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General => Video Game Bored => Topic started by: Eel O'Brian on December 14, 2008, 02:58:59 PM

Title: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 14, 2008, 02:58:59 PM
when they were originally released and/or still available on store shelves?

Me:

Atari 2600 (Sears version, the only video game system my Mom and Dad ever played)

Intellivision (right after the video game crash, got the system + voice module + four games for $50 from a JCPenney clearance)

Atari 5200 (what a huuuuuuuuge disappointment, and i had saved half a year to get it)

NES (Xmas gift, I don't think I went to sleep that night)

Genesis (my girlfriend at the time paid for half of it by giving me a "gift coin" from some electronics store in the mall)

Playstation (this was an extravagance for me at the time, and my friends and i played Battle Arena Toshinden on a teeny-tiny 13" TV)

Dreamcast (only had it for about a month before I sold it to a friend, bought it when it hit $50)
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 14, 2008, 03:05:51 PM
Not counting this generation:

Atari 5200
Nintendo Entertainment System
Sega Genesis
Nintendo 64
Sony Playstation
Sega Dreamcast
Sony Playstation 2
Nintendo Gamecube
Microsoft Xbox
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 14, 2008, 03:07:24 PM
were you as crushed by the 5200's suckiness as i was
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Bocsius on December 14, 2008, 03:08:36 PM
Atari 2600 (I think it was that version, I was 6).
NES
N64
DC
GCN
XBX
PS2
NDS

And I've technically owned a 360 twice, about 90 minutes between the two of them, give or take.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: muckhole on December 14, 2008, 03:09:50 PM
Never had any of the Atari's, Intellivisions or ColecoVisions as a kid despite desperately wanting them. My first actual game system was the NES when it first came out, followed by the Genesis, SNES, Saturn, PSX, N64 and everything else since. I've got a pretty decent little collection old systems and games now, to make up for my poor childhood.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: CurseoftheGods on December 14, 2008, 03:09:56 PM
Home:

NES
SNES, Genesis, 32X, Sega CD
3DO, Sega Saturn, PS1, N64
Dreamcast, PS2, GameCube, Xbox
PS3, Xbox 360, Wii

Portables:

Gameboy, Gameboy Pocket, Gameboy Color, GBA, GBA SP, DS, DS Lite, Neo Geo Pocket Color, Sega Nomad, Game Gear, PSP

Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Himu on December 14, 2008, 03:11:25 PM
Genny
Saturn
Dreamcast
SNES
N64
PSX
PS2
GC
Xbox
Game Gear
Game Boy
Game Boy Pocket
Game Boy Color
Game Boy Advance
DS
PSP
360
ps3
psp
wii

are all the systems i have owned
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 14, 2008, 03:17:05 PM
we were dirt poor when i was a kid (like, patches on your jeans kinda poor), and i didn't get a whole lot during the year, but my mom always made sure i had a good christmas no matter what

most of those "childhood" systems i bought myself doing various odd jobs around the neighborhood and saving up, or saving the money i got paid helping my dad and some other fishermen during the summer

i remember wanting a colecovision so bad i had dreams about it, but i never got one
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: CurseoftheGods on December 14, 2008, 03:20:47 PM
I think I'm the only here that has bought almost all of Sega's failures. :gloomy
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: muckhole on December 14, 2008, 03:21:58 PM
Quote from: CurseoftheGods on December 14, 2008, 03:20:47 PM
I think I'm the only here that has bought almost all of Sega's failures. :gloomy

Oh no. I at one time was firmly entrenched in the Sega camp. Add-ons, add-ons, add-ons!
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 14, 2008, 03:23:34 PM
i had a nomad when they were clearing them out at toys r us for $40, you could see the failure written across the layers of falling discount stickers

sold it + a few games a few years back on ebay for around $175  :lol

that system was such a poorly thought-out handheld, the batteries lasted about an hour
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: muckhole on December 14, 2008, 03:25:09 PM
Quote from: Eel O'Brian on December 14, 2008, 03:23:34 PM
i had a nomad when they were clearing them out at toys r us for $40

sold it + a few games a few years back on ebay for around $175  :lol

that system was such a poorly thought-out handheld, the batteries lasted about an hour

Oops, Yeah, forgot about the Nomad, never had one and still don't in my collection of old machines. I'd hate to think what they go for these days.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 14, 2008, 03:26:32 PM
it's so not worth it - blurry screen, dire battery life, awkward to hold - i felt ripped off at $40, to be honest

i remember there was whole stack of them in a bin, and nooooooooooooobody was buying them
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Eel O'Brian on December 14, 2008, 03:28:28 PM
muck - not much, just checked ebay, they're topping out around $75 (with games) nowadays

guess i got in right before the profit plummet
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Vizzys on December 14, 2008, 03:30:43 PM
snes (+a super scope and super game boy, lol )
n64
gameboy, gbc, gba
ps1/ps2
xbox
gc

never bought any sega consoles or an NES, played them at some friends house tho
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Himu on December 14, 2008, 03:31:55 PM
my friend got a nomad. I lol'd at him.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: CurseoftheGods on December 14, 2008, 03:33:40 PM
My dad bought me a Super Gameboy from his trip to London around the time I got my SNES. Nobody told him that Pal Super Gameboys don't work on NTSC machines.

I was heartbroken.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Vizzys on December 14, 2008, 03:36:24 PM
super gameboy was great, it had color palettes!
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Olivia Wilde Homo on December 14, 2008, 03:54:40 PM
NES w/ SMB3 Pack In - 1990-1996 - Got it for Christmas when I was 5.  Played the shit out of SMB 2, SMB 3, and Zelda II, the only games I ever owned for it.  My neighbor also had Kirby's Adventure, which was a fuck awesome game.  System started having problems the last few months and towards the end, I could barely play a game.

Nintendo 64 - 1996-1999 - Got it December 1996 with Mario 64.  Mario 64 was awesome and a couple of months later, Mario Kart came out.  I had fun with it but towards the end, I got bored of its offerings.  The games were expensive to me ($60 each) and could be beaten quickly.  I offloaded it to save up for the Dreamcast.

Dreamcast - 1999-2002 - Was floored by how awesome Sonic Adventure looked.  Did a bunch of back breaking odd jobs to get enough cash saved up.  Which I did.  It was probably the system I had the most fun with.  When the system was discontinued, I was in paradise as I got all kinds of good games for firesale prices.  Dreamcast started breaking down and would scratch the shit out of my games along with it.  Then it froze up when it was loading Skies of Arcadia and refused to boot up another game again.  Sold all of my games off at a stupid price.  An example is me selling Power Stone 2 for $3 and seeing it on their shelves the next week for $40.

PlayStation 2 - 2002-2004 and 2005 - Got it just when the DC broke, which coincidentally, the PS2 dropped in price to $199.  It was an alright system but it introduced me to one of my favorite games I like to play, Dynasty Warriors.  Also I got a chance to play a lot of PS1 classics I missed out on.  Sold it when I had no interest in video games for a brief period.  Got a PS Two a year years later, mostly to play a handful of PS2 releases that I never had time to really play.  Sold it off again.

GameCube - 2002-2003, 2005 - Got one for Metroid Prime and Mario Sunshine.  Metroid Prime was fun and Sunshine was god fucking awful.  The other game I bought was the Zelda 4 game collection.  System was a joke so I sold it for almost nothing.  Got one again for almost nothing and got Paper Mario 2 and Ikaruga.  Beat them and sold them all for a tidy profit.

Xbox - 2003 - Got it mostly to play friends in Halo but I also had fun with the Crash Bandicoot game for it.  None of the Xbox exclusives mattered to me and why I bought the system, I have no idea.  Got rid of it a couple months after buying.

Nintendo DS - 2004-2005, 2007 - Got one at launch with Mario 64 DS and had fun with it.  Problem was is that there was nothing else worth owning until the following holidays with Mario Kart DS (best one in the series) and Mario & Luigi 2 (sucked but I had to get it for some reason).  Got a DS Lite again with New Super Mario Brothers, which I thought sucked.  Got Mario Kart again and had a lot of fun with it (never went online, fuck snaking), and once I beat everything in MKDS, saw no reason to have a DS so I sold it off for a slight profit.

Xbox 360 - 2006, 2008 (Present) - Got a Japanese 360 with Ridge Racer 6 and Dynasty Warriors 5 Special.  Not sure why I was so impatient to where I had to buy a foreign 360 (the shortages were existing at the time) and had fun with it but sold it for a good value.  Had some fun with it but only being able to play a few games with the English option was dumb.  I sold it off.  Got it again last month when I knew I had a full time job.

Wii - 2007-2008 - Bought it and got tired of it once I did everything I wanted to do with Mario Kart Wii.  Sold it to my roommate so technically I can still play it.  Super Mario Galaxy was fun for it but the rest were shit.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: WrikaWrek on December 14, 2008, 04:11:54 PM
Owned a Megadrive.

Me and my friends, kids, would play MK 3 and TMNT and Street fighter 2 Turbo at each others houses.

Gaming only grew on me when i played FFVIII and MGS1 on the PC. I'm THAT kind of gamer, and i better enjoy it, because of the Wii, that kind of gamer has an expiration date set.

Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: BobFromPikeCreek on December 14, 2008, 04:16:47 PM
TurboGrafx
SNES
Genesis
N64
Playtsation
PS2
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: drew on December 14, 2008, 05:24:30 PM
is today retro day or something?
genesis :sonic
n64 :mario :bowser :link :zelda
playstation
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: huckleberry on December 14, 2008, 05:35:56 PM
Quote from: CurseoftheGods on December 14, 2008, 03:20:47 PM
I think I'm the only here that has bought almost all of Sega's failures. :gloomy


Count me in as having bought all of them too . Except for the Dreamcast - waited for a year before buying that one.  Sega Genesis/Mega Drive was my favorite system of all time until the 360.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Purple Filth on December 14, 2008, 05:49:25 PM
owned

NES
Genesis
PS1
PS2
GameBoy
GameBoy Color
Gamecube

never owned but had in my possession for a while

Super NES
GBA
XBOX


Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Bildi on December 14, 2008, 06:00:02 PM
Not many.

NES
N64
Cube
Xbox
PS2
GBA
DS

I gamed on computers pre-NES era, and I very nearly started console life a Sega fanboy by buying a Master System.  But all my friends at school liked Nintendo and I liked the games on my friend's Gameboy so I bought a NES.

I never got a SNES, and went back to computer games during that era and played other people's consoles.  Also kept playing the NES which seemed to live forever.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Bebpo on December 14, 2008, 06:06:49 PM
I owned:
Collecovision (my parents gave it away to my cousins when I upgraded to a new system)
Atari 2600 (my parents gave it away to my cousins when I upgraded to a new system)
Atari 7800 (my parents gave it away to my cousins when I upgraded to a new system)
NES (my parents gave it away to my cousins when I upgraded to a new system)
Genesis (my parents gave it away to my cousins when I upgraded to a new system)
SNES (my parents gave it away to my cousins when I upgraded to a new system)
N64 (still have)
Saturn (still have)
DC (still have)
PS1 (died after I had a PS2 so no point in replacing it)
GC (still have)
Xbox (still have)
PS2 (still have)
Neo Geo Pocket Color (still have)
Gameboy Advance (still have)
Gameboy SP (still have)
DS phat (still have)
and I had a 286 PC and up.  Never had a Commodore/Amiga though, but my friend did and I played elevator action at his place.

Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: tiesto on December 14, 2008, 06:14:38 PM
NES
SNES
N64
Gamecube
Wii
GB (sold)
GBA SP
DS Phat (traded it in for DS Lite)
DS Lite
SMS
Genesis
Saturn
Dreamcast
Game Gear
Turbo Duo
PS1
PS2
PS3
PSP
Xbox
Xbox 360

I need a SEGA-CD and 3D0.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Bebpo on December 14, 2008, 06:19:50 PM
Quote from: Jinfash on December 14, 2008, 06:10:04 PM
lucky cousin lol...

Quote from: Jinfash on December 14, 2008, 04:12:53 PM
I had one spoiled cousin who bought almost all the consoles, and every time he did he'd give me all the videogames he owned for the previous one lol. So I had like ton of games, none of which I picked or maybe like, but who am I to complain.

>_>;

spoiler (click to show/hide)
not suggesting anything.
[close]

haha, yeah in another dimension we may have been cousins!
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Bebpo on December 14, 2008, 06:25:01 PM
My friend had a launch $800 3DO and I used to go over to his house and play the FMV racing game and Samurai Showdown 1.  Maaaan the controller sucked as well as the system.  

Oh and we had a Neo-Geo arcade machine and a handful of carts.  But it broke and got thrown away :(  We also had a Pinbot machine that lasted a long while through many repairs but eventually was trashed as well :(

I wouldn't mind picking up a Turbo Duo one day since I used to play it a lot at the local console arcade in my town (where you pay by the hour and play any game on any console), but with emulators and virtual console and stuff it's kind of hard to justify anything pre-Saturn/N64 outside of collectorness since the emu's run whatever games 100% by this point on the earlier systems.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: CurseoftheGods on December 14, 2008, 06:29:54 PM
Quote from: Bebpo on December 14, 2008, 06:19:50 PM
Quote from: Jinfash on December 14, 2008, 06:10:04 PM
lucky cousin lol...

Quote from: Jinfash on December 14, 2008, 04:12:53 PM
I had one spoiled cousin who bought almost all the consoles, and every time he did he'd give me all the videogames he owned for the previous one lol. So I had like ton of games, none of which I picked or maybe like, but who am I to complain.

>_>;

spoiler (click to show/hide)
not suggesting anything.
[close]

haha, yeah in another dimension we may have been cousins!

Really hot cousins.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: CurseoftheGods on December 14, 2008, 06:32:57 PM
Playing Super Turbo and Samurai Showdown on the 3DO was great with this:

(http://nfgcontrols.com/grafx/Capcom-pad-3DO.jpg)
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Rman on December 14, 2008, 06:34:17 PM
asdf
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Rman on December 14, 2008, 06:38:17 PM
In the order I acquired them.

NES w/Super Mario Brothers and Duck Hunt hybrid cart.
Genny w/Sonic the Hedgehog
Gameboy (Original w/Tetris)
SNES w/Super Mario World
N64
Gameboy Color
Playstation
Dreamcast
Gamecube
Gameboy Advance
Playstation 2
DS Lite
360
Wii
PS3
PSP 2000

Never played a 3DO or Jaguar.  And I played a Saturn extensively by actually loaning my n64 for my friend's Saturn.  I got to play most of the Saturn classics--Nights, Fighter's Megamix, GunStar Heroes, Burning Rangers, Dynamite Deka, thankfully.  I missed out on the Panzer games, though.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Idioteque on December 14, 2008, 06:52:05 PM
SNES
Genesis
Saturn
N64 (don't own now.Had like three of them in the past.)
Playstation
Dreamcast
Xbox (sold it.)
PS2
Gamecube (owned it twice. traded it in both times.)
DS (had the original, now own a lite)
Gameboy Advance (had both the original and the SP)
PSP
PS3
360
Wii (sold it about a month ago.)
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: cool breeze on December 14, 2008, 07:16:53 PM
don't feel like listing them all, but since no one mentioned Jaguar, I would like to point out that I'm a proud owner of an Atari Jaguar.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Joe Molotov on December 14, 2008, 07:26:33 PM
I've had almost every system at one point. I went through a retro phase where I was buying  everything from the Atari 2600 to the Jaguar to the CD-i, but ultimately I get rid of most of it when I realized it was just taking up space because I was never going to play most of that crap.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Great Rumbler on December 14, 2008, 07:54:46 PM
Quote from: Eel O'Brian on December 14, 2008, 03:07:24 PM
were you as crushed by the 5200's suckiness as i was

I was too young to really remember it. I barely even remembering having the NES, aside from a few standout titles.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Third on December 14, 2008, 07:57:04 PM
Started from the NES.

Since them I've bought all consoles, except SEGA consoles, 3DO and N64.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: AdmiralViscen on December 14, 2008, 08:44:11 PM
Everything mainstream NES and later except Saturn, which I only got last year.
Title: Re: What classic VG systems have you owned...
Post by: Enl on December 14, 2008, 09:22:10 PM
Atari 2600
C64
NES
Genesis/32x/JVC
Sega Cd
SNES
Turbo Grafx/duo/Super Graphx
CD-i
3DO
Jaguar
Playstation
Saturn
N64
Virtual Boy
PS2
GameCube
XBox
DreamCast

Gameboy/Color/Advance
Game Gear
NeoGeo Pocket
Nomad


Wish I had Neo Geo and a Sega Master System.