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phoenix

phoenix

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What personal computers and gaming consoles have you used in your gaming career?

I started off on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum and later shared the costs of a SEGA Master System with my brother.

In 1997, I started using a PC and this has been my main gaming machine ever since.

In December 2003 I bought a Playstation 2, but don;t use that as often as I used to.

I treated myself to a second-hand SONY PSP Phat and Nintendo DS Phat a year or so ago and find myself spending more time with the DS. Using the little thumbstick on the PSP can become pretty uncomfortable.

Though I have enjoyed playing on the Wii and XBox360 at a friend's house, I don't see myself buying another console any time soon:the price of consoles
and their games has become just a little silly, I don;t seem to be able to find the time to devote to more than one platform any more and this allows me to
concentrate my hard-earned cash on my PC rather than to try to scrape it thinly over several different platforms.
 
hmm, I guess the timing for me was a bit late :),

I started on the PS1 when that came out. I was too young to remember what year though, age aside, I have a horrible memory anyway :)

I moved onto ps2 a few years after it's release, I'm a spider man fan, so I bought the first spiderman game like 6 months before I got the console (was terrified it would sell out >.<)

about 5 years ago I changed my first graphics card, I've been a pc enthusiast and started working at a computer store (at 10 bucks an hour) to pay for my passion :P

I picked up my psp in that time aswell (took a while before I lost my playstation fanboyism-yes, it's a word, cause I said it :D )

I kinda lost interest in my psp when bf2142 came out, played "competitively" for the first time, been hooked ever since :)
 
Ps1 ntsc ( one of the first ones in the country)
Ps2 (whenever it launched)
Xbox (2003)
Intel 1.7 ghz celeron,7950gt..Can't remember the rest..lol
Amd 3200...Can't remeber(2005)
Xbox360 (2007)
Xbox360 Elite(2008)
AMD Phenom x4 9950 Black edition gaming rig (2009)
 
My PC History

Intel Pentium 133Mhz, 32MB RAM ATi Rage II+ [1997]
AMD Duron 700Mhz, 128MB RAM, GeForce MX200 [2001]
AMD Athlon 64 3500, 512Mb RAM, Geforce 6800 [2005]
upgraded a year or two later to an Athlon 64 X2 4200, Geforce 8800GTS 320 and 2Gb RAM
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400, 4Gb RAM,Geforce 8800 320 [from previous machine] [late 2008]
upgrading graphics to an AMD Radeon HD4870 soon.
 
phoenix said:
I started off on the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
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AWesome, Me and my dad had one aswell!

HE still has it somewhere, the good old days!

Mine was also the Spectrum.
Then we / I had in no particular order:
Commadore 64
Atari Jaguar
Nintendo 8 Bit
Super Nintendo (import)
Sega Megadrive
Sega CD
Sega Satrun
PS1
Xbox 1
PS2

My PC history.

PC 1.
386, unknown specs LOOOOL
PC2
486DX4 100, 16mb Ram, 1MB Arktek E-EISA VGA, 512MB HDD
PC3
Pentium 1 133, unknown specs
PC4
Pentium 1 166MMX, 32MB Ram, 4.3GIG HDD, Voodoo2 8MB SLi, 17" Phillips Brilliance monitor ( I still have this screen and its still running everyday 100%)
PC5
Pentium 2 233MMX, 64MB Ram, 2x6.4GIG HDD,Voodoo2 8MB Sli, 17" Phillips, Creative Infra CD-RW
PC6
Celeron 450 (LOOOOOL) 256MB Ram, Riva 128ZX at first, then Voodoo3 16MB.
PC7
Pentium 3 550, 512MB Ram, TNT2 ULTRA, 40GIG HDD
PC8
Athlon XP 2000, 512MB Ram, Geforce 2 GTS 64MB,then Geforce 4 Ti4200, 120GB HDD, XP HOME
PC9.
Athlon XP 3200, 1GIG Ram, Geforce 5700 256MB then Geforce 6800 128, 1x120GIG 1x 80GIG HDD
PC10
Athlon X2 4800, 2GIG Ram, 8800GTS 640 then 8800GT, 19" LCD, 2x 320SATA
PC11
C2D E6750, 2GIG Ram, GTX260, 19" LCD, 2x320 SATA
 
I started on the old floppy disk PC's and my first lesson about computers was DELETE in dos as I was running on a dos system lol... and that was my first gaming machine had Battle chess and gorilla on it :p
 
Eish, I used a number of them old consoles years ago. Nintendo ftw. After that I moved over to PC, which I eventually complimented with a PS2 and in 2007 an Xbox 360. The PC will always be my first choice when it comes to gaming though.
 
Atari (cant remember model name, was just green block graphics)
Golden China
Micro Genius (Upgraded 8-bit)
Sega Mega Drive(Bootleg version)
Sega Mega Drive 2
Sony Playstation (NTSC)
Sony Playstation 2
PC - AMD 2600+ 256 MB RAM ATI Radeon 7500
PC - AMD 2800+ 512MB RAM XFX Geforce 6200
Sony Playstation 3
PC - AMD 5200+ 2GB RAM Nvidia GeForece 7050

Can't really get into pc gaming, hate sitting in front of a keyboard cause I work in front of one the whole day.
 
sycogrim said:
I started on the old floppy disk PC's and my first lesson about computers was DELETE in dos as I was running on a dos system lol... and that was my first gaming machine had Battle chess and gorilla on it :p
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Qbasic's gorilla was legendary!

So much so that a few of us on irc a couple of years back used to jam multiplayer gorilla (Gorilla 2.0) over the net. Now THAT was orsm :D

Mine:

nintendo golden china tv game set.
086 CGA pc, 17mb hard drive and PCTools to "park" the drive. Cames on there included prince of persia and accolade's Grand Prix & Cal games1.

I had that until '96 when we got a 486 dx4-100. I kept that running win95 until I got a celeron 550 with win2k in 2002. Finally upgraded to 2000+ athlon in '03 and so on and so forth...

I missed out on the sega/nintendo64/PS1-2 era and only got an xbox last year. Also got my x360 at the end of last year... and that's that.
 
Voicy said:
Qbasic's gorilla was legendary!

So much so that a few of us on irc a couple of years back used to jam multiplayer gorilla (Gorilla 2.0) over the net. Now THAT was orsm :D

Mine:

nintendo golden china tv game set.
086 CGA pc, 17mb hard drive and PCTools to "park" the drive. Cames on there included prince of persia and accolade's Grand Prix & Cal games1.

I had that until '96 when we got a 486 dx4-100. I kept that running win95 until I got a celeron 550 with win2k in 2002. Finally upgraded to 2000+ athlon in '03 and so on and so forth...

I missed out on the sega/nintendo64/PS1-2 era and only got an xbox last year. Also got my x360 at the end of last year... and that's that.
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OMG, I remember that. The BEST!
 
Ammm some old thing that looked like a very thick keyboard, used the TV as the screen and you had to load the games from a tape recorder. :o
8-bit gaming console
PC1
AMD K6 2 400 MHz, 32MB Ram, 4.3GIG HDD, on board grafix, 15" monitor
Upgraded to 64MB Ram and Voodoo 3000 16MB
PC2
Intel Pentium4 3 GHz, 512MB Ram, 40GIG HDD, on board grafix, 15,3" monitor (Laptop)
PC3
AMD 3000+ 1.8 GHz, 1024MB Ram, 80GIG HDD, XFX GeForce 7300GS 512MB(256MB on board + 256MB Shared), 15" monitor
PC4
AMD 4600+ X2 2.4 GHz, 2048MB Ram, 160GIG + 250Gig HDD, XFX GeForce 7600GT 256MB, 17" Samsung monitor
XBox 360
 
In the Order I can Rememeber (Im not going to paste my entire pc History as it is extremely long)

1990 - NES clone (Excellence Computer) lasted quite a few years
1994 - Another Nes Clone (cant remember the name)
1995 - 1st Pc 386 Sx 33 with orange monochrome screen (fav games were Neko 4 windows and Lander :D)
1996 - 2nd Pc 486 sx33 (played about the same games as on 386)
1997 - still 2nd pc but upgraded to dx2 66 (Hello Doom and Duke Nukem 3D:cool:)
1998 - 2000 same story as abouve just upgrade above upgrade etc.
2000 - Late 2000 PC is powerful enough to play fifa2000, Quake 3 and NFS 3 with all GFX set on high
2001 - Bought Sony PS1 (Primarily for Soul blade and street fighter alpha 3)
2003 - Bought Sega dreamcast (from some other oak who imported it)
2004 - Built AMD athlon 2200+ based PC
2006 - Bought Xbox 360 December about 3 months after launch (Xenon Xbox then Rrod's May 2008, Xbox gets swopped out for Falcon model @ a small cost, still have falcon model.)
 
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I have had most consoles from the Atari onwards. I even had a Spectravision computer which was similar to the C64. I just don't have a PS3 or DS.
 
1st was one of those original nintendo hand-helds, the a pc with a cga monitor, then "tv-games", then pc's for a long time...

...and currently pc and xbox, although i had a ps3 for a short time
 
Nintendo something (Mario, Contra...)
Some old computer (Wolfenstein, Bubble Boblle, Sim City and so on...)
Sega (Sonic, Fifa...)
Sega Game Gear (Sonic, Tetris...)
PS1 (Crash, MGS1, Monster Rancher...)
Celeron PC (Worms, Warcraft 2...)
GBA (Final Fantasy Tactics, Advanced Wars...)
PS2 (GTA, MGS2, Tony Hawk 3...)
PSP (Final Fantasy Tactics, Syphon Filter...)
Core 2 Duo PC with HD 2900GT (Battlefield 2142, COD4, BFME2...)
PS3 (PoP4, PES 2009, Burnout Paradise...)

To be continued...
 
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Wow nice to see some older gamers on the forum, while i wasnt old enough to enjoy the tape years (commodore 64,spectrum zx and amstrad cpc) my uncle had an old amstrad cpc(that he bought in england) which i played on everytime i visited, that started my foray into gaming. My first console was a genuine nes(not a famiclone,yes i had the ugly toaster version) and caused me much grief cause those xx in 1 games never fit, after that i got a mega drive 2 which i still have fond memories of, and then a playstation,we always had a pc i just never bothered with it until 2000,when it became my primary games machine,after that i swore off consoles completely, promising to never buy another one,again,but ya in jan 2008 i got exposed to the beauty of the ps3 and made sure it got it for my birthday,and then sadly i had to sell it, again, now i have an eggsbox that rrod on me out of the box.
 
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