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Shockwave maybe?



He's 34 I think. Livewire's probably closest, I believe he's 36. Or Shock might be 36 and Live's 38. Hell if I know.


Well Evol's gotta be in his 70's, and Raine/Lady Evol is somewhere in her 3,000's if I remember correctly?
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I started in '87 with the NES. Still have my gold Legend of Zelda cartridge. ^^ I quickly moved on to the Genesis (Genesis does what Nintendon't XD). Loved the Sonic games, Bubsy the Cat, and Aladdin. I was 10... besides, that game is still fun! I still played both of those consoles up until I got my Dreamcast.

At some point I owned a Virtual Boy. My need to wear glasses while gaming is proof of that...

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Started early 80's
Arcade-Star Wars or Spy Hunter
Atari 2600- M network Baseball
intellivision-sea battle
Atari 5200- Pitfall 2 lost caverns
Commodore 64-Buck Rogers
Sega Master System-Phantasy Star or Rambo
NES-Strider or Shigen the Ruler
Genesis-Herzog Zwei or Sword of Vermillion
SNes- Chorono Trigger
Turbo Graphics 16-Blazing Lasers
Saturn-Shining Force 3 part 1
N64-Star Wars Rogue Squadron
Dreamcast-Gundam side story 0093 White Dingo Squadron
PS1-FF7, Tekken, Armored Core
PS2-Dynasty Warriors 3,Resident Evil 2,Ace Combats
GCube- Fire Emblem
Xbox-Ninga Gaiden
PS3- nothing really yet?
360- Ace Combat 6
Damn I've played alot of $hit?!?

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sometime in the 1990s. first game was super mario world!
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dunno exactly when i started. probably 89 or 90.

first console i had was the genesis i think.
all i really remember playing on it was sonic and toejam n earl.

sold it and got my SNES. loved the DK games to death, especially diddy kong's quest, as well as castlevania IV, super mario bros, yada yada. shortly after i played the secret of evermore, which i think was my first RPG. i was hooked. been an RPG freak ever since. final fantasy, chrono trigger, super mario RPG, whatever. i loved it all. still one of the best consoles ever selection wise.

as for other crap...

N64 - mario kart, goldeneye, star fox
dreamcast - phantasy star online
playstation - FF7, FFT, alundra, lunar: SSS, tactics oger, vandal hearts, castlevanai SotN
xbox - fable, morrowind
360 - fallout 3, bioshock, dead space, oblivion, sacred 2, FEAR, cod series

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Ok! I like the formatted favorites for all of the platforms I've gamed on!

Commodore 64-Find the Wumpus lol
Atari 2600-Missile Command
Colecovision-Zaxxon
NES-Dragon Warrior 4
SNES-Chronotrigger
Sega Genesis-Sonic 1
N64-Legend of Zelda:Ocarina of time
PS1-Dragon Warrior 7 (my hands-down most played game of all time. I have 4 characters and just 1 of them has about 400 hours in it.)
PS2-3 of mine broke before I could find a favorite.
Xbox-Fable
Xbox 360-Impossible to choose. Ask me again in 10 years. :p
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more, gimme more
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I started to play games in the late 80s my dad was big into computers and electronics so me and him bonded over video games...

The first video game I ever played was some sesame street game on Commodor 64 that taught you how to do math.

Moved on to atari and then NES.....Once I hit the NES thats when I became a full fledged gamer and never stopped.
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I started to play games in the late 80s my dad was big into computers and electronics so me and him bonded over video games...

The first video game I ever played was some sesame street game on Commodor 64 that taught you how to do math.

Moved on to atari and then NES.....Once I hit the NES thats when I became a full fledged gamer and never stopped.




Aahh yes, I have very fond memories of the NES..it's the system that revitalized the gaming industry back in the 80's
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I think I'm gonna bug Electronic Arts about bringing Populous to Xbox Live or Xbox 360 (Disc)..that was a great game
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anyone over 40 here that still play video games?



Yes.

I started with Odyssey 300 in 1976. (Thanks internet for reminding me about the model number as I had forgotten over the last 33 years). In this year I also celebrated our nations Bicentennial, skated my first concrete skate park, and won several BMX trophies. I had grown up playing pinball in Atlantic City Arcades so progression to video games just seemed natural.

The next year for Christmas I got an Atari Video Pinball System.

The year after that I got an Atari 2600 for Christmas. I used this console all the way through my freshman year of college. Many a late night playing Berzerk (Intruder Alert, Intruder Alert) :D

Consoles went dormant in the early to mid 80's as Video Arcades hit the big time. Why play crappy games at home when you can hang at the arcade and play gems like Gauntlet, Dragon's Lair, Tempest, Wizard of War, Defender, Missile Command, Zaxxon, Galaga, Space Invaders, Pac-man and dozens more that I can't remember right now. FYI....arcades and games were so mainstream that there was a song called "Pac-man Fever" that hit number 9 on the Billboard 100 back in 1982. I skipped way too many college classes due to not be able to walk away from a group game of Gauntlet.

I won a color TV and a NES in a Christmas contest at my first job after graduating college. I was also going to grad school at night, but still managed to find time for The Legend of Zelda, RC Pro-Am, and one of the Mario series.

Soon after NES, I got my second PC that would actually run games as well as Windows applications so consoles were out and PC games were in. Doom, Quake, Duke Nukem, and the Command and Conquer series were favorites. We had tried the first generation PC games like Wizardry, but they were all text based and hardly qualify as video games.

I heard that Mortal Kombat had been released for the Sega Genesis 2 so I actually bought the console just for that game. I later added on the CD player so I could play Night Trap, and Sonic CD.

I had a Playstation 1, but only really remember playing Gran Turismo on it.

My wife bought me my first Xbox and I bought a PS2 so I could play Grand Theft Auto when it was still only on Playstation. Favorite OG Xbox game was PGR for the game and the On-line racing. Then there was Halo 2, which was awesome on-line. I think I played H2 online every night for a year. Just realized I've been on Xbox Live for 6 years with the same gamer tag.

Xbox 360 exclusively now. Still love driving games, FPS, and RPGs the most, but play a ton of games I don't really like just for the achievements. That will stop soon when I get to 150k and start gaming exclusively for fun again.


This was probably TMI, but I couldn't stop once I got rolling.



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A great post, Ralph!

I started in the late '70s, too. Played/owned just about every console since then.

Some of my favs:

Pong
Snake
Sinbad and the Throne of the Falcon
Falcon F-16
Missile Command
Ms. Pac Man
Donkey Kong
Dungeons of Daggorath
The Legend of Zelda
Sim City
Star Wars: Jedi Power Battles
Crazy Taxi
Mario Party 4
Metal Gear Solid
Syphon Filter
Star Wars: Rogue & X-Wing Series
KOTOR
Halo
Fable
Silent Hill
Oblivion
Gears of War
Call of Duty 4

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh......... good times!!!
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The first video game I remember playing was Frogger on the Gameboy Color, it was my first video game I ever got. That was only in 98 or 99 though, I haven't lived long enough to play the NES or all the really old stuff. Then I got a Dreamcast, on which I mostly played Crazy Taxi, probably one of my favorite games I've ever played...Then I moved on to all the newer systems like the Gamecube, Wii and 360, once my Dreamcast broke.
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