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[Frocto]

I have realized that a lot of you played very, very different games to me when you were kids. So, in this thread I'd like everyone to list the earliest consoles or systems they started with through to the present and, if you feel like it, whichever game of that generation sticks in your head the most.

I WILL GO FIRST

Atari - River Raid
Amiga - Fairy Tale Adventure
Gameboy - Kirby's Dream Land
Sega Master System
PC - Jagged Alliance
Nintendo 64

I can't be bothered going past the PS1 generation since I think after that everyone just played everything. But I mainly stick to PS2 and PS3 because... I don't know? Faggotry?

Okay now your turn

[Alex]

Going in the order I acquired it, save for the PC (which I only got to play when I tagged along with my mom when she went back to work late at night).

Atari - Adventure
NES - Ninja Gaiden 2: Dark Sword of Chaos
SNES - Super Mario RPG
Early PC - Doom (the shareware version with only Knee Deep in the Dead Available)
Gameboy - A definite tie between Link's Awakening DX and Pokémon Blue
Genesis - Phantasy Star 4
Game Gear - Sonic Triple Trouble
Playstation - A threeway tie between Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, Resident Evil 2 and Final Fantasy 7
3DO - Gex
Nintendo 64 - Perfect Dark
Dreamcast - Shit, there is far too many to name
Playstation 2 - Digital Devil Saga
Gameboy Advance - Fire Emblem: Sacred Stones
Gamecube - F-Zero GX
Saturn - Shining Force 3
Later PC - Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
DS - Front Mission 1st or Bowser's Inside Story
PSP - Maverick Hunter X
360 - Tales of Vesperia
Playstation 3 - Valkyria Chronicles
Wii - Tatsunoko vs. Capcom

Fuck, have I really been playing videogames for 20 years now?

[James Edward Smith]

Apple IIe - Oregon Trail, Something Lake
Colecovsion ADAM - Dragon's Lair, Ladybug
Nintendo - SMB3, RCR, Jaws
386 PC - Leisure Suit Larry, Ninja, Civilization
SNES - FF3, Link to the Past, SoM, Mario Kart, Harvest Moon
Cyrex 686 PC - Colonization, X-Com: UFO

After that I had an AMD K62 computer which I played stuff like Counter Strike on and ran emulators like crazy. Then eventually I got a PSX so I could play FFT and some other games like that. Then I got a PS2 as part of a Pyoko dirty Santa and only ever played Shadow of the Colossus and Ace Combat on it.

[Walker]

Uhhh...

Intellivision - Only game I remember is a Kool-Aid Man game.  Weird.
Atari 2600
NES - It was my older sister's, but I remember playing RC Pro Am on it a lot.
Genesis - Sonic 2
SegaCD
GameGear
Nintendo 64 - Super Mario 64.  What'd you expect?
Playstation - Megaman Legends 2
Gameboy
Playstation 2 - The Jak & Daxter series
Dreamcast - Phantasy Star Online (god, did I play that a lot)
Gamecube - Metroid Prime
NDS
PSP
Wii
XBox 360
Playstation 3

[Büge]

NES - It was my best friend's, and I remember playing a lot of Castlevania III. We also played co-op Gauntlet.
Arcade - The Simpsons: The Arcade Game, Knights of the Round, and The Punisher: Featuring Nick Fury
386 - The Space Quest Series, Street Fighter II, Commander Keen
Windows 95 - Warcraft II, Doom, Quest for Glory IV
Game Boy - Final Fantasy Legend, Super Mario Land
N64 - WWF Attitude, Ogre Battle 64 (of course, you had to invest a lot of time in this one to get anywhere)
Windows 98 - Morrowind, Quest for Glory V, Warcraft III
Windows XP - Neverwinter Nights, Oblivion

[Kayma]

Atari 2600 - Belonged to my uncle.  Shitty Pac-man
NES - Received at age 4. Super Mario Twins
GAMEBOY - Age 5. Tetris and Mario Lands
SNES - Got used one around age 7. Super God Damn Mario World, Final Fantasies, Yoshi's Island
GENESIS - Age 7 or 8, used exclusively to play the Sonic series.
GAMEGEAR - Age 9 or 10, used exclusively to play the Sonic series.
N64 - Age 10. Super Mario 64 and Ocarina
Playstation - Age 11. Bought so I could play FFVII and Suikoden
Windows 98/ME - Age 12ish. AKA the Starcraft/Diablo machine. This is around the time a young Kayma wanders into #finalfight.
Playstation 2 - Age 14. The Bouncer... also, good games.
Gamecube - Age 15. Luigis's Mansion, Wind Waker
Dreamcast - Age 15ish. Bought for $50. PHANTASY STAR ONLINE and NETZERO. Life was sweet.

Picked up some other systems after-the-fact, but those don't count. These were the formative ones. For the record, I didn't even know the Master System existed until shortly after the Dreamcast came out. I thought the internet was pranking me, but little did I know I had been playing one for years.

[Niku]

Atari 2600: Don't remember owning one, but my friend did.  Combat was the best.
NES: Obtained from my Grandmother afaik.  Mega Man 2 was my shining star.
Game Boy: fuck yeah game boy.  Uh, Tetris.  Only because I consider Donkey Kong '94 a Super Game Boy game.
Genesis: Sonic 2, motherfuckers.
Game Gear: Shinobi, motherfuckers.
SNES: FFVI is probably my defining game here.
Game Boy Pocket: Pokemon Red, bitches
N64: Mario 64 ^__^
Game Boy Color: Pokemon Pinball
Playstation: defining game uhhhhhhh fuck knows.
Dreamcast: Jet Grind RADIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Playstation 2: Rezrezrezrezrezrezrez.
GBA: Mother 3 probably.  Honorable mention for Chu Chu Rocket by virtue of being the non-Mario game I ordered with my original import system, being a game I could toggle the language to English in.
Gamecube: Smash Bros Melee.
Xbox: Jet Set RADIOOOOOOOOOOOOOO future (honorable mention goes to Steel Battalion for being why I still have my Xbox around)
DS: fuck yeah ds.
PSP: Mega Man Powered Up.
TurboDuo: fuck year air zonk
Saturn: I will tell you whenever I finally actually remember to get a battery for the memory and start hunting down awesome Saturn games.
Pikachu N64: Pokemon Snap o^_^o
Xbox 360: Dead Rising thus far.
Wii: Mario Galaxy thus far.
Playstation 3: uhhhhhhhhhhh netflix.
The future: :eaglewithasingletear:

[yyler]

uh i'm only 20 sssooooooo

SNES: Super Mario World/RPG
N64: Perfect Dark, OOT/MM
PSX: Crash Bandicoot, FF7
GameBoy: I had one but I don't know what I played
GameBoy Advance:  Pokemon (every one on up to then) (I had to borrow them from friends)
PS2: Katamari
Gamecube: Melee, Metroid Prime

I haven't really enjoyed many video games from the modern era, nor have I ever really used a computer to play games. I didn't have a lot of games or even games that most people would have because my dad bought everything with zero input from me until I was 15 or older and had money of my own.

[Doom]

NES: Contra. This is the first and most tragically happy generation because it's the only one my dad could take to. We played every co-op "shoot a bunch of aliens or evil army guys" game under the sun. And my Dad was a true bro: he never stole lives, power-ups or griefed in any way and took my combat tactics as gospel.

Super Mario Brothers 3 for being endlessly replayable. Just too hard enough to never end.

SNES: Super Mario World. Was joy ever more unrefined? Alternatively, was I ever seven years old more than once? To think that lightning would strike twice with Yoshi's Island!

Demon's Crest is a cool side-note for helping frame my love of the macabre, grim, and difficult. It was also the first game I ever bought with my own money saved up doing extra chores. It was also so hard I never made meaningful progress in it until I was 16.

Genesis: Sonic. See SMW above but not quite as good.

Gameboy: Wario Land. See SMW above but portable! Also Pokemon Gold/Silver, the best generation.

Game Gear: This showed up sometime between SNES and N64 but it was pretty uniformly terrible.

N64: Super Mario 64. Brother in arms to Super Mario World. I think this was the only time in my life that I ever ate console hype wholesale.

PSX: Crash Bandicoot 3. I would play this game for hours while playing music from a separate stereo and trying to do perfect speed-runs.

Another worthy side-note is Worms: Armageddon. My second step-father loved to play it as a family activity. Henceforth, I cannot see a Worms game without feeling incredibly morose and darkly violent.

Dreamcast: Soul Calibur, for showing me that a fighting game can be perfect. This would only inevitably set me up to be disappointed in the future and teach me a harsh lesson. At least I've learned it before buying two separate versions of Blazblue.

Playstation 2: Devil May Cry. Phantom broke my difficulty cherry. It took twenty consecutive attempts and thus was born an elite asshole.

Gameboy Advance: Fire Emblem. Something was beginning here in relation to the PS2 entry. I beat the standard, non-Hector Normal Mode playthrough without losing a single character.

Gamecube: Pikmin, because it demonstrated to me that the same joy exists in all modern titles, it's just a bit harder to find as your tastes refine.

Super Mario Sunshine as a side-note for making me doubt the above at all.

Wii: Brawl. Hilariously, I was sick as a dog the day it was released and absolutely hated it for the first three hours I slogged through SubSpace, and even looking back at it all as a product, it reeks of terrible design decisions for everything outside of the Multi-Player. The community is also ridiculously toxic and the game stratifies players based on skill far too harshly.

Maybe I can just put Pikmin 2 here for the same reason as Pikmin 1, since I didn't find a used copy of Pikmin 2 until I had a Wii and the Wii is honest-to-God just a slightly better GameCube.

At least Super Mario Galaxy was a marked improvement upon Sunshine.

DS: who knows, I'm scarcely sure why I continue to own a hand-held these days. Maybe this could be an obligatory Pokemon entry for allowing me to befriend Lady Duke? That's a notion I'd be thankful for.

Gaming PC: Fallout 3. Next-gen can deliver experiences that defy the senses, and Next-Gen is now Current-Gen. Fallout 3 had me so deeply enthralled that I put in 90 hours straight, only stopping to sleep, eat, shower or work. It was the tip of the iceberg, that Nerd Fantasy of a virtual world more fascinating than the real, and just deep enough to provide it briefly. I am not really sure how else to put it: it was the perfect scavenging adventure fantasy.

If true Next-Gen products get any better I am not sure what could happen.

Touhou because Music. Music is probably the purest joy I have experienced in this life and this series certainly contributes to the hobby.

Side note for WoW: say what you will about it, it actually cemented a friendship with my best friend.

[Büge]

Oh, haha, that reminds me! Metroid II. I must have played that game for days straight. My best score was 2:05 I think. 

Also, and this is a little odd, but I had regular access to a PS2 for the first half of the decade or so and mostly played Chrono Trigger.

Morrowind had me so deeply enthralled that I put in 90 hours straight, only stopping to sleep, eat, shower or work. It was the tip of the iceberg, that Nerd Fantasy of a virtual world more fascinating than the real, and just deep enough to provide it briefly. I am not really sure how else to put it: it was the perfect scavenging adventure fantasy.

Nothing else compares for me.

[Disposable Ninja]

I'm going to start with consoles that were %100 mine. My brother had a habit of letting his friends borrow, or just plain selling, 'our' consoles to his friends.

Genesis: Sonic3 & Knuckles. With a game genie.

Playstation: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy VIII, Shadow Madness, Chrono Cross, Grandia, Skullmonkeys

Playstation2: Jade Cocoon 2, Silent Hill 2, Final Fantasy X-2, Okami, Dark Cloud 2, all three Shadow Hearts games

Gamecube: Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door

Gameboy Advance: Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, Golden Sun: The Lost Age

Xbox360: Mass Effect, Penny Arcade Adventures, Braid, Psychonauts

PC Gaming: Grim Fandango

[Zaratustra]

Pong - Pong
Atari - Bermuda Triangle
MSX - Starquake
NES - Super Mario 3
Genesis - Sonic 2
Super NES - Super Mario World

aaand that's it

[jsnlxndrlv]

NES: I was in... second or third grade, maybe? Anyway, the games were way too intense for me—my mom likes to tell the story of how I would sit in a racing arcade cabinet and when my car crashed, I fell out of the machine myself. I was definitely one of those kids who physically jerked the controller around. Playing the games myself was too intimidating, so I mainly remember watching my dad play Adventures of Lolo.

Gameboy: The first few years were dominated by Tetris. After the SNES came out, Link's Awakening would take over.

Super Nintendo: Squaresoft. I wouldn't deliberately put a game in and start playing by myself on a tv-based console until my friend couldn't come over to help me finish Secret of Mana. Final Fantasy VI made me love the company, and I experienced my first game anticipation waiting for Chrono Trigger, Secret of Evermore, and Super Mario RPG. And Earthbound, even though it wasn't Square, because of Nintendo Power's ridiculous marketing campaign.

Nintendo 64: Nintendo's first party multiplayer games. Mario 64 was the first platformer I was able to finish myself, but most of my time was spent with Goldeneye and Super Mario Kart. I'm sure I finished Goldeneye, but I have no memory of doing so; I spent far more time wandering the multiplayer maps by myself, sometimes setting up stationary targets with extra controllers, than I spent in single player. It really paid off when my Boy Scout troop had a Goldeneye tournament, since I won.

PC: Final Fantasy VII, played at 1/4th the size of our ancient monitor's maximum resolution.  I felt betrayed that Square had jumped ship from Nintendo, and spent the year before VII's release complaining about how stupid Cloud looked, but as soon as I played it at my friend's house, I had to have it.

Playstation: Final Fantasy VIII. My interest in Squaresoft proved stronger than my interest in Nintendo.

After Chrono Cross came out, I entered college--when I realized I could use my college loans and the money I'd earned to actually buy consoles and games for myself. My game-buying was too frequent for any single game to stand out, but I'll try to come up with one, or at least a category.

GBA: Final Fantasy Tactics Advance
Playstation 2: Silent Hills, Final Fantasies, Grand Theft Autos, Metal Gear Solids
Gamecube: Super Mario Sunshine, and things that used the GBA/GC cable (Animal Crossing, FFCC, Zelda: Four Swords)
Xbox: Psychonauts and (sigh) Fable
Nintendo DS: Wow. Uh. Phoenix Wrights, probably.
Xbox 360: Really hard to say, but Halos and Gears of War, mainly.
Wii: Super Smash Bros. Brawl is about to get overtaken by Wii Fit.
Playstation 3: Little Big Planet, thus far.
PSP: Metal Gear AC!D, maybe? Dissidia and Crisis Core are close.

[Brentai]

Pretty much naturally associating the first game I had with each system here.

NES: SMB1, beaten before I learned to talk I'm told.  Also my first word was "opportunity".  I was a weird little rugrat.

Atari: I don't know how all you people started with Atari when most of you are a year or two younger than I am but anyway at some point I picked one up with a giant box of cartridges for five bucks at a thrift store and came away with the conclusion that everything on the Atari was crap except for Berserk.

PC: I played a lot of shareware but other than the porno ones there's nothing really to mention.

SNES: Mario Paint.  I even had a strategy guide for Mario Paint.  Still didn't manage anything more than some sort of crayon porn.

Genesis: Sonic 1, system and game paid for with my own money.  Also motherfuckin' Sega Channel fuck year.

Game Gear: Fuck yeah I can play Streets of Rage anywhere and in COLOR jesusshitikeeprunningoutofbatteries.

PSX: FF7.  I didn't give a shit but at least I had the damn thing finally.

N64: SM64 finally convinced me that polygonal graphics were not the work of Satan.

PS2: Holy shit Dante almost looks like an actual human being.

GameBoy Advance: CotM did a good job convincing everybody that the GBA was excessively dark when in fact it was just CotM that was excessively dark.  I ended up giving my GBA and copies of both Zelda Oracle games away to cute girls.  Twice.

GameCube: To this day I have no idea what I even bought a GameCube for, but I played an awful lot of PSO on it.

X-Box: I didn't even want one, someone gave it to me so I could play Halo online with a nine-year-old boy.  Stellar.

Nintendo DS: The first time I ever played a DS was for freaking work at Squeenix.  Eventually my sister popped up with one she got for playing Brain Age and she was broke and didn't want it and long story short here I am playing Contra 4 on a pink DS.

Wii: Smash Bros. Brawl just cost me $250.  :|

PS3/360: Well my budget should level out and stop forcing me to allocate most of my paycheck to rent right around my birthday which seems a good time to get one and stop feeling like I have the world's smallest game-pene, so tada there's a short history of why I'm prioritizing consoles before getting my car/teeth/eyes fixed.

[Mothra]

Atari - Empire Strikes Back     //   MAN that game sucked.

NES - Lifeforce, TMNT, North vs South, Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle   //   I would never, ever actually beat TMNT. This remains the case. Lots of 2-player Lifeforce and NvS with friends.

Early PC - Dark Forces, Spider-Man Cartoon Maker, Descent, X-Com   //  Dark Forces was the first PC game I ever played. Never beat it, but it was a blast. Got turned onto X-Com and Descent by my older brother (lots of multiplayer), and then, well, I discovered the Spider-Man Cartoon Maker and basically never played anything else until, hell, Half-Life probably?

SNES - Kirby's Dream Course, Mario Paint, Super Mario RPG, Contra III   //   KDC was a game I rented about a million jillion times but never actually owned. I am king at that game. Mario Paint I got for my birthday and it was pretty much the only thing I played until I discovered Mario RPG. Mario RPG was basically the most fun thing I had ever played up until that point. Contra III was A+++ 2-player fun.

My brother would play PTO: Pacific Theater of Operations like every morning for four months, and something about it mesmerized me. A lot of what got me into turn-based strategy was this game, the slow, methodical pace and the scale at work.

Gameboy - Kirby 2, Pokemon Red, Battletoads and Double Dragon  //  Battletoads and Double Dragon is an impossible game.

Nintendo 64 - Goldeneye, Body Harvest, Pilotwings, Battletanx   //  I really really really loved games that let you explore. There usually wasn't anywhere to go, granted, but when you found something tucked-away or got somewhere you weren't supposed to be, I dunno, it was insanely satisfying for some reason.

Gameboy Advance - Tactics Ogre: Knights of Lodis, Gradius Galaxies  //  GG was a mostly nostalgic choice on account of me loving Lifeforce so much. I didn't enjoy it as much as I'd expected. Too memorization-heavy.

Gamecube - Rogue Leader, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3, Thousand Year Door   //  I played RL and THPS3 until I had beaten every possible thing I could. Loved those games.

X-Box - Halo, Ninja Gaiden   //   Adored Halo co-op. So, so good. Halo 2 was what kind of made me understand hype and why I should probably decide for myself what is and is not desirable, because wow, these people do not know what they're talking about.

Later PC - Homeworld, Joint Operations, Team Fortress 2   //   If it wasn't for Gears, Homeworld would still be my tops. Everything about that game I love. Joint Operations was fascinating to me for some odd reason, I would play it until 4 AM and never really get bored. Think it was partly how sparsely populated it was, coupled with how much room there was to explore. Finding anyone, ally or enemy, was like this nice little distraction from me finding buildings and checking out the insides and such.

DS - Advance Wars Dual Strike, Castlevania: DoS   //   I don't do this often, but Advance Wars was a game where I beat every possible thing I could and got every dang character outfit they had. Still tops.

360 - Gears of War 2, Rainbow Six Vegas   //   By this point I'd decided to really only focus on the multiplayer, as it had been the most memorable and enjoyable for me. Gears' Horde mode is beyond fun.

[Joxam]

C 64: Ghostbusters

NES: SMB1

PC: Sim Ant I didn't own a computer until 1998 at home that wasn't a commodore 64 so I had to play just the games they had at my school.

Playstation: FFT Yes, I do prefer this.

PC FOR REAL: Quake 2

Xbox: Jade Empire

Xbox 360: Forza Motorsports Series

We were fuck all poor when I was very little, I got the NES as a cast off when my cousins got their SNES and the c64 I had to play at my uncle's. The playstation was the first game console my mom bought us after her store started doing well, and then William and I got jobs when we were old enough to so we bought our own shit. I think this is probably going to cause a fairly minor binge on games when I get my trust... all the shit I missed in my youth.

[Alex]

motherfuckin' Sega Channel fuck year.

 

Battletoads and Double Dragon is an impossible game.

I remember being incredibly frustrated with the SNES version because of that spaceship shooter level, so I used the level select to get by it and...

[Smiler]

Atari: DIG DUUUUUUUUUUUG

NES: I had a ton of games, but I think I was constantly playing Crystalis between sessions of Contra and Solar Jetman.

SNES: Super Metroid and Super Mario World. I think I burnt myself out on Zelda games thanks to Link to the Past.

Game Boy: Pokemon

N64: Starfox 64, Majora's Mask, and Perfect Dark. Perfect Dark was the best fuck around in multiplayer mode with friends game until Timesplitters 2 came out.

PSX: Twisted Metal and Metal Gear.

Gameboy Advance: Boktai

Gamecube: Timesplitters 2. Making retarded maps and having brick fights on virus mode was the best.

PS2: Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction.

Xbox: I got one for like 20 bucks just so I could play Metal Wolf Chaos.

90's PC: Tie Fighter, X-Com, Theme Hospital, and Silent Hunter

THE PC OF TODAY!: TF2 and Natural Selection.

[Büge]

Oh god Goldeneye

I managed to get Oddjob banned from our group because nobody could hit me

Also: GOLDEN GUN/SLAPPERS ONLY/BIG HEADS

[Mothra]

BIG SLAPPERS BIG SLAPPERS BIG SLAPPERS