respectable game library and Zaxxon in particular was the stuff. I remember my mom playing Ladybug (Pacman clone) frequently.
Welp. Guess I’m spending the rest of my evening looking for an emulator.
Zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Sega Mega Drive for me. We had knock off NES consoles in my country with 100 in 1 cartridges but we just called those “TV games”. Nintendo never bothered with any non first world country back then, so pirates picked up the slack. I don’t think I even knew of the ‘Nintendo’ brand when I was a little kid until I started using the internet and collecting magazines.
But Sega wasn’t quite as stiff upper lip and exclusive as Nintendo and had no problem with selling their goods to us plebs in the 3rd world. So Sega was the premium brand here and “TV games” were just cheap shit in comparison in my eyes.
We had a knock off NES when I was a little kid (called a Pegasus) but my first actual legit name brand console was the Sega Mega Drive.
Wish I still had it. When I was about 13, I went through a really dumb phase for about 1 month total where I decided I was too grown up for this stuff and I sold my Mega Drive and comics for enough money to buy one CD, probably of a band that I don’t even listen to anymore. Regret it to this day.
ICastFist@programming.dev 11 months ago
Brazil wasn’t much different in regards to being ignored by Nintendo and Sega picking up the slack and money, first with their Master System then with the Mega Drive.
The thing with the infinite amounts of famiclones was that the original Famicom was fully made of off-the-shelf parts, that is, if you know how to solder stuff, you can make one by yourself if you buy the components. When Nintendo started considering the Brazilian market, they realized they were too late: our local famiclones were better machines, with some of them having slots for both western and Japanese cartridges.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Honestly got to hand it to my PS4. I’ve had it since the early days of dating my wife, and she gifted it to me when I was a broke uni student. It’s still serving Armored Core VI, indie games, and movie nights to this day. I’ve pulled it open several times over the years to dust it out and it’s got an external fan add-on to help with cooling. I won’t know what to do with myself when it gives out someday.
v4ld1z@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
Base PS4 or Pro? If the former, a Pro could be a pretty good upgrade. Also not super expensive compared to the base model.
A PS5 is, of course, also nice if your budget allows it. Been happy with mine since its release. Feels like a real step-up compared to the entire PS4 line, even if you’re only interested in PS4 games.
Also, check the firmware of your PS4 in case you haven’t updated it recently. You could potentially jailbreak it and unlock heaps more potential. Emulation and stuff, for example.
Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s a base model. I’m going to keep using it as long as I can as-is, I don’t really have the spare mental bandwidth to tinker (nor the budget to rectify any mistakes), but it’s cool that they can be jailbroken.
Whenever I’m finally done with it, it’ll probably be time for a Steam Deck (probably some time after the release of the SD2, knowing me).
son_named_bort@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Phillips CDi? Oh no!
Notyou@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net 11 months ago
Alexstarfire@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Think that still beats out the Virtual Boy.
the_wiz@feddit.org 11 months ago
It was not my first (this would have been the Atari 2600), but the console that still has a very special place in my heart is the Atari Jaguar
h3mlocke@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Ha it’s me. Wow.
Sixtyforce@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
You’ll never guess mine.
Redkey@programming.dev 11 months ago
That is just inviting people to start throwing out names of lesser-known systems. Can we narrow it down to Western (including South America), Eastern European, or South-east Asian before we start?
awesomesauce309@midwest.social 11 months ago
Where’s my ps2 heads at
LunarLoony@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
Yes!! Still never been beat.
sundray@lemmus.org 11 months ago
Ouya!
No? Okay, Game Boy!
awesomesauce309@midwest.social 11 months ago
The revolution will be televised!
I still play towerfall, and occasionally the amazing frog?
SinningStromgald@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Atari Jaguar. No one I knew had one and the only place to play one was a single game store in a mall that you had to pay to play. I paid twice to play and was in love.
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
My first console was an Atari 2600. Well that was my family’s first.
My own fist was the original NES. Saved up my paper route money to buy it.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The real question, did you play paperboy on it?
OhStopYellingAtMe@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Oddly enough, I did not.
HowAbt2morrow@futurology.today 11 months ago
My first was the 5200 and my favorite game was Joust. Killing the pterodactyl was the highlight too.
Zombiepirate@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The 5200’s was the best home version of Joust.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
does PC count? because i never gave a fuck about consoles beyond “oh shit the 3ds can do 3d? that’s the coolest thing i have ever seen”