Poll of the Day > Which game console did you grow up with

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Sega Master System

Sega Genesis

Nes

Snes

PS1

PS2

Sega Saturn

Sega Dreamcast

N64

Atari, NES, SNES, Genesis, Saturn, N64, PS1, Xbox, GB, GBA, DS, PSP

All the systems I ever owned. Actually I had a Virtual Boy for a while but I don't think that counts.
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N64 and xbox
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If its what I grew up with it is NES, Snes, Genesis.
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SNES through Wii and all handhelds included from Nintendo.

I play a good amount of PS2 - PS4 now have a Vita. PS4 has to be my least favorite of anything I own.

PC, was a teenager before I got any actual console, a Gamecube to be precise.
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Sure:
Kid:
Sega Master System
Sega Mega Drive and Mega CD
Nes
Gameboy
PS1

Teens:
PS2
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I consider the system I "grew up with" my SNES, got in Christmas of '92 when I was in 6th grade. I never had an NES of my own, but like every friend I had DID, so I played a ton of it at their houses, so I didn't miss out on any of the big NES games.

Not really one system I grew up with cause I seemed to get a new one every few years

But I consider my defining childhood console to be the NES

N64 and GameCube.
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NES
Sega Genesis
Super NES
Sega Dreamcast
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Genesis, n64, GBA

Gamecube, gameboy color, gameboy advance, and I had a n64 for maybe a year or something til the dog pissed on it :(
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I'll interpret the question as the systems I had prior to getting into collecting consoles:
TI-99/4A (technically a home computer, but we never did anything but play games on it)
NES
SNES
JVC X'Eye (Genesis & Sega CD in one)
32X
Saturn
PS
PS2
Xbox
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Had a Sega SG-1000 for a little while, but the one I had since I was about 7 was a Sega Mega Drive. Got one for Christmas in 1991. Played that and Gameboy stuff until we got a PS2.
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I was extremely fortunate to have been a member of the Atari 8-bit master race.

Atari, c64 master system snes n64 psx
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Genesis.
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Childhood: NES, Gameboy
Teens: Snes, Playstaion
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For the record, any system in the childhood section made before November 2003 but whose official lifespan ended after that date bleeds into the teen section as well.

Childhood: NES, Genesis, N64, Game Boy Color, PS1, Game Boy Advance, GameCube, Xbox

Teen: DS, Wii

And the Xbox 360 just misses the mark since I got that on Christmas of '08 AKA one month after my 18th birthday (I consider ages 13-17 the "teen" years). Also, if "growing up with" doesn't necessarily mean you owned the system then throw the PS2 in the childhood section since I would always play it at my friend's house during visits even though I didn't own one until my early 20s.

captpackrat posted...

I was extremely fortunate to have been a member of the Atari 8-bit master race.

What's with the Nazi catchphrase "master race"?

But, yeah, my kids grew up with Atari 2600, Colecovision, Atari 400/800, Commodore 64.

My son was in fourth grade when he came home really excited, they had done graphing x/y coordinates in class: "Mom! It's just like programming screen locations on the Atari!"
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perhaps you meant "consoles"
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NES
SNES
N64
PS1
PS2
Dreamcast
Xbox
GameCube

Those are the ones I had before adulthood.
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As a kid (as in, not a teenager or an adult), the Super Nintendo and Nintendo 64 were my best pals.
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TI-99/4a
SNES
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I've had a bunch of them and they're all good for different reasons, but I'm a self taught english speaker thanks to PS1 JRPGs, so the PS1 holds a special place in my heart.
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NES, SNES, Gameboy, Atari 800XL, and a PC.

Probably had the most games for the NES initially, then eventually the PC took over.

I loved the SNES, but I only ever got about a dozen games for it over the 10 years I had it for. The games were just too expensive for my parents to buy me more then one a year.

The 800XL we only had for about 2 years while my dad was saving up for the PC, but it definitely sparked my interest in programming. Think it came with about 6 games.

I was never a big fan of the gameboy, it ended up being something my uncle got me for Christmas. I think I had 4 games for it, and once I beat them all I just gave it to one of my friends.

Once I got into college and started making my own money the flood gates open. Now I have pretty owned every major system except the 3 XBoxes.
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I'm only 21 but I grew up with:

PS1
PS2
Gamecube
GBC
GBA
DS
I also had a block PC that me and my sister played flash games on.

dancer62 posted...

captpackrat posted...

I was extremely fortunate to have been a member of the Atari 8-bit master race.

What's with the Nazi catchphrase "master race"?

But, yeah, my kids grew up with Atari 2600, Colecovision, Atari 400/800, Commodore 64.

My son was in fourth grade when he came home really excited, they had done graphing x/y coordinates in class: "Mom! It's just like programming screen locations on the Atari!"

I think captpackrats comment is a variant of The PC Master Race. I for one can't play any video game (other than Star Trek: 25th Anniversary) with a mouse, I need a controller.

WIKI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Master_Race
The PC Master Race, sometimes referred to by its original phrasing as the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race, is an internet subculture, internet community, and a tongue-in-cheek term of superiority for PC gaming used among gamers to compare PC gaming to console gaming.

If captpackrat starts marching with tiki torches and chanting "the GPUs will not replace us" I might become a tad bit concerned. lol

botsrule posted...

dancer62 posted...

captpackrat posted...

I was extremely fortunate to have been a member of the Atari 8-bit master race.

What's with the Nazi catchphrase "master race"?

But, yeah, my kids grew up with Atari 2600, Colecovision, Atari 400/800, Commodore 64.

My son was in fourth grade when he came home really excited, they had done graphing x/y coordinates in class: "Mom! It's just like programming screen locations on the Atari!"

I think captpackrats comment is a variant of The PC Master Race. I for one can't play any video game (other than Star Trek: 25th Anniversary) with a mouse, I need a controller.

WIKI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Master_Race
The PC Master Race, sometimes referred to by its original phrasing as the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race, is an internet subculture, internet community, and a tongue-in-cheek term of superiority for PC gaming used among gamers to compare PC gaming to console gaming.

If captpackrat starts marching with tiki torches and chanting "the GPUs will not replace us" I might become a tad bit concerned. lol

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/22-The-Witcher

captpackrat posted...

botsrule posted...

dancer62 posted...

captpackrat posted...

I was extremely fortunate to have been a member of the Atari 8-bit master race.

What's with the Nazi catchphrase "master race"?

But, yeah, my kids grew up with Atari 2600, Colecovision, Atari 400/800, Commodore 64.

My son was in fourth grade when he came home really excited, they had done graphing x/y coordinates in class: "Mom! It's just like programming screen locations on the Atari!"

I think captpackrats comment is a variant of The PC Master Race. I for one can't play any video game (other than Star Trek: 25th Anniversary) with a mouse, I need a controller.

WIKI https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PC_Master_Race
The PC Master Race, sometimes referred to by its original phrasing as the Glorious PC Gaming Master Race, is an internet subculture, internet community, and a tongue-in-cheek term of superiority for PC gaming used among gamers to compare PC gaming to console gaming.

If captpackrat starts marching with tiki torches and chanting "the GPUs will not replace us" I might become a tad bit concerned. lol

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/videos/view/zero-punctuation/22-The-Witcher

Thanks for the link you "console peasant". lol

PS1
PS2
GCN

I got an N64 when I was 14 so I won't count it