The Jedi Academy- Your first games system

Your first games system

Mar 22 2007 03:27pm

Alex Dkana
- Staff

The Oldbie thread gave me this idea, but i will never post in there for oldbie's are elitist and scary.

So what was your first games system? What console or personal computer got you into playing video games and such?

For me it was the Atari, i only remember having that crazy mario game for it it was so long ago, but it was pretty fun.

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Apr 06 2007 11:21am

Laziana
- Jedi Instructor

zomg sho... we had something similar, when we had a C64 at my home. A table with the games and with the tape names + minutes where to find them

C64 was really a cool time. Even though I can remember much I still wonder how I could get that excited by some moving pixels when I look at it today

But back then it was... yeah, kinda the coolest thing ever

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Apr 06 2007 09:53am

Sho Koon
- Student

The fun thing with the tape thingy of C64 was when you tried to load one game and the tape went over it, too far ahead thus corrupting the data. Then you had to rewind the tape and start again the whole process. If you were lucky it did not corrupt it, it just loaded a different game.
Oh I remember we had a note, a map if you like which contained where on the tape were in minutes (for example: The Last Ninja - 2:14:22 - 2:45:13 or so)

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This comment was edited by Sho Koon on Apr 06 2007 09:54am.

Apr 06 2007 08:04am

Dash Starlight
- Jedi Instructor

Our first computer was a Commodore 64. Yeah, I remember the loading times, too, Kaelis. I didn't know any better back then and thought waiting two minutes for a game to load 'normal.' As a result, soon as we got a Pentium something-something, I thought the games loaded in extremely fast

The computer was good fun, allowing me to play games and think up my own. They turned out pretty bad but yeah, can't win 'em all, lol.
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This comment was edited by Dash Starlight on Apr 06 2007 08:05am.

Mar 27 2007 10:35am

Kaelis
- On Leave

C64, used to wait ages for a game to loads then quickly die and wait ages again

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Mar 26 2007 08:52pm

Alex Dkana
- Staff

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I had a sega master system! It had alex the kidd built into it, alex!

Haha i remember that! I got a Master System after the Atari, it came with Alex the Kidd too. Been bugging me what the game was called for ages though lol.

After that i think it was a Mega Drive and a NES, not sure what order. Started playing old PC games back then too. The next wasn't until the N64 though i think, then a SNES. Followed by PS1, Gamecube, and then finally the PS2.

Oh and i remember the Amstrad too, one of my friends back then had one - crazy tapes

Mar 26 2007 07:18pm

DJ Sith
- Jedi Council

My first home gaming system was a Tandy TRS-80 CoCo1. IIRC it had 4K RAM and the games I played were loaded one of 2 ways, either by coding them or by running binaries. Binaries either came on cartridge, 5.25" floppy or audio casette. Playing games on a casette was interesting because the game would tell you when to hit stop and play on the tape player so the game could load more data.

The kids computer game magazines back in these days (mid 80's) had games printed in the back, written in BASIC source code. Enter the code and run the program and you got your game. The problem was most of the time the game was written in Apple BASIC which I had to translate to Tandy BASIC. I wasn't the best at this, being 6-8 years old, so sometimes the games would act funny. One of the cool parts about entering games in by source was I could write in my own special parts that automatically got me to the last level or made it easier or make it easy on me to map out the dungeon, etc. Ahh I miss those days.

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Mar 26 2007 08:24am

Bubu
- Hubbub

/me pulls out a fire extinguisher and douses this thread thoroughly
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Mar 25 2007 05:34pm

Kenwan Obiobi
- Student

Quote:

amstrad cpc 464 with roland on the ropes and roland in the caves, followed by Oh Mummy

SAME!!!! Oh man...i remember Roland On The Ropes! Was sweet!!!! Oh Mummy scared me

Harrier attack ROCKED!

Haunted Hedges was just...uber

Mar 25 2007 03:10pm

Rinzler
- Student

uh, my first games system was the NES with Super Mario and Duckhunt etc
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Mar 25 2007 02:46pm

planK
- Jedi Council

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First console I got was Sega Megadrive when I was 5. Awesome system.

Oh, and Sonic > You.

If you disagree, you need shooting.

stuff like contra or mario beats the shit out of sonic.

Yeah, but you think you're cool but probably haven't seen a girl in years so your arguement is automatically null and void.

Sonic > *

i sometimes wonder how u come to such bloody stupid conclusions. Playing games has nothing to do with getting laid, i play world of warcraft alot but i bet i get laid alot more than you do. <-- stupid comment so i dont go around saying it. Learn when to use stupid comments and when to just shut the hell up.
playing games and getting laid doesnt make us better than anyone else

If you hadn't realised, I wasn't being serious. I used a serious tone but I know there's no relation between playing video games and "getting laid" (I actually said just seeing a girl in general, way to overexaggurate).

And just to justify my point, I'm Christian. I wouldn't have sex until I'm married anyway.

@ people thinking I'm actually being serious.

I dont think being serious or not really matters. I could jokingly say to someone "LOL UR MUM IS DED" and it'd still hurt, you know?

Let's just drop it and stay on topic please.

Mar 25 2007 01:21pm

CuZzA
- Student

Quote:

First console I got was Sega Megadrive when I was 5. Awesome system.

Oh, and Sonic > You.

If you disagree, you need shooting.

stuff like contra or mario beats the shit out of sonic.

Yeah, but you think you're cool but probably haven't seen a girl in years so your arguement is automatically null and void.

Sonic > *

@ people thinking I'm actually being serious.
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Mar 25 2007 12:07pm

Monteeeeeee
- Nugget

Quote:

First console I got was Sega Megadrive when I was 5. Awesome system.

Oh, and Sonic > You.

If you disagree, you need shooting.

stuff like contra or mario beats the shit out of sonic.

Yeah, but you think you're cool but probably haven't seen a girl in years so your arguement is automatically null and void.

Sonic > *

Best Movie Character EVER!!

This comment was edited by Monteeeeeee on Mar 25 2007 12:11pm.

Mar 25 2007 11:24am

Ataris
- Milwaukees Finest

C64, awesome stuff baby <3

Mar 25 2007 05:52am

Komence
- Student

DEFINITELY Super Nintendo. Ninja Turtles - Turtles in Time really got me into playing games, if anyone else has played that, you should know how amazing it is keke.

Mar 25 2007 12:40am

planK
- Jedi Council

Sonic is good, but I'm very partial to Mario. That is to say, I still play Super Mario World daily, without fail, because it's simply that bloody good.

Mar 25 2007 12:26am

CuZzA
- Student

Quote:

First console I got was Sega Megadrive when I was 5. Awesome system.

Oh, and Sonic > You.

If you disagree, you need shooting.

stuff like contra or mario beats the shit out of sonic.

Yeah, but you think you're cool but probably haven't seen a girl in years so your arguement is automatically null and void.

Sonic > *
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This comment was edited by CuZzA on Mar 25 2007 12:32am.

Mar 25 2007 12:17am

Monteeeeeee
- Nugget

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Atari 2600. Those were the days. I could play the simplest games for hours on end.

same system pretty much as the amiga, and i remember playing such games as Maya and Final fight on these systems.
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Mar 25 2007 12:15am

Monteeeeeee
- Nugget

Dizzy owns all

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Mar 24 2007 10:53pm

SaZ
- Student

Quote:

First console I got was Sega Megadrive when I was 5. Awesome system.

Oh, and Sonic > You.

If you disagree, you need shooting.

stuff like contra or mario beats the shit out of sonic.
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Mar 24 2007 10:27pm

CuZzA
- Student

First console I got was Sega Megadrive when I was 5. Awesome system.

Oh, and Sonic > You.

If you disagree, you need shooting.
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Mar 24 2007 09:13pm

Mugen
- Student

Atari 2600. Those were the days. I could play the simplest games for hours on end.
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Mar 24 2007 02:46pm

Buzz
- Student

Nintendo Entertainment System. I still remember jerking my controller up when I hit the jump in mario. In the time we had our NES game systems we had the 4 controller wireless hookup, an NES advantage controller and even the running pad.

That NES controller made the cheat in Megaman 3 much easier to do without a second player. I could just flip it over and have the joystick holding right.
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Mar 23 2007 08:13pm

Jaina D'Kana
- Jedi Instructor

Xbox i guess... although I did play on my brothers NES. We completed Bubble Bobble the proper way

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Mar 23 2007 06:00pm

Nimravus
- Student

Tandy Computer
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Mar 23 2007 01:19pm

Monteeeeeee
- Nugget

Quote:

i had some crappy console named 'zhiliton' which looked something like this:
http://www.aukcionas.com/pics/thumbs/42/64/74264_1.600x450.gif

as for games.... there were loads of cool games back then

http://cache.kotaku.com/images/2006/05/CONTRA.jpg

the consoles looks like a sega megadrive aka the genesis
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