What Is Your Evolution Of Gaming?

[Booldawg]

What with the new units out give me your pedigree...mine is;

ZX81 1983-1984
ZX Spectrum 48k 1984-1985
Commodore 64 1986-1990
Amiga 1990-1995
Megadrive (never really liked the megadrive) 1992-1993
PS1 1996-2002
PS2 2002-2009
Xbox 2004-2009
Xbox 360 2009 - present

[Prudie]

Don't know the dates but starting about the same time as you:
BBC B
Megadrive
PS1
PS2
PS3
borrowed a Nintendo somewhere in there for Mario but wasn't tempted.

[Booldawg]

dont know many people that actually owned a BBC B. They were in plenty of schools but were over double the price of a speccy!

[Prudie]

It was a Xmas present from a man who wanted to impress :-)

[Prudie]

And the only games I had needed to be loaded on a cassette recorder and took ages. I can still hear that noise now!

[bibblebub]

Intellivision (i thought it was in the 1970s until I looked it up)
Atari 400
ZX Spectrum
Amiga
PS1
PS2
PC (does that count?)

[jomifl]

Extinction nearly 3 decades ago. Got over it.

[Mattk]

Binatone B&W system (circa 1977)
Grandstand colour system (circa 1979)
Acetronic circa 1980
ZX81 1982
ZX Spectrum 16k 1983
ZX Spectrum 1983
Dragon 32 1984/1985
ZX Spectrum 128 1986-1989
Commodore 64 1989 (briefly)
Sega Megadrive 1991-1992
Atari 2600 (bizarrely) 1993
Commodore Amiga 1993-94
Sega Saturn 1995-1996
Playstation 1997-2000
Sega Dreamcast 2000-2002
Gaming PC 2002-2004
Xbox 2002-2005
Xbox 360 2005-2013
PS3 2010-2011 ('borrowed by my son)
PS4 2013-

Also had a PS2 which was my son's.
Dreamcast was a great console that was ahead of its time but was badly timed against the PS2. First online console and had controllers that offered additional functionality

Do I win for being most tragic?!

[Booldawg]

lol Matt- impressive CV!

with emulation on the PC I still play amiga, spectrum and c64 classics!

[LazyGun]

Similar timeline i think ZX Spectrum mid-80s, then a Megadrive.
After that though, I played all my games on PC up until xbox 360 about a year after that was introduced ( largely because I wanted to play Oblivion and Fallout). Still have the xbox 360 although I just recently had to replace the HD because the original one became corrupted (ahh! lost all my savegames, my dlcs etcetc)
Will probably move to next gen console mid-2014, and thinking PS4 right now, but that might change depending on reviews and exclusive games etc.

[Coobeastie]

Atari, Commodore C16 plus/4, Spectrum, Spectrum 128, Mastersystem, 386PC, Megadrive, SNES, N64, Dreamcast, Playstation 2, XBox 360, Wii, i7 PC, XBox 360 slim & a DS lite.

[tiggerblue10]

Can't remember the name but a small gadget I played Supermario on in early 90s.
Gameboy early to mid 90s.
Megadrive mid to late 90s.
DS mid 00s.
DS3d 2011

My collection isn't very impressive. My brothers had loads including N64, XBox, Wii and a PSP. He's just got himself a PS4.

[HarryLetterman]

Dendi (I don't remember the exact name)
Sega Megadrive
Game Boy
PC 2006 +

Not a long list really....

[jno]

pack of cards - 1955

Windows solitaire - 1998

[Booldawg]

you are all geeks. that is all.

[ayabrea38]

OK,how is this for geeky,talking about the BBC B and the spectrum,guess who wanted a spectrum soooo much she can still remember the prices.The Spectrum was £129.99 and the BBC was £399.00.I went in my local John Menzies (remember them?) every day on the way to/from school just to touch the keyboard!It didnt help that my best mate had the Bbc (well her Dad did really)and if I was very nice to her I could have a go on one of the games.

Later when I had my beloved Spectrum,many a happy Sunday evening was spent waiting the 20 or so minutes it took to load The Hobbit,and today people think things are running slow if they have to wait 20 seconds.

Gosh do I feel old when I tell my kids that.

[Booldawg]

lol aya, that was a fair whack of money back in the early/mid 80s. I bought my ZX81 from John Menzies. I remember typing in lines and lines of code from the games magaizines only for it to crash.

The BBC was out of most peoples financial reach. They had a few of them at school (As well as the Commodore PETs).

Remember sitting for 17 minutes waiting for Manic Miner to load on the C64 (before turb-loaders came along)