For Former Fanboys...

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It's probably happened to most of us sometime or another (Twinsanityntranced1 and TwinsanityNT, anyone?). Any of you ever been what you would consider a "fanboy" of anything video or computer game related?

 

I admit to being one on several occasions. (please forgive me)

 

My first (and possibly worst) case of fanboyism was with Sonic. After I discovered him, I instantly hated Mario and found him "uncool". I sold all my Mario games, and then vigorously attacked Mario. This lasted for years until I eventually discovered Crash. Then I started liking both Mario and Sonic again.

 

My second (arguably worse) case of fanboyism was with Nights. Me and my brother thought it was the absolute best game ever made and there could be no equal. We thought of all these twisted ways to deal with people who thought otherwise. Nowadays, I understand that there might be better games out there than that one, but I still think that Nights is the most fun game ever made.

 

My third case of fanboyism was more like reckless evangelism than fanboyism. I thought the Nintendo Wii was the greatest thing since sliced bread and jumped around in the streets screaming the name at the top of my lungs. I even went so far as to post the message "Wii will rule all" on Youtube. Then I discovered Jumping Flash, figured it would be just as fun, and then forgot about all this Wii fanboy stuff. By the way, I've never actually played a Wii before.

[Atari5200]

still am a PSP fanboy and i think the other worst case was with the Saturn. I loved and still love my Saturn to the point I would try to convince anybody not to buy a PS1. oh and i'm a Neo Geo CD fanboy too.

[2600Lives]

Anything at all Metroid and Metal Gear I go ga-ga over.

 

And I've always found Mario to be cooler than Sonic. Dunno why, but I've just never been a big Sonic fan. Sure, the games are fun, but it seems that it's the Mario games that tend to do most of the innovation (at least in the past).

[kevin242]

I was an Atari fanboi and absolutely hated Commodore, until I ended up getting an Amiga then I liked Atari Commodore and hated Microsoft. I still kind of hate MS in the sense that I prefer OS X and don't like their business practices but nowadays it's all about the best games or best tool. I've had a lot of fun with Nintendo systems lately but if some great games come out for the PS3 (and the price comes down) I will be all over it. Same thing with computers I prefer Mac's but I use Windows PC when need be. I think fanboism is something you grow out.

[8th lutz]

I was a sega genesis fanboy. I still think the Sega genesis is a great system today, but I don't have the bias against the Snes anymore.

 

 

I was a Sega Genesis fanboy that still played my nes time to time. I got the Sega Genesis for Christmas in 1992. I was biased against the snes because of the fanboys of snes system. There were some students heard my telling another student I got a sega genesis for Christmas after the student asked me what I got for Christmas. The students that heard me claimed the Sega Genesis had the sound and the Graphics of an Atari 2600 and also said the Sega Genesis is a lousy system.

 

I gave up being a game console fanboy 12 years ago. I stopped being a fanboy by my dad asking me if I wanted a snes for Christmas back in 1994. I said no, and my parents gave my brother and I a 32x without without telling them I wanted a 32x. I didn't want a 32x at the time because I thought it was about to be a short lived system. I didn't complain to my parents though about getting a 32x.

 

While I enjoyed some of the 32x games, I regretted saying no to getting a snes for Christmas. Any person gets a game console that only last a year in the year in the system was released as a gift, they would reget being a fanboy also.

[spacecadet]

This is really embarrassing, but I used to be a Mac fanboy. This was back before they were considered anything special by most people. I still remember being on some BBS somewhere and talking about how great the new "COLOR Macs" were (I remember putting that emphasis) and how the Atari ST and Amiga were doomed.

 

Nowadays I think Macs kind of suck. That's what happens when you have to use one every day. (A G5 is my primary work computer.)

 

I have been accused of being a Sony fanboy in the past year. It is true that of the three current systems, I only own a PS3. But it's not because I'm a "fanboy", it's because I don't want to deal with RROD's or freakin' fitness programs being my console's major releases. Are you a "fanboy" if a particular product just gives you what you want and nothing you don't?

[Atarifever]

Are you a "fanboy" if a particular product just gives you what you want and nothing you don't?

Generally not. However, you will often be called one for that reason. I am often called a Nintnedo fanboy for liking the Gamecube, despite having hated every Nintendo console before that, and having admitted to being less than happy with the Wii so far. I even bought an Xbox and praised it all this past generation, the same with the Dreamcast. For some reason though, if I as much as mentioned liking a Gamecube title I was labled a Nintendo fanboy.

Edited July 23, 2007 by Atarifever

[Gregory DG]

Obviously I'm an Atari fanboy. However, I won't ignore certain facts (like PS1 was more powerful than the Jaguar.)

 

I've also been a Sega fanboy since the Genesis. Never got a Saturn, but I think the Dreamcast is one of the best systems in the history of gaming.

[Emehr]

I don't really understand the whole fanboy mentality. As if you are required to dislike a console because it competes with the console you are a diehard fan of. WTF? What are you called when you like most of the consoles and disregard the ones you have no use for? I own a PS2 and a GameCube. Never had any desire to own an Xbox. Does that make me an Xbox non-fanboy?

[liveinabin]

I can almost understand this kind of behaviour with kids because:

 

a) They can't afford more than one system

b) They're at the age where they're beginning to assert their will, and this usually manifests in slavish following of a band, a console, a sports team (although it's strangely socially acceptable to retain the last one as an adult).

 

Anybody mature enough should be able to see the bigger picture. That said, ZX Spectrum > Commodore 64.

 

Ahem, anyway... what really galls me is when people accuse others of 'fanboyism' when they're discussing (of forums like this) the faults or good points of a system. I mean, if Xbox 360's (as a random example) have been dying in rather unacceptable numbers, it isn't the work of a 'hater' pointing that out.

[Video]

I'm more of an Anti Fanboy myself. (I don't particularly love one system/game/brand above all others....but I dislike certain systems/game/brands above all others) If that makes scense.

 

I was always a slight Nintendo Fanboy. The SNES was superior to the Genesis (yes, the genesis could hold more frames of sprite data...but was that because it was so much 'better' or because it used a quarter of the palate? ) It wasn't really a I like Nintendo over Sega...I considered Atari better than Sega too. Well, I still am an atari fanboy though... It was more of an "I don't like sega" type of thing. The Master System had the coolest periphrial, in the 3D glasses, but Nintendo was cooler. The genesis was a genuine dinosaur (and it showed) when compared to the SNES (of course...it DID come out two years earlier) The saturn was great...I'll admit that. But by this time, I'd gone through the genesis, Sega CD, and 32X and Sega dropped support of all, and held to that record for the Saturn too. Incidentally, this doomed the Dreamcast in my eyes, and probably many of the sega haters out there....to bad, Dreamcast was a friggin awesome system I learned, when I bought one and a dozen games on clearance for $100. The GameGear was cool, being color and all, but lets face it. Most of the games were trash on there, not to say there wasn't a lot of that on GameBoy, but it did seem to have a better library of good games. Hell, the Lynx had more good games (and it had even fewer over all than the GameGear did) I'm probably just biased there cause Lynx had lemmiongs (though it wasn't till 98...I think, when I picked that up)

 

I've been called a Nintendo Fanboy, even recently, which is funny, cause other than the GameBoy player, I absolutely hate the gamecube. I'm sorry, I just don't care for any of the games for it. I don't care for the Wii, played a few games yeah...but nothing's clicked so far. Over all, hated the DS. But let me tell you, If I say anything bad about Sega (over all) or Sony (that the PS3 is WAY to expensive, and will eventually fail on that fact alone) I'm instantly a Nintendo fanboy. Hay...where's the Love for Microsoft? What, I can't be a microsoft fanboy?

 

Anyhow... yeah. Not to say I don't have my favorites. GBA is my favorite handheld (and maybe system in general) of all time. Mario is my favorite sidescroller of all time (just wish they would make an actual NEW game, instead of rehashing the old ones) Doom is my....well ok...second favorite FPS of all time, only Halo (what, 8 years later) finely edged that one out. Need for Speed is my favorite raceing series of all time (though the old ones were cooler than the new ones IMO) Nintendo is my favorite for handhelds, and Microsoft is my favorite for consoles. Just don't confuse that for being a fanboy of (insert name here) It's not a case of I hate everything else. I mostly like everything. These are my favorites, but I like most. It's just that there is some I ccan't stand.

[Video]

Der...double post. Sorry about that.

 

Oh yeah, I used to love Rare (they had a lot of cool stuff...) but since Microsoft has gotten them, they only ported the excelente Conker game (from the N 64, I had that already ) and pretty much everything else has so far sucked.

Edited July 24, 2007 by Video

[MetalSlime23]

Dragon Quest. I have slimes all over my apartment. I even have one at work.

 

Heck, my name is Metal Slime.

 

[Atarifever]

The genesis was a genuine dinosaur (and it showed) when compared to the SNES (of course...it DID come out two years earlier)

If it was a dinosaur, why was there so much slow down in all the SNES games? It was like every game was played under water. Super G&G, for example, is unplayable. You can claim it's because of less colours on the Genesis, but then, if that's the case many SNES programmers (even big names like Capcom and Konami) were choosing to put more colours on the screen at the expense of the gameplay, which should count against a system, not for it.

Edited July 24, 2007 by Atarifever

[Vic George 2K3]

Atari 7800 fanboy, as "evidenced" in a letter of an Atarian magazine, up until when my brother Christopher got himself an NES.

[Atarifever]

Atari 7800 fanboy, as "evidenced" in a letter of an Atarian magazine, up until when my brother Christopher got himself an NES.

Were you the one who got a 7800 instead of an NES for Christmas and liked the controllers better?

[Lemmi]

im a fanboy of all systems except the 5200 and Sony products

 

my first love was the 2600 then it moved onto the whole Sega company

[Video]

The genesis was a genuine dinosaur (and it showed) when compared to the SNES (of course...it DID come out two years earlier)

If it was a dinosaur, why was there so much slow down in all the SNES games? It was like every game was played under water. Super G&G, for example, is unplayable. You can claim it's because of less colours on the Genesis, but then, if that's the case many SNES programmers (even big names like Capcom and Konami) were choosing to put more colours on the screen at the expense of the gameplay, which should count against a system, not for it.

 

Because they simply tried to do to much with it. Super G & G (which, BTW, I do not believe is even ON the Genesis ) for instance, has tons of layers of BG imagery, and quiet a few places where it will all scroll in different directions, have the ground do the wave, change colors, etc. They could have easily knocked a layer or two off the background, and simplified the scrolling quiet a bit and gotten it to run smooth as glass, and still look better than your average Genny game. Don't fault the hardware cause the programmers are to stuck up to use it right (notice very few, if any first party games have slowdown issues) BTW, Sonic also has slowdown (to be fair, it is moveing a bit faster to start with) In fact...a lot of Genesis games have slowdown. And pretty much any multiplat game that slowd down on the SNES also slowed down on the Genesis.

 

Now I'm not saying that automatically the Genesis sucks, cause it did damn good, when the developers tried on there (it;s just, due to it's inferior graphics capabilities, the developers did HAVE to try more) Personally, I Like them both. The genesis has some pretty sweet exclusive titles (starting with Sonic series) My favorite game on there was gargoyles, and I was so envious that it never was ported to any other system (not just Nintendo, it's literally on no other system, and that sucks) Which is a pitty, cause that game is awesome, even if it is super hard and kicks my ass (or maybe I just suck at it )

 

But hey, at least you didn't go and say "Your just a Nintendo Fanboy "

[Atarifever]

The genesis was a genuine dinosaur (and it showed) when compared to the SNES (of course...it DID come out two years earlier)

If it was a dinosaur, why was there so much slow down in all the SNES games? It was like every game was played under water. Super G&G, for example, is unplayable. You can claim it's because of less colours on the Genesis, but then, if that's the case many SNES programmers (even big names like Capcom and Konami) were choosing to put more colours on the screen at the expense of the gameplay, which should count against a system, not for it.

 

Because they simply tried to do to much with it. Super G & G (which, BTW, I do not believe is even ON the Genesis ) for instance, has tons of layers of BG imagery, and quiet a few places where it will all scroll in different directions, have the ground do the wave, change colors, etc. They could have easily knocked a layer or two off the background, and simplified the scrolling quiet a bit and gotten it to run smooth as glass, and still look better than your average Genny game. Don't fault the hardware cause the programmers are to stuck up to use it right (notice very few, if any first party games have slowdown issues) BTW, Sonic also has slowdown (to be fair, it is moveing a bit faster to start with) In fact...a lot of Genesis games have slowdown. And pretty much any multiplat game that slowd down on the SNES also slowed down on the Genesis.

 

 

We're not going to agree here. SNES games are, very frequently, plagued with terrible slowdown. Genesis games are, far less frequently, troubled by that problem. It's why anyone wanting to play a good sports game had a Genesis (and those are extremely multiplatform).

 

As for calling you a Nintendo fanboy, I don't think anything of the kind. In fact, I am assuming that quite possibly you just play your games with a strobe light on and then the hitchy, slow, stuttering of the SNES just looks natural.

Edited July 24, 2007 by Atarifever

[Vic George 2K3]

Atari 7800 fanboy, as "evidenced" in a letter of an Atarian magazine, up until when my brother Christopher got himself an NES.

Were you the one who got a 7800 instead of an NES for Christmas and liked the controllers better?

Actually, I bought myself a 7800 around April 1988, when I was old enough to afford anything of my own, provided I had the cash for it.

[Shannon]

With the exception of the Atari 2600..

 

For a long while there I was a "computer" fanboy and pretty much anti-console. Starting with the Atari 8-bit, then the Commodore Amiga coinciding with a PC. Me and a friend kinda looked down on NES owners. Used to call them the nintendoh generation.

 

I did get away from that when I started dating my wife and picked up a SNES and eventually a Genesis, but this was well into their lifecycle.

 

I didn't really care for systems like the Saturn, 3DO, or the playstation. In fact my interest did not perk until the release of the Dreamcast. And for some reason I was enthralled with the N64 and Mario 64.

[Lord Helmet]

I'm a fanboy of videogames.

[AtticGamer]

Well I was at times a Nintendo fanboy, then hated Nintendo and then got back to Nintendo and so on and so forth.

Right now I like Nintendo but I don't dislike Sony or Microsoft even though I think what Sony is doing with the PS3 is ridiculous.

 

I'm more of an anti-fanboy myself, I like some stuff and I hate other, for instance:

-Anti Ghosts and Goblins/Ghouls and Ghosts (and all games of the series) for their difficulty;

-Anti Game Gear/Master System for their extremely cheap Genesis ports;

-Anti Street Fighter I;

-Anti Tekken or any 3D fighting game;

-Anti Contra 1/Hard Corps/any contra other than SNES and GB CIII: AW

-Anti Silkworm (although Super Swiv is excellent) or any arcade game stupidly difficult.

 

I've always had a dislike for Sega because they never made any good consoles (always launched ahead of time except MS) and Sonic wasn't nearly as enjoyable to play as Mario and Sonic saves little cute animals while Mario stomps them.

[Paul Humbug]

Started out with an Atari 2600, bought a C16 soon after.

 

This was 1987, so I wasnt quite up to date but I learned to like both systems and companies.

 

This is why I didnt say no when someone offered me for cheap money to take over his 800 XL system, which replaced both systems, the Atari and the Commodore some 2 years later.

 

Being not an Atari fanboy made it easier to decide for an Amiga 500 in 1991, and later in 1995 for an Amiga 1200.

 

Not to be bored on a trip to Rome, I bought my first Nintendo Gameboy in 1992, being replaced by a red Gameboy around 1997.

 

In 1996 I converted to the pros system, Windows 95 PC

 

I dont remember was it 1997 or 1998 when I talked myself into a PS1.

 

Since 2004 Im on Mac and for 2 weeks I call a Gameboy Micro my own.

 

 

This is my hardware history. I always followed the other systems or consoles. Somehow I loved the Sega Master System for no other reason than I liked the Tennis better than the NES Tennis when they put up both systems in the showroom. So, If someone had asked me back then NES or Sega, I would have opted for latter. Somehow I was addicted to that simple Tennis and at least I got RealSports Tennis for the Atari 2600 which kept me quite busy.

 

It was already in my Amiga days 1990 when I read about the PC Engine/Turbo Grafx 16 and thought what an interesting machine it was. Again it was a tennis game which fascinated me most and if someone had offered me the PC Engine, well.....I think I have to look for one now on ebay or better the handheld.

 

Did I mention my first game for Gameboy besides Tetris was Nintendo Tennis?

 

Did I mention my love for Great Courts and Tie Break on Amiga?

 

Did I mention there was no good Tennis game for Atari 800?

 

Did I mention I had a Tennis game I dont remember for the PS1?

 

Did I mention my first game for the Micro is Top Spin 2?

 

Did I mention that yesterday I saw a nice Tennis game on a Xbox360?

 

Maybe Im a Tennis fanboy?

 

Oh, I competely forgot that I bought a Xavix console with/becuase of the Tennis....... I must be a tennis fan for sure on consoles.....I even dont play nor do I follow it anymore on TV.....strange.....

 

I really have to get the Turbografx Express now.....

Edited August 10, 2007 by Paul Humbug

[AtticGamer]

I like Nintendo and my late brother bought a SNES, convinced me to help him buy a N64 and then I bought a Gamecube and GBA. I grew up with it and it became a trustworthy company, and now I feel bad abandoning Nintendo and I would be missing alot if I did :\.

 

But I still play on the Ps2 we bought and I plan on getting other systems, as well as playing some PC games.

I too need a Turbo Express, with Turbo Vision.

 

Btw, I'm a Microsoft hater.

Edited August 12, 2007 by Atari_kid