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Posted: Jun 26 2008 11:32 pm

That makes you a smart consumer. I do the same, usually miss a lot of the initial bugs that are found.

Posted: Jun 26 2008 11:37 pm

You said wood.

Posted: Jun 27 2008 01:04 am

I think I was about two when my dad bought an Atari 2600 and about twenty games off some guy. Which is strange in retrospect because my dad has never been into video games except for the month or so that he played my Bases Loaded game. I don't ever remember my dad playing the Atari, and I don't think he got it just for me because I was only two.

Anyways, I got my NES in '88 for my birthday and one for my grandma's house for Xmas the same year.

I got my Gameboy for Xmas the year it came out and likewise with the SNES.

I got a Genesis the year after I got my SNES for my birthday.

I bought my TurboGrafx from a buddy around 1994.

I can't remember when I got my Sega CD, but it was sometime after it was re-released with the new design.

My Genesis broke and I got another with the new design.

I was probably in about 8th grade when I started buying the hell out of used NES games. I've probably owned over 400 different titles at one point or another.

I got my 64 for Xmas the year it came out. I got my Playstation the year after that.

I was given a Sega Master System around this time.

I got my PS2 on release date. I wasted 80 bucks for the hard drive when it came out. My PS2 quit reading disks and I got one of the new little ones. I still use my old one for storing data when my memory card gets full.

I got my GameCube the year after it came out after one of the price drops. I bought my XBOX the next year off a buddy who had bought it off another buddy. The original owner tried to buy it back. I told him to take a walk.

I can't remember when I got my GBA. I also got a Game Gear around this time, but it was used and didn't last very long so I sold it to a game store that fixes shit and resells it.

I got my DS and my 360 both on release date.

I bought one of the original Sega CDs and a 32X a few years ago for dirt cheap from a pawn shop.

I got my Wii today.

I play my NES far more than anything else. I got tired of my games not working so I bought an FCTwin last year for my birthday. The only thing that sucks about it is that its not compatable with Castlevania III.

I have mountains of old games. I rarely buy stuff for my newer systems. I get the must haves and that is about it. I have a lot of PS2 games though.

Oh, I forgot. I also have a Dreamcast. But I loaned the cords to a buddy and never got them back. So I have no way to hook it up.

I also have a Virtual Boy game, but I'm not sure where it came from and I've never owned a VB. I dunno.

Posted: Jun 27 2008 03:39 pm

I have a copy of Chuck Rock. Sad

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Jun 30 2008 01:15 am

I'm a total old school gamer. It's not that I don't like the new systems, it's the fact that they are friggin' expensive and the fact that technology evolves too fast for me to keep up. So I stick with the old. My newest system was a PS2 but my brother took it with him to college so now my most updated console is a Dreamcast and a PSX. The way I figure, there are tons of games for SMS, NES, PSX, and DC that I've never even touched so the consoles to me are fresh and new. An Xbox and a PS2 would be nice to add to my collection but until I can afford it my gaming is limited to five systems: Sega Master System, NES, Dreamcast, PlayStation, and GameBoy Advance. I really could use a Super Nintendo and a Genesis to round it out though. Even better would be a Sega Nomad. That would be sweet.

Posted: Jul 01 2008 12:49 pm

I'm still buying games for the PS2, and there are so god damn many.

There is no reason for me to move on, when there is so much left. As a bonus, my games cost about 1/2 to 1/5 of the new systems.

Title: Alexz Aficionado Joined: May 21 2008 Posts: 2889

Time to revive this thread for a reason I didn't think of at its inception.

Strategy guides.

FAQs, Walk throughs, Strategy guids. These are all common resources and tools at the fingertips of the "modern" gamer. I think I'm pretty old school. I have a rule, in fact, that probably by circumstance more than choice I stuck to.

I ONLY looked through Strategy guides and stuff once I had beaten said game ONCE first. I HAVE to go through that first time without help and discover things on my own. Anything and everything. If I miss something, I'll get it next time through. It's that FIRST time through, the initial time when your totally green to the game, that I think needs to be done without aids or outside help.

Try beating "Deja Vu" this way Razz

or Castlevania 2.

I think this makes a better player who will exhaust his thinking, resources, patience(the real test) and abilities to overcome the impossible to beat the game.

Once you beat it once, those guides are fair game, you've finished your Rite of Passage.

This to me, makes me a Stone Age Gamer as well.

Joined: Apr 14 2006 Location: Lake Michigan Posts: 3332

The last console I bought was an N64. I still have it hooked up, and play it occasionally.

As for walkthroughs, before, I used to agree with you Ghandi. But now, if I buy an RPG for the PC, I simply don't have time to play it more than once and want to get through it without missing anything, especially gameplay choices that would fit the character I'm playing.

For example, I used a Christmas gift certificate to buy the latest Neverwinter Nights 2 Expansion Pack, Storm of Zehir. While I play it, I leave the walkthrough at Thieves-Guild.net minimized so that I can reference the map while I'm exploring. I don't like doing it, but it ultimately helps me get through the game faster, so I can have more time to deal with my real-life responsibilities.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

I pretty much play PC games, and older games exclusively. But by PC games, I mean games that are like, before 2001. I think the newest game I own is Deus EX.

The only console I own is a NES. I just simply don't give a shit about newer games. If I want to play some bullshit like Assassins Creed or any newer game I go to a friends house, play it for 10 minutes, and I have usually had my fill by that time.

Docinsano's Channel 63 · Posted: Jan 17 2009 05:59 pm

Well, I finally upgraded a couple weeks ago..... to a PS2. Yeah, I'm really behind on technology.... Oh well, it's fun being in the Stone Age. But it is sweet that I can play RE 4 and SH2 again.

Posted: Jan 17 2009 07:25 pm

Blackout wrote:

I have a copy of Chuck Rock. Sad

Ooga Booga!

I was waiting for someone to say that. Chuck Rock is purely mediocre though.

Posted: Jan 17 2009 07:59 pm

Well today is my 29th birthday and at this point I'll have been a gamer for 21 years now. I guess that makes me a stone age gamer. I had an Atari 2600 in 1988 before getting my NES that fall.

Posted: Jan 17 2009 08:11 pm

Shut up, Dorn wrote:

Blackout wrote:

I have a copy of Chuck Rock. Sad

Ooga Booga!

I was waiting for someone to say that. Chuck Rock is purely mediocre though.

You're being far to polite to the cracked out 3rd world assholes that banged away on a snes development kit to churn that pile of garbage out.

One of the main people around here wrote:

CHUCK ROCK SUCKS COCK

QFT

Posted: Jan 17 2009 11:05 pm

The SNES was the first system I got, NES was the first home console I ever played, and the first videogame was a SFII at the arcade.

I still have not updated past the PS2, and I feel no rush to. Still so many games I haven't played on it, plus a console needs some time to mature, both to get new game and to make some of the openers cheaper.