Just wondering what everyones first system is. Mine was an N64 and the first game i played was lego racers. Good times.

Edit: Wow only 2 SG users who voted here started gaming in this decade. Were all old.

As mentioned in the title my promotional GA:
https://www.steamgifts.com/giveaway/rCbIF/fallout-a-post-nuclear-role-playing-game

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What was the era you first started gaming in?

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The Good ol' Commodore 64

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Ive always wanted one of those. When i get a job I might pick one up.

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Is great, and with all the retro love of the last few years, some of the games doesn't look that bad.
They are still really fun, and aged pretty well. It's amazing what that system could do in those times.

Look at this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldo2ewLBt3Y

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiCxXMquPKs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRdbMEwLgsQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5o_f76jSaM

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Yeah i know the C64 always looked amazing compared to stuff like the ZX Spectrum.

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Get Hard Hat Mack and Ducks Ahoy!, 2 of my favorite games when I was growing up.

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Alright will do. Might make a video of them for my channel. Still have no idea what my first C64 game will be for it.

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I had a SEGA<they are similar??:D

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Which Sega? List of Sega systems

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Still have a few of them gaming cassettes - or where they called "datasettes" even - laying in my basement.

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Those games were impossible. But I've loved them both.

Never finished any. I've made to the last level on Ghost n Goblins, I think.

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I agree on Ghost n Goblins, since you had to play the whole game over again after beaten once. Which is hilarious looking back now how I struggled to reach the last levels.

Mission Elevator was more for casual gaming, as it was pretty repetitive and already lots of fun on lower levels. But I think I've followed the "story-line" once and got all the keys and stuff to reach the roof. Can't quite remember how it actually ended though.

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Well, I think that maybe was difficult for a 10 year old argentine boy with little or none knowledge of english.

But I couldn't find a non-TAS longplay of this game, so I don't know...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-rfRuV3Wpw

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Ah the sound of the elevators brings back memories. The jump sound is different though, it was way more awkward.

However, can't remember the game being 16bit colored. Always thought it was just shades of green.
Can't believe that it was just 61 floors though, felt more like 600 and randomly generated.

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maybe you had this?

I used to connect the C64 to my old TV, so was B&W for me in early times, but then we bought a color TV and the C64 world turned bright and wonderful.

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Yeah probably. I also remember the loading screens of games loading line after line from top to bottom.

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Don't know if it was exactly the same but I beat Ghosts n Goblins on the NES. It was hard but not impossible. It wasn't Battletoads level of difficulty.

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In C64 version you only have 4 lives and no continues.

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Same here, mate!
Still have a couple of those, plus a C128 at my parents' home (assuming they didn't throw/give them away).

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+64. I still have mine and my original copies of Zork.

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+1

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Polystation, kind of a copy of PS1 but with tapes (like SNES), i played a lot of Mario on it.)

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The first game system I ever played was the NES but that was in the 90s, probably 10 years after it was first released (praise my gaming parents), I'm not sure what era that counts as

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erm 89's?

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Sure haha I wasn't sure what to put...
I got an N64 shortly after falling in love with video games and I also played Lego Racers. I was really bad at it, but it was pretty cool how you could build your car.

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Im pretty sure everyone was bad at lego racers when it came out.

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Kinda the same for me. NES in the early 90s

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Right on! what'd you play?

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Mario mostly.

Some duck hunt, tried Zelda and I didn't understand anything and thought it sucked, years later I tried it again and loved it.

I really don't remember what else, I have lot of memories of mario and playing it with my father but I can't picture any other game

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Atari 2600

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SNES

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^ This.

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Philips Videopac G7000. Bought by my parents :)

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Now thats one ive never heard of.

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Me too! Later upgraded to the G7400 before going to a Commodore 64, Amiga, PC, PS3, Xbox One and PC again :)

Seems it was released as the Magnavox Odyssey in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Videopac_G7000

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The first one i bought myself was a Atari 7800, then i got a Sega Megadrive, Sega Dreamcast and Playstation 2, but I ended up with a PC and a girlfriend with a lot of Nintendo consoles (SNES, N64, Gamecube and Wii).

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Spectrum 48k (my brother's actually). For the youngsters, the 48K refers to the RAM (48 Kb).

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Good ol' days, eh? Had so much fun with it...

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I played Pac-Man when I was 2 years old.
Thereafter, we had a mac in the house, on which I played such classics as Sun Tzu's Ancient Art of War, Dark Castle, and Wizardry. My mother refused to let us have a console, but my brother and I saved up and bought a gameboy together.

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00's
IGI

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my Nintendo 64. I got it when I was 5 years old and still own it! Still my favorite system and best memories

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SNES on 90's
Final Fantasy 5, Zelda and Chrono Trigger all day long.

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386 PC.
ah, good old times with MS DOS 4.0

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Atari 2600. Got Berzerk and River raid with it.
Damn these were exiting times :)

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It was right at the tail end of the 80's (like late 1989). My family got a used Atari 2600.
It came with Defender, Missile Command, 3D tic-tac-toe, Pac-man, Haunted house, Outlaw, Hangman and probably some other games I can't remember (can you blame me for not remembering what I owned when i was so young that I should have just about started forming permanent memories?). It died less than a year later, when my sister spilled a glass of milk on it.

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What a bad way to go for such a good console

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My sister does not even remember killing it :( (which should be no surprise, as she was 2 at the time)

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Amiga 600 ;)

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Amiga 500 here :D

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Atari 2600

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Super Nintendo or Gameboy. Can't really remember which.
Hours and hours spent trying to beat the second castle in Super Mario Land.
Blew my mind when I discovered the Star Road on my own.

Now I look back and laugh at how much of a noob I was at gaming. Good times indeed.

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Does the Gameboy count?
When I was a kid ,I just have a gameboy and a PC (with windows 95)

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A C64, got it in '88.

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My first was a Pong system from Radio Shack. It played Pong, Hockey, Squash (handball), and had a gun/rifle that allowed you to play Target which was just a ball bouncing around the screen or appearing randomly depending on the setting. The controllers detached from the base unit and had only vertical movement as the games didn't allow for moving horizontally on the screen. You could even buy a second pair of controllers and play with four people! It was called the TV Scoreboard and there were several different models including one that had rotary controls.

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SEGA :)

MAPPY

TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES

KONTRA

STREET FIGHTER

MORTAL KOMBAT

Doctor Mario, Super Mario etc :)

Formula 1

Even had an RPG in asian language lol with local co-op :D

Olympics, etc :P

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Oldest system I remember playing on was.. a Nintendo 64 and a Playstation 1.
But, I remember very little from those systems except playing a ton of Frogger/Spyro and I wanna say Pokemon Stadium.

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Amiga 500 (+512 KB RAM extension (to play Mortal Kombat 2 (at the age of 6))) (:

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