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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... I kind of wish I had kept track now.
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.
@VELT Virtual Boy wow, I never had one of those, only played it once in a Toys r Us lol.
Basically I'm lazy. Also, do you want a Virtual Boy? I'll bring it to Pax :).
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.
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..