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Posted May 30, 2010
Playstation 2 (I was 8 when I got it).
Posted May 30, 2010
C64!
+ 100s of bootleg floppies w multiple games thanks to BBS trading member of the family
Loved playing Zaxxon, Impossible Mission, Yi Ar, Space Taxi, Spy Hunter + more
Memories of machine (other than the unboxing) are of Mom playing Ultima. Also, recall hearing the Doors "come on baby light my fire" in CRYSTALS OF ZONG over and over, her other favorite.
Was too young to truly appreciate it- C64 can never satiate a kids need for atari, nes or sega. So led a childhood supposedly deprived of VG luxury. But whatever sh*t the rest of the neighborhood had to say 'bout their Genesis...one disk w/ the label 'Strip Poker' at the bottom leveled the Pecking Order- when suddenly ",8,1" became esoteric knowledge for 10 year olds.
Always paid attention to what was being played on the 386/486s because of Commodore. (Wolfenstein!!, etc) Never owned another computer til the 2000s so this site is perfectly making up for my PC deprived 1990s....but nothing could alleviate the suffering from the school teachers who reprimanded my Okimate printed term papers!)
Apologies for the long post, but this is also a letter of thanks to GOG! (it was those '...back in the day....on my 386' community reviews under the games that drew me in to the service. Never imagined such sincere promotion for games among the typical schmaltz... Everything can't be next best thing. So again, THANKS!
Posted May 30, 2010
C64... such a wonderful machine. I still have it too... and it's still working... and I was actually playing Giana Sisters with my wife about a week ago. :)
Posted May 30, 2010
Started from a C-64 back in 1985, and an IBM PC from XT upwards since 1990. Never had and never will have a console.
Posted May 30, 2010
Our first computer was an Intellivision. Later we got a Spectravideo SV-318. To play a game you had to plug in a tape deck, insert an audio tape cassette that had the game encoded onto it, boot into a BASIC interpreter and write a short program to tell the computer to listen to listen to the tape, and press "play" on the cassette player. At this stage in my life, I had not yet learned to read and write, but I could type "load" and "run" like a pro :)
Shortly after starting primary school we got a second-hand 286 (Bubble-Bobble was one of the best games ever!) and after a few months of raising funds by breeding rabbits (an easy job) my brother and I had saved enough money to buy a NES.
Well, it wasn't actually a NES as such - it was a charcoal-coloured famicom clone. Chinese knockoffs of Famicom computers were common at the time and (to the best of my knowledge) legal because of trade sanctions. "Golden China" computers were very common, and often rebranded as in-house TV-game systems by retailers such as Reggies and Toys-R-Us. Ending-Man was another major brand in the early 90's; instead of simply cloning they liked to add improvements to the design, such as wireless connections, big comfy controllers and snazzy eject mechanisms. </historylesson>
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Posted May 30, 2010
Ist computer was a Vic 20 always remember the first game on it omega run which i loved.
Posted May 30, 2010
My first Computer was Commodore 64 and the Floppy Drive, also had Piano Keys for it don't know how it was actually used, C64 was sold when i was 5 and then i was given a Mega Drive which i played till i got a Nintendo 64
Posted May 30, 2010
My first computer was a 1985 Tandy computer. Either a 286 or 386 but most likely a 286 since the 386 was brand new in 1985. The computer had what ought to be enough for everyone - 640k memory and featured dual 5.25" floppy drives.
Of course I was born in 1985 so when I first starting using it in 1989, it was barely used anymore and was used mostly for a golf game and an addictive galaga type game. Good times.
Posted May 30, 2010
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Ermac: I had a Pentium III computer that my dad bought back in 2000. I enjoyed on that computer playing games like Unreal Tournament (my very first game).
I also had a PlayStation One back in 2001.
So yeah, I grew up with computers rather than consoles, but I like them both.

Wow - I feel old ;-)
first computer - Family's 1984 Leading Edge 8086 - Had that till 1994 then it finally died.
In '94 we got a 486/66sx - added a knockoff 586/90Mhz (with Math Co-processor!) in '96.
Got a pentium III /550 in 98' and My old man still has that to this day.
As for computer's I actually owned:
I got an old 286/16 in 1997 as a gift to help me with school (with Epson dot matrix printer!) Had that till 2002, when I built my current desktop.
Consoles - I got an N64 in 2004 and We got a PsOne as a wedding gift in 2009
Posted May 30, 2010
C64 and a big box of games, still have them all somewhere
Posted May 30, 2010
First console was an NES, and as far as computers go, a Pentium 100 with 8MB RAM, 800MB HDD, 1MB video card etc.
Posted May 30, 2010
Atari-800 which sort of counts for both computer and a console.
Posted May 30, 2010
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Dave_Scoffin: C64 and a big box of games, still have them all somewhere

While I sold my C64 to make some money for my Amiga 500, I still have my Amiga and all my games in a box in my laundry. I've been meaning to see if it still works.
Posted May 30, 2010
First console was an Atari 2600 - even had a special controller for some space game (that I can't for the life of me remember the name of, but the controller had little buttons on it for things like tactical grid, weapons, etc)
Very first computer I could call my own was a Tandy 1000HX - it had the Memory Expansion that gave it a whopping 640k memory, 2 Low Density floppy drives (that second one was a luxury :D), and Tandy DOS 3.0 loaded into ROM w/ the Deskmate system. I used that computer for years until I got a hand-me-down 286 w/ 2MB of XMS and a 20MB hard drive - I was living then hehe. Ran DOS 6.0 and Win 3.11 on the 286 ('bootleg' copies I got from my uncle).
Learned to program in Tandy GW-BASIC on the HX and got QuickBASIC/QBASIC/TCPP on the 286. I remember getting in trouble once in school because I was paying more attention to writing game code on a legal pad in class than to the teacher (IF X THEN GOTO 30 hehe).
Posted May 30, 2010
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carlosjuero: First console was an Atari 2600 - even had a special controller for some space game (that I can't for the life of me remember the name of, but the controller had little buttons on it for things like tactical grid, weapons, etc)

Star Raiders?
This pic shows a controller sitting on an old style VCS, is that what youre talking about?
http://www.killerkorp.com/stuff/2600.jpg
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