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My Gaming Timeline: A Reflection
DJDuffy | 11:50 AM on 07.31.2009 6 comments




Now I know it's been about a million years since I've posted here, but I thought I'd share this with you all. One of my friends and fellow Dtoider, ProfessorPew is doing a research project for his degree on hardcore gaming trends, specifically what consoles people had owned. I decided, hey why no see what my own gaming timeline has been like over my lifetime! I've listed my consoles in order from youngest to oldest, with my age and which games I played the most for that generation.

1989: Gameboy (5 years old)
-Super Mario Land
-Megaman 5
-Fall of the Foot Clan

1991: 386 PC (7 years old)
-Wolfenstein 3D
-Commander Keen
-Duke Nukem

1994: SNES (10 years old)
-Pilotwings
-Super Mario World
-Super Mario Kart

1996: 133 Mhz Pentium (12 years old)
-X-Wing vs TIE Fighter

1998: N64 (14 years old)
-Goldeneye
-Perfect Dark
-Diddy Kong Racing

1999: 500 Mhz Pentium 2 (15 years old)
-X-Wing vs TIE Fighter
-Day of Defeat
-Curse of Monkey Island

2002: Xbox1 (17 years old)
-Halo 1 & 2

2004: 2.0 Ghz Pentium 4 (19 years old)
-Half Life 2
-Day of Defeat: Source

2005: Xbox 360 (20 years old)
-Halo 3
-COD 4
-Castle Crashers

2006: Wii (21 years old)
-Mario Galaxy
-Zelda Twilight Princess

2008: PS3 (24 years old)
-LBP

Looking back, it's interesting to see how my console gaming was almost perfectly offset from my PC gaming. It's not like I even planned that exactly, my parents were usually the ones buying the computers. As I get older, the gaps in time between consoles got shorter, since I started having my own jobs and income to buy my own stuff. The N64 was the first console I paid for myself and it was such a worthy purchase indeed. I've also noticed that my PC gaming has really decreased in the last generation and is really solely for Half Life games and mods. This could be because of less interest in genres long past like Space combat sims and adventure games.

What about your own gaming timeline? I'd love to see if people had a similar upbringing or if they varied quite a bit from mine. I'll be interested to hear your story, thanks!



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Elsa's Destructoid Blog
Well... I'm 47 years old... it's a long list and frankly I think Alzheimers may be setting in because I can't remember most of it! LOL!

... I kind of wish I had kept track now.
Velt's Destructoid Blog
If I really put my mind into it I know I can make a timeline... the thing is, it would be pretty much: PC.
I had a NES but I dont remember at what age exactly, then the SNES a couple of years later, my dad bought me a Virtual Boy (yeah I still have it), and then its all PC.

Ok I have a ds Lite and we bought an old N64 a couple of years ago with some friends just to play some good old games like mario kart.
DJDuffy 's Destructoid Blog
@ ELSA yea that would be a lot of history to remember, I totally can understand. I'm sure I missed some of my own history along the way as well.

@VELT Virtual Boy wow, I never had one of those, only played it once in a Toys r Us lol.
Kryptinite's Destructoid Blog
It would take me years to do this!!!!!

Basically I'm lazy. Also, do you want a Virtual Boy? I'll bring it to Pax :).
Reveille's Destructoid Blog
Oh God, I just got rid of my old Pentium 133 a few months ago. I remember trying to play Half Life at like 15fps on that thing. I put up with it all the way till I got to Xen, then my mom took the game away from me.

As for your timeline, we are almost identical. I started playing when I was five and I went with a Genesis and Playstation so I didn't have any Nintendo Consoles till the Gamecube. I did play all the important stuff though.
ouched's Destructoid Blog
Well, if it's in the interest of education..

1989, age 5 - NES
Tetris
Pinbot
TMNT 3:The Manhattan Project

1992, Age 8 - SNES
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
The Secret of Evermore
Final Fantasy VI

1995, Age 11 - Pentium 486ish PC
Sim Isle
Oregon Trail 2
Mega Race
&
Virtual Boy
Wario World
Virtual League Baseball
Vertical Force

1996, age 12, N64
Mario 64
Mystical Ninja Starring Goemon
Perfect Dark

1997, age 13, Game Boy Pocket
Pokemon Blue
Harvest Moon
Legend of Zelda:Link's Awakening

1998, age 14, Pentium II PC
Diablo 2
Baldur's Gate
StarCraft
&
Game Boy Color
Mario Tennis
Super Mario Bros DX
Cannon Fodder

2001, age 17, GameCube
Star Wars:Rouge Squadron - Rouge Leader
Legend of Zelda:The Wind Waker
Super Smash Bros:Brawl
&
Game Boy Advance
Mario & Luigi:Super Star Saga
Golden Sun
Final Fantasy IV

2004, age 19, Pentium IV PC
Civilization IV
Neverwinter Nights
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind
&
Nintendo DS
Mario Kart DS
New Super Mario Bros
WarioWare: Touched

2006, age 21, Nintendo Wii
Super Mario Galaxy
Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Mad World

2008, age 23, X-Box 360
Fallout 3
Resident Evil 5
Ace Combat 6
&
Intel Quad-Core PC
Team Fortress 2
Left 4 Dead
Empire: Total War

2009, age 24, PS3
Uncharted:Drake's Fortune
MotorStorm
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

I think that about covers it..


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