tremoloman2006 Posted January 23, 2014 Share Posted January 23, 2014 Here is my crib notes version: Teletype/Data General Nova > Atari 2600 > TRS-80 Model III > TI-99/4A > Tandy 1000 > 286 > 386 > 486 > Pentium > latest watever CPUs > TRS-80 Color Computer > TI-99/4A > Colecovosion > Intellivision > Atari 7800 > Atari 2600 Funny how things come around Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeusVult Posted January 24, 2014 Share Posted January 24, 2014 Atari 2600 >to brother's Playstation >to HP pentium Win 98 PC. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jv3 Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 Nes>snes>ps1>dreamcast>ps2>xbox>360. Condensed of course but most of my overall game time went to those consoles. Rocked the faithfull 2600 till i was around 12, but have always gone back! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unbeliever Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 The Atari 2600 is still one of my consoles I own today, along with the Wii and 3DS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rik Posted January 26, 2014 Share Posted January 26, 2014 First of all, I have absolutely 0 interest in modern console gaming whatsoever. My 1st console was the 2600, then went onto the ColecoVision, to the Intellivision, Atari 400, then finally to the 7800. I do however enjoy old PC DOS 1st person shooters and Sierra Adventure gaming titles, like the Quest series. Modern games just don't have the charm the old ones do. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
godzillajoe Posted January 27, 2014 Share Posted January 27, 2014 (edited) I did 2600 -> Vectrex -> Commodore 64 (if that counts) -> 7800 -> Dreamcast -> Wii I don't count all the systems I have since acquired (O2, Coleco) and really I only bought the Vectrex because the system was $50 and all the games were $5 when the crash happened. Edited January 27, 2014 by godzillajoe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English Invader Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 (edited) My parents had a VIC-20 when I was very young, but it packed up before I was old enough to fully remember it. For Christmas 1991, we got an Atari 2600 with the 32-in-1 cartridge, but none of us really took to it because we longed for games that had more depth and most of the video game stores had stopped selling 2600 games. Later that year, we upgraded to a Sega Mega Drive and never looked back. I always thought of the VIC-20 as a lost experience and, many years later, the internet gave me the opportunity to do something about it and since then I've managed to acquire pretty much every system in the mainstream market. The great thing about the retro scene is that you can revisit old systems you didn't get when you were younger and see what you were missing Edited January 29, 2014 by English Invader Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
English Invader Posted January 29, 2014 Share Posted January 29, 2014 My parents had a VIC-20 when I was very young, but it packed up before I was old enough to fully remember it. For Christmas 1991, we got an Atari 2600 with the 32-in-1 cartridge, but none of us really took to it because we longed for games that had more depth and most of the video game stores had stopped selling 2600 games. Later that year, we upgraded to a Sega Mega Drive and never looked back. I always thought of the VIC-20 as a lost experience and, many years later, the internet gave me the opportunity to do something about it and since then I've managed to acquire pretty much every system in the mainstream market. The great thing about the retro scene is that you can revisit old systems you didn't get when you were younger and see what you were missing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Serious Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 I never left it.. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zwackery Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 1979: Coleco's Electronic Quarterback 1980: Atari 2600 (Space Invaders killer app) 1980-present: coin-ops (in arcades) 1981: TI-99/4A 1982: Colecovision (launch) 1983/84: Vectrex 1984: Tandy 1000 1988-present: various gaming PCs, all scratch built 1993: Atari 5200 (thrift shop) 1994: Atari 7800 (internet) 1995: Atari Jaguar 1996: BurgerTime (purchased coin-op) 2004: GBA SP 2005: DS, Atari Lynx 2006: PS2 2008: X360 2010: Wii 2011: PS3 2012: Wii U, original Xbox 2013: PS4, Xbox One, 3DS XL plus various dedicated pong clones and handhelds over the years, smartphone & iPad gaming Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jongolo Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Atari 2600 in 1979 -- Colecovision in 1983 -- NES 1987 and it went on from there! Most exciting moments were when my mom bought that 2600 for my brothers and me, when I bought the NES (I drove 150 miles twice to get that one), and when I bought a Sega Dreamcast on release day (was that 1999?), it blew me away! It seems kindo of dull now, but transfering the Chao back and forth between the VMU and the console back then to play mini Tomagachi style games was mystifying! And as Christmas drew near, the overworld in Sonic Adventure changed; there were Christmas trees and Christmas music, and I believe it was all delivered through the built in modem. Overall the Atari 2600 and the used 5200 I bought later on are still two of my favorite systems! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Nathan Strum Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Atari 2600 > Atari 7800 > Atari Lynx > PlayStation > Dreamcast > GBA SP > PS 2 > PSP > PS 3 Up next… Vectrex. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retrorussell Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Order of events: Got Atari 2600 in 1980 or '81. Got a TI-99 in about 1982. Had both till I moved to Auburn, WA in 1987. It was there that I bought an NES. Had that for 3 years. Then I bought a Genesis. Moved back to my folks' in Portland in 1991. Kept the Genny till about 1993 or so, then I got the Sega CD. Had that and bought the PS1 in 1997 or so, with Final Fantasy VII. Bought the PS2 in about 2006. Bought my arcade machines over a 2 year span or so from around 2006 to 2008: Phoenix, Dig Dug and NEO GEO. Got the PS3 about 2 years ago or so. Still got it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Atari_Warlord Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 Excluding Computers Pong > 2600 > 7800 > Lynx > SNES > Jaguar > PS1-4 I also picked up a Colecovision when I got married, but that was long after it was discontinued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WildBillTX Posted January 30, 2014 Share Posted January 30, 2014 (edited) My Dates are kind of fuzzy.. After buying an SNES I stopped buying any consoles They just didn't interest me like computers did. 1977 - Coleco Telstar Ranger 1980 - Atari 2600 USA Sixer 1982 - Commodore Vic-20 1983 - Commodore C-64 1986 - Commodore C-128 1987 - Father's Kaypro II DOS 1998 - Atari 2600 Jr 1990 - A used NES and a bunch of cartridges at a garage sale -cheap! 1991 - SNES 1992 - fathers 286 DOS 1995 - AMD DX-4-100 with Windows 3.1 1996 - Cyrix 6x86 166 "Performance Rating" (more like 133 mhz) and Windows 95 1997 - AMD K-6 300 1998 - AMD K6-2 450 and Windows 98 2000 - AMD Athlon 750 2002 - AMD Athlon T-bird 1200 and Windows 2000 2004 - AMD Athlon XP 2400 and Windows XP 2006 - AMD Athlon XP 3000 2010 - AMD Phenom II X4 965 and Windows 7 Pro Edited January 30, 2014 by WildBillTX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.O.T.S Posted February 1, 2014 Share Posted February 1, 2014 I went from my first console (Atari 2600) to my first computer which was the ZX Spectrum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bah Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 2600 was first in 1980. College, first job. Still played 2600 time to time. Next console was N64 at about 2000. At about 2004, started playing 2600 and Super Mario with my first son. That and several large lots of games at garage sales got me hooked on gaming/collecting. Now my kids have 360's and PS3's so I just console myself with the 2600......and the CV, and the Inty, and the Veccy, and my NES, and my MS, and my.....well you get the idea. P.S. Wife is exceptionally forgiving at my 50 plus console collection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwh Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 Went from Atari 2600 to....high school, and an Apple II+. No wonder I had to get a job to buy my own car, those Apple II's were as expensive as a car back then. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mxyzptlk Posted February 3, 2014 Share Posted February 3, 2014 2600 original Gameboy NES SNES PS1 N64 (my personal favorite) Gamecube PS3 .....Done no mas!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rivercityrandom Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 While they were (reasonably) new, I had the Atari 2600, TI-99/4A, NES, SNES, Sega Genesis, Playstation 1 and Playstation 2. I had an Xbox 360, which I mostly used to play Dragon Age: Origins, but I sold that for rent money. I've picked up and passed on numerous classic gaming consoles since then: Intellivision, ColecoVision, Odyssey 2, an Atari Stunt Cycle console with the motorcycle handlebar controller, several pong consoles, an Atari Touch Me handheld "Simon" clone, and a triangle-shaped unit from Coleco that I believe had pong paddles, a steering wheel, and a light gun on the sides. Always wanted a Fairchild Channel F--I always thought the 8-track-looking cartridges with Sesame Street-like numbers and the one-handed controllers were very cool-looking... but never found one in the wild. Nowadays, I do most of my video gaming through emulators on my laptop, as my apartment's way too small for a collection... *sigh* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rack776 Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 I had a 2600 as a kid in the 80s we had 6 games, my neighbor had a coleco with some cool games... I got so bored watching my friends always play NES mario & zelda they would never give up the controlers I ended up playing guitar, playing in a band, restoring old cars, and a million other hobbies I have had. I have not played a video game in 20 some years, I found the old atari last week, I got it working again Its still pretty cool after all these years, I'm not a die hard gamer but I can play those old games for a while and not get bored, some games look so simple but can be just as frustrating as a new complicated system. -Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Ripdubski Posted February 7, 2014 Share Posted February 7, 2014 (edited) Mattell handhelds -> Atari VCS -> Atari 800 -> NES -> TG16 -> SNES -> Sega Saturn -> N64 -> nothing / Lynx 2 / GBC / GBA / PC -> PS2 -> XBox 360 I was really disenchanted with gaming during the Saturn through PS2 in my timeline, which pretty much went from 1993ish to 2010ish. 17ish years having no games that really pulled me in. Content Favorites: A8, SNES, XBox 360 Had the most fun with: SNES Edited February 7, 2014 by Ripdubski Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoGeoNinja Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 Most of the people who contributed to the first 3 pages or so, of this thread, did so... TWELVE YEARS AGO! If you were early 30s then... Anyway, I rarely venture out of the Jaguar forum tbh, but fancied a wander and ended up here! FIRST ever console was the 2600Jr. I was aged 5 or 6. I can't precisely remember which. I had a good selection of titles for it: Centipede, Moon Patrol, Dark Chambers, Galaxian, Midnight Magic, Dig Dug, Solaris, Radar Lock, Pole Position and maybe a few more I can't remember off hand. I don't actually remember what became of my 2600, however... My SECOND games machine (re: where did you go from Atari), for whatever reason, was a C64. Truthfully, even as a child, I was not at all taken with the C64 at all. I did, however, really like the cartridge releases at that time. My C64 came with a 4 game multi-cart and I also acquired many of the other cart titles too (SOTBeast, Robocop 2 etc). Later, I was offered a one for one exchange of my C64 for what would be... My THIRD games console: The SEGA Mastersystem. For me, this was finally, a step in the right direction for me re: progressing from the 2600 onwards. I thought it was pretty sensational and enjoyed the likes of Shinobi, RType, Alex Kidd and eventually Sonic too, amongst other great games. I have been a dedicated console gamer ever since and even ended up owning the Jaguar back in 93 or 94 too, tentatively* ending my string of modern console acquisitions with the PS3 in '09. I won't bore you with the bits in between, but its pretty safe to assume, I have, at some point, pretty much owned all of the usual suspects * all it takes is for Nintendo to release that one killer, 1st party, non-Mario based/related WiiU game... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel76 Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 (edited) It all began back in 1979, when we took over an Philips (Magnavox) Pong machine from our cousins, from then... 1981 - My first Game & Watch game "Parachute", there would be MANY more of those added to my collection, during the 80:s and early 90:s 1982 - Atari 2600 (Darth Vader model) 1987 - Atari 130 XE 1988 - NES 1989 - C64 1990 - Gameboy and Master System 1991 - Atari ST and LYNX 1992 - Amiga 500, Game Gear and SNES 1993 - Mega Drive (Genesis) 1995 - PC and PS1 1998 - N64 2000 - Dreamcast 2001 - Gameboy Advance and PS2 2003 - Gamecube 2005 - Nintendo DS 2006 - Xbox 360, PSP 2007 - PS3, Wii and Vectrex (FINALLY!!) 2009 - My first JAMMA arcade cabinet 2010 - Turbo Out-Run, Super Hang-On, Operation Thunderbolt and Virtua Fighter dedicated arcademachines 2011 - Nintendo 3DS 2013 - Wii U and PS4 2014 - Atari 2600 Jr with composite mod Also a whole bunch of LED and LCD handhelds and tabletops, but that would take forever to list Edited June 2, 2014 by Steel76 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draikar Posted June 2, 2014 Share Posted June 2, 2014 I went in the opposite way, from NES to Atari XE game system... Bug Hunt was way better then Duck Hunt and the gun was cooler too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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