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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

The revolution will be televised!

I still play towerfall, and occasionally the amazing frog?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 days ago

Ngage, what is this even?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Anyone got the original comic?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

What war you will be obsessed with

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

the original is about wars i think

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

nes galaga at my dads house <3

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I was obsessed with the N64 when I was a kid, but I never owned one. Honorable mention to the GBC, but I did get one shortly after the GBA came out.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I really liked my GBA

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Ha it's me. Wow.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago

Granted I was pretty young, but I friggin loved the ColecoVision. It had a respectable game library and Zaxxon in particular was the stuff. I remember my mom playing Ladybug (Pacman clone) frequently.

Welp. Guess I'm spending the rest of my evening looking for an emulator.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

GBA SP here.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

PSP was my first ('98 here), the 360 my second, a 3DS my third. I probably spent thousand of hours on my PSP, so I'd go for PSP probably. Jailbroke my childhood PSP a year ago or so and enjoyed playing a bunch of games I couldn't get. Also jailbroke my 3DS and gave it to my partner as a birthday gift so she could play all the Layton games which she grew up with.

A couple years ago, my obsession was probably the GBA, though. Growing up, we couldn't really afford any consoles, so my only experiences with Pokemon and stuff was via emulators on my PC. Had a period of them where I'd buy old GBAs, shell-swap them, restore old games and their batteries and fun stuff like that. Haven't touched the couple I have for some time now, sadly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

Atari Jaguar. No one I knew had one and the only place to play one was a single game store in a mall that you had to pay to play. I paid twice to play and was in love.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Never had a console growing up. PC all the way. Started with a ZX Spectrum clone, then a 286, then a Pentium 100, and so on. I got my first consoles as an adult, first the Xbox One, which I never really played anything other than Just Dance on, then a Switch, which I couldn't really get into either and ended up playing more on Ryujinx than on the actual switch. Bought an old 3DS at one point and its also just sitting in a drawer. Guess I'm too much of a PC gamer to get into consoles.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)
[–] Redkey 4 points 3 days ago

That is just inviting people to start throwing out names of lesser-known systems. Can we narrow it down to Western (including South America), Eastern European, or South-east Asian before we start?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Loved the Wii but it definitely wasn't my first (NES) but have fond memories with all the consoles my friends owned when I was.growing up

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is what happens when parents don't vaccine. When you are very young, you can get vaccinated with computer gaming. You can absolutely still enjoy consoles and the great games that come out on them, but you have a certain protection against obsessing over a specific console.

For me it was Commodore 64 I was vaccinated with. This also let me enjoy a future of DOS gaming right along side NES and Genesis gaming.

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